{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-10", "file": "debates1977-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "cd12082c389d7411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-10a.1101.1", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Marten", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Marten", "preceding_text": "y to look ahead to see how the situation can be improved. It might be as well at the outset if I place on record that the total number of Back Benchers in the Chamber at the moment is nine, which is not really a great credit to the subject that we are debating. It may be thought by some right hon. and hon. Members who have heard me speak before on this subject that I am biased about the Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-10a.1101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-10", "file": "debates1977-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "cd12082c389d7411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-10a.1140.1", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Scott-Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Scott-Hopkins", "preceding_text": "y this country but also the whole of the Community. I was interested in the extremely destructive speech made by the hon. Member for Southampton, Test (Mr. Gould). There was not a word in it of any constructive value. I never thought there would be. Nor was there in the speeches of my hon. Friend the Member for Banbury (Mr. Marten) and the hon. Member for Newham, South. I have heard it all before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-10a.1140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-10", "file": "debates1977-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "cd12082c389d7411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-10a.1166.1", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "preceding_text": "ken into account. Perhaps the Minister will say whether conventional hire-purchase institutions, in so far as such institutions remain independent after recent difficulties, will be fully covered in the outline directive. I could make other points about the draft directive but in the interests of time I shall not do so. Therefore, I go on to make one or two comments about the European Export Bank—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-10a.1166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-10", "file": "debates1977-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "cd12082c389d7411", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-10a.1166.1", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "preceding_text": "Therefore, I go on to make one or two comments about the European Export Bank—[ Interruption .] If the Government use lack of time as an excuse, they will perhaps get away with it with some hon. Members but, I hope, not with all hon. Members. Here we have a Treasury Minister answering points on a banking directive who is obliged to comment on a trade matter. It is far more than a financial matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-10a.1166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-11", "file": "debates1977-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "8949f506688964fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-11a.1254.6", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We must be careful. We are benefiting from certain aspects of the policy to the tune of about £500 million a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-11a.1254.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-12", "file": "debates1977-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "fd0dce33cc5a9f09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-12a.1448.1", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Frederick Mulley)", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Frederick Mulley)", "preceding_text": " Nevertheless, there is no doubt that the Warsaw Pact forces have increased in quantity and, more importantly, in quality. The lead in military technology that the West has hitherto enjoyed is being eroded as Soviet scientific and industrial capacity expands. It is for this reason that it is essential to achieve progress in arms control and disarmament. We have to find ways of achieving stability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-12a.1448.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-01-12", "file": "debates1977-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "fd0dce33cc5a9f09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-12a.1452.5", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "When will there be a decision?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "The Royal Air Force has the new Jaguar and is procuring the Tornado multi-rôle combat aircraft. We hope to contribute also to a NATO programme for airborne early-warning aircraft, which will greatly increase the effectiveness of our air forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-12a.1452.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-12", "file": "debates1977-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "fd0dce33cc5a9f09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-12a.1554.1", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence (Dr. John Gilbert)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Defence (Dr. John Gilbert)", "preceding_text": " Churchill) on his first major speech at the Dispatch Box. I enjoyed it enormously. Apart from anything else, it was a clear indication of why the right hon. Member for Chesham and Amersham (Mr. Gilmour) is starting to use the sort of language that we never expected to hear from him. We may well expect him to take further steps in future to prevent himself from being upstaged by his new colleague.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-12a.1554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-12", "file": "debates1977-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "fd0dce33cc5a9f09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-12a.1555.1", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "I was aware of this matter before the hon. Gentleman raised it. I assure him that it has been looked at and the strategic considerations perfectly taken into account. There is nothing for him to be concerned about. Until a few minutes ago this had been a quite thoughtful debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-12a.1555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-12", "file": "debates1977-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "fd0dce33cc5a9f09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-12a.1556.1", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "If that is the Opposition's sense of arithmetic, I leave it to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-12a.1556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-12", "file": "debates1977-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "fd0dce33cc5a9f09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-12a.1562.2", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "at, while the training and experience in Northern Ireland are not wholly applicable to what troops might find on the central front, they have given soldiers experience under fire which has proved extremely valuable to them. The one point on which I take issue with the hon. Gentleman is his statement that we used to be one of the most reliable Allies in NATO, and that, sadly, that was not so today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-12a.1562.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-13", "file": "debates1977-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "c1d6d1504f73d4dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1637.0", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Humbug\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "r the right hon. Lady, when she goes to China, will be associating with the sort of people whom her hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool, South (Mr. Blaker) condemns. I have no need to go on record about these matters. The Government's position on the Helsinki Agreement and issues relating to the Soviet Government are well understood. I do not have to meet anybody to get my views clear about them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1637.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-13", "file": "debates1977-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "c1d6d1504f73d4dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1638.0", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "accurate and totally false information. even though the Press is told beforehand that the information is inaccurate and false. Before we go too deeply into this matter, let us find out the facts. As far as I am concerned, there is to be no censorship. If Opposition Members ever throw aside their party hats they will well know that there will be no censorship and that nobody will defend censorship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1638.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-13", "file": "debates1977-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "c1d6d1504f73d4dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1644.1", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "UNION OF POST OFFICE WORKERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And in Russia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "There is no doubt that the union, in common with many other trade unions and many hon. Members, feels very strongly about what is happening in South Africa", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-13", "file": "debates1977-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "c1d6d1504f73d4dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1652.7", "colnum": "1652", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"On reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I am not sure to which Bullock Report the hon. Gentleman is referring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1652.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-13", "file": "debates1977-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "c1d6d1504f73d4dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1658.3", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "STANDING ORDER No. 9 (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": ") and the right hon. Member for Vauxhall (Mr. Strauss) have been in this House for more than three decades and they know the feel of the House. During my period in the House I have on many occasions found that a Minister's reply has given rise to an application under Standing Order No. 9 and has led to a debate. I think that this is a question that the Select Committee on Procedure should look at.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1658.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-13", "file": "debates1977-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "c1d6d1504f73d4dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1677.5", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr, Eldon Griffiths (Bury St. Edmunds)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr, Eldon Griffiths (Bury St. Edmunds)", "preceding_text": "tatutory body and is part of the government of England and Wales. Scotland has its own separate Police Federation. Under the terms of the Bill, the position of the Police Federation of England and Wales will be changed, because the Welsh Assembly will have the capacity to alter the local government of Wales. But the police service in Wales, as in England, is based on the local authority divisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1677.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-13", "file": "debates1977-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "c1d6d1504f73d4dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1726.1", "colnum": "1726", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "rd point about extra cost, which I have already made and shall not go into in greater detail. However, the fourth point that the CBI makes concerns something that the House ought to consider very carefully. The chairman says, The proposals would endanger the industrial and commercial unity of the United Kingdom with obvious threats to the job security and prosperity of Scotland. This is something—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-13", "file": "debates1977-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "c1d6d1504f73d4dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1728.0", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unfair\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "I, too, am sensitive to possible charges of filibustering. I have something of a premonition that if a Scottish Assembly comes about, we have seen just now the foretaste of the bickering and the kind of argument in which that Assembly may indulge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1728.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-13", "file": "debates1977-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "c1d6d1504f73d4dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1747.1", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "at assail them as individuals. It is only because of the concern of the ordinary people with the poor performance of the economy and because of the lowering of their financial expectations that they have taken any interest at all in an Assembly for Scotland. Unlike the founder members of the SNP, the genuine Nationalists of which one—the hon. Member for Dundee, East—is listening to the debate now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-13", "file": "debates1977-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "c1d6d1504f73d4dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1777.10", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "preceding_text": " inherent in the Bill. The same point has been made by Lord Crowther-Hunt, who was, until a short time ago, one of the Government's advisers in the formulation of their devolu tion policy. I gather that he is a bit disgruntled and displeased about the way in which the policy has worked out. He speaks with a great deal of experience in this matter since he was a member of the Kilbrandon Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1777.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-13", "file": "debates1977-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "c1d6d1504f73d4dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1781.10", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "n (Mr. Dalyell). The speech by the hon. Member for Aylesbury was so effectively answered by his hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, Pentlands (Mr. Rifkind) that I can add little. I was interested to notice the genuine differences which exist within the Conservative Party and I shall be interested to hear what the hon. Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Taylor) has to say if he seeks to intervene.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1781.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-13", "file": "debates1977-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "c1d6d1504f73d4dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1785.1", "colnum": "1785", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "That is a very wide question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1785.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-13", "file": "debates1977-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "c1d6d1504f73d4dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1790.1", "colnum": "1790", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Everything mentioned in the pamphlets put out in Cathcart—I assume they were Conservative pamphlets—was fully consistent with the Conservative manifesto. We accept that the Bill has many great dangers, as my right hon. and hon Friends have said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-13", "file": "debates1977-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "c1d6d1504f73d4dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1791.1", "colnum": "1791", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "always do, from pamphlets distributed in the election campaign. I say to him and his friends that, while I believe that the Government's proposals when they are clarified will be rejected, I also believe that, if the SNP's proposals for Scottish independence are made clear, the peripheral advantage which they have at present and the upsurge in nationalism will be not only undermined but destroyed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-13", "file": "debates1977-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "c1d6d1504f73d4dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1794.9", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Humphrey Atkins", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Humphrey Atkins", "preceding_text": "( seated and covered ): On a point of order, Mr. Murton. The names of the Tellers for the Noes were handed in while, unfortunately, you were listening to a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1794.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-13", "file": "debates1977-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "c1d6d1504f73d4dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1795.1", "colnum": "1795", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "( seated and covered ): No, with the greatest respect, Mr. Murton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-13", "file": "debates1977-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "c1d6d1504f73d4dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1797.4", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "er than they would normally have done in Committee. We recognise that you had to allow hon. Members to speak passionately in expressing their views on this first day when the Bill could have been killed. I suggest that for future guidance it would be helpful if the House knew that there would be room for passion and room for the expression of all points of view as we proceed. I am the last person—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-13a.1797.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-14", "file": "debates1977-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "a7331c7a5580922c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-14a.1821.1", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "rness. What the recent corruption trials have shown is the strength of the police and their determination to root out troublemakers in their ranks. I wish every good fortune to the new Commissioner and hope that he will have the same firm backing from this House as his predecessor had on almost all occasions. The bobby on the beat is in the end the most important person in the fight against crime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-14a.1821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-14", "file": "debates1977-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "a7331c7a5580922c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-14a.1821.1", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": ". MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] We were taken in by the planners on high-rise. Were we taken in on the matter of the bobby in the panda car and the bobby on the moped? I think that some of us were. Certainly, the Home Office seems to have been. It gave a great deal of encouragement to the concept of the bobby in the car. I still think that the best deterrent is the sight of a policeman walking the beat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-14a.1821.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-18", "file": "debates1977-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6698ff511894fc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-18a.77.1", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where do you stand?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There is no doubt where the leaders of the TUC stand on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-18a.77.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-18", "file": "debates1977-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6698ff511894fc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-18a.79.0", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Last Thursday, when I was perhaps a little unnecessarily irked by the nature of the question put to me, I overlooked, although I had been told that an engagement had been made for Mr. Bukovsky to be seen by a Foreign Office Minister. That engagement was put off and a second engagement was made, but Mr. Bukovsky cancelled that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-18a.79.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-18", "file": "debates1977-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6698ff511894fc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-18a.79.0", "colnum": "79", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Last Thursday, when I was perhaps a little unnecessarily irked by the nature of the question put to me, I overlooked, although I had been told that an engagement had been made for Mr. Bukovsky to be seen by a Foreign Office Minister. That engagement was put off and a second engagement was made, but Mr. Bukovsky cancelled that. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] He cancelled it because of ill health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-18a.79.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-18", "file": "debates1977-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6698ff511894fc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-18a.81.0", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are in charge. You are the boss.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That question should be put down to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-18a.81.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-18", "file": "debates1977-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6698ff511894fc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-18a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitehead", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitehead", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the hon. Member for Chingford (Mr. Tebbit) was reported this week as having made a speech in Brussels in which he said that he looked forward to a Government in this country who had the populism of Poujade and the economics of freedom—Friedman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-18a.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-18", "file": "debates1977-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6698ff511894fc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-18a.92.3", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "I am indeed, Sir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-18a.92.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-18", "file": "debates1977-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6698ff511894fc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-18a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ed will be appropriate for the debate that we shall have on the details of the referendum. I would not care to predict today with any certainty how Welsh people will vote in a referendum, although I hope that they will vote for these proposals. I agree entirely with my hon. Friend's views that the proposals are modest compared with the Scottish measures. They are not a major constitutional change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-18a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-18", "file": "debates1977-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6698ff511894fc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-18a.119.5", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "preceding_text": "The Committee may wonder why I seek to intervene in a debate about Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-18a.119.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-18", "file": "debates1977-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6698ff511894fc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-18a.155.2", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Gentleman is at it again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I completely accept what my right hon. Friend says, although it might be as well if everyone chose to offset the way in which, in order to be Welsh today, one is required to support devolution, embrace the idea of a devolved system for Wales, and give a basis to the superiority of the Welsh language.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-18a.155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-18", "file": "debates1977-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6698ff511894fc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-18a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Pembroke (Mr. Edwards) has not reached a logical conclusion. Because we grant legislative devolution to Scotland and not to Wales, that does not mean that we have to follow the Scottish pattern for England. I believe that the degree of English devolution should be less than that operating in Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-18a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-18", "file": "debates1977-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6698ff511894fc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-18a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": " there and a feeling that the Bench of Bishops should receive its due weighting. Beyond that, one finds that Sir Julian Hodge, demonstrating once again his undying attachment to the causes espoused by the Prime Minister, has also put his name to the advertisement. I suppose that the largest politically identifiable group of people are those of the Liberal Party. One may draw one's own conclusions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-18a.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-18", "file": "debates1977-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6698ff511894fc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-18a.185.1", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": " am not impressed with the comparison by the Leader of Plaid Cymru with our defence budget. At least there is something demonstrably to this country's advantage in our defence budget. We have in the Bill a mess of pottage on which we should not spend a penny. The next and, perhaps, rather crude test that I would apply is whether it will simplify the government of the Celtic fringe of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-18a.185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-18", "file": "debates1977-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "6698ff511894fc4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-18a.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has underlined my argument. My right hon. Friend the Leader of the House represents one of the smallest constituencies in Wales. If anybody is guaranteeing his own liquidation, it is my right hon. Friend when he puts forward this proposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-18a.208.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-19", "file": "debates1977-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "73750301d45a2c3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-19a.366.2", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "way they are and have one United Kingdom. But if that is to go, and to the extent that there are to be separate Parliaments or Assemblies, which is what the Bill sets out, I prefer to go back much nearer to the beginning of things, to the earlier and more natural boundaries that existed a long time ago. I do not know what that would mean in Wales but in England I imagine it could mean a heptarchy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-19a.366.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-19", "file": "debates1977-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "73750301d45a2c3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-19a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "nd but not in Stirling. Under the proposed set-up the Secretary of State has a right to vote on criminology and criminal laws affecting Carlisle but not as affecting his constituency in the Craighton Division of Glasgow. My right hon. Friend the Lord President, who has shown me the courtesy of coming into the Chamber, can vote on matters affecting the environment in Easington—but not in Ebbw Vale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-19a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-19", "file": "debates1977-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "73750301d45a2c3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-19a.378.1", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the oil?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "If at the end of the day, in a popular vote, the people of Shetland indicated that was their wish, the SNP would not stand in their way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-19a.378.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-19", "file": "debates1977-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "73750301d45a2c3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-19a.388.1", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "now the Orcadian attitude to Scotland. When I was a child in Orkney, we used to look south over Scapa Flow to the northern coastline. We did not say \"There is the mainland\", as they would on Skye or Lewis. We said \"There is Scotland.\" We saw ourselves as being separate; Scotland was in the distance. Our great phrase in Orkney was that Scotland brought us nothing but dear corn and greedy ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-19a.388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-19", "file": "debates1977-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "73750301d45a2c3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-19a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "Yes, I do. One hears this time and again. But this is a matter that I am prepared to leave for a referendum to decide. I trust in the desire of the people of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-19a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-19", "file": "debates1977-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "73750301d45a2c3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-19a.450.4", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "s. Will one Member go one month, another the second, with the third attending the month after? Or will all three of us go each month? Will each of us have different fields of responsibility? My position in relation to my constituency and my electorate as well as to this House will be different from what it is now. There will be friction between us and that will harm the unity of the United Kingdom", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-19a.450.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-19", "file": "debates1977-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "73750301d45a2c3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-19a.465.3", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will also be aware of the fact that if Labour had been in Opposition now and his party had been in Government with the same Leader, and possibly even with its present Leader, a similar Bill may well have come forward, unfortunately for the same reasons. It is possible that that would have happened, and I think that it is probable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-19a.465.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-19", "file": "debates1977-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "73750301d45a2c3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-19a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" In this House, too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "elves to be British and are proud to be so. It seems to me that this Parliament is increasingly becoming remote from the feelings, aspirations and anxieties of ordinary people, and this debate has underlined that fact in a most remarkable way. Even now I suggest that the full implications of what is being perpetrated here are not yet fully understood by the great mass of people outside this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-19a.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-19", "file": "debates1977-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "73750301d45a2c3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-19a.470.1", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "Of course. Both Governments are responsible. I am not making a partisan speech. I am trying to speak for the ordinary people of England whether they vote Labour, Liberal, Conservative or Scottish National.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-19a.470.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-19", "file": "debates1977-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "73750301d45a2c3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-19a.561.3", "colnum": "561", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"North Sea oil.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "minds of those who believed that Scotland was being done down. Such a view is naive beyond belief, and I cannot think that anyone in the Government really holds it. The Government cannot believe that they would not be introducing conflict. After a few years of arguments on the block grant, a wedge would be driven between Scotland and England. The SNP would whip it up and pour petrol on the flames.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-19a.561.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-19", "file": "debates1977-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "73750301d45a2c3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-19a.575.0", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "hat he moved and suggested some embellishments, additions and substitutions to Clause 1. One of the points the right hon. Gentleman raised concerned the tense used in the phraseology of Clause 1. We believe that the present tense is appropriate for a preliminary declaratory statement of the effect of the Bill. Some of the right hon. Gentleman's other suggestions were in the form of embellishments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-19a.575.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-20", "file": "debates1977-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "430214b47059365c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-20a.608.0", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "preceding_text": "Although any help is welcome, is it not true that the Minister has fiddled around for far too long on this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-20a.608.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-20", "file": "debates1977-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "430214b47059365c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-20a.612.1", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman mind waiting until after Questions? We are running very slowly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-20a.612.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-20", "file": "debates1977-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "430214b47059365c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-20a.616.3", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "I know that in the first part of his question the hon. Gentleman was trying to be kind, but he will not be able to insert too much of a wedge be-between the negotiating powers of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and my own very poor negotiating powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-20a.616.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-01-20", "file": "debates1977-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "430214b47059365c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-20a.632.2", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that the Opposition are in some difficulty over the closed shop. Having read the statement in their new policy document, I think they will find this very difficult to carry out. They should keep up to date, especially as only yesterday a new chapter was inaugurated between the Conservative Party and the trade union movement. Hon. Members should remember that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-20a.632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-20", "file": "debates1977-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "430214b47059365c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-20a.634.2", "colnum": "634", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lipton", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend note that it has taken three days, including an all-night sitting, to dispose of one clause of the Scotland and Wales Bill? As he knows, the Bill contains 155 clauses and 16 schedules. Will he consider, since some of us are getting a bit fed up with this Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-20a.634.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-20", "file": "debates1977-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "430214b47059365c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-20a.646.4", "colnum": "646", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "ted by Aims for Freedom and Enterprise—commonly known as Aims of Industry. It refers to the Attorney-General's statement as being \"absolutely unacceptable\". I do not suggest that this is prima facie a breach of privilege. That is a matter for you, Mr. Speaker. However, I am advised that it could be either a breach of privilege or contempt of court. I shall not go into the details of the statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-20a.646.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-20", "file": "debates1977-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "430214b47059365c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-20a.708.2", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. William Rodgers)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Not the same speech, I hope.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. William Rodgers)", "preceding_text": "t and passed it to my right hon. Friend the Member for Grimsby (Mr. Crosland), now the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary. He read it, then tore it up slowly, saying \"Have a drink. Sleep well. Tomorrow you will feel better.\" Tomorrow has been a long time coming but, more than a dozen years later, I take a very special pleasure in having caught your eye, Mr. Deputy Speaker, so early in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-20a.708.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-01-20", "file": "debates1977-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "430214b47059365c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-20a.771.2", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "s is therefore the same, regardless of the size of the vehicle, or the annual mileage it travels. If the taxation were entirely on petrol, the revenue raised would more nearly be in proportion to the use made of the roads, by vehicles. Studies have indicated that this system, if introduced on a no-net-loss-to-the-Treasury basis, would benefit the motorist who drove less than 8,000 miles per annum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-20a.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-20", "file": "debates1977-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "430214b47059365c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-20a.772.1", "colnum": "772", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "Thank you for squeezing me in, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-20a.772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-21", "file": "debates1977-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "f3a2c027b1325840", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-21a.913.1", "colnum": "913", "heading": "NATIONAL ENTERPRISE BOARD GUIDELINES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": " tactical rescue operation, which would have been a negative response to the situation. They put their faith and the faith of the public in general in industries that are capable of being exploited for the benefit of society as a whole. I hope that the NEB will in some way manage to integrate the public sector and the private sector. Perhaps the days of the old ideologists have gone—on both sides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-21a.913.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-01-24", "file": "debates1977-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd94d8a8040d4934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.935.6", "colnum": "935", "heading": "MR. SPEAKER (LEAVE OF ABSENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon.\r\nMembers", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have to inform the House that I have been invited to attend the inauguration of the new Council of Europe building in Strasbourg on Friday 28th January. I hope that the House will approve of my decision to accept and will grant me leave of absence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.935.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-24", "file": "debates1977-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd94d8a8040d4934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.965.1", "colnum": "965", "heading": "TEACHER TRAINING", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "hat we can expand very rapidly up to at least 60,000 places on the basis of the proposals that we are making now, and they have been made in the light of being able to bring about a very rapid expansion, including, if necessary, a change in the balance between the in-service provision and the initial training provision if we had, say, a sudden influx of population for which we had not yet allowed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-24", "file": "debates1977-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd94d8a8040d4934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.966.0", "colnum": "966", "heading": "TEACHER TRAINING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that many of us on the Labour Benches accept that some further diminution in the number of places was necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.966.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-24", "file": "debates1977-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd94d8a8040d4934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.969.4", "colnum": "969", "heading": "TEACHER TRAINING", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman was not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has wholly misunderstood the way in which the operation was conducted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.969.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-24", "file": "debates1977-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd94d8a8040d4934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.995.7", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER CHARGES EQUALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has not started it yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way any more. I must proceed with my argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.995.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-24", "file": "debates1977-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd94d8a8040d4934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.1000.1", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER CHARGES EQUALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have already\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": " major addition to supplies for the South East from about 1984 onwards is by transfers from the Severn to the Thames. The increased demand for water and the inability of the Thames authority substantially to increase supplies will make it inevitable that, whether in the mid-1980s or in the 1990s, the Authority will need to draw water from Wales. There are still many hon. Members who wish to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.1000.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-24", "file": "debates1977-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd94d8a8040d4934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER CHARGES EQUALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "I strenuously oppose the Bill, for a wide variety of reasons. It is difficult to follow the argument of the hon. Member for Brecon and Radnor (Mr. Roderick), who asked us not to be parochial. I have yet to hear support for the Bill from the Labour Benches, except from Welsh Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-24", "file": "debates1977-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd94d8a8040d4934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER CHARGES EQUALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nine hundred thousand.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": " hon. Member for Devon, North (Mr. Thorpe). They said that there were such inherent differences between various areas that some form of equalisation charge was justified. There was no hope that Devon could provide itself with a service as efficient as that of Worcestershire. I do not understand the argument to justify figures that I have heard quoted. The North-West will be stung for £900 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-24", "file": "debates1977-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd94d8a8040d4934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.1091.1", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER CHARGES EQUALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Alec Jones)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Alec Jones)", "preceding_text": ", but I shall receive benefit through occupation of my house in my constituency. Therefore, I hope to preserve an impartial approach throughout the debate. I was challenged to find one Labour Member from a losing area who would support the Bill. Therefore, I was refreshed to hear my hon. Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent, Central (Mr. Cant) support the Bill on the basis of fairness and justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.1091.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-24", "file": "debates1977-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd94d8a8040d4934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.1103.4", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD VEHICLES (REGISTRATION MARK TRANSFERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A Socialist profit?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": "ion and a variety of operations carried out by staff who, for the most part, do this work as only a small part of their total duties. We estimate the cost to be about £10–£15. The Department would therefore collect a surplus—make a profit, that is to say—on each transfer of close to £40. I make no apology for this. On the contrary I consider it right and proper that a profit should be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.1103.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-24", "file": "debates1977-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd94d8a8040d4934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD VEHICLES (REGISTRATION MARK TRANSFERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A matter of principle.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "preceding_text": "50 is a small part of total motoring costs. It is a voluntary payment. No motorist need transfer his number. No hardship is involved. It is clear that the cost of this facility has not kept pace with inflation. It has been £5 for more than 50 years. We are talking about a luxury. Conservative Members have a distorted sense of priorities. They turn out in great force for a debate on a small matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.1113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-24", "file": "debates1977-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd94d8a8040d4934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.1113.1", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD VEHICLES (REGISTRATION MARK TRANSFERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the hon. Gentleman here for?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "preceding_text": "ntary payment. No motorist need transfer his number. No hardship is involved. It is clear that the cost of this facility has not kept pace with inflation. It has been £5 for more than 50 years. We are talking about a luxury. Conservative Members have a distorted sense of priorities. They turn out in great force for a debate on a small matter—[An HON. MEMBER: \"A matter of principle.\"]—and generate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.1113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-24", "file": "debates1977-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd94d8a8040d4934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.1115.1", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD VEHICLES (REGISTRATION MARK TRANSFERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "epartment was determined to maintain. If it is all right to have a cherished number plate transferred, why does it become all wrong to transfer it from a Land Rover to a Range Rover? Those two vehicles are in separate taxation classes and it will not be possible. The oldest number plate in Kent—D1, issued in 1903—is at present on a moped and there it must remain. Why on earth must it remain there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.1115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-24", "file": "debates1977-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd94d8a8040d4934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.1122.1", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD VEHICLES (REGISTRATION MARK TRANSFERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Marshall", "preceding_text": "s proposal against what the Government are trying to do on a broader front, we see them here apparently putting forward the notion of a quick profit unrelated to the tasks carried out. Their proposal must be seen in the wider context of a Government who have made money lending more profitable than manufacturing. Above all, it must be seen in the context of a Government who have a kill-joy complex.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.1122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-24", "file": "debates1977-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "cd94d8a8040d4934", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD VEHICLES (REGISTRATION MARK TRANSFERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "nate point in no way related to the facts. I am not inclined to be critical of this Statutory Instrument. Looking at the matter with reasonable objectivity, one must recognise that this debate is an opportunity for hon. Members to make one or two legitimate political points, but there is no major controversy about the amount of the charge. It is a moderate charge. It is not an unreasonable charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-24a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-01-25", "file": "debates1977-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "41f3872f2f840efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1161.1", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "Should the right hon. Gentleman not take early measures to meet these defence Ministers in view of the statement made by the Vice President of the United States in which he was reported to say that President Carter is committed to the NATO Alliance\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-25", "file": "debates1977-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "41f3872f2f840efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1173.3", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes, it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I leave public rebukes to the hon. Gentleman. In my view, that is not the best way of dealing with the Soviet Union in these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1173.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-25", "file": "debates1977-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "41f3872f2f840efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1229.2", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Five.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": "they could either keep the Government or throw them out at a subsequent election. 5.30 p.m. For years I have advocated the case for the existing system of election given that the voters only vote for one of two parties. But in Scotland and Wales we do not now have a two-party system. Let us look particularly at Scotland, where we have a three-and-a-half- or a three-and-three-quarters-party system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1229.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-25", "file": "debates1977-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "41f3872f2f840efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1232.0", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": " to run it with a party which has only minority support imposing its views on the majority. To require majority support, I suggest, is a far more democratic approach. But there would not necessarily be a need to form a coalition. All that is necessary is for the minority party with most support in the country to rule in a manner which brings it support in the Lobbies from members of other parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1232.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-25", "file": "debates1977-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "41f3872f2f840efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1233.4", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": "The Conservative Party could work with the Scottish National Party, and the SNP could work with the Labour Party, with which it has many affinities, for certain objectives. Or, if the problems of resisting independence were the crucial issue, Labour and Conservatives could vote together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1233.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-25", "file": "debates1977-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "41f3872f2f840efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1236.4", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": "Their relationship would be precisely the same as that of defeated candidates now. They would have no access to Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1236.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-25", "file": "debates1977-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "41f3872f2f840efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1237.8", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": "Nothing would stop them, but nothing stops them now, except the convention that Ministers deal only with the sitting Member. That convention would still apply, so the position would be in no way different. Other countries have worked this system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1237.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-25", "file": "debates1977-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "41f3872f2f840efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1260.3", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moonman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moonman", "preceding_text": "There is an intelligent case for centralisation in dealing with the size and scale of an operation or country. I should like to give further consideration to the narrow question of proportional representation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1260.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-25", "file": "debates1977-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "41f3872f2f840efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1278.3", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"In 1929.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "As I have said, I do not wish to be diverted into this question, but if there was any crudity in the matter, it was the crudity of the Unionists in taking the system away in the first place in the 1920s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1278.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-25", "file": "debates1977-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "41f3872f2f840efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1280.4", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "in the Socialist International are or have been at one time or another in coalitions, and when one considers the nature of the Labour Patty itself just now. I wonder how the right hon. Gentleman—he is not here at the moment, but perhaps he will be able to say later—would describe the kind of result that I have just depicted. \"What is democracy?\" said jesting Foot, and would not stay for an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1280.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-25", "file": "debates1977-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "41f3872f2f840efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1351.0", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "l become—there is nothing that will stop its members in time from demanding more and more powers. They will immediately wish to have the right to raise taxes. They will then begin arguing that the Scottish Assembly should be represented outside Scotland. After all, in the United Nations 20 nations have smaller populations than that of Scotland, so why should not this Assembly be represented there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1351.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-25", "file": "debates1977-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "41f3872f2f840efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1353.1", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haffer", "preceding_text": "intosh). My hon. Friend said that some Labour Members below the Gangway are conservative in their approach. I assume that in that sense the opposite to conservative is radical. I have a feeling that some of my hon. Friends have reached a stage where they consider that any change of any kind must be necessary because that is radicalism. I do not believe that we should change for the sake of change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-25", "file": "debates1977-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "41f3872f2f840efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1379.3", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "t the position of the proposed Executive in Scotland. If our first past the post system is to be acceptable, all the parties in the proposed Assembly will have to accept the constitutional basis of the Bill, which one of them does not. One of the parties in Scotland has a different and separate objective. That must be taken into account in any thinking we give to how the Assembly is to be elected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1379.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-25", "file": "debates1977-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "41f3872f2f840efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1381.4", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "d because that is the type of legislative Assembly proposed for Wales. This is not a minor drafting point but a criticism of substance. This has been so far a major debate on a major issue and the Committee will want to vote on the principle rather than the detail. As I have said, we on these Benches are approaching the matter in the spirit—no, not in the spirit: in the actual fact—of a free vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1381.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-25", "file": "debates1977-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "41f3872f2f840efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1383.0", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Stewart", "preceding_text": "I hope that even at this hour, and after the speeches from the two Front Benches, I do not need to apologise for returning to Amendment No. 50, of which I was one of the original sponsors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1383.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-25", "file": "debates1977-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "41f3872f2f840efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1403.4", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Gilmour", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Gilmour", "preceding_text": "g an Assembly for some Scottish affairs—not all—which will require two people to do the work which one person does at present. I understand that if we have PR it will be necessary to increase the number of Members. But there is no reason whatsoever initially to increase membership of the Assembly beyond 71. There are also difficulties in Schedule 1 in trying to get constituencies of the same size.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1403.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-25", "file": "debates1977-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "41f3872f2f840efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1408.4", "colnum": "1408", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "rtional representation, particularly in relation to Scotland, the more we should remember that there can be no devolved government in any part of the United Kingdom without putting the unity of the United Kingdom at risk. That unity is essential to the sovereignty of the Westminster Parliament, which is the principal bulwark against unfair or unjust treatment of any minority in the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1408.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-01-25", "file": "debates1977-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "41f3872f2f840efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1412.0", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And the best.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "of individual parties, because our system, thank goodness, is based on representative government, on voting for the individual and not necessarily for the party. So, when many hon. Members, in support of the amendment, quoted Germany as an excellent example where their form of proportional representation has worked, I would point out that Britain is the oldest parliamentary democracy in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1411.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-01-25", "file": "debates1977-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "41f3872f2f840efa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1412.2", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Iceland.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "And the best.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-25a.1412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-26", "file": "debates1977-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "2eef1aa46d0d976a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-26a.1474.3", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "There are so many members of the SNP speaking on fishing policy that I am not clear whether that is an official statement on behalf of the party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-26a.1474.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-26", "file": "debates1977-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "2eef1aa46d0d976a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-26a.1483.5", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crawford", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crawford", "preceding_text": "m the Minister that the sub-committee appointed by the Committee of the Scottish Clearing Banks, when commenting on our financial policy, stated that the document was \"well prepared\"? May I ask him whether he would prefer to have a strong currency, as we shall have in a self-governing Scotland, and low interest rates or the high interest rates of today? May I also tell him that if he is very good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-26a.1483.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-26", "file": "debates1977-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "2eef1aa46d0d976a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-26a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the question?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "preceding_text": "The Liberal Bench wants to see an extension of industrial democracy and has done so for about 50 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-26a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-01-26", "file": "debates1977-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "2eef1aa46d0d976a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-26a.1499.6", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dell", "preceding_text": "We have a commitment, and that commitment is justified not merely by the needs of this country but by experience elsewhere. So far as I know, every country which has developed along this course has found it necessary to do so on the basis of statutory provision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-26a.1499.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-26", "file": "debates1977-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "2eef1aa46d0d976a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-26a.1519.3", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tierney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tierney", "preceding_text": "he did so he left the union. Between 1958 and 1972, he worked for two other employers, claiming that they were non-union shops, so he did not have to join a union at all. He took up another job in 1972 with the company mentioned by the hon. Member, and in 1976, when a closed shop was introduced, he applied for membership of the Transport and General Workers' Union and his application was refused.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-26a.1519.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-26", "file": "debates1977-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "2eef1aa46d0d976a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-26a.1598.4", "colnum": "1598", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "empt it. It is a very difficult region to cover. No one can deny that now is the time to divide this constituency, whose extent is equivalent to the distance between London and York, although its population is small. In many ways I should be sorry to see the constituency divided, even for the purposes of the Assembly. In its time the constituency has, oddly enough, been represented by notable men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-26a.1598.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-26", "file": "debates1977-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "2eef1aa46d0d976a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-26a.1617.1", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "he Shetland Island Council expressed it to me when I visited the Shetlands in the middle of 1976 and had discussions with the council—that they will be dominated by Assembly men or women from the central belt of Scotland. I know that it is difficult, however much Ministers or Members of Parliament may try, to allay such fears, but the history of the consideration that the House of Commons has had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-26a.1617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-26", "file": "debates1977-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "2eef1aa46d0d976a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-26a.1620.0", "colnum": "1620", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "As a good friend of my neighbour, may I direct the Minister's attention to the small matter of geography? As far as I am aware, there are no deep-water fish in his, mine and the neighbouring constituency of West Stirlingshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-26a.1620.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-26", "file": "debates1977-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "2eef1aa46d0d976a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-26a.1640.2", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "We are discussing the Minister's legislation. It is not my job to explain it. If an hon. Member asks a question or two, it is incumbent on the Minister to ensure that he has the relevant documents with which to answer them. The Minister has said that he will look carefully at the 1949 Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-26a.1640.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-26", "file": "debates1977-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "2eef1aa46d0d976a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-26a.1640.2", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "ob to explain it. If an hon. Member asks a question or two, it is incumbent on the Minister to ensure that he has the relevant documents with which to answer them. The Minister has said that he will look carefully at the 1949 Act—[ Interruption. ] I do not want unduly to disturb a private conversation, but it would be better if the Minister listened to what I was saying. He says that he will read—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-26a.1640.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-26", "file": "debates1977-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "2eef1aa46d0d976a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-26a.1640.2", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": ", but it would be better if the Minister listened to what I was saying. He says that he will read—[ Interruption. ] I do not know whether the Minister is cleverer than I think he is and can talk and listen to a colleague and listen to the debate. I come back to the point. I understood the Minister to say that he would examine Section 3 of the 1949 Act and come to a conclusion about how it applied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-26a.1640.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-27", "file": "debates1977-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "86d08e923ccd4f91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-27a.1695.2", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend about the level of unemployment. I take no pleasure from standing at this Dispatch Box facing questions on this matter every week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-27a.1695.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-27", "file": "debates1977-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "86d08e923ccd4f91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-27a.1709.1", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "UNION OF POST OFFICE WORKERS (RELATOR PROCEEDINGS)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You were wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "But in terms of my function in this matter—that of granting consent or not granting it to an application for my name to be used to obtain an injunction—the very strong feelings are, of course, relevant to the public interest about what is likely to happen if consent is granted and whether it causes far more widespread damage to the community than if it is not granted. That is a matter of judgment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-27a.1709.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-27", "file": "debates1977-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "86d08e923ccd4f91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-27a.1712.2", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "UNION OF POST OFFICE WORKERS (RELATOR PROCEEDINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not ask a lawyer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": " cases as ordinary citizens pursue the rights which the Court of Appeal has very foolishly defined? Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that all lawyers on the Government Benches accept that he was entirely correct in the course he pursued and that lawyers on the Opposition Benches know it as well? Does he agree that this matter ultimately must be decided by this place and not by the courts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-27a.1712.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-27", "file": "debates1977-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "86d08e923ccd4f91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-27a.1713.2", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "UNION OF POST OFFICE WORKERS (RELATOR PROCEEDINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I do not call hon. Members on the basis of their calling, vocation, sex or profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-27a.1713.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-27", "file": "debates1977-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "86d08e923ccd4f91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-27a.1717.3", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will no doubt be aware that the question was debated in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-27a.1717.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-27", "file": "debates1977-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "86d08e923ccd4f91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-27a.1721.0", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "That this House urges hon. Members to acquaint themselves with fact rather than giving immediate and unthinking credence to tittle-tattle before signing Early-Day Motions.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-27a.1721.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-27", "file": "debates1977-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "86d08e923ccd4f91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-27a.1774.1", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIME PREVENTION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "n law wife or whoever he wants to come in. Many prisons in Sweden have visitors' accommodation separate from the prison wings. This is what the Estimates Committee suggested when it said that special accommodation should be provided near to the entrance to the prison so that visitors would not have to go near the prison block. Some prisons in Sweden have flats outside the prison for family visits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-27a.1774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-27", "file": "debates1977-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "86d08e923ccd4f91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-27a.1828.1", "colnum": "1828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIME PREVENTION", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Bruce Milan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Bruce Milan)", "preceding_text": "This has been a very interesting debate, but I start with a slight complaint about its nature. It is unfortunate that the Opposition have chosen to make this a Great Britain debate, so that in response to a Scottish speech I am winding up on behalf of the Government, when there have been no speeches by other Scottish Members. This has been an English debate. I hope that English Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-27a.1828.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-27", "file": "debates1977-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "86d08e923ccd4f91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-27a.1828.5", "colnum": "1828", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIME PREVENTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "That is precisely the point I am making.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-27a.1828.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-01-31", "file": "debates1977-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "550a13cfcc035e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-31a.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "UNION OF POST OFFICE WORKERS (RELATOR PROCEEDINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"A lawyer gives advice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. You said that the Attorney-General alone may decide whether to appeal to the House of Lords. I am not sure whether he has any ground to appeal since two of the court ruled in his favour. But is it not the case that a lawyer normally takes the advice of his clients?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-31a.30.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-01-31", "file": "debates1977-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "550a13cfcc035e47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-31a.172.2", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (SKIMMED MILK)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Sir Myer Galpern)", "preceding_text": "The Question is, That the amendment be made. As many as are of that opinon say \"Aye\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-01-31a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-01", "file": "debates1977-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ddab649cbf977c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.207.3", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "rnment in trying to reduce unemployment, but is it not clear that the measures that have been proposed or even carried out by my right hon. Friend are totally insufficient and that what is needed is a public works programme, is cut in hours, no further cuts in public expenditure and a serious effort by the Government to begin to bring down unemployment? I said the other day that it is intolerable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.207.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-01", "file": "debates1977-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ddab649cbf977c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.211.1", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman talks of grounds of conscience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.211.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-01", "file": "debates1977-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ddab649cbf977c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.212.0", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "is it not a fact that doctors, lawyers and all the other professions are in a closed shop?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-01", "file": "debates1977-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ddab649cbf977c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.212.1", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I shall not comment on the doctors or on any other profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-01", "file": "debates1977-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ddab649cbf977c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.222.5", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The obligation that the Government entered into with the people at the last General Election was to introduce a measure of industrial democracy. That we shall do, and, as we have already said, we shall enter into those discussions, as might be expected, on the basis of the majority report of Bullock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.222.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-01", "file": "debates1977-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ddab649cbf977c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "n concerns by-elections. A series of by-elections for Westminster constituencies can bring about a General Election, but the Assembly is to be for a fixed term of four years. With a series of by-elections, balances could easily be changed. Could by-election results in the middle of a four-year period cause the whole administration to change, without resort to any kind of Assembly General Election?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.249.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-02-01", "file": "debates1977-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ddab649cbf977c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.296.4", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Why does not the hon. Gentleman go home?", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman is getting well out of order by referring to a guillotine. That is not the subject of the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.296.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-01", "file": "debates1977-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ddab649cbf977c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.302.2", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "g involved. The hon. Gentleman, who is not present, was demanding guarantees from the Government about the guillotine. Nobody in the SNP would have wanted to inflict a timetable debate on our English and Welsh friends until we had had two or three weeks to see how the Bill was going. Tonight I said quite reasonably, as a dove, that the time had come to call a halt. That is a reasonable conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.302.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-01", "file": "debates1977-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ddab649cbf977c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.308.0", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "he terms of the amendment. That is all the more necessary because of the arrogant request which has been made by the hon. Member for Clackmannan and East Stirlingshire (Mr. Reid) that the debate should be curtailed. The hon. Gentleman took it upon himself to demand the introduction of a timetable motion, as if he were the Leader of the House of Commons and responsible for introducing such motions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.308.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-01", "file": "debates1977-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ddab649cbf977c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.318.0", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "matter. I do not accept that. The amendment, as I have said, really seeks to delay and probably to frustrate altogether the implementation of the Bill once it has passed through Parliament and the people of Scotland and Wales have had their say in the form of a referendum. The right hon. Member for Renfrewshire, East laughs and shakes her head. She seems to treat this matter in a frivolous manner.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-01", "file": "debates1977-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ddab649cbf977c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.334.7", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Threats.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": " one of the many matters which were agreed throughout the Labour movement, the Scottish TUC and Scottish Labour Members of Parliament. The attitude of the Treasury Bench to amendments of this kind which are not hostile to the Bill but which attempt to make it more workable is of considerable significance to those of us who will contemplate our attitude to a Guillotine later. We shall want to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.334.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-01", "file": "debates1977-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ddab649cbf977c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.348.3", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "that, I should have thought that there was some sense in it. I should never has suspected anything about what was to happen in relation to the rest of the Bill concerning the Secretary of State's functions. My hon. Friend has nailed himself to the cross by letting the cat out of the bag and saying \"If you do not give me this, all my calculations for the Secretary of State will fall to the ground.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.348.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-01", "file": "debates1977-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ddab649cbf977c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.382.0", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "preceding_text": "is combination is a strange business not only in principle but in practice also. In principle there is no reason in logic why devolution should prejudice the outcome of any conference, or why the outcome of any conference should prejudice the fulfilment of devolution. Tying them together is an attempt to get this representation issue debated earlier by tagging it on to an early clause of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.382.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-01", "file": "debates1977-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ddab649cbf977c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.388.2", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "This Parliament will retain unabated responsibility for defence; security; police—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.388.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-01", "file": "debates1977-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ddab649cbf977c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.389.3", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Several of those matters and the question of the relationship of the House of Commons to devolved matters, the override, and the reserve powers, are matters which we shall be debating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.389.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-01", "file": "debates1977-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ddab649cbf977c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.390.0", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend, who has brought to our attention during the debates on the Bill the fact that he has a different view from us, raises the whole question whether there should be any devolution of powers at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.390.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-01", "file": "debates1977-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ddab649cbf977c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I understand that the hon. Gentleman puts that case, as do many of his colleagues from Northern Ireland. There are many others in the House who sympathise with him. There are other factors involved in solving the problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-01", "file": "debates1977-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ddab649cbf977c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.394.5", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I was saying that whereas I believe that the question of representation in this House cannot be dealt with in the Bill—and most hon. Members are agreed about that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.394.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-01", "file": "debates1977-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ddab649cbf977c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.400.0", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That has nothing to do with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " whole argument that we have had about Northern Ireland. It would be extremely tedious for all concerned. I should have thought that the whole Committee understands, and that anyone who had applied his mind to questions in Northern Ireland understands, that there is an attempt in Northern Ireland to see how we may reinstitute institutions in Northern Ireland that can deal with the situation there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-01", "file": "debates1977-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ddab649cbf977c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.400.3", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So answer it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I have been asked that question time and again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.400.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-01", "file": "debates1977-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ddab649cbf977c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.408.0", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ioan Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ioan Evans", "preceding_text": "r important question we must ask is what will be the influence of the Welsh Grand Committee? It has played an important part in dealing with Welsh affairs. It has been said that there will not be a Welsh Grand Committee if this Bill is implemented, but that if there is one it will have to have a reduced agenda. Many of the matters that are now discussed will be devolved to the Assembly in Cardiff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-01", "file": "debates1977-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ddab649cbf977c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.421.1", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The habit of interventions is getting a little abused. It always seems to me better for speeches to be made consecutively rather than simultaneously or antiphonally across the Chamber. I was coming to that point. The point at issue is this. Is an injustice done to parts of the kingdom that have not got devolved government if the representation in this House of Commons remains the same?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-01", "file": "debates1977-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ddab649cbf977c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.437.1", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "ent should consider twice before proceeding with this legislation lest, by so doing, they endanger the future representation of Scotland and of Wales in the House of Commons. If the Opposition were to persuade the Committee to pass the amendment, we should be in a completely different situation. We should achieve not a warning, but a decision—a wrong-headed decision—based on a political manoeuvre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-01", "file": "debates1977-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ddab649cbf977c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. E. Thomas", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. E. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I have been following the hon. Gentleman's argument with great interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-01", "file": "debates1977-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ddab649cbf977c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.453.0", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruptions", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "rse it will. 2.30 a.m. Much play has been made this evening about the question of the referendum, and people having a say. Will the referendum be extended to the ordinary English people in the United Kingdom? It will be extremely unfair if it applies only to Scotland and Wales. I very much take the point made by the right hon. Member for Down, South (Mr. Powell) in his strong and powerful speech.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.453.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-01", "file": "debates1977-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ddab649cbf977c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.458.1", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But the hon. Gentleman voted.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "n. Members have referred to the argument, in order to dismiss it, that we could have a two-tier membership of this House. I do not see the difficulty that other hon. Members have perceived in that. It may be that I have not paid the appropriate attention to English domestic affairs, but I can recall no time in the past three years when I have spoken in a debate on a purely English domestic matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.458.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-01", "file": "debates1977-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ddab649cbf977c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.495.0", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thompson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"From a crock of gold.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thompson", "preceding_text": "d say to them \"Take heart. Preach your gospel to the people of England. Perhaps they will listen, perhaps they will not.\" I sometimes have the pleasure of appearing on that bicultural medium Border Television. I tell English Members who are debating with me that if they feel that the North of England needs a regional Assembly they should ask for it and very likely the Government will give them it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-01", "file": "debates1977-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "ddab649cbf977c2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.498.3", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": ". If the number of Scottish Members in the House of Commons is reduced, the Scottish people will see that their best course of action is to assume full responsibility for their own affairs and they will draw the logical conclusion. My hon. Friends and I can never accept a reduction in the number of Scottish Members in the House until the day comes when we all pack up our bags and go home for good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-01a.498.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-02", "file": "debates1977-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "1fd9483e87028cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-02a.526.2", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "s have recently been illustrated on a page of the The Times? Are these countries now to be graded in some order of moral reprehensibility? If so, will he tell the House what that order is? As there is no such order at the moment, perhaps he will say by what authority he called the general manager of Barclays Bank to the Foreign Office and ticked him off. Finally, and perhaps most important of all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-02a.526.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-02", "file": "debates1977-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "1fd9483e87028cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-02a.600.0", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Like the right hon. Member for Sidcup (Mr. Heath) in 1974.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "and a majority. There has been wide public criticism, with some justification, about the power of the Prime Minister not to advise a dissolution after a defeat in Parliament on a motion of no confidence but to go to the country when he continues to command a majority in the House of Commons because he believes it is an appropriate time to have an election for purely party political considerations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-02a.600.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-02", "file": "debates1977-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "1fd9483e87028cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-02a.631.1", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "crisis clause or whatever might be built into it, is that there could be an unstable political situation within the Scottish Assembly. Hon. Members on both sides expressed concern about this, and I shall certainly pay close attention to it. It is assumed, perhaps too readily, that fresh elections will necessarily cure the difficulty. One could have another election and find even deeper difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-02a.631.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-02", "file": "debates1977-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "1fd9483e87028cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-02a.679.8", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ht as a matter of principle to ensure that there is a clear separation in time and in approach between the supreme election of this House and any other elections. In that Amendment No. 109 seeks to achieve that, I believe that it should have support. I come now to Amendment No. 111. I should possibly be out of order if I took exception to some of the things the right hon. Member for Downside said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-02a.679.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-02", "file": "debates1977-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "1fd9483e87028cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-02a.690.0", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "lem was that I could not see the joke. We are, in fact, discussing a serious issue. The hon. Gentleman said, for example, that we ought not to be patronising to the Scots as though they could not cope with something with which the English could cope, but surely the whole point of this debate is that we are creating a problem for the Scots and the Welsh with which the English will not have to cope.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-02a.690.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-02-02", "file": "debates1977-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "1fd9483e87028cd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-02a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And all on one day.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is grossly exaggerating the problem. The Americans, who are, after all not noticeably brighter than the people of Britain, vote for everyone from the President downwards in one place. They have a great list and they have no difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-02a.691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-03", "file": "debates1977-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "9d9756a268cc6d3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.725.0", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Miller", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that there is considerable concern about the time that is taken in each case? Is she also aware of an allegation that the chief adjudicator dealing with these cases has made a statement that he is not inclined to admit supporters of the former Allende régime?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.725.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-03", "file": "debates1977-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "9d9756a268cc6d3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.725.4", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "I hope that my right hon. Friend will listen to what is being said from the Opposition Benches. The adjudicators have said that members of the Socialist Party of Chile are Communist agitators. They have used this deep political bias as a reason for not allowing into this country honest political refugees from the Fascist Government of Chile. I ask my hon. Friend to take steps—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.725.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-03", "file": "debates1977-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "9d9756a268cc6d3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.726.8", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "asking for your protection, Mr. Speaker. For my hon. Friends, this matter is not a joke. The House is a democratic institution and my hon. Friends and I are concerned—even if Opposition Members are not—with democracy in every part of the world—Russia, Chile, and everywhere else. We are sick and tired of being subjected to barrages of animal noises by Opposition Members when we raise these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.726.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-03", "file": "debates1977-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "9d9756a268cc6d3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "preceding_text": "As the Prime Minister is in a mood for telling the truth today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-03", "file": "debates1977-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "9d9756a268cc6d3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.747.2", "colnum": "747", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"One\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Leader of the House two questions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.747.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-03", "file": "debates1977-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "9d9756a268cc6d3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.759.3", "colnum": "759", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "t before this episode. It describes events that have been going on during the preceding three or four months. Was the Foreign Secretary unaware of all this? If he was aware of it, how could he speak yesterday in those bland terms of two contradictory versions, one from Sir Seretse Khama's Government and one, of course, from the Rhodesian Government, as though the two were equally worthy of belief?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.759.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-03", "file": "debates1977-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "9d9756a268cc6d3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.762.1", "colnum": "762", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": " Nkomo and Mugabe are a little less fond of each other than were David and Johnathan, and Nkomo has had his succession as heir apparent virtually snatched from him by Mugabe, so he, Nkomo, is building up his private army in Botswanaland with the connivance of that respected African statesman Sir Seretse Khama, who is basically a Matabele himself, though, like Nkomo, not of the pure Matabele tribe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-03", "file": "debates1977-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "9d9756a268cc6d3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.762.1", "colnum": "762", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "se Khama, who is basically a Matabele himself, though, like Nkomo, not of the pure Matabele tribe—[An HON. MEMBER: \"Disgraceful.\"]—it is no good saying \"disgraceful\"; it is absolutely true—and of Nkomo's friend Kamada and of the Russian-dominated Tanzania. The purpose is the building of an army for use after independence—not against Mr. Smith. Those 370 children are in the pipeline to Francistown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-03", "file": "debates1977-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "9d9756a268cc6d3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.762.1", "colnum": "762", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It is chess with machine guns\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "killed manipulators who, having seized on the Kissinger acceptance of the fact of majority rule, are now manoeuvring for position in a most complicated pattern, with a degree of dedication and ruthlessness which is quite strange to democratic Governments. Unless the Foreign Secretary drops his attitude of detached ignorance and plays chess with these people, we shall have a blood bath in Rhodesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.762.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-03", "file": "debates1977-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "9d9756a268cc6d3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "the main body of children, numbering 380, were at Kobojango but that they were to be transferred to Seleb-Pikwe and Francis-town, where there were better facilities for their welfare. The Botswana authorities told our High Commissioner that of the large number of children who were interviewed all had agreed that they had left Rhodesia willingly to escape harassment by the Rhodesia security forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-03", "file": "debates1977-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "9d9756a268cc6d3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.769.0", "colnum": "769", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "There are two conflicting reports about what happened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.769.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-03", "file": "debates1977-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "9d9756a268cc6d3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.776.7", "colnum": "776", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orbach", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orbach", "preceding_text": " The Government of Gaberones are a responsible Government and will be responsive to the representations made by the Foreign Office. I have a high regard for the British High Commissioner there and I am certain that he will not send one of his staff—[HON. MEMERS: \"She.\"] I think I can be forgiven for that, because I have been to two places, Botswana and Lesotho, and, for a moment, I made a mistake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.776.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-03", "file": "debates1977-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "9d9756a268cc6d3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.812.2", "colnum": "812", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For murder.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "preceding_text": " few months and years. I am not sure whether Opposition Members were involved in a massive campaign when, just a few weeks ago, eight people were not just moved across a border and not just deprived of some of their rights but were deprived of all that they had—their lives. They were tried by an illegal court, judged by an illegal judge under the auspices of an illegal régime, and executed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.812.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-03", "file": "debates1977-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "9d9756a268cc6d3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.878.3", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (NORTH-WEST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "erefore, I may claim to have some first-hand knowledge of the problems described in the debate. The speech of the hon. Member for Brentford and Isleworth (Mr. Hayhoe) was reminiscent of the kind of speech we heard from him and his party in the period leading up to the General Election in 1970 and during the Conservatives' first two years in office. Two years later we had over 1 million unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.878.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-03", "file": "debates1977-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "9d9756a268cc6d3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.878.3", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT (NORTH-WEST)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "neral Election in 1970 and during the Conservatives' first two years in office. Two years later we had over 1 million unemployed. [ Interruption. ] If Conservative Members want the facts and figures they can have them. In 1972 the official figures showed that there were 1½ million unemployed. The hon. Member for Brentford and Isleworth was somewhat contemptuous about the temporary measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-03a.878.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-02-04", "file": "debates1977-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "89b0bd02ac996fc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-04a.1015.10", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AVOIDANCE OF LIABILITY (ENGLAND AND WALES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That it be an Instruction to Standing Committee C that they have power to make provision in the Avoidance of Liability (England and Wales) Bill for it to extend to Scotland and Northern Ireland.—[ Mr. Ward. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-04a.1015.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-07", "file": "debates1977-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b14ea635a4561361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1044.5", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "Before the Minister introduces legislation to prevent accidents of one sort or another—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1044.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-07", "file": "debates1977-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b14ea635a4561361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1047.5", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hal Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hal Miller", "preceding_text": "I attempt to represent my constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1047.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-02-07", "file": "debates1977-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b14ea635a4561361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1053.8", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "POST OFFICE MAIL (EAST LONDON)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "That is a lie and the right hon. Gentleman is a liar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1053.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-07", "file": "debates1977-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b14ea635a4561361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1054.5", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "POST OFFICE MAIL (EAST LONDON)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"What is it about?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "It would not be appropriate for me to intervene directly when the Post Office Corporation itself and the Union of Post Office Workers are doing everything possible to bring the dispute to a conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1054.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-07", "file": "debates1977-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b14ea635a4561361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1074.0", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (DIRECT ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "I always admire my hon. Friend for his ingenuity. However, he is a number of jumps ahead. What he ought to do is to welcome the introduction of the Bill so that we can begin all that debate, which will undoubtedly begin as soon as the Bill is introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1074.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-07", "file": "debates1977-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b14ea635a4561361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1086.1", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (DIRECT ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "It is very kind of my hon. Friend to add to my responsibilities the job of Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party. I do not lay down policy, but I can tell the House that the Conservative Party is diametrically opposed to the use of direct taxpayers' money. These direct elections will be an additional burden upon the British taxpayer because, presumably—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1086.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-07", "file": "debates1977-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b14ea635a4561361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1091.1", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (DIRECT ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis", "preceding_text": "the Select Committee, or on my right hon. Friend, or anyone else. I gather that the hon. Gentleman was in favour of the report, which said that certain things should happen. He has not raised the matter at every business question time. I am a fairly workaday Member. It seems to me that only in the past few weeks has the Leader of the Opposition started raising the matter at business question time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1091.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-07", "file": "debates1977-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b14ea635a4561361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1091.1", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (DIRECT ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis", "cue_text": "AN. HON. MEMBER: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis", "preceding_text": "pposition started raising the matter at business question time. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] It is no good the Opposition shouting \"No\". Days are set aside when they can raise their own business. The hon. Member for Harrow, East (Mr. Dykes) is to be congratulated on taking the initiative. The rest of the Opposition are being dragged along on his coat-tails. The Opposition have been supine in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1091.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-07", "file": "debates1977-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b14ea635a4561361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (DIRECT ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacFarquhar", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What an admission.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacFarquhar", "preceding_text": "is House is responsible to the constituents who elected him. Also, our directly-elected European Members will be responsible to the nation as a whole, and to the party organisation which selected them to stand and which helped with their election. In terms of a mandate, there will be no responsibility to this Parliament at all. No directly-elected Member will have any responsibility to this place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-07", "file": "debates1977-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b14ea635a4561361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1106.1", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (DIRECT ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacFarquhar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacFarquhar", "preceding_text": "o responsibility to this Parliament at all. No directly-elected Member will have any responsibility to this place. [AN HON. MEMBER: \"What an admission.\"] It is not an admission, it is a statement of fact. It would be ludicrous to suppose that any party would not take steps to ensure intense consultation and co-ordination between its Members in the European Parliament and its Members in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1106.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-02-07", "file": "debates1977-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b14ea635a4561361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1122.1", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (DIRECT ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "We are considering the form and nature and the content of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-07", "file": "debates1977-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b14ea635a4561361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1123.4", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (DIRECT ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the date?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "No, I shall deal with the hon. Gentleman's point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1123.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-07", "file": "debates1977-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b14ea635a4561361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1123.4", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (DIRECT ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the date?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "No, I shall deal with the hon. Gentleman's point. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the date?\"] The point I wanted to make is that it does not breach any of the commitments that the present Government have given to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1123.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-07", "file": "debates1977-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b14ea635a4561361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1123.4", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (DIRECT ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "N. MEMBERS: \"What is the date?\"] We have said that we shall use our best endeavours. As I have reiterated today, we intend to honour that commitment. The right hon. Member or Knutsford (Mr. Davies) himself said that it was perfectly possible to meet the date if legislation were to be introduced. The hon. Member for Harrow, East seems to have suggested that it should have been introduced last week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1123.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-07", "file": "debates1977-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b14ea635a4561361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (DIRECT ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "That does not mean that anyone other than a very blinkered observer of the scene—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-02-07", "file": "debates1977-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b14ea635a4561361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1125.1", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (DIRECT ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-07", "file": "debates1977-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b14ea635a4561361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1155.1", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REDUCTION OF REDUNDANCY REBATES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "preceding_text": "I hesitated to rise initially because I was hoping to get some statistics from the Library to enlighten my speech with new information, but in the words of Sir Spencer Summers, who, I think, once said in Committee on a Bill concerning employment, I am advised, at least I have not been advised, but if I had been I am sure that this is what I would have been advised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1155.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-07", "file": "debates1977-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b14ea635a4561361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1188.7", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (COMMERCIAL VEHICLE TAXATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrongly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": " wrong. He may have some working papers, but there is no revised draft directive in existence. However, we are under an obligation to the Scrutiny Committee to discuss the Community proposals. We therefore put to the House the memorandum of 30th November, which is what we are debating today. It covers the proposals that the EEC Committee has made. This procedure is one that we have adopted before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1188.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-07", "file": "debates1977-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b14ea635a4561361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1191.0", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (COMMERCIAL VEHICLE TAXATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I should like to be able to make a speech on this subject and then perhaps I could clear up some of the detailed points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-07", "file": "debates1977-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "b14ea635a4561361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1193.0", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (COMMERCIAL VEHICLE TAXATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. The reason for our going ahead with the debate today was a desire to have the subject debated. I think that the House would probably accept that, in essence, this is a noncontroversial subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-07a.1193.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-08", "file": "debates1977-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "57b70889c8f45db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-08a.1225.7", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ee with the right hon. Lady, but I thought that this subject was appropriate for Questions to the Prime Minister in his official capacity. Those Questions are not designed to give the right hon. Lady an opportunity of pursuing points which are rather unworthy of her, as she knows. I am almost tempted to go into the internal history of Conservative Central Office, and that would do nobody any good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-08a.1225.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-08", "file": "debates1977-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "57b70889c8f45db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-08a.1226.3", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " support of Fascists for the Conservative Party. What is more, I would not even insult the right hon. Lady by asking her a question such as that. I hope that we may conduct discussions in this Chamber on the basis that all parties are concerned with the issues of freedom, liberty and democracy. That is where I expect the right hon. Lady to stand, and she knows very well that that is where I stand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-08a.1226.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-08", "file": "debates1977-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "57b70889c8f45db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-08a.1226.4", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-08a.1226.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-08", "file": "debates1977-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "57b70889c8f45db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-08a.1226.4", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman—[ Interruption ]—not aware that I have no hesitation whatever—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-08a.1226.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-02-08", "file": "debates1977-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "57b70889c8f45db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-08a.1226.7", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that I wholly condemn Fascism anywhere, and that I ask him similarly wholly to condemn Marxism?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-08a.1226.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-08", "file": "debates1977-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "57b70889c8f45db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-08a.1226.8", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not discourage the discussion of philosophical ideas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-08a.1226.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-08", "file": "debates1977-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "57b70889c8f45db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-08a.1379.3", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOTTERIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "preceding_text": "First, I should explain that I know nothing about legal matters. Incidentally, I am damned pleased that such is the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-08a.1379.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-08", "file": "debates1977-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "57b70889c8f45db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-08a.1379.3", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOTTERIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "preceding_text": "ut of that. On 4th August last year we had a debate precisely on this subject. On that occasion the right hon. Member for Crosby (Mr. Page) and I were practically the only Members present. We were then proposing improvements similar to those which have been announced tonight. I cannot help but express surprise and indignation that those who are present tonight were not in attendance on 4th August.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-08a.1379.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-08", "file": "debates1977-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "57b70889c8f45db3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-08a.1380.1", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOTTERIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "I do not want to enter issue with you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. It may be that these precise regulations were not before the House, but the issue that we are debating was before the House. That is the point. Having settled that, I go on to talk about legal affairs—although I know nothing about them. But the Home Office has legal people who advise my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-08a.1380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-09", "file": "debates1977-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f27c91d25122b8f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1409.0", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Ellis", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Ellis", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware of the impact of the opening of the Severn Bridge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1409.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-09", "file": "debates1977-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f27c91d25122b8f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1414.1", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": "Edge lining reduces haunch distress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1414.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-02-09", "file": "debates1977-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f27c91d25122b8f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1437.3", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "IMMIGRATION (REGISTER OF DEPENDANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "So what?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "Has the right hon. Gentleman noted that the proportion of the population in the year 2000 which this report estimates will be of New Commonwealth origin exceeds the \"little over 6½ per cent.\" which I forecast in 1968? Does he realise that an overall percentage in the United Kingdom of 7 per cent. means that there will be 20, 30 and 40 per cent. in the cities and areas primarily affected?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1437.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-09", "file": "debates1977-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f27c91d25122b8f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1448.0", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "OIL COMPANIES (CONTINENTAL SHELF)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bean", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Genuine?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bean", "preceding_text": "I agree that our policy has not deterred companies from continuing their development of the North Sea. The provision of the petroleum revenue tax, plus the royalty, plus the fact that BNOC will be a genuine 51 per cent. equity holder provides the 85 per cent. figure which I have given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-09", "file": "debates1977-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f27c91d25122b8f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1451.5", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "OIL COMPANIES (CONTINENTAL SHELF)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "There was no legislative régime, no petroleum revenue tax and no guarantee whatsoever—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1451.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-09", "file": "debates1977-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f27c91d25122b8f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1462.1", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILD BENEFIT SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " had only the latest amendment slip but no basic leaflet, and one post office still had all three. What the unfortunate people of Andover made of that I do not know. Five post offices had the right combination, but only if one asked for them over the counter, and only three out of the 24 post offices had the right combination on display. It is a shambles. But the consequences are far more serious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-09", "file": "debates1977-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f27c91d25122b8f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1502.1", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILD BENEFIT SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Lynda Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Lynda Chalker", "preceding_text": "mer of 1976, when the Minister announced that he could not introduce the full scheme. His scheme was described by the right hon. Member for Blackburn as an abandonment of one of the Labour Party's major reform, a new system of family support. I do not think that the right hon. Lady dissents from that today. She is as sad as anyone that the scheme was not implemented. I regret that she is not here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-09", "file": "debates1977-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f27c91d25122b8f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1502.1", "colnum": "1502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILD BENEFIT SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Lynda Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Lynda Chalker", "preceding_text": "or printed paper—I see that the Minister sighs. I shall not go into it again, except to say that the Minister said first of all that the benefits would be tax-free and would not be means-tested. A couple of months later he said that they would not be tax-free but would be taxed like FAM. CTAs were not to be reduced or withdrawn. This is confusing for the average British man or woman in the street.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1502.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-09", "file": "debates1977-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f27c91d25122b8f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1519.5", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS (TAX EXEMPTION CERTIFICATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Ridley", "preceding_text": "terest as a director of a building firm, not, I think, connected with the subject matter of this debate, which is the issue of 714 certificates to self-employed subcontractors and other sub-contractors so that they may be paid gross rather than have 35 per cent. deducted from what they receive. I want to make it clear at the beginning that we on the Conservative Benches do not condone tax evasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1519.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-09", "file": "debates1977-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f27c91d25122b8f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1519.5", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS (TAX EXEMPTION CERTIFICATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Ridley", "preceding_text": "cing of a contract. The effect of refusal of certificates on firms or individuals can be very serious. I am satisfied that in 90 per cent. of cases it means that they will go out of business. When we are taking a power as Draconian as this, albeit in pursuit of stopping a tax evasion device, we have a great responsibility to make sure that no one who is blameless is wrongly prevented from working.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1519.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-09", "file": "debates1977-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f27c91d25122b8f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1519.5", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS (TAX EXEMPTION CERTIFICATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give them\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Ridley", "preceding_text": "ndreds of cases of people who have been refused 714 certificates. I shall read some of these cases to the House, because Labour Members ought to know what their Government are doing through the tax inspectorate. First, I shall give one example of someone who has been refused a certificate under the bank account section. I shall not give the names and addresses unless hon. Members wish me to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1519.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-09", "file": "debates1977-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f27c91d25122b8f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1530.1", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS (TAX EXEMPTION CERTIFICATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Dempsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Dempsey", "preceding_text": "r for Cirencester and Tewkesbury (Mr. Ridley). The hon. Gentleman quoted a number of cases that must be examined. But the anomalies did not first crop up this year or the year before; there were just as many anomalies in the days of the Conservative Government in the operation of Inland Revenue certificates of all sorts. I wonder why the Conservative Administration did not do something about them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-09", "file": "debates1977-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f27c91d25122b8f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1544.1", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS (TAX EXEMPTION CERTIFICATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"But it does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "ee that any rule which requires someone to have had a good income tax and national insurance contribution record for two years is putting too much of a burden on him. This provision should not be a barrier to starting up in business. If it is operating as a barrier, I should be the first to say that it should not be operated so as to stop a man from starting up on his own. That would be a tragedy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-09", "file": "debates1977-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f27c91d25122b8f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1546.1", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS (TAX EXEMPTION CERTIFICATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where are all your hon. Friends?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "lection on them. In a way, I wish that we had lost the last Division. It would have served the Tories right. But our victory has at least enabled us to hear Tory Members defending tax evasion—and that is what they are doing. They are defending scrounging on the Welfare State. I want to know why the hon. Member for Aberdeen, South has not been present tonight. He will have some questions to answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1546.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-02-09", "file": "debates1977-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f27c91d25122b8f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1558.2", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS (TAX EXEMPTION CERTIFICATES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful. Withdraw that.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "ause it has enabled us to appraise afresh the quality of the representation at Perry Barr in this House. I find it quite outrageous that he should attack a professional person with an unblemished reputation who is in no position to defend himself here. The hon. Member for Perry Barr will be too cowardly—I choose my words carefully—to repeat his remarks outside this House. I challenge him to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-09", "file": "debates1977-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f27c91d25122b8f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1561.1", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELF-EMPLOYED PERSONS (TAX EXEMPTION CERTIFICATES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was Perry Barr.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "e on to my last precise point—namely, the question of appeal. In section 70(6) of the Act it is said that appeals can be taken to the general or special commissioners. I cannot remember who it was, but a Labour Member cast aspersions on the general commissioners because they once happened to include Mr. Poulson in their ranks. Those aspersions were unworthy. For the moment, I forget who made them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-09", "file": "debates1977-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f27c91d25122b8f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1591.1", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "VACCINE-DAMAGED CHILDHEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "Maitland raises the important question whether the vellum, the record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-09", "file": "debates1977-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f27c91d25122b8f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1594.2", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "VACCINE-DAMAGED CHILDHEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "Hear, hear. Divine right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1594.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-09", "file": "debates1977-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "f27c91d25122b8f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1619.3", "colnum": "1619", "heading": "VACCINE-DAMAGED CHILDHEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman mooched into the Chamber in the middle of the debate and did not hear the statements made by his hon. Friend. I do not intend to be drawn by what he has said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-09a.1619.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-10", "file": "debates1977-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3b7ed6dcbf016f3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1651.0", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am sure that if the Committee would find it interesting, it would be open to it to do so. The hon. Gentleman may not understand that Labour Party Properties Limited is a non-profit-making venture—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-10", "file": "debates1977-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3b7ed6dcbf016f3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1652.0", "colnum": "1652", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What gains?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "c policies that are needed, especially in relation to investment and regeneration, and more especially to another round this year of wage agreements, which will enable us to ensure that inflation will come down. I should like to emphasise one further point. I believe that if the people of this country, despite the forecasts which were made, want to throw away the gains of the last couple of years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1652.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-10", "file": "debates1977-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3b7ed6dcbf016f3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1655.4", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend take the opportunity to allay the considerable anxiety in Europe about the Government's integrity on direct elections to the European Parliament? Will he give his colleagues in Europe a categorical assurance that the legislation will be on the statute book by the end of this session?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1655.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-02-10", "file": "debates1977-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3b7ed6dcbf016f3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1680.2", "colnum": "1680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "ave, I hope, assured the hon. Gentleman and the Committee that I have given the matter extremely careful thought before I came to a decision in the ruling which I have given. But I must stand by my ruling. I suggest to the hon. Gentleman that the reasoned arguments which he has put forward are arguments which could well be used in speaking on the question of the Lord President's procedural motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-10", "file": "debates1977-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3b7ed6dcbf016f3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1690.0", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Lender of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Lender of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "preceding_text": "ith what was said by the right hon. Member for Sidcup (Mr. Heath). I believe that this is the way that we should proceed and what I have to say will, I hope, assist hon. Members. It is my belief—and this has come out in many comments—that most of the questions which have been raised in the submissions to the Chair would be open for debate either on the procedural motion or on the general question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1690.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-10", "file": "debates1977-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3b7ed6dcbf016f3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1691.1", "colnum": "1691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman will have his chance to make a submission in a moment. What I have suggested would deal with the footnote ( g ) that he mentioned and would further strengthen the reasons for acceptance of your ruling, Mr. Murton. Returning to my original point, I believe that the proper way for the Committee to proceed is to accept your ruling, Mr. Murton, and to proceed on the basis of that ruling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-10", "file": "debates1977-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3b7ed6dcbf016f3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1691.1", "colnum": "1691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "[HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".] It is not such an outrageous proposition to suggest that we should accept a ruling from the Chair and proceed to the debate. Certainly it will be the Government's wish to facilitate any later debate on a referendum when we may discuss on an amendment whether the referendum should be consultative or mandatory. I hope that the Committee will be willing to proceed on that basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-10", "file": "debates1977-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3b7ed6dcbf016f3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1699.2", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I have been in the Chamber during this debate—so-called—for the past hour, Mr. Murton. I have been listening to the elder statesmen, with their plummy voices, putting across a challenge to the ruling of the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1699.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-02-10", "file": "debates1977-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3b7ed6dcbf016f3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1701.4", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I beg to move—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1701.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-10", "file": "debates1977-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3b7ed6dcbf016f3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1702.1", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "You will recall, Mr. Murton, that you called me earlier and that I was pre-empted. I do not rise to challenge your ruling, Mr. Murton. I listened carefully to what was said by the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner). I believe that the Committee wants time to reflect. Many of those who voted in the Division were not present in the Chamber to hear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-10", "file": "debates1977-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3b7ed6dcbf016f3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1702.3", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "t and the people for reasons that many of us will seek to argue at greater length at a later stage. My right hon. Friend the Member for Sidcup (Mr. Heath) made a plea for greater flexibility and made an argument against what he called ossification. I submit that at present the Committee is marching down a road to chaos. That is precisely what the Government's proposals mean. It is for that reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1702.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-10", "file": "debates1977-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3b7ed6dcbf016f3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1746.3", "colnum": "1746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir P. Rawlinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"British.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir P. Rawlinson", "preceding_text": "eave aside policy—but we produce legislation on such a scale and have such an effect that the people have lost confidence in the House of Commons. The Leader of the House should face up to what he is doing. I do not believe that he wants to do it, but he may have caught himself in a political corner, which everyone in politics does from time to time. It is customary in an English House of Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1746.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-10", "file": "debates1977-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3b7ed6dcbf016f3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1787.4", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "w clause to any Bill and make its effect dependent on a referendum to be held either in the United Kingdom as a whole or in a specified part or parts. I cannot believe that that would be for the good conduct of the business of this House. Of course, it may well be that you will consider that this is a Bill of some constitutional significance and therefore that a referendum is a natural part of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1787.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-10", "file": "debates1977-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3b7ed6dcbf016f3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1787.4", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": " whole or in a specified part or parts. I cannot believe that that would be for the good conduct of the business of this House. Of course, it may well be that you will consider that this is a Bill of some constitutional significance and therefore that a referendum is a natural part of it—[ Interruption. ]—but I ask you to ponder and again consider the implications of the decision on these grounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1787.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-10", "file": "debates1977-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3b7ed6dcbf016f3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1787.4", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "titutional significance and therefore that a referendum is a natural part of it—[ Interruption. ]—but I ask you to ponder and again consider the implications of the decision on these grounds. [ Interruption. ] It would mean, for instance, that if a Bill were introduced to grant independence to Rhodesia, it would be open to any hon. Member to make that Bill dependent on the holding of a referendum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1787.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-02-10", "file": "debates1977-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3b7ed6dcbf016f3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1798.0", "colnum": "1798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — APPENDIX 2", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I am relying on the provisions of New Clause 40. If the right hon. Gentleman reads that he will see that in subsection (3)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1797.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-10", "file": "debates1977-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3b7ed6dcbf016f3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1799.4", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — APPENDIX 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I believe that the interpretation of the facts I have announced is correct but I shall examine what the hon. and learned Gentleman said. The effect of the last line—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1799.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-10", "file": "debates1977-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3b7ed6dcbf016f3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1808.3", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "Orders of the Day — APPENDIX 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ncomprehensible. I cannot see that it is tilted to ask people whether they agree with the provisions that the Government put forward. There is another proposition that suggests \"want\". We must consider the words carefully, but the Government strove to ensure that there was as objective a presentation of the issue as possible and a simple proposition. However, this is a matter that we can consider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1808.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-10", "file": "debates1977-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "3b7ed6dcbf016f3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1816.0", "colnum": "1816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — APPENDIX 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "ative Party stands. I am greatly concerned to hear his statement, because he is saying that the people of Scotland and Wales should have a chance to decide this issue and have it referred to them. But it is not just a matter of that issue. It is also a question whether my right hon. Friends agree with the Bill, and they have clearly shown that they have not agreed with the Bill from the beginning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-10a.1816.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-02-11", "file": "debates1977-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "14cc680f71ceaa82", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-11a.1929.17", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEER (NIGHTLY CLOSE TIME) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-11a.1929.16"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-14", "file": "debates1977-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "66dbd167dea7a0b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-14a.34.6", "colnum": "34", "heading": "MISS ANNA MENDLESON (PAROLE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orbach", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orbach", "preceding_text": "I thought that this was not a laughing matter. My hon. Friend will be aware that Miss Mendleson was visited by her hon. Member in Holloway Gaol on a number of occasions. I found that she was teaching illiterates there to read and write.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-14a.34.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-14", "file": "debates1977-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "66dbd167dea7a0b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-14a.66.3", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JOB RELEASE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bulmer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bulmer", "preceding_text": "uld be retained. The attractions of the Bill are so lacking that the Secretary of State is to spend tens of thousands more pounds going on television to explain what it is about. I question that, too, as a sensible use of public money. The Bill is one of a series of measures introduced by the Government to tackle unemployment. But the Government seem to have no conception how to create employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-14a.66.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-14", "file": "debates1977-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "66dbd167dea7a0b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-14a.175.1", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Hampson", "preceding_text": "I had almost finished, though there are several other points to be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-14a.175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-14", "file": "debates1977-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "66dbd167dea7a0b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-14a.183.3", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "What that intervention demonstrates is that there is a great deal of difference between the economic policies of the Tory and Liberal Parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-14a.183.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-14", "file": "debates1977-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "66dbd167dea7a0b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-14a.194.4", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "preceding_text": "ssion to exercise its discretion in favour of the type of students to whom my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, South-West referred, in circumstances where in the interim a parent has died, where eventually the grant system will be changed, but where in circumstances of immediate need the commission can exercise its present discretion to make a payment. I do not want to delay the House further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-14a.194.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-14", "file": "debates1977-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "66dbd167dea7a0b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-14a.195.0", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": " he did was give us a great deal of flannel which added nothing whatever to the debate, and I very much regret that in Committee I ever suggested that he should come, for I honestly believe that he has been wasting everyone's time. What position have we now reached? The hon. Member for Rochdale (Mr. Smith) suggested that, as I should be advising my hon. Friends that we do not oppose the amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-14a.195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-14", "file": "debates1977-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "66dbd167dea7a0b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-14a.215.1", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "r the greater part of today, I must say that he has dealt with the debates with great skill and courtesy and has done his best often to try to answer the unanswerable case put forward by my hon. Friends. At the same time, I want to express my thanks to my hon. Friend the Member for Wallasey (Mrs. Chalker), who has had a much longer experience of the complexities of the social security provisions —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-14a.215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-14", "file": "debates1977-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "66dbd167dea7a0b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-14a.215.1", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "halker), who has had a much longer experience of the complexities of the social security provisions —[ Interruption. ] I am grateful for being corrected— \"my hon. and charming Friend\", whose experience of social security legislation is a great deal longer than mine and—upon whose broad shoulders, I was going to say, but that might be regarded as ungallant—on whose sturdy back I have leant heavily.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-14a.215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-15", "file": "debates1977-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "442958af8be41be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.239.2", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that on Thursday the House is to debate an Opposition motion with an eye to a drastic lowering of standards will the right hon. Lady reiterate—and I gave evidence to the Bullock Committee on this matter—that standards of reading have not fallen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.239.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-15", "file": "debates1977-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "442958af8be41be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.255.4", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lavender paper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend be meeting his political advisers today? If he does, will he engage them in a discussion about the Honours List? Will he then take out a large sheet of clean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.255.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-15", "file": "debates1977-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "442958af8be41be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.255.4", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Skinner.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend be meeting his political advisers today? If he does, will he engage them in a discussion about the Honours List? Will he then take out a large sheet of clean—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Lavender paper.\"]—white, not lavender paper, and write On it the word—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.255.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-15", "file": "debates1977-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "442958af8be41be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.257.3", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am quite satisfied that it is necessary that we should adhere to the social contract. As regards the statements of the Opposition, I much prefer what they write to the speeches they make. I will not quote once again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.257.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-15", "file": "debates1977-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "442958af8be41be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.259.6", "colnum": "259", "heading": "PROTECTION OF VOLUNTARY WORK", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Steen", "preceding_text": " everything, from the proverbial cradle to the grave, and they hesitate before lifting a finger to help themselves. For some time, it has been evident that the State can no longer cope with the task that it has taken on. Local authorities now find themselves unable to perform many of the tasks that have been thrust upon them by Parliament. For example, the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.259.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-15", "file": "debates1977-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "442958af8be41be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.292.0", "colnum": "292", "heading": "New Clause 40", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "e, we thought it advisable to give the Committee at the earliest possible date the Government's response to major representations from the Opposition Benches. I should like to quote a speech made by the right hon. Member for Cambridge-shire (Mr. Pym) to illustrate exactly why we have proceeded in this way. He said that it was a contentious question. I do not seem to have the relevant Hansard here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.292.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-02-15", "file": "debates1977-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "442958af8be41be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.300.3", "colnum": "300", "heading": "New Clause 40", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "I should now like to move that the Committee do now adjourn, on the basis that the Government should take back the clause and return with a new clause that takes into consideration the points made. In other words, I am suggesting that we should get the appropriate clause before us before we proceed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.300.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-15", "file": "debates1977-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "442958af8be41be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "New Clause 40", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "Believe me, I have got well beyond making anti-SNP points. What hon. Members should recognise is the nature of the dangers that they are facing, which go well beyond any party issues and any anti-nationalist knocking or knocking anything else. We are dealing not with a complicated or difficult situation but with a highly dangerous situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-15", "file": "debates1977-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "442958af8be41be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.396.0", "colnum": "396", "heading": "SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "This is not an inflatable point, but can the hon. Gentleman tell us what kind of Welsh people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.396.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-15", "file": "debates1977-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "442958af8be41be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.402.2", "colnum": "402", "heading": "SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that it is a thoroughly technical matter what sort of question and preamble should be put and not something that can be thoroughly debated within the House of Commons because there are not sufficient professional market researchers within it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.402.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-15", "file": "debates1977-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "442958af8be41be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.417.2", "colnum": "417", "heading": "SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "ographical entities, it is the people. This brings me back to the basis of the ethnic argument which my hon. Friends the Members for Walton (Mr. Heffer) and Penistone (Mr. Mendelson) and others have repeatedly used, namely whether it is possible to have a meaningful referendum when all the Scots are not in Scotland and all the English are not in England. We are an intermixed and interwoven people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.417.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-15", "file": "debates1977-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "442958af8be41be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.421.1", "colnum": "421", "heading": "SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You signed the motion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "ng colleges, at a time when the ratepayers are angrier than ever before because of shortage of money. I can imagine what the Scottish people would say. Derision. A consultative referendum would lay the House of Commons open to a charge which is being levelled more and more. It is being asked of Members of Parliament \"What are you paid for except to make up your minds on these difficult decisions?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.421.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-15", "file": "debates1977-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "442958af8be41be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.441.2", "colnum": "441", "heading": "SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "I am serious and I do not want to hear such silly remarks from my hon. Friend or any other hon. Member. I have been a Member of this House for 30 years and I have always understood that when a matter has been debated for a long time—and this new clause has been debated for 10½ hours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.441.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-15", "file": "debates1977-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "442958af8be41be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.441.6", "colnum": "441", "heading": "SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": " hear me through Mr. Costain, you will understand my point of view. After one-and-a-half hours the Chair decided, in its wisdom, to accept a motion to report progress, which, in itself, was extraordinary because there had hardly been any progress. That was the decision of the Chair. We had a vote hours ago on that motion to report progress. Since then, there has been a 10-hour debate on a subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.441.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-15", "file": "debates1977-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "442958af8be41be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.442.1", "colnum": "442", "heading": "SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Costain. I was aware that you are not competent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-15", "file": "debates1977-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "442958af8be41be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.442.1", "colnum": "442", "heading": "SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "ose who are competent. I believe that you may think of doing that. What your judgment is on that, we shall see. But Back Benchers also have rights, and in dealing with the Chair, from Mr. Speaker downwards, Back Benchers, if they feel aggrieved, have a right to put down a motion in which they criticise the action of the Chair. Recognising your powerlessness and that you are a boy in these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-15", "file": "debates1977-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "442958af8be41be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.442.3", "colnum": "442", "heading": "SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "last two days of debate. I have waited 14 hours to get in and I am going to make my speech now, and the right hon. Member for Bermondsey (Mr. Mellish) can go home for all I care, much as I am fond of him and respect him. It is not for me to criticise him for raising a point of order—he has every right to do so. But to seek to terminate the debate at this stage is quite wrong. It is not my purpose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.442.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-15", "file": "debates1977-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "442958af8be41be2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.443.2", "colnum": "443", "heading": "SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "the Leader of the House is in chains in the Cabinet these days. I only wish that he would release himself and speak as he should, giving us a lead as the Leader of the House should. I do not want to get too worked up. I consider the new clause to be unconstitutional, as I have tried to demonstrate, and if it is followed by the imposition of the guillotine I consider that that will be undemocratic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-15a.443.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-16", "file": "debates1977-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0bac274673dcc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.482.2", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "owever, I take the central point that my hon. Friend is making, irrespective of the particular figure. I am concerned about that, and we are seeking to do everything we can to encourage local authorities to undertake more than simply purchases of properties lying empty on the market and more speedy means of reletting and modernisation or repair of properties, and to undertake leasing arrangements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.482.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-02-16", "file": "debates1977-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0bac274673dcc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.495.2", "colnum": "495", "heading": "MR. AGEE AND MR. HOSENBALL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Merlyn Rees)", "preceding_text": " I have now received and considered its advice in both cases. I have also considered the various representations that have been made to me by Mr. Agee and Mr. Hosenball themselves, their advisers, right hon. and hon. Members, and members of the public. I have reached the clear conclusion that in both cases my original decision must stand. I have therefore made a deportation order against each man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.495.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-02-16", "file": "debates1977-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0bac274673dcc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.495.5", "colnum": "495", "heading": "MR. AGEE AND MR. HOSENBALL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "ting the destination, which would normally be their own country, the United States of America, I am prepared to consider, in respect of either of them, specifying another country of their choice, provided they can show by the beginning of next month that the country would be prepared to accept them. This is without prejudice to their statutory right of appeal against the destination finally named.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.495.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-16", "file": "debates1977-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0bac274673dcc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.496.0", "colnum": "496", "heading": "MR. AGEE AND MR. HOSENBALL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the Conservative Opposition's position will remain as I stated it on 18th November—namely, that this House is rightly jealous of individual liberty but at the same time the security of the State must be the primary consideration? On the evidence available to him and not available to others in this House or to any of the rest of us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.496.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-02-16", "file": "debates1977-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0bac274673dcc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.496.1", "colnum": "496", "heading": "MR. AGEE AND MR. HOSENBALL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "se is rightly jealous of individual liberty but at the same time the security of the State must be the primary consideration? On the evidence available to him and not available to others in this House or to any of the rest of us—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"] In terms of national security there are inevitably matters which are in confidence to Ministers and to no one else, and that must be the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-16", "file": "debates1977-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0bac274673dcc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.496.6", "colnum": "496", "heading": "MR. AGEE AND MR. HOSENBALL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "It is not the same. We are dealing with an important issue and nothing will be gained by my being shouted down. I am not prepared to be shouted down on the ground that some people are better Liberals or better Socialists according to the loudness of their voices.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.496.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-02-16", "file": "debates1977-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0bac274673dcc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.496.7", "colnum": "496", "heading": "MR. AGEE AND MR. HOSENBALL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "It is not the same. We are dealing with an important issue and nothing will be gained by my being shouted down. I am not prepared to be shouted down on the ground that some people are better Liberals or better Socialists according to the loudness of their voices.— [ Interruption. ] Those who are shouting at me have not had the access to the papers to which I have had access to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.496.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-16", "file": "debates1977-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0bac274673dcc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.496.8", "colnum": "496", "heading": "MR. AGEE AND MR. HOSENBALL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It would be a thorough disgrace to this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.496.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-16", "file": "debates1977-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0bac274673dcc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.497.0", "colnum": "497", "heading": "MR. AGEE AND MR. HOSENBALL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "The Home Secretary says that he has irrefutable evidence that these people have committed some of the most bestial crimes against the State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-16", "file": "debates1977-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0bac274673dcc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.498.0", "colnum": "498", "heading": "MR. AGEE AND MR. HOSENBALL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I am prepared to accept that discussion of the procedures—which were discussed both in 1971 and on the earlier legislation in 1969—is important, but I am also sure that no one has yet been able to devise an alternative procedure which would both protect the sources of evidence and give the person concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.498.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-16", "file": "debates1977-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0bac274673dcc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.500.1", "colnum": "500", "heading": "MR. AGEE AND MR. HOSENBALL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Foreigners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "tee, or some appropriate way of looking at the working of this legislation, certainly if it is a matter of looking at the working of legislation—the procedures—I can understand the proposal. I realise the concern that people feel about this. But we are not talking about deporting people from Britain. We are not talking about Charter 77. We are talking about people who are visitors to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.500.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-02-16", "file": "debates1977-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0bac274673dcc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.506.2", "colnum": "506", "heading": "MR. AGEE AND MR. HOSENBALL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That does not make it right.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "t wasting the time of the House, simply publish a list of the European countries in which there is a right of appeal against deportation of foreign residents? This is something unique in this country. The Minister for the Interior in France can deport someone as and when he pleases—just like that! Perhaps those hon. Members on the Left who are complaining about this incident should look at France.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.506.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-02-16", "file": "debates1977-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0bac274673dcc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.542.0", "colnum": "542", "heading": "New Clause 40", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Missionaries.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "I was only reflecting that the Committee can be just a little thankful that when the right hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Mr. Amery) men- tioned that a Fijian had eaten two Scottish fishermen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.541.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-16", "file": "debates1977-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0bac274673dcc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.551.4", "colnum": "551", "heading": "New Clause 40", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "uch), but I have a prima facie breach of privilege to report which, I am told, I must raise at the earliest convenient opportunity. The opportunity is at this moment. A group of parliamentarians were invited to go to the Chrysler Corporation, and they accepted. The Chrysler Corporation arranged to convey them at a quarter to six this evening in a coach. A number of us have been waiting downstairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.551.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-16", "file": "debates1977-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0bac274673dcc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.551.4", "colnum": "551", "heading": "New Clause 40", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "ey them at a quarter to six this evening in a coach. A number of us have been waiting downstairs—[ Laughter. ] My Front Bench should not laugh. There is a junior Minister who is laughing. I am more concerned with the privileges of Members of Parliament than with junior Ministers. We waited from a quarter to six to six o'clock. The group included Members from both sides of the House. Lo and behold—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.551.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-16", "file": "debates1977-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0bac274673dcc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.551.4", "colnum": "551", "heading": "New Clause 40", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "is a junior Minister who is laughing. I am more concerned with the privileges of Members of Parliament than with junior Ministers. We waited from a quarter to six to six o'clock. The group included Members from both sides of the House. Lo and behold—[ Laughter ]—this is no laughing matter; it is serious—we were told that the Whips' Office, without consulting us, had cancelled all the arrangements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.551.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-16", "file": "debates1977-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0bac274673dcc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.553.6", "colnum": "553", "heading": "New Clause 40", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "I am trying to get a word in. The question I want answered is whether the people of Scotland and Wales want the measure of devolution which is proposed by the Government, namely a form of home rule and a directly-elected Assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.553.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-16", "file": "debates1977-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0bac274673dcc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.576.1", "colnum": "576", "heading": "New Clause 40", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Renfrewshire, West (Mr. Buchan) has analysed the proposals in a way which I find unacceptable. He starts from the premise that a referendum will be about an Administration in Scotland or Wales and that those who are currently resident in Scotland or Wales must be regarded as permanently resident there. I think that both propositions are false.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.576.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-16", "file": "debates1977-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0bac274673dcc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.589.3", "colnum": "589", "heading": "New Clause 40", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "use they weaken Parliament and take away part of our responsibility. I do not believe that anyone felt until recently that referendums would become a common feature of British constitutional life. But the past was sold when it was decided by the then Labour Government to have a referendum on the Common Market. Now we have got on the referendum treadmill and we cannot get off it even if we want to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.589.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-16", "file": "debates1977-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0bac274673dcc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.604.2", "colnum": "604", "heading": "New Clause 40", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Glyn", "cue_text": "SEVERAL HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Glyn", "preceding_text": " with the EEC referendum, because it is entirely different. The whole question of representation in the House of Commons is another important matter. If the House is affected —as it undoubtedly must be—by the implications of the Bill, are we still to have the same number of Scottish representatives? This is a matter which the House of Commons must consider. It is within the ambit of the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.604.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-16", "file": "debates1977-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0bac274673dcc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.622.0", "colnum": "622", "heading": "New Clause 40", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "I have considerable respect for the right hon. Member. On many subjects he and I agree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.622.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-16", "file": "debates1977-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0bac274673dcc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.635.3", "colnum": "635", "heading": "New Clause 40", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are all affected.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "For two reasons. First, the electorates in Scotland and Wales are the electorates in those parts of the United Kingdom most directly affected by the proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.635.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-16", "file": "debates1977-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0bac274673dcc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.646.3", "colnum": "646", "heading": "New Clause 40", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "bout the amendment and the principle of a referendum. Many hon. Members have sat through many hours of the debate, and it is a denial of our right to represent our constituents if we are excluded from discussing this matter. Government supporters prefer to go to bed than to hear the arguments on the issue. These are serious matters. We wish to continue because we are determined to defeat the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.646.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-16", "file": "debates1977-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "c0bac274673dcc0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.650.2", "colnum": "650", "heading": "New Clause 40", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "er. ] I am not sure what this is all about. The hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury (Mr. Ridley) behaved in his normal, emollient way. He was gentle, understanding, reasonable and everything else. If we are talking about being reasonable, why are we about to give up at five minutes to 11? Labour Members are lively, intelligent, physically fit and, to judge from their responses, still awake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-16a.650.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-17", "file": "debates1977-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3d1e3b5ae905ad65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-17a.726.5", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (STANDARDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": " the Adjournment to raise the question of education standards. Strictly speaking, it should be the responsibility of the Government to have a debate on this issue, especially as they apparently attach so much importance to it. But, in the absence of any sign from the Government that they will give the House an opportunity to debate this important topic, the Opposition have stepped into the breach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-17a.726.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-02-21", "file": "debates1977-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "af704ad587a07670", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-21a.1037.0", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "MR. ANTHONY CROSLAND (TRIBUTES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "fortunate that he met and married her when he did. Their marriage has been a true partnership of loyalty and affection. All of us here, immersed as we are in political life, know more than others can how much each of us needs the support of a devoted partner. The House will join me in sending to Susan Crosland and her family our sympathy, and also our especial thanks to her for her support to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-21a.1034.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-02-21", "file": "debates1977-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "af704ad587a07670", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-21a.1110.0", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "TEXTILES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": " of them at Question Time but he did not touch on them today. First, the burden of proof concerning costs has to be shifted from the manufacturer or the industrial sector affected in this country to the exporter in the exporting country. As I understand the position, this is effectively what happens in many of our competitor countries in the EEC. I see that the Under-Secretary is nodding his head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-21a.1105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-22", "file": "debates1977-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2660397f6eb231c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-22a.1240.4", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "On Second Reading my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister promised an allocation of about 30 days for all stages of the Bill in this House. What we propose goes significantly beyond that offer, which was itself already exceptional. So far we have had four days on Second Reading and 10 days in Committee. Today's debate thus brings the total so far to 15 days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-22a.1240.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-22", "file": "debates1977-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2660397f6eb231c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-22a.1248.1", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "will be eager to remind me. We have not yet reached any conclusions about the shape of the referendum. So, nothing I am saying now conflicts with what I said on the European Communities Bill in 1972. Let me deal with what I said about the European Communities Bill. It is always helpful to listen to hon. Members quoting my previous speeches as well enduring the agony of listening to my present one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-22a.1248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-22", "file": "debates1977-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2660397f6eb231c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-22a.1285.0", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ich took Britain into the Common Market should be passed without the full-hearted consent of the British people. That is the sense, carrying on the argument about the support which is required far beyond any question of a majority in the House. If was for that reason that I said that the Bill was unique. I repeat that the word \"unique\" means that there is nothing else like it. This is not like it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-22a.1285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-22", "file": "debates1977-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2660397f6eb231c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-22a.1287.2", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "lative assemblies in Norwich, Bristol, Manchester, Leeds and Newcastle—the Scottish people will have to choose between those of us who have generally voiced the views which have been put forward almost entirely from the Government Back Benches, with the exception of my hon. Friend the Member for Renfrewshire, West (Mr. Buchan), and the SNP. I sometimes wonder where all the keen devolutionists are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-22a.1287.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-22", "file": "debates1977-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2660397f6eb231c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-22a.1330.1", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Timothy Raison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Timothy Raison", "preceding_text": "It is hardly for me to speak for the North of England—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-22a.1330.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-22", "file": "debates1977-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2660397f6eb231c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-22a.1353.0", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I have thought for some time that hon. Members, particularly on the other side, but including some on this side, pay far too much attention to the SNP.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-22a.1353.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-22", "file": "debates1977-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2660397f6eb231c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-22a.1355.1", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, our proposal in the timetable motion is that the allocation of days should be considered by the Business Committee. Governments of all parties have a choice in these circumstances—to put down a timetable motion with a specified number of days to deal with each part of a Bill, as was done with the European Communities Bill, or to use the device of a Business Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-22a.1355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-22", "file": "debates1977-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2660397f6eb231c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-22a.1356.1", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "If the motion is passed tonight, the Government will put proposals to the Business Committee. It will then be for the Committee to decide. That is the appropriate stage to put those matters forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-22a.1356.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-02-22", "file": "debates1977-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2660397f6eb231c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-22a.1369.8", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "MR. AGEE AND MR. HOSENBALL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parry", "preceding_text": "Mr. Parry rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-22a.1369.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-22", "file": "debates1977-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "2660397f6eb231c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-22a.1373.3", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "MATERNITY HOSPITAL (LIVERPOOL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Parry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Parry", "preceding_text": "The proposed closure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-22a.1373.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-02-23", "file": "debates1977-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "6ec13757d05b4e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-23a.1391.0", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful. Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "No. That is a doctrinal approach. With respect, I doubt whether the hon. Gentleman knows anything about the problems in some housing estates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-23a.1390.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-02-23", "file": "debates1977-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "6ec13757d05b4e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-23a.1391.2", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "At the end of Question Time.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairgrieve", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Having served on a Scottish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-23a.1391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-23", "file": "debates1977-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "6ec13757d05b4e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-23a.1391.4", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I shall repeat what I said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-23a.1391.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-23", "file": "debates1977-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "6ec13757d05b4e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-23a.1391.4", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I shall repeat what I said. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] I said that I doubt whether the hon. Gentleman has knowledge of many of the housing estates where the greatest problems are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-23a.1391.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-23", "file": "debates1977-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "6ec13757d05b4e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-23a.1402.6", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "es the right hon. Gentleman agree that, with eight Ministers in the Scottish Office, Scotland has a greater direct involvement in government than any other part of the United Kingdom? After last night's vote, does he not think that he should reconsider the fact that if there is an Assembly in Edinburgh Scotland's influence and involvement in the United Kingdom are bound to be seriously diminished?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-23a.1402.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-02-23", "file": "debates1977-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "6ec13757d05b4e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-23a.1419.0", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFORM OF GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "preceding_text": "d \"tyranny\". But I wonder whether there is a Communist dictatorship, apart perhaps from Czechoslovakia and Poland, where, if a free election were held under the auspices of the United Nations, the present Government would get a lower percentage of the votes than this Government got in the last election. Does not that say something for our standards of democracy and their standards of dictatorship?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-23a.1416.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-23", "file": "debates1977-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "6ec13757d05b4e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-23a.1451.1", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFORM OF GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "preceding_text": "one of those parties. The Liberal Party would be permanently in power, and we would not have an opposition which by appealing to the electorate could realistically expect to secure power. I can think of nothing which would be more weakening to the proper function of parliamentary democracy than that kind of coalition in power all the time with an opposition which could never expect to be in power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-23a.1451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-23", "file": "debates1977-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "6ec13757d05b4e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-23a.1451.1", "colnum": "1451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFORM OF GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Last night.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ceedings will be to place before the House some procedural changes which could greatly improve it. But I do not believe that the procedures or the structures of the House are the main fault. The fault is the attitude of Members. As my right hon. Friend the Member for Newham, North-East (Mr. Prentice) said, the trouble is that Members are simply not prepared often enough to vote the way they think.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-23a.1451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-23", "file": "debates1977-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "6ec13757d05b4e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-23a.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFORM OF GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "No one has ever suggested that proportional representation is a device to thwart the will of the majority. As far as I know, no member of any political party in Northern Ireland wishes now to revoke it. That is a great tribute to the efficacy of the system. However, I do not want to become too enmeshed in Irish history. Being half Irish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-23a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-23", "file": "debates1977-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "6ec13757d05b4e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-23a.1475.1", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REFORM OF GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Brymnor John)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On a three-line Whip.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Brymnor John)", "preceding_text": "which does not deserve the denigration and over-statement that has been characteristic of some statements from the Liberal Bench this evening. I want to mention the moving tributes paid to the power of the House of Commons, and its power over the Executive. I remind the Liberal Party that when the House of Commons considered PR in the most recent debate it rejected that system by a large majority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-23a.1475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-23", "file": "debates1977-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "6ec13757d05b4e3b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-23a.1530.3", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (SECURITY FORCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Kilfedder", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "ay feel that this debate is achieving something. But it is like giving an aspirin to a person dying of cancer. We hear hard and tough speeches, as if the Government were being rocked on their feet. The only way they will be rocked is if they are harassed, and harassed until they do something for the hard-pressed people of Northern Ireland. The Government can be harassed only in the Division Lobby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-23a.1530.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-24", "file": "debates1977-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "4d258c944ffc6715", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-24a.1636.0", "colnum": "1636", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Friend or any of his colleagues makes a statement in the House following tomorrow morning's discussions, will he bear in mind that some of his hon. Friends would like to be considered in those discussions and that no irrevocable decision should be taken tomorrow without consultation with his party supporters, so that they may continue to support him in the past as they have in the future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-24a.1636.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-24", "file": "debates1977-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "4d258c944ffc6715", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-24a.1651.3", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Hon Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I think that we should stick to the business that has been announced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-24a.1651.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-24", "file": "debates1977-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "4d258c944ffc6715", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-24a.1651.4", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "SCOTLAND AND WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "Is the Lord President aware that in the exchanges this afternoon he has given the impression—though he may well not have intended to give it—of a degree of inflexibility which I think will have to be relaxed somewhat if what he is embarked upon is to be successful?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-24a.1651.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-24", "file": "debates1977-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "4d258c944ffc6715", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-24a.1676.1", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "New Clause 40", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They are not in the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "ued: This is not an attempt to take the initiative from the Government's hands. The results of the referenda would undoubtedly put the Government under a strong moral obligation to carry out the wishes of the people, but it would not remove the initiative from their hands. It was said in an article that appeared in The Times that this was a Liberal attempt to make a concession to the Nationalists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-24a.1676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-24", "file": "debates1977-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "4d258c944ffc6715", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-24a.1713.9", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "New Clause 40", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You have a bad history.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "The Minister for Social Security, my right hon. Friend the Member for Salford, West (Mr. Orme), said that I was a goody gone bad. The Minister of State, my hon. Friend the Member for Lanarkshire, North (Mr. Smith), is a baddy gone good. We all have a history in these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-24a.1713.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-24", "file": "debates1977-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "4d258c944ffc6715", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-24a.1719.1", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "New Clause 40", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are in Europe.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "r in this matter, we, too, are thin on the ground. Where have all the pro-devolutionists been? We are now on the eleventh day, and we have not seen them. I shall not taunt the SNP. There have been one or two listening to the debate, but I expected to see more. It would be a question of the pot and kettle, but one must ask where the pro-devolutionists are. They have been deafening by their silence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-24a.1719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-25", "file": "debates1977-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "ebf28d363e682d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-25a.1788.1", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benyon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benyon", "preceding_text": "My attitude would be, in the words of Mr. Asquith, that I should have to wait and see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-25a.1788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-25", "file": "debates1977-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "ebf28d363e682d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-25a.1807.4", "colnum": "1807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moyle", "preceding_text": "tegral part of the post, and therefore questions on people's conscientious, religious and ethical beliefs could be avoided. In practice this advice applies to only a small percentage of the advertised posts in the relevant specialties, and there is no evidence that recruitment to the specialties is in any way adversely affected or that anyone has been penalised in following his career as a result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-25a.1807.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-25", "file": "debates1977-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "ebf28d363e682d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-25a.1818.1", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "d be unfair to everyone. One must be fair and above board and do it by regulation. Undoubtedly legislation is needed on the upper time limit. There is a choice between two periods, or a qualification upon that choice. One can accept Lane and 24 weeks, or Peel, the other report, and 20 weeks. We must bear in mind that Peel has the support of the World Health Organisation and the medical profession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-25a.1818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-25", "file": "debates1977-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "ebf28d363e682d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-25a.1818.1", "colnum": "1818", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willey", "preceding_text": "a qualification upon that choice. One can accept Lane and 24 weeks, or Peel, the other report, and 20 weeks. We must bear in mind that Peel has the support of the World Health Organisation and the medical profession. [ Interruption. ] As far as it has indicated, the WHO's opinion is 20 weeks. We have a choice between 24 weeks and 20 weeks, with the weight of the medical profession behind 20 weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-25a.1818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-25", "file": "debates1977-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "ebf28d363e682d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-25a.1834.3", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Sinclair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Sinclair", "preceding_text": " contrary, the Chairman has told me that it cuts right across the Committee's purpose in making its two major exceptions. This is not just a detail that can be regarded as a point for the Standing Committee, as my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham (Mr. Benyon) suggested. It is a clear indicator of the intention of the sponsors to restrict the basic grounds for abortion set out in the 1967 Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-25a.1834.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-25", "file": "debates1977-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "ebf28d363e682d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-25a.1858.1", "colnum": "1858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "preceding_text": " another simply because that other human being is inconvenient. I was not a member of the Select Committee, but I have read its reports extremely carefully. In support of what I have just said, the Committee heard evidence of one case where an abortion was sought for no other reason than that the girl who sought it felt that her wedding dress would be too tight if she was not allowed the abortion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-25a.1858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-25", "file": "debates1977-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "ebf28d363e682d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-25a.1858.1", "colnum": "1858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "dress would be too tight if she was not allowed the abortion. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] That is in the Committee's report. There was another instance of a mother who wanted her child to start a cookery class and therefore wished her to have an abortion so that she could do so. I myself know of a case where a girl sought an abortion simply because she wanted to play in the local tennis club tournament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-25a.1858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-25", "file": "debates1977-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "ebf28d363e682d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-25a.1860.3", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "them sterile. It certainly increases the incidence of ectopic pregnancy. There is no doubt about that. It has been proved also that a woman is more likely to miscarry if she has had an abortion. All these things are on record. A woman facing an abortion operation has the right to be told that it is not necessarily a simple \"no account\" operation, yet in present circumstances she has no such right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-25a.1860.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-25", "file": "debates1977-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "ebf28d363e682d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-25a.1876.1", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend as a politician should realise how unreliable in many respects national opinion polls are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-25a.1876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-25", "file": "debates1977-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "ebf28d363e682d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-25a.1878.1", "colnum": "1878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David James", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David James", "preceding_text": "s; \"All of them said what they wanted to say (about abortion) and there was one woman who was a chief of the campaign in France … She said bluntly, 'We are fighting to destroy Judaeo-Christian society and civilization. To destroy it we have to destroy the family, we have to destroy its weakest point, and the weakest point of a family is the unborn child. Hence we are for abortion'.\" I wish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-25a.1878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-25", "file": "debates1977-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "ebf28d363e682d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-25a.1882.7", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Welwyn and Hatfield (Mrs. Hayman) was on the Committee but she forfeited her opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-25a.1882.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-25", "file": "debates1977-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "ebf28d363e682d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-25a.1884.2", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "preceding_text": "Let me now go—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-25a.1884.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-25", "file": "debates1977-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "ebf28d363e682d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-25a.1884.6", "colnum": "1884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "preceding_text": "I do not understand—or perhaps I do—why hon. Members seem so concerned to see that I am not permitted to make a 20-minute speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-25a.1884.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-25", "file": "debates1977-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "ebf28d363e682d6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-25a.1887.7", "colnum": "1887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. It is within your knowledge that a few minutes ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-25a.1887.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-28", "file": "debates1977-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "e27f49ff935102cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-28a.21.4", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Pension Schemes (Comparability)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "I thought the Opposition were anxious to extend their knowledge of the factors related to Civil Service conditions and pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-28a.21.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-28", "file": "debates1977-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "e27f49ff935102cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-28a.33.2", "colnum": "33", "heading": "BRITISH LEYLAND MOTOR CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend that the motives of the Opposition are, at best, obscure. For example, I recall that when the Leyland rescue took place two years ago, the solution of the hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury was to put the whole company into receivership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-28a.33.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-28", "file": "debates1977-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "e27f49ff935102cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-28a.78.1", "colnum": "78", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "t because that is in the nature of the system. As a consequence, Wales is afloat on public expenditure. The major source of development in Wales is to be found from public funds. Indeed, that is the major system of priming the pump. The only way in which Wales has a future is from public funds, simply because it can play no part at all in the general system which exercises the criterion of profit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-28a.78.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-02-28", "file": "debates1977-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "e27f49ff935102cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-28a.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "WALES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyn Roberts", "preceding_text": "er feelings and it takes the desperate plight of an individual, described in a letter or outlined in a surgery, to prick our consciences and bring home to us the intense misery of the economic situation over which the Government preside. The Secretary of State should have appeared before us in sackcloth and ashes, but he is not even here and has not been here for a considerable part of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-28a.95.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-02-28", "file": "debates1977-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "e27f49ff935102cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-28a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "LONDON TRANSPORT BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": " a year, and I have seen some much higher estimates. There is no doubt that cheating on that scale is a major scandal and, as the hon. Gentleman said, is much resented by the majority of honest and law-abiding travellers. If there is evasion on this scale, as I think there is, that certainly strengthens the hands of those who have been urging the introduction of on-the-spot fines for this offence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-02-28a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-01", "file": "debates1977-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "9f1c1dbabe43ba28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-01a.195.3", "colnum": "195", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Dr. David Owen)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Dr. David Owen)", "preceding_text": "ous. Similarly, when measuring progress within the Community, one cannot escape a simple fact that the reason why the economically strong nations are prepared to consider helping the less well off members is political. It is polities not economics which is the decisive factor behind further enlargement—in the negotiations with Greece and in the discussions with Portugal and maybe later with Spain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-01a.195.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-01", "file": "debates1977-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "9f1c1dbabe43ba28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-01a.195.3", "colnum": "195", "heading": "FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Dr. David Owen)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Dr. David Owen)", "preceding_text": " lives. We can make it so, economically and socially, by taking action within the Community framework to reinforce and supplement national efforts to restore growth and fight inflation and unemployment. We can avoid creating butter mountains and selling off the surpluses to the Russians. We can do so democratically by giving people a say in directly electing the Members of the European Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-01a.195.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-01", "file": "debates1977-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "9f1c1dbabe43ba28", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-01a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGES (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "preceding_text": "h to make pertinent political points tonight, but the debate has been initiated by my hon. Friend the Member for West Lothian and it would be most unfair to him if I were not to explain the points that he has put to me. I appreciate the large attendance for the debate. I do not wish to name all those hon. Members who are present but if it is their desire to be on the record I am prepared to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-01a.331.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-02", "file": "debates1977-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "56ba0eb5e4383dfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-02a.390.3", "colnum": "390", "heading": "BRITISH LEYLAND MOTOR CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"What does the hon. Gentleman know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend take note that on this specific point all the support is coming from the Opposition Benches? There are many Labour Members who, like himself, know a great deal about industrial relations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-02a.390.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-02", "file": "debates1977-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "56ba0eb5e4383dfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-02a.415.0", "colnum": "415", "heading": "BRITISH LEYLAND MOTOR CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "land or about the quality of production. The Leyland product competes with any throughout the world. Price for price, there is no area in which we need take second place to any other motor car complex. The quality of the toolroom is borne out by the product that is eventually sold on the market. Leyland has now become a political punchball because the Opposition want the situation to be like that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-02a.415.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-02", "file": "debates1977-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "56ba0eb5e4383dfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-02a.432.3", "colnum": "432", "heading": "BRITISH LEYLAND MOTOR CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "I apologise for not giving way to the hon. Member for Coventry, South-West (Mrs. Wise), but she has not been here for all of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-02a.432.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-02", "file": "debates1977-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "56ba0eb5e4383dfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-02a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "BRITISH LEYLAND MOTOR CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "h taxpayer and of other people's jobs. The hon. Member for Coventry, North-West said that it was unthinkable that the volume car decision in the Ryder Report should be reconsidered, but the logic of what the Secretary of State said to the House is that that decision may have to be reconsidered if management and labour in the relevant parts of British Leyland cannot fulfil the conditions laid down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-02a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-02", "file": "debates1977-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "56ba0eb5e4383dfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-02a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "BRITISH LEYLAND MOTOR CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": " hon. Member for Coventry, North-West said that it was unthinkable that the volume car decision in the Ryder Report should be reconsidered, but the logic of what the Secretary of State said to the House is that that decision may have to be reconsidered if management and labour in the relevant parts of British Leyland cannot fulfil the conditions laid down. [ Interruption. ]The alternative is that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-02a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-02", "file": "debates1977-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "56ba0eb5e4383dfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-02a.463.1", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": " policy. For us, with the coal reserves in this country, the strength of the coal industry and the prospects in front of it, it must play a crucial rôle. We must recognise that progress to date has been very disappointing. Neither party has a very good record as far as the coal industry is concerned. The Labour Party presided over the biggest rundown of the industry in the disastrous years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-02a.463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-02", "file": "debates1977-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "56ba0eb5e4383dfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-02a.556.0", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "utation to my right hon. Friend on the matter. We had a useful meeting. A joint working party has been set up and the matter is receiving a great deal of consideration. In the Park area it is estimated that there is probably 100 million tons of coal. It might well be described as a miniature North Sea oil find. It is a find of considerable value and, therefore, the whole problem is being examined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-02a.556.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-02", "file": "debates1977-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "56ba0eb5e4383dfa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-02a.559.6", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": " to the question which should agitate the whole House, which is how any future increases in the costs of extracting coal are to be met. Let us assume that Mr. Scargill presses a claim that face workers should be paid £135 a week. I am not expressing any views on the merits of such a claim, but it must be within the knowledge of the House that that is the kind of figure that is being bandied about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-02a.559.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-03", "file": "debates1977-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "264a7f60c0f34e7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Police (Pay)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "In fact it did come to the Cabinet, and on that occasion my predecessor put the case for the police having 30 per cent. instead of £6. That was the decision taken. So the Cabinet has done exactly what the hon. Gentleman suggests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-03", "file": "debates1977-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "264a7f60c0f34e7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.594.8", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Nationality Law", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "Will the Home Secretary ensure in his discussion document and his thinking that he takes powers for himself and for other Home Secretaries for special provisions to be made for the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of people whose whole parentage has been born abroad but who have always considered themselves British and who have always been Anglo-Saxon people? It is important to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.594.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-03", "file": "debates1977-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "264a7f60c0f34e7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.603.8", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ISLE OF WIGHT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.603.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-03", "file": "debates1977-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "264a7f60c0f34e7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.603.8", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ISLE OF WIGHT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. [ Interruption. ] I do not care what you say. We have over 80,000 people unemployed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.603.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-03", "file": "debates1977-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "264a7f60c0f34e7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.605.4", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KIRKBY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s for telephone exchange equipment and to report. That seems to be the first step to take in this particular matter. The technical considerations which led to this position are fairly well known. I think that, in view of the seriousness of the situation, we should carry the matter a little further. After consultation with my right hon. Friend today, I shall be asking the National Enterprise Board—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.605.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-03-03", "file": "debates1977-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "264a7f60c0f34e7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.606.1", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KIRKBY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grylls", "preceding_text": "If the Prime Minister goes to Kirkby, will he repeat what he said yesterday—that he will not be pushed out of office—and will he explain to the House and the country why he said that? Is it because he enjoys being Prime Minister or because he believes that his industrial and economic policies have been so outstandingly successful that he must stay on?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-03", "file": "debates1977-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "264a7f60c0f34e7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.606.5", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KIRKBY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, I do not accept that responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.606.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-03", "file": "debates1977-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "264a7f60c0f34e7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.608.0", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — KIRKBY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for confirming my analysis of his attitude and of the support that he is getting from the Benches behind him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.608.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-03", "file": "debates1977-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "264a7f60c0f34e7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.609.2", "colnum": "609", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND(ASSASSINATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. James A. Dunn)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. James A. Dunn)", "preceding_text": "I have been asked to reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.609.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-03", "file": "debates1977-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "264a7f60c0f34e7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.657.0", "colnum": "657", "heading": "PERSONAL TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": " the situation. I should like to deal with some of the points raised by the right hon. and learned Gentleman, and if I miss some, my hon. Friend the Minister of State will take them up when he replies. The right hon. and learned Gentleman talked about the \"paltry\" sum of £275 million to give some relief to those paying investment income surcharge. Again, I make clear that we have not been able to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-03", "file": "debates1977-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "264a7f60c0f34e7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "PERSONAL TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "The fact is that one is deferred pay and the other is investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-03", "file": "debates1977-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "264a7f60c0f34e7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.662.4", "colnum": "662", "heading": "PERSONAL TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "I am sure he will. Comparisons can be misleading for a number of reasons. First, they ignore the social wages.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.662.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-03", "file": "debates1977-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "264a7f60c0f34e7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.666.1", "colnum": "666", "heading": "PERSONAL TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "on that the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey, East mentioned, it would not increase anybody's living standards. It would not solve anything. It is oversimplifying the situation to suggest that by reducing high levels of taxation we shall somehow suddenly achieve a massive turn-round and a massive output as a nation. It would help to some extent, but to pretend that that is the only reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-03", "file": "debates1977-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "264a7f60c0f34e7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.670.0", "colnum": "670", "heading": "PERSONAL TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "less. Unless I am told how that can be done, that is not a real proposition. The third method is to switch from direct taxation to indirect taxation. Many of us came to politics believing that the switch should go the other way, namely, from indirect taxation to direct taxation. Many of us felt that that would be much more progressive. I am bound to say that the situation has changed considerably.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.670.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-03", "file": "debates1977-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "264a7f60c0f34e7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.727.0", "colnum": "727", "heading": "PERSONAL TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Phipps", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oil money.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Phipps", "preceding_text": " it is not sufficent, as Opposition Members have suggested, merely to regain this money by taking away subsidies to council house tenants or by reducing unemployment benefits. We have to look at the genuine immorality of our tax system which is also a genuine disincentive to achievement. I refer to the immorality of inherited wealth and what might be called gratuitous wealth gained by the fact of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-03", "file": "debates1977-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "264a7f60c0f34e7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.744.4", "colnum": "744", "heading": "PERSONAL TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "n unemployment rates. If we had operated a policy of so-called indexation and denied ourselves that £5 billion, we should have had to do certain other things. The £5 billion could have been saved by a cut of 80 per cent. in retirement pensions. That is the nature of the effect of not indexing. If we were to index there would have to be an 80 per cent. cut in retirement pensions to save £5 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.744.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-03", "file": "debates1977-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "264a7f60c0f34e7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "PERSONAL TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman was not listening earlier to my explanation of the £5 billion. I made it absolutely clear that if the £5 billion had not existed, there would have been far lower levels of public expenditure at a time of world recession and considerable difficulty in all the industrialised countries. Is he suggesting that the Government should have reduced public expenditure by £5 billion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-03a.749.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-04", "file": "debates1977-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "2afbeef905f5c984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-04a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING SOCIETIES (REORGANISATION AND NATIONALISATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ryman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ryman", "preceding_text": "arts from that premise. At the outbreak of the First World War only about 10 per cent of housing in Great Britain was owner-occupied. Today, the figure is about 53 per cent. It is as plain as a pikestaff that the stout efforts of building societies during the period since then has been one of the major contributory causes of the expansion of home ownership in the inter-war years and since the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-04a.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-04", "file": "debates1977-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "2afbeef905f5c984", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-04a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUILDING SOCIETIES (REORGANISATION AND NATIONALISATION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ryman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ryman", "preceding_text": " that the movement has now failed after the very good start that it made originally. We shall see in due course, when we analyse the figures—and the quality of the evidence is there—that the position today is that with all the good intentions in the world and with the initially successful start, building societies are failing in their prime objective—the provision of funds for the mortgage market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-04a.789.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-07", "file": "debates1977-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "d4af1cf68eb99fe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-07a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONCORDE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Cope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Cope", "preceding_text": " against New York rather than retaliation against the whole of America. The only thing that has brought us to discussing this problem at all is that we are fed up with being patient with the Americans. That brings me to my general point. I have always counted myself a friend of the Americans. I like them, and my wife is partly American, but there is a limit to our patience, and we have reached it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-07a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-07", "file": "debates1977-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "d4af1cf68eb99fe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-07a.1014.2", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS' SUPERANNUATION (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "preceding_text": "tio figures, we have not reached our objective on class sizes. The Minister will have read Circular No. 819 of March 1972, which very clearly indicated that it was a minimum supply of teachers and not a maximum supply. Therefore, he should have seen paragraph 3 of that document and must not try to hide behind that bush either. I do not think that the hon. Gentleman will like what I shall say next.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-07a.1014.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-07", "file": "debates1977-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "d4af1cf68eb99fe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-07a.1018.3", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS' SUPERANNUATION (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": " take them to their retirement or whether they must try to eke out their resources until the usual retiring age. This debate is yet another regrettable chapter in the decisions about reducing the teacher training system in Scotland. We know that the numbers have to be reduced and that the Government have run out of money to finance many other things that we should like to see the colleges go into.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-07a.1018.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-07", "file": "debates1977-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "d4af1cf68eb99fe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-07a.1041.1", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS' SUPERANNUATION (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "preceding_text": "got a good record for consultation, compensation or redundancies. I am the first to recognise that we are involved in a difficult exercise. We accept that there must be reductions and we must therefore ask where we should make them—in a number of colleges or by doing as the hon. Member for Glasgow, Cathcart suggested and keeping all the colleges as they are. No options are closed in this exercise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-07a.1041.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-07", "file": "debates1977-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "d4af1cf68eb99fe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-07a.1042.3", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEACHERS' SUPERANNUATION (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "preceding_text": "I have already given way four times although hon. Members accuse me of not giving way. I hope that that challenge will not be repeated. I return to the substance of the debate and I hope that I may stray into the question of Crombie, with the permission of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-07a.1042.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-07", "file": "debates1977-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "d4af1cf68eb99fe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-07a.1101.1", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHIPPING (SAFETY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I think that it is generally accepted by the Press and television that the people running about on board armed with axes and hammers were not the Filipino crew. In any case, why should the Filipinos attack their own accommodation and personal possessions'? It would not be reasonable to assume that they did. Most of this damage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-07a.1101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-07", "file": "debates1977-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "d4af1cf68eb99fe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-07a.1119.1", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHIPPING (SAFETY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "mpany is convinced that it has a case and it is determined to stand by the facts as it knows them. We shall have to find out whether that is reasonable. It helps no one to present a lopsided view of this situation, as the only one there is. I have deliberately made it clear that I was simply putting another point of view. Hon. Members opposite are not even prepared to concede that simple exercise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-07a.1119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-08", "file": "debates1977-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "72354c2db7ea0236", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-08a.1213.0", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They want cars.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister admit that there is now widespread and mounting anxiety about the future of disabled drivers? We know what they want, which is to keep their trikes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-08a.1213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-08", "file": "debates1977-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "72354c2db7ea0236", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-08a.1227.7", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They need them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that a very large number of policemen live in Chingford?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-08a.1227.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-08", "file": "debates1977-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "72354c2db7ea0236", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-08a.1228.3", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I gather that my right hon. Friend was a little misrepresented on that. He did not advise them to join the TUC, any more than I did yesterday. He was responding in a television interview to a question about negotiation. We all know how questions on television or, indeed, in other ways can sometimes mislead one into giving answers which are not quite the kind of answers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-08a.1228.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-08", "file": "debates1977-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "72354c2db7ea0236", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-08a.1342.1", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "preceding_text": "I hope that the House will bear with me if I give a rather long explanation of this contentious point that was argued strongly in Committee. I accepted the concern and doubts expressed by the hon. Member for Ayr (Mr. Younger) and shall try to give as full an answer as possible to the points that he has made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-08a.1342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-09", "file": "debates1977-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "72edeecd684d42b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-09a.1425.1", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF LONDON (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "yton (Sir H. Wilson) and Greenock and Port Glasgow (Dr. Mabon) and many others. It is a privilege that is treasured by many in the City. My arguments are based on the following facts. First, the proposal is spiteful and politically motivated. Secondly, the proposal would substitute a politically-biased civic head of London for an internationally respected Lord Mayor who is above partisan politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-09a.1425.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-09", "file": "debates1977-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "72edeecd684d42b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-09a.1507.3", "colnum": "1507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF TERRORISM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "preceding_text": "ice officer went to the man's lodgings and his place of work. Naturally his neighbours and workmates were concerned why a constable should be calling on the man and he decided, because of this disturbance, to have nothing to do with that procedure. I regret his decision but his case could be put to the sort of inquiry that I have suggested. That man feels passionately that his rights were invaded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-09a.1507.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-09", "file": "debates1977-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "72edeecd684d42b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-09a.1522.1", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PREVENTION OF TERRORISM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "me of my hon. Friends and I were travelling home from this House and the plane could not land at Aldergrove but was diverted to Liverpool because of bad weather. As I was about to board the boat, I was apprehended by the same Special Branch officer. He knew very well who 1 was, but he insisted that I had to show him some means of identification. As soon as I began to do so, he told me to go ahead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-09a.1522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-09", "file": "debates1977-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "72edeecd684d42b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-09a.1589.1", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE (COMPLAINTS PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "to those burdens by producing this kind of rot. That is what it is—rot. If there is anything that the police service needs less at the moment than being lumbered with this whole new apparatus and all this kind of junk, I cannot imagine what it is. The Police Federation simply states that because it has lost confidence in the Government—they are its words, not mine—it is not prepared to co-operate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-09a.1589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-09", "file": "debates1977-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "72edeecd684d42b0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-09a.1591.4", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE (COMPLAINTS PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I was about to do that. In the case of Regulation 4, dealing with complaints which are repetitious and anonymous and incapable of investigation, it prefers the position this way to the way it was before the hon. Lady brought in the regulations. That is why I shall not vote against them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-09a.1591.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-15", "file": "debates1977-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "26286607d123c7ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-15a.210.2", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MORTGAGE INTEREST (TAX RELIEF)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "cluding the position of those who are first-time buyers as well as others who have to move their place of residence because of their work. The trouble with our mortgage interest relief system is that, like Topsy, it has \"just growed.\" I think that there is a very good case for reviewing it, as the Housing Finance Review is now doing, and we shall present our conclusions to the House in due course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-15a.210.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-15", "file": "debates1977-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "26286607d123c7ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-15a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BIRMINGHAM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Humbug.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The increase is not allowable under the Price Code within the rules that are laid down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-15a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-15", "file": "debates1977-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "26286607d123c7ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-15a.214.7", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The fall-off in the volume of exports last month was to some extent due to the position in the car industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-15a.214.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-15", "file": "debates1977-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "26286607d123c7ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-15a.221.0", "colnum": "221", "heading": "UNITED STATES AND CANADA (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which people?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ll known, and the Foreign Secretary will be looking for any development that can arise out of that stand. He will be looking for ways in which he can make a break through. We, too, regret that the Kissinger proposals did not come to a successful conclusion but, alas—to use the right hon. Lady's phrase—so far they have not been acceptable to the people as a whole and we have to concentrate on this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-15a.221.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-15", "file": "debates1977-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "26286607d123c7ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-15a.224.0", "colnum": "224", "heading": "UNITED STATES AND CANADA (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am not certain what underlies the attitude of the New York Port Authority towards Concorde, but we must take into account that there are genuine environmental fears. Some of them are misguided, but the environmentalists seem to be making the running. It would not be fitting at this stage for a British Minister to visit Rhodesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-15a.224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-15", "file": "debates1977-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "26286607d123c7ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-15a.229.2", "colnum": "229", "heading": "UNITED STATES AND CANADA (PRIME MINISTER'S VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Borrowing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Labour Party's manifesto said that we would earn our living and make sure that the balance of payments was put right after the disgraceful way in which it had been left by the Conservative Government. That meant that certain steps had to be taken, including reducing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-15a.229.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-15", "file": "debates1977-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "26286607d123c7ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-15a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFICIAL REPORT (PRINTING)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Alan Glyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Alan Glyn", "preceding_text": " Friend the Member for Bristol, West said that on this occasion we were dealing only with the question of deciding the size of Hansard, although he gave an indication that other matters would come before the House later. It was unfortunate that at an earlier stage my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House desired this matter to go forward without debate. There was an exchange in which I joined—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-15a.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-15", "file": "debates1977-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "26286607d123c7ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-15a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OFFICIAL REPORT (PRINTING)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Alan Glyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Alan Glyn", "preceding_text": "hough he gave an indication that other matters would come before the House later. It was unfortunate that at an earlier stage my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House desired this matter to go forward without debate. There was an exchange in which I joined—[ Interruption. ] Although we discussed the matter, there were few people present, as the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) will know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-15a.258.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-16", "file": "debates1977-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f2970287f0abf0c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.382.2", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grist", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tuck your shirt in.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grist", "preceding_text": "It perhaps was not worth hearing. However, will the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.382.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-16", "file": "debates1977-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f2970287f0abf0c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.385.0", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It made them worse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman takes me to task for not having answered his Question. But his supplementary question does not arise either from the original Question or from the answer that I gave to it. I should make the point, which is not new, that squatting, homelessness and empty properties did not suddenly come into existence after the passage of the Rent Act 1974.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.385.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-16", "file": "debates1977-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f2970287f0abf0c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He said 12p on a pound.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "preceding_text": "May I ask a question before my right hon. Friend leaves the dairy sector? He said earlier that he thought that the butter price would rise by 12 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-16", "file": "debates1977-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f2970287f0abf0c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has never been much of a listener, although I am always obliged to him for his interventions. I am never sorry that I have given way to him because he always bowls an easy, slow ball which one can see coming a long way off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-16", "file": "debates1977-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f2970287f0abf0c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "But we are not now dealing with market prices. We are dealing with intervention and support prices, which is a rather different matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-16", "file": "debates1977-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f2970287f0abf0c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.436.0", "colnum": "436", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": " Gundelach said about the total effect of these proposals—namely, that the retail price index in this country would be affected to the extent of an increase of 0·7 per cent. The Minister may put it a bit higher, but not all that much It is to be remembered that we are dealing here with intervention and support guide prices, not market prices. I want to conclude by saying a word or so about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.436.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-16", "file": "debates1977-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f2970287f0abf0c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.453.1", "colnum": "453", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Howells", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Fisheries.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Howells", "preceding_text": "ioner for Agriculture is consumer-oriented and that the previous Commissioner was producer-oriented. It is up to the Minister to defend himself one way or the other. I believe that we should have two Ministers on the Front Bench—I know that we have three agriculture Ministers—one responsible for agriculture and another responsible for food, although I do not know whether that will ever come about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-16", "file": "debates1977-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f2970287f0abf0c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Joan Maynard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Maynard", "preceding_text": "ve—and I think it is agreed that they can be put in that category. High prices certainly do not help the industry, because if the industry meets sales resistance is will not be so successful or profitable, or able to invest as it should, and it will not have the confidence that we want it to have, because it is a great and important industry. I believe that prices are being kept artificially high—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-16", "file": "debates1977-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f2970287f0abf0c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.523.1", "colnum": "523", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spriggs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spriggs", "preceding_text": " he signed the document. We should all be interested in Britain's fishing industry. It is not a matter merely for those who make their living from fishing or who live in our fishing ports. Fishing is a matter that concerns all of us. Fish is a very important food. Britain relies to a great extent on fish. The Minister was able to tell us that we have reached agreement with the countries of Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.523.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-16", "file": "debates1977-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f2970287f0abf0c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.537.1", "colnum": "537", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "preceding_text": "essity to keep up sales of all milk products that are handled by the Board in the United Kingdom. I believe that the Minister will not have to push very hard on the door in order to get this accepted at the end of 1977. and I am sure that he will succeed. On the question of the overall situation, the Minister will have a difficult time, and part of that is his own fault and that of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-16", "file": "debates1977-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f2970287f0abf0c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.559.0", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER CHARGES EQUALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about asking for leave?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Jones", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Walsall, North (Mr. Hodgson) for stating that issue of the Bill so clearly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.559.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-03-16", "file": "debates1977-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f2970287f0abf0c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.559.1", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER CHARGES EQUALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Jones", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Walsall, North (Mr. Hodgson) for stating that issue of the Bill so clearly. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about asking for leave?\"] By leave of the House, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.559.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-16", "file": "debates1977-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f2970287f0abf0c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.570.3", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER CHARGES EQUALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Ross", "preceding_text": "se charges is too much to bear. If the Government had done something to stop the Southern Water Authority imposing its own equalisation so quickly—it was supposed to be done over five years and it was done over two—I might have taken a different view. The Southern Water Authority has been a disaster for my constituents. We were perfectly happy under our own Isle of Wight River and Water Authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.570.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-16", "file": "debates1977-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f2970287f0abf0c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.572.1", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER CHARGES EQUALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyn Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyn Roberts", "preceding_text": "rticle we read: Mr. Morris scored a personal triumph by persuading his Cabinet colleagues to include the legislation in this year's congested programme. If the right hon. and learned Gentleman scored a personal triumph in Cabinet, there must have been some opposition to him and it is clear that the opposition succeeded in delaying the presentation of the Bill for Second Reading until 24th January.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.572.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-16", "file": "debates1977-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "f2970287f0abf0c3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER CHARGES EQUALISATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Jones", "preceding_text": " very fact that the right hon. and learned Gentleman felt that he should engage himself so earnestly and noisely in the debate this evening is an indication that his anxiety for devolution was equal to his concern for the partial equalisation of water charges. All the endeavours that Opposition Members have made have been directed towards improving the Bill. Some useful suggestions have been made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-16a.581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-17", "file": "debates1977-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "54e98cf383182bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-17a.609.1", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bishop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bishop", "preceding_text": "Briefly, the answer is that my right hon. Friend has made various suggestions to the Community about the disposal of butter and other surplus supplies. Among other suggestions, he mentioned the need for helping our schools. The fact is that there are bound to be supplies that have to be in surplus and sold outside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-17a.609.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-17", "file": "debates1977-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "54e98cf383182bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-17a.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Look behind you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I shall be glad to discuss this matter with my hon. Friend in more detail, but it is certainly the case that on occasions it is difficult to find people of the requisite talent to fill particular posts which are necessary to be filled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-17a.616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-17", "file": "debates1977-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "54e98cf383182bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-17a.635.3", "colnum": "635", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Joel Barnett)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Joel Barnett)", "preceding_text": ". Whichever way we look at those priorities, I am convinced that the broad changes we have made are not only essential for economic, financial and industrial reasons but are right for social reasons, because to continue to spend more than we earn is a recipe for disaster that would eventually destroy the social fabric of our society. Nevertheless, we know that many of the people whom we represent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-17a.635.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-17", "file": "debates1977-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "54e98cf383182bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-17a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "or someone to defend me against my hon. Friends, I am not sure that I should necessarily choose the hon. Gentleman as the ideal person. I leave it to him to decide. Knowing his independence, I am sure that he will make up his mind how to vote this evening after listening to me and other speakers in the debate, regardless of the three-line Whip that there may or may not be on his side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-17a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-17", "file": "debates1977-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "54e98cf383182bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-17a.650.2", "colnum": "650", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "The Opposition have a policy to have twice-yearly increases in pensions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-17a.650.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-17", "file": "debates1977-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "54e98cf383182bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-17a.650.4", "colnum": "650", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "em out of excessive borrowing and at the expense of industrial investment. The action we are proposing in our public expenditure plans is essential if we are to create conditions in which industry can have confidence in the prospect of a long period of sustained expansion. Our first objective has been achieved. In the financial markets the pound is firm, and our reserves have been rebuilt rapidly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-17a.650.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-17", "file": "debates1977-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "54e98cf383182bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-17a.652.2", "colnum": "652", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "I thought that the hon. Member for Blaby (Mr. Lawson) had improved since he went to the Whips' Office, but he seems to have deteriorated again. The markets decide when an exchange rate is stable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-17a.652.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-17", "file": "debates1977-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "54e98cf383182bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-17a.652.6", "colnum": "652", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Holy. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "There is nothing strange about that. The hon. Member for St. Ives (Mr. Nott) understands these things rather better than some of his hon. Friends. I hope that the House recognises that this situation will create the kind of stable background against which industry can improve its performance. There can be little doubt that we need improved performance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-17a.652.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-17", "file": "debates1977-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "54e98cf383182bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-17a.658.1", "colnum": "658", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "he oil crisis had struck the country in the autumn of 1973. The then Chancellor of the Exchequer, in December 1973, introduced a substantial series of public expenditure cuts. He got precious little thanks from the House, certainly not from Labour Members. The first thing that the present Government did when they came into office was to reverse those cuts and to embark on a massive spending spree.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-17a.658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-17", "file": "debates1977-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "54e98cf383182bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-17a.727.3", "colnum": "727", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Sillars", "preceding_text": "f the House, said from the Back Benches, quite rightly, that people who opposed Socialism would not be content until the day arrived when we were demolishing our hospitals brick by brick with our own hands. He said that only when that final surrender took place would they be happy, but that by then we would have destroyed a great deal that the Socialist movement had created over a number of years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-17a.727.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-17", "file": "debates1977-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "54e98cf383182bb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-17a.762.2", "colnum": "762", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "on in ferreting out their true intentions, asked the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey, East whether he favoured a reduction in capital expenditure greater than that in current expenditure. The right hon. and learned Gentleman said that, if he had the opportunity, there would be a greater reduction overall, not in the distant future but, I gathered, straight away. The hon. Member for Blaby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-17a.762.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-18", "file": "debates1977-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "7f6bf710d3d12633", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-18a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "PRISONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Le Marchant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Le Marchant", "preceding_text": "My point about Hull—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-18a.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-18", "file": "debates1977-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "7f6bf710d3d12633", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-18a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "PRISONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyons", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyons", "preceding_text": "ether it should be suspended. That is certainly the rule, but there are many people who believe that sometimes, in addition to a fine, a suspended sentence is thrown in, so that, in effect, the result of a suspended sentence can be to increase the prison population in the end rather than the reverse. We ought constantly to be aware of that danger. I apologise to the House for having taken so long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-18a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-18", "file": "debates1977-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "7f6bf710d3d12633", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-18a.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "PRISONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Perry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Perry", "preceding_text": " only eight do not receive London weighting, and they are the governor grades. They have been trying for the last almost three years to get this matter settled amicably, but they can make no progress. In view of the responsibility of and the work done by such people as governors and governor grades in prison, we should be a little more co-operative in ensuring that mistakes like this do not recur.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-18a.832.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-03-18", "file": "debates1977-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "7f6bf710d3d12633", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-18a.869.2", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CLEAN AIR (PLACES OF ENTERTAINMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-18a.869.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-03-18", "file": "debates1977-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "7f6bf710d3d12633", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-18a.869.6", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OCCUPIERS' LIABILITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-18a.869.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-03-21", "file": "debates1977-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "fe96de3e65a81e69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-21a.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "Lectures about low standards ill become the hon. Gentleman. What he said was: This was not the way in which I would reclaim a ship of mine, but I do not own any ships. I do not see any reason\"—[ Official Report, 7th March 1977; Vol. 927, c. 1120.1", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-21a.899.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-21", "file": "debates1977-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "fe96de3e65a81e69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-21a.909.0", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "The question of imports is undoubtedly affected by the fact that customers were lost when the British Steel Corporation could not meet the demand in 1974 during the after-effects of the three-day week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-21a.909.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-21", "file": "debates1977-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "fe96de3e65a81e69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-21a.910.1", "colnum": "910", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "The debate will open tomorrow and conclude next Monday. Before then we shall have put down a motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-21a.910.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-21", "file": "debates1977-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "fe96de3e65a81e69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-21a.911.8", "colnum": "911", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the House should be worried. There will be the first day's debate tomorrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-21a.911.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-03-21", "file": "debates1977-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "fe96de3e65a81e69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-21a.914.1", "colnum": "914", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "Mr. Goodhew rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-21a.914.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-21", "file": "debates1977-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "fe96de3e65a81e69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-21a.954.3", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REDUNDANCY REBATES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that it need necessarily lead to an increase in unemployment; but I must get on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-21a.954.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-22", "file": "debates1977-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "627e9d9735495033", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-22a.1067.0", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister assure the House that there will be no restriction or embargo on the supply of arms to Zaire, which is currently suffering aggression from Soviet-dominated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-22a.1067.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-03-22", "file": "debates1977-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "627e9d9735495033", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-22a.1074.5", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MINISTERIAL BROADCASTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-22a.1074.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-22", "file": "debates1977-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "627e9d9735495033", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-22a.1076.2", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NAIROBI", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tions. I am told that that is to some extent due to the fact that opportunities for parking in the case of people who enjoy immunity are more limited in this country than elsewhere. But there have been discussions and a series of meetings between the Greater London Council and heads of diplomatic missions to see whether more reserved parking spaces can be provided for the official use of missions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-22a.1076.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-22", "file": "debates1977-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "627e9d9735495033", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-22a.1107.5", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should read his Secretary of State's speech at Munich—not that it was very good, but he would learn something from it. The right hon. Gentleman pointed out that the cost of equipment was going up continually and that therefore if one keeps defence at constant prices, one is reducing one's defence capability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-22a.1107.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-22", "file": "debates1977-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "627e9d9735495033", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-22a.1110.0", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "preceding_text": "I do not think that anything will make the hon. Gentleman resign. He does me greater honour than I deserve. I was not presiding. It is untrue to say that the threat was as great in 1973 as it is now. The right hon. Gentleman knows that perfectly well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-22a.1110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-22", "file": "debates1977-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "627e9d9735495033", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-22a.1112.0", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has referred to increases in Soviet military force, which may be true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-22a.1112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-22", "file": "debates1977-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "627e9d9735495033", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-22a.1193.1", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"None\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wall", "preceding_text": " Chobham armour, which is not to be fitted to our tanks. It is going to Iran, but not to BAOR. While I am on the subject of tanks, what about track mileage? I hope that we shall be told whether there are serious limits on track mileage and how that has affected armoured exercises in Germany. Perhaps we shall be told also how many divisional exercises have taken place in BAOR in the last two years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-22a.1193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-22", "file": "debates1977-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "627e9d9735495033", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-22a.1209.6", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "portunities that the memorandum presents. Although success with the United States market brings valuable rewards—as the experience with the Harrier has shown, for instance—it is a very competitive market indeed and British industry will have to put in substantial effort, sustained over a long period of time, if the opportunities that now exist are to bear fruit. Having dealt with all those points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-22a.1209.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1260.5", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to correct the right hon. Lady, but the reverse is the case. There is no crowding in List D schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1260.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1261.4", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "When the Secretary of State visits Perth, will he call in at the headquarters of the outstanding Scottish insurance company, the General Accident Company, and also at the offices of the chamber of comercc and ask representatives of industry and commerce in Perth whether jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1261.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1267.2", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister have any views on the future of Peterhead Prison? Does he have any plans to visit the prison—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1267.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1279.2", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTTISH LAW COMMISSION (LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman realise that there will be considerable disappointment in the North-East of Scotland that there are no proposals in the list to which the right hon. and learned Gentleman referred to deal with tenants at will?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1279.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman would like me to read a little bit of our manifesto on the same subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "man knows the trouble that one gets when one does, because he is having it now. One cannot ignore the morale of management if one is to get a successful industrial strategy and one cannot ignore the market. But the right hon. Gentleman's strategy is a strategy in name only and it is failing in every particular. The economic indictment against the Government goes very far indeed. After three years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "early back to where we started. After three years the level of production is nearly back to where it was in February 1974, and that in spite of having nearly doubled public expenditure and in spite of having increased direct taxation to try to finance the level of public expenditure. Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman would like me to go on with the catalogue? Perhaps he would like me to remind him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "s they would like me to remind them that prices are up 70 per cent. although they claimed at the time that the social contract would beat inflation. Unemployment has rather more than doubled. One economic factor after another has testified to the total failure of Socialist economic policy in practice. I know that the Prime Minister will read out a whole series of statistics, but I shall not do SO.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": ". We remember the way in which he deferred the Boundary Commission's proposals in 1969 for party advantage. We remember the devices on the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Bill. We remember the refusal on the Scotland and Wales Bill to consider an agenda for the Speaker's conference to include under-representation of Members of Parliament in England and grievous under-representation in Ulster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1291.1", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "Or perhaps it is very nearly possible. The choice next time will be on the published documents between the Labour Party's programme published in 1976 and \"The Right Approach\" to which the Prime Minister seems to be thoroughly addicted. Both documents have been to party conferences. Perhaps I might spell out a few points from \"The Right Approach\" as approved by the people of Workington and Walsall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1291.1", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "e in fact got some support from hon. Members opposite who are not below the Gangway and who believe that, if individual freedom is to be safeguarded, economic as well as political power must be dispersed. They say: The only practicable alternative to a mixed economy of the Western kind\"— the capitalist system; that is my inter-polation— is a command economy on the Soviet or Eastern European model.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1291.1", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.'\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "rnment go. The Prime Minister intends to try to cling to office by political cunning. Of course, I know that he likes power. He would hardly have put his name to a political ballot of he had not wanted the job, if he had not got an ambition for the job. There would be something very strange about any political leader who did not want to be leader or Prime Minister. The Prime Minister is an expert—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1294.1", "colnum": "1294", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": " up by a third on a year ago. Our industrial relations record, due to the work of ACAS and the industrial relations legislation which was passed on the basis of conciliation and consent and not on confrontation, is the best for 10 years. I will come to the matter of unemployment again in a moment. I cannot guarantee that this decline of the last two months will be continued in the next few months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1298.1", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " The Opposition seem to be a little confused. They are not quite sure whether their policy is to get rid of price control or to maintain price control. We shall give them the opportunity of making up their minds. They can vote for our new prices Bill when it is brought to the House in a week or two's time. Let us see where they stand. Let them give us a clear indication. We cannot achieve success—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1304.1", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bribery.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There has been considerable debate about that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1304.1", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There has been considerable debate about that—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Bribery.\"]—but the latest reason is that the House was genuinely waiting for the result of the devolution discussions and for what would happen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1304.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1304.7", "colnum": "1304", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name him!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1304.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1305.1", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I was saying that my right hon. Friend the Lord President and I had discussions with the Leader of the Liberal Party and with the hon. Member for Cornwall, North (Mr. Pardoe). It is our view that there is a sufficient identity of interest between us at present to establish some machinery that will enable us to consult each other about future developments in this Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1305.1", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sing it again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "g that my right hon. Friend the Lord President and I had discussions with the Leader of the Liberal Party and with the hon. Member for Cornwall, North (Mr. Pardoe). It is our view that there is a sufficient identity of interest between us at present to establish some machinery that will enable us to consult each other about future developments in this Parliament—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] We therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1305.4", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "you have relieved my mind, Mr. Speaker. I thought that it was you shouting at me. We have therefore agreed to establish some machinery to keep our positions under review and we intend to try an experiment that will last until the end of the present parliamentary Session, when both the Liberal Party and ourselves can consider whether it has been of sufficient benefit to the country to be continued—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1305.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1305.4", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e stability it needs to carry on with the task of regenerating British industry and of securing our programme. We therefore intend to set up a joint consultative committee under the chairmanship of my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House. This committee will examine policy and other issues that arise before they come to the House, and of course, we shall examine the Liberal Party's proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1305.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1307.0", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What does that mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No. I know that there were complaints about the reception that the right hon. Lady received, but it has been repaid a thousand fold by the Opposition during the last half hour. In addition, the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Liberal Party will meet whenever necessary to discuss these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1307.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1307.0", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ill make no recommendation. The purpose of doing that is to enable the Government to hear the views of the House on these matters, but, in view of the arrangement that I now propose to enter into with the Leader of the Liberal Party, there will be consultation between us on the method to be adopted, and the Government's final recommendation will take full account of the Liberal Party's commitment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1307.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1309.2", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I regret to say that I have not yet studied the Liberal Party's memorandum. It has only just reached us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1310.3", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have given way much more to the Opposition, but that, Mr. Speaker, concludes my report to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1310.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1310.11", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friends and I will support the Government in the Lobby tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1310.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1310.11", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friends and I will support the Government in the Lobby tonight. [ Interruption. ] if there were any lingering doubts, which there were not, they would have been dispelled by the lack of any constructive alternative to such a course of action tonight in the speech of the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1310.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1310.11", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "nt in 1971. The National Enterprise Board was established in 1975, and the ink was hardly dry on the paper when the Conservatives gave a pledge that if they came to office they would abolish that, too. On prices and incomes, one can look back to find that in 1965 the National Board for Prices and Incomes was established by the Labour Government and abolished in 1971 by the Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1310.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1311.1", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "d the pound trembled at the merest prospect of the right hon. Lady the Leader of the Opposition entering No. 10, God knows what It would do if she ever got there. We are coming up to a period—the Prime Minister stressed this in his speech—when, in the national interest, we must secure agreement on pay and price restraints. Would that agreement be more competently secured under the right hon. Lady?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1311.1", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": " the Leader of the Opposition entering No. 10, God knows what It would do if she ever got there. We are coming up to a period—the Prime Minister stressed this in his speech—when, in the national interest, we must secure agreement on pay and price restraints. Would that agreement be more competently secured under the right hon. Lady? [ Interruption. ] Is that the argument on this side of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1311.1", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wait and see.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "does not believe in such a policy in the first place? I heard Lord Thorneycroft in a broadcast the other day suggesting that the Conservative Party was ready for an election and about to publish a manifesto. Will that manifesto be published in any case? It would certainly enlighten us on Tory policies. Leaving aside the question of a manifesto, what about the Conservative commitment on devolution?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1313.1", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "umonia. Indeed, it is the view of my colleagues that it would be better to have a General Election than to carry on with a Government of that kind. That is why, when I first went to see the Prime Minister to see whether there was any basis for agreement, there was never any question of reaching any kind of bargain, any deal, any price simply to secure Liberal votes in the Government Lobby tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1315.1", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"For how long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "enter a coalition so long as our numbers do not adequately reflect our vote in the country. With the small group that we now have, that would not be a balanced coalition. Therefore, we were not interested in a coalition; and we were not interested in any kind of deal for this evening. We are interested in an open, agreed and above board agreement for a definite period. That is what we have secured", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1317.1", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "That intervention was a bit of a waste of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1317.1", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "That intervention was a bit of a waste of time. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] No. I am arguing that the idea that a minority Government having to seek support from other parties is detrimental to the national interest is nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1320.2", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "preceding_text": "fitness to tackle them, we cannot be left in any doubt after the speech with which she opened the debate. When I say that it was a tragic speech, I use the word \"tragic\" in its classical sense, because Aristotle defined tragedy as that which arouses both pity and terror. The right hon. Lady's speech certainly managed to arouse pity on the Government side and manifest terror on the Opposition side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1320.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1338.3", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "I can help by answering on behalf of one Secretary of State for Education and Science, and that was myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1338.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1358.2", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Not any more.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "I do not for one moment deny that that happened, because I was at the party meeting when it was agreed. I am merely saying that the arrangement had better work, and it had better work effectively. The Labour Party membership in the country had also better know what is happening. We are a different and separate party from the Liberal Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1362.3", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I think that those 6 million people were voting for a miscellany of reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1362.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1384.4", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members have been labouring under a misunderstanding. I was saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1384.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1390.1", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ioan Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ioan Evans", "preceding_text": "t was all to be a big drama, but I am afraid that the Conservatives are reducing it to a farce. It is a pity that the House of Commons proceedings are not televised, because then the public would be able to see the antics of Conservative old Etonians and Harrovians occupying the Liberal Benches like a bunch of members of St. Trinians. This sort of behaviour brings the Conservatives into disrepute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1390.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1391.1", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is going on?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1391.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1392.1", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1406.0", "colnum": "1406", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " The great majority for whom they speak wish to see a proper devolution settlement coupled with the maintenance of the unity of the United Kingdom. This party represents that policy and we seek to carry it into full effect. I now turn to some of the other discussions that have given rise to interest in the debate, particularly the discussions that we have had with the leaders of the Liberal Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1407.4", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " as, I am sure, did the whole House when it was allowed to, while my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister was speaking earlier. It was a very good speech, but in one sentence he was a little unfair to the Conservatives. He said that the country had no idea what the Opposition's policy was on a large number of subjects. I think that there are some subjects on which their policy is perfectly clear.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1407.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1407.4", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Enticed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " can say about my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister. Ah, well—both parties got what they deserved. The right hon. Lady fully lived up to my expectations today. She is performing very satisfactorily from the point of view of all of us. Her only mistake was when she over-reached herself slightly last Thursday, when I thought that she hoped that she would be able to entice into the Division Lobby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1407.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1407.4", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " entice into the Division Lobby—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Enticed?\"] I know that some hon. Members do not like this very much, but this was the origin of this supposed motion of censure, which has not yet been resolved. The origin of it was that the right hon. Lady thought that she would be able to entice into the Lobby to defeat us last Thursday all the waifs and strays, if I may describe them in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1407.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-23", "file": "debates1977-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "3727557f2853e2eb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1419.3", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "ST. WULSTAN'S HOSPITAL, MALVERN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Spicer", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-23a.1419.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-24", "file": "debates1977-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f1ea9349233fbf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-24a.1448.4", "colnum": "1448", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Your hon. Friend.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "I must remind the hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-24a.1448.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-24", "file": "debates1977-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f1ea9349233fbf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-24a.1463.2", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MR. SPEAKER (CALLING OF MEMBERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rost", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rost", "preceding_text": " when calling on Members to speak. I am not suggesting that there has been any imbalance in your choice since the realignment, but I am seeking your guidance on whether you have accepted in practice for the future that when Members from the Liberal Party are called, even though they prefer to sit on the Opposition Benches rather than join their new marriage partners, you take account of this fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-24a.1463.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-24", "file": "debates1977-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f1ea9349233fbf48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-24a.1482.5", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "New Clause A", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "Furthermore, will the right hon. Gentleman deny that the letter purporting to send me a copy of the amendment did not include the amendment and that it only reached me later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-24a.1482.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-25", "file": "debates1977-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4312975241a950cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-25a.1649.1", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (DIRECT ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He is a Liberal\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "reason for doing as the hon. Gentleman suggested. I would rather be in a position where I could put my hand on my heart and say that if the Catholics get one-third of the votes and there are three seats, the Catholics would get one of them. That seems to be the only guarantee of fairness. Some projections have been done by Michael Steed about what would happen under the first-past-the-post system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-25a.1649.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-25", "file": "debates1977-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4312975241a950cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-25a.1653.0", "colnum": "1653", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (DIRECT ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "t endeavours to holding the first direct elections in the May to June period in 1978. The hon. Member for Devon, West drew from his scholastic background to recall when \"best endeavours\" were not thought by his school teachers to mean best endeavours. But if his best endeavours could be improved upon, they were clearly not his best endeavours. His best endeavours could not have been improved upon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-25a.1653.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-25", "file": "debates1977-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4312975241a950cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-25a.1658.7", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (DIRECT ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "ust allow me to proceed. Before I turn to the motion I should like to deal with the point which my right hon. Friend the Member for Fulham (Mr. Stewart) courteously mentioned during the course of his speech. I am glad to see that he has resumed his seat in time for me to make the point. I am advised that none of the member States has yet passed or even introduced the legislation that is necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-25a.1658.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-25", "file": "debates1977-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "4312975241a950cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-25a.1685.1", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (DIRECT ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hurd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a significant question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hurd", "preceding_text": "ough? If there is a free vote that enables Ministers to vote against direct elections, that will be seen in Europe as bad faith and as the final collapse of the Government's authority over their Members. Two Labour Members naturally pressed me to say something about the guillotine. They have both been here a considerable number of years—longer than I—and they would not expect me to give an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-25a.1685.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-28", "file": "debates1977-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "04d837f4eadde92b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-28a.4.8", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I agree at least with the latter part of the hon. Gentleman's question, but he will recall that the Government had to make a decision quickly to get the fuel industries out of the deficit into which they had been forced by the previous Administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-28a.4.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-28", "file": "debates1977-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "04d837f4eadde92b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-28a.32.0", "colnum": "32", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL (ROME MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "iews of his eight partners, and the right hon. Gentleman himself as Chairman. He will be aware also that we welcome the agreement to study the idea of a European Foundation, which I think the right hon. and learned Member for Hexham (Mr. Rippon) pioneered on the Order Paper. I wish to ask the right hon. Gentleman three questions. First, is it the hope that there will be a common front by the Nine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-28a.32.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-28", "file": "debates1977-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "04d837f4eadde92b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-28a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "preceding_text": "It means exactly what it says. I do not know how I could possibly simplify that statement, except to say, perhaps, by way of explanation and amplification—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-28a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-28", "file": "debates1977-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "04d837f4eadde92b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-28a.72.1", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Richardson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Richardson", "preceding_text": "y and thousands of American tactical nuclear warheads. France, although a doubtful NATO Ally, has an army of 500,000 and an independent nuclear force with submarine missiles. Stretching further round the Soviet Union, we come to Greece with 500,000 people under arms and a substantial navy. Iran has 300,000 men under arms and a modern, United States-equipped air force. Let us not forget China, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-28a.72.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-28", "file": "debates1977-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "04d837f4eadde92b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-28a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-28a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-28", "file": "debates1977-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "04d837f4eadde92b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-28a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to my hon. Friend—[ Laughter. ] That is a sensible thing to say, because he has made a very helpful comment, and my hon. Friend made a good speech this afternoon, which is more than certain Conservative Members did. They were not then even present. Conservative Members have often accused various of my hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-28a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-28", "file": "debates1977-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "04d837f4eadde92b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-28a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is well aware of the amounts we had to cut from the defence budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-28a.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-28", "file": "debates1977-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "04d837f4eadde92b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-28a.171.7", "colnum": "171", "heading": "GENERAL RATE (PUBLIC UTILITIES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Durant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Durant", "preceding_text": "We ought not to let this Bill go through without some comment. Large sums of money are involved. In the case of the gas industry we are discussing £30 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-28a.171.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-28", "file": "debates1977-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "04d837f4eadde92b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-28a.171.7", "colnum": "171", "heading": "GENERAL RATE (PUBLIC UTILITIES) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Durant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Durant", "preceding_text": "We ought not to let this Bill go through without some comment. Large sums of money are involved. In the case of the gas industry we are discussing £30 million. [ Interruption. ] A number of my hon. Friends are concerned about the way in which rates are being dealt with by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-28a.171.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-29", "file": "debates1977-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "5905d816b8508769", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-29a.242.5", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "Is not the Secretary of State's statement today and his answers to Questions a shameful indictment of the Government's pathetic employment record? Is he not aware that our figures are now above the average for EEC countries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-29a.242.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-29", "file": "debates1977-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "5905d816b8508769", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-29a.249.4", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not think that it is of particular concern to the Conservative Party what arrangements are made between other parties in the House. I would not regard it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-29a.249.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-29", "file": "debates1977-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "5905d816b8508769", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-29a.250.2", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware this morning in Standing Committee A, which was considering the Coal Industry Bill, the hon. Member for Derbyshire, South East (Mr. Rost) advocated a policy that the price of gas should be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-29a.250.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-29", "file": "debates1977-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "5905d816b8508769", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-29a.250.3", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I think that hon. Members are mixing up a Select Committee and a Standing Committee, but I would also remind the hon. Gentleman that the giving of information is not the purpose of this period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-29a.250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-29", "file": "debates1977-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "5905d816b8508769", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-29a.266.3", "colnum": "266", "heading": "THE SCOPE FOR FISCAL ACTION", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "This is the background against which I face my main task in this Budget—to consolidate the gains we have made so far and to create the conditions in which we can get our rate of inflation down and make the necessary improvements in our industrial and trading performance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-29a.266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-29", "file": "debates1977-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "5905d816b8508769", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-29a.272.2", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Petrol/derv duty", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ease in the taxation of derv for seven years. In these circumstances I feel justified in proposing an increase in the duty on road fuel of 5p a gallon. If fully passed on, this would raise the price of a gallon of petrol to the private motorist by a little over 5½p, including VAT. This increase does no more than restore the real value of the duty on petrol to its level after my last Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-29a.272.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-30", "file": "debates1977-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "977391400ddc179b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-30a.382.1", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "It appears that the hon. Gentleman is advocating what is often called an internal solution. He will know that the United States Government have firmly said that they believe that this is not the way forward. That is also the view of the British Government. The problem is that Rhodesian opinion goes much wider than those who are currently in Rhodesia. What is at issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-30a.382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-30", "file": "debates1977-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "977391400ddc179b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-30a.417.3", "colnum": "417", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "I should be grateful if the Hat hon. Gentleman would make that a firm promise. I begin to understand how it was that when in Government and negotiating on the various foolish attempts that they made in the past the Opposition failed to arrive at anything sensible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-30a.417.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-30", "file": "debates1977-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "977391400ddc179b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-30a.429.0", "colnum": "429", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": " that this conversion has come about? Has the Chancellor been under the influence of the Tribune Group? Or has he been under the influence of the Leader of the House? It seems unlikely. Even so, the whole process of the reeducation of the Labour Party that has taken place must have some value for it. It must be useful for the Tribune Group to learn, as it supports this Budget over the weeks ahead—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-30a.429.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-30", "file": "debates1977-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "977391400ddc179b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-30a.429.0", "colnum": "429", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "0,000 a year—or whatever it was that he himself then happened to be earning. Now we are delighted that he has agreed to support this Budget, which will award him the equivalent of a pre-tax salary increase of £2,560 a year. Certainly hon. Members opposite are learning, but I doubt very much whether the Tribune Group is the source of inspiration for much of this Budget. How about the Liberal Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-30a.429.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-30", "file": "debates1977-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "977391400ddc179b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-30a.441.2", "colnum": "441", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr John Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr John Pardoe", "preceding_text": "It is less than three minutes since the right hon. and learned Gentleman was explaining how there are differences on his own Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-30a.441.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-30", "file": "debates1977-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "977391400ddc179b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-30a.442.1", "colnum": "442", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Joel Barnett)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the Labour Members?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Joel Barnett)", "preceding_text": " House prefers to hear the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey, East (Sir G. Howe) talking about interviews that my right hon. Friend gives to Kenneth Harris than any serious speech which he delivers. Given the lack of any serious content in his speech today, I can only assume that the right hon. and learned Gentleman finds the Budget as good as we on this side of the House find it. The only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-30a.442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-30", "file": "debates1977-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "977391400ddc179b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-30a.455.1", "colnum": "455", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": " that there is a simple, instant solution to our problems. Our problems are too deep-seated and have been with us for too long. We all hear complaints about high prices, low net take-home pay and falling living standards. If we are honest, we must admit that we do not reduce inflation generally by artificially holding down one price with money that has to be found at the expense of something else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-30a.455.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-30", "file": "debates1977-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "977391400ddc179b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-30a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "n they constantly expect living standards to rise as though that were in the natural order of things—and that in a country where standards have fallen, as has happened in the last three years. The greatest criticism I have of the right hon. Lady the Leader of the Opposition is that in all her utterances on the economy she makes governing Britain sound a darned sight to easy, and frankly it is not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-30a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-30", "file": "debates1977-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "977391400ddc179b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-30a.463.0", "colnum": "463", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "h bargaining chamber. Let me turn to the subject of taxation. I believe that there are two central things wrong with the British taxation system. The first is that income tax is too high and is out of the control of Parliament because of the insidious workings of inflation. Total taxation is not so high. We are not a heavily taxed nation compared with the rest of the world. It just feels that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-30a.463.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-30", "file": "debates1977-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "977391400ddc179b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-30a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. B. Cant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. B. Cant", "preceding_text": "erentials and so on. I do not think that that is a problem that would divide myself and the Chancellor. On the whole, I think that many people would pay tribute to his judgment on the general question of how far he should go. However, I would say, and I had hoped that some of my hon. Friends would have been present, that those who take a rather anti-Chancellor, anti-cautious view about the future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-30a.481.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-03-30", "file": "debates1977-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "977391400ddc179b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-30a.539.1", "colnum": "539", "heading": "CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS (RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I hope that that is in accordance with the will of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-30a.539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-31", "file": "debates1977-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3b029fe4dd0e49b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-31a.554.8", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sims", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sims", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that confirmation. Can the right hon. Gentleman assure us that we shall have an opportunity to debate the White Paper very soon after Christmas?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-31a.554.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-03-31", "file": "debates1977-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3b029fe4dd0e49b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-31a.567.10", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Wrong Question, Bob.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that this is a daft Question. Would it not even come to the point of considering how much blood should be given according to the type of crime committed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-31a.567.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-31", "file": "debates1977-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3b029fe4dd0e49b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-31a.570.2", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashley", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-31a.570.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-03-31", "file": "debates1977-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3b029fe4dd0e49b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-31a.570.7", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that his answers this afternoon are simply not good enough? Will he now at least answer the question of my hon. Friend the Member for Thanet, East (Mr. Aitken)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-31a.570.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-03-31", "file": "debates1977-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3b029fe4dd0e49b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-31a.571.1", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "All that may be the truth, but I do not propose to discuss inter-party relationships in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-31a.571.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-31", "file": "debates1977-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3b029fe4dd0e49b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-31a.572.5", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will be comforted by the fact that the true position about Britain has got through to overseas, hence the great strength of sterling and the purchase of gilt-edged that has gone on as a result of the Budget. I think that the position is well recognised. Of course, I understand that the right hon. Lady believes she would be able to conduct our affairs better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-31a.572.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-03-31", "file": "debates1977-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3b029fe4dd0e49b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-31a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "Following the previous question about the Lib-Lab alliance, will the Prime Minister, when he sees ministerial colleagues later in the day, discuss with them the proposition that the Leader of the Liberal Party should be invited as a fraternal delegate to the Labour Party Conference?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-31a.573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-31", "file": "debates1977-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3b029fe4dd0e49b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-31a.573.2", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Lamont", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I fully appreciate that the content of ministerial answers is not a matter for the Chair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-31a.573.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-31", "file": "debates1977-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3b029fe4dd0e49b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-31a.574.2", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister now make a better attempt to answer the question put to him by my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition? Is it not right that the House should know, before it votes on the Budget resolution on petrol, what the effect of refusing to pass that resolution would be? Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-31a.574.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-31", "file": "debates1977-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3b029fe4dd0e49b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-31a.575.0", "colnum": "575", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sit down then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. In replying to the point of order raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Kingston upon Thames (Mr. Lamont), you rightly said that you had no responsibility for what the Prime Minister said in his answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-31a.575.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-31", "file": "debates1977-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3b029fe4dd0e49b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-31a.614.1", "colnum": "614", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir. K Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about page 3?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir. K Joseph", "preceding_text": "alitarianism and the unimportance of business men and managers. The result has been the increasing shabbiness, poverty and unemployment of the people of this country. The Labour Party has taught the wrong lessons for generations and must now unteach them. The correct lessons are not repugnant to most people. Yesterday's editorial on page 2 of the Sun —which is a very valuable page for the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-31a.614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-03-31", "file": "debates1977-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "d3b029fe4dd0e49b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-31a.662.1", "colnum": "662", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ryman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ryman", "preceding_text": "ng in the Budget. They are penalised by a most unfair earnings rule. It also hits hard elderly people who are living on modest savings. About three weeks before the Budget I wrote to the Chancellor. I made a special plea on behalf of widows. Do you know, Mr. Deputy Speaker, the Chancellor did not even have the courtesy to acknowledge my letter? In my letter I set out in detail the case for widows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-03-31a.662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-01", "file": "debates1977-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "0f07f274ff9590fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-01a.751.0", "colnum": "751", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ACT 1972", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "h it. We should, perhaps, still consider doing that rather than seek to graft on to existing practices the necessary adaptations to bring within their scope the whole range of Community documents which we need to study. It is important to emphasise that Community documents are not Statutory Instruments. Therefore, they should not simply be regarded as additions to the Statutory Instrument process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-01a.751.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-01", "file": "debates1977-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "0f07f274ff9590fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-01a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ACT 1972", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "t, if he is bound by the maxim that ignorance of the law is no excuse for the breach of it, the least that we can do is to leave him in no ignorance of where to find the law if he does not know it in detail. For generations we have insisted on our legislation being fully stated—perhaps over-fully—and as defenders of the faith which we proclaim and the sovereignty of Parliament and the rule of law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-01a.786.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-04", "file": "debates1977-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fd52e6488ad183c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-04a.857.4", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "I thought that I had answered the last question first, and I believed that the hon. Gentleman would accept what I said—that members of the Council complimented my hon. Friend the Minister of State, Department of Industry on the way in which he chaired the meeting, with the usual expertise that one would associate with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-04a.857.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-04", "file": "debates1977-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fd52e6488ad183c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-04a.868.3", "colnum": "868", "heading": "MENTMORE TOWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "Whilst accepting that Mentmore, as indeed this building in which we meet, is not always regarded as the finest piece of architecture ever produced, none the less it is of historic interest, as are the contents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-04a.868.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-04", "file": "debates1977-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fd52e6488ad183c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-04a.870.0", "colnum": "870", "heading": "MENTMORE TOWERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A copy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Is it past the wit of anyone in the Government responsible for these matters to comprehend that the Government are passing up the opportunity of acquiring for the nation's collection and for the benefit of our tourist trade a unique property?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-04a.870.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-04", "file": "debates1977-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fd52e6488ad183c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-04a.876.3", "colnum": "876", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "s hon. Members opposite and Liberal Members—my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury will give his usual careful, benign and courteous reception to all those who wish to discuss the problem with him, as he will be very anxious to hear their views upon it. I have no doubt that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport will also be equally obliged for any suggestions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-04a.876.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-04", "file": "debates1977-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fd52e6488ad183c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-04a.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "th people sharing the cost of private motoring. We are beyond the stage of experiment. There is a major cost-of-living crisis in many parts of the country which has so far been ignored. Therefore, we oppose the 5½p increase. The only question we must face is that of the best method of opposing it. Of course, the Conservative Party will argue that the right way is to vote against it tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-04a.905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-04", "file": "debates1977-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fd52e6488ad183c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-04a.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Member for Battersea, North (Mr. Jay) is about to ask me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-04a.938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-04", "file": "debates1977-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fd52e6488ad183c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-04a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Fiscal boost.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " them in office to make and maintain—and I stress maintain—the income tax cuts to which we, as a party, are pledged. What about the rise in expenditure taxes? It is perfectly true that the Chancellor has gone little further than what is needed to make good the loss in real revenue due to inflation. We talk about fiscal drag for income tax—but there is a reverse fiscal drag for the specific duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-04a.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-04", "file": "debates1977-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fd52e6488ad183c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-04a.984.3", "colnum": "984", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "stment income surcharge as probably the meanest act ever perpetrated by any Socialist Government. I take a personal example. I have never understood why my father, who saved all his working life for his retirement and never inherited very much, should pay tax at a marginal rate of 50 per cent. on his savings income, at a level of retirement income about one-third that of the national average wage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-04a.984.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-04", "file": "debates1977-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fd52e6488ad183c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-04a.993.2", "colnum": "993", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "preceding_text": "n two respects. It has been marked by far less real party confrontation than most such debates that I remember. To my astonishment, there has been unanimous support from all quarters of the House for my Budget speech in at least one aspect—its brevity. The only thing on which we would all agree in the speech of the hon. Member for St. Ives is that my Budget was certainly not an electioneering one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-04a.993.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-04", "file": "debates1977-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fd52e6488ad183c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-04a.993.2", "colnum": "993", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "preceding_text": "lready reduced the cost of bank borrowing by manufacturing and construction industries by one-quarter or more. So we should see an increase in activity in investment as a result. The success of the Budget in achieving-its immediate financial objectives will bring us real and visible benefits in the fight against inflation for many months to come, through both lower prices and lower interest rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-04a.993.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-04", "file": "debates1977-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fd52e6488ad183c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-04a.1001.0", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is experienced in these matters, and I believe that he supported the last Government. He will know that the last Government, when they increased specific duties, always made the increase operate from the day on which it was announced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-04a.1001.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-04", "file": "debates1977-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "3fd52e6488ad183c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-04a.1060.1", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (DRIVERS' HOURS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Ellis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Ellis", "preceding_text": "ay out, short of getting the whole of the Commission to agree\"—and there is not a snowball's chance in hell of that. Members on the Government Front Bench do not take that line. They know what they are stuck with. It is atrocious for hon. Members to make party political or constituency speeches and then rush out of the Chamber to make sure that they are printed in tomorrow's newspapers when often—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-04a.1060.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-05", "file": "debates1977-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "852a338898f74ee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-05a.1084.4", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "I assure the hon. Gentleman that almost every post office has those forms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-05a.1084.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-05", "file": "debates1977-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "852a338898f74ee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-05a.1101.0", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I well recall that after Smethwick there was a certain shame on the part of the Conservative Party at what had happened. This time there seems to be nothing but gloating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-05a.1101.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-05", "file": "debates1977-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "852a338898f74ee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-05a.1102.2", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "May I make it quite clear that everything that my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Stechford (Mr. Mackay) said and did during that campaign was in the interests of racial harmony?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-05a.1102.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-05", "file": "debates1977-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "852a338898f74ee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-05a.1102.2", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "mpaign was in the interests of racial harmony? [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I have made perfectly clear from this Dispatch Box that this was his avowed objective in his election address and in the leaflet, and he had a number of people from the immigrant community helping in his campaign. It is disgraceful that the Prime Minister should attempt to take the rise out of a new Member in the way that he has.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-05a.1102.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-05", "file": "debates1977-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "852a338898f74ee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-05a.1102.2", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "owed objective in his election address and in the leaflet, and he had a number of people from the immigrant community helping in his campaign. It is disgraceful that the Prime Minister should attempt to take the rise out of a new Member in the way that he has. [ Interruption. ] May I, on the anniversary of the right hon. Gentleman becoming Prime Minister, remind him of his broadcast to the nation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-05a.1102.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-05", "file": "debates1977-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "852a338898f74ee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-05a.1103.0", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the right hon. Lady did not answer my simple question, which was posed in no spirit of hostility, either to her or to anything else, but merely as an endeavour to get the position clear. We should have it made clear, and I wish that she would restate Conservative policy as soon as possible at some opportunity convenient to herself. I do not instigate these Questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-05a.1103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-05", "file": "debates1977-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "852a338898f74ee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-05a.1103.0", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Last year.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ear, and I wish that she would restate Conservative policy as soon as possible at some opportunity convenient to herself. I do not instigate these Questions—[ Interruption. ] If the Opposition Chief Whip took note of these issues, he would realise that the right hon. Lady has specifically not replied to my invitation' that this matter should be settled quickly and simply. As regards my first year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-05a.1103.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-05", "file": "debates1977-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "852a338898f74ee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-05a.1103.1", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "If the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-05a.1103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-05", "file": "debates1977-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "852a338898f74ee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-05a.1104.0", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which ones?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Some countries have done better on prices, including, for example, Germany. Some have done worse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-05a.1104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-05", "file": "debates1977-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "852a338898f74ee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-05a.1105.4", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "HEATHROW (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": "About 4,000 maintenance engineers, members of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers, employed by British Airways at Heathrow, are taking industrial action in support of a claim—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-05a.1105.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-05", "file": "debates1977-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "852a338898f74ee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-05a.1185.4", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGES (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to be unkind to the hon. and learned Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-05a.1185.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-05", "file": "debates1977-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "852a338898f74ee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-05a.1186.5", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "TEACHER TRAINING COLLEGES (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McElhene", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McElhene", "preceding_text": "and Dunfermline. I know the views of the colleges, as does my right hon. Friend. It is no use the Opposition coming along with mere indignation. The people I speak to in education have no respect for the Conservatives. They must be honest and accept that if they were still in power they would have cut back teacher training long ago. That is in the Tory White Paper and it has never been challenged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-05a.1186.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-06", "file": "debates1977-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "effb8f8f2b1c50e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-06a.1216.0", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": "I am indeed aware of the misery of the people of Watford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-06a.1216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-06", "file": "debates1977-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "effb8f8f2b1c50e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-06a.1252.1", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (COUNCIL OF MINISTERS' MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "he hon. Gentleman welcomes progress on the accession of both Greece and Portugal he carries the House with him. However, did he and the other Ministers discuss the danger that in well-meaning intentions to support the cause of democracy in those countries by giving them early membership we may be exposing their economies to strains which membership imposes and which they are not yet ready to bear?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-06a.1252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-06", "file": "debates1977-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "effb8f8f2b1c50e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-06a.1255.3", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "ncy and elsewhere in Camden. The rent officer takes the view that the rent register is a legal document and that it should contain only those items that are required by law to be entered therein. That is his view in April 1977. But in 1972 his predecessor took a different view on the instructions of the London Rent Assessment Panel. In order to quiet the anxiety of my constituents we need to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-06a.1255.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-06", "file": "debates1977-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "effb8f8f2b1c50e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-06a.1281.1", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "n and prepared beforehand, and I would not wish it otherwise. It would be irresponsible not to prepare the speech carefully for such a major occasion. If there is to be any hope or opportunity of Members of Parliament having any influence at all on the Executive there surely needs to be an interval between their meeting and the opening of the debate. Enough said. I do not want to labour the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-06a.1281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-06", "file": "debates1977-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "effb8f8f2b1c50e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-06a.1337.2", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "SPORT AND RECREATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Pendry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Under Lord Porchester?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Pendry", "preceding_text": "t football clubs resent very much that their stadia should be used for more than a few hours on Saturday afternoon. These stadia must be some of the most under-used capital assets in the whole country. This matter should be looked at, even at the risk of offending some hon. Members who do not like committees of inquiry. I hope that the Government will consider setting up, under the Sports Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-06a.1337.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-06", "file": "debates1977-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "effb8f8f2b1c50e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-06a.1361.0", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "SPORT AND RECREATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the Minister's White Paper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": ". I understand the concern of hon. Members who wanted to speak in the debate, and I cannot reply to everything that has been said in the debate in such a short time. I will convey the fact that we need more time to debate the matter, but I think that if Conservative Members intend to criticise us on this issue they should take more positive action. They have a great deal of time available to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-06a.1361.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-07", "file": "debates1977-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "831630f651b0f8fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-07a.1475.1", "colnum": "1475", "heading": "CIVIL DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Dr. Shirley Summerskill)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Dr. Shirley Summerskill)", "preceding_text": "North has put down a series of Questions demonstrating his concern. In the time available, I cannot deal with all the points that he raised, but, if he wishes, I shall willingly arrange for him to discuss them with the officials concerned. At the outset, I should make clear that successive Governments, of both parties, have over recent years pursued a remarkably consistent policy in civil defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-07a.1475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-19", "file": "debates1977-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "e9332608d1cae5b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-19a.20.6", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strauss", "preceding_text": " theatre? That means that unless compensatory action is taken existing enterprises—musical and dramatic—will suffer a significant cut in their Arts Council subsidy this year and that quality will suffer accordingly. Is that my right hon. Friend's policy, or is she prepared to take action to prevent this serious cut in the artistic standards of the organisations that are helped by the Arts Council?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-19a.20.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-19", "file": "debates1977-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "e9332608d1cae5b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-19a.23.2", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT-LIBERAL PARTY (JOINT CONSULTATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It would be unfair not to bother about it. As for retail prices, inflation is of course the major problem that this country has still to overcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-19a.23.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-19", "file": "debates1977-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "e9332608d1cae5b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-19a.23.4", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GOVERNMENT-LIBERAL PARTY (JOINT CONSULTATIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not temporary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It would be a bad day for democracy if the advent of the Gallup Poll, or any other poll, meant that the Government, half way through their term of office, should yield office on the basis of temporary unpopularity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-19a.23.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-19", "file": "debates1977-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "e9332608d1cae5b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-19a.25.4", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — JAPAN", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell us why.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is a partial factor that investment in this country has not been sufficiently high.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-19a.25.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-19", "file": "debates1977-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "e9332608d1cae5b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-19a.28.2", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (DIRECT ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I noticed that M. Marchais had, for electoral reasons, I understand, decided to support the idea of direct elections. Opposition to them in this country is not limited to our own party. I believe that some hon. Members on the Opposition Benches oppose them. Nevertheless, I say to hon. Members in our own party and in the Conservative Party that the country decided this issue in the referendum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-19a.28.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-19", "file": "debates1977-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "e9332608d1cae5b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-19a.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "I made it clear throughout Africa that I did not believe that the West resented the Soviet Union's presence in Africa. They have the right to be there, as we have the right to be there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-19a.37.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-04-19", "file": "debates1977-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "e9332608d1cae5b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-19a.158.5", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ARMY", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "preceding_text": "With the leave of the House, I apologise for coming back to a point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-19a.158.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-20", "file": "debates1977-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c143603b251f1659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-20a.175.2", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "It would be wrong of me to comment on the points that my hon. Friend has rightly put to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-20a.175.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-20", "file": "debates1977-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c143603b251f1659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-20a.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "8,000, and in addition there will be an allocation of about £300,000—I am sorry, £30,000—for improvement grants. The total will be about £260,000. I was not speaking Irish or any other language; I was making the point that if local authorities are enabled to switch from one Vote head to another during the year they will better be able to link improvement policy with home loans on older properties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-20a.194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-20", "file": "debates1977-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c143603b251f1659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-20a.203.0", "colnum": "203", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY (DIRECTELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "lieves that Europe is likely to face a third civil war. But I think we must face facts and I should like to be blunt. It is scarcely conceivable that Europe, with its much greater national, regional, linguistic, cultural and historical diversity, could become a federal State akin to that of the United States within my children's lifetime, or even one's grandchildren's, still less our own lifetime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-20a.203.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-20", "file": "debates1977-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c143603b251f1659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-20a.211.3", "colnum": "211", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY (DIRECTELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "peated opportunities to discuss the matter. The result which was finally achieved in the concordat talks of 25th September was the end of a long process, not the beginning of one. I believe that the purpose today must be to address ourselves more to the specifics of the White Paper than to the question of rehearsing once again the many arguments which are involved. That is what we are asked to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-20a.211.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-20", "file": "debates1977-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c143603b251f1659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-20a.215.0", "colnum": "215", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY (DIRECTELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "the position there. There had been some doubt, but there is no doubt now that the Gaullists, the RPR, and the Communists, will not seek to obstruct the enactment which is necessary for France to proceed to elections to a European Parliament in May or June next year. That being so, if we fail, we shall be the only member of the Community to do so, and if we are the only one, we shall stop the rest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-20a.215.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-20", "file": "debates1977-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c143603b251f1659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-20a.216.1", "colnum": "216", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY (DIRECTELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Labour Members would be hard-pressed indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-20a.216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-20", "file": "debates1977-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c143603b251f1659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-20a.217.10", "colnum": "217", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY (DIRECTELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "No, on the whole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-20a.217.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-20", "file": "debates1977-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c143603b251f1659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-20a.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY (DIRECTELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "more influence to bear in the way in which we carry out our rôle in this House through challenge, debate and questions. That process can be directed at the Commission. I also believe that it will bring influence to bear on the Council of Ministers. In many ways this is desirable because it will be supplemental to the influence which national Parliaments bring to bear on their own Ministers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-20a.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-20", "file": "debates1977-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c143603b251f1659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-20a.252.3", "colnum": "252", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY (DIRECTELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "I shall tell the hon. Gentleman why. We have a Government in power for whom only 29 per cent. of those entitled to vote voted. They now have the respectability of having a mandate of a majority of the electorate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-20a.252.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-20", "file": "debates1977-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c143603b251f1659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-20a.253.1", "colnum": "253", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY (DIRECTELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "No, I do not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-20a.253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-20", "file": "debates1977-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c143603b251f1659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-20a.253.1", "colnum": "253", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY (DIRECTELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "European Parliament, which would make a farce of democracy, and which would, for example, possibly mean that the Scottish National Party, because it was concentrated, would have more seats than the official Labour Government. That is quite possible. The hon. Member for Southend, West (Mr. Channon) has asked me the question. I should have to look at it carefully, and I would find it very difficult—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-20a.253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-20", "file": "debates1977-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "c143603b251f1659", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-20a.255.3", "colnum": "255", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY (DIRECTELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "he pro-Marketeers throughout the entire campaign. It is true that in opposing our continuation in the Common Market some hon. Members pointed out their fear that if the vote went in favour of staying in, there would then be a move towards direct elections and ultimately towards some type of federal system. Some of us warned that this could happen, but it was not a central argument in the campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-20a.255.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-21", "file": "debates1977-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fba88a7beca9b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-21a.348.2", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "preceding_text": "I agree with the tenor of the hon. Gentleman's remarks in respect of marketing boards. We have already described these as an excellent example of practical Socialism which we are determined to retain here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-21a.348.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-21", "file": "debates1977-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fba88a7beca9b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-21a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I should prefer not go into that just now, because we are in the middle of a two-day debate in which the Government's attitude is being defined. Supplementary questions are not the appropriate occasion to go into the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-21a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-21", "file": "debates1977-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fba88a7beca9b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-21a.362.2", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Not on Monday, I gather.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-21a.362.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-21", "file": "debates1977-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fba88a7beca9b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-21a.362.4", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I promise the right hon. Lady that the decision has nothing to do with fear; it has to do with the undertaking that was given. We undertook to listen to all the views put forward in the House. There is not agreement on this matter, and we had better wait and hear what the result is at the end of the two days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-21a.362.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-21", "file": "debates1977-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fba88a7beca9b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-21a.371.0", "colnum": "371", "heading": "DRAX B POWER STATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I do not think that relations are soured by a candid exchange between Ministers and the chairmen of nationalised industries. What I think is undesirable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-21a.371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-21", "file": "debates1977-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fba88a7beca9b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-21a.375.0", "colnum": "375", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "With due respect, there really ought to be a clear vote on either the first-past-the-post system or some PR system before the Bill is drafted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-21a.375.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-21", "file": "debates1977-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fba88a7beca9b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-21a.376.3", "colnum": "376", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I am not sure whether the right hon. and learned Gentleman wants a vote so that the House shall have a reasonable chance to debate these matters fully or whether he and others want to pre-empt the decision of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-21a.376.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-21", "file": "debates1977-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fba88a7beca9b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-21a.398.4", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "It does not necessarily need to be on housing. It is apparent that Labour Members are not following the trend of thinking of the Secretary of State, The right hon. Gentleman's trend of thinking on local government finance is to move towards the block grant system. The right hon. Gentleman is trying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-21a.398.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-21", "file": "debates1977-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fba88a7beca9b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-21a.408.5", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Pause now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "by local authorities. I challenged him to say whether it was his party's policy not to build more local authority houses. I paused and waited for a reply. I did not get one. My right hon. Friend the Minister for Housing and Construction, who wound up that debate, paused so long that Conservative Members alleged that he had finished his speech altogether. The point is that he did not get an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-21a.408.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-21", "file": "debates1977-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fba88a7beca9b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-21a.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "tralisation and in the district office. When people go into an office they should be given all the aid they need. I also believe in an efficient transfer system. I want to see housing come to life. What I do not want is to have a section of the community singled out as getting far too much money from the State when it is the poor people who are buying their own homes who really ought to have more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-21a.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-21", "file": "debates1977-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fba88a7beca9b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-21a.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr. Reginald Freeson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr. Reginald Freeson)", "preceding_text": "ttention to whether one agreed with everything that was said or not. They were indeed valuable contributions to the genuine discussion of problems concerning housing policy. But the same cannot be said of either of the two Conservative Front Bench speeches that we have heard. I believe that that view would be endorsed by most hon. Members who have sat through most, if not all, of the debate today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-21a.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-21", "file": "debates1977-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fba88a7beca9b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-21a.506.1", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "of State has already dealt with our record in raising the level of house building from the appalling depths to which it had plunged during the last year or so of the previous Government's term of office. We are still suffering from some of the effects of the worst collapse in housing policy that we have experienced for the past 40 years. There is no question about that. According to the situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-21a.506.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-21", "file": "debates1977-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fba88a7beca9b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-21a.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I need have given way. I turn now to another aspect of these matters which has been given a great deal of attention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-21a.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-21", "file": "debates1977-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "3fba88a7beca9b3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-21a.509.2", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not indiscriminate. It is just.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman wishes to pursue such an indiscriminate policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-21a.509.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-25", "file": "debates1977-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "ce3e81256d183efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-25a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY (DIRECT ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "preceding_text": "nk with the individual citizen. Certain references have been made to the dual mandate and the need not to debar the dual mandate. I would say that there is a specific need to preclude the dual mandate from these elections, because with the dual mandate it would be more practical for Members of Parliament representing South-East England seats than for Members of Parliament representing other areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-25a.893.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-25", "file": "debates1977-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "ce3e81256d183efc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-25a.985.1", "colnum": "985", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (TREATIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "I shall take only two or three minutes as I understand that the Minister wishes to reply. If the House should make the mistake of approving these orders, It will do so without any knowledge of what that approval is about. Not one hon. Member on either side of the House has the slightest idea about them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-25a.985.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-27", "file": "debates1977-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6cda14967dff1d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-27a.1238.0", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "d me why I held out in March. I held out for the simple reason that the difference between the two sides was too large to be bridged at that time. I said then that I was willing to sit day and night until we settled the matter. Most, though not all, of my colleagues in Europe thought it was better to come back after Easter on 25th and 26th April. But the actual difference in terms was significant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-27a.1238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-27", "file": "debates1977-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6cda14967dff1d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-27a.1241.2", "colnum": "1241", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman's sublime disregard for the truth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-27a.1241.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-27", "file": "debates1977-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6cda14967dff1d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-27a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Colonel Sir Harwood Harrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Colonel Sir Harwood Harrison", "preceding_text": "oducers came here earlier this week to show their indignation and many hon. Members from both sides met them. The producers were worried—and it worries me, too—that if they continue to lose money, which they can do only to a certain extent, they will have to sell or kill off all their breeding sows and we shall be in a desperate state. This is illustrated by what I hope the Minister may have seen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-27a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-27", "file": "debates1977-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6cda14967dff1d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-27a.1246.4", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "I know that the hon. Gentleman himself did not, but others on the Conservative Benches did. Having said that I was wrong to defy what they thought was the Brussels rule—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-27a.1246.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-04-27", "file": "debates1977-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6cda14967dff1d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-27a.1252.1", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "That is what you said.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "What I have always liked about the hon. Member for Louth (Mr Brotherton), ever since we had our first election fight in Deptford, is his invariable total honesty. I wish that he shared it sometimes with some of his hon. Friends, who try to do two things at the same time. They try to say that we should support the farmer, but that that means that food will be cheaper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-27a.1252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-27", "file": "debates1977-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6cda14967dff1d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-27a.1258.1", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICE COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"A unique occasion\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "There are circumstances in which the Commission might want to make an investigation when other events were taking place in the industry that it was proposed to investigate. It might be that a merger was being proposed and that this might be part of the industrial strategy. We might be on the verge of a planning agreement and in those wholly exceptional circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-27a.1258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-27", "file": "debates1977-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6cda14967dff1d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-27a.1277.3", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICE COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "rôle of profits not only in companies but in the context of the whole economy. It is profits that help a company to become more efficient and to charge lower prices. It is the profits of the private sector that pay for health, education and welfare. It is profits not losses that are socially acceptable. But, because this Government, having failed hopelessly to overcome inflation themselves—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-27a.1277.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-04-27", "file": "debates1977-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6cda14967dff1d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-27a.1336.0", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICE COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "The 1973 Act.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "preceding_text": "ly very good. One of my hon. Friends has talked at length about Clause 17. I shall not repeat what he said, although I agree with it. Clause 22(2) is really a gem, because it enables the Secretary of State to lay to one side all the rest of the Bill when he so chooses. It states, The Secretary of State may by order ( a ) provide that such of the provisions of this Act as are specified in the order", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-27a.1333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-27", "file": "debates1977-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6cda14967dff1d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-27a.1356.1", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICE COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman should look beside him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "e to deal for a moment with what are known as the \"consumer interests\" These are a few people whom politicians appoint to jobs and meet at cocktail parties in London and the South-East but of whose activities—and this is no criticism of them, as I shall explain later—the general public seems almost blissfully unaware. We must not exaggerate the views of what I call the statutory female aggravator.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-27a.1356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-27", "file": "debates1977-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "6cda14967dff1d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-27a.1361.1", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICE COMMISSION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Prices and Consumer Protection (Mr. John Fraser)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Prices and Consumer Protection (Mr. John Fraser)", "preceding_text": "ations the Monopolies Commission has on many occasions concluded that the appropriate course for dealing with a monopoly situation is not to break up the monopoly but to maintain long-term surveillance over prices or profits. Examples of industries on which such action has been taken are detergents, breakfast cereals, colour films, contraceptive sheaths, chemical fertilisers and clutch mechanisms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-27a.1361.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-28", "file": "debates1977-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "d7190f46fc91c850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-28a.1483.0", "colnum": "1483", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When? How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have debated these issues very often and, no doubt, will continue to do so. I repeat again that the rate of inflation is the most important problem with which the Government have to deal. The steps we have taken are overcoming that high rate, as I think the Opposition know. Inflation will undoubtedly fall again during the second half of this year and the first half of 1978—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-28a.1483.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-28", "file": "debates1977-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "d7190f46fc91c850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-28a.1485.6", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROXBURGH", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s, but I warn my hon. Friend that he is out of tune with the Labour movement if he really believes that there are substantial misgivings because my correspondence, together with the resolutions that I am receiving from constituency parties, shows that for once he is not correct about this. Regarding incomes policy, I shall be happy to discuss that with the Leader of the Liberal Party if he wishes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-28a.1485.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-28", "file": "debates1977-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "d7190f46fc91c850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-28a.1485.6", "colnum": "1485", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ROXBURGH", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e Leader of the Liberal Party if he wishes—[ Interruption. ] He is entitled to discuss it with me. If he intends to support us in the House of Commons, why should he not discuss it with me? As regards petrol tax, some people have got to be pretty careful. To make a hole of £450 million in the Budget, which they will be able to do only if the Conservative Opposition behave irresponsibly, will mean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-28a.1485.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-04-28", "file": "debates1977-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "d7190f46fc91c850", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-28a.1495.4", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I recognise that these are extremely important matters which ought to be debated in the House. The Government seek to arrange that we have debates on many wide matters, although, naturally, Government debates are, in the main, although not entirely, given over to legislative proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-04-28a.1495.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-02", "file": "debates1977-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "c6a1658ecb7b1e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-02a.8.6", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "The latest monthly rise is 1 per cent. and the latest year-on-year increase is 16·7 per cent. The latest three-monthly rise is 4·6 per cent. That could be said to produce an annualised figure of 19·9 per cent., though it would not be statistically valid as an indication of the trend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-02a.8.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-02", "file": "debates1977-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "c6a1658ecb7b1e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-02a.82.1", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (RURAL AREAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gwynfor Evans", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwynfor Evans", "preceding_text": "tance, I know of a father of three, a craftsman, who has to go from a village near Carmarthen into Carmarthen, and the distance is 14 miles. It costs him £6 a week for petrol alone, and his total take-home pay is £43 a week. In my village we have a creamery, a milk factory, to which people from villages round about, from such places Rhandirmwyn, Cwmllynfell and Llandybie, have to travel every day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-02a.82.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-02", "file": "debates1977-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "c6a1658ecb7b1e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-02a.92.3", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT (RURAL AREAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "case. At the same time, I do not think that he did himself any service by alleging that this matter, being raised by Conservative Members, was a matter in which we were not interested. It is a matter in which we are intensely interested. Transport affects the whole of the United Kingdom. I find it extraordinary that the Secretary of State and his hon. Friend the Under-Secretary, who is a Welshman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-02a.92.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-02", "file": "debates1977-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "c6a1658ecb7b1e7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-02a.132.1", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "preceding_text": "s from the date of deciding to build to complete a construction. That is why the Minister and all other Socialist Ministers always get the figures wrong. They always say that when the Conservative Party is in power the industry becomes overheated and that when they are in power they get on with the job. They are able to do that because they have a flywheel going and the houses are already planned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-02a.132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-03", "file": "debates1977-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfa8c801426cc3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.208.2", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept from me that there is a feeling of almost total hopelessness and disillusion among school leavers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.208.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-03", "file": "debates1977-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfa8c801426cc3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.208.3", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And among old people.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "One of the things that worry me enormously is that I find in certain areas—not uniformly across the country, but in certain areas only—a sense of disillusionment among young people, and a sense of hopelessness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.208.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-05-03", "file": "debates1977-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfa8c801426cc3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.212.0", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "e waitresses who were working for Trust Houses Forte hotels were unfairly dismissed and that they have been on strike ever since, and that as a result of the efforts that have been made by myself and some others—including some who are now Ministers—in refusing to attend any functions at these hotels, Trust Houses Forte, which employs the right hon. Member for Lowestoft (Mr. Prior) as a consultant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.211.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-05-03", "file": "debates1977-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfa8c801426cc3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.212.5", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "—to the managing director of Trust Houses Forte—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.212.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-05-03", "file": "debates1977-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfa8c801426cc3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.212.10", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.212.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-03", "file": "debates1977-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfa8c801426cc3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.212.13", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. While accepting that when an altercation took place in Question Time I was regarded as unworthy by some hon. Members in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.212.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-03", "file": "debates1977-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfa8c801426cc3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.219.3", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TUC", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "age to predict what action is to be taken on Thursday and what its effect will be. The members of the National Union of Journalists at the Press Association will be deciding tomorrow whether they will take industrial action. Of course, it would be easy to take sides in this dispute. For myself, if there are any more results like the one at Grimsby, I hope that they will not be censored in any way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.219.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-03", "file": "debates1977-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfa8c801426cc3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.219.3", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TUC", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Ashfield?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "and what its effect will be. The members of the National Union of Journalists at the Press Association will be deciding tomorrow whether they will take industrial action. Of course, it would be easy to take sides in this dispute. For myself, if there are any more results like the one at Grimsby, I hope that they will not be censored in any way. [ Interruption. ] That was the point of the question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.219.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-03", "file": "debates1977-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfa8c801426cc3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.219.3", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TUC", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You do not disturb her, Jim.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "w whether they will take industrial action. Of course, it would be easy to take sides in this dispute. For myself, if there are any more results like the one at Grimsby, I hope that they will not be censored in any way. [ Interruption. ] That was the point of the question. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Ashfield?\"] I was picking out the one I liked best. The right hon. Lady need not get too disturbed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.219.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-03", "file": "debates1977-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfa8c801426cc3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.220.3", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "When my right hon. Friend takes up that invitation, I am sure he will agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.220.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-03", "file": "debates1977-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfa8c801426cc3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.220.3", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHINA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "that, because of his usual commonsense approach—although we do not always see eye to eye on that—he will not make the mistake of the Leader of the Opposition when she recently visited China, of falling into the trap of taking cold war politics over there and entering an ideological battle which she will regret? I am sure that he will develop the idea of trade and friendship. May I also say to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.220.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-03", "file": "debates1977-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfa8c801426cc3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.222.7", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INCOMES POLICY DISCUSSIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about inflation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ed with incomes policy, I am not in a position to give my right hon. Friend the date or the amount. However, I assure her that an announcement will be made in due course and that there will be a substantial improvement in the position of the basic pensioner. As she knows, since this Government came to the office, the married couple's pension has pretty well doubled in amount, and this is a record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.222.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-03", "file": "debates1977-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfa8c801426cc3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.241.0", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL LAW BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": ". We concluded that before creating further specific offences with regard to morals and decency we should take a broader look at the whole subject of obscenity. I hope shortly to be appointing a Departmental Committee to undertake a fundamental review of the laws of obscenity, indecency and censorship. That is the best way to proceed. It is a subject which excites many people one way or the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.241.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-03", "file": "debates1977-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfa8c801426cc3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.367.4", "colnum": "367", "heading": "MR. AGEE AND MR. HOSENBALL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Merlyn Rees)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"He is getting married.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Merlyn Rees)", "preceding_text": "or them to notify me of a country, other than the United States, that would be prepared to accept them. Mr. Agee has told me that he would be admitted for three months, in the first instance, to Holland. He has given me written evidence of that. Orally, he has indicated that he would be admitted to Sweden. Mr. Hosenball has not notified me of any third country that would be prepared to accept him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.367.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-03", "file": "debates1977-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfa8c801426cc3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.367.4", "colnum": "367", "heading": "MR. AGEE AND MR. HOSENBALL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Merlyn Rees)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear. We were given none at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Merlyn Rees)", "preceding_text": " June 1971, is extra-statutory. Its existence is acknowledged by the Immigration Rules. The relevant rule is contained in paragraph 42 of the statement of \"Immigration Rules for Control after Entry: EEC and other Non-Commonwealth Nationals\". A number of hon. Members have felt strongly that they were given insufficient details of the grounds on which I proposed to deport Mr. Agee and Mr. Hosenball—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.367.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-03", "file": "debates1977-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfa8c801426cc3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.375.3", "colnum": "375", "heading": "MR. AGEE AND MR. HOSENBALL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "ust leave. I am confident that the Home Secretary has done that. But that does not extend to giving to people who come here information of the kind that will undermine our own security services. That is a fundamental principle. If we got away from this, anyone could come here and say that he would stay here for ever unless he was given access to our security services or our sources of information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.375.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-03", "file": "debates1977-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfa8c801426cc3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.376.3", "colnum": "376", "heading": "MR. AGEE AND MR. HOSENBALL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Newens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Rubbish\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Newens", "preceding_text": "e Home Secretary's decision is precisely that the Home Secretary refuses to produce any evidence on which his decision is based. I understand that the revelation of sources might undermine national security, and that is a plausible argument. Unless some evidence is produced, however, my right hon. Friend's decision will be widely regarded as unjust and there will be a permanent slur on his record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.376.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-03", "file": "debates1977-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfa8c801426cc3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "MR. AGEE AND MR. HOSENBALL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Aitken", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Aitken", "preceding_text": "h decisions are taken, the Home Secretary undoubtedly relies to some extent on the advice given by the security forces. My caveat is that there is a real danger in accepting as infallible the judgments of the security services in cases that have involved journalists or writers, because the track record of the security services has not been infallible in the past. One can point to several examples.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-03", "file": "debates1977-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfa8c801426cc3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.391.1", "colnum": "391", "heading": "MR. AGEE AND MR. HOSENBALL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "preceding_text": "he CIA. That is a perfectly proper position. But nor should we be blinded in the other way into thinking that there is something very good about Mr. Agee because he has attacked the CIA. There are Labour Members below the Gangway who are sympathetic to him because he has done so. My final point to those hon. Members is that they are extremely selective indeed in their indignation on these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.391.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-03", "file": "debates1977-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfa8c801426cc3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.392.2", "colnum": "392", "heading": "MR. AGEE AND MR. HOSENBALL", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Perhaps he cannot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member always does this. We are quite used to the fact that he never dares to get to his feet but just keeps to his seat and interrupts others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.392.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-03", "file": "debates1977-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "bfa8c801426cc3cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "MR. AGEE AND MR. HOSENBALL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "This organisation is a vast instrument of internal oppression and external subversion and it is the sole guarantor of the existence of Russian Socialism, or Socialism in Communist terms. Although little is known of the facts about Agee and Hosenball, upon which the Home Secretary had to make his judgment, a certain amount has emerged in public. There was a Press conference at the end of last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-03a.397.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-04", "file": "debates1977-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "2bf492327fefb8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-04a.434.4", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "I was not here when the Prime Minister made his statement, as I was in the Council of Foreign Ministers, but I think that he was using the words in the sense of humanitarian aid, which is, of course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-04a.434.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-04", "file": "debates1977-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "2bf492327fefb8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-04a.463.0", "colnum": "463", "heading": "LOCAL AUTHORITIES (DISCRETIONARY GRANTS TO THE DISABLED)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bring them here. Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott-Hopkins", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for interrupting and drawing the attention of the House to the fact that—I am quite certain through pressing business—Ministers in the Departments concerned are not present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-04a.463.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-04", "file": "debates1977-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "2bf492327fefb8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-04a.474.1", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "ll saying the same thing—that these cuts greatly impair the ability of the Royal Air Force to carry out the rôles assigned to it. Paragraph 15 goes on: The danger of such a deferment is not simply that the numbers needed will not be achieved quickly enough, leaving an operational deficiency, but that there is a risk that the aircraft will be obsolescent before the last of them is delivered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-04a.474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-04", "file": "debates1977-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "2bf492327fefb8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-04a.477.1", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "ame moment as he is listening to the speech of another, he is a new breed of human being, and we welcome him to this House. It is quite ridiculous that we should have a risk of this sort, apparently accepted, presumably, by the Secretary of State for Defence and the Under-Secretary of State who is responsible for the Royal Air Force. I come next to the reduction of the Nimrod force by 25 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-04a.477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-04", "file": "debates1977-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "2bf492327fefb8dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-04a.496.1", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL AIR FORCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"This one is taking a long time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "eplacement for the Jaguar and the Harrier which should do that. As for air superiority, consideration is being given to a whole range of matters but I cannot at this stage say anything that would be helpful to the House or to the hon. Member. I turn from those weighty matters of equipment, command and control, to talk about the men and women who serve in the Royal Air Force. In his opening speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-04a.496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-05", "file": "debates1977-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6e0adc97d347e4e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.627.5", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"What about Rugby Union?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I know that there is public concern about this whole problem. I have given it serious consideration. When one considers the detail, tribute should be paid to Rugby League football. My hon. Friend represents a very good Rugby League town. It is worth investigating why there is remarkably little trouble in Rugby League, even at Wembley. There may be something in that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.627.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-05", "file": "debates1977-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6e0adc97d347e4e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.640.6", "colnum": "640", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "The Minister said \"wives\", in the plural.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.640.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-05", "file": "debates1977-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6e0adc97d347e4e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.645.0", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CBI", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " work for a policy that will restrain these pressures, whilst recognising the real problems that ordinary people have in their daily lives. The Government will be ready to reflate the moment our economic situation seems to put us in a position to do so. Things are going the right way. Our reserves are the highest ever. They were at a record level yesterday. Interest rates are steadily coming down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.645.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-05", "file": "debates1977-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6e0adc97d347e4e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.646.0", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CBI", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "With respect, the right hon Lady is selective in her choice of statistics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.646.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-05", "file": "debates1977-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6e0adc97d347e4e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.646.0", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CBI", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "With respect, the right hon Lady is selective in her choice of statistics. [ Interruption .] The right hon. Member for Knutsford (Mr. Davies) should keep quiet after the untruth that he told about me yesterday. It would not come amiss if he were to apologise, and I hope that he will do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.646.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-05", "file": "debates1977-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6e0adc97d347e4e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.646.0", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CBI", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "to the right hon. Lady's question is that the truth is that if one takes the three years separately one sees that the rate of inflation has improved in the third year by comparison with the first and second years. The reason for the situation in the whole period which the right hon. Lady took is the increase in money supply, which worked its way through in the first 18 months of Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.646.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-05", "file": "debates1977-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6e0adc97d347e4e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.646.0", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CBI", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "erruption .] It is no use the Opposition trying to dodge their responsibility for this. If the right hon. Lady were not so selective she would not take the period from March 1974, because she knows what happened then. She knows what happened to the money supply then. The truth—and I think that I know the figures from which the right hon. Lady is quoting—is in Hansard, in replies that I have given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.646.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-05", "file": "debates1977-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6e0adc97d347e4e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OFFICIAL REPORT CORRECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Davies", "preceding_text": "ad corrected that statement, but The Times of the same day repeated exactly what we had heard the Prime Minister say. Hansard corrected that statement and eliminated the word \"always\". The report read: We have given humanitarian and other aid to liberation movements\".—[ Official Report , 3rd May 1977; Vol. 931, c. 226.] I expressed to the Foreign Secretary my relief that that change had been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-05", "file": "debates1977-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6e0adc97d347e4e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.647.3", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OFFICIAL REPORT CORRECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Davies", "preceding_text": "#x2026;\".—[ Official Report , 4th May 1977; Vol. 931, c. 433.] and so on. I said that that was a relief to those on the Opposition Benches. The Prime Minister now declares that I have misrepresented him in what he said. Mr. Speaker, may I now point out that I have received a letter from the Editor of the Official Report saying that he was in error in having corrected the phrase which we all heard—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.647.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-05", "file": "debates1977-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6e0adc97d347e4e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.647.3", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OFFICIAL REPORT CORRECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Davies", "preceding_text": "nd so on. I said that that was a relief to those on the Opposition Benches. The Prime Minister now declares that I have misrepresented him in what he said. Mr. Speaker, may I now point out that I have received a letter from the Editor of the Official Report saying that he was in error in having corrected the phrase which we all heard—[ Interruption .]—and which the Prime Minister actually uttered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.647.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-05", "file": "debates1977-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6e0adc97d347e4e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OFFICIAL REPORT CORRECTION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Speaker. The complaint that I have is that the right hon. Gentleman alleged that I had altered Hansard .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-05", "file": "debates1977-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6e0adc97d347e4e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OFFICIAL REPORT CORRECTION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: Or to send anybody.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e to Hansard , by his right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, to the words that the right hon. Gentleman actually used in replying to me yesterday…\".—[ Official Report , 4th May 1977; Vol. 931, c. 433.] As I have always understood it, it is the most serious offence for an hon. Member to go to Hansard to correct his own words. Mr. Speaker, if the right hon. Gentleman had been in touch with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-05", "file": "debates1977-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6e0adc97d347e4e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OFFICIAL REPORT CORRECTION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "r, to the words that the right hon. Gentleman actually used in replying to me yesterday…\".—[ Official Report , 4th May 1977; Vol. 931, c. 433.] As I have always understood it, it is the most serious offence for an hon. Member to go to Hansard to correct his own words. Mr. Speaker, if the right hon. Gentleman had been in touch with me—[An HON. MEMBER: Or to send anybody.] Or to send anybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-05", "file": "debates1977-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6e0adc97d347e4e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.649.3", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OFFICIAL REPORT CORRECTION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Speaker. I am quite ready to leave the matter there, because the House, I hope, will know what I have said and what is the truth. It is, of course, only a matter of good taste whether the right hon. Gentleman withdraws his charge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.649.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-05-05", "file": "debates1977-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6e0adc97d347e4e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.649.6", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OFFICIAL REPORT CORRECTION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. There are a lot of hon. Members jumping up to pursue this matter on a point of order. I believe I heard the right hon. Gentleman say that the Editor of Hansard had taken responsibility for a mistake in altering Hansard .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.649.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-05", "file": "debates1977-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6e0adc97d347e4e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.799.3", "colnum": "799", "heading": "SPORT AND RECREATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "e was made to supporters wearing certain badges. We would like to find out who manufactures the badges worn by the supporters of one club saying \"We hate Leeds\", I think it was. This is a terrible situation. Indeed, I understand that some supporters wear badges proclaiming \"We hate Denis Howell\". I suppose that is the final accolade. At least it shows that somebody is trying to bring them to book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.799.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-05-05", "file": "debates1977-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "6e0adc97d347e4e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.803.17", "colnum": "803", "heading": "EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (MEMBERSHIP)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "That this Order be a Standing Order of the House.—[ Mr. Bates .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-05a.803.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-09", "file": "debates1977-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "d21ca5423756d9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-09a.911.3", "colnum": "911", "heading": "HEADS OF GOVERNMENT (DOWNING STREET MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "conomies, have undertaken and committed themselves so to do and to take further steps if they look like falling short. We have all agreed that there should be monitoring of this process. The hon. Gentleman should not assume that we are the only country attending to this. It is a common effort. Each country has to put into the deal what it can in order to achieve the world balance that is required.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-09a.911.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-09", "file": "debates1977-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "d21ca5423756d9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-09a.915.0", "colnum": "915", "heading": "HEADS OF GOVERNMENT (DOWNING STREET MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The share of the resources taken by the public sector has, to my regret, been educed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-09a.915.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-09", "file": "debates1977-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "d21ca5423756d9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-09a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman always tries to raise the level of debate. Perhaps I should have included him among some of the people of whom I am fond, but I am sure the hon. Gentleman knows how fond I am of him. If the hon. Gentleman thinks about the matter a little more deeply, he will realise that the Budget Resolution would take precedence and we would be legally obliged to accept the tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-09a.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-09", "file": "debates1977-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "d21ca5423756d9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-09a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "aps I should have included him among some of the people of whom I am fond, but I am sure the hon. Gentleman knows how fond I am of him. If the hon. Gentleman thinks about the matter a little more deeply, he will realise that the Budget Resolution would take precedence and we would be legally obliged to accept the tax. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".] That is a fact. We would be legally obliged to collect it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-09a.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-09", "file": "debates1977-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "d21ca5423756d9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-09a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "se that the Budget Resolution would take precedence and we would be legally obliged to accept the tax. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".] That is a fact. We would be legally obliged to collect it. [ Interruption. ] It is true that we need not to do so, but do Opposition Members not appreciate the chaos that would ensue? We could be taken to court for not collecting the tax that we were legally obliged to take.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-09a.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-09", "file": "debates1977-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "d21ca5423756d9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-09a.997.1", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "We are now considering this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-09a.997.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-09", "file": "debates1977-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "d21ca5423756d9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-09a.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": " not reached the point of excessive taxation among these upper income groups. I think that there is excessive taxation down the scale, and certainly right at the bottom of the scale taxation is punitive. There has been reference already to the take-home pay in Cornwall and elsewhere. Even people on fixed incomes and pensioners are paying taxation. It is outrageous that people are being soaked dry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-09a.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-09", "file": "debates1977-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "d21ca5423756d9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-09a.1039.1", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "I shall be coming to that in a moment. There is a necessary link between taxation and a pay settlement. The level of a pay settlement is an important item in the Chancellor's decision about the appropriate level of demand and, therefore, of his Budget judgment. If the Government are responsible for managing the economy—and most of us who live in the post-Keynesian age believe that, anyway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-09a.1039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-09", "file": "debates1977-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "d21ca5423756d9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-09a.1039.1", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "ing made. My then leader, my right hon. Friend the Member for Devon, North (Mr. Thorpe), put out an official statement welcoming it on behalf of the Parliamentary Liberal Party. I must say that I do not believe that this conditionality is a constitutional outrage, and I have some reason to believe that my right hon. Friend the Member for Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles does not think so now, either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-09a.1039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-09", "file": "debates1977-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "d21ca5423756d9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-09a.1056.0", "colnum": "1056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": "t with No. 15. The hon. Member for Guildford did not make it clear whether he wanted a Second Reading debate on general economic issues and the pay agreement in particular or to press the amendment to a Division. It is still not clear whether the official Opposition want to divide the Committee on this amendment. If so, I shall have to address my mind to the effect of the amendment on the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-09a.1056.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-10", "file": "debates1977-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "87f2eb6dd63cce5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-10a.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that if one analyses the votes on Merseyside one sees that Opposition Members have nothing to crow about and that in a General Election the results on Merseyside would be precisely as they are now?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-10a.1100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-10", "file": "debates1977-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "87f2eb6dd63cce5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-10a.1103.2", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ed. There are 15 million unemployed in the Western world. No one could give a sensible target of what could be achieved by the end of the year in that respect. Therefore, it would not be possible to relate these general measures to particular countries, either. This matter does not bear any relevance to the rather dodgy supplementary question that the hon. Member for Thanet, East (Mr. Aitken) put.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-10a.1103.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-10", "file": "debates1977-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "87f2eb6dd63cce5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-10a.1163.1", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "ies of more than £10,000 a year. In 1975, the figure was 1,377. On the face of it, the rich in ICI had multiplied twentyfold. The reality is that in 1975 only two people at ICI had take-home pay as large as that which they had received in 1967. Despite the multiplication of inflationary, illusionary salaries, the great mass of these people were worse off. Another myth being propagated by the Left—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-10a.1163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-10", "file": "debates1977-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "87f2eb6dd63cce5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-10a.1182.0", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": "n talk of managers working for the good of the country and say that taxes should be reduced for their benefit. That might be the case, but the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Budgen) was more honest. He said that we were concerned with making rich men and keeping men rich. He implied that talk about worthy managers was to cloak the amendments with a certain amount of respectability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-10a.1182.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-10", "file": "debates1977-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "87f2eb6dd63cce5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-10a.1185.1", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ncerned not with winning the vote but with making a point. That is rather discourteous to the procedures of the House of Commons. Once again, with reflation to the extent of £435 million, it is said that inflation here is a good thing and that there is nothing wrong with it. The Opposition say \"We want this kind of reflation, even though it makes inflation worse and benefits one particular group\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-10a.1185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-10", "file": "debates1977-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "87f2eb6dd63cce5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-10a.1263.2", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "rmally hear from the Labour Benches and which we have heard from the Minister, is that they help only those who pay tax. I do not have any objection to that, although clearly it is not much help to many single-parent families. What the hon. Lady is asking her hon. Friends to vote for is a method of helping single-parent families who are better off than the average, those who are paying enough tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-10a.1263.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-10", "file": "debates1977-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "87f2eb6dd63cce5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-10a.1267.4", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ps today about votes for women they would no doubt be against it\". The Prime Minister was against the child benefit scheme and, therefore, last May that scheme was abandoned and child benefits were then said to be simply a taxable extension of family allowances. Amendments were tabled to last year's Finance Bill at a late stage to change the whole pattern of what was envisaged at an earlier stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-10a.1267.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-10", "file": "debates1977-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "87f2eb6dd63cce5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-10a.1292.1", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "I cannot believe that the right hon. Gentleman, if he ever had the chance of bringing in a scheme that would cost several thousand million pounds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-10a.1292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-11", "file": "debates1977-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "ad90072735db3231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1312.7", "colnum": "1312", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "Good. In that case, in one of his ongoing meetings, will the right hon. Gentleman raise with the chairman the fact that many passengers are rather browned off with diesel engines constantly breaking down, and will he therefore raise the question of equipment or repair of these machines?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1312.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-11", "file": "debates1977-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "ad90072735db3231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1332.2", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I have your guidance on this matter? Hon. Members, when they put serious questions, which they are entitled to ask, as to who is doing the printing, whether these people are members of the trade union, what is their pay, and so on, ought surely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1332.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-11", "file": "debates1977-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "ad90072735db3231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1352.6", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "es for performing miracles. I should like to remind the Minister and the House of what the original purposes of the CAP were. When one looks at them, one finds that they are not at all unacceptable. There is, first, the intention to increase production by means of technical improvements and rationalisation. There is then the aim to provide a decent standard of life for the agricultural population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1352.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-11", "file": "debates1977-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "ad90072735db3231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1352.6", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": " at them, one finds that they are not at all unacceptable. There is, first, the intention to increase production by means of technical improvements and rationalisation. There is then the aim to provide a decent standard of life for the agricultural population. [ Interruption .] There is the aim to create stable markets and the aims to ensure secure supply and to provide goods at reasonable prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1352.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-11", "file": "debates1977-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "ad90072735db3231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1353.5", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "s shows minister X consistently accepting substantial price increases for particular products of special concern to minister Y, 'so long as minister Y similarly concedes substantial rises for the products which most acutely worry minister X'. That is a very good description of horse trading. I think that it is most undesirable because, as I have said, it overlays the statesmanship that we require.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1353.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-11", "file": "debates1977-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "ad90072735db3231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1358.4", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "The introduction of the subsidy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1358.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-11", "file": "debates1977-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "ad90072735db3231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1359.1", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "Yes. What we have said all along is that he should have agreed to a marginal devaluation of the green pound—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-11", "file": "debates1977-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "ad90072735db3231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1397.0", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "w reached the stage—it has been dramatically highlighted over the last few weeks in the comparisons of the by-election results—when the British people, too, are seriously reconsidering their decision in the referendum. When we hear such a speech as that from the right hon. Member for Yeovil, with his wholesale attack on and rejection of the Common Market, while saying that he approved of its aims—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1397.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-11", "file": "debates1977-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "ad90072735db3231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1419.1", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benyon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benyon", "preceding_text": "d for supplying that information, because I missed that reply. In the meantime—this is the important point I wish to make—these jobs will be lost, and this is not an industry which can be recreated quickly. We shall be wide open to competition from abroad. This example highlights the seriousness of the situation. This is not a case of fair competition; this is not how the CAP was meant to operate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-11", "file": "debates1977-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "ad90072735db3231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1420.1", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Corbett", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Corbett", "preceding_text": "e of the enormous problems for many owner-occupiers is servicing the money that they have had to borrow to invest in their land. That is a big strain on them. The House will know that the Labour Party has been discussing, although it is not yet our policy, setting up some kind of land commission so that, instead of imposing capital taxation, the State should become the landlord and not the farmer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1420.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-11", "file": "debates1977-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "ad90072735db3231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1437.1", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Joan Maynard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Rubbish!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Maynard", "preceding_text": " to January 1977. Not only are the basic rates intolerable for the farm workers, their wives and families, but they cannot be good for the industry. It is no wonder that we have an ageing labour force and that the farmers wanted to hang on to the tied cottage system in order to bring labour into the industry. They wanted to hold this labour through the tied cottage system and pay low rates for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-11", "file": "debates1977-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "ad90072735db3231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1437.1", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Joan Maynard", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Maynard", "preceding_text": "try. We need more safety inspectors and more safety inspections. One of the things that our people are demanding is that the tractors that they have to use daily should go through an MOT test in the same way as other vehicles. The long trailers and tractors which they have to drive on busy roads today should have flashing indicators to indicate to other road users what the drivers are about to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-11", "file": "debates1977-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "ad90072735db3231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1445.1", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Farr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Farr", "preceding_text": "ough I accepted the result of the referendum. However, as an agriculturist, I thought that the one feature that would benefit the United Kingdom in the Common Market was the strength of the CAP. I felt that, if it were properly administered, it could assist British agriculture, and hence European agriculture. I believe that the CAP system is a good one, but that it requires considerable amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-11", "file": "debates1977-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "ad90072735db3231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1463.3", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGRICULTURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "preceding_text": "My point was that there are costs and costs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1463.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-11", "file": "debates1977-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "ad90072735db3231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1473.4", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BEEF AND VEAL QUOTAS)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. E. S. Bishop)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. E. S. Bishop)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House takes note of Commission Documents Nos. R/2021/76, R/2614/76 and R/2109/76 on financial matters under the EAGGF and tariff quotas for frozen beef and veal, and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food's explanatory memorandum dated 9th May on Commission Document No. R/2614/76. The House has just had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1473.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-11", "file": "debates1977-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "ad90072735db3231", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1495.1", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BEEF AND VEAL QUOTAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bishop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bishop", "preceding_text": " hon. Members will note it. The hon. Member for Westmorland (Mr. Jopling) and the hon. Member for Devon, West spoke about the number of frauds in each country. The Commission does not report irregularities divided by country. It will be appreciated that many instances arise in trade between countries and it would be invidious to attribute them to the country that discovered them and reported them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-11a.1495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-12", "file": "debates1977-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "da3f2d3f1476f4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1544.5", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why didn't you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have read the newspapers and heard the criticisms that have been made. I considered this proposal when it was put in front of me, and the easiest course would have been to say \"No\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1544.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-12", "file": "debates1977-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "da3f2d3f1476f4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1546.5", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend has made it clear that his remarks were wrenched from their context", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1546.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-12", "file": "debates1977-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "da3f2d3f1476f4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1547.5", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HONMEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman himself has just used the term \"Socialist republic\". I do not have to repudiate it. It depends on the context in which such a phrase is used and the person to whom it is addressed. There is no written text, and we have to rely on my right hon. Friend's memory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1547.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-12", "file": "debates1977-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "da3f2d3f1476f4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1548.0", "colnum": "1548", "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": "There has always been a streak of republicanism in this country, and if my hon. Friend the Member for Bedwellty (Mr. Kinnock) wishes to say that he is a republican he is entitled to do so. But that is not the attitude of Her Majesty's Government, and my hon. Friend is not yet a member of that Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1548.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-12", "file": "debates1977-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "da3f2d3f1476f4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1548.2", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HONMEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I cannot pretend that my researches into this matter have been as detailed as they are into some possible questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1548.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-12", "file": "debates1977-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "da3f2d3f1476f4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1549.7", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — LORD PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "I hope that I have, Mr. Speaker. It is the generally accepted custom of the House that if matters concerning an hon. Member's constituency are referred to, that hon. Member is given the opportunity to comment on them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1549.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-12", "file": "debates1977-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "da3f2d3f1476f4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1613.1", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "Where are the hon. Gentleman's hon. Friends or the hon. Friends of the Financial Secretary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-12", "file": "debates1977-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "da3f2d3f1476f4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1677.1", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": " to obtain half the scale. I should like to remind the Committee what the scale actually is and what that would mean particularly to business motorists. The scale, as it stands in last year's Finance Act, is in itself a very low scale by anyone's understanding of the availability of a car for private use and the amount of private mileage for which it is used. Let me come to New Clause 4, which is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-12", "file": "debates1977-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "da3f2d3f1476f4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1709.1", "colnum": "1709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "o the retail price index? That gain might have nothing to do with the retail price index.\" Indeed, one might make a gain on property shares which had nothing to do with the RPI. The Sandilands Committee did not recommend that its form of indexation should be related to the retail price index. We cannot have one RPI for all the different sorts of asset. I suggest that is a major flaw in the clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1709.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-12", "file": "debates1977-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "da3f2d3f1476f4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1711.3", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "originally the year before last. If the hon. Member for Cornwall, North cares to look at New Clause 2 which I moved on 16th July 1975 he will find that that is the Eons et origo of the clause that we are debating tonight. The clause has been criticised by the right hon. Member for Down, South (Mr. Powell) and the Minister. I shall deal with that in a moment with all the brevity that I can command.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1711.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-12", "file": "debates1977-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "da3f2d3f1476f4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1711.3", "colnum": "1711", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "t year will be £330 million. Last year the estimate was £400 million but the yield was £320 million—a 20 per cent. error. It is surprising that the Government can give no estimate of the cost of the clause. It might not be great. Alternatively, it might be so great that it is horrific and they wish to suppress the amount that they are gaining from inflation. Whatever the reason, we should be told.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1711.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-12", "file": "debates1977-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "da3f2d3f1476f4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1713.1", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " important somehow to tax them. The economists have a term for that. They say that a painting creates psychic income, but there is no taxation of that. Unless the right hon. Member for Down, South, can weave that into his model, I cannot see that there are only three exclusive categories of capital gain. My hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Budgen) also made a contribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-12", "file": "debates1977-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "da3f2d3f1476f4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1726.1", "colnum": "1726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "l say in reply. I shall be interested to hear. I do not propose to delay the Committee too long before we have the opportunity to gain this fascinating intelligence. Ministers may say that it is not a very important problem. It is clear from the general signs and muttering on the Labour Benches that they are building up to asking what we are fussing about, and whether we cannot all go home to bed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-12", "file": "debates1977-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "da3f2d3f1476f4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1728.0", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "preceding_text": "ourse, it is his duty to warn anyone whom he so solicits about his tax commitments and anything else he might be eligible for, and I think that the knowledge that that part of the house which he rents out will then be eligible for capital gains tax is just one more disincentive to people, because people who have retired and who would dearly like the company of young and intelligent undergraduates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1728.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-12", "file": "debates1977-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "da3f2d3f1476f4ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1728.0", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "preceding_text": "s out will then be eligible for capital gains tax is just one more disincentive to people, because people who have retired and who would dearly like the company of young and intelligent undergraduates—[ Laughter ]—also have this astonishing responsibility to their next-of-kin and to the amount of money that they are going to leave, which will be that much less if it is liable to capital gains tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-12a.1728.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-17", "file": "debates1977-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "09e65c59fab1ff6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-17a.230.4", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Inflation is declining and will continue to decline. Since the period of the pay policy—and I take it that, whatever they may think about the future, the Conservatives accept these figures, which I have explained on a number of occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-17a.230.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-17", "file": "debates1977-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "09e65c59fab1ff6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-17a.234.0", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WEST MIDLANDS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which century?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ied, as one who has been a trade unionist all his life, that my right hon. Friend was referring to the attitude of judges to the trade union movement in the past. Let me remind the right hon. Lady, if she is unaware of the history, that after the repeal of the Combination Laws men were sentenced and transported to Australia, and that in the middle of the century there was a judgment by the courts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-17a.234.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-17", "file": "debates1977-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "09e65c59fab1ff6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-17a.235.0", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WEST MIDLANDS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The judges of today were not referred to by my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-17a.235.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-17", "file": "debates1977-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "09e65c59fab1ff6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-17a.236.2", "colnum": "236", "heading": "HYDROGEN BOMBS (UNITED KINGDOM DEVELOPMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too Long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": "ting. Prohibiting tests helps to prevent the invention, development and manufacture of new weaponry, because what is the value of a new weapon that cannot be tested? This is important to every country, but particularly so to Britain, because we are a small thickly-populated territory. We are a sitting duck and could not use this suicide weapon because we should be wiped out in instant retaliation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-17a.236.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-17", "file": "debates1977-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "09e65c59fab1ff6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-17a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (RESTORATION OF WORKS POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Morris", "preceding_text": "sation. The Bill would make the orders permanent. Worse still—as my hon. Friend the Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Mr. Costain) spent some time explaining—it would extend their powers in terms of geographical dimensions. Everyone in the House fully understands the reason behind the Bill, namely, that it is the start of the Labour Party's nationalisation of the building and construction industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-17a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-17", "file": "debates1977-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "09e65c59fab1ff6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-17a.307.0", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (RESTORATION OF WORKS POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Armstrong", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Armstrong", "preceding_text": "h affects only 25 of them. That is what this Bill is about. If the hon. Gentleman would only bother to read it, he would know that it is concerned with new building and 25 authorities. In a Bill which sought to make a fundamental change of this kind we should also want to include provisions to free DLOs from the present excessive restrictions, which create employment problems and impede efficiency", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-17a.307.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-17", "file": "debates1977-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "09e65c59fab1ff6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-17a.392.1", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (RESTORATION OF WORKS POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. H. H. Skeet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. H. H. Skeet", "preceding_text": "so for the very simple reason that the current average price, delivered to Europe, for steam coal for power stations from Poland, the United States, Australia, South Africa and India is $30 to $33 a ton. That compares with an Immingham price for steam coal delivered to Europe of about £30 a ton—in other words, about 1·7 times as high as the price for coal from other countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-17a.392.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-17", "file": "debates1977-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "09e65c59fab1ff6a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-17a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL AUTHORITIES (RESTORATION OF WORKS POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": " should ensure that the people of the coalfields realise the steps that have been taken since then. If they did they would not complain as much as some people have been complaining about the record of the Government in establishing tripartite considerations, in developing compensation for disease and in developing and introducing the earlier retirement which was spurned by the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-17a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-18", "file": "debates1977-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "96a4a25b8b699375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-18a.452.0", "colnum": "452", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURE MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the Opposition give him their whole-hearted support for the robust attitude that he has taken in favour of conservation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-18a.452.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-18", "file": "debates1977-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "96a4a25b8b699375", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-18a.458.4", "colnum": "458", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURE MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Rhys Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Rhys Williams", "preceding_text": "When the Minister atend the June meeting, will he take the oportunity not merely to criticise the CAP, which certainly needs reform—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-18a.458.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-19", "file": "debates1977-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "0ecb3d99616c8ac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-19a.674.4", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Last week.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "As for the Milk Marketing Boards, I very much share my hon. Friend's view—I think it is a view that the whole House shares—of the great value they have been to this country. I believe, incidentally, that they could be of great value also to other countries if they cared to adopt the system, as I told the House a few weeks ago. I cannot remember when it was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-19a.674.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-19", "file": "debates1977-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "0ecb3d99616c8ac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-19a.680.3", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the aims of the CAP remain absolutely acceptable and respectable?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-19a.680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-19", "file": "debates1977-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "0ecb3d99616c8ac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-19a.680.3", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that the aims of the CAP remain absolutely acceptable and respectable? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] The problem is that those aims have been too widely forgotten. The right hon. Gentleman has missed many opportunities of putting matters right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-19a.680.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-19", "file": "debates1977-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "0ecb3d99616c8ac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-19a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I had better explain the matter twice. There is no food structural surplus in this country. The aim of the butter subsidy was to chip away at the butter mountain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-19a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-19", "file": "debates1977-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "0ecb3d99616c8ac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-19a.690.0", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "t a vital element in the success of an incomes policy is firm price control? Will he take every opportunity to expose the double standards of the official Opposition and explain to people that the right hon. Lady the Leader of the Opposition and many of her acolytes on the Opposition Front Bench are against price controls yet they leap to the Dispatch Box, with their eyes blazing with insincerity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-19a.690.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-19", "file": "debates1977-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "0ecb3d99616c8ac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-19a.690.1", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There is no doubt that the best way to restrain increased prices and increasing prices is to keep down the rate of inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-19a.690.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-19", "file": "debates1977-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "0ecb3d99616c8ac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-19a.691.3", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Crocodile tears.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister take time among his official engagements to shed a tear over the demise of the devolution Bill for Scotland and Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-19a.691.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-19", "file": "debates1977-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "0ecb3d99616c8ac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-19a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I cannot give the right hon. Lady that confirmation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-19a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-19", "file": "debates1977-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "0ecb3d99616c8ac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-19a.711.4", "colnum": "711", "heading": "POLICE (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees:", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Superficial.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees:", "preceding_text": " What was not possible for phases 1 and 2 may be possible in phase 3 in this respect. It may be, as I discovered at the Fire Brigades Union conference yesterday, that changing responsibility means changing methods. A former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police said to me that the police would have to decide whether they were more interested in boot allowances or in becoming a professional body.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-19a.711.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-19", "file": "debates1977-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "0ecb3d99616c8ac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-19a.765.1", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Antony Buck", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Antony Buck", "preceding_text": "port eventually came to me while I was Minister, and it is now being implemented—although, perhaps, a little more gradually than either I or the Minister would like. However, we appreciate the financial constraints. I hope that the House will agree that it is appropriate to put on record the gratitude that many of us feel for the work that Peter Kirk did, not only in Europe but for the Royal Navy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-19a.765.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-20", "file": "debates1977-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "c5411db48e661256", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-20a.950.1", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER CHARGES (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marks", "preceding_text": "arly concerned. It can decide the charges for emptying. That can be done while awaiting the White Paper and a major Bill, which I hope hon. Members opposite will support. There has been no precise definition by the Government or in legislation of the charges which local authorities shall make for emptying. The local authority may, if it wishes, make an arrangement on the basis to which I referred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-20a.950.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-23", "file": "debates1977-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "5dce3e4f65718973", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-23a.1000.4", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "I have every sympathy with my hon. Friend on the second part of his Question. I recall a famous occasion at Twickenham in March 1974 when our anthem was not played officially, and I and my right hon. and learned Friend the Lord Chancellor stood up when the anthem was sung unofficially, and from that moment we saw progress being made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-23a.1000.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-23", "file": "debates1977-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "5dce3e4f65718973", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-23a.1013.0", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I do believe that there should be some changes in the way in which this House conducts its procedures. Also, I think there should be some changes in another place, although I would not exactly specify them here and now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-23a.1013.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-23", "file": "debates1977-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "5dce3e4f65718973", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-23a.1016.0", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "BRITISH LEYLAND (NEWSPAPER REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman has a point of order and is not rising to ask me to change my mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-23a.1016.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-23", "file": "debates1977-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "5dce3e4f65718973", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-23a.1095.1", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What sort of Treasury?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "ction of all finance—licensing finance and advertising levy—and perhaps, in the Scottish situation, Treasury grant-in-aid. In a small country such as Scotland there is a case for saying that broadcasting is every bit as much a public service as is the provision of drainage and electricity in remote areas with populations of under 500, and it is perfectly reasonable to expect a Treasury subvention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-23a.1095.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-24", "file": "debates1977-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "9455b07a8b55aaaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-24a.1174.3", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member has enough experience to realise that a communique is not a form of binding commitment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-24a.1174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-24", "file": "debates1977-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "9455b07a8b55aaaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-24a.1184.5", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHIEF OF DEFENCE STAFF", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It has been recognised that we could pay our forces in Northern Ireland a great deal more and they would still earn it. However, the House as a whole has accepted the pay policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-24a.1184.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-24", "file": "debates1977-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "9455b07a8b55aaaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-24a.1184.5", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHIEF OF DEFENCE STAFF", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have had a rise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It has been recognised that we could pay our forces in Northern Ireland a great deal more and they would still earn it. However, the House as a whole has accepted the pay policy—[ Interruption. ] In that case, some hon. Members have not accepted it, but it is Government policy and we cannot go beyond it. There would be repercussions. What about the position of the firemen and the police in Ulster?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-24a.1184.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-24", "file": "debates1977-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "9455b07a8b55aaaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-24a.1185.1", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHIEF OF DEFENCE STAFF", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "itting to consider how the present difficult position of forces serving in Northern Ireland can be alleviated? Is he saying that the Committee will not consider how to end the bitterness that is felt because our forces are severely worse off, financially, as a result of being posted to Northern Ireland? Was not the position of BAOR forces adjusted because of the exchange control problems? Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-24a.1185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-24", "file": "debates1977-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "9455b07a8b55aaaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-24a.1185.2", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CHIEF OF DEFENCE STAFF", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State for Defence has just told me what I was aware of before, namely, that there is a review body—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-24a.1185.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-24", "file": "debates1977-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "9455b07a8b55aaaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-24a.1324.1", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT (YOUNG PERSONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "arts of the right hon. Gentleman's speech was where he repeated his oft-made pleas on behalf of small firms. This Government have a pretty good record regarding encouragement of and support for small firms. The Bolton Committee recommended the appointment of a Minister with special responsibility for small firms, but it was left to this Government to appoint such a Minister. The Budget introduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-24a.1324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-24", "file": "debates1977-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "9455b07a8b55aaaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-24a.1328.1", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT (YOUNG PERSONS)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The Commission's Report \"Young People at Work\" may well be a valuable contribution to the evolution of our policy and the development of special measures, as may also the Report of the Select Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-24a.1328.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-05-24", "file": "debates1977-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "9455b07a8b55aaaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-24a.1339.3", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. E. Garrett", "preceding_text": "Mr. W. E. Garrett rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-24a.1339.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-24", "file": "debates1977-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "9455b07a8b55aaaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-24a.1343.3", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "cé applied for when he or she came in for three months, that person is forced to leave under the new immigration rules. However, if someone comes in as a visitor, particularly on business or on holiday, when he or she can stay for six months, or as a student, when he or she can stay for 12 months or more, he or she can fall in and out of love two or three times and suffer no penalty at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-24a.1343.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-05-24", "file": "debates1977-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "9455b07a8b55aaaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-24a.1346.4", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "He would have done justice to the National Front.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "preceding_text": "I promise to be brief in view of the large number of hon Members who wish to speak in this debate. Before making my three or four substantive points, I should like to make two passing references to the appalling speech made by the Opposition Front-Bench spokesman, the hon. Member for Barkston Ash (Mr. Alison).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-24a.1346.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-24", "file": "debates1977-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "9455b07a8b55aaaf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-24a.1356.3", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "The Asian-culture marriages are often more likely to endure than Western marriages. These provisions are aimed at bogus marriages. In most cases inquiries will not be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-24a.1356.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-25", "file": "debates1977-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "7bf09d3aafb45d93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-25a.1385.5", "colnum": "1385", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman is wasting Question Time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-25a.1385.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-25", "file": "debates1977-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "7bf09d3aafb45d93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-25a.1397.1", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "Is that not a pity, considering that Lossiemouth was the home of a famous Labour Prime Minister, whose daughter, who votes for the Labour Party, still lives there? Is the Minister aware that Lossiemouth fishermen were part of the contingent that visited Brussels, dedicated to the principle that without a 50-mile exclusive limit Lossiemouth would become a ghost town?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-25a.1397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-25", "file": "debates1977-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "7bf09d3aafb45d93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-25a.1397.2", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKenzie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKenzie", "preceding_text": "If my right hon. Friend visited all the places that he is asked to visit these days, he would never be able to come to the House at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-25a.1397.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-25", "file": "debates1977-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "7bf09d3aafb45d93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-25a.1405.0", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "It would be easier for me to answer the first part of the hon. Gentleman's question if the Opposition would say whether they are suggesting that I should have given a higher figure and therefore caused higher public expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-25a.1405.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-25", "file": "debates1977-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "7bf09d3aafb45d93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-25a.1405.2", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "tial tax reliefs to those in work and, on top of that, they will receive pay increases in the coming year. Furthermore, there will be increases in family income supplement for low earners. If my right hon. Friend is concerned about whether my announcement is likely to increase the very small number of people who could be better off receiving benefits than if they were in work, it is most unlikely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-25a.1405.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-25", "file": "debates1977-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "7bf09d3aafb45d93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-25a.1411.1", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for what she said in her first two questions. It is true that the Conservative Government took no action whatever to deal with the problems of the elderly, the sick and the disabled who might have their electricity cut off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-25a.1411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-25", "file": "debates1977-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "7bf09d3aafb45d93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-25a.1418.1", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE (Mr. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "ver, I think that it is high time that the House, and particularly people outside, understood that many Members are fed up to the back teeth with having to listen to taunts being made against trade union sponsored Members of Parliament whilst the rest of that crowd opposite seem to go unchallenged. I hope that when my right hon. Friend made his rather abstract general remarks he was really saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-25a.1418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-25", "file": "debates1977-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "7bf09d3aafb45d93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-25a.1418.1", "colnum": "1418", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE (Mr. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "ing at times, but when one gets on the Treasury Front Bench one has to do a lot of it. I think that you do as well, Mr. Speaker. If my right hon. Friend deals with the matter in the manner that I have described, we shall perhaps change this business which has occurred so often in the past. We shall not in future tolerate one section of Members of Parliament who are carrying out sponsorship duties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-25a.1418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-26", "file": "debates1977-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "5c75b2dbed5ac53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-26a.1535.8", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "Actually, it is rather simple. When one acquires assets by giving gilts in return for them, that does not add to the PSBR. It causes additional problems in financing money supply, but does not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-26a.1535.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-26", "file": "debates1977-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "5c75b2dbed5ac53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-26a.1541.0", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes. The right hon. Lady knows the reasons for this. We have been attempting to live within our means after the profligate extravagance of the Conservative Government. With regard to the future, our assessment is that from now on, if we can maintain a reasonable approach on these matters the standard of life should certainly begin to improve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-26a.1541.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-26", "file": "debates1977-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "5c75b2dbed5ac53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-26a.1544.1", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE (POLICY UNIT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Not at the moment. I do not wish to give cards to any particular group in this matter. We are here dealing with a national interest. There are delicate commercial negotiations going on. I repeat what I said. I do not believe that it is in the best interests of the future of this industry that we should try to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-26a.1544.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-26", "file": "debates1977-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "5c75b2dbed5ac53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-26a.1546.0", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, yes?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not think that any of us should try to silence or stifle the legitimate criticisms of weakness in the EEC structure, some of which are exemplified by some of the hon. Gentleman's hon. Friends. But that does not alter the basic fact that our presidency has certainly been at least as successful as those of our predecessors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-26a.1546.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-26", "file": "debates1977-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "5c75b2dbed5ac53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-26a.1546.4", "colnum": "1546", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Studies that have been done have led to the conclusion that the hon. Member has just given—that there will be a growing world demand for food and a possible world shortage as standards improve. That is why, in the case of our own agriculture—although we have not succeeded as much as we would like—we have proceeded with expansion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-26a.1546.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-26", "file": "debates1977-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "5c75b2dbed5ac53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-26a.1550.1", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "ernment to introduce a Euro-passport until there has been an affirmative decision of the House of Commons to approve it. ] Is he aware that we believe that there should be no final commitment to a European passport until Parliament has so decided? This motion has been supported by some senior Back Benchers on this side of the House and shortly there will be support from the other side of the House", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-26a.1550.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-26", "file": "debates1977-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "5c75b2dbed5ac53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-26a.1637.2", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SPRING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Use your best endeavours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "The Government are deeply concerned about the situation and have had discussions with various people to see how they can assist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-26a.1637.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-05-26", "file": "debates1977-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "5c75b2dbed5ac53a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-26a.1643.3", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "AIRPORT POLICY", "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": "tegy. But how were we to go about achieving this goal? How could we hope to overcome understandably parochial considerations in favour of a clear national need? The starting point for the policy review was the decision in March 1974 to reappraise the Maplin Airport project. In consequence, that project was abandoned in July 1974. No doubt there are some who still regret the cancellation of Maplin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-26a.1643.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-05-27", "file": "debates1977-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "fed864fde7f45c3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-27a.1858.2", "colnum": "1858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DUNFERMLINE COLLEGE OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION FOR WOMEN (CHANGE OF NAME) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-05-27a.1858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-13", "file": "debates1977-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "ab3f6ad189e07da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-13a.13.3", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "Has the right hon. Gentleman consulted the Liberal Party about whether its Members will support such legislation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-13a.13.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-13", "file": "debates1977-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "ab3f6ad189e07da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-13a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "it was formed originally, which displaced the powers of this House and which to an extent could in the end displace the powers of the Government in this regard. In quoting from the Official Report of the Assembly, the hon. Lady showed that the Assembly had discussed this matter and that in due course the Assembly—itself a rival to this House—might be able to bring influence to bear on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-13a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-13", "file": "debates1977-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "ab3f6ad189e07da4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-13a.179.0", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter-Jones", "preceding_text": "the House to have him locked up in the Tower. The Vice-President says: In preparing its communication the Commission has followed three guidelines\", and I shall quote the first two. The first is a greater concentration of the Fund intervention\". The second is the possibility of extending aid to other sectors and widening the scope of the Fund's activities\". Those guidelines are mutually exclusive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-13a.179.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-14", "file": "debates1977-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "dfcb3d479534f848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-14a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I do not think that there will be any sense of resentment in any quarter about the rejection of the right hon. Gentleman's own plan, as we believe that that was a device to do nothing. It would have merely referred the matter back to pre-Kilbrandon days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-14a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-14", "file": "debates1977-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "dfcb3d479534f848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-14a.231.2", "colnum": "231", "heading": "DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": "There are forces in all parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-14a.231.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-14", "file": "debates1977-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "dfcb3d479534f848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-14a.235.3", "colnum": "235", "heading": "DEVOLUTION (SCOTLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gourlay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gourlay", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept that we in Scotland welcome his statement this afternoon reaffirming the Government's commitment to devolution in Scotland and Wales?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-14a.235.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-14", "file": "debates1977-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "dfcb3d479534f848", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-14a.263.2", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "sal to the House which I hope will assist it. but first I want to say one or two things to hon. Members. My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State has met representatives of the Sand and Gravel Association and has had discussions with them. When we resume the discussion on the Bill my hon. Friend will make that clear to the House. That will dispose of some of the suggestions that have been made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-14a.263.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-15", "file": "debates1977-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "6a0f5c46288d4534", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-15a.360.2", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "I find it difficult to agree to meet Mr. Arafat until the PLO has recognised the State of Israel, or has gone rather further than it has done to recognise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-15a.360.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-15", "file": "debates1977-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "6a0f5c46288d4534", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-15a.371.0", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "ve taken such a firm stand on this issue. I am glad that my hon. and learned Friend accepts that the Government's decision to do everything possible to make sure that the Commonwealth came together in London and was able to discuss this has been justified. However, we have no quarrel with the people of Uganda, and it would be a very serious step to attempt to embark on a policy of trade sanctions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-15a.371.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-06-15", "file": "debates1977-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "6a0f5c46288d4534", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-15a.378.5", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Davies", "preceding_text": "es the Foreign Secretary not agree that with the almost daily reports of murder and escalation of atrocities in Rhodesia the rate and momentum of activity seems to us mani-festly inadequate to bring about the solution that is needed in that country. Will the Government now please take account of our repeated advice to them to consult the people of Rhodesia, in whose hands the decision should rest?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-15a.378.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-15", "file": "debates1977-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "6a0f5c46288d4534", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-15a.382.3", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "It is my view that this will give us a better chance of getting the legislation through the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-15a.382.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-15", "file": "debates1977-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "6a0f5c46288d4534", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-15a.383.3", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman talks as if a free vote on this issue is a constitutional innovation. I remind him that when his party was in Government it used a free vote on this issue. I do not know whether it was a genuine free vote or a disguised free vote. I was under the belief that it was a free vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-15a.383.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-15", "file": "debates1977-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "6a0f5c46288d4534", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-15a.489.1", "colnum": "489", "heading": "OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS PROJECTS (GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": ". I hope that there will be a vigorous effort. The hon. Member for Ross and Cromarty has questioned me because he thought that the remarks of Sir George Sharp were prejudiced, but Sir George has been misreported, as they say in these political days. It is not quite like that. The BSC is making an earnest attempt to get into the market for pipelines and modules, which is considerable and expanding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-15a.489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-15", "file": "debates1977-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "6a0f5c46288d4534", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-15a.507.1", "colnum": "507", "heading": "OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS PROJECTS (GRANTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "een falling sadly in the last two years. The EEC is quite prepared to grab our fish. It is trying to grab our oil, and even now it is trying to grab the oil jobs. It is trying to grab the jobs from Ross and Cromarty, and even the hon. Member for Ross and Cromarty, who has been a loyal supporter of Brussels, appears to be coming round to the opinion that Ross and Cromarty must come before Brussels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-15a.507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-16", "file": "debates1977-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "004d5412767e1d56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-16a.546.1", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Clark", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Clark", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the judiciary were taking account of the fact that anyone who has been to Eton has already served the equivalent of five years in prison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-16a.546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-16", "file": "debates1977-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "004d5412767e1d56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-16a.565.1", "colnum": "565", "heading": "COMMONWEALTH HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "The communiqué appears to state that the disbandment of the Rhodesian security forces will be an essential condition in any negotiated settlement. Have I got the point right? If so, does not this amount virtually to a demand for the unconditional surrender of the Smith régime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-16a.565.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-06-16", "file": "debates1977-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "004d5412767e1d56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-16a.575.1", "colnum": "575", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gorst", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I understand that this matter is sub judice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-16a.575.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-16", "file": "debates1977-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "004d5412767e1d56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-16a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES (CONDITIONS OF SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "preceding_text": "r to action in the future. The report is now a year or more out of date, and this has not happened. This Body, which has gone into these matters so carefully, says that the position is not entirely satisfactory. What it comes to is that the Forces are being squeezed into the straitjacket of Government incomes policy, whereas just about everybody else in the country is somehow managing to avoid it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-16a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-16", "file": "debates1977-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "004d5412767e1d56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-16a.671.4", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES (CONDITIONS OF SERVICE)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "I am obliged for the constructive way in which the hon. Member has made his point. I am not taking issue with his recollection: I am sure that it is better than mine. I am looking at the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-16a.671.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-20", "file": "debates1977-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3b3c5a85fd12599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.869.6", "colnum": "869", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Common Market.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware of the great increases in the prices of tea and coffee? How far are these the result of genuinely increased costs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.869.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-20", "file": "debates1977-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3b3c5a85fd12599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has precisely enunciated my philosophy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.873.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-20", "file": "debates1977-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3b3c5a85fd12599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.874.1", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"My Government?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "I welcome the constructive achievements of the EEC, including the particular financial one to which the hon. Member referred. My Government are certainly not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.874.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-20", "file": "debates1977-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3b3c5a85fd12599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.880.1", "colnum": "880", "heading": "GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gorst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gorst", "preceding_text": "May I say to the Home Secretary, as someone who experienced the violence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.880.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-06-20", "file": "debates1977-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3b3c5a85fd12599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.881.0", "colnum": "881", "heading": "GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "the right hon. Member for Chipping Barnett (Mr. Maudling), concerning mass picketing outside a power station in Birmingham, and gave a detailed account of what had happened there, including criticism of the conduct of police officers, I asked the then Home Secretary whether he would use his power to send guidelines to chief constables about conduct in such cases? The right hon. Gentleman replied——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.880.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-20", "file": "debates1977-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3b3c5a85fd12599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.883.1", "colnum": "883", "heading": "GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "May I ask about the law on picketing? Does the Home Secretary agree that it is clearly stated that pickets have a right peacefully to approach those who are trying to get inside the factory to continue working during the dispute? If, by collusion between employers and police—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.883.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-20", "file": "debates1977-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3b3c5a85fd12599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.883.4", "colnum": "883", "heading": "GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is interpreting it, as I said, in an academic way. I have to deal with the situation on the ground and to give guidance. This is an extremely difficult environment, with large numbers involved. It would be much better if smaller numbers of people were there. In this very difficult situation, I think that the word \"collusion\" is wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.883.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-20", "file": "debates1977-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3b3c5a85fd12599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.885.2", "colnum": "885", "heading": "GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are all moderate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I say to my hon. Friend, with his association with trade unionism over the years, that the distinction between moderate and otherwise is not perhaps the right one to draw. The word I use is \"responsible\", and unions of all sorts have understood this over the years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.885.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-20", "file": "debates1977-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3b3c5a85fd12599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Would not my right hon. Friend agree that, if there are 600 policemen who have been mobilised to allow these strike breakers to go to work, it is perfectly understandable that responsible trade unionists from every trade union in the country should show their solidarity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-20", "file": "debates1977-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3b3c5a85fd12599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Would not my right hon. Friend agree that, if there are 600 policemen who have been mobilised to allow these strike breakers to go to work, it is perfectly understandable that responsible trade unionists from every trade union in the country should show their solidarity—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—with those workers who have been working to end poor wages and rotten conditions imposed by a rotten boss—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-20", "file": "debates1977-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3b3c5a85fd12599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.890.0", "colnum": "890", "heading": "GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is a courtesy that we notify each other when we visit other Members' constituencies. It is not always observed. The hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) was in my constituency a week ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.890.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-20", "file": "debates1977-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3b3c5a85fd12599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (ENGLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": "Does the Conservative Party, if it should become the Government, intend to cut down the production of council houses on which most working people do and must depend?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-20", "file": "debates1977-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3b3c5a85fd12599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (ENGLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "The White Paper Cmnd. 6393 commits the Government to increase to 50 per cent. rents as a proportion of total housing revenue by the end of this decade—in three years. By making that important judgment the Government are moving in the right direction, and as a bipartisan approach—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-20", "file": "debates1977-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3b3c5a85fd12599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.907.0", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (ENGLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ges from a Labour Government who had promised young couples that this sort of provision would be increased. The Government have been forced to introduce tough controls of local authority building programmes, and all over the country a large majority of local authorities, Labour and Conservative, are being forced by the constraints of the Government to reduce the levels of local authority building.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.907.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-20", "file": "debates1977-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3b3c5a85fd12599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.912.1", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (ENGLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "o tenants is the single most dramatic method by which to extend home ownership in the short term. Such a policy would also have the effect on the part of those who become home owners to commit an increasing proportion of their income to improving and repairing those homes since they will have a direct personal involvement in them. It also means that local authorities and communities make a profit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-20", "file": "debates1977-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3b3c5a85fd12599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.914.0", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (ENGLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ther one likes it or not, there are many empty properties, and while the present paraphernalia of the law remains as it is those houses will remain empty. The objective of those politicians who have a detached view of the matter must be to find solutions to the grave problems that must be overcome and to help that large number of people who do not live in the sort of housing for which we all wish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.914.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-20", "file": "debates1977-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3b3c5a85fd12599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.926.0", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (ENGLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Friday night.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "ave been held up pending the review. Where I thought that progress could be made in advance of publication, I have made separate announcements—for example, in respect of the new housing investment programmes of local authorities. But I am now pleased to tell the House that the review will definitely be published next week. I hesitate about the particular day next week on which we shall release it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.926.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-20", "file": "debates1977-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3b3c5a85fd12599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.945.3", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (ENGLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas-Mann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas-Mann", "preceding_text": "w and the tax relief which is available against mortgage interest but not against rent. In commercial property, tax relief is available also against rent. The hon. Gentleman's other panacea was the sale of council houses, and here I come back to the article in Roof to which I referred in an intervention, the article by Mr. Bernard Kilroy. It was a well-argued article, soundly based upon the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.945.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-20", "file": "debates1977-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3b3c5a85fd12599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.1013.0", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (ENGLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way. I have very little time and the hon. Gentleman has not been in the Chamber very long. I want to deal with points put to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.1013.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-20", "file": "debates1977-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3b3c5a85fd12599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.1013.2", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (ENGLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "1 will not give way. I wish to deal with as many of the individual points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.1013.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-20", "file": "debates1977-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "c3b3c5a85fd12599", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING (ENGLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": " 1974 when they had the opportunity to do so? I invite the hon. Member for Hornsey to tell us the reason on some other occasion. He did not vote against the 1974 Rent Act but he has spent the last three years attacking it. Yet he has not told us why he has turned his back on the Rent Act when his own party supported it when they were in office and refused to vote against it when it was introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-20a.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1076.2", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Where are the Liberals?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend read the report that appeared in The Guardian a few days ago which indicates, from a supposedly reliable Liberal source, that this measure will be shelved?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1076.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1079.2", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "I very much regret that the hon. Gentleman and some of his hon. Friends constantly repeat this sort of thing and create stress, disturbance and alarm among disabled people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1079.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1085.0", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eunals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eunals", "preceding_text": "I have done precisely that on television on a number of occasions. The difficulty is that it seems that Conservative Members are absolutely determined to mislead disabled people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1085.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1090.3", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"If.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows as well as I do that if we can hold the position on incomes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1090.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1095.2", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BANKS AND INSURANCE COMPANIES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend is boasting of his indiscretions, who am I to deny him that pleasure? Certainly there is a lot that needs to be reviewed in the matter of banks and insurance companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1095.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1098.3", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "INWARD INVESTMENT BOARD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "bjects to their making profits and building up their operations and providing new jobs for this country and is deeply paranoid about multinational companies. I am not suggesting that everything is perfect, but the objective of the hon. Member for Nelson and Colne is to bring in a totally different system under which all investment would be directed by himself and his friends for political reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1098.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1162.0", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Rathbone", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What summer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Rathbone", "preceding_text": "future.\" The amendment, in a most reasonable way, suggests that the Government should come back to the House and answer questions about the Price Commission's existence at some future date. The situation may have changed at some future date. Life is not static; it is evolving. We ought to know that on this day of all days, at the height of the summer, as the sun starts going down from this day on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1181.0", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Viggers", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is our money.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Viggers", "preceding_text": "mmission as a way of rectifying a problem\"—namely, inflation and high prices. It is easy for them to accept that but so difficult for them to stand fast against creating such an authority. Yet every time a new authority is created it costs money, and every time jobs are created money is spent and it becomes increasingly difficult for those jobs to be taken away again and for the money to be saved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1181.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1183.1", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That would have been out of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "to that power and opposed to the institution that will exercise that power. The difference between us is that we believe that there should be a permanent price policy and a permanent sharpening of competition policy. The Opposition do not want a permanent price policy. During the four-hour debate they have given no detailed exposition of any Conservative price policy. There has been none whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1291.3", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": " lower there. Only the other day I was in a factory where television tubes are made, and I was told that expansion might take place in Taiwan instead of in this country. It does not matter to the multinational company. Wherever the profit is the greatest, there it will go. Whenever I talk to trade unionists from the developing world, I tell them that the multinational company gives them no safety.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1291.3", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "sion might take place in Taiwan instead of in this country. It does not matter to the multinational company. Wherever the profit is the greatest, there it will go. Whenever I talk to trade unionists from the developing world, I tell them that the multinational company gives them no safety. [ Interruption. ] Let the Opposition be educated. They are being taken out of their City offices for a while.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1302.1", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "tted any more and we wonder to what extent the right hon. Gentleman has a commitment when we look at his friends. Is this compatible with the free move ment of capital throughout Europe? I hope that the Secretary of State will tell us about this. I do not mind if he comes to the Dispatch Box and says \"There is a narrow technicality on which we can reckon that this just gets by the Treaty of Rome.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1302.1", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "n we look at his friends. Is this compatible with the free move ment of capital throughout Europe? I hope that the Secretary of State will tell us about this. I do not mind if he comes to the Dispatch Box and says \"There is a narrow technicality on which we can reckon that this just gets by the Treaty of Rome.\" [ Interruption. ] The intellectual wing is at it again. It is bursting with ebullience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1313.0", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Price", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Price", "preceding_text": "e power of competition. I am not so simple, nor are any of my hon. Friends, as to believe that competition happens naturally. Rules must be provided both administratively and, preferably, legally to ensure that the competition is maintained. Earlier, the hon. Member for Bristol, North-West read us lectures on economics. If he would study the works of Adam Smith, the position would be clear to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1313.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1316.3", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes James", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes James", "preceding_text": " but he warmly endorsed these appointments which are paid for by the taxpayer. The Bill is riddled with errors, fallacies and weaknesses. In marked contrast, the hon. Member for Colne Valley has introduced an amendment which finishes with the magical words or for any other reason\". How is that part of the Bill to be interpreted, how is the Bill as a whole to be interpreted and how, indeed, is the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1316.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1316.3", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes James", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes James", "preceding_text": "make sense of the Bill. Again and again, sensible and fair amendments moved by the Opposition were rejected—and rejected without argument, just as has happened in the House tonight. We spent hour after hour putting arguments to Ministers, and they did not bother to reply. The Government's handling of the Bill has been a persistent and insistent insult to the intelligence and capacity of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1316.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1318.0", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Speak to the Chair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "not regard profiteering as the worst abuse of a monopoly position. That was very interesting because that is a concept that we were trying to inject into the Bill with our first amendment. We feel that the sooner the powers in the Bill which deal with monopoly abuse are vested in institutions such as the Office of Fair Trading and the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, the sooner they can operate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1318.0", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "w into a monopoly situation. That would have had a great deal more value than the amendment. The amendment does no harm, but we should have liked to see it going a great deal further than it does. It is notable, too, that the Minister of State, who so often speaks about Price Commission reports—he mentioned the report on spectacles, I think, and the report on television rental sets is a favourite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1318.0", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "ter of State, who so often speaks about Price Commission reports—he mentioned the report on spectacles, I think, and the report on television rental sets is a favourite—[ Interruption. ] The supranational conglomerate from the Government Benches has left the Chamber for a few moments, otherwise my new business partner would have shown himself. Unfortunately, I shall have to wait for that pleasure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1326.0", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": " amendment things would have been different. We did not accept that amendment and we have been detained here during the night—and it may be that we shall be detained here for a very long time. The Opposition will accept, as will my hon. Friends that it is necessary to make progress on the Bill, because if it has not completed all stages by 1st August there will be no prices policy in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1331.2", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. If Labour Members will relax for a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1331.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1332.2", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "yet another reason that he House should adjourn now. As my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Bedfordshire (Mr. Hastings) said, there is the matter of tomorrow's business. We have not quite reached the stage where we shall lose tomorrow's business but we have an interesting motion before us. We are due to have a most important statement from the Secretary of State for Trade during tomorrow's business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1332.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1334.5", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about BALPA?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "That is a great pity as I am sure that it would have been an interesting question. I could not make out whether it was the House or the unfortunate people flying backwards and forwards across the Atlantic who were in limbo. We are still faced with the problem of wanting to know the Government's intention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1334.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1338.0", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hastings", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I should like your advice on a matter of procedure which might help some of the important points that my hon. Friend has been arguing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1338.4", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I was having a great deal of difficulty in making myself heard. I cannot imagine what has come over the House, but every now and again there seems to be a little problem with the acoustics. As I was saying, the problem of diurnal rhythms is serious. I think that it would be generally agreed that there is considerable hazard to health—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1338.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1339.3", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I should like to ask a question of you about your conduct of these debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1339.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1340.12", "colnum": "1340", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bain", "preceding_text": "ies can continue in operation after a price freeze. We are concerened particularly with the liquidity problems of small companies that provide considerable employment in development areas such as Scotland. In the safeguards, the Government recognise that during investigation, the safeguards must relate not only to the product itself, but, even if indirectly, to the circumstances of the enterprise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1340.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1345.3", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "e I am not surprised, against that background, that no Government supporter is prepared to take my money on there being 1½ million unemployed by August. If no hon. Gentleman is prepared to take evens, I am prepared to offer them 2 to 1. I notice that there are no takers. There is a direct link between the level of unemployment and the price controls in the Bill that we are asked to endorse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1345.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1345.5", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "ike to quote the experience of an agricultural feedstuffs manufacturer in or near my constituency. The firm's raw material index went up 26 per cent. between May and December last year. About 85 per cent. of the cost of animal feedstuffs is represented by the imported raw material which is handled. Most of that raw material went up by £19 a ton in the five months between May and October last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1345.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1353.2", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Sainsbury", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "ctor and substantial shareholder of—dare I say?—a well-known multiple food retailer and I have a number of other interests as director and shareholder of companies which can be affected by the Bill. Those interests are substantially the same as those which are listed in the register of Members' interests; it has not been up-dated for a long time but there is no substantial difference, as I recall.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1353.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1355.4", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "ter we should get an adequate reply about the meaning of the word \"adequate\". 11 the Minister wishes to answer that point I shall be only too happy to give way. But I think that he feels that silence is the better option on this occasion. The Minister has lamentably failed to understand the fundamental aspect of investment and job creation. I do not expect that lot below the Gangway to understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1355.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1370.0", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The CAP?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether Mr. Deputy Speaker would suggest that I should follow that particular point very far, but it is relevant to the general argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1415.0", "colnum": "1415", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "otiate—the CBI, the FDIC and the Retail Consortium—and we merely allowed them to rewrite it for us. I would not claim for a moment that the three industrial and commercial institutions with whom we negotiate are wholly in agreement with every detail in the Bill. But the initial information was something that they helped to construct and about which they are wholly satisfied. The other reassurance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1415.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1428.5", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That further consideration of the Bill be now adjourned. This is the second time during these proceedings when the Opposition have attempted to terminate them. We have now sat for 18 hours and debated 12 amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1428.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1428.5", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Sally Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "at further consideration of the Bill be now adjourned. This is the second time during these proceedings when the Opposition have attempted to terminate them. We have now sat for 18 hours and debated 12 amendments. [ Interruption. ] That is about one and a half hours for each amendment, including voting time. I should be interested to know whether the Secretary of State thinks that is an unusually—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1428.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1429.2", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I should like to make clear the fundamental point that I tried to make clear earlier in answer to the question about what progress we mean to make. The progress that we mean to make is clear. On 1st August, if the Bill has not passed through all its stages, there will be no price control in this country. We intend that there should be price control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1429.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1429.2", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "the Bill leaving the House of Commons in time for it to go to the House of Lords and, if their Lordships so choose, for it to be returned here in order that we can have price control after 1st August, clearly many of my right hon. and hon. Friends, and me among them, will be delighted to go to bed. As things are, our duty to the policy that we support requires that we must go on—and go on we will.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1429.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1430.2", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "I rise to support the motion moved by my hon. Friend the Member for Gloucester (Mrs. Oppenheim).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1430.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1430.2", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have not been here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "nment are serious about their concern for the high level of unemployment they should be more understanding and give more sympathetic consideration to the reasonable amendments that are being moved by all parties on this side of the House. As my hon. Friend pointed out so well when she moved the first motion for the House to adjourn, we have not endeavoured to delay the passing of this legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1430.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1431.1", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Go to bed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "Bearing in mind the sedentary intervention by the hon. Member for Rochdale (Mr. Smith), I am even more tempted to ask my hon. Friend to draw the attention of the House to some of the ridiculous drafting that we are passing because the Government refuse to accept any of the reasonable amendments that we are putting forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1431.1", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "(Mr. Smith), I am even more tempted to ask my hon. Friend to draw the attention of the House to some of the ridiculous drafting that we are passing because the Government refuse to accept any of the reasonable amendments that we are putting forward. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Go to bed.\"] I have not been to bed tonight. I would sit up all night and every night to drive this pathetic Government out of office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1432.1", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "he fact that it is ill-drafted. That is not to the advantage of the House or to those who are seeking employment. If the legislation reaches the statute book in its present state, I am convinced that it will increase unemployment. My hon. Friend the Member for Hove (Mr. Sainsbury) made an outstanding speech. His understanding of the food-processing and distributive trade is unmatched in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1434.4", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "believe that it would be right for them to be given a short period for reconsideration of some of the views that have been expressed by Opposition Members. In advance of that proposition, I was quoting from the very Bill that we are considering. It will be a very short quotation. It reads as follows: if the report relates to an increase, a recommendation by the Commission as to whether the price\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1434.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1435.1", "colnum": "1435", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "Government state—falsely, I believe—that they are seeking to reduce unemployment and to improve people's standard of living. I believe that this legislation is very damaging, both to people's chances of employment and to the prosperity of commerce and industry in Britain. For that reason I believe that it is wrong for the House, with hon. Members exhausted or very tired after an all-night sitting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1437.1", "colnum": "1437", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ull hour about nothing. They are the same Opposition who say that they are concerned about prices in this country. It is clear, and it becomes clearer as the debate continues, that the Conservative Opposition do not wish to see any mechanism in this country for the control of prices. That is clear, and I hope that Labour MPs and certainly Members of my party will make this clear in their speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1442.3", "colnum": "1442", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. It is not open to us to question the Chair, and I shall not do so, but I hope that you will understand the surprise I felt in view of the short period of time which was allowed to debate the motion to consider adjourning the debate. I repeat that I am not challenging your ruling in any way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1442.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1491.6", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Question put, That the amendment be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1491.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1496.1", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "tes is Dr. Witteveen, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. I wonder whether he will consider that the amendment as drafted by my hon. Friend is sufficient. He is very assiduous in studying the misdemeanours of this Government, and very much more assiduous in studying the virtues of my hon. Friend. I wonder whether he will think that the amendment goes anything like far enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1511.0", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "I intervene, although I have not yet taken part in this great debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1526.1", "colnum": "1526", "heading": "Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is obviously far cleverer than I am, because I am in considerable difficulty and I really believe that if anyone who listens to all the gobbledegook contained in the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1582.1", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": ", containing safeguard levels that will, in many cases, lead to unreasonable and low profits. We have not been dogmatic in our approach. We did not vote against Second Reading and we participated in a constructive Committee stage, which finished ahead of time. We have been patient and responsible during the debates of the last 24 hours. Here I should like to pay further tribute to my hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-21", "file": "debates1977-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "c9b3d44012479015", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1589.5", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Prices and Consumer Protection (Mr. John Fraser)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Black your face.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Prices and Consumer Protection (Mr. John Fraser)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. As Al Jolson once said, \"You ain't seen nothing yet.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-21a.1589.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-23", "file": "debates1977-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc71176e119e2c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1724.0", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "preceding_text": "ing in Belfast, my hon. Friend must know that the Housing Executive, the Department and the Administration are more aware than anyone. My hon. Friend might be aware that, in order to heighten the public awareness of these problems, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State came with me to the worst areas of Belfast earlier this week. I assure my hon. Friend that we shall leave no stone unturned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1724.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-23", "file": "debates1977-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc71176e119e2c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1735.1", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I shall not visit the picket line at Grunwick. I understand, and I am very glad to hear, that the General Secretary of APEX has now decided—I think that I made the suggestion to him first—that he should identify pickets by arm bands or in some other way so that those who latch on to this in order to turn an industrial dispute into a political battle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-23", "file": "debates1977-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc71176e119e2c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1735.1", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Identify the police.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " has now decided—I think that I made the suggestion to him first—that he should identify pickets by arm bands or in some other way so that those who latch on to this in order to turn an industrial dispute into a political battle—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—that applies to the National Association for Freedom as well as to the International Socialists—can be kept clear of this industrial dispute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-23", "file": "debates1977-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc71176e119e2c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1735.1", "colnum": "1735", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not plainclothes men.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "o wish to demonstrate in support of the workers who have been dismissed at this factory should be separately organised into a demonstration and clearly distinguished from the pickets. That would make the job of the police very much easier in trying to sort out this dispute. As regards the interjection about identifying the police, every police officer carries a number as a means of identification.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-23", "file": "debates1977-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc71176e119e2c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1736.2", "colnum": "1736", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I notice that the right hon. Lady issued a statement to the Press last night, although it was totally unnecessary to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1736.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-23", "file": "debates1977-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc71176e119e2c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1736.2", "colnum": "1736", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Now answer the question\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "to the right hon. Lady, because she may have overlooked the fact that her deputy leader asked a question about this on Monday and was given a clear reply about the support which was being given by the Home Secretary and by the Government to police officers. I am glad to know, from the statement that the right hon. Lady issued, her indication of support for the Government's attitude in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1736.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-23", "file": "debates1977-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc71176e119e2c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1737.2", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course without bottles. Why does the hon. Gentleman make such obvious remarks? Does he think that it is necessary for me to stand here and defend the police from being hit over the head with bottles?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1737.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-23", "file": "debates1977-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc71176e119e2c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1739.2", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Before I call the Private Notice question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1739.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-06-23", "file": "debates1977-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc71176e119e2c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1740.0", "colnum": "1740", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Are you aware, Mr. Speaker, that the question that I asked the Leader of the Opposition was whether she supported the management of Grunwick in dismissing workers who join a trade union? That has nothing to do with recognition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1739.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-06-23", "file": "debates1977-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc71176e119e2c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1743.3", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "lso aware that the fundamental question at stake in this case involves sympathetic action? Does he think it right in a democratic society that citizens of this country, by reason of the fact that they become part of the Post Office, or indeed of any other industrial or commercial or civil concern, should have to surrender their rights to undertake sympathetic action in support of their fellow men?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1743.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-23", "file": "debates1977-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc71176e119e2c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1765.4", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Latham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Latham", "preceding_text": "he events at Grunwick and who, with many others in London, have made comments about things they have seen at first hand. Whether it be right or wrong—which it would be improper for me to comment on in making such an application—it seems to be the fact that the policy of arrest and the use of force is not being exercised as a local discretion but is part of a deliberate policy ordered from the top.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1765.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-23", "file": "debates1977-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc71176e119e2c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1765.4", "colnum": "1765", "heading": "GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Latham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Latham", "preceding_text": "t or wrong—which it would be improper for me to comment on in making such an application—it seems to be the fact that the policy of arrest and the use of force is not being exercised as a local discretion but is part of a deliberate policy ordered from the top. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]. I do not understand the protests. It is accepted that the police may in certain circumstances determine that it is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1765.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-23", "file": "debates1977-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc71176e119e2c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1767.1", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "preceding_text": "in which it is being said, rightly or wrongly, that actions are being taken in some respects to enforce the law, in other respects partially and in other respects not at all. What I am seeking to establish with the Chair is that the public consequences are considerable. There are at stake several matters of public concern, not least the standing of the police and the regard for their impartiality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1767.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-23", "file": "debates1977-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc71176e119e2c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1768.3", "colnum": "1768", "heading": "GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "s he will, in accordance with his answer today, decide that the balance tips against enforcing the law. I put it to you Mr. Speaker, that under the terms of the Standing Order this is a matter of the highest importance, because it means that the principal Law Officer of the Crown is saying that if there is to be an unpleasant row he will not enforce the law, but that if he finds that the reaction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1768.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-23", "file": "debates1977-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc71176e119e2c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1776.2", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHERIES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMEERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept that the statement by Mr. Rippon was extremely clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1776.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-23", "file": "debates1977-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc71176e119e2c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1788.6", "colnum": "1788", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHERIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "egotiation package, but there were certain other factors. I have never dissembled from the House my personal view. I am being asked what I personally thought about that whole renegotiation. All that I can say is that it does not lie in the mouths of the right hon. Member for Yeovil and his colleagues or cohorts to criticise that. They were only too glad to see that the renegotiation was a success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1788.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-23", "file": "debates1977-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc71176e119e2c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1857.1", "colnum": "1857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHERIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": " of proceedings of the European Parliament, unlike our Hansard, sometimes at the end of a speech, as in this case, the word \"Applause\" appears. What astonishes me, particularly in view of what the hon. Lady said, is what she said on that occasion. I have a copy of her speech, which followed immediately after that of my right hon. and learned Friend, and I see that the hon. Lady said: \"May I echo\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1857.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-23", "file": "debates1977-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc71176e119e2c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1857.4", "colnum": "1857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHERIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "e the full text here, and any hon. Member may see it and judge whether my interpretation is correct or wheher the hon. Lady's interpretation is correct. On this issue, as on so many others, the Scottish National Party speaks with different voices in different places, depending on the audience. The hon. Lady is a great European over in Brussels but takes a different view when she comes to Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1857.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-23", "file": "debates1977-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "fc71176e119e2c1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1857.4", "colnum": "1857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHERIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "it in mind, is that Britain has hardly anything to gain from common access. As shown from figures published in the White Fish Authority's report, the 200-mile limit was imposed by the EEC. However, Britain catches less than 1 per cent. of all her fish in waters of other member States. While the other member States have a great deal to gain from common access, Britain has virtually nothing to gain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-23a.1857.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-24", "file": "debates1977-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "0f5649e21742c775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-24a.1993.6", "colnum": "1993", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "en affected by the late nights that we have had this week. I was saying that I regard the Bill as affecting world energy resources as well as Scottish energy resources. The hon. Member would have found, if he had given me time to complete my remarks, that I place the same amount of emphasis on the United Kingdom aspect as he seemed to place, for what I suspect were purely narrow political reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-24a.1993.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-27", "file": "debates1977-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "f3ea7baf27fa636d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-27a.31.1", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "eme and the accelerated investment scheme and also broadly by maintaining the level of investment in public industries. But in this case, concerning telecommunications equipment, the decision was governed by the over-capacity which the Post Office already had and was not prepared to see increased, apart from the £3 million of advance orders, and the technological changes going on in that industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-27a.31.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-27", "file": "debates1977-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "f3ea7baf27fa636d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-27a.44.3", "colnum": "44", "heading": "TEACHER TRAINING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This seems a good moment for me to intervene. There are now six Members waiting to be called. It is impossible to call everyone who wants to get in to ask a question. There is another very long statement to come. I shall call one Member from one side, and three from the other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-27a.44.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-27", "file": "debates1977-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "f3ea7baf27fa636d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-27a.52.0", "colnum": "52", "heading": "TRANSPORT (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Fowler", "preceding_text": "etary of State aware that his statement is as significant for what it omits as for what it contains? Clearly all the transport promises in the last Labour Party manifesto have been omitted, including the promises to nationalise the ports, to extend the nationalisation of road haulage, to make this a nation that is less dependent on the car and to secure a massive shift from road to rail and water.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-27a.52.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-27", "file": "debates1977-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "f3ea7baf27fa636d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-27a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "INDUSTRY (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Grylls", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"I wonder why.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Grylls", "preceding_text": "stances they are helping industries to contract. That may be right or wrong. That is not the point of what I am saying. To produce such schemes simply as a conjuring trick, or, indeed, as a confidence trick, is totally irrelevant to the country's industrial problems. Such schemes have nothing to do with job creation. I am very critical of the schemes, with the exception of the wool textile scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-27a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-28", "file": "debates1977-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "58ca8d0b31cd02ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-28a.239.0", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I ask the Under-secretary of State to ignore the part of the hon. Gentleman's supplementary question relating to the St. Marylebone Grammar School. I ruled earlier—maybe the hon. Gentleman was not present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-28a.239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-28", "file": "debates1977-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "58ca8d0b31cd02ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-28a.242.2", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I could not quite detect a particular question among those assertions. However, I repeat that I believe that it is strongly necessary, in the interests of proper constitutional government in this country, that collective Cabinet responsibility should be sustained. It is a most important principle. I also believe that there are occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-28a.242.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-28", "file": "debates1977-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "58ca8d0b31cd02ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-28a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "HOUSING (ENGLAND AND WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "e Minister for Housing and Construction in developing alternative forms of tenure or of ownership, half-and-half equity sharing, and co-operative housing in this country. We shall continue with these efforts. As quickly as I can, I shall try to make it possible for local authorities to end at the same interest rate as that charged by building societies. I am advised that this requires legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-28a.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-28", "file": "debates1977-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "58ca8d0b31cd02ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-28a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "iderable uncertainty. I have a great deal of sympathy with those who have experienced it. In asking Dr. Walter Marshall to return full-time as Deputy Chairman of the Atomic Energy Authority—he is a man with immense experience of nuclear policy and of other matters with his capacity for scientific management— I felt that I should indicate the rôle which he could play in restoring confidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-28a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-28", "file": "debates1977-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "58ca8d0b31cd02ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-28a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "s a man with immense experience of nuclear policy and of other matters with his capacity for scientific management— I felt that I should indicate the rôle which he could play in restoring confidence—[ Interruption. ] I shall come to other arguments about my desire for a full-time scientific adviser, but I used the same language when I spoke to Dr. Marshall as I have used in the House today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-28a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-28", "file": "debates1977-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "58ca8d0b31cd02ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-28a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hannam", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"With hindsight.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hannam", "preceding_text": "our construction industry. But in the mistaken belief that we could achieve this export potential we went ahead with the SGHWR design. We could have had a winner in 1974 and could have been well under way had we chosen the right model —I spoke against the choice of the SGHWR—but we have wasted two or three years. Since then we have run down the construction industry almost to a point of no return.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-28a.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-28", "file": "debates1977-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "58ca8d0b31cd02ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-28a.388.8", "colnum": "388", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (NORTHAMPTONSHIRE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Jones", "preceding_text": "Mr. S. G. Hill, administrator for the Northampton district. He says: A crowded clinic involving long delays, inadequate and unsuitable accommodation, overworked staff and the consequent increased risk of error, all derived from insufficient resources of buildings, staff and money to run the services on a decent and acceptable level. That is a tremendous reflection on the service which is provided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-28a.388.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-29", "file": "debates1977-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "a41808398fdbb5c6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-29a.485.1", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIETY OF LITHOGRAPHIC ARTISTS, ENGRAVERS, DESIGNERS AND PROCESS WORKERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moonman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moonman", "preceding_text": "out the shortage of time. One evening newspaper has indicated the enormous amount of work being done by young boys and girls who have come straight from school and are engaged without completing any apprenticeship at all. What hon. Members should ask themselves here, rather than sounding off with words such as \"blacking\", which may be good emotional stuff in the preparation of an election address—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-29a.485.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-30", "file": "debates1977-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "a45d68f61b19533d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.535.10", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "—and that therefore the Common Market propaganda machine, which includes most of the British Press, has to go into action to try to justify the Common Market, nevertheless will the Minister tell Mr. Roy Jenkins, when he next comes to London to make speeches such as the one he made on 10th May of this year, that he should not try to fool the British public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.535.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-30", "file": "debates1977-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "a45d68f61b19533d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.535.10", "colnum": "535", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": " propaganda machine, which includes most of the British Press, has to go into action to try to justify the Common Market, nevertheless will the Minister tell Mr. Roy Jenkins, when he next comes to London to make speeches such as the one he made on 10th May of this year, that he should not try to fool the British public—[ Interruption. ]— with selected figures trying to show that the Common Market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.535.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-30", "file": "debates1977-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "a45d68f61b19533d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.538.5", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The six months of the British Presidency have been marked by a very efficient conduct of business and by progress in a number of areas, at least one or two of which I hope to be able to report at 3.30 today —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.538.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-30", "file": "debates1977-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "a45d68f61b19533d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.539.3", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am sure that in the Industrial Relations Act 1971 there must have been something good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.539.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-30", "file": "debates1977-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "a45d68f61b19533d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.539.3", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And not to belong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n something good. [ Interruption. ] It was a bad Act and the Opposition know that it was a bad Act. That is why it was repealed. I can see that we can anticipate a very interesting debate later today, and I do not propose to go too far into it now. I hope that the Leader of the Opposition, in the question that she is putting, is affirming the right of ordinary employees to belong to a trade union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.539.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-30", "file": "debates1977-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "a45d68f61b19533d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL MEETING", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " a further month in hope that we can push the project through. But this is one of the areas where the Nine have to agree. I was asked about economic recovery. I agree that much momentum seems to have been dissipated. The countries which should be maintaining a high rate of growth have not deliberately slowed down. The reason for the loss of momentum is probably not within their full comprehension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.545.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-06-30", "file": "debates1977-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "a45d68f61b19533d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.549.0", "colnum": "549", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL MEETING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hon. Members : No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "are that the comparative failure of this conference has in no way been relieved by the dangerous and explosive statement about the Middle East? Is the right hon. Gentleman further aware that many people believe that what has been said is way outside Resolution No. 242 and that it sets up new stresses which could be a great danger and which could lead to a heightening of tension in the Middle East?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.548.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-30", "file": "debates1977-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "a45d68f61b19533d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.559.0", "colnum": "559", "heading": "GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "e is to be maintained, it is essential that picketing outside Grunwick be reduced to no more than the level of a few weeks ago, and that it should remain at that level during the whole of the court of inquiry? Secondly, may I take it from what the Secretary of State said that the Post Office workers will lift their ban? Does he accept that that is an essential prerequisite to the court of inquiry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.559.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-30", "file": "debates1977-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "a45d68f61b19533d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.564.0", "colnum": "564", "heading": "GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is on his own.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend ask the Leader of the Opposition to request the hon. Member for Hendon, North (Mr. Gorst) and those who are very vociferous with him on this issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.564.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-30", "file": "debates1977-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "a45d68f61b19533d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.564.0", "colnum": "564", "heading": "GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do not want to. Do they have the right not to?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend ask the Leader of the Opposition to request the hon. Member for Hendon, North (Mr. Gorst) and those who are very vociferous with him on this issue—[HON. MEMBERS: \"He is on his own.\"]—to help to settle this dispute even now, without an inquiry or anything else, by simply accepting that the workers at Grunwick have the right to join a trade union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.564.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-30", "file": "debates1977-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "a45d68f61b19533d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.565.0", "colnum": "565", "heading": "GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or intimidation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "As I understand the law on picketing, provided there is no violence, provided there is no threat to the peace—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-30", "file": "debates1977-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "a45d68f61b19533d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.570.3", "colnum": "570", "heading": "GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Hendon, North (Mr. Gorst), if he catches your eye, Mr. Speaker, will be able to give chapter and verse for that. I have been through it but I do not want to detain the House upon that point. I make the bald statement that the dispute at Grunwick is not about employees being dismissed on the grounds of their joining unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.570.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-30", "file": "debates1977-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "a45d68f61b19533d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "When this matter was raised on 2nd November the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) objected to it being raised at all. So afraid are his colleagues of trade union bullying that when he gets up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-30", "file": "debates1977-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "a45d68f61b19533d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.574.1", "colnum": "574", "heading": "GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "ent. There is no other way in which the subject can be protected. The prime responsibility for ensuring that there is no discrimination falls upon the Secretary of State for Industry by virtue of Section 11(9) of the Post Office Act 1969. The words used are not entirely apt for the particular dispute, but his is the supervising responsibility. I ask what the right hon. Gentleman is doing about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.574.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-30", "file": "debates1977-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "a45d68f61b19533d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.574.1", "colnum": "574", "heading": "GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": ", North is very detailed in his knowledge of the facts. However, on the accusation that people have been dismissed for joining a union, I am told by my hon. Friend—he will enlarge upon it if he has the opportunity to do so—that 60 cases went to the industrial tribunal and only in the last case was it suggested that the man had been dismissed for seeking to join a union, and that was not sustained—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.574.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-30", "file": "debates1977-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "a45d68f61b19533d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.577.0", "colnum": "577", "heading": "GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": " 1 under the heading \"Reasons\". It states: There are 59 applicants before us, all former employees of the Respondent. They complain that they were dismissed because they joined a trade union and fought for its recognition and accordingly that the dismissals were unfair\". That was their case, and the unanimous decision was that These applications fail and must be dismissed for want of jurisdiction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.577.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-30", "file": "debates1977-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "a45d68f61b19533d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.577.2", "colnum": "577", "heading": "GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr, Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr, Bell", "preceding_text": "If I have been misled, I am extremely sorry. If he catches your eye, Mr. Speaker, my hon. Friend the Member for Hendon, North will make his speech but if—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.577.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-30", "file": "debates1977-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "a45d68f61b19533d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.577.3", "colnum": "577", "heading": "GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is unreasonable for hon. Members to shout out from a sitting position, and quite out of character with the history of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.577.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-30", "file": "debates1977-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "a45d68f61b19533d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.577.4", "colnum": "577", "heading": "GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And inside.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "threats and mobilisation, and intends to go on standing up to them and, if possible, to win. The coercive combinations of the trade unions have almost destroyed industry in this country, wrecked our productivity and corroded the constitution. Gang warfare has taken over and challenges not only the rule of law, but democracy itself. These yelling crowds outside the Grunwick Processing Laboratories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.577.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-06-30", "file": "debates1977-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "a45d68f61b19533d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.588.1", "colnum": "588", "heading": "GRUNWICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "ill to enforce it which is lacking. The law on picketing is unsatisfactory because Section 15 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 does not go far enough in providing statutory limitations and restrictions on picketing which are clearly recognisable and readily enforceable. That this is so is the fault of this Government in insisting on framing the provisions of Section 15 as they did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-06-30a.588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-01", "file": "debates1977-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "0a6c73738a115347", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-01a.784.3", "colnum": "784", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (APPROPRIATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "e shall have the pleasure of an alternation, if not a variation, in the voices of those speaking in the Chamber on behalf of his party. He must find it a burden to be his party's sole spokesman, and, although we enjoy hearing the same speech over and over again in the same tones, the prospect of variety will no doubt be one of the considerations of which the Speaker's Conference will take account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-01a.784.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-07-04", "file": "debates1977-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "321cc607e2c8f7b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.855.6", "colnum": "855", "heading": "MR. SPEAKER (LEAVE OF ABSENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have to inform the House that the University of Southampton, my own university, proposes to do me the honour of conferring on me the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on Friday 8th July. I therefore ask the indulgence of the House and leave of absence to enable me to attend the university for that purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.855.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-04", "file": "debates1977-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "321cc607e2c8f7b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.878.1", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman was not around at the time of the debates which took place then. I recall the precise debate in which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-04", "file": "debates1977-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "321cc607e2c8f7b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.890.6", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIME MINISTER (SALARY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "cottish constituencies, voted two to one for the guillotine, that expression of opinion counted for absolutely nothing. In 1974 the Tories said, Devolution can free Scotland from the frustrations of centralisation. To show their attachment to that principle, they have just merged their Scottish organisation with the English one. What is this Government's record on social welfare? According to the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.890.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-04", "file": "debates1977-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "321cc607e2c8f7b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.890.6", "colnum": "890", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIME MINISTER (SALARY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "on compassion and caring done about that? Incidentally, what has happened to the £120 million announced to deal with deprived areas in Glasgow? At the other end of the scale, we have the old people. Age Concern in Scotland has campaigned, so far without success, for an increase in the funeral grant. The average funeral in Scotland now costs about £120. The Government's contribution remains at £30.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.890.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-04", "file": "debates1977-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "321cc607e2c8f7b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.894.1", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIME MINISTER (SALARY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman told his Conservative counterpart in a debate that he should be ashamed and should demit his office if unemployment reached 100,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.894.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-04", "file": "debates1977-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "321cc607e2c8f7b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.897.3", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIME MINISTER (SALARY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "I understand that the competence of the hon. Member for Argyll to run the country does not extend to getting here at the start of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.897.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-04", "file": "debates1977-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "321cc607e2c8f7b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.897.3", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIME MINISTER (SALARY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "I understand that the competence of the hon. Member for Argyll to run the country does not extend to getting here at the start of the debate. [ Interruption. ] It would help considerably—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.897.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-04", "file": "debates1977-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "321cc607e2c8f7b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.922.1", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIME MINISTER (SALARY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": " Plaid Cymru knows that that is so. The degree of pressure for Welsh self-government is different, and it is different in each party. That is the fact of the matter, and we should recognise it. Liberals were criticised very much by nationalists for voting against the guillotine on the original double-headed devolution Bill. We were rather categorised as traitors to the whole self-government cause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-04", "file": "debates1977-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "321cc607e2c8f7b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.930.3", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIME MINISTER (SALARY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "e remember the SNP's silence about a football match which took place in Chile when, in spite of opportunity after opportunity, its members failed to show where they stood. Two days before the game, the SNP's Chairman, Billy Wolfe, had the impertinence, in a letter, to criticise British Ministers for not objecting to the match. They had objected. But we heard nothing from the SNP until that moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.930.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-04", "file": "debates1977-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "321cc607e2c8f7b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.931.5", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIME MINISTER (SALARY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "Appeals were made to the SNP—and I know because I led the campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.931.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-04", "file": "debates1977-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "321cc607e2c8f7b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.932.1", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIME MINISTER (SALARY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "d out the Voters views First' …\". One then tells them the benefits they will get by voting SNP on the basis of these views. One finds out the motivating interests and needs of each Voter before trying to sell\"— I like the word in a political context— the benefits to them and then showing him that he must vote SNP to get them.…. The advantage of this technique is that it is flexible\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-04", "file": "debates1977-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "321cc607e2c8f7b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.939.1", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIME MINISTER (SALARY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "y or unless wage levels in Scotland were reduced. That is not just a personal view. The fact is that since the SNP published its financial policies not one major Scottish industrialist or prominent trade union leader has stated that the plans would improve employment and prosperity in Scotland. In fact, many have indicated that in their view the policy would inevitably destroy jobs and prosperity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-04", "file": "debates1977-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "321cc607e2c8f7b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.945.1", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIME MINISTER (SALARY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "ection campaign in Dundee hearing a voice over a loud-speaker—it so happened that our candidate was a man from Sheffield, an Englishman—proclaiming time after time, \"The Labour candidate is an Englishman.\" When the broadcaster stopped for breath, I began reciting Robbie Burns A man's a man for a' that! When I stopped, the other voice took over with the phrase \"Willie Ross is an Englishman.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-04", "file": "debates1977-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "321cc607e2c8f7b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.947.4", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIME MINISTER (SALARY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "an and members of the Standing Committee opposite who voted with the Tories to emasculate those provisions. It surprised me that the hon. Member for Cathcart did not take the opportunity in his remarks to tear apart the illusory SNP policy. There was not a single item of policy contained in the speech of the right hon. Member for Western Isles, whether it be related to Kilmarnock or anywhere else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.947.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-04", "file": "debates1977-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "321cc607e2c8f7b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.976.0", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIME MINISTER (SALARY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "mmitting the Government almost to a vote of confidence issue on the passage of the Bill in the next Session of Parliament. I regard that as an extremely important statement by the Prime Minister, which in itself warrants the present Government continuing in office until such time as we see whether the right hon. Gentleman and the Parliamentary Labour Party really mean it for the second time round.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.976.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-04", "file": "debates1977-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "321cc607e2c8f7b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRIME MINISTER (SALARY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "But the answer to these problems lies in changing the economic system. The answer is to move to a Socialist society. I believe that those who try to suggest that the solution lies in changing geographical boundaries do a great disservice to the country. We have heard in this debate contributions by Scottish and Welsh nationalists, but we now know that a nationalist body has been formed in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-04a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-05", "file": "debates1977-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "9c725d253b04ebc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-05a.1101.9", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "I cannot, without notice, confirm or deny the hon. Gentleman's figures, but there is a tendency, in civil as well as in military life, for people to desire to own their own homes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-05a.1101.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-05", "file": "debates1977-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "9c725d253b04ebc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-05a.1108.4", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The reserve figures announced yesterday were at a record level. That is a sign of stability. The most encouraging aspect of the CBI trends is the reference to the fact that the CBI expects the rate of increase in prices to slow down towards the end of the year. That is something that I have been saying for some time, and I am glad that the CBI's views coincide with mine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-05a.1108.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-05", "file": "debates1977-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "9c725d253b04ebc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-05a.1113.2", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "So the Prime Minister does not repudiate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-05a.1113.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-05", "file": "debates1977-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "9c725d253b04ebc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-05a.1115.1", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HERITAGE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jasper More", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jasper More", "preceding_text": "I beg to move—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-05a.1115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-06", "file": "debates1977-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "40ce4b2372734edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-06a.1224.4", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crawford", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And raspberries.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crawford", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will be aware that there are many pig farmers in Blairgowrie—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-06a.1224.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-06", "file": "debates1977-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "40ce4b2372734edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-06a.1230.3", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware of the grave position in Kilmarnock arising from the decision by the American directors of the firm of Cranes to close down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-06a.1230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-06", "file": "debates1977-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "40ce4b2372734edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-06a.1250.3", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Before I call the Secretary of State for the Home Department, I should inform the House that I have already had indicated to me that, so it seems to me, nearly half the House wishes to speak in this two-day debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-06a.1250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-06", "file": "debates1977-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "40ce4b2372734edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-06a.1254.0", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In the next 20 years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "icular election to this particular body. Although the European Community intends to move towards a common electoral system for all member States, this is likely to take some time. It has to be remembered it took the Community 20 years to reach the likelihood of direct elections at all. Britain will, of course, have every opportunity to express its view on the common system to be adopted in future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-06a.1254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-06", "file": "debates1977-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "40ce4b2372734edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-06a.1255.1", "colnum": "1255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Liberals.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "We are not Luxembourg or the Republic of Ireland. We are Wales, proudly part of the United Kingdom. Northern Ireland would use STV and there would be a single three-member constituency, so no boundary procedures would be necessary. I now turn to the regional list system. In arriving at their recommendation of the regional list system the Government have been guided by the following considerations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-06a.1255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-06", "file": "debates1977-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "40ce4b2372734edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-06a.1260.5", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend can deploy that argument in Committee, but my view is horizontal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-06a.1260.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-06", "file": "debates1977-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "40ce4b2372734edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-06a.1271.0", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interrupton.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This only shows how wise I was to use the words \"best endeavours\". I have always explained to our Continental colleagues that we have a system of Boundary Commissioners and that, depending on how long it took and how many procedures we went through, this might make it impossible for us to make the target date in 1978.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-06a.1271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-06", "file": "debates1977-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "40ce4b2372734edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-06a.1306.1", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Gould", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Pull the other leg.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Gould", "preceding_text": "views that we hold on Common Market membership. However, there will be many who—rightly, in my view—assess the two issues independently of each other. I wish to approach this matter from the hypothetical viewpoint of one who is neutral on the question of membership but who recognises that we are members for the time being and should ensure the greatest element of democratic control of EEC affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-06a.1306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-06", "file": "debates1977-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "40ce4b2372734edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-06a.1306.1", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bryan Gould", "preceding_text": "th. We of all people, with our instinctive understanding of political realities, can outstrip those who fail to understand that. It is right to claim democratic legitimacy, and legitimacy of a special kind, on the basis that the Assembly was elected specifically to do this job. That right will transform the sitaution, and we denude ourselves if we believe that this will not be done at our expense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-06a.1306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-06", "file": "debates1977-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "40ce4b2372734edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-06a.1341.1", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "ke place in the United Nations, for instance, he is deluding himself. Whatever the organisation, whether it is the Labour Party, the Tory Party or the Boy Scouts, argy-bargying takes place. We have probably lost the JET project because of the stubbornness of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food about other matters. When one joins an international institution, that is how things operate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-06a.1341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-06", "file": "debates1977-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "40ce4b2372734edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-06a.1354.3", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Royle", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Royle", "preceding_text": "ly start the work necessary to delineate the boundaries for constituencies in case the House of Commons decides to vote for a first-past-the-post system and not for a PR system?\" The Home Secretary, in an earlier intervention, made it quite plain that there is no statutory reason to stop the Boundary Commission from starting this informal work forthwith. The only worry that the Home Secretary had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-06a.1354.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-06", "file": "debates1977-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "40ce4b2372734edf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-06a.1357.1", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roderick MacFarquhar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roderick MacFarquhar", "preceding_text": "ot take place on time. The crucial issue is to have direct elections to the European Parliament and not to seek temporary or minor party advantages from the passage of the Bill. I assume that the Government are serious about passing the Bill and that, therefore, they will introduce at the beginning of next Session, when the Bill comes before us again, a timetable motion to facilitate its progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-06a.1357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1399.6", "colnum": "1399", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "One thing I can say today when the hon. Gentleman asks which of these elements I expect to go down is that if there were a Government of which he and his party were members —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1399.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1416.7", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s thought that my right hon. Friend was a man of good sense. The quotation has undoubtedly confirmed that view. As I have said on many occasions, unemployment is the one serious blot in the progress that the Government are making. In view of the fact that world trade is not increasing as fast as we had all planned and hoped for when we met as a group of international countries, I do not look for —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1416.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1420.0", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes. The 12-month gap was one of the early parts of the negotiations that have been going on. I am certain that the TUC will want to maintain that 12-month interval if it is at all possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1421.6", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is the view of the right hon. Member for Leeds, North-East (Sir K. Joseph) that there should be absolutely no incomes policy, but some of his hon. Friends seem to hold the view that there should be a statutory policy. We do not hold either view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1421.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1422.5", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend dealt with these matters perfectly adequately, and there is no need for me to add to what he said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1422.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1423.1", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1423.3", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Reading\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "When the Prime Minister addressed the nation in his philosophical and avuncular way at the weekend and told us that all his policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1423.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1423.3", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Reading\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "When the Prime Minister addressed the nation in his philosophical and avuncular way at the weekend and told us that all his policies— [Hon. Members: \"Reading\"]—and told us that all his policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1423.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1423.3", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Reading \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "When the Prime Minister addressed the nation in his philosophical and avuncular way at the weekend and told us that all his policies— [Hon. Members: \"Reading\"]—and told us that all his policies—[Hon. Members: \"Reading\"]—would help to loosen the steel band from the chests of the British people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1423.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1432.4", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about 18th July?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I apologise if that day's copy of Hansard is still held up because of printing difficulties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1432.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1460.4", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Thorpe", "preceding_text": "tee and who gave great service as its Chairman. He has an important position in so far as he has changed his mind, as has the hon. Member for West Bromwich, West (Miss Boothroyd), on the form of electoral system which should be used. That is a fact that the right hon. and learned Member for Hexham (Mr. Rippon), who rightly attaches great importance to the Select Committee, will also take on board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1460.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1462.1", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "shall get on to that matter shortly. I do not think that anyone is likely to be able to say what is most likely to be the view of the House until we have had a vote. Unlike the hon. Gentleman, I would not like to prejudge the view of the House in advance of it being expressed. One asks the question, why do we want an elected Assembly? The short answer is that it has an important job of work to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1468.1", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "bour movement, which is opposed to the whole concept of direct elections. It is not a question whether it is to be a regional list or the first-past-the-post method. That body of opinion is opposed to the principle of direct elections, and I am opposed to the principle of direct elections. I make it absolutely clear that on this question I stand foursquare with the decision of my party conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1473.3", "colnum": "1473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "I honestly believe that there are some who believe direct elections to be right as a matter of principle. I wish to argue, if my hon. Friend will restrain himself, that as a matter of principle.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1473.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1474.1", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "I hope that my hon. Friends will not be bamboozled by the argument that this measure will strengthen democracy. If we really wanted to strengthen democracy, if we really wanted to turn the Assembly into a Parliament, we should have to agree on the principle of a totally united Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1474.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1549.1", "colnum": "1549", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Spicer", "preceding_text": "onstituency and would hold very strongly to it. At the same time, I can see that there would be considerable difficulties in trying to find universal agreement. In my evidence to the Select Committee I made it quite clear that there might come a time in this House when we would need to find a compromise. I am horrified that the Government have included in their Bill the very worst possible system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1550.3", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Bryant Godman Irvine)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Bryant Godman Irvine)", "preceding_text": "Order. Only one hon. Member may occupy the Floor at one time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1550.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1551.1", "colnum": "1551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "his own authority, which, as he will realise, does not worry me unduly. But it will also weaken Britain's standing amongst our allies, especially amongst our partners in the EEC. I think that that should be a matter of great concern to us all. By no stretch of imagination can Cabinet Ministers voting against their own Government's Bill be interpreted as a Prime Minister using his best endeavours —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1551.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1557.4", "colnum": "1557", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where are the rest of the Cabinet?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member knows that that is not a point of order for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1557.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1558.0", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are your Cabinet supporters? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "C was decided by the House as a whole. Then, as tonight, many were exercising their judgment as individual Members of Parliament. The House is no worse for being in that mood when deciding whether to support an issue of principle. That is the issue that is before us tonight. The right hon. Member for Penrith and The Border made a great deal of the voting intentions of various Members of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1558.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1558.2", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "I know what the right hon. Gentleman is about to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1558.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1558.4", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are all the Cabinet?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "The House was told, as the right hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well, that there was a free vote on that occasion. He also knows that the issue of principle was decided by many people on the Opposition Benches exercising their right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1558.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1558.4", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is Wedgie?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": " Gentleman knows perfectly well, that there was a free vote on that occasion. He also knows that the issue of principle was decided by many people on the Opposition Benches exercising their right—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are all the Cabinet?\"] Right hon. and hon. Members who have come into this debate without having heard any of the arguments might at least listen to the arguments on a serious issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1558.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1558.4", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There he is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "n. He also knows that the issue of principle was decided by many people on the Opposition Benches exercising their right—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are all the Cabinet?\"] Right hon. and hon. Members who have come into this debate without having heard any of the arguments might at least listen to the arguments on a serious issue. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is Wedgie?\"] Those same right hon. and hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1558.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1559.1", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "and I suspect that it will not be the last time when this issue of Europe comes before the House, Members of Parliament will exercise their individual judgment. I do not apologise for that. I argued for a free vote on this issue in 1971 and I am content that this issue will be decided by the House as a whole. I shall tell our friends in Europe who are watching this debate that there ismore chance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1559.1", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "uropean unity. That is a cause to which I also subscribe but the right hon. and learned Gentleman will not serve that cause by ensuring a form of election to the European Parliament that will give a completely distorted result in the political system of this country. That is one of the serious issues that will be decided in Committee on the Bill. We shall decide whether we can get a fairer system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1562.0", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "ut the North Sea herring ban. They were able to exercise the democratic control over the Commissioner that we in this House are unable to exercise. It has been claimed that this power is insufficient. I am not claiming that the powers of the Assembly are strong. What is being decided in the Bill is a modest advance in attempting to achieve some increase in the control of the bureaucracy in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1562.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1571.2", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' ALLOWANCES, SALARIES AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Bryant Godman Irvine)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Bryant Godman Irvine)", "preceding_text": "Before calling the Lord President of the Council to move the next motion, I should inform the House that I understand he would wish to move it in a slightly different form by substituting, for the existing words of sub-paragraph ( c ), the words on research undertaken in the proper performance of those duties\". Mr. Speaker is satisfied that this does not extend the scope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1571.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-07", "file": "debates1977-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "2da8b5db89559d62", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1574.3", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' ALLOWANCES, SALARIES AND PENSIONS", "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": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am grateful to you and to Mr. Speaker for the ruling that has been given on this matter and the manuscript amendment which we have submitted. I think that when the House has examined the manuscript amendment it will realise that it is a minor matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-07a.1574.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-08", "file": "debates1977-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "24959908c0ca75bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-08a.1606.6", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "New Clauses 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": " situation is getting a bit complicated. We are discussing New Clause 3, with Amendments ( a ), ( c ), No. 24 and No. 25. The hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Mr. Cunningham) has raised a point about the substantive question. If the House agrees, we could combine with this group of amendments, Amendments Nos. 17, 28 and 49. Then we shall get somewhere. Is the House agreeable to that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-08a.1606.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-08", "file": "debates1977-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "24959908c0ca75bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-08a.1616.4", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "New Clauses 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "de new accommodation. The example given was that of a family quarrel, net necessarily involving a battered wife. Suppose that a youngster has a row with his parents. The father says \"How dare you speak to your mother in that way? Never darken my doorstep again.\" In the heat of the moment, the youngster slams the front door and is gone. He goes to the town hall and says \"Rehouse me, I am homeless.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-08a.1616.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-07-11", "file": "debates1977-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e11ba9cf948d1071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-11a.4.6", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "n applying the test of practicability, will the Secretary of State bear in mind that, however beautiful a culture is represented by the language, to extend it compulsorily to the post-school world would be a very grave error? Will he also bear in mind that the compulsory learning of this language at school age is already creating in Wales some of the most educationally deprived children in Europe?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-11a.4.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-11", "file": "debates1977-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e11ba9cf948d1071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-11a.19.3", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Such as?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend and I do everything conceivable to resolve industrial difficulties at St. Stephen's Press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-11a.19.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-11", "file": "debates1977-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e11ba9cf948d1071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-11a.34.0", "colnum": "34", "heading": "GRUNVVICK PROCESSING LABORATORIES LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman has got the matter wrong. What the TUC organised was a march. That is what was organised. It did not organise the mass picketing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-11a.34.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-11", "file": "debates1977-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e11ba9cf948d1071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-11a.39.4", "colnum": "39", "heading": "LIBERAL PARTY (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Fewer than the hon. Gentleman thought.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " the basis for a decision by him to join the Tories. So why did the Liberals do as they did on 23rd March? It was not as though there had been a close or developing connection between the Liberals and the Labour Party over a long period. Instead, the decision to form a pact was sudden, unexpected and contrary to the wishes of at least a considerable proportion of Liberal supporters in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-11a.39.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-11", "file": "debates1977-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e11ba9cf948d1071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-11a.55.3", "colnum": "55", "heading": "LIBERAL PARTY (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "Yes—of redeeming themselves. Sometimes I think that there is hope for the hon. Member for Cleveland and Whitby (Mr. Brittan). He is absolutely right. In The Times of Monday 21st November this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-11a.55.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-11", "file": "debates1977-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e11ba9cf948d1071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-11a.56.1", "colnum": "56", "heading": "LIBERAL PARTY (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Join the Tribune Group.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "Judging from the hon. Gentleman's hesitation in reading the quotation, the printing seems to be as bad as the opinions. If the hon. Gentleman is making an application we shall consider it. The Liberal Party believes that the moderate centre of British political life should have been strengthened", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-11a.56.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-11", "file": "debates1977-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e11ba9cf948d1071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-11a.97.1", "colnum": "97", "heading": "LIBERAL PARTY (POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Privy Council Office (Mr. William Price)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bring back Harold Wilson.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Privy Council Office (Mr. William Price)", "preceding_text": " And there is the longest established pact of all—the unholy alliance between the Conservative Party and 85 per cent. of the national Press. We have seen in recent times one of the most vicious and determined attacks upon a democratically elected Government. Certain Fleet Street editors and proprietors appear to believe that they, and they alone, determine when General Elections should take place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-11a.97.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-11", "file": "debates1977-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e11ba9cf948d1071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-11a.133.5", "colnum": "133", "heading": "MERSEYSIDE PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What does he mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "for the Bill and to show that there is none. I have sought to explain that I do not think that it would be necessary even if there were a decision to close the ferries. I am now seeking to argue that no powers should be sought to close the ferries in any event. I do not think that I am being too tautologous or oxymoronic in seeking to state my case in that way because there are two separate parts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-11a.133.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-11", "file": "debates1977-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e11ba9cf948d1071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-11a.144.3", "colnum": "144", "heading": "MERSEYSIDE PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "y that the provisions for a local inquiry were inadequate. I said: The Merseyside County Council then gets the report from the local inquiry. There is nothing in the Bill that would in any way inhibit Merseyside County Council from receiving a report that says quite clearly that the ferries must not be closed and lays down a whole series of statistics and arguments why they should not be closed \"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-11a.144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-11", "file": "debates1977-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e11ba9cf948d1071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-11a.156.3", "colnum": "156", "heading": "MERSEYSIDE PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "l. I understand that it is not in order for me to comment on the adequacy of the guidance unless I am praising it, but I do so without any qualification. The hon. Member for West Derby said that I had not permitted others to participate in the debate, but I was not aware of any great feeling against my talking for what 1 consider, given the complexity of the subject, to be a relatively short time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-11a.156.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-07-11", "file": "debates1977-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e11ba9cf948d1071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-11a.159.4", "colnum": "159", "heading": "MERSEYSIDE PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leyden", "preceding_text": "I well understand the hon. Gentleman emphasising the ferry situation and pointing out that the legislation, with regard to ferries, is not necessary. For those hon. Members who are concerned with the provisions in the Bill dealing with over-riding, will the hon. Gentleman say whether he considers that this legislation is necessary? This is an important question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-11a.159.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-11", "file": "debates1977-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "e11ba9cf948d1071", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-11a.159.5", "colnum": "159", "heading": "MERSEYSIDE PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "ieve that the ferries provide a service which the users of the service at present, as well as my constituents and those of other hon. Members—indeed, the people of Merseyside—wish to retain. The ferries are part of our Merseyside heritage. To wipe them away at a stroke, as the Bill originally sought to do, is a disgraceful misuse of parliamentary time. I have tried to moderate my language tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-11a.159.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-12", "file": "debates1977-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "422d747c87f68e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.211.3", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "preceding_text": "e Trade Union and Labour Relations Bill that would have given the Secretary of State power to make regulations governing the numbers of pickets and the circumstances of picketing, along the lines suggested by the then Secretary of State for Employment, the present Leader of the House, who, in a footnote to a statement that he made to the House in March, said that it was the Government's intention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.211.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-12", "file": "debates1977-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "422d747c87f68e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.217.1", "colnum": "217", "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": "At the risk of jeers from the Opposition, I have to say that there is really no reason why I should answer questions about the work of the NEC of the Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-12", "file": "debates1977-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "422d747c87f68e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.217.1", "colnum": "217", "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": "ons about the work of the NEC of the Labour Party—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—but in order to make the position absolutely clear, let me say that I thought that the statement made yesterday by the Secretary of State for Defence was perfect in every word, and that goes for every other Minister. I repeat again, although it is not, frankly, the business of the Opposition to expect me to reply to questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-12", "file": "debates1977-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "422d747c87f68e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.223.3", "colnum": "223", "heading": "POSTAL SERVICES (NORTH-WEST LONDON)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "I understand that the National Association of Freedom is claiming widespread posting of the firm's mail, that at some offices it is being handled normally, and that other staff are seeking advice from the Union of Post Office Workers. There would be those who would say that the fact that mail has been deliberately distributed in the way suggested by the hon. Gentleman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-12", "file": "debates1977-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "422d747c87f68e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.223.3", "colnum": "223", "heading": "POSTAL SERVICES (NORTH-WEST LONDON)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "at some offices it is being handled normally, and that other staff are seeking advice from the Union of Post Office Workers. There would be those who would say that the fact that mail has been deliberately distributed in the way suggested by the hon. Gentleman —[ Interruption. ] I am not saying that it is unlawful but that there are those who would suggest that that in itself is a provocative act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.223.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-12", "file": "debates1977-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "422d747c87f68e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.223.4", "colnum": "223", "heading": "POSTAL SERVICES (NORTH-WEST LONDON)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "ee that it does not lie in the mouths of the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey, East (Sir G. Howe) and the right hon. Member for Lowestoft (Mr. Prior) to talk about joint negotiations, joint talks, and modernisation, as they did over the weekend, when they are not prepared to stand up and condemn a situation which has been created by Grunwick essentially because the firm will not even talk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.223.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-12", "file": "debates1977-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "422d747c87f68e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.256.1", "colnum": "256", "heading": "CRIME (PREVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thompson", "preceding_text": "I had not expected to be called so early in the debate, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-12", "file": "debates1977-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "422d747c87f68e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "CRIME (PREVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doig", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Did it work?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doig", "preceding_text": "e effect of television programmes. I see television only occasionally, but when I have seen it I have been amazed at the programmes which put into people's heads all kinds of sophisticated ideas which they would never otherwise have thought of. One recent programme gave a detailed explanation of how to make a home-made bomb. It was as simple as that. 1 was astounded that such a thing could happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-12", "file": "debates1977-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "422d747c87f68e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.284.3", "colnum": "284", "heading": "CRIME (PREVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Doig", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a Committee point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Doig", "preceding_text": "It may be less than the death penalty, but if it provided an effective deterrent and the crime was serious enough there might be a case for taking somebody's arm instead of taking somebody's life. Again, this is for the judge to decide in the circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.284.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-12", "file": "debates1977-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "422d747c87f68e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "CRIME (PREVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "ntion to the victim. Mrs. Alice Mitchell suffered an attack requiring 29 stitches in her head. She was badly shocked. She had a number of other injuries. A mugger entered her home for no real purpose and beat her up. Mrs. Gladys Taylor was walking home from church when she was flung to the ground. She struggled to hold on to her handbag, which was eventually stolen. The mugger jumped on her feet —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-12", "file": "debates1977-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "422d747c87f68e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "CRIME (PREVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Many reasons for the problem have been advanced. Some people argue that it is an inevitable part of a society which is becoming increasingly violent because of the pressure of social change. If this were the case, should there not have been a frightening rise after the Second World War, with all the social upheavals involved in the return to a peace-time economy, with men coming home from the war?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-12", "file": "debates1977-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "422d747c87f68e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "CRIME (PREVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Brynmor John)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Brynmor John)", "preceding_text": "oduce an amendment tomorrow to the effect that the penalty of imprisonment for fine defaulters should be dependent upon wilful refusal to pay or culpable negligence. That is the test for maintenance defaulters, and we thought that it was right to impose the same test for fine defaulters. There is evidence that many people who are committed to prison simply do not have the means to pay their fines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-12", "file": "debates1977-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "422d747c87f68e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.379.2", "colnum": "379", "heading": "LOCAL AUTHORITY WORKS (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "In view of the very substantial defeat on a major issue of importance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-12", "file": "debates1977-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "422d747c87f68e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.379.2", "colnum": "379", "heading": "LOCAL AUTHORITY WORKS (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "In view of the very substantial defeat on a major issue of importance—[ Interruption .]—will the Secretary of State make a statement? Will the Government accept that tonight we have won a battle for free enterpriseUnterruptiond—a battle against the extension of Socialism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-12", "file": "debates1977-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "422d747c87f68e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.379.2", "colnum": "379", "heading": "LOCAL AUTHORITY WORKS (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": " free enterpriseUnterruptiond—a battle against the extension of Socialism—[ Interruption .]—and a battle against the extension of direct labour? Will he accept that we have won a battle for fair and free competition? Will the Minister at least give us an assurance that he will never again bring a Bill such as this before the House of Commons unless we have a guarantee of fair and free competition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.379.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-12", "file": "debates1977-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "422d747c87f68e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.380.0", "colnum": "380", "heading": "LOCAL AUTHORITY WORKS (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The House has made a decision which, as democrats, the Government accept. But I say to the hon. Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Taylor), who I understand gave a commitment that there would be no vote on this tonight", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-12", "file": "debates1977-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "422d747c87f68e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.381.2", "colnum": "381", "heading": "LOCAL AUTHORITY WORKS (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "As I said earlier, the House has made its decision and the Government will now have to turn their attention to how they preserve the jobs of hundreds of employees of direct labour organisations. The Government will consider how best they can preserve the hundreds of jobs that will be involved in the constituency of the hon. Member for Fife, East (Sir J. Gilmour) and the jobs that will be involved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.381.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-12", "file": "debates1977-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "422d747c87f68e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.381.4", "colnum": "381", "heading": "LOCAL AUTHORITY WORKS (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "We shall turn our attention to how we can save the jobs of hundreds of men in East Fife, Glasgow and Dundee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.381.4"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-07-12", "file": "debates1977-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "422d747c87f68e99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.383.6", "colnum": "383", "heading": "RENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "They cheated.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This is not a matter that we can pursue to any purpose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-12a.383.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-13", "file": "debates1977-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "7023d9e8240f4f8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-13a.411.0", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "The terms and language of the hon. Gentleman's supplementary question really are monstrous, in the context—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-13a.411.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-13", "file": "debates1977-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "7023d9e8240f4f8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-13a.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "riorating steadily now for some years, particularly since the armed struggle has gathered momentum. The problem that we face, more than anything else at the moment, is how to achieve a transition during which there could be fair elections in a climate of peace. This relates to law and order and to some way of bringing together the two armies, the Rhodesian defence forces and the liberation armies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-13a.414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-13", "file": "debates1977-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "7023d9e8240f4f8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-13a.518.0", "colnum": "518", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong word.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": "ssue—and I am doing so—at the end of a discussion which has taken some time. I must point out to my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham, West (Mr. Price) that I certainly cannot reply on the basis of \"Come on, mate.\" A Home Secretary cannot follow that approach. There are wider considerations that we must take into account and this cannot be approached in a frivolous way—if that is the right word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-13a.518.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-13", "file": "debates1977-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "7023d9e8240f4f8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-13a.620.9", "colnum": "620", "heading": "New Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "Interruption .>", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may return to New Clause 18. Before the points of order I was illustrating the case for not lengthening and delaying the court procedure process for dealing with trespassers by drawing attention to a relevant argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-13a.620.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-13", "file": "debates1977-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "7023d9e8240f4f8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-13a.622.3", "colnum": "622", "heading": "New Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "Labour Members have referred to the rather tentative way in which the hon. Member for Birmingham, Handsworth (Mr Lee) moved his new clause. It is taking a tentative approach rather far for the hon. Gentleman to have absented himself from the debate for the greater part of the discussions upon his own new clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-13a.622.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-13", "file": "debates1977-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "7023d9e8240f4f8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-13a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "New Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that my hon. Friend has defeated me. The hon. Member for Handsworth is not here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-13a.626.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-07-13", "file": "debates1977-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "7023d9e8240f4f8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-13a.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "New Clause 18", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I cannot answer on the detail of the new clause. If the hon. Member for Handsworth were here, no doubt he could answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-13a.629.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-14", "file": "debates1977-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a3e2d2fedd1b5065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-14a.770.7", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. C. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. C. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "What happens to those magazines and films after they are confiscated?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-14a.770.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-14", "file": "debates1977-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a3e2d2fedd1b5065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-14a.777.8", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It means no White Paper at this moment. That is to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-14a.777.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-14", "file": "debates1977-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a3e2d2fedd1b5065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-14a.778.1", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is not so. The statement tomorrow will contain a statement on pay and the proposals that the Chancellor will put before the House in the Finance Bill next week. It is being done in this way for convenience. Whether there should be a White Paper in due course is something that the Cabinet can consider later, perhaps in the autumn. Why not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-14a.778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-14", "file": "debates1977-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a3e2d2fedd1b5065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-14a.799.3", "colnum": "799", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "When do the Government intend that the House of Commons should take a decision about the method of election to the European Parliament? Do the Government's Liberal allies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-14a.799.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-14", "file": "debates1977-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a3e2d2fedd1b5065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-14a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "New Clause 59", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Farr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Farr", "preceding_text": "I add my thanks to the Treasury Ministers for the fact that New Clause 59 seems almost entirely to have incorporated the provisions that I was seeking to introduce in New Clause 20, which was much shorter and more concise but was not, I believe, so effective. A good deal of hardship and anguish was caused, not only to clergymen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-14a.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-14", "file": "debates1977-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a3e2d2fedd1b5065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-14a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "New Clause 59", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Farr", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Farr", "preceding_text": " of difficulty is caused for clergymen who are perhaps nearing retirement age and have no home of their own. He said that it was universally felt among clergymen that it was essential to have a home of their own as some security for their families when the clergyman died or for when they reach retirement age. I recently visited one of the newest borstals in Britain at Glen Parva in Leicestershire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-14a.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-14", "file": "debates1977-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a3e2d2fedd1b5065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-14a.864.2", "colnum": "864", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": " Member for Basingstoke (Mr. Mitchell) that the United States, which has had a tapering relief for a long time, has an investment record over the last 25 years which is about the same as ours. Whether ours has been too low in relation to Continental countries is a matter of debate. The hon. Member for Cornwall, North (Mr. Pardoe) prefers indexation. I prefer tapering. There are grave difficulties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-14a.864.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-14", "file": "debates1977-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a3e2d2fedd1b5065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-14a.864.2", "colnum": "864", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": "n why the increase should not be to£2,000. The£500 exemption was introduced in 1971 and last year we increased it to£1,000. On the basis of the increase in the retail price index from 1971 to the present, the original£500 should be£1,125. Therefore, the present figure of£1,000 is not wildly out of line with inflation. An increase to£2,000 is far greater than any indexation which would be required.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-14a.864.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-14", "file": "debates1977-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a3e2d2fedd1b5065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-14a.906.1", "colnum": "906", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " hon. and learned Member for Dover and Deal. The point about capital transfer tax is that the burden is spread over more people. More people now pay capital transfer tax than paid the old estate duty, and certainly capital transfer tax is less easy to avoid. I am saying that the burden on small businesses and farms is less in the case of capital transfer tax than it was in the case of estate duty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-14a.906.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-14", "file": "debates1977-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a3e2d2fedd1b5065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-14a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ther there are any problems caused by the three years. Finally, perhaps I may deal with the question whether the Government think that there is a problem here, because we have said in the past that there has been a problem. I think that the problem has been ameliorated to a considerable extent by the reliefs that we have given for agriculture and small businesses. On an earlier new clause, I said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-14a.908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-14", "file": "debates1977-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "a3e2d2fedd1b5065", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-14a.924.1", "colnum": "924", "heading": "New Clause 7", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "ed that will not lightly be forgotten. We are dealing with people who are not tax evaders or whelk stall operators. We are dealing with important firms of consulting engineers, technical experts, accountants, lawyers and so on. They are probably doing more for our exports than many of our manufacturing companies. I find the discrimination nauseous. As the Chief Secretary appears to be of the same—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-14a.924.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-15", "file": "debates1977-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "a4a3d934a4b887e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-15a.997.1", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Conclusion", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Friend.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his inquiries and will seek to answer them. There was no figure in any draft submitted by the Treasury to the Cabinet or any Cabinet committee. The pay policy which I have just announced is the pay policy that we have been talking about for very many months. I say to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-15a.997.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-15", "file": "debates1977-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "a4a3d934a4b887e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-15a.1003.3", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Conclusion", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "would have been but for the gross miscalculation by the Treasury of the public sector borrowing requirement? However, does my right hon. Friend realise that the analysis which he made in the early part of his statement weakens the authority of his policy and its acceptability to millions of trade unionists in that it may appear to them to suggest that wages are the only factor affecting inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-15a.1003.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-07-15", "file": "debates1977-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "a4a3d934a4b887e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-15a.1083.1", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "preceding_text": "In that case, I request the House to agree to all the amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-15a.1083.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-15", "file": "debates1977-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "a4a3d934a4b887e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-15a.1085.3", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Sing it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way. I am interrupting my hon. Friend the Member for Faversham (Mr. Moate). It is my way, and he is giving it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-15a.1085.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-18", "file": "debates1977-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "996b1b5b53141b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-18a.1117.5", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "MR. SPEAKER (LEAVE OF ABSENCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have to inform the House that the University of Wales proposes to do me the honour of conferring on me an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on Friday 22nd July. I therefore ask for the indulgence of the House and for leave of absence to enable me to attend the university for that purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-18a.1117.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-18", "file": "debates1977-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "996b1b5b53141b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-18a.1129.2", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend afraid to get the figures out early? Is he quite sure that Yorkshire is getting fair play from the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-18a.1129.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-18", "file": "debates1977-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "996b1b5b53141b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-18a.1146.6", "colnum": "1146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "most asinine comments, which we cannot discuss because Mr. Speaker will not allow us, and that these have exacerbated the position? Can my right hon. and learned Friend say whether these were unanimous decisions of the Court of Appeal or whether any member of the court dissented? Does he not agree that this House and the public have a right to know? Therefore, in view of the grave dissatisfaction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-18a.1146.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-18", "file": "debates1977-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "996b1b5b53141b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-18a.1151.1", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "DRAX B POWER STATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "Discussions have begun with the CEGB and I cannot in detail answer the question about compensation arrangements, because the discussions are in progress. The hon. Member will recall, however, that the previous Government, which he supported, gave an order for a power station at Ince B, with compensation, to Parsons, without a competitive tender. Therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-18a.1151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-18", "file": "debates1977-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "996b1b5b53141b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-18a.1258.1", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John H. Osborn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John H. Osborn", "preceding_text": " a need, therefore, to look elsewhere for energy. The problem is that the demand for oil threatens to outstrip supply. North Sea oil is a product that we might want to sell to the rest of the Community and assist our balance of payments. The Community is an economic entity. In energy and agriculture it wants to be less dependent on outside sources of supply and to avoid the vagaries of the market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-18a.1258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-18", "file": "debates1977-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "996b1b5b53141b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-18a.1269.4", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "Of course they are. They are gaining the finance that the Government use to build extra advance factories, for example, over and above those that are already in the programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-18a.1269.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-18", "file": "debates1977-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "996b1b5b53141b33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-18a.1271.3", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "The point of considerable importance to the regions is that regeneration depends very much on our ability to regenerate the traditional industies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-18a.1271.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-07-19", "file": "debates1977-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "92ad7170907b8a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-19a.1363.6", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Their mistakes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clemitson", "preceding_text": "I am glad to hear that answer, because it is now generally accepted that the reorganisation has hardly been an unqualified success. Has not one of the results of it been that a higher proportion of resources has been spent on administration and consequently, a lower proportion on the patients? Is it not about time that we learned from our mistakes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-19a.1363.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-19", "file": "debates1977-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "92ad7170907b8a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-19a.1372.4", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "preceding_text": "As we are nearing the end of Animal Welfare Year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-19a.1372.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-19", "file": "debates1977-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "92ad7170907b8a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-19a.1374.3", "colnum": "1374", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AUSTRALIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Let us be clear that we do not regard the common agricultural policy as best fitted to the needs of this country. However, the hon. Gentleman should acknowledge that the cry that large amounts of cheap wheat or other commodities are to be found in Australia is not true. I have just inquired about the figures. For example, the cost—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-19a.1374.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-19", "file": "debates1977-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "92ad7170907b8a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-19a.1377.2", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member was not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This matter was discussed at length after Questions yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-19a.1377.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-19", "file": "debates1977-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "92ad7170907b8a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-19a.1378.6", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HATFIELD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That is really an example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-19a.1378.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-19", "file": "debates1977-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "92ad7170907b8a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-19a.1388.2", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I take the point about patronage. I think that the House knows my view—that there is much too much ministerial patronage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-19a.1388.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-19", "file": "debates1977-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "92ad7170907b8a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-19a.1390.2", "colnum": "1390", "heading": "ELECTRICITY SUPPLY INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " be made in legislation affecting one particular industry that happens to have to come before the House. The hon. Gentleman knows my view on this matter. It is that there is an advantage in modernising the Morrison provisions. In trying to build upon the undoubted success that has come from the limited experiments in having civil servants on the board, as with BNOC and the Atomic Energy Authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-19a.1390.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-19", "file": "debates1977-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "92ad7170907b8a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-19a.1413.3", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBLEMS OF LARGE TOWNS AND CITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eyre", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eyre", "preceding_text": "Although flats are unsuitable accommodation for families with children, some people like them, and 18th floor flats, for example, change hands in London and other cities quite rapidly.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-19a.1413.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-19", "file": "debates1977-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "92ad7170907b8a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-19a.1460.1", "colnum": "1460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBLEMS OF LARGE TOWNS AND CITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Forrester", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"They all went to Newcastle.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Forrester", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Harrow, Central (Mr. Grant) has reminded us that there are nationwide problems common to all areas—areas that may of us thought had no problems. He speaks from great experience as a Minister. I am sorry that when he was a Minister he did not direct all that industry to Staffordshire, as he might have suggested in one of his asides a moment or two ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-19a.1460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-19", "file": "debates1977-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "92ad7170907b8a5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-19a.1470.1", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROBLEMS OF LARGE TOWNS AND CITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "preceding_text": "n I went into the Home Office, therefore, I was delighted to think that we in the Home Office were charged with the duty of providing for the first time in our history an inner city policy or urban deprivation policy. I looked forward to it with eager anticipation. It never came. It is too painful to explain why that was so, and it might cause me more trouble than the trouble that got me the sack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-19a.1470.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1601.4", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "URBAN AID (INCENTIVE FOR COMMUNITY AND VOLUN TARY WORK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "ampioning the rights of the individual against the big bureaucracies or reinforcing the importance of family life in stress areas. Leave to introduce four of the Bills was voted down by Labour Members and, therefore, they could not be printed. Of the remaining four, two have been printed and two have not. These latter two came up so late in the Session that there was no opportunity to debate them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1601.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1603.0", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "URBAN AID (INCENTIVE FOR COMMUNITY AND VOLUN TARY WORK)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name, Name.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman must not misuse the Ten-Minute Rule procedure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1603.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1603.2", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "URBAN AID (INCENTIVE FOR COMMUNITY AND VOLUN TARY WORK)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen", "preceding_text": "As far back as 1968 the urban aid programme provided a chance to channel money away from buildings and down into the grass roots to encourage people to greater exertion and to provide greater opportunities for them to help themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1603.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1604.1", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "URBAN AID (INCENTIVE FOR COMMUNITY AND VOLUN TARY WORK)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House must forgive me. I could not believe my luck, in that no other hon. Member rose to speak. The Question is, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to make further provision for the urban aid programme in towns and cities and areas of high deprivation; and for connected purposes. As many as are of that opinion say \"Aye\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1604.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1605.0", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "URBAN AID (INCENTIVE FOR COMMUNITY AND VOLUN TARY WORK)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "To the contrary \"No\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1604.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1605.2", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "URBAN AID (INCENTIVE FOR COMMUNITY AND VOLUN TARY WORK)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Father Christmas!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the Ayes have it. The Ayes have it. Who will prepare and bring in the Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1605.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1613.3", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is a point of view. It is not the Government's view in the present circumstances. I hope that that time will arrive, and I have no doubt that it can arrive. An infusion of higher wages at present without an increase in productivity would result in runaway prices. We are not going back to that if we can help it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1613.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1617.2", "colnum": "1617", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "The reason I said \"If they apply\" is precisely that for the whole of the seven years I have been in this place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1617.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1618.1", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ducted. I believe—and I say this with respect because I want to achieve the right result—that these matters are far better left to the negotiators for the time being. I hope that the House will not take it amiss if I say that sometimes we go into too much detail in trying to bargain across the Dispatch Box on some of these matters when we should be leaving them to the proper negotiating machinery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1621.1", "colnum": "1621", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "preceding_text": "s that if differentials are restored, many people will get far less than that and many of them may have to suffer a decline in their standards of living. There has been nothing to prepare the people for that in any way. May I put one point to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which I hope he will confirm. Productivity deals are to be totally outside any advice on the 12month-rule that he will give—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1621.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1629.3", "colnum": "1629", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman listen'? We shall have to provide improvements for those differentials for the doctors within the cash limits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1629.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1629.4", "colnum": "1629", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman listen'? We shall have to provide improvements for those differentials for the doctors within the cash limits. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] That means some will get more and some will get less. Now perhaps the hon. Gentleman will follow that up by asking what cash limits are to be fixed, because they are not yet fixed. Ask the Government whether they know the answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1629.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1629.6", "colnum": "1629", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": " Member for Farnham—whether he intends to obtain more subsidies from the taxpayer's pocket to subsidise increased pay claims in the nationalised industry sector, or whether he intends that it will come from increased prices so that the consumer will pay, or whether he intends that it should all come from increased productivity? How does he intend to persuade that industry to increase productivity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1629.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1630.2", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "I was saying that the right hon. Lady adds all that together and the sum total, as she described it, was to prepare the people for entry into free collective bargaining. That is her proposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1630.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1630.4", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "g for some inflation—is all taken up by wage and salary claims, there will be no room for any growth or investment and we shall continue with what is known as—and the hon. Member for Tottenham must know the term—a vicious circle. Only if some of that 13 per cent. is left free from wage claims shall we achieve genuine growth and falling inflation next year. The only constraints upon the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1630.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1632.2", "colnum": "1632", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "The last time that I gave way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1632.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1633.2", "colnum": "1633", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "In general, I endorse the 12-month rule, but I have put forward a case where it might be damaging and I have asked for the Chancellor's view. Had the right hon. Lady been listening, she would have heard the case that I put to the Chancellor, which was about a multiplicity of unions, in a firm or nationalised industry, bargaining on different days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1633.6", "colnum": "1633", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "xpenditure and a massive increase in food subsidies, which the Chancellor is now having to cut. It would have been better if he had never made some of the increases in food subsidies and some of the increases in public expenditure. According to the Press release issued by the right hon. Gentleman, food subsidies in 1974–75 were £518 million. They had been got down this year, 1977–78.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1633.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1635.1", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "Of course the right hon. Gentleman cannot stand it. He never could.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1635.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1636.2", "colnum": "1636", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "I have been listening to the right hon. Lady with great care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1636.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1636.2", "colnum": "1636", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "I have been listening to the right hon. Lady with great care. [ Interruption .]. This is supposed to be a confidence debate. What I have been waiting to hear is what arc the policies that she believes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1636.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1657.1", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "ilm round again, punctuated with the same devastating and unanswerable arguments in debate, but still coming to the same old disastrous close. But no, this time it was different. This time the denouement was not a miserable one. The denouement was a happy one—the opening out before us of common ground. Of course, the Chancellor will not be concurring too explicitly with everything that I am saying", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1670.3", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Encore!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "haps it is not. Perhaps it is more likely that she knows that By gradual steps, by steady effort from day to day, from year to year, Liberalism enlists hundreds of thousands upon the side of progress and popular democratic reform whom militant Socialism would drive into violent Tory reaction. That is why the Tory Party hate us. She will find those words very familiar. They are Winston's of course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1670.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1674.1", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose side are you on?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "Perhaps not by sensible monetarists, as the hon. Member for Blaby indicates. But there are not too many sensible monetarists about, and certainly none on this side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1674.1", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "cess for monetarism in Germany. Any such claim to success is therefore a fallacy. Because of public opinion throughout Europe, the Germans are now finding it difficult to push out guest workers. They are having to retain those workers. Consequently unemployment has now become, in Chancellor Schmidt's view, \"Problem No. 1\". In 1975 the gross national product in Germany fell by 3·2 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1678.5", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Member try to contain himself?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1678.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1685.1", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Macmillan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maurice Macmillan", "preceding_text": "on-Trent, Central (Mr. Cant) made some extremely interesting comments about exchange rates, the floating pound and their relationship to interest rates. I agree with most of what he said, and I hope therefore, that we can avoid another mistake which has, I believe, bedevilled past attempts to deal with these problems. I refer to an over-concentration on domestic remedies, on remedies here at home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1685.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1718.1", "colnum": "1718", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "hford and finally has been laid to rest at trade union conference after trade union conference in the past two weeks. When the Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived here last Friday to announce the ending of an epoch he carne to announce the death of the social contract. I shall borrow a rather curious phrase to describe it that was used in the verdict on the Treaty of Westphalia by Pope Innocent X.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1720.1", "colnum": "1720", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman puts a question which now goes fairly and squarely back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1720.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1723.0", "colnum": "1723", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "attle against inflation which was the original reason for coming into the agreement in the first place… Rather more forthrightly, the hon. Member for Cornwall, North said on Independent Radio News: If the unions cannot deliver on Phase 2 —he meant phase 3, but he always gets it wrong— then the Government will have to step in with some statutory measures. The Government has to hold the ring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1723.3", "colnum": "1723", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member tried to tell the House that he will stay with this Government as long as their resolve holds. The reason he gave for that, is that the Prime Minister may count on the support of the Liberal Party—if the Prime Minister finds this comforting—to buttress the resolve of the Government. If I may say so, I have never seen a but- tress in my life which looked more like a flying buttress—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1723.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1725.1", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "preceding_text": "etarists were right, the control that this Government have exercised over the money supply would guarantee inflation in single figures next year whatever happened to wages. The only one who believes that is the right hon. Member for Leeds, North-East. What we do believe is that we cannot master inflation unless we have control of the money supply, and we have had control ever since we took office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1725.1", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"To whom?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "preceding_text": "emed to take the same view in his speech, but he draws the conclusion, rejected by the right hon. Lady, that because confrontation is inevitable we must have a permanent statutory incomes policy which imposes legal penalties on working people. Surely my right hon. Friend's own experience has taught him that that cannot work, least of all after two years of a strict pay policy. If I may say to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1725.1", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "preceding_text": "frontation in a local area and will lead to catastrophe in a Cabinet. The right hon. Member for Sidcup, supported by the Opposition Front Bench, proved this not very long ago, when he was Prime Minister. My right hon. Friends and I believe that we must primarily rely on persuasion to get the outcome on earnings at which we are aiming. We know that confrontation may become inevitable in some cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1730.0", "colnum": "1730", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1730.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1733.3", "colnum": "1733", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I regret that I gave way for so trivial an intervention. I believe that the measures that we announced on Friday will help create the climate for common sense in wage negotiations, but we cannot guarantee success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1733.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1733.3", "colnum": "1733", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "d reached an agreement that did not infringe the guidance given by the TUC, I have no doubt that the TUC would consider whether the proposal was acceptable. The right hon. Lady said a good deal about me, and I deserve the right to reply. She did something to repair the morale of her party, but that is not surprising, because the twirl of the hockey stick is more exciting than the hum of the drone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1733.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1733.3", "colnum": "1733", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "he TUC would consider whether the proposal was acceptable. The right hon. Lady said a good deal about me, and I deserve the right to reply. She did something to repair the morale of her party, but that is not surprising, because the twirl of the hockey stick is more exciting than the hum of the drone. [ Interruption. ] I found something profoundly depressing in her shrill, relentless, single-note—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1733.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1736.2", "colnum": "1736", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Out, out.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "She asked whether we would subsidise nationalised industry prices—that from a member of the Government that wrecked the morale and discipline of the nationalised industries in order to get temporary political gain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1742.6", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection (Mr. Roy Hattersley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection (Mr. Roy Hattersley)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House cloth disagree with the Lords in the said amendment. I am sure that the House is in no mood for yet another Second Reading debate on the Price Commission Bill. Therefore, I shall say only three things about the amendment that their Lordships have found it proper to present to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1742.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1754.0", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about Manbre & Garton?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I do not care whether they are 50–50.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1754.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1754.2", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HOn. Members: \"Your Government\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "It is about 30 per cent. The BSC has apparently made such a fantastic profit that it has announced a 100 per cent. dividend increase—a 100 per cent. scrip issue. What are the Government doing?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1754.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1774.2", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "ation. The right hon. Gentleman should try to avoid putting politics into water. He has made a very murky mixture. He has clouded many of the issues upon which the reorganisation of the whole of the water cycle was carried out under the previous Conservative Administration. There is no dissent from the wisdom of our proposals and the effectiveness of them. particularly in the drought of last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1774.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1784.0", "colnum": "1784", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"5", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Jones", "preceding_text": "With the leave of the House, I should like to try to clear up the point about the affirmative resolution.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1784.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-07-20", "file": "debates1977-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "978c86d8634fa20d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1808.9", "colnum": "1808", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members Object. Motion made, That Mr. Eric Ogden and Mr. Cecil Parkinson be added to the Select Committee on House of Commons (Services).—[ Mr. Tinn .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-20a.1808.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-21", "file": "debates1977-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "f52d398979021547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-21a.1844.7", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TUC", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "When the Prime Minister meets the TUC on the many occasions on which he undoubtedly will in the near future, will he tell it that the members of the Cabinet are no longer going to orchestrate the view that Margaret Thatcher is almost—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-21a.1844.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-21", "file": "debates1977-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "f52d398979021547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-21a.1848.2", "colnum": "1848", "heading": "CABINET MINISTERS (COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILTY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heller", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend recall that I have personally made representations on this matter in the Chamber on a number of occasions? Is it not time that we updated the whole process to recognise that the Cabinet is not entirely in agreement on every issue?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-21a.1848.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-21", "file": "debates1977-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "f52d398979021547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-21a.1852.1", "colnum": "1852", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"And The Guardian. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I suggest to the House that it should dismiss from its mind all kinds of reports in The Times on that subject —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-21a.1852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-21", "file": "debates1977-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "f52d398979021547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-21a.1859.0", "colnum": "1859", "heading": "EDUCATION (GREEN PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Science and Paymaster General (Mrs. Shirley Williams)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Science and Paymaster General (Mrs. Shirley Williams)", "preceding_text": "ild upon the wide variety of provision already made and would aim to include the development of specialist centres on Mr. Stokes: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Would it be possible for the Secretary of State to read a little more slowly? It is very hard to follow her.a regional or national level. I now turn to an aspect of our proposals with which I should like to deal in slightly more detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-21a.1859.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-21", "file": "debates1977-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "f52d398979021547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-21a.1870.0", "colnum": "1870", "heading": "EDUCATION (GREEN PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "ial programme for mature students entering education who have experience in industry and elsewhere. We have also said that there should be the fostering of closer links between schools and local firms—with trade union interests as well as with employers. We have said that there should be an encouragement of the link programmes which, for example, Essex, Leicestershire and other councils undertake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-21a.1870.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-21", "file": "debates1977-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "f52d398979021547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-21a.1946.1", "colnum": "1946", "heading": "Clause 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " confidence about the future. What he said quite clearly was: Even at this stage I am, on balance, in favour of the reduced rate band rather than the 2p off the standard rate of income tax. That was not in the form of a question. The hon. Gentleman was quite clearly comparing the two possibilities and saying that one was better than the other. That disposes of that matter. The hon. Gentleman then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-21a.1946.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-21", "file": "debates1977-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "f52d398979021547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-21a.1947.3", "colnum": "1947", "heading": "Clause 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "te of VAT all round rather than two tiers of 8 per cent. and 12½ per cent. That is what we would do. That is why we shall be voting for the 33 per cent. tonight because we openly put forward the counterpart. It is not that public expenditure cannot be cut; it is rather that it takes a little time. Transfer payments such as food subsidies can be cut more quickly, but some things take longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-21a.1947.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-21", "file": "debates1977-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "f52d398979021547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-21a.1968.0", "colnum": "1968", "heading": "Clause 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Howell", "preceding_text": "ich the citizens should pay. Conditionality was never part of our creed and we are glad to see it go. The hon. Member for Cornwall, North (Mr. Pardoe) said that there were three ways of loking at conditionality. It sometimes seems that the Liberals have three ways of looking at everything nowadays —last week's, this week's and next week's. Sometimes, on some issues it seems that they have 63 ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-21a.1968.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-21", "file": "debates1977-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "f52d398979021547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-21a.1968.0", "colnum": "1968", "heading": "Clause 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Howell", "preceding_text": "n future. The level of income tax and the question whether there is still some supposed deal to be done with the unions are directly connected with the issue of the wealth tax, which according to recent reports is again very much a starter. We understand that the Chief Secretary is a member of a liaison committee with the TUC—not the one with the Liberals —which has been cooking up the wealth tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-21a.1968.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-21", "file": "debates1977-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "f52d398979021547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-21a.1973.1", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "Clause 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "preceding_text": "ience, recognised this problem in a recent television programme. He said, and it is worth quoting: If efforts were made to cut it\"— that is the level of direct taxation— by £5,000 million now there would be major problems. It would undoubtedly mean seriously cutting social service benefits. We all know that is the case, yet that is what the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey, East is saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-21a.1973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-21", "file": "debates1977-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "f52d398979021547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-21a.1973.1", "colnum": "1973", "heading": "Clause 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "preceding_text": " worth quoting: If efforts were made to cut it\"— that is the level of direct taxation— by £5,000 million now there would be major problems. It would undoubtedly mean seriously cutting social service benefits. We all know that is the case, yet that is what the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey, East is saying. [ Interruption .] Perhaps I should spell it out for the House and for the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-21a.1973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-21", "file": "debates1977-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "f52d398979021547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-21a.1979.4", "colnum": "1979", "heading": "Clause 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "Although these amendments have been grouped together and all concern—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-21a.1979.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-21", "file": "debates1977-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "f52d398979021547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-21a.1993.2", "colnum": "1993", "heading": "Clause 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman should not get excited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-21a.1993.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-21", "file": "debates1977-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "f52d398979021547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-21a.2025.0", "colnum": "2025", "heading": "Clause 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wakeham", "preceding_text": "antial, but in practice I suggest that it is nowhere near as substantial as it might appear. Amendment No. 13 seeks to correct a disadvantage applying to groups of small companies which are associated for corporation tax purposes. In many instances, when a group of companies is associated for corporation tax purposes the small business relief is divided among them, which can produce a most unfair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-21a.2025.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-22", "file": "debates1977-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "ce2c3e995c7f3d61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-22a.2053.2", "colnum": "2053", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURE MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Stewart", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that his manner and attitude in these negotiations has the full approval of my hon. Friends and myself?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-22a.2053.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-22", "file": "debates1977-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "ce2c3e995c7f3d61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-22a.2058.0", "colnum": "2058", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURE MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister accept that it is not really good enough to ride off criticisms of his tactics by saying that he is standing up for British interests?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-22a.2058.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-22", "file": "debates1977-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "ce2c3e995c7f3d61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-22a.2096.3", "colnum": "2096", "heading": "PATENTS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clinton Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clinton Davis", "preceding_text": " us, not having great knowledge of the industries concerned, or of the impact of our decisions about one industry on other industries, to judge whether this subjective special commercial pleading will be damaging to other interests.\"—[ Official Report, Standing Committee D , 5th July 1977; c. 223.] The hon. Member put that elegantly and fairly. However, having said that, we have to make decisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-22a.2096.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-25", "file": "debates1977-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7dd9fb1a19e5cac7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-25a.31.1", "colnum": "31", "heading": "POSTAL SERVICES (NORTH-WEST LONDON)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "The Post Office has put to me that it would be as well for the Government to consider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-25a.31.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-25", "file": "debates1977-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7dd9fb1a19e5cac7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-25a.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give an example.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "jects it and wishes to go back to a qualified franchise. The question of having a permanent mission in Salisbury has been under constant and careful thought. I openly admit that on a number of occasions we have been on the point of doing something and Mr. Smith has responded in a way which gives one cause to doubt his genuine commitment both to the purposes of the Anglo-United States consultation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-25a.35.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-25", "file": "debates1977-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7dd9fb1a19e5cac7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-25a.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "tment both to the purposes of the Anglo-United States consultation—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Give an example.\"] On one occasion, for instance, he took the decision to have a raid 80 miles into Mozambique. On a further occasion there was a question of putting into detention people who would normally be involved in any process of elections. Now, without consultation with anyone—as he is entitled to do—he has—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-25a.35.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-25", "file": "debates1977-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7dd9fb1a19e5cac7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-25a.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "MEMBERS: \"Give an example.\"] On one occasion, for instance, he took the decision to have a raid 80 miles into Mozambique. On a further occasion there was a question of putting into detention people who would normally be involved in any process of elections. Now, without consultation with anyone—as he is entitled to do—he has—[ Interruption .] We do not recognise his régime. He is de facto —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-25a.35.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-25", "file": "debates1977-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7dd9fb1a19e5cac7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-25a.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is an illegal Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "le who would normally be involved in any process of elections. Now, without consultation with anyone—as he is entitled to do—he has—[ Interruption .] We do not recognise his régime. He is de facto —[ Interruption .] I was just saying that we do not recognise his régime. But he is entitled, if he wishes to, to call an election. That is a de facto fact of life that I have to live with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-25a.35.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-25", "file": "debates1977-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7dd9fb1a19e5cac7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-25a.55.2", "colnum": "55", "heading": "BRITISH LEYLAND (FINANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "Resources are being made available to British Leyland in accordance with its developments and the advice received from the NEB. I do not accept that British Leyland's models are obsolete. What we are talking about is a company which did achieve profitability but which can do better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-25a.55.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-25", "file": "debates1977-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7dd9fb1a19e5cac7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-25a.81.0", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is wrong with that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "is being written into this Bill we are increasing the propensity of Governments to allow expenditure to outstrip revenue. The Chief Secretary was therefore right when—turning my argument through 90 degrees, but it is still the same point—he said to his hon. Friends below the Gangway that they were in danger of putting more pressure upon the total of public expenditure. That, indeed, is the effect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-25a.81.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-25", "file": "debates1977-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7dd9fb1a19e5cac7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-25a.107.0", "colnum": "107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "re that the House, listening to the anger of the hon. Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Rooker), will appreciate how stunned he feels himself to be for the way in which he and the hon. Member for Coventry, South-West (Mrs. Wise) have been—and I can put it no other way—conned by my hon. Friend the Member for Blaby (Mr. Lawson) and have adopted a measure of general indexation without realising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-25a.107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-25", "file": "debates1977-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7dd9fb1a19e5cac7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-25a.177.3", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 32", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "te—presumably the Home Secretary —should certify that there exists a special threat to the security of the employee concerned. I am delighted that paragraph ( c ) should have been amended and should no longer be restricted to employees of the Crown. But I wonder how this test will be applied in practice and whether the Financial Secretary can assert with as much confidence as he did in Committee —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-25a.177.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-25", "file": "debates1977-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7dd9fb1a19e5cac7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-25a.188.3", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 33", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": " who may have some fine pieces of furniture, not of his choice but that of his predecessors or of the college itself, in his wife's bedroom is to get relief under subsection (3) of Clause 33? The right hon. Gentleman was not entirely helpful in his replies in Committee, and therefore I want to direct his attention back to these considerable problems because unless they are resolved satisfactorily—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-25a.188.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-25", "file": "debates1977-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7dd9fb1a19e5cac7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-25a.188.3", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 33", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": " Secretary has been responsible. It might be that he will pass the responsibility back to his right hon. Friend the Member for Dudley, East (Dr. Gilbert) whom I see lurking a little uncertainly by your Chair, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Perhaps I should not endeavour to draw two Front Bench spokesmen into this debate, although no doubt their contributions would be listened to with fascination and respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-25a.188.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-25", "file": "debates1977-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7dd9fb1a19e5cac7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-25a.231.1", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "preceding_text": "r of the Exchequer introduced his Budget on 29th March, nearly four months ago. We have seen a continuance of the partial conversion of the Treasury Bench to the economic policies put forward by my right hon. and learned Friends. We have seen a commitment by this Administration to the importance of monetary control, although its monetary policies have not been as strict as they ought to have been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-25a.231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-25", "file": "debates1977-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7dd9fb1a19e5cac7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-25a.234.8", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Moate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Declare your interest.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Moate", "preceding_text": "s one of the most vital clauses of the Bill. Clause 3 sets out a whole range of permutations describing the criteria necessary for a broker to qualify for registration. It is something of a relief that these various criteria are alternatives, because the word \"or\" was inserted as a result of another amendment I moved at Report stage. Otherwise the fear was that they would be cumulative conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-25a.234.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-25", "file": "debates1977-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7dd9fb1a19e5cac7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-25a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Body", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Body", "preceding_text": "(whether incorporated or not) carrying on insurance business\". But what is meant by a firm \"carrying on\"? One may seek the aid of a legal dictionary, but that does not take one much further. In law, one can be carrying on a business although one is not actively engaged in it. That may sound a complete nonsense, but I can take an example from my own profession. A barrister may be utterly briefless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-25a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.279.6", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arnold Shaw", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arnold Shaw", "preceding_text": "Is it not time that the myth of parental choice was dispelled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.279.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.286.7", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "ection of the proposals for democratising the Arts Council made by the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, North-East (Mrs. Short)? Although we would not wish to have a separate Ministry for the arts, will the Minister consider, in recognition of the fact that this country has emerged as a world power in the arts, changing the name of his Department to the Department of Education, Science and the Arts?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.286.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Weetch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Weetch", "preceding_text": "ill my hon. Friend take note that last year, under the heading of \"mobile sculpture\", three students walked around East Anglia with a yellow plank on their heads? Will he also take note that in that artistic tour of East Anglia the students called in at a good proportion of pubs on the way? Will he also take note of the fact that this artistic escapade was financed by grants from the Arts Council?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.288.2", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "I am aware that there have been difficulties in some counties in the last year, although it is right and fair to say that the Government wanted to give some priority to inner city areas, from which I do not dissociate myself", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.288.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.290.0", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jackson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jackson", "preceding_text": "usly concerned. Therefore, in one or two areas such as Leicester there is a demand to reduce the power of county councils. I must say to my hon. and learned Friend that this is not a matter for my Department and that, although we are aware of the difficulties that have been created in some areas, we very much hope that those difficulties can be resolved by local negotiation and local co-operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.292.2", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What a shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "preceding_text": "Did the right hon. Lady receive any representations about the increased number of free school meals? Does she realise that in East Sussex alone this will cost the county council £6,300 per school day?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.292.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.297.3", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "With respect, Mr. Speaker, may I put my point of order to you now? I shall be brief. Have you considered that, if you adopt this practice, the effect will be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.297.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.298.0", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disappointing?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I have forecast, the unemployment figures are disappointing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister accept—in spite of all the protestations of the Leader of the Opposition and some of her supporters—the view expressed this morning in the City and on the Stock Exchange—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.303.4", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that the Government's policies are not succeeding. They have been shown con- sistently to be succeeding. That is why, every time there appears to be a threat of the Government being challenged, there is a substantial decline in confidence at home and overseas. As to the future, the House and the country must accept that the world's unemployment figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.303.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "HONOURABLE MEMBERS (SUPPLY OF PAPERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "preceding_text": ". He says that it comes in the same category as documents about getting fleas out of pigs' ears and other such technical works that can be s applied to me only if I can say, not once but twice, that they are required for the: performance of my parliamentary duties. I do not think that there is a single hon. Member—except the Minister of State—who would be prepared to put up with such an absurdity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.305.3", "colnum": "305", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has raised an important matter. We have been conducting an experiment on Prime Minister's Questions and it is due to finish this week. Obviously it is the wish of the House that the Opposition Front Bench should be heard during Prime Minister's Question Time", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.305.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.306.2", "colnum": "306", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Could we agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.306.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.344.0", "colnum": "344", "heading": "CONDUCT OF MEMBERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I would say to the House that, above all on occasions like this, I am a servant of the House, as I am conscious that I always am. If I discover that it is the general feeling of the House that common fair play—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.374.3", "colnum": "374", "heading": "CONDUCT OF MEMBERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman misunderstood me. I did not say that standards had changed. I said that the preoccupations and the relative importance of various considerations in this matter were different.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.374.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "CONDUCT OF MEMBERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": " Gentleman had every opportunity of explaining his financial relationship with Mr. Poulson and the company. We can compare that with what he said in the letter. If the hon. and learned Member is asking me whether it would not have been wiser for the Committee to have asked the right hon. Gentleman directly about the letter, I say that it would have been because we would have removed a bogus point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "CONDUCT OF MEMBERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": " not only for the reasons adumbrated by the Attorney-General but so that he could make his specific observations about that particular matter. My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Hendon, South (Mr.Thomas), with characteristic fairness, accepts that that was a mistake by the Committee. The fair and logical inference is that the House should content itself with taking note of the Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "CONDUCT OF MEMBERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "I have given way twice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.424.3", "colnum": "424", "heading": "CONDUCT OF MEMBERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyon", "preceding_text": "I do not find it surprising that my hon. Friend the Member for Normanton should have nominated a man who at that time, as he says, was pristine. He keeps on putting the point—no doubt it seems funny to the rest of us—that the man was actually a freeman of the borough of Pontefract, or, at any rate, a man with considerable authority and substance in the area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.424.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "CONDUCT OF MEMBERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Francis Pym", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Pym", "preceding_text": " the debate. That is a change which I believe has come to stay for all time if ever such circumstances arise again. After this debate today and this particular case it is very likely that the House will want to alter the procedure. The important speech of my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Hertford-shire, East (Sir D. Walker-Smith) would be a very good starting point for that process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.427.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.437.0", "colnum": "437", "heading": "CONDUCT OF MEMBERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.436.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.473.6", "colnum": "473", "heading": "MEMBERS' OFFICE, SECRETARIAL AND RESEARCH ALLOWANCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "preceding_text": "With permission, and in accordance with your ruling, Mr. Deputy Speaker, on 7th July when the House agreed not to proceed with the business before it, I shall in the first instance pro-pose that the House should consider all three motions that are before us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.473.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.473.14", "colnum": "473", "heading": "MEMBERS' OFFICE, SECRETARIAL AND RESEARCH ALLOWANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I fully accept it, Mr. Deputy Speaker, if hon. Members wish No. 4 to be taken separately. However, I think that it would be for the greater convenience of the House at this time of night if we had a discussion on all three matters together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.473.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.478.2", "colnum": "478", "heading": "MEMBERS' OFFICE, SECRETARIAL AND RESEARCH ALLOWANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": " set out in the motion. I am not suggesting, of course, that we are not all honourable Members. I am sure that no hon. Member of this House would claim a halfpenny for any purpose which was not narrowly within the terms of this motion. Not at all. But we ought to he prepared to certify that this is so and submit ourselves to the same régime as the rest of our fellow-citizens have to accept.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.478.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "MEMBERS' OFFICE, SECRETARIAL AND RESEARCH ALLOWANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "That is not the point that I was making. The disbursements that are reimbursed under this order are not, to the best of my knowledge, checked by the Inland Revenue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.498.2", "colnum": "498", "heading": "MEMBERS' SALARIES AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "preceding_text": "on (Mr. Roberts) they were allowed back into the Chamber. A Labour Member objected to that and Mr. Speaker rightly said that if the right hon. Member for Chipping Barnet and the hon. Member for Norman-ton wanted to intervene they should be allowed to do so because there is no distinction between hon. Members at all. I think that the phrase that he used was that they were not second-class citizens.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.498.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.498.2", "colnum": "498", "heading": "MEMBERS' SALARIES AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "preceding_text": "now that he is an expert in doing that, but he should keep them for another debate. The point is that this two-tier structure is unacceptable. The illogicality of the two-tier system is enshrined in an amendment in the name of the hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Mr. Cunningham). to which the Leader of the House will object, because those hon. Members who accepted the £312 last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.498.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.498.2", "colnum": "498", "heading": "MEMBERS' SALARIES AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "preceding_text": "le to review our pay and allowances. Lord Boyle reported way back in 1971. The only Leader of the House to accept Boyle in total was my right hon. Friend the Member for Penrith and The Border (Mr. Whitelaw), who said that this whole establishment of allowances and rates of pay was distasteful and he had asked Lord Boyle to do this distasteful work for us. That was the method that was decided upon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.498.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "MEMBERS' SALARIES AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Ridley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Ridley", "preceding_text": " will mean the horrible thing that the House will have to decide its own salaries for itself. What I find awful about this debate is the number of hon. Members who have used the word \"embarrassing\". They are all acutely embarrassed at having to fix their own salaries. They all want someone else to do it for them. One hon. Member wants Lord Boyle to do it, but most want the Lord President to do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "MEMBERS' SALARIES AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "If hon. Members were to say that because of some change in our arrangements we now want to apply for the earlier £6 they would be allocating to themselves a higher increase in this period than is allowed to others under the pay policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.525.2", "colnum": "525", "heading": "MINISTERIAL AND OTHER SALARIES", "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": "I would still seek to ask the House to approve the motion dealing with ministerial and other salaries. It would be unfair not to Members of this House but to some Members of another place if we were not to pass the motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.525.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.558.2", "colnum": "558", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (SOUND BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "preceding_text": "That interjection is not entirely correct. It is a question of who should own it, and I take it from the Second Report of the Joint Committee that where the ownership lies is not an important question. So it is not a question of giving something away, although the Joint Committee did mention that one would be able to control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.558.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-07-26", "file": "debates1977-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "cd016ab6069f0505", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.573.7", "colnum": "573", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made , That this House doth agree with the Select Committee on House of Commons (Services) in their Fifth Rep art, on Computer-based Indexing for the Library.—[ Mr. Walter Harrison .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-26a.573.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-07-27", "file": "debates1977-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "43897abaed91e7a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.619.3", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "I should like to put it now, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.619.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-07-27", "file": "debates1977-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "43897abaed91e7a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.634.2", "colnum": "634", "heading": "THE RIGHT HONOURABLE MEMBER FOR VAUXHALL (EARLY-DAY MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": ", Mr. Speaker. My point is on an entirely different matter. I apologise in advance if I in any way embarrass you. However, I am bewildered, because on the Order Paper today there is a motion that expresses the view of a number of right hon. and hon. Members of the Opposition who say that they have no confidence in the Father of the House, my right hon. Friend the Member for Vauxhall (Mr. Strauss).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.634.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-27", "file": "debates1977-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "43897abaed91e7a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPEAL OF SECTION 3 OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT 1961", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": " people rather than rehabilitate them. This is the issue of principle, which we have not discussed. The initiative and pressure for the deletion of Section 3 of the 1961 Act has come from the judiciary. The pressure comes from the Law Lords and from nobody else. One can understand that the judiciary wants its sentencing policy unfettered, and presumably wants to be able to impose longer sentences.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.712.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-07-27", "file": "debates1977-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "43897abaed91e7a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "preceding_text": "With the leave of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-27", "file": "debates1977-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "43897abaed91e7a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.782.3", "colnum": "782", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION (CONTINUATION OFENACTMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I absolutely and completely deny every word of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.782.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-27", "file": "debates1977-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "43897abaed91e7a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.783.1", "colnum": "783", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION (CONTINUATION OFENACTMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I was about to deal with the so-called control of prices, which is part of this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.783.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-27", "file": "debates1977-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "43897abaed91e7a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.787.1", "colnum": "787", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION (CONTINUATION OFENACTMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "very difficult task whenever she is on her feet speaking. The task is to hide carefully from the electorate her party's policies and her personal policy, which is against the consumer. In order to do that, the hon. Lady carefully burns the midnight oil preparing a lot of twaddle and nonsense so that the electorate should not know and see the kind of anti-consumer policy that she always represents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-27", "file": "debates1977-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "43897abaed91e7a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.787.1", "colnum": "787", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION (CONTINUATION OFENACTMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ask the Liberals.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "tion. She tried to escape in a quotation from her right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition, who no more answered the essential question when it was put to her. The quotation will not help the hon. Lady. If the Opposition criticise the emptiness of the order—as they put it—they have to answer the question of whether they want a statutory incomes policy. Let us have an answer to that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.787.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-07-27", "file": "debates1977-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "43897abaed91e7a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION (CONTINUATION OFENACTMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Several Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Several Hon. Members rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.789.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-27", "file": "debates1977-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "43897abaed91e7a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.789.4", "colnum": "789", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION (CONTINUATION OFENACTMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "ans and post-Keynesians—and not enough Keynesians—who do not understand the capitalist economic system. I recommend that there should be an early recruitment of a few more Keynesians into the offices of the Chancellor. The position is—this will cause a sensation among the Tories—as was rightly pointed out by the Liberal Party spokesman during the economic debate in a profoundly interesting speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.789.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-27", "file": "debates1977-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "43897abaed91e7a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.791.3", "colnum": "791", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION (CONTINUATION OFENACTMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "t has been at fault in the British economy during the past 14 or 18 months is that deflation has been carried too far, that wage and salary levels have been too low and that not enough money has been distributed in wages and salaries, with the result that not enough has been bought, that there has not been enough purchasing power about, and that that is why the level of unemployment has increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.791.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-27", "file": "debates1977-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "43897abaed91e7a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.791.3", "colnum": "791", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION (CONTINUATION OFENACTMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "ages and salaries, with the result that not enough has been bought, that there has not been enough purchasing power about, and that that is why the level of unemployment has increased. [ Interruption .] The lesson for the Government is that the only way in which the level of un- employment can be reduced is by increasing wages and salaries and thereby allowing people to have more purchasing power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.791.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-27", "file": "debates1977-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "43897abaed91e7a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION (CONTINUATION OFENACTMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "e not all sections are equally powerful, and the General Council has made a correct appeal to those who are powerful in industrial life to think of those in the lower income groups, the less well-organised sections, and many people in between. That applies not only to wage earners but to many salaried people in many positions. The decisive guideline for my right hon. Friend—and I conclude on this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-27", "file": "debates1977-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "43897abaed91e7a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION (CONTINUATION OFENACTMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "ve that the technical reply that we shall have from my hon. Friend the Minister of State on prices and dividends and the answer to the propagandist questions of the hon. Member for Gloucester are the crux of the debate. The crux is in the Cabinet. The Government should without delay announce the cancellation of the IMF loan and the beginning of a policy of creating public works and new employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-27", "file": "debates1977-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "43897abaed91e7a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.803.1", "colnum": "803", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION (CONTINUATION OFENACTMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "eated as individual shareholdings. Most trust shares, for example, are held by trustees. I declare an interest. I am a trustee myself of one or two settlements from my time as a chartered accountant. Those shares are registered in my name as a trustee. They are part of a personal holding. The point is that the overwhelming proportion of dividends goes now to the pension funds and the institutions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-27", "file": "debates1977-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "43897abaed91e7a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.809.3", "colnum": "809", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION (CONTINUATION OFENACTMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "e also have the choice of proceeding on the realistic basis of consent and understanding with the representatives of millions of workers. To proceed on that basis of consent is the most realistic and most sensible way in which to go about these matters, and it is a way, incidentally, which has been agreed and adopted over the past two years. It is a way that has worked and has been without breach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.809.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-07-27", "file": "debates1977-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "43897abaed91e7a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.810.3", "colnum": "810", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION (CONTINUATION OFENACTMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "We have been buffeted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.810.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-27", "file": "debates1977-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "43897abaed91e7a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.811.2", "colnum": "811", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION (CONTINUATION OFENACTMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "—by forces beyond our control, such as a devaluation and a fall in the value of sterling, and by the drought last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.811.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-27", "file": "debates1977-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "43897abaed91e7a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.811.2", "colnum": "811", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION (CONTINUATION OFENACTMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "—by forces beyond our control, such as a devaluation and a fall in the value of sterling, and by the drought last year. [ Interruption .] Yes. They are two items that have affected gravely that most sensitive area of prices—food prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.811.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-27", "file": "debates1977-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "43897abaed91e7a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.812.1", "colnum": "812", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION (CONTINUATION OFENACTMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "ng that I have heard tonight from the Opposition, including particularly the giggling and the lightheartedness with which some hon. Members approach these matters a few minutes before the debate is to end, leads me to believe that they want to see success. Why it that? They have invested pretty heavily in failure and they are now sick with the bitter taste of the success of the present Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-27", "file": "debates1977-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "43897abaed91e7a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.822.0", "colnum": "822", "heading": "REDUNDANCY PAYMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. A matter of principle is involved here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.822.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-27", "file": "debates1977-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "43897abaed91e7a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.833.1", "colnum": "833", "heading": "REDUNDANCY PAYMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "istened with great respect to the hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Mr. Cunningham), and, of course, it may well be that in the future responsibility for seeing to these matters is transferred. But, as it is at present, I have allowed a long run of points of order on this matter, and, since there is nothing that I can do about it tonight, I now suggest that we go on with the business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-27", "file": "debates1977-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "43897abaed91e7a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.836.4", "colnum": "836", "heading": "REDUNDANCY PAYMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sitting.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "preceding_text": "that he should be skulking around behind your Chair, Mr. Speaker, and is not prepared to show his face in the Chamber? He used to think of himself as a parliamentarian, but he has not got the guts to come here and to say, as Leader of the House, what is to be done. It is monstrously disgraceful behaviour by the Leader of the House. Is it not right, Mr. Speaker, that you should suspend the session—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.836.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-27", "file": "debates1977-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "43897abaed91e7a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.837.0", "colnum": "837", "heading": "REDUNDANCY PAYMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "preceding_text": "It is essential that something should be done to protect you, Mr. Speaker, from what is going on. Surely the Leader of the House is required to explain the position. It cannot be accepted that simply because, with the present Leader of the House, this sort of thing has happened before, it may continue. It has happened far too often in the past. The House cannot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.837.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-27", "file": "debates1977-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "43897abaed91e7a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.838.0", "colnum": "838", "heading": "REDUNDANCY PAYMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"We want 634 copies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "ultant instrument has no effect. Maybe, as we have no Act, this is a case where the delegated legislation would have no effect. How can I possibly know, if the Act is not before the House? Therefore, I would suggest that the sitting should be suspended for 15 minutes. Within that time the Minister could take the Act to a photo-copying machine and we could have 20 copies of it brought to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.838.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-27", "file": "debates1977-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "43897abaed91e7a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.843.3", "colnum": "843", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Law Officers' Department (Mr. Arthur Davidson)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Law Officers' Department (Mr. Arthur Davidson)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. I move the Second Reading extremely briefly. This is a purely consolidation Bill. It consolidates certain provisions relating the National Health Service—namely, the National Health Service Acts 1946 to 1976, the Public Health Laboratory Act 1936—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.843.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-27", "file": "debates1977-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "43897abaed91e7a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.854.2", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "ntly as possible, it is the consumer who will suffer. I should like to hear what the Minister thinks will ensure that in the proposals which he is commending to the House there is no ganging up by unions and management—protected by a statutory monopoly from the competition that ensues in the private sector—against the consumer interest. Those of us who are familiar with the effects of competition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-27a.854.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-28", "file": "debates1977-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e8394fb994e405dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.928.2", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.928.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-28", "file": "debates1977-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e8394fb994e405dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.930.3", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Very well. I shall try to give the right hon. Lady even more information than I have given her so far—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.930.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-28", "file": "debates1977-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e8394fb994e405dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.934.0", "colnum": "934", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There are no rules about this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.934.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-28", "file": "debates1977-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e8394fb994e405dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.958.0", "colnum": "958", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "partment of Industry he will get a proper reply.\"—[ Official Report , 21st July 1977; Vol. 935, c. 1843.] There seems to be some sort of contradiction there in that the Prime Minister was suggesting that my hon. Friend should put the detailed Question to him and it would not be transferred, yet a couple of lines later he was suggesting that it ought really to be put to the Department for Industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.958.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-28", "file": "debates1977-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e8394fb994e405dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.994.1", "colnum": "994", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "n considerable anger. I was then told—and the combine was very apologetic—that it was very sorry, but it also operated in another part of the country where its Member of Parliament was, as it happened, a then hon. Member of extreme Left-wing tendencies, who regularly berated the private enterprise system. It had given him a retainer and felt it right to even the matter up by giving me one as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-28", "file": "debates1977-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e8394fb994e405dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1018.2", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": "I follow the practice, as a full-time hon. Member, of being here to attend important debates and I expect the same of other right hon. and hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1018.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-28", "file": "debates1977-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e8394fb994e405dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1041.1", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ns that I am sure he fully understands. The hon. Member for Woking (Mr. Onslow) has departed, so perhaps we can treat his speech with all the solemnity it deserves—and I move straight on to the speech of my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Leicester, West (Mr. Janner), who has also departed. The question now is whether we should give him equal treatment to that of the hon. Member for Woking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-28", "file": "debates1977-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e8394fb994e405dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1261.0", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES (PAY AND ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "preceding_text": "e phrases. I do not think that that is so. I do not join in that hue and cry. In general, despite being blatantly under-paid, the forces are angry. However, they still perform their duties in a way that makes them the envy of our partners in NATO. Certainly they have the admiration of the whole world. Above all, our Service men have a pride in themselves and a pride in the job that they are doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1261.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-28", "file": "debates1977-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e8394fb994e405dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1265.1", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES (PAY AND ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "and where rents are higher. It is wrong that they should be worse off as a result of being posted to Northern Ireland. The vital question of Army pay and conditions in Northern Ireland has been raised on many occasions in the House. Time and again hon. Members in all parts of the House have urged Ministers to take action to remedy the situation. Many of these men are living below the poverty line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1265.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-07-28", "file": "debates1977-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e8394fb994e405dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1276.0", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES (PAY AND ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No!", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. The House is accustomed to Governments moving the closure on Consolidated Fund Bill debates at an early stage on the morning after the start of the Second Reading. That did not matter so much in the days when the House and Back Benchers in particular exercised effective control over Government expenditure. That has not been the case for some considerable time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1275.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-28", "file": "debates1977-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e8394fb994e405dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1277.5", "colnum": "1277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES (PAY AND ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We could go on for another two weeks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Should there not be a statement from the Leader of the House, who is now in consultation with the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, about the Government's intentions for the remainder of today? When the Government can get only 55 hon. Members to support them in the Lobby, it leaves us in a state of bewilderment about the rest of today's proceedings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1277.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-28", "file": "debates1977-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e8394fb994e405dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1310.3", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION (BERMUDA AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "As always, my hon. Friend puts it quite beautifully in a nutshell. In the aura of the noted Dr. Witteveen, who is keeping an eye upon us in the kindly manner in which he operates in the IMF, I shall come to a conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1310.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-28", "file": "debates1977-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e8394fb994e405dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1311.2", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION (BERMUDA AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": " that my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Kinross and West Perthshire (Mr. Fair-bairn) will not unduly criticise British Airways. It is quite the best of our nationalised industries. When we find a nationalised industry that is running as well as British Airways we should say so and support the management that is trying to make it better, and the staff who work at making it as good as it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1311.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-28", "file": "debates1977-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e8394fb994e405dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1314.4", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION (BERMUDA AGREEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "Name him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1314.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-28", "file": "debates1977-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e8394fb994e405dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1324.1", "colnum": "1324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "—neither of whom was an overgrown schoolboy and neither of whom was senile, which was a great advantage, as the hon. Member for Watford (Mr. Tuck) may or may not appreciate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-28", "file": "debates1977-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e8394fb994e405dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1334.2", "colnum": "1334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Godman Irvine. Did I correctly understand a moment ago that it was your ruling that we are not allowed to have the debate on the motion, That the clause stand part of the Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1334.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-28", "file": "debates1977-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e8394fb994e405dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1335.2", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Godman Irvine. I am now confused and I seek your assistance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1335.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-28", "file": "debates1977-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e8394fb994e405dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1346.0", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": " different word he was in order, but that if he actually got on to the substantive question whether there should be a different word he would be out of order. The right hon. Gentleman was able to discuss in quite a light-hearted and, indeed, at times almost frivolous manner the various possible meanings of the word \"may\". I do not intend to follow the right hon. Gentleman's example on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-28", "file": "debates1977-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e8394fb994e405dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1371.1", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "I was sitting here and I heard it. The thought entered my mind that the same argument could affect all our Armed Forces—not that the Tories care very much about them when there is a Labour Government. They would not mind seeing this island defenceless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-07-28", "file": "debates1977-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "e8394fb994e405dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1371.4", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "preceding_text": "I was coming to that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-07-28a.1371.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-10-26", "file": "debates1977-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "28d96b7becb15d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-10-26a.1456.3", "colnum": "1456", "heading": "The Economic Prospect", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I read the literature as assiduously as no doubt the hon. Gentleman does—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-10-26a.1456.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-10-26", "file": "debates1977-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "28d96b7becb15d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-10-26a.1459.3", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "The Economic Prospect", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I read an opinion poll on the police. I was rather surprised to find in the opinion poll that, when asked whether the police should be treated as a special case, a quarter of those asked said \"No\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-10-26a.1459.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-03", "file": "debates1977-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "2ffdd9f3e0436b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-03a.10.8", "colnum": "10", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Bradley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Bradley", "preceding_text": "country's membership of the European Economic Community, I naturally welcome the Government's intention to reintroduce the Bill, to provide for direct elections to the European Parliament—a principle which was endorsed by a majority of nearly three to one in this House on 7th July this year. Let us remind ourselves that Britain is in the Community. There is a treaty commitment to direct elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-03a.10.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-03", "file": "debates1977-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "2ffdd9f3e0436b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-03a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "hat we should very much welcome. On the question of defence, I would only say to the right hon. Lady that it every other NATO country spent the same proportion of its gross national product as we spend on defence, the troubles of NATO would have been over long since. I seem to remember that whereas we cut about £200 million off our defence budget in the last round of public expenditure reductions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-03a.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-03", "file": "debates1977-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "2ffdd9f3e0436b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-03a.28.1", "colnum": "28", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I shall come to the hon. Gentleman's troubles a little later, if that is agreeable. Obviously, the fact that the Government are in a minority in the House makes the task of legislation more difficult. It does not impede the Government on administrative matters, except where the administrative decisions need later to be submitted to Parliament, and then we tend to get into trouble.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-03a.28.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-03", "file": "debates1977-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "2ffdd9f3e0436b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-03a.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House should make the normal business reply in due course. I think that even the hon. Member for Carmarthen (Mr. Evans) will understand that it is not possible to be running two Bills in the same afternoon in the same debating chamber, but I want to make clear to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-03a.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-03", "file": "debates1977-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "2ffdd9f3e0436b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-03a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " a single Member by a simple majority. I notice the right hon. Lady's early attempt to get an alibi on the subject. The system that will be chosen will be important because the choice of system will determine the date of the first elections. With the list system the elections can take place in 1978, whereas with the traditional first-past-the-post system the elections could not be held until 1979.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-03a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-03", "file": "debates1977-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "2ffdd9f3e0436b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-03a.32.1", "colnum": "32", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "h the list system the elections can take place in 1978, whereas with the traditional first-past-the-post system the elections could not be held until 1979. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not? ] That will have to be discussed when the Bill comes before the House, but it is basically because of the difficulties of delimiting constituencies in accordance with the practices and traditions laid down by the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-03a.32.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-03", "file": "debates1977-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "2ffdd9f3e0436b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-03a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The answer is \"Yes \", in terms of tax deductions. What I am saying is that the average—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-03a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-03", "file": "debates1977-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "2ffdd9f3e0436b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-03a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The answer is \"Yes \", in terms of tax deductions. What I am saying is that the average—[ Interruption. ] Let us have this argument on another day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-03a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-03", "file": "debates1977-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "2ffdd9f3e0436b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-03a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tions. What I am saying is that the average—[ Interruption. ] Let us have this argument on another day—[ Interruption. ] Very well, let us do it now, but I ask hon. Members not to complain if I take a long time, because I still have other things to say. In 1973–74, the average earnings of a married man with two children under 11 was £44·80 a week. In 1977–78, it is £80 a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-03a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-03", "file": "debates1977-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "2ffdd9f3e0436b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-03a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "y offset by increased imports of manufactures, although not to the same extent. As my hon. Friend the Member for Hemel Hempstead said, some of our most important industries, such as footwear, textiles, shipbuilding, steel and clothing, have been passing through a difficult time. Now we are in a position to go for growth. Now we have overcome the inflationary spiral, not a boom which will collapse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-03a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-03", "file": "debates1977-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "2ffdd9f3e0436b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-03a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e been written in the Book of Exodus. I know that the right hon. Member for Lowestoft (Mr. Prior) has got to watch his back a little, but we shall look after him. He need not worry. I was trying to say that we are in a position to go for growth but not a boom which will collapse. We do not intend to do that and we shall not be pushed into that position. What we want is steady and sustained growth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-03a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-03", "file": "debates1977-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "2ffdd9f3e0436b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-03a.47.2", "colnum": "47", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Wainwright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Wainwright", "preceding_text": "d out and sincere views of his own about devolution. He was indicating his own attitude when the Prime Minister told him that if he did not vote for the two devolution measures he would not be able to vote for much else. I for one would like to know from the Prime Minister more of what lies behind this, and particularly before we reach the Bill on direct elections. It is enlightenment that I seek.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-03a.47.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-03", "file": "debates1977-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "2ffdd9f3e0436b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-03a.76.1", "colnum": "76", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Gag.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Smith", "preceding_text": "ker took the view that a Back-Bench Member of my party —or, to put it another way, an unofficial spokesman—should be invited to address the House rather than what are described as official spokesmen. I make that point because I understand that representations were made to Mr. Speaker by my party that official spokesmen of the party were the people who should be called to speak on its behalf today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-03a.76.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-03", "file": "debates1977-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "2ffdd9f3e0436b98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-03a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "SERVICE MEN (HOUSING)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Defence for the Royal Navy (Mr. A. E. P. Duffy)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Defence for the Royal Navy (Mr. A. E. P. Duffy)", "preceding_text": "way. This may sound of little consequence, but those hon. Members present—and I acknowledge their standing in this area —know that this matter bristles with difficulties. I have chosen to start here not only because I was invited to do so but because my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Defence for the Royal Air Force has written to the hon. Member for Aldershot recently on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-03a.138.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-11-04", "file": "debates1977-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "998eb313a6e41c07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-04a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman speaking for everyone in the Liberal Party?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "preceding_text": "uch strategems and instead concentrate on more constructive measures. There are indications today that this might be the Opposition attitude, although one cannot always take on trust what comes from the Opposition Front Bench. As the hon. Member for Chelmsford (Mr. St. John-Stevas) rightly said. he could not speak for Labour Members, and he certainly could not speak for every one in his own party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-04a.203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-04", "file": "debates1977-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "998eb313a6e41c07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-04a.226.1", "colnum": "226", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raison:", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raison:", "preceding_text": "that—by the time that Privy Councilors have had their say and by the time that Government supporters have taken up half the time, the chances of a Conservative Back Bencher having an opportunity to speak are to all intents and purposes nil. Looking at the big debates, one may see one Conservative Back Bencher who, as like as not, is a maiden speaker who has just won his seat from the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-04a.226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-04", "file": "debates1977-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "998eb313a6e41c07", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-04a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "because for the time being at any rate it has been abandoned, and yet we know that there is a Bill in draft because that appeared in the Press. It was drafted as long ago as May of this year. Therefore, I ask what is happening. Is that proposal abandoned, or is it something to be kept carefully under wraps, to be unveiled in the unlikely event of the Labour Party winning the next General Election?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-04a.247.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-11-07", "file": "debates1977-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "60a7d617e06b9e1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-07a.311.2", "colnum": "311", "heading": "MANPOWER SERVICES COMMISSION (GRANT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave 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 grant of £60,000 by the Manpower Services Commission on Merseyside to the Indian terrorist group, Ananda Marg, which practises homosexuality and ritual murder.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-07a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-07", "file": "debates1977-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "60a7d617e06b9e1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-07a.326.0", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": "Is it not essential that in the consideration that the Home Secretary has given he distinguishes between politics and racialism? Does he agree that there must be complete freedom of speech and assembly for all parties, Left, Right and centre, but no such freedom for racialist parties?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-07a.326.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-07", "file": "debates1977-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "60a7d617e06b9e1b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-07a.434.3", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIME", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Brynmor John)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Brynmor John)", "preceding_text": "eft came from just such a rigid education system. Therefore, on philosophical grounds that would probably contradict what the hon. Gentleman said. This debate has already shown that there arc differences not only between the parties, but within parties. Several speakers have belaboured their own Front Benches, although everybody has been united in belabouring at frequent intervals the Home Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-07a.434.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-08", "file": "debates1977-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2107bf63b6f4638f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-08a.478.0", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Reading \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the Prime Minister would care to look at what he said as reported in column 40 of Hansard, when my hon. Friend put to him a direct question. My hon. Friend asked the Prime Minister \"to tell the House\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-08a.478.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-08", "file": "debates1977-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2107bf63b6f4638f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-08a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Which 14? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Up to the end of July, 532 Questions were addressed to me, and I transferred 14.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-08a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-08", "file": "debates1977-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2107bf63b6f4638f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-08a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Up to the end of July, 532 Questions were addressed to me, and I transferred 14. [HON. MEMBERS : \"Which 14? \"] I have attempted to help the House in this matter, but I have a feeling—and I shall offend certain of them by saying it—that some hon. Members are trying to make things as difficult as they can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-08a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-08", "file": "debates1977-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2107bf63b6f4638f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-08a.484.1", "colnum": "484", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "have attempted to help the House in this matter, but I have a feeling—and I shall offend certain of them by saying it—that some hon. Members are trying to make things as difficult as they can. [ Interruption. ] I do not resent that, but hon. Members must not mind, either, if I defend myself when that happens. Questions will be transferred, because I cannot undertake to answer over the whole range—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-08a.484.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-08", "file": "debates1977-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2107bf63b6f4638f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-08a.508.1", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": " their entrepreneurial spirit despite the difficulties imposed by the Government. the green pound and so on. I pay tribute to the farm workers, who are not organised in mass obstructive battalions by trade unions and shop stewards. I pay tribute to both. Time and again, we see that where there is not—I must be careful or I shall generalise too far today —I think I should stick to what I have said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-08a.508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-08", "file": "debates1977-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2107bf63b6f4638f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-08a.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "aid for. As the subsidised sector grows, so the subsidising sector becomes more heavily burdened. The rush for rescue can swamp the lifeboat. Nothing is more important for the economy than common ground on this analysis, or one very close to it. Only a decisive change to a pro-enterprise, high-productivity innovating economy can reverse the downward trend. If the Socialists ignore these realities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-08a.512.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-11-08", "file": "debates1977-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2107bf63b6f4638f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-08a.517.1", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Question No. 4 asks: Haven't the Conservatives been thoroughly ineffective in opposition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-08a.517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-08", "file": "debates1977-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2107bf63b6f4638f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-08a.517.2", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "ordinary men and women? Question No. 8 is: Why vote Conservative? Didn't they make a mess of things last time? Question No. 36 is: Why do the Tories always put up council rents?' But, first of all, and certainly the question that the right hon. Gentleman did not answer, is this one: Do the Conservatives actually have any policies? The answer is that they do not have any answers to these questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-08a.517.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-08", "file": "debates1977-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2107bf63b6f4638f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-08a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh ! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "for the country's future. This is demonstrated clearly by the fact that small firms employ more people than all the nationalised industries and central Government and local government put together. But, because of the difficulties of size, they have special problems which we fully understand, recognise and are doing something to help. The Labour Party has always taken this attitude to small firms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-08a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-08", "file": "debates1977-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2107bf63b6f4638f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-08a.533.2", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Surprise, surprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howells", "preceding_text": "artners that over the past 30 years or so Britain has reaped the benefits of an excellent support system and guaranteed prices and we do not wish to do without them in the future. If the Government fail to do this, I cannot see how the Minister can maintain production at its present level, let alone get the industry to expand. My colleagues and I shall not support the Opposition amendment tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-08a.533.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-08", "file": "debates1977-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2107bf63b6f4638f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-08a.578.2", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "preceding_text": "egotiate with 10 or 15 unions in order to get a productivity scheme through. That sort of thing wears down the enthusiasm of even the most enthusiastic managers. The second factor inhibiting productivity is the lack of personal rewards. One cannot introduce productivity schemes unless one can show the workers that they will earn a great deal more. The Government must concentrate on tax reductions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-08a.578.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-08", "file": "debates1977-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2107bf63b6f4638f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-08a.610.1", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade (Mr. Edmund Dell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Trade (Mr. Edmund Dell)", "preceding_text": "id by the right hon. Gentleman. We tried to establish some common ground by building on some of the things which the Conservative Government did when they were in power—things which they now perhaps regret, such as the Industry Act 1972. We agree with the right hon. Gentleman on the need for higher profitability and on the need for incentives, innovation, lower direct taxation and competitiveness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-08a.610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-08", "file": "debates1977-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "2107bf63b6f4638f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-08a.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e amendment once again. The right hon. Member for Leeds, North-East suggests in the amendment that the policies that we are conducting will not serve to maintain, let alone to improve, the standard of living in this country. In the conduct of economic policy in this country we have advantages which are possibly denied to the Opposition. First, there are our relations with the trade union movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-08a.620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-09", "file": "debates1977-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "37c962fcaacc4cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-09a.671.1", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. On a fundamental matter of democracy concerning 1·5 million approximate people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-09a.671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-09", "file": "debates1977-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "37c962fcaacc4cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-09a.676.5", "colnum": "676", "heading": "FIRE SERVICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I was wrong just now. I did not mean \"statutory \". I meant an inflexible policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-09a.676.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-09", "file": "debates1977-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "37c962fcaacc4cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-09a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "fternoon. Have they ever thought—do their consciences prick them —about the attitude they took when we were in Government? If they had had a bit more sense and a bit more responsibility then, we might not have had the four wasted shameful years that we have experienced since then. When the Prime Minister calls for a national effort and for everyone in the country to stand firm with the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-09a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-09", "file": "debates1977-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "37c962fcaacc4cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-09a.703.1", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"That is only temporary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "ully, and I shall give one example of what we have found by study. Looking at the chemical industry, where there is considerable investment, we have found that there is one major firm in which investment amounting to £1 million per working day has taken place. That industry is slightly increasing its work force but it is undoubtedly creating much more work in the construction and plant industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-09a.703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-09", "file": "debates1977-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "37c962fcaacc4cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-09a.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Member for Cambridgeshire (Mr. Pym) argued: We are saying that the useful life of this Parliament is ended \".—[ Official Report , 23rd March 1977; Vol. 928, c. 1285–393.] That is what they were saying in March. I believe that all the facts since then have proved the Conservatives to be wrong. Moreover, in their more honest moments they accept that they were wrongUnterrirptioni—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-09a.716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-09", "file": "debates1977-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "37c962fcaacc4cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-09a.776.1", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have more than that. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Thomas", "preceding_text": "ermany, which has the lowest level of inflation, which has passive trade unions which co-operate with the Government, which has sent back hundreds of thousands of immigrant workers and which has a rate of growth of 3 per cent. or 4 per cent., still has more than a million unemployed? That is not the way for us. That will not deal with our problem. We do not intend to tolerate a million unemployed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-09a.776.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-09", "file": "debates1977-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "37c962fcaacc4cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-09a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "The line constantly comes out from the Government that they are winning on pay and that pay has to be within the Government's guidelines. But we know that settlements are infinitely higher than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-09a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-09", "file": "debates1977-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "37c962fcaacc4cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-09a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "ne constantly comes out from the Government that they are winning on pay and that pay has to be within the Government's guidelines. But we know that settlements are infinitely higher than that.[ Interruption. ] I also think that the same kind of approach is being taken on inflation. The message going out from the Government is \"We are winning the battle; we are beating inflation and doing better\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-09a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-09", "file": "debates1977-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "37c962fcaacc4cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-09a.802.2", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " of the market economy was bound to be counter-productive. The right hon. Gentleman almost argued, with a refinement that can hardly ever have been shown even by Friedman and company, that every job that might be created by the expenditure of money in one field by the Government would exclude somebody from a job in another field. He wanted to know what was the exact comparison in those two fields.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-09a.802.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-09", "file": "debates1977-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "37c962fcaacc4cbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-09a.803.3", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I certainly say to the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-09a.803.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-10", "file": "debates1977-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "c9900baed5394c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.830.0", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend asked a number of separate questions. I give the assurance that the Government intend to discourage investment by British industry in South Africa. That view is shared by all members of the United Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.830.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-10", "file": "debates1977-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "c9900baed5394c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.845.11", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman makes all kinds of statements. I shall have to think about the one he has just made, because if the hon. Gentleman cares to look at such items as the social wage, which has risen considerably—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.845.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-10", "file": "debates1977-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "c9900baed5394c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.849.3", "colnum": "849", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Chingford (Mr. Tebbit), in his usual diligent way, has asked me a Question about this today, which I shall be answering. I have had some correspondence with him, which I suppose he has received. He and I are probably agreed at least about the hypothesis from which we start. I have never denied that there has been a fall in the standard of life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.849.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-11-10", "file": "debates1977-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "c9900baed5394c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.854.1", "colnum": "854", "heading": "HON. MEMBERS (REGISTER OF INTERESTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I am always fascinated to learn of my various activities, but if I ever had any activity of this sort I would be a very remarkable person to have it. I cannot imagine that I ever had anything to do with it before. I know nothing about it and I cannot understand what on earth is being talked about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.854.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-10", "file": "debates1977-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "c9900baed5394c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.858.11", "colnum": "858", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that he is being quite generous? Usually, timetable motions of this kind are dealt with on the occasion of the Second Reading of the Bill, and the customary practice is to allow one and a half hours to debate them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.858.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-10", "file": "debates1977-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "c9900baed5394c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.858.11", "colnum": "858", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that he is being quite generous? Usually, timetable motions of this kind are dealt with on the occasion of the Second Reading of the Bill, and the customary practice is to allow one and a half hours to debate them. [Interruption.] The normal practice of Conservative and Labour Governments has been to allow three hours for debate on the same day as the Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.858.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-10", "file": "debates1977-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "c9900baed5394c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.860.0", "colnum": "860", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I think that the right hon. Gentleman was a good deal more reasonable in the middle of his remarks than he was at the beginning or at the end. I cannot comply with the suggestion that he has made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.860.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-10", "file": "debates1977-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "c9900baed5394c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.863.0", "colnum": "863", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "y the matters that will be fully debated. It is precisely for that purpose that a debate takes place upon these matters. Nothing would be more relevant than the question that the right hon. and learned Gentleman has raised. To answer his question, the last occasion when it happened was on the Counter-Inflation (Temporary Provisions) Bill 1972 introduced by the Tory Party, and I think I am correct—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.863.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-10", "file": "debates1977-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "c9900baed5394c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.875.4", "colnum": "875", "heading": "INCOME TAX (PERSONAL ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "One of the most interesting statistics that I can quote is the latest Financial Times survey of consumer confidence which last month showed that today people in Britain are more optimistic about the future than at any time since the beginning of 1970. The confidence which that survey demonstrates is now reflected. my hon. Friends will be glad to note, in the political indicators as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.875.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-10", "file": "debates1977-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "c9900baed5394c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.887.1", "colnum": "887", "heading": "INCOME TAX (PERSONAL ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "With respect, this is a very interesting seminar, but I must get on with my speech. I have given way already about a dozen times, and I do not think that it is fair to later speakers in the debate to continue to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.887.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-10", "file": "debates1977-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "c9900baed5394c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.887.3", "colnum": "887", "heading": "INCOME TAX (PERSONAL ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "of opinion—I do not make this point in any party spirit—at the extremes of the two parties on this matter. Many people who were very sceptical about the value of pay policy are a great deal less sceptical today. I notice that Dr. Arthur Burns told Congress a couple of days ago that it was time that the United States also started thinking in terms of trying to introduce some sort of incomes policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.887.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-10", "file": "debates1977-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "c9900baed5394c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.890.1", "colnum": "890", "heading": "INCOME TAX (PERSONAL ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "The House has heard forecasts and proclamations of that kind from the Chancellor on many occasions in the last three-and-a-half years, and he will understand when I say that we respond to them with a certain degree of scepticism. He will recollect telling the House when he announced his Budget measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.890.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-10", "file": "debates1977-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "c9900baed5394c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.894.3", "colnum": "894", "heading": "INCOME TAX (PERSONAL ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "Indeed not, and I am glad of the opportunity to deal with precisely that point. Every country, of course, has been affected by the impact of higher oil prices. I am dealing with the manifestly false claim of the Prime Minister that people are as well off as they were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.894.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-10", "file": "debates1977-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "c9900baed5394c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.895.1", "colnum": "895", "heading": "INCOME TAX (PERSONAL ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way gain, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.895.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-10", "file": "debates1977-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "c9900baed5394c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.895.9", "colnum": "895", "heading": "INCOME TAX (PERSONAL ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "Does anyone on the Government side challenge the proposition that the post-tax real purchasing power of the average wage-earner has fallen by 9 per cent. since October 1973? That was the question with which the Prime Minister was dealing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.895.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-10", "file": "debates1977-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "c9900baed5394c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "INCOME TAX (PERSONAL ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "teel Corporation and to further chunks of the economy moving into the strike-torn chaos of British Leyland and other such companies. It is impossible for anyone who approaches the matter rationally to believe that that is the right way towards the recovery of the economy. The alternative is to restore the effective dynamic of a market economy, which is the basis that we would put before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-10", "file": "debates1977-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "c9900baed5394c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "INCOME TAX (PERSONAL ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "tion .] The hon. Member for Liverpool. Walton (Mr. Heffer) may mutter and tut as much as he likes on this point, but that is the basis on which societies other than our own are able to achieve success. The United States economy in the last two years has provided an additional 6½ million jobs and is growing at the rate of 4 per cent. to 5 per cent. a year. Germany, Japan and other countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-10", "file": "debates1977-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "c9900baed5394c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.937.1", "colnum": "937", "heading": "INCOME TAX (PERSONAL ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Litterick", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Litterick", "preceding_text": "nother, that we have concentrated wholly and solely on the economy, with the exception of one day. From this has emerged a very strange fact about the Conservative Party as it stands today. It seems that its priorities are that we need more policemen, more prisons, more soldiers, more armaments and a level of value added tax that is approximately four times the level we have now. The mind boggles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.937.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-10", "file": "debates1977-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "c9900baed5394c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.975.1", "colnum": "975", "heading": "INCOME TAX (PERSONAL ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Lawson", "preceding_text": " importance of his pay policy as a main element in it. This is rather strange. Before I go further, in view of what seems to be happening in the electricity industry dispute, which seems, happily, to be drawing to a close, I believe we should pay some tribute to the Electrical Power Engineers' Association. I believe that in this dispute its behaviour has been a model for a responsible trade union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.975.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-10", "file": "debates1977-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "c9900baed5394c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "INCOME TAX (PERSONAL ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "se he does not follow Soviet economic policies. I have here a little red booklet entitled \"Labour's Programme, 1976 \". This is a programme for massive increases in Government spending, massive increases in taxation, massive further nationalisation and a massive increase in statutory controls over what remains of the private sector. I should like to read two extracts from what is said in this book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-10", "file": "debates1977-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "c9900baed5394c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.983.1", "colnum": "983", "heading": "INCOME TAX (PERSONAL ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "statutory controls over what remains of the private sector. I should like to read two extracts from what is said in this book. [ Interruption .] I know hon. Members opposite do not like it, but this is their policy. This is the sort of thing which the private sector will have to face. The Labour Government will provide: A systematic basis for making large companies accountable for their behaviour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.983.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-10", "file": "debates1977-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "c9900baed5394c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "INCOME TAX (PERSONAL ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "I have never subscribed to the argument that one should use money twice. The right hon. and learned Gentleman withdrew what he said earlier, and I accept that withdrawal. I believe that we are right not to relax exchange control at this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-10", "file": "debates1977-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "c9900baed5394c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "INCOME TAX (PERSONAL ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": " of the other quibbles of the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey, East in his opening speech was a somewhat convoluted argument giving a whole load of figures about income tax to try to say somehow or other that there has been a cut in living standards or a cut in personal take-home pay. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and I have never disputed that there has been a cut in net take-home pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-10", "file": "debates1977-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "c9900baed5394c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "INCOME TAX (PERSONAL ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": ". The Opposition do not accept the suggestion of the hon. Member for Cornwall, North that we should have a substantial increase in the national insurance surcharge or something like it. They tell us vaguely that there should be massive cuts in public expenditure in order to do it. But such cuts would have to be very large, because, in addition, the Opposition want to cut the borrowing requirement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-10", "file": "debates1977-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "c9900baed5394c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "INCOME TAX (PERSONAL ALLOWANCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Multiple rates.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "ative Government said that they were not introducing it because of the Common Market but were introducing it because it was a good tax. They did not say that it was good for small firms. They said that it was a good tax. Now, they tell us that it is not a good tax for small firms. We are doing our best with value added tax. We are raising the threshold, and we are simplifying it as much as we can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-10", "file": "debates1977-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "c9900baed5394c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.999.4", "colnum": "999", "heading": "SERGEANT WILLIAM JAMIESON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "I must begin by thanking you, Mr. Speaker, for using one of your Thursdays, in your gift, for allowing me to raise the case of Sergeant William Jamieson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-10a.999.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-11", "file": "debates1977-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "84336c6a82456570", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-11a.1034.1", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "An hon. Member : \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "lity is one matter to be negotiated, but the fundamental principle is that anyone who is in the Zimbabwe national army must be loyal to Zimbabwe and loyal to the new President. As to the hon. Gentleman's first question, I have made clear—I made it clear in my statement on 1st September in Rhodesia—that I thought that there were some elements of the Rhodesian defence forces which were unacceptable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-11a.1034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-11", "file": "debates1977-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "84336c6a82456570", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-11a.1034.3", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman asks why. That may be the reason why they are unacceptable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-11a.1034.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-11", "file": "debates1977-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "84336c6a82456570", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-11a.1116.1", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "esia and having met the Prime Minister, Mr. Smith, and all his leading Cabinet colleagues, as well as representatives of all the nationalist factions, I believe that I have some understanding of the problems of that great little country. I visited an operations area and inspected protected and concentrated villages. After talking to dozens of tribes-people through an interpreter in those villages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-11a.1116.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-11", "file": "debates1977-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "84336c6a82456570", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-11a.1122.1", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Wiggin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Wiggin", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members have pointed out that things have changed, but one thing which has not changed in parliamentary terms is the deliberate choice by the Government of the most inconvenient time of the week for a debate on sanctions against Rhodesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-11a.1122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-11", "file": "debates1977-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "84336c6a82456570", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-11a.1138.1", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "I do not know from what account the right hon. Gentleman is drawing. There are no final and definitive proposals regarding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-11a.1138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-11", "file": "debates1977-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "84336c6a82456570", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-11a.1140.6", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "EDUCATION (BEDFORDSHIRE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Clemitson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Clemitson", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for this opportunity of raising in the House a matter of the utmost importance to my constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-11a.1140.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-14", "file": "debates1977-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "40103933bc3521bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.20.4", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "sh. For bills in excess of £20, people can claim additional benefit. For example, if the bill is £40, the entitlement is £10, £5 of which will be paid automatically. They will be entitled to the other £5 as well, and they will receive it. Therefore, the discount is still 25 per cent. of the bill, whatever it may be, provided that the people claiming the discount are in those categories. Last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.20.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-14", "file": "debates1977-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "40103933bc3521bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In the Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": " inflexibility on the part of the Government, because we have made certain substantial changes in the proposals that we are bringing forward. Although I do not wish at this stage to deal with the amendment tabled by the official Opposition, I must say that it is absolutely scandalous, in the Scottish context, and in view of Scottish opinion in particular, that, at this very late stage in the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-14", "file": "debates1977-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "40103933bc3521bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Scottish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "What the hon. Gentleman says is not true, but I am not aware that at the moment Scottish Members are particularly enthusiastic about having Adjournment debates on English education matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-14", "file": "debates1977-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "40103933bc3521bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.64.3", "colnum": "64", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "d read the timetable motion. In our view, it provides for ample opportunity to discuss these matters at the Committee stage. My hon. Friend's argument can be presented again when we come to the debate on the timetable motion. It is possible to deal with all these matters in considerable detail, but for me to do so now would be unpopular with those hon. Members who want to make speeches themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.64.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-14", "file": "debates1977-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "40103933bc3521bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about England?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "We intend similar arrangements for Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-14", "file": "debates1977-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "40103933bc3521bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "It is typical of the hon. Gentleman to try to get a laugh at Scotland's expense. It is part of his whole wish to sneer at his own country. He should be ashamed of himself. He is distorting the history of Scotland, because he well knows that as a result of the Union of the Crowns the Scottish Parliament was under the control of the Crown—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-14", "file": "debates1977-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "40103933bc3521bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.118.3", "colnum": "118", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " the First Secretary of the Praesidium—or whatever it is—of the Scottish Assembly. The First Secretary will be responsible to the Scottish Assembly. Therefore, that part of the jigsaw fits in quite well. I should like to say one pacifying thing to the English Members, if I may dare to do so. One of the propagandists of the Union was Daniel Defoe, who is known for a work called \"Gulliver's Travels\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.118.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-14", "file": "debates1977-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "40103933bc3521bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.120.1", "colnum": "120", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the hon. Gentleman's policy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "The SNP's position on Shetland has been made abundantly clear. So far as I am aware, the Shetland Island Council has decided not to hold the referendum, so we shall just wait and see what it decides to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-14", "file": "debates1977-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "40103933bc3521bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.137.1", "colnum": "137", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "k economic power, it will seek a say in oil policy, and circumstances will compel it to reach out for a direct part in European decision making. I know that it is the fond wish of the Government that this Assembly will be the means of ending agitation for Scottish independence, and that it will take the heat out of the matter, but both the Government and this House will be foolish to believe that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-14", "file": "debates1977-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "40103933bc3521bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "facing us. My hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, Central (Mr. Cook) made an absolutely brilliant speech, and his conclusion was one that I think my hon. Friends should take into consideration. It was that the Government should withdraw the Bill and stop us all from having any embarrassment. There is no enthusiasm for it at all in this House or in the country. Apart from the SNP nobody wants it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-14", "file": "debates1977-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "40103933bc3521bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "nobody wants it. [ Interruption. ] I do not know whether my right hon. Friend the Lord President likes it. I do not know many who are enthusiastic about it. I think that the Bill is irrelevant in one sense but highly dangerous in another, and it is dangerous precisely because it is the first step towards the breaking up of the United Kingdom. I find myself in the greatest difficulty over the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-14", "file": "debates1977-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "40103933bc3521bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.168.1", "colnum": "168", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": " change one word of my opposition to this concept. I think that it is serious and dangerous for this country. We have a long way to go before the issue ever gets to the referendum stage. I do not even know whether I shall vote for the Bill. Even if I do, there is still the Third Reading and there is still the referendum. Incidentally, I could almost forgive the other place if on this one occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-14", "file": "debates1977-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "40103933bc3521bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.173.5", "colnum": "173", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas-Mann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about pressure?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas-Mann", "preceding_text": "Having abstained on the Second Reading on the Scotland and Wales Bill and voted against the guillotine motion on it, I have, naturally, devoted a great deal of serious thought to my approach to the present Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.173.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-14", "file": "debates1977-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "40103933bc3521bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "ng. I have never taken the view that it is a matter between the North of England and Scotland, or between Merseyside and Scotland or anywhere else. It is a matter of constitutional importance, and it is of the essence that the House should have time to argue it out without the guillotine and without pressure from the Executive. I have listened to the debate, but I apologise for my earlier absence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-14", "file": "debates1977-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "40103933bc3521bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "e else. It is a matter of constitutional importance, and it is of the essence that the House should have time to argue it out without the guillotine and without pressure from the Executive. I have listened to the debate, but I apologise for my earlier absence. [ Interruption. ] It is right that a Member should apologise for his earlier absence. Some do not. I have been sitting here since 8.30 p.m.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-14", "file": "debates1977-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "40103933bc3521bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "preceding_text": " the essence that the House should have time to argue it out without the guillotine and without pressure from the Executive. I have listened to the debate, but I apologise for my earlier absence. [ Interruption. ] It is right that a Member should apologise for his earlier absence. Some do not. I have been sitting here since 8.30 p.m. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I was here between 3.30 p.m. and 4.30 p.m.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-14", "file": "debates1977-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "40103933bc3521bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": " Members voting on English affairs and Scottish Members on Scottish affairs, and then allowing us all to come together to discuss Mozambique and defence. That suggestion, too, is not so easy as it appears. If we had such a situation, the inevitable consequence on some occasions would be to have a national United Kingdom Government of one party with power only to implement domestic policy in Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-14", "file": "debates1977-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "40103933bc3521bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": " Bill, the kind of Bill which we can change or repeal or amend next year if we find that we have got it wrong. It is a major constitutional measure which will be irreversible unless we have the sense to found it on firm foundations with adequate safeguards. In recommending the amendment, therefore, and the rejection of the Bill, we do not seek in any way a vote against the principle of devolution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-14", "file": "debates1977-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "40103933bc3521bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "d we do? First, as the hon. Member for Edinburgh, Pentlands (Mr. Rifkind) pointed out, the in-out voting arrangement is not a satisfactory method of doing it. That was considered by Gladstone during one of the Irish Home Rule Bills and rejected in the House of Commons. The suggestion has also been put forward that there ought to be a reduction in the number of Members from Scottish constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-14", "file": "debates1977-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "40103933bc3521bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "d in the House of Commons. The suggestion has also been put forward that there ought to be a reduction in the number of Members from Scottish constituencies. [Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"] Some voices say \"hear, hear\" but there are others, including the hon. Member for Edinburgh, North (Mr. Fletcher), who argue that we should do no such thing. The Kilbrandon Report made this recommendation as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-14", "file": "debates1977-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "40103933bc3521bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.194.1", "colnum": "194", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Edinburgh, North (Mr. Fletcher), who argue that we should do no such thing. The Kilbrandon Report made this recommendation as well. [ Interruption. ] If we are dealing with speeches, the hon. Member for Glasgow, Cathcart has not yet explained why he was in favour of a Scottish Assembly with an executive budget in October 1974. There ought to be equivalence of explanation. Another important reason—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.194.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-14", "file": "debates1977-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "40103933bc3521bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.218.2", "colnum": "218", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (CIGARETTES EXCISE DUTY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "The Financial Secretary is still shirking the essential issue, which is not whether this is the document before the Scrutiny Committee. I am quite happy to accept that, as I am sure the House is. The issue is whether there is a later draft proposal—not a working paper—which would be a more proper basis for a debate in this House on the tobacco question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.218.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-14", "file": "debates1977-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "40103933bc3521bb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.218.3", "colnum": "218", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (CIGARETTES EXCISE DUTY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I might help the Minister. He said just now that this was the last document asked for by the Scrutiny Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-14a.218.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-15", "file": "debates1977-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9696f4cb4da61fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "FIRE SERVICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the Army?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": " They have been left behind because they have a social conscience. The House has a duty and a responsibility to help such sections of workers precisely because we do not want them to go on strike, more so than any other section of workers. If the Ford workers go on strike a number of cars are not produced. But we trade on the social conscience of the police and of the firemen, and it is not right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-15", "file": "debates1977-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9696f4cb4da61fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "FIRE SERVICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "nt. We all know what is going on. But what is going on at the moment is a firemen's strike that is totally unnecessary. I conclude by telling my right hon. Friend that he must not think that the general public will say, as the Tory Front Bench wanted to say, \"Fine. Stand firm against this bunch of ruthless workers, these terrible people. Stand firm.\" That is not what the general public are saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-15", "file": "debates1977-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9696f4cb4da61fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "FIRE SERVICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "oment is a firemen's strike that is totally unnecessary. I conclude by telling my right hon. Friend that he must not think that the general public will say, as the Tory Front Bench wanted to say, \"Fine. Stand firm against this bunch of ruthless workers, these terrible people. Stand firm.\" That is not what the general public are saying. [ Interruption .] That is what the right hon. Gentleman meant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-15", "file": "debates1977-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9696f4cb4da61fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.317.3", "colnum": "317", "heading": "FIRE SERVICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "e last in the queue. I am not in favour of anyone winning by a strike against the public interest, but the public interest essentially lies in the protection of those persons who do not have the CBI or the TUC to talk for them and whom Parliament must defend. That is what Parliament is about. We live in a mercenary age. We are all mercenary in various ways, but some are more mercenary than others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.317.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-15", "file": "debates1977-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9696f4cb4da61fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.322.0", "colnum": "322", "heading": "FIRE SERVICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "firmen's claim. I am sure that he recognises that they have many special features. However, he can take no other course than that which he has taken today. The firemen have gone on strike for the first time in their history. I am sure that it gives them no pleasure to be on strike. I now suggest that the right hon. Gentleman should think of a formula that brings them back to the negotiating table—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.322.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-15", "file": "debates1977-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9696f4cb4da61fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "FIRE SERVICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Meyer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Meyer", "preceding_text": "When the Home Secretary is appealing to the leaders of the strike to call it off—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-15", "file": "debates1977-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9696f4cb4da61fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.362.4", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Gentleman has made his point. No doubt he will study the wide terms of the powers proposed for the Assembly to carry out its investigation, and there will be a second bite at the cherry for the Secretary of State to make whatever proposals he wishes to put to the House. The cardinal point that I want to make to the House, and I regret that this is not universally accepted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.362.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-15", "file": "debates1977-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9696f4cb4da61fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "I do not think that that is a correct interpretation of any of the deliberations in which I took part. We have gone over this on innumerable occasions, and I shall return to it in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-15", "file": "debates1977-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9696f4cb4da61fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.393.0", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cledwyn Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cledwyn Hughes", "preceding_text": "If one leaves the peculiar difficulties of Ireland out of account, the Stormont Government was not a bad concept. It worked for 50 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-15", "file": "debates1977-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9696f4cb4da61fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": " and district level who could well fit the posts that will be created if the Welsh Assembly is to be set up? Are there to be any guarantees that the number of Members from Wales in this place will not be reduced? I am with my right hon. Friend the Member for Anglesey (Mr. Hughes) when he says that there should be no argument for reducing the number of Members from Scotland and Wales in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-15", "file": "debates1977-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9696f4cb4da61fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.438.0", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It will not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "The question is highly speculative. The Bill might well not pass the referendum test in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.438.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-15", "file": "debates1977-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9696f4cb4da61fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.449.2", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And at Agincourt.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "not believe in the unity of the realm, recognise that there are Welshmen who profoundly disagree with what he stands for but who are nevertheless very good Welshmen and are respected in their own communities? When the hon. Gentleman talks about Welshmen fighting for freedom, he should remember that they have done so. In the last war they fought for freedom, just as they did in the war before that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.449.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-15", "file": "debates1977-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9696f4cb4da61fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.470.1", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": " the very instrument intended to give a greater voice and a greater meaning to democracy in Scotland and Wales, we shall find democracy baffled in the resentments that grow as a consequence of the contests built into this Bill between the peoples of the areas of Britain. If my right hon. Friend has not got it right now, I will say it to him again when we get another opportunity to debate the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.470.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-15", "file": "debates1977-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9696f4cb4da61fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.501.0", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "e bitterly opposed to the whole of local government reform, but if we had had a Welsh Assembly in being those concerned would never have succeeded in forcing it down our throats, would they? It may be that my hon. Friend is coming along. It may be that he will now vote for us on the referendum. In my opinion, we shall not have the best form of local government reform if we do not get the Assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-15", "file": "debates1977-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9696f4cb4da61fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.503.0", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In the past.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " a proper way to deal with it. We have a situation already in the House in which hon. Members are not all equally interested in every issue. Despite the vast mass assembled here tonight, obviously they are not all necessarily very interested even in devolution, but they vote on it. The House of Commons has solved many problems in the past. It has solved the problem of Northern Ireland in the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.503.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-15", "file": "debates1977-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9696f4cb4da61fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.506.0", "colnum": "506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is your answer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "asive terms I can—it would be wrong for the House to think that we can solve this problem by resort to the federalist solution. If we did that, we should then have to introduce all the apparatus of a Bill of Rights and of a judiciary which governs the whole operation. We should undermine the supremacy of this House, which, I believe, is the most important precious possession of the British people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-15a.506.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-16", "file": "debates1977-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "d17d5cc97a1be820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-16a.583.3", "colnum": "583", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Such as?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "There have been introduced into the House a number of major Bills, including constitutional Bills, on which the procedure we have followed in this instance, of the timetable motion being moved before the Committee stage, has been used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-16a.583.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-16", "file": "debates1977-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "d17d5cc97a1be820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-16a.583.3", "colnum": "583", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": ". The question of constitutional Bills raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Newham, South (Mr. Spearing) is extremely important, but it is the fact that over a long period constitutional Bills have been subjected to motions for the timetable. There was the most important constitutional Bill of all, as I would claim, to be introduced into the House in modern times, the European Communities Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-16a.583.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-16", "file": "debates1977-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "d17d5cc97a1be820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-16a.583.3", "colnum": "583", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "l Bills have been subjected to motions for the timetable. There was the most important constitutional Bill of all, as I would claim, to be introduced into the House in modern times, the European Communities Bill. [ Interruption .] I understand that the timetable motion was not moved before the Committee stage, but it was an extremely important constitutional Bill to which a guillotine was applied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-16a.583.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-16", "file": "debates1977-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "d17d5cc97a1be820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-16a.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You raised it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "It is the Representation of the People (No. 2) Act. The hon. Gentleman was probably looking for No. 1. We shall have to see whether we can sort out this momentous constitutional issue with which the hon. Gentleman has thought fit to waste the time of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-16a.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-16", "file": "debates1977-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "d17d5cc97a1be820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-16a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "It seems to me that the hon. Gentleman is agreeing with me that this is actually a precedent, and I am looking at it in that light.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-16a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-16", "file": "debates1977-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "d17d5cc97a1be820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-16a.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not agreed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "ated timetable at the start of a Bill. I made that clear to Ministers before the Summer Recess, but they chose not to take that course.\"—[ Official Report , 22nd February 1977; Vol. 926, c. 1266.] That was the position on the previous Bill, but the position on the present Bills from the point of view of the Liberal Party which is that this timetable motion has been agreed before the debate starts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-16a.616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-16", "file": "debates1977-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "d17d5cc97a1be820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-16a.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "6, c. 1266.] That was the position on the previous Bill, but the position on the present Bills from the point of view of the Liberal Party which is that this timetable motion has been agreed before the debate starts. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not agreed.\"] I am speaking for my party, not for the whole of the House. I am arguing that this is a reasonable proposition to be advanced at the beginning of debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-16a.616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-16", "file": "debates1977-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "d17d5cc97a1be820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-16a.619.1", "colnum": "619", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is irrelevant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "to accept, but which is not on the cards at the moment. We must reach a judgment whether these Bills are capable in future of adaptation towards a federal system or whether there are too many anomalies. I accept that there are anomalies. I would accept the Kilbrandon proposal of reducing the number of Scottish Members of Parliament to the correct number proportionately. But I say that as an aside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-16a.619.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-16", "file": "debates1977-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "d17d5cc97a1be820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-16a.643.1", "colnum": "643", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Privy Council Office (Mr. John Smith)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"So have the Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Privy Council Office (Mr. John Smith)", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Ayr (Mr. Younger) is a pleasant man, but I find it hard to take even from him the notion that the House should adopt an independent House of Commons spirit on this issue when he represents the party which has imposed a three-line Whip on its Members tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-16a.643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-16", "file": "debates1977-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "d17d5cc97a1be820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-16a.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " it if it were set up. They refer to the need for us to discuss these matters, but I doubt the practical possibilities of their meeting us and doing so. Essentially the Bill is designed to bring into the constitution of the United Kingdom a recognition of the Scottish dimension, that Scottish dimension that is reflected in Scotland's culture, history and its institutions, way of life and outlook —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-16a.646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-16", "file": "debates1977-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "d17d5cc97a1be820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-16a.648.0", "colnum": "648", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-16a.648.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-16", "file": "debates1977-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "d17d5cc97a1be820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-16a.692.2", "colnum": "692", "heading": "WALES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roderick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roderick", "preceding_text": "That speaks volumes for the credibility of the hon. Member for Chingford (Mr. Tebbit). We now know how much to trust him in anything he says in the Chamber. We know what was taking place that night—and on every night. We saw it in the corridors. The hon. Member for Reigate was speaking to people, and he was not the only one. It was useful for the Opposition to use an unofficial Whip to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-16a.692.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-16", "file": "debates1977-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "d17d5cc97a1be820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-16a.717.3", "colnum": "717", "heading": "WALES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You implied it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I did not say anything of the sort.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-16a.717.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-11-16", "file": "debates1977-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "d17d5cc97a1be820", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-16a.720.1", "colnum": "720", "heading": "WALES BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Harrison (Treasurer of Her Majesty's\r\nHousehold)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-16a.720.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-17", "file": "debates1977-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f9e7dc80b10c7e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-17a.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gardiner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardiner", "preceding_text": "When the Prime Minister does come down our way, will he travel by British Rail, second class, in rush-hour conditions that he would not inflict on an animal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-17a.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-17", "file": "debates1977-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f9e7dc80b10c7e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-17a.756.3", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Renton", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that many of my constituents work in Reigate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-17a.756.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-17", "file": "debates1977-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f9e7dc80b10c7e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-17a.756.4", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " do not believe that what I said in Aberdare in 1974 arises out of a possible visit to Reigate in the future. But I suggest to the hon. Gentleman that he takes the following factors into account. First, he should read the whole of that speech, which I have done with great care. Secondly, he should recall that at that time the rate of inflation under a Conservative Government was beginning to soar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-17a.756.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-17", "file": "debates1977-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f9e7dc80b10c7e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-17a.757.5", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "preceding_text": "Is not unemployment the fatal electoral dagger at the heart of the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-17a.757.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-11-17", "file": "debates1977-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f9e7dc80b10c7e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-17a.759.2", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Give him a job.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": " job within the limits of the policy of the Government in relation to these matters, and that my right hon. Friend, through the imaginative schemes for job creation and so on, has helped considerably to put people to work but that, nevertheless, that in itself is not enough? Can my right hon. Friend indicate what further steps the Government intend to take to bring down the levels of unemployment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-17a.759.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-17", "file": "debates1977-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f9e7dc80b10c7e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-17a.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e to balance two considerations. One is that the best equipment that is available in the fire stations should be used to stop an outbreak of fire or to bring it under control. On the other hand, if it seemed likely that we were on the edge—I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will agree with me—of a negotiated settlement, and the use of that equipment was likely to start the whole of the friction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-17a.762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-17", "file": "debates1977-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f9e7dc80b10c7e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-17a.782.0", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (INCOME TAX RELIEFS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will know that we are not discussing child benefits and the way in which they can be used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-17a.782.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-17", "file": "debates1977-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f9e7dc80b10c7e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-17a.783.2", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (INCOME TAX RELIEFS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "re seen within the context of public expenditure as a whole. I confess that this is not wholly satisfactory, and there are many unsatisfactory aspects, but that is the present position, and to move in the direction that my right hon. Friend the Member for Blackburn (Mrs. Castle) and many others might wish would bring about certain changes that we have not been ready and able to make at this stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-17a.783.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-17", "file": "debates1977-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f9e7dc80b10c7e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-17a.793.3", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (INCOME TAX RELIEFS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": " in the next Finance Bill. The promises have been liberal. There are to be sops to small businesses, in both income tax and capital transfer tax. Small businesses appear now to have replaced middle management as the dar- lings of the Labour Party, but I think that small businesses will find, as middle management has discovered, that the promises are rarely implemented. We shall wait with interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-17a.793.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-17", "file": "debates1977-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f9e7dc80b10c7e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-17a.803.1", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (INCOME TAX RELIEFS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "preceding_text": "sided over our tax affairs as if all was glory and peace in the land. I would remind the hon. and learned Gentleman that if we are taking as the end of this new consensus on direct taxation only that we should get back to where the Conservatives left us in 1974, that would not be a satisfactory target. I therefore think that we must set out quite clearly exactly what our targets on income tax are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-17a.803.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-17", "file": "debates1977-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f9e7dc80b10c7e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-17a.805.1", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (INCOME TAX RELIEFS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "ent from nil to £4,000 million between 1970 and 1973–74 was bound so to distort the economy as to create the most appalling tensions and stresses. That was the grotesque mismanagement of the economy by the hon. Gentleman's former colleagues. I know that the hon. Gentleman shares very little of their views but, after all, we have to judge a future Conservative Administration on the last one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-17a.805.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-17", "file": "debates1977-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f9e7dc80b10c7e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-17a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (INCOME TAX RELIEFS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "I do not think that indexing will solve a problem of the size of the one I want to discuss this afternoon. Certainly in regard to the scheme —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-17a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-17", "file": "debates1977-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f9e7dc80b10c7e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-17a.894.1", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (INCOME TAX RELIEFS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tapsell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tapsell", "preceding_text": "of inflation, and an even higher rate if rents are included, while many of the jobs there are held by immigrant workers. It would be a profoundly unwise thing for the present Government or any politician to suggest to the British people that a large oil income will solve most of our national problems. It can and probably will make some of those problems worse and others more difficult to overcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-17a.894.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-17", "file": "debates1977-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "1f9e7dc80b10c7e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-17a.902.0", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (INCOME TAX RELIEFS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " very much. They do not want this Government to do that. They prefer that a Labour Government should increase taxation, so that they can make their set speeches saying that a Labour Government always increase taxation. A Labour Government are putting more money back into people's pockets, into the pockets of those who are worse off. The people who will benefit most are those on the lowest incomes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-17a.902.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-21", "file": "debates1977-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "20514a2e0137d289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-21a.1177.1", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "TRANSPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "clude the control of office car parks, the sale of permits and measures of enforcement described in their consultation document as being plans which involve the formation of a new enforcement body, duly authorised officers, neither policemen nor traffics wardens, with powers to enter private premises. They are the plans on which the Government are consulting in pursuance of their transport policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-21a.1177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-21", "file": "debates1977-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "20514a2e0137d289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-21a.1180.1", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "TRANSPORT POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "ications of that, and it is certainly spelt out in the Conservative Party's transport document. I urge the hon. Gentleman to use his eyes and to read the motion on the Order Paper. That motion condemns the Government's transport policy, and that is what we intend to do. My hon. Friend the Member for Ayr (Mr. Younger) will deal with a number of other issues such as roads policy and EEC regulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-21a.1180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-22", "file": "debates1977-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "9291aa80073369a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-22a.1314.3", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister take a last-minute personal interest in the appointment of the Director of NEDC? Some of us would consider that the appointment of a senior civil servant to this post without any experience of industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-22a.1314.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-22", "file": "debates1977-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "9291aa80073369a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-22a.1314.3", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister take a last-minute personal interest in the appointment of the Director of NEDC? Some of us would consider that the appointment of a senior civil servant to this post without any experience of industry—[ Interruption. ]—coming on top of the appointment of a senior civil servant to head the Central Policy Review Staff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-22a.1314.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-22", "file": "debates1977-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "9291aa80073369a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-22a.1314.4", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Good God!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, no doubt having heard the shouts, may feel that this is the first encomium that he has had from the Conservative Benches for a long time, in that they want to appoint him to this very important position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-22a.1314.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-22", "file": "debates1977-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "9291aa80073369a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-22a.1350.1", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The courts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "ure that it is not a bad thing for the Bill to say that it is not to be used to crack up the United Kingdom, which is what Conservative Members are trying to say in their amendment. Unfortunately, the amendment falls into precisely the same error. In place of \"do not affect\" it seeks to insert: Nothing in these provisions shall be construed as impairing or in any way affecting\". Construed by whom?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-22a.1350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-22", "file": "debates1977-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "9291aa80073369a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-22a.1358.1", "colnum": "1358", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "we shall deal with the referendum in the Bill. I want to concentrate on Clause 1. I regard it as nothing but pious window-dressing—if there can be such a thing. Perhaps it would be a more apt description to call it window-dressing with a stained glass window. The amendment is seeking to change the dummies in the window, but the substance of the clause is not altered and nor is its material effect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-22a.1358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-22", "file": "debates1977-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "9291aa80073369a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-22a.1380.1", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "preceding_text": "I think that that comes in a later clause. I have put on record the fact that the vast majority of my constituents in West Derby could hardly care less about the Bill, rightly or wrongly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-22a.1380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-22", "file": "debates1977-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "9291aa80073369a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-22a.1426.0", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "PART VI", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fifty.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Grimond", "preceding_text": "nstituents. We are able to say where the shoe pinches. We are able to tell the Government to go away and put matters right. Therefore, while I am very much aware of the unfairness of the present system, I am also very much aware of the basic simplicity and excellence of the British democratic system. As I understand it, the hon. Gentleman would give 100 seats of the Scottish Assembly to the party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-22a.1426.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-22", "file": "debates1977-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "9291aa80073369a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-22a.1430.1", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "PART VI", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "It may seem odd to a lot of people that while parts of Britain are burning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-22a.1430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-22", "file": "debates1977-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "9291aa80073369a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-22a.1432.4", "colnum": "1432", "heading": "PART VI", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Minority.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "That is possible. I for one have always accepted the position. But I would try to make it clear beforehand that people were voting for a separate Government. If, however, the majority of Scots voted for the SNP—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-22a.1432.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-22", "file": "debates1977-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "9291aa80073369a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-22a.1455.1", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "PART VI", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No).\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "e my own case as an example so that I give offence to the smallest number. In Inverness at the last Wesminster election I got 32 per cent. of the poll in a four-way split. Let us suppose that at the first Assembly election the voting went in the same way. That is not an unreasonable or fantastic proposition. There would then be, with a poll of 32 per cent., not only one Johnston but two Johnstons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-22a.1455.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-11-23", "file": "debates1977-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8270ebfcd457ff19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1518.0", "colnum": "1518", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "an they did in 1976–77, despite dramatic increases in prices since then. Does he further understand that if he had treated shire counties in the same way as he has treated urban areas in the past three years, shire counties would in 1978–79 receive £350 million more in a year than they would otherwise do? This is the nature of the scale of hardship imposed on shire county ratepayers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1517.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-23", "file": "debates1977-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8270ebfcd457ff19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1542.1", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "PART VI", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": " to represent one community. It is from this fact about the House of Commons that we derive the importance of our constituency links—something that we come up against as soon as we begin to investigate any form of proportional representation because the link of a Member with his constituency is inevitably diminished, though to varying degrees, by any system of proportional representation whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1542.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-23", "file": "debates1977-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8270ebfcd457ff19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1558.0", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "PART VI", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "ted for by having a party list. In other words, we would be institutionalising the party factor in our system. It exists now but we would be institutionalising it. The problem is that people who go to Members of their own party vote for a party because they expect that party to pursue a particular policy. If we institutionalise and emphasise this party aspect and at the same time produce a system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1558.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-11-23", "file": "debates1977-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8270ebfcd457ff19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1559.0", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "PART VI", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "e and emphasise this party aspect and at the same time produce a system—[Hon. Members: \"Too long.\"]—there have been longer interventions—whereby that party policy cannot permanently or ever be carried out because we have a permanently hung situation, then people will begin to ignore parties. When they begin to ignore parties they will seek policies in other directions which are outside this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1558.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-23", "file": "debates1977-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8270ebfcd457ff19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1607.1", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "'PART II", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "preceding_text": "st of groups than we had in the previous block. I suggest that you, Mr. Murton, and other occupants of the Chair, should at leisure—but not too much leisure—without giving any indication at this stage, consider whether you should exercise your discretion in such a way as to maximise the number of amendments which come to a vote. I stress \"come to a vote\" because that is more important than debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1607.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-23", "file": "debates1977-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8270ebfcd457ff19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1618.0", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": " resort to constitution-making—and that is what some of the amendments seek to do, to set up an elaborate system of conditions and arrangements, a sort of clockwork mechanism for getting the Assembly out of a deadlock created by political facts. Nevertheless, all clockwork needs not only a maker but—as Dean Paley demonstrated to the instruction of Oxford undergraduates generation after generation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1618.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-23", "file": "debates1977-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8270ebfcd457ff19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1650.2", "colnum": "1650", "heading": "Clause 4", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Hon. Members \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "gh the Assembly will be elected for a fixed term the system of prior dissolution is desirable, which I understand is the usual feature of a Parliament elected for a fixed term. The hon. Member for South Ayrshire (Mr. Sillars) objected to such a rôle being played by the Secretary of State and Parliament, and no doubt would call it outside interference even before the Assembly is established.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1650.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-23", "file": "debates1977-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8270ebfcd457ff19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1657.0", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The next amendment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "This is the occasion when we can first legitimately raise the whole issue of the position of those who regard themselves as Scots—because they come from Scotland or are first or second generation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1657.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-23", "file": "debates1977-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8270ebfcd457ff19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1669.0", "colnum": "1669", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thompson", "preceding_text": "reely and went elsewhere and have become, to all intents and purposes adopted citizens of England, adopted Englishmen—which they are perfectly entitled to do—just as some English people who have come to Scotland want to be Scots, regard themselves as Scots, send their children to Scottish schools and, to all intents and purposes, have become naturalised Scots, as they are perfectly entitled to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1669.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-23", "file": "debates1977-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8270ebfcd457ff19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1671.1", "colnum": "1671", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "I am sure, Mr. Murton, that you will observe, as I have done, that that question is quite irrelevant to the amendment we are discussing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1671.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-23", "file": "debates1977-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8270ebfcd457ff19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1672.10", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "I take the view that, just as citizens of the Republic of Ireland are allowed to vote in elections here, personally—I stress \"personally\"—I believe that it would be a matter for negotiation between the independent Governments. I, personally, would be willing to accept that English people resident in Scotland would be entitled to vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1672.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-23", "file": "debates1977-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8270ebfcd457ff19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1673.0", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "and can now be registered in Scotland. That does not apply at present, because none of those under that provision can be anywhere near 18 years of age. The hon. Gentleman should remember that a substantial number of my constituents were for geographical reasons born at the nearest maternity home—one in Cumberland—and that if they were still living in Cumberland they would be prevented from voting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1673.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-23", "file": "debates1977-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8270ebfcd457ff19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1674.0", "colnum": "1674", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Of course they should.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1674.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-23", "file": "debates1977-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8270ebfcd457ff19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1675.1", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "made. The hon. and learned Gentleman appeared, to me at least, to be arguing that English people living in any other part of the United Kingdom—indeed, some Yorkshire people, I suspect, living in London—ought to have a vote in the local government elections of the area of their birth; for example, Yorkshire. Yorkshire people will naturally be in terested in the quality of life in their own county.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-23", "file": "debates1977-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8270ebfcd457ff19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1676.3", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "here. There can be no question concerning a birth taking place in England. I do not want letters sent to my Department about this, and I am making that point clear. The standard principle in the United Kingdom is that citizens have a vote in the areas where they have a permanent residence. The responsibilities of the Scottish Assembly will be exercised in relation to Scotland and will most affect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1676.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-11-23", "file": "debates1977-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "8270ebfcd457ff19", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1712.3", "colnum": "1712", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER FOR ADMINISTRATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That the Standing Order of 22nd November 1974 relating to the nomination of the Select Committee on Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration be amended, by leaving out Mr. Charles Fletcher-Cooke and inserting Mr. Ian Gow.—[ Mr. Walter Harrison. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-23a.1712.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-24", "file": "debates1977-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "c14bc3167f560ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-24a.1751.6", "colnum": "1751", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "In matters such as this, Mr. Speaker, I am sure that you would acknowledge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-24a.1751.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-24", "file": "debates1977-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "c14bc3167f560ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-24a.1753.6", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "But I expect to be treated with proper courtesy as long as I am in this Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-24a.1753.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-24", "file": "debates1977-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "c14bc3167f560ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-24a.1767.2", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "I think that the country recognises that the referendum was largely won by the European Movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-24a.1767.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-24", "file": "debates1977-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "c14bc3167f560ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-24a.1776.3", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "had been taken on the system of election, the Bill was neither particularly long nor difficult to draft. Given the necessary ministerial agreement on the principle, it could easily have been ready for introduction before Christmas 1976. But, of course, there was no such ministerial agreement. Instead, there was strong opposition to the introduction of any Bill at all, which led to procrastination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-24a.1776.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-24", "file": "debates1977-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "c14bc3167f560ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-24a.1776.3", "colnum": "1776", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "icult to draft. Given the necessary ministerial agreement on the principle, it could easily have been ready for introduction before Christmas 1976. But, of course, there was no such ministerial agreement. Instead, there was strong opposition to the introduction of any Bill at all, which led to procrastination—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] —I am glad to have the support of hon. Gentlemen—and delay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-24a.1776.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-24", "file": "debates1977-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "c14bc3167f560ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-24a.1791.3", "colnum": "1791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "preceding_text": "ommunity and to sign the treaty and then to say \"We will be not only particular about the form of direct elections but will set ourselves to oppose any kind of direct elections\" would be a piece of sharp practice. It would be entering into a commitment which one had no intention of concluding. One must accept that there is undoubtedly a moral obligation to be co-operative towards direct elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-24a.1791.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-24", "file": "debates1977-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "c14bc3167f560ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-24a.1792.1", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "No. there is not one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-24a.1792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-24", "file": "debates1977-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "c14bc3167f560ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-24a.1806.1", "colnum": "1806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "July 1977; Vol. 934, c. 1475–6] I know perfectly well that the theory of this place is that people vote not for parties but for persons. The right hon. Gentleman has properly enunciated this proposal, but the reality that hon. Members know is that the vast majority of the British electorate engaged in the British General Election vote for party labels, they vote for idiots, dolts and clots—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-24a.1806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-24", "file": "debates1977-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "c14bc3167f560ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-24a.1844.1", "colnum": "1844", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percy Grieve", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percy Grieve", "preceding_text": "r to arrive expeditiously at agreement on direct elections to the European Assembly. That promise has been repeated often by Government Ministers and Prime Ministeres. Indeed, in February i976 during the debate on the Green Paper my right hon. Friend the Member for Chipping Barnet (Mr. Maudling) said that we were committed as a nation as a matter of honour and that we had \"a commitment of honour\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-24a.1844.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-24", "file": "debates1977-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "c14bc3167f560ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-24a.1882.1", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Liberals.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that argument. I turn first to the question of the regional list, which apparently is of such great concern to the House and to the Opposition", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-24a.1882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-24", "file": "debates1977-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "c14bc3167f560ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-24a.1882.1", "colnum": "1882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "nment in this country. That arises out of the nature of our Parliament and our responsibility here. I believe that it is important to preserve that fundamental nature of our role as Members of Parliament. But the powers of the European Assembly are different. I do not want to see them very much different in the course of the years. The regional list system is appropriate for the European Assembly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-24a.1882.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-24", "file": "debates1977-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "c14bc3167f560ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-24a.1883.2", "colnum": "1883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "There is one basic argument. Where there are Members of Parliament forming a Government, I believe that our basic system is right. That is not the situation with regard to the European Assembly. We are not forming a Government out of the elected representatives, and I believe that a regional list system is appropriate for that form of government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-24a.1883.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-24", "file": "debates1977-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "c14bc3167f560ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-24a.1883.2", "colnum": "1883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "ember for Fulham (Mr. Stewart) and the hon. Member for Southend, West (Mr. Channon). They asked whether we can meet the \"best endeavours\" target of May-June. What matters with the first-past-the-post-system is the date of Royal Assent. The House will determine, by the speed with which it proceeds from next Thursday, whether we can meet that target. It is a relatively short Bill once it is divided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-24a.1883.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-24", "file": "debates1977-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "c14bc3167f560ae5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-24a.1909.3", "colnum": "1909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "I am speaking to a Money Resolution, and the scope of the debate is rather restricted. I have said that under this Money Resolution none of that money will be devoted to the purposes that my hon. Friend mentioned. The 4 million units of account to which reference has been made is a quite sep- arate matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-24a.1909.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-25", "file": "debates1977-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "97dfc2b0570b82ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-25a.1977.1", "colnum": "1977", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "preceding_text": "0 per cent. it will cost about £7,000 million. We should move to that level over three years. That means a target of finding a little over £2,000 million a year. I would do that in three ways. I would shift some of the balance of taxation from earning to spending. VAT could be in-creased to 12½ per cent. Petrol duties, and excise duties on wines, spirits and tobacco could also be increased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-25a.1977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-28", "file": "debates1977-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "931b2166e06076a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-28a.118.0", "colnum": "118", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (FISHERIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "shing fleet has been robbed of 2,600 tons of fish in Norwegian waters purely because the French or German, or both—nobody seems to know—cheated on their quotas and robbed our fishermen of 2,600 tons. The whole history of NEAFC has shown the futility of the quota system. I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman is seized of the point and that he, like my right hon. and hon. Friends has consistently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-28a.118.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-28", "file": "debates1977-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "931b2166e06076a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-28a.190.3", "colnum": "190", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (FISHERIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman might bear in mind that they have been here slightly longer than we have and helped cobble together the CFP before we joined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-28a.190.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-28", "file": "debates1977-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "931b2166e06076a0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-28a.192.4", "colnum": "192", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (FISHERIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman may think that the Government's stance is the same, but very many of us on this side feel that as a consequence of our vote then we succeeded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-28a.192.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-29", "file": "debates1977-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "fb044a2e74fbb6b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.243.2", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Is not the effect of the Secretary of State's policy to deprive parents of modest means of educational opportunity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.243.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-29", "file": "debates1977-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "fb044a2e74fbb6b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.254.0", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that the question of curriculum is one which teachers will not easily put into the hands of other people? Therefore, it is not a bad thing that they should be worried about this matter. Does she further agree that it is always a good thing in education not to make rapid changes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.254.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-29", "file": "debates1977-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "fb044a2e74fbb6b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.262.5", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "When he met the TUC and the CBI, did my right hon. Friend discuss with them the considerable and remarkable improvement in the British economy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.262.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-29", "file": "debates1977-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "fb044a2e74fbb6b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.263.4", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "In future meetings with the TUC and CBI—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.263.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-29", "file": "debates1977-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "fb044a2e74fbb6b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.263.4", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "In future meetings with the TUC and CBI—[ Interruption. ]—will the Prime Minister continue to lay stress on the importance of the 10 per cent. guideline?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.263.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-29", "file": "debates1977-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "fb044a2e74fbb6b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No. As usual, I meant what I said. We are not in a position of confrontation at the moment. Certainly the firemen do not think that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-29", "file": "debates1977-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "fb044a2e74fbb6b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "t reveal to the House that at five minutes to seven on Saturday morning I nearly cut myself with my razor. At least I dropped the razor. What was this all about? It was caused by a report on the BBC of something the Foreign Secretary had said the night before in Edinburgh at the \"Scotland in Europe\" meeting. I was invited to it, but I went to the prior engagement of the Bo'ness Labour Party dance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-29", "file": "debates1977-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "fb044a2e74fbb6b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.345.1", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Member was asleep.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": " tell England what to do, but that is a necessary consequence of the fact that we are a united kingdom. We must entrench that idea wherever we can and spell out the legislative supremacy of the House. Therefore, I strongly support the amendment. Arising from what the hon. Member for West Lothian said, I was not shaving at 6.55 in the morning and did not hear the report about the Foreign Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-29", "file": "debates1977-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "fb044a2e74fbb6b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.347.1", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "n which I should like to comment because it has been raised in this debate. It relates to a speech made by my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary in Edinburgh on Saturday night. My hon. Friend the Member for West Lothian (Mr. Dalyell) raised the matter. I think that my hon. Friend has completely misunderstood the words of the Foreign Secretary or his words may have been misreported by the BBC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.347.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-29", "file": "debates1977-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "fb044a2e74fbb6b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.370.3", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "That is certainly not my arithmetic, Sir Myer, and I wonder whether you are adopting the metric system in a rather unusual way. I can see several of my hon. Friends present. But what is important, whether we agree on this matter or not, is that it is deplorable that on a Bill which the Government say is vital they cannot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.370.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-29", "file": "debates1977-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "fb044a2e74fbb6b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.393.3", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "I acknowledge that there is a difference. In many cases it is thought that the difference between the law applying in Scotland and in England and Wales is very inexpedient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.393.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-29", "file": "debates1977-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "fb044a2e74fbb6b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.406.2", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Should not the hon. Gentleman mention forestry, because both public interests, in the form of the Forestry Commission, and private interests have asked my hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham (Mr. Parker), who knows a great deal about these things, to bring in an amendment to exclude forestry from the devolved subjects?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.406.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-29", "file": "debates1977-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "fb044a2e74fbb6b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.406.3", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "e Scottish authors only who would receive the right, or would it be only those living in Scotland, or—as the hon. Member for Aberdeenshire, East (Mr. Henderson) used to say—only those who had a Scottish grandmother, who would count as Scotsmen? I can imagine the appalling difficulties into which we should get as a result of trying to enforce the crazy laws that a Scottish Assembly might introduce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.406.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-29", "file": "debates1977-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "fb044a2e74fbb6b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.414.0", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "It is not by any manner of means the only thing on which the hon. Member for Aberdeen, South (Mr. Sproat) is misguided. The question of dog licences has nothing whatever to do with this schedule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.414.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-29", "file": "debates1977-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "fb044a2e74fbb6b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.453.1", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THAMES BOARD MILLS LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Marshall (Arundel)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Marshall (Arundel)", "preceding_text": "It would be difficult—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-29", "file": "debates1977-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "fb044a2e74fbb6b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.453.1", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THAMES BOARD MILLS LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Marshall (Arundel)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Marshall (Arundel)", "preceding_text": "It would be difficult—[ Interruption ]—to follow the speech of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.453.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-29", "file": "debates1977-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "fb044a2e74fbb6b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.454.0", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THAMES BOARD MILLS LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "ould not have gone ahead with the project without Government assistance. There was no reference to advancement in time or to a scale of efficiency. There is no back-up for the argument that the Government have put forward. It is not good enough. Bearing in mind the history of these matters, it is not surprising that when a motion of this nature comes before us, some of us are tempted to oppose it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-29a.454.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-30", "file": "debates1977-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "86f43ad95dea316a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-30a.507.7", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "ly will be the same as was given by the Chair yesterday. It is the accepted way of bringing to the attention of Ministers the strong feelings of some Back Benchers on this question. I gather that I am not alone in this. There are very grave issues and it would be of great assistance to know what the judges and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council think of the task that they have been given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-30a.507.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-30", "file": "debates1977-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "86f43ad95dea316a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-30a.536.0", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Clause 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Helfer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Helfer", "preceding_text": " demanding regional government in England, that I do not hear great demand for that—it would be something. However, the last thing that we want is another tier of government. We have too much damned government now. We do not want all these tiers of local government and regional government. We have far too much government. In a sense we are over-governed. We do not need this bureaucratic structure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-30a.536.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-30", "file": "debates1977-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "86f43ad95dea316a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-30a.598.3", "colnum": "598", "heading": "Clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "he mind of the Government in choosing the assistants. My main argument on the amendment is that the Assembly, especially if there is to be an Executive and assistants, could possibly spend all its time law-making. We come back to the question of moving around, as in musical chairs. Assemblymen cannot possibly be occupied for 37 to 40 hours a week simply tinkering and altering the laws of Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-30a.598.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-30", "file": "debates1977-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "86f43ad95dea316a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-30a.604.2", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "preceding_text": "Of course it is not difficult. That is the burden of the amendment. But, as I understand it, there are about seven Scottish Office Ministers at present. The powers which will be devolved under the Bill are more or less commensurate with the powers at present held by the Scottish Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-30a.604.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-30", "file": "debates1977-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "86f43ad95dea316a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-30a.611.2", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "preceding_text": "his part of the clause should be made by hon. Members such as the Member for Glasgow, Hillhead (Mr. Galbraith), who are totally opposed to any devolution at all. I, too, am totally opposed to devolution, but I shall try to keep my remarks brief because we want to try to get rid of the end of this section of the argument before the guillotine falls, since this matter is less basic than some others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-30a.611.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-30", "file": "debates1977-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "86f43ad95dea316a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-30a.624.1", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "preceding_text": " leading article by way of rejoinder which said \"Mind your own business. What right have you English people to be talking about Scottish government?\" I have often been told that the English are very remiss when they appear not to notice that for some years there has been an argument in Scotland about devolution. Yet when I make some small contribution to this I am told by the Scotsman to shut up.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-30a.624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-30", "file": "debates1977-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "86f43ad95dea316a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-30a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "It is a marvellously naive concept which the SNP has, that all that is necessary to have a respectable number of bottles on the wall is to knock off two of them. It does not appreciate that it cannot say that four wheels on a car is too many and therefore it is necessary to get rid of two. These wheels have functions. We have to decide how to run the machine if we restrict the number of wheels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-30a.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-30", "file": "debates1977-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "86f43ad95dea316a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-30a.638.1", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Clause 21", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "Those are not matters for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-30a.638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-11-30", "file": "debates1977-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "86f43ad95dea316a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-30a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (ARCHITECTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Jones", "preceding_text": "tee. There are two general points that I wish to make. The most recent paper that has been put in the Vote Office, dated, I think, Monday of this week, was not signed by the Minister. At least my copy was not. The Minister signed the papers of March 1975 and 4th April this year, but there is only a typed name at the bottom of the paper this time. I am not sure what protocol demands, but I take it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-11-30a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-01", "file": "debates1977-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "87aa26d8a11a50ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-01a.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "lthough somehow I do not think he did so in order to help me. I understand that this article, or what has now been turned into an article, was a speech that my hon. Friend made to his constituency Labour Party general management committee. Even Ministers are entitled to talk about these matters to their constituency parties. As for free collective bargaining, I ceased to worship that 10 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-01a.713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-01", "file": "debates1977-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "87aa26d8a11a50ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-01a.715.2", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The guidelines were published in the White Paper last July, and that is what we are adhering to. I shall not condemn anyone in this House—not the Chancellor nor the Under-Secretary for Employment, not even the hon. Member for Chingford (Mr. Tebbit)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-01a.715.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-01", "file": "debates1977-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "87aa26d8a11a50ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-01a.718.3", "colnum": "718", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which Christmas?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman is not excited after all, we have restored the status quo . If he is a little patient, he will see that we are proposing to make fresh progress with the Bill before Christmas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-01a.718.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-01", "file": "debates1977-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "87aa26d8a11a50ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-01a.719.3", "colnum": "719", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "Since the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has made it clear that the Opposition are keen to use every means possible to help to obtain direct elections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-01a.719.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-01", "file": "debates1977-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "87aa26d8a11a50ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-01a.727.3", "colnum": "727", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "I apologise, Mr. Speaker. My Front Bench colleagues keep on presing for speed on the European Assembly Elections Bill. Do you think, Mr. Speaker, that you can somehow bring your pressure, which is considerable, to bear upon the Europeans to cause them to make up their minds about the pay of these Members? I ask that question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-01a.727.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-12-01", "file": "debates1977-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "87aa26d8a11a50ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-01a.851.6", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Mr. Judd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-01a.851.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-01", "file": "debates1977-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "87aa26d8a11a50ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-01a.856.0", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Sowerby (Mr. Madden) is perfectly correct about page 416 of \"Erskine May\", but it must be read in conjunction with page 419, where it is stated: Practice in Committee. In a committee of the whole House the restriction upon speaking more than once is altogether removed\". I do not know where that gets us. I should have thought that honours were even.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-01a.856.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-01", "file": "debates1977-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "87aa26d8a11a50ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-01a.856.3", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I entirely endorse what the right hon. Gentleman has said. I think that it would be by courtesy of the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-01a.856.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-12-01", "file": "debates1977-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "87aa26d8a11a50ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-01a.857.0", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "I entirely endorse what the right hon. Gentleman has said. I think that it would be by courtesy of the Minister—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I beg pardon: it is the other way round. That is what I gathered the right hon. Gentleman said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-01a.856.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-02", "file": "debates1977-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "e7c678f91a775386", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-02a.886.0", "colnum": "886", "heading": "NUCLEAR ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Macfarlane", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Peroration?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Macfarlane", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman and I apologise for interrupting his peroration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-02a.886.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-05", "file": "debates1977-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "b2c2220b318a92ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-05a.994.5", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "I accept what the hon. Gentleman says about the differences, and he knows the reasons for them. They are in part that there is very much more competition in the urban centres, where there are many more—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-05a.994.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-05", "file": "debates1977-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "b2c2220b318a92ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-05a.1003.1", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "I do not think that we have any powers to hang labels around attractive girls with clip-boards in the street.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-05a.1003.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-12-05", "file": "debates1977-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "b2c2220b318a92ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-05a.1009.0", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Quoting.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "as affecting inflation—which has to do with the IMF—was mentioned? Does he recall an answer given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer at columns 215–16 of Hansard on 24th March 1976, when I asked what were the five most important causes of inflation between the General Election of February 1974 and March 1976, and the answer was that labour costs were 50 per cent., import costs 20 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-05a.1008.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-05", "file": "debates1977-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "b2c2220b318a92ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-05a.1026.2", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "CROWN AGENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson ()", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson ()", "preceding_text": "e House as well. It is certainly the first thing to put on record. But at the same time it ought to be recognised that one of the most serious aspects of the report is that it mentions from time to time so many practices where the common excuse of the officers of the Crown Agents, when investigated and questioned by members of the Committee of Inquiry, was, \"This happens in the City all the time\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-05a.1026.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-05", "file": "debates1977-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "b2c2220b318a92ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-05a.1041.0", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "CROWN AGENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The House must consider it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "such tribunals are rare, but that is not a reason against it. They may be set up where both Houses of Parliament resolve that it is expedient that a tribunal be established for inquiring into a definitive matter described in the resolution as of urgent public importance. Of course, the Government have considered extremely carefuly whether this would be the appropriate form for the inquiry to take.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-05a.1041.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-05", "file": "debates1977-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "b2c2220b318a92ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-05a.1041.0", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "CROWN AGENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "r. The Salmon Commission on Tribunals of Inquiry which reported in 1966 said that the exceptional inquisitorial powers conferred upon a tribunal under the 1921 Act should always be confined to matters of vital public importance\"— certainly this is one— concerning which there is something in the nature of a nation-wide crisis of confidence\"— where no other method of investigation would be adequate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-05a.1041.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-05", "file": "debates1977-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "b2c2220b318a92ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-05a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "CROWN AGENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "d when the failings of the Crown Agents first became well known was 1970 and the time when the tidying-up job started was 1974. If that had been a period of Labour Government, we should be being crucified now for our failure to understand about business, our failure to take the necessary steps, and so on. Therefore, I hope that no Conservative will accuse us in this matter of being at all lacking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-05a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-05", "file": "debates1977-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "b2c2220b318a92ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-05a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "CROWN AGENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "nts first became well known was 1970 and the time when the tidying-up job started was 1974. If that had been a period of Labour Government, we should be being crucified now for our failure to understand about business, our failure to take the necessary steps, and so on. Therefore, I hope that no Conservative will accuse us in this matter of being at all lacking. [ Interruption. ] It has been done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-05a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-05", "file": "debates1977-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "b2c2220b318a92ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-05a.1081.2", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "CROWN AGENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner ()", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner ()", "preceding_text": "ember for Islington, South and Finsbury said, or by anybody else because they are so remote and so powerful. That is the key issue. The right hon. Member for Bridlington (Mr. Wood) made clear that they were not telling him anything—or, at least, he gave me that impression—and as for the period when my right hon. Friend was the Minister previously, in 1967, the period when the Crown Agents started—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-05a.1081.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-06", "file": "debates1977-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb23e00b015ebb14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-06a.1115.1", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "This is the third time today that I have been invited to answer that question. The answer remains exactly the same. The best advice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-06a.1115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-06", "file": "debates1977-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb23e00b015ebb14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-06a.1115.1", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about ladders?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "have been invited to answer that question. The answer remains exactly the same. The best advice—[ Interruption. ] The hon. Gentleman who said that is wrong. The advice that we continue to get from senior and experienced fire officers is that it would be unsafe for men just to be trained in the use of breathing apparatus because it needs months of experience, when one goes into a smoke filled room.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-06a.1115.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-12-06", "file": "debates1977-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb23e00b015ebb14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-06a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is your guillotine.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman make clear whether I am to be allowed to reply to this debate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-06a.1178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-06", "file": "debates1977-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb23e00b015ebb14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-06a.1211.0", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": " Committee. It is they who have to decide whether the argument is right and answer the questions of those among whom the argument is unknown and is not heard. This Committee stage should be transferred to Scotland, so that those who will have to judge the issue could listen to it. We should not need a very big church hall, because there are only 10 Labour Members and 40 Opposition Members present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-06a.1211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-06", "file": "debates1977-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb23e00b015ebb14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-06a.1215.3", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "re not obligatory on the Assembly. By and large, we are leaving a great deal to the Assembly about the way in which it conducts itself once it has been established. To provide a great amount of detail for all the provisions is not a very sensible approach. We are making the assumption that the Assembly will be composed of reasonable people just as we have reasonable people in the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-06a.1215.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-06", "file": "debates1977-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb23e00b015ebb14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-06a.1219.0", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman takes that view. No doubt he feels that he should display his diligence as a former devolutionist who is now part of the team which opposes the Bill. He is making rather a meal of these issues. He probably thinks that they are more important than the other matters that we are coming to discuss. I said to the right hon. Member for Down. South (Mr. Powell)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-06a.1219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-06", "file": "debates1977-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb23e00b015ebb14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-06a.1244.4", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": " public authorities. Its demarcations would not be nearly as black and white as they may seem in the pages of a Bill such as this, because the Select Committee could not do its job with these narrow lines of communication. That is precisely where we shall get into great difficulty. A Select Committee of the Scottish Assembly that is worth its salt will not come within narrow, easily defined lines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-06a.1244.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-06", "file": "debates1977-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb23e00b015ebb14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-06a.1247.0", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nick Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick Budgen", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Eastbourne (Mr. Gow) divided the responsibilities which might be delegated to a relevant authority into political responsibility and financial responsibility. Perhaps I may add a third—legal responsibility. I dare say that many right hon. and hon. Members in this Committee are more familiar with English law than they are with Scottish law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-06a.1247.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-06", "file": "debates1977-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb23e00b015ebb14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-06a.1247.0", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nick Budgen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That matter is not devolved.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick Budgen", "preceding_text": "as responsible in tort for any negligence—or whatever tort there might be in Scottish law that would be relevant to such an action—might be very important indeed. Would the primary responsibility lie with the English authorities, or might it lie with the Scottish authorities to which the duty of building the reactor had been delegated? This is an important matter; it is not a mere academic matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-06a.1247.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-06", "file": "debates1977-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb23e00b015ebb14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-06a.1258.1", "colnum": "1258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": " the Scottish Executive direct contact with the Queen. As well as having the high and mighty position of Governor-General and standing in for the Queen in relation to the constitution of the Assembly, the Secretary of State also finds himself in the rather lowly position of postman. In that capacity he is obliged to obtain information from the Scottish Executive and to provide it to his colleagues", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-06a.1258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-06", "file": "debates1977-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb23e00b015ebb14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-06a.1275.1", "colnum": "1275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my hon. Friend's comments will be noted by those who read these debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-06a.1275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-06", "file": "debates1977-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb23e00b015ebb14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-06a.1287.1", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "There is an obligation upon the Scottish Secretary to provide information when requested to do so. Since the Scottish Administration will comprise law-abiding people, they will have regard to the terms of the Bill. I remind the hon. Member that in the United States the Supreme Court has operated for two centuries without any sanctions being open to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-06a.1287.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-12-06", "file": "debates1977-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb23e00b015ebb14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-06a.1303.2", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHERIFF PETER THOMSON", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The hon. Member should get back to his aircraft.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Time is racing on. I hope that hon. Members will not persist in demanding to make interventions when the Member who is speaking does not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-06a.1303.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-06", "file": "debates1977-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "fb23e00b015ebb14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-06a.1313.1", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SHERIFF PETER THOMSON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "nally had carefully examined the precedents? Is it because his statement that he had carefully examined the precedents himself was untrue, or is it because he had examined them and was aware of this but did not want the House of Commons to know it? Those are the two horns of the dilemma on which the right hon. Gentleman has impaled himself. I will give way to him so that he may reply if he wishes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-06a.1313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-07", "file": "debates1977-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "804a9e66d2ebfbcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1364.8", "colnum": "1364", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that deep disgust has been felt at the statement made by the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar (Mr. McCrindle) about Chile, which is a brutal dictatorship and which the hon Gentleman conveyed as a democracy? Will my hon. Friend accept my congratulations on his recent statement that our stance is even more determined on Chile than it has ever been so far? Does he agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1364.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-07", "file": "debates1977-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "804a9e66d2ebfbcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1391.0", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (SUMMIT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ery direct interests here, but the discussions are going on separately. We reached no conclusion. Indeed, this is not a subject on which it would be possible for the Heads of Government to reach a conclusion, although the issues are extremely serious. On direct elections, I notice that the right hon. Lady is constantly attempting to ensure that we are saddled with the responsibility for the delay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1391.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-07", "file": "debates1977-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "804a9e66d2ebfbcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1391.0", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (SUMMIT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d, this is not a subject on which it would be possible for the Heads of Government to reach a conclusion, although the issues are extremely serious. On direct elections, I notice that the right hon. Lady is constantly attempting to ensure that we are saddled with the responsibility for the delay. [ Interruption. ] Well, I am not denying it, so I do not see why hon. Members have to push it so hard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1391.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-07", "file": "debates1977-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "804a9e66d2ebfbcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1391.2", "colnum": "1391", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (SUMMIT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No. I shall be interested to see how the voting goes when the issue comes up. If the House takes a decision before Christmas, that in itself will decide on what date the elections can be held.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1391.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-07", "file": "debates1977-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "804a9e66d2ebfbcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1419.3", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is suffering from two misconceptions. I am not advocating that the law should be the same. I am saying that it may be thought necessary or expedient that it should be the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1419.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-07", "file": "debates1977-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "804a9e66d2ebfbcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1421.0", "colnum": "1421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "we are not even allowed the injury time consequent upon the statement made by the Prime Miniter. I ask you, Mr. Murton, to take seriously the initial point made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Farnham (Mr. Macmillan) when he suggested that the Business Committee ought to consider whether the guillotine procedures could at least give us the injury time that we lose as a result of statements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-07", "file": "debates1977-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "804a9e66d2ebfbcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1427.2", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Wilson", "preceding_text": " effect and before the procedure under the clause can be operated. It is clear that many of the worries expressed, particularly by Conservative Members, have been exaggerated, and if the hon. Member for West Lothian (Mr. Dalyell) does not fear the consequences of this particular clause and says it is a de minimis situation which will rarely be invoked, hon. Members need not worry too much about it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1427.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-07", "file": "debates1977-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "804a9e66d2ebfbcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1444.1", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "pears in the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973. I looked up the Official Report to see how the clause was dealt with, having been struck by the almost complete similarity between Section 38(2) of that Act and what is in the Bill. I wanted to see how Parliament handled it. I found that there was almost no discussion of the matter. I do not know whether Parliament was sleeping on that occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-07", "file": "debates1977-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "804a9e66d2ebfbcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1444.1", "colnum": "1444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "m legislation which operates in Scotland together with Assembly legislation. That is our intention, and we have no nefarious purpose in putting this clause forward. Parliament is, of course, entitled to be suspicious of the Executive, but most Executives have to come forward with fairly broad provisions of this sort, and at the end of the day Parliament must trust the good intention of Ministers.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1444.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-07", "file": "debates1977-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "804a9e66d2ebfbcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1474.0", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "lated Minister after Minister and Chancellor after Chancellor. I am always astounded at how my right hon. Friend the present Chancellor can keep coming to the Dispatch Box and saying \"I got it wrong last time, but this time I have got it right\". In one of his 14 Budgets, or whatever the number is, he will confess that he got it wrong last time but say that he will certainly get it right this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1474.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-07", "file": "debates1977-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "804a9e66d2ebfbcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1496.1", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "e by the nine-tenths English-dominated United Kingdom economy, we could not expect to see any intervention to direct a greater proportion of shipbuilding orders to that quarter of the shipbuilding industry which exists in Scotland. We should get no more than cur share in any matters under Government control. Next, in the middle of my constituency there is Chrysler. I could not have saved Chrysler—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-07", "file": "debates1977-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "804a9e66d2ebfbcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1545.0", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. M. S. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. M. S. Miller", "preceding_text": "I hope that under the clause we shall have the guidelines set out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1545.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-07", "file": "debates1977-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "804a9e66d2ebfbcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1547.4", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ms in Scotland which were not available in the North-East of England, for example. This is consistent with our view that devolution will strengthen the unity of the United Kingdom. I believe that profoundly—and I emphasise it to Opposition Members who keep fighting the Bill at every stage because they believe that it will harm the unity of the United Kingdom. However, I think that this indication—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1547.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-12-07", "file": "debates1977-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "804a9e66d2ebfbcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1565.1", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ENERGY POLICY AND NUCLEAR ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leo Abse", "preceding_text": "Why, when I have requested that document to be made available, has that never been done? An inquiry was made today in the Library, and it was confirmed that the document is an unpublished working paper which is therefore not available for distribution. Is my right hon. Friend aware that this seminal document which should have been before us has not been available for us to debate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1565.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-07", "file": "debates1977-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "804a9e66d2ebfbcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1592.2", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ENERGY POLICY AND NUCLEAR ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomson", "preceding_text": "wn land. It is this House and the Government in Whitehall who do so at the moment. I do not want to see the periphery of Europe used for the network of storage sites that is spoken of in the document. If we have no control in face of the United Kingdom Government, what control can we hope to have in face of the faceless bureaucrats of the EEC? Only Scottish independence can save us from this fate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1592.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-12-07", "file": "debates1977-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "804a9e66d2ebfbcd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1606.4", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That this House doth agree with the Select Committee on House of Commons (Services), in their Fifth Report, in the last Session of Parliament, on Computer-based Indexing for the Library.—[ Mr. Walter Harrison. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-07a.1606.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-08", "file": "debates1977-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8f78bfc1788e2af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-08a.1641.1", "colnum": "1641", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The simple answer is that I do not carry this complicated calculation in my head. But I repeat the offer. I hope that the Opposition will debate this on Monday, and they can then have all the figures that it is appropriate to produce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-08a.1641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-08", "file": "debates1977-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8f78bfc1788e2af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-08a.1642.0", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "preceding_text": "ter's engagements today is to read the transcript of last night's party political broadcast, I hope that, at the end of it, he will send a message of congratulation to Transport House upon a long overdue forthright attack upon the National Front, which was marred only by the fact that the BBC insisted that the programme was not entitled to refer to the past convictions of the men in the broadcast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-08a.1642.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-08", "file": "debates1977-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8f78bfc1788e2af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-08a.1648.1", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "CROWN AGENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "of my colleagues, I welcome the fact that the Prime Minister has decided to set up the 1921-style of tribunal. In view of his earlier answer to the Leader of the Opposition, I hope that the Prime Minister will accept that it is very healthy for the House of Commons occasionally to exert its collective will over the Government and to kick them into actions which they might not otherwise have taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-08a.1648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-08", "file": "debates1977-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8f78bfc1788e2af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-08a.1723.1", "colnum": "1723", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "d. I believe that it is the easiest thing in the world to say \"In any election we shall win and we shall be the majority, and, therefore, that is democracy.\" An election is only part of democracy. Democracy means the attitude of the majority to the minority and that of the minority to the majority. It means a living together, and integration and an understanding of the position that each occupies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-08a.1723.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-08", "file": "debates1977-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8f78bfc1788e2af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-08a.1782.1", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (APPROPRIATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerard Fitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerard Fitt", "preceding_text": "eeds of the Housing Executive. I warn my hon. Friend that I will take the earliest opportunity to bring before the House some of the more glaring defects of the Executive, particularly in relation to repairs and maintenance. Housing Executive properties built in the last few years are now slums, because repairs have never been carried out by the Executive. But that is a topic for another occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-08a.1782.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-08", "file": "debates1977-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8f78bfc1788e2af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-08a.1821.1", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (APPROPRIATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "ded on less than fact. There will be full consultation. The area boards will have ample opportunity, and the people in the areas will have even greater opportunity, to make their views known. There will be no imposition by the Government. The area boards will decide for them- selves. The area boards will have the opportunity of deciding on the recommendations that are made from within their areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-08a.1821.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-12-08", "file": "debates1977-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "8f78bfc1788e2af2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-08a.1838.5", "colnum": "1838", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That this House doth agree with the Select Committee on House of Commons (Services) in their Fifth Report, in the last Session of Parliament, on Computer-based Indexing for the Library.—[ Mr. Tinn. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-08a.1838.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-09", "file": "debates1977-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "70cab996ddb33e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-09a.1850.0", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (COUNCIL OF FISHERIES MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Does the right hon. Gentleman mean put the clock back'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "ister aware that we on the Opposition Benches feel that it would be very wrong indeed if anyone in Brussels or elsewhere thought there was anything but unanimity on this point? We fully support the Minister in the stand that he has taken. Is he also aware that we agree specifically that it is right to \"stop the clock\" in present circumstances? I only wish that this could be done over a wider area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-09a.1850.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-09", "file": "debates1977-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "70cab996ddb33e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-09a.1883.1", "colnum": "1883", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "concern that has been expressed in the debate for our Armed Forces, but I hope that the Opposition will tell us quite clearly what they would intend to do. They have initiated the debate, and they ought to tell us what their policies would be if by some great misfortune they became the Government after the next General Election. Would they disband the inde-dependent Review Body which now seeks to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-09a.1883.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-09", "file": "debates1977-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "70cab996ddb33e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-09a.1883.1", "colnum": "1883", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "ctor? If that is not their intention, let them say what is their intention. The Review Body will come forward with its proposals early next year. Evidence can be submitted by the Tory Party, by individuals and by any kind of organisation to that Review Body as to what it should recommend. But would any Government give a blank cheque that it would underwrite everything that such a body recommended?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-09a.1883.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-09", "file": "debates1977-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "70cab996ddb33e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-09a.1886.1", "colnum": "1886", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I was interested to hear what was said about trade union membership for the forces. I do not care one way or the other, except to point out that a soldier is still an individual member of our society and should have a perfect right in principle to join a union. I believe that every professional Member on the Conservative Benches is in a union. Every Member on the Labour Benches is compelled to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-09a.1886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-09", "file": "debates1977-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "70cab996ddb33e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-09a.1888.4", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "y—I hope my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State will do so today—that the Forces will be given now exactly what the firemen are being offered and that over a period of two years they will have comparability with the firemen. I hope that the Government will see to it that Forces' pay, taking into account the fact that they do not pay rent and rates and the things that other people have to pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-09a.1888.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-09", "file": "debates1977-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "70cab996ddb33e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-09a.1942.1", "colnum": "1942", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "he role of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body, perhaps I can touch on a few of the peripheral issues that have been raised today. Many hon. Members have raised the subject of moonlighting. I must say that I very much agree with what was said by my hon. Friend the Member for Fife, Central (Mr. Hamilton). It really verges on hypocrisy for us in the House, of all people, to criticise people outside for", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-09a.1942.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-09", "file": "debates1977-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "70cab996ddb33e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-09a.1945.1", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "actor and the way in which the charges are calculated. The recommendations of the Review Body must be implemented in a way that is consistent with the Government's pay guidelines, and this may involve phasing over a period. The Secretary of State for Defence is determined to ensure that the military salary is brought up to date and that full comparability is restored as soon as pay policy permits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-09a.1945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-09", "file": "debates1977-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "70cab996ddb33e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-09a.1947.1", "colnum": "1947", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "It is recommended to make recommendations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-09a.1947.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-09", "file": "debates1977-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "70cab996ddb33e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-09a.1947.1", "colnum": "1947", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "not nobbled by any statutory policy. There is no change whatever. Let no one suggest that we are suddenly introducing an element of interference into the deliberations of the Review Body. My right hon. Friend has made it absolutely clear that comparability will be restored just as soon as pay policy permits. Of course, it is impossible for me to speculate as to what the Review Body will recommend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-09a.1947.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-09", "file": "debates1977-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "70cab996ddb33e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-09a.1948.3", "colnum": "1948", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "I will not give way. I have given way many times. A private's pay has always been below the average industrial wage. When the Conservatives were responsible for these matters, a private's pay was about 25 per cent. below the average industrial rate. There is nothing new about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-09a.1948.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-12-09", "file": "debates1977-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "70cab996ddb33e6d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-09a.1949.11", "colnum": "1949", "heading": "ARMED FORCES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That this House doth agree with the Select Committee on House of Commons (Services), in their Fifth Report, in the last Session of Parliament, on Computer-based Indexing for the Library.—[ Mr. Walter Harrison. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-09a.1949.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-12", "file": "debates1977-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "b414f1a17a9719a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-12a.37.0", "colnum": "37", "heading": "ENERGY CONSERVATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Conjecture.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I am well aware of the latter point, although, as the hon. Gentleman knows, if there is a move to combine heat and power—a subject of great interest to the House—that involves a different stategy and needs some time to develop. However, I gave the figures for the last four years. We calculate that £2,000 million has been saved, even before the announcement of the measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-12a.37.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-12", "file": "debates1977-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "b414f1a17a9719a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-12a.62.3", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "The caption on page 2 states Varley is in the doghouse", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-12a.62.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-12", "file": "debates1977-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "b414f1a17a9719a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-12a.65.3", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "has obviously missed out. But it has been said by those unions on several occasions. Our shipping industry is contributing almost the same amount to our balance of payments as North Sea oil. It has weathered the slump in freight rates pretty well. Its ships are modem. This year 93 per cent. of our requirements for new ships are being built in British yards. But the industry's future is threatened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-12a.65.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-12", "file": "debates1977-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "b414f1a17a9719a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-12a.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "tes that the deal adds a new dimension to the credit race. It is clear that it is an unprecedented credit at 100 per cent. When we also take into account the exchange rate cover, the direct subsidy and the interest subsidy, we see that the cost to the taxpayer is about £38 million. All that is before we count the penalties for late delivery, which every hon. Member knows are certain to be invoked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-12a.99.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-12", "file": "debates1977-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "b414f1a17a9719a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-12a.125.0", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "preceding_text": "erefore the representatives are representatives of States. But how can they be representatives of States if they at any time speak with a different voice from us as representatives of the United Kingdom? The right hon. Gentleman played with this apparent anomaly and inconsistency for some time. He argued, as always, with powerful logic in a context in which logic will not alone provide the answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-12a.125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-12", "file": "debates1977-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "b414f1a17a9719a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-12a.131.3", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I cannot give way any more. I am taking up too much time in the Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-12a.131.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-12", "file": "debates1977-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "b414f1a17a9719a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-12a.132.3", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Clark", "preceding_text": "passing that aside, they will represent the people of England, or Britain. The question is what they will do when they are there. Will they all speak with one voice and see things only in terms of British interests? Obviously, some of them will be Conservatives and some will be Socialists. Some will be M6 murderers, or whatever the odds and sods who come in on a proportional list are likely to be.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-12a.132.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-12", "file": "debates1977-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "b414f1a17a9719a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-12a.166.0", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "The essence of what my hon. Friend is saying is that the European Assembly is completely irrelevant. It will clearly not involve Members in the decision-making process on matters of broad policy that will affect the people of Britain should we become a full member of the Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-12a.166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-12", "file": "debates1977-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "b414f1a17a9719a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-12a.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "tmas. I accept, as was said by my hon. Friends, that the new clause that we shall discuss is also of great importance. The immediate question, however, is the order in which we should debate Clauses 2 and 3. For the reasons that I have given, it seems desirable that we should devote tomorrow's debate to the consideration of Clause 3 so that all concerned can know where they stand before Christmas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-12a.184.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-13", "file": "debates1977-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "26c28f7512a59706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-13a.271.4", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stan Crowther", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stan Crowther", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend be able to find time to congratulate the men who work on E furnace in the Templeborough melting shop in my constituency, who last week produced steel at what would be an averaae annual rate", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-13a.271.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-13", "file": "debates1977-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "26c28f7512a59706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-13a.271.5", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the Christmas spirit seems to be spreading rather ra- pidly, I cannot think of a better commercial on which to congratulate my hon. Friend. I hope that the whole House will join in congratulating the steel workers on the record that they have set up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-13a.271.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-13", "file": "debates1977-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "26c28f7512a59706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-13a.313.2", "colnum": "313", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Lawson", "preceding_text": "That is precisely why I propose in an amendment first-past-the-post constituencies on a county basis, because, equally, nobody could suggest that the counties had been plucked arbitrarily out of the air—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-13a.313.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-13", "file": "debates1977-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "26c28f7512a59706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-13a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "ly vote on the system. Now that the Government have brought forward, as we suggested this proposal before there is any question of a timetable motion, it is fair to say—and I am supporting what my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition said in Brussels the other day—it would be easier for the Opposition to provide some form of acquiescence if we come to some form of timetable motion later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-13a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-13", "file": "debates1977-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "26c28f7512a59706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-13a.323.0", "colnum": "323", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": "I have put to the Committee the time table from the point of view of the Home Office. The Committee must take into account the timetable that will be involved from Royal Assent, and how the Government will handle this matter when we come back in the New Year for wider discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-13a.323.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-13", "file": "debates1977-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "26c28f7512a59706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-13a.336.0", "colnum": "336", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "It is because there is a very large number of seats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-13a.336.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-13", "file": "debates1977-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "26c28f7512a59706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-13a.348.2", "colnum": "348", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "y shall consist of an area that includes two or more parliamentary constituencies; and ( b ) no parliamentary constituency shall be included partly in one Assembly constituency and partly in another. The electorate of any Assembly constituency in Great Britain shall be as near the electoral quota as is reasonably practicable having regard, where appropriate, to special geographical considerations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-13a.348.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-13", "file": "debates1977-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "26c28f7512a59706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-13a.364.1", "colnum": "364", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But you are doing so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "he Boundary Commissioners were the appropriate body to carry out this quasi-judicial function. That is an absolute test. It may be because of that that the whole of the elections will be put back, but that is another matter. The Tories believe that local people should be able to participate in local inquiries, but it would be profoundly wrong to deprive people of the right to make representations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-13a.364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-13", "file": "debates1977-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "26c28f7512a59706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-13a.370.6", "colnum": "370", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Phipps", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Phipps", "preceding_text": "I believe that within a regional set-up there will be a much greater degree of self-interest among Members when it comes to the importance of their own regions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-13a.370.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-13", "file": "debates1977-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "26c28f7512a59706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-13a.385.1", "colnum": "385", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Channon", "preceding_text": " Border (Mr. Whitelaw)—said that so far as the Conservative Party is concorned, as I understand its position, the system which we decide upon tonight should be applied throughout the United Kingdom. I hope that my hon. Friend will reconsider his decision not to vote tonight and will, perhaps join the cause of those who are against the regional list system, and I gather from his speech that he was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-13a.385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-13", "file": "debates1977-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "26c28f7512a59706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-13a.385.1", "colnum": "385", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or at all?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Channon", "preceding_text": "uraged to change our minds by the Home Secretary's answers to the questions posed by my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Oxon. Does anyone seriously believe that after Christmas the Government will devote the major portion of Government time to getting this Bill though the House of Commons and another place in order to have direct elections in May or June of next year? The proposition is ridiculous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-13a.385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-13", "file": "debates1977-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "26c28f7512a59706", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-13a.415.2", "colnum": "415", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "ost system, in the first instance, or the regional list system, timing is important In regard to the first-past-the-post system, there is no question of the Government introducing a scheme that bypasses the Boundary Commission or that is based on the counties. If the Committee chooses the first-past-the-post system, there is no doubt that there will be timing problems, not out of any dilatoriness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-13a.415.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-14", "file": "debates1977-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4a1766e0570daf7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-14a.483.0", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bagier", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bagier", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that in some ways it is natural that there should be differences of opinion between the various trade unions representing their members on the carriage of traffic? Does he not agree that, understandably, discussions are taking place and that the \"blacking\" is a bit bad?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-14a.483.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1977-12-14", "file": "debates1977-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4a1766e0570daf7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-14a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I understand that the hon. Gentleman is now referring to a member of another place. He will understand that the same rules apply and that no reflection on the honour and integrity of a member of the other House is possible or in order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-14a.511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-14", "file": "debates1977-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4a1766e0570daf7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-14a.521.3", "colnum": "521", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dudley Smith", "preceding_text": "that action of the sort which the Government have taken in announcing the amnesty will virtually drive a fair number of unthinking people into the arms of the National Front—that totally despicable party or, rather, organisation. I shall not dignify it by calling it a party, and I was sad to see such a boost given to it the other day by the party political television broadcast of the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-14a.521.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-14", "file": "debates1977-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4a1766e0570daf7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-14a.524.1", "colnum": "524", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "preceding_text": "We have one matter at least to be got out of the way before we adjourn, namely the deferment of the Town and County Planning General Development (Amendment) Order, which was to have come into effect on 1st January. I hope that we shall be told of that deferment before very long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-14a.524.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-14", "file": "debates1977-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4a1766e0570daf7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-14a.556.1", "colnum": "556", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Clemitson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Clemitson", "preceding_text": "owned by Shell and BP. I remind the House that as long ago as June last year a well-documented report was issued by an American group called \"The Oil Conspiracy\" which detailed the way in which oil was continuing to get into Rhodesia and the way in which through what was called \"a paper chase\" the South African subsidiaries of a number of multinational oil companies were supplying oil to Rhodesia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-14a.556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-14", "file": "debates1977-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4a1766e0570daf7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-14a.642.0", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE POLICY (MULTI-FIBRE ARRANGEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "preceding_text": "I hear what the hon. Gentleman says, but his ideas about the Japanese are as outdated as his other ideas. I wish to declare a past interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-14a.642.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-14", "file": "debates1977-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4a1766e0570daf7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-14a.642.0", "colnum": "642", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE POLICY (MULTI-FIBRE ARRANGEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "preceding_text": "an confine themselves to present interests, but I declare a past interest in that for some years I was responsible for negotiating in Hong Kong certain textile agreements and for the operation of export controls. I attended the first United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, which became generally known as UNCTAD. Later I was a director of a textile manufacturing company in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-14a.642.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-14", "file": "debates1977-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4a1766e0570daf7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-14a.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE POLICY (MULTI-FIBRE ARRANGEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "preceding_text": "ed away by the benefit of unionisation and wages, I should like to refer him to a recent report of the Low Pay Unit regarding conditions in the garment industry in this country. It points out that there is a 50 per cent. turnover in employment and that girls of school leaving age are paid totally disgraceful wages which may be below the take-home pay of people in Hong Kong. What are we protecting?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-14a.646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-14", "file": "debates1977-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4a1766e0570daf7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-14a.647.0", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRADE POLICY (MULTI-FIBRE ARRANGEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "preceding_text": "I was trying to say that the benefits of unionism and supposedly higher wages and protection for Asian workers have not necessarily been fully extended in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-14a.647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-14", "file": "debates1977-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4a1766e0570daf7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-14a.704.3", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We are not discussing teacher training colleges in Scotland, and I ask the hon. Gentleman to remember my ruling on the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-14a.704.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-14", "file": "debates1977-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4a1766e0570daf7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-14a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "from these airports. It would carry out some of the functions, and the other functions would be carried out by the BAA. There would be a real danger of duplication of what is done by one person or organisation now. Has the Minister given any consideration to what might be the additional costs of dividing into two the responsibility for airports for which at present the CAA is entirely responsible?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-14a.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-14", "file": "debates1977-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4a1766e0570daf7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-14a.713.3", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "I was not referring to the hon. Member's tastes when he visits airports; I was talking of tastes that were somewhat more selective. There can be no doubt that at some airports the facilities that could have been provided have not been provided. I do not want to labour the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-14a.713.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-14", "file": "debates1977-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4a1766e0570daf7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-14a.833.1", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AEROSPACE PROGRAMMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": "success of Concorde, which is now in service on two routes on the North Atlantic. Negotiations are in progress for other routes, and I am pleased to note the progress made so far on the Singapore route. It is success such as that which represents the auspicious start for nationalisation of British Aerospace. I certainly depart from the gloomy prognostications that we have had from the Opposition.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-14a.833.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-14", "file": "debates1977-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "4a1766e0570daf7e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-14a.861.1", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. Denzil Davies)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. Denzil Davies)", "preceding_text": "on why he wished to align the cash limits to the Estimates or to insert the cash limits into the Estimates was that he believed that this might again give Parliament its old rôle—if there was such a role, which presumably there was at one time—of a greater control over public expenditure. He will know, of course, that the Supplementary Estimate now provides that control, at least in theory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-14a.861.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-15", "file": "debates1977-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "1fd04f648a004547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-15a.893.0", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is extremely foolish in his latter remarks, but, taking his views for what they are worth, the policy of the National Front—and he would know a great deal about that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-15a.893.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-15", "file": "debates1977-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "1fd04f648a004547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-15a.940.2", "colnum": "940", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman is inviting me to increase the distribution in favour of urban areas because he believes they are not getting enough, I am certainly prepared to consider that, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-15a.940.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-15", "file": "debates1977-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "1fd04f648a004547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-15a.940.4", "colnum": "940", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "No. I will not give way for another moment because I believe that the House will get very testy with me if I do not move on. The second feature of the 1978–79—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-15a.940.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-15", "file": "debates1977-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "1fd04f648a004547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-15a.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, he is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "and how it is to be made for London has always faced every Minister with responsibility for rate support grant. I think that it is a great loss to the House today that those two admirable and balanced students and advocates of London's needs—the hon. Members for Hampstead (Mr. Finsberg) and Hornsey (Mr. Rossi), who frequently speak from the Opposition Front Bench—are not with us on this occasion.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-15a.943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-15", "file": "debates1977-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "1fd04f648a004547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-15a.982.2", "colnum": "982", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stan Crowther", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Any factories there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stan Crowther", "preceding_text": ". I have to tell him frankly that I do not know, but I do not doubt that it is less than people are paying in Islington, and the reason for that is that rateable values are so much higher in Islington, and those higher rateable values apply not only to houses but to shops, offices and factories, so that the total benefit from rateable value has to be taken into account. Let us be clear about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-15a.982.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-15", "file": "debates1977-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "1fd04f648a004547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-15a.1004.0", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "There is no question of the hon. Gentleman's constituents being punished.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-15a.1004.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-15", "file": "debates1977-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "1fd04f648a004547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-15a.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": " is a growing tide of protest reflecting frustration and even controlled anger against the rate support settlement set out in the orders. It is quite remarkable that that protest comes not merely from the shire counties, from the North to the South and from the East to the West of the kingdom, but from both sides of the House. As the Secretary of State for the Environment was not here at the time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-15a.1006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-15", "file": "debates1977-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "1fd04f648a004547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-15a.1009.3", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Braine", "preceding_text": " of the rate, and according to the best calculations that our county treasurer can make, the Epping Forest house owner will pay £42 more in rates. Where is the logic in this? Where is the equity? Where is the justice? There is no rhyme or reason in it. All the calculations may have been made and fed into the computer, but if what comes out is vicious nonsense of this kind, setting man against man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-15a.1009.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-15", "file": "debates1977-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "1fd04f648a004547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-15a.1048.3", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "However, we never received a ha'pence worth of support, with the exception of the absentees tonight. Those absentees were very good when they had to come to help us. I think that it was at election time, so they could not afford to stay away. They were the hon. Member for Hornsey (Mr. Rossi) and the hon. Member for Hampstead (Mr. Finsberg), who are now known as the Opposition spokesmen for London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-15a.1048.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1977-12-15", "file": "debates1977-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "1fd04f648a004547", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-15a.1071.2", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Sainsbury", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Sainsbury", "preceding_text": " more. Most hon. Members have concentrated their criticism on the now generally decried and disgraced multiple regression analysis method of allocating nearly £4,000 million handed out in the needs element. It might be suggested that it is a little late in the day to turn to what is perhaps the most profound criticism of multiple regression analysis, which is that it suffers from multicollinearity", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1977-12-15a.1071.2"}
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