{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-09", "file": "debates1978-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "811c914cb7227dd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-09a.1239.1", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend will allow me to say so, I do not think that it is for me to publish a White Paper about Community energy policy. I made a statement to the House just before Christmas on our own conservation policy, and I have strongly urged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-09a.1239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-09", "file": "debates1978-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "811c914cb7227dd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-09a.1290.2", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC ACCOUNTS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "ffice. If there is to be cross-examination on the work of a specific factory or local office, that factory or office should be represented before the Committee. It is not a question of Sir John or Mr. Lord having volunteered inaccurate evidence. It is merely that my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham, East put certain questions to them on the basis of certain assumptions that he held in good faith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-09a.1290.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-01-09", "file": "debates1978-01-09a.xml", "sha256": "811c914cb7227dd1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-09a.1401.2", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (LIBRARY)", "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. Bates. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-09a.1401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-10", "file": "debates1978-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb403eb21fb5f90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-10a.1467.0", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: It is \"a Scottish Secretary.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham Page", "preceding_text": "hat the money collected in Scotland is being returned to us. Why do you want an account of that?\". That is not right. In considering what might be done with that money without any reference to the United Kingdom Parliament, we see that subsection (2) makes an extraordinary statement—that the Scottish Secretary may from time to time cause sums to be transferred from one to the other of those Funds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-10a.1467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-10", "file": "debates1978-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb403eb21fb5f90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-10a.1505.1", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I cannot see why they should not be satisfied with their rôle, because the clear principle is that there is to be devolution of the Assembly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-10a.1505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-10", "file": "debates1978-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb403eb21fb5f90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-10a.1506.3", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "r give up the task of getting devolution at all and that we must go back. He said that we cannot have executive or legislative devolution. Yet we have been given no constructive alternative. We shall come to tax raising later, when I hope to develop reasons why the Government feel it would not be suitable, over-expensive and cumbersome to have additional tax-raising powers. That is another matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-10a.1506.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-10", "file": "debates1978-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb403eb21fb5f90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-10a.1509.3", "colnum": "1509", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": "y, but he invited members of the conference to come forward with alternative schemes. My hon. Friend the Minister of State has said on many occasions that he is open to persuasion and would like to hear of viable schemes that would give the Assembly direct responsibility to raise its own money. We were invited to put schemes forward. That is why I am glad that the rules of order have been altered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-10a.1509.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-10", "file": "debates1978-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb403eb21fb5f90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-10a.1519.2", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": "phs ( a ) and ( b ) would be roughly or exactly equivalent over a period of time to the Scottish needs—that is equivalent to the proportion of public expenditure enjoyed by Scotland at present. Therefore, to see that an equalisation grant is feasible if the Scottish revenue falls far too short or if the Scottish revenue is too great that an additional payment is made back to the British Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-10a.1519.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-10", "file": "debates1978-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb403eb21fb5f90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-10a.1532.0", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruptionl", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "r shall not be criminal. It is not for matters of law which do not affect the economy, which do not affect taxation, which do not affect the services, it is not for those purposes that this is to be made a legislative Assembly. If we examined the content of a Session's work of this House, what percentage would we find was non-expenditure-generating or non-revenue-producing? It would be very small—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-10a.1532.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-10", "file": "debates1978-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb403eb21fb5f90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-10a.1552.0", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "It does not go as far as I would wish it to go. In a federal situation it would go much further. But even the scheme proposed by the hon. Member for Berwick and East Lothian—the income tax proposal in the first part—involves the capacity to vary the rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-10a.1552.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-10", "file": "debates1978-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb403eb21fb5f90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-10a.1568.7", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crawford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He fought against tax-raising powers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crawford", "preceding_text": "ial and political terms and in terms of higher education. Perhaps most important of all is the fact that after its establishment its funding will be the staff of its political life. The English House of Commons is very jealous of its tax-raising powers. Indeed, it was a namesake of the right hon. Member for Cambridgeshire (Mr. Pym) who fought very hard against the then King for tax-raising powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-10a.1568.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-10", "file": "debates1978-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb403eb21fb5f90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-10a.1568.7", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crawford", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Wrong again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crawford", "preceding_text": "he staff of its political life. The English House of Commons is very jealous of its tax-raising powers. Indeed, it was a namesake of the right hon. Member for Cambridgeshire (Mr. Pym) who fought very hard against the then King for tax-raising powers—[Hon. Members: \"He fought against tax-raising powers.\"] I take the point. He insisted that the House should have the right of financing over the King.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-10a.1568.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-10", "file": "debates1978-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb403eb21fb5f90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-10a.1603.0", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Turn round so that we can hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "e to be put into the Bill. What my hon. Friend is trying to do is by one means or another to add up the amount that the block grant would arrive at and then give a marginal variation. I do not see very much difference between having the block grant covering the area of the assigned taxes and having a separate heading called assigned taxes. The real point of the amendment is that there ought to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-10a.1603.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-01-10", "file": "debates1978-01-10a.xml", "sha256": "cb403eb21fb5f90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-10a.1627.8", "colnum": "1627", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (LIBRARY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "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. Snape. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-10a.1627.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-11", "file": "debates1978-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "d9d21c67131634e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-11a.1670.5", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "JUDGE NEIL MCKINNON (EARLY-DAY MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am afraid that, most unusually, the hon. Gentleman is making a mistake. We are not going to debate the issue now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-11a.1670.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-01-11", "file": "debates1978-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "d9d21c67131634e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-11a.1675.2", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "CLOSED SHOP (COMPENSATION FOR WRONGFUL DISMISSAL)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What sorry specimen?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "ed labour. The proposals presented by the hon. Gentleman are quaint and curious. They are designed to provide rewards to the freeloader—the person who is prepared to accept all the advantages that have been secured by the struggles and the sacrifices of his workmates but who is not prepared to contribute to the common fund. The hon. Member is reduced to making a hero figure of this sorry specimen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-11a.1675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-11", "file": "debates1978-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "d9d21c67131634e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-11a.1675.4", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "CLOSED SHOP (COMPENSATION FOR WRONGFUL DISMISSAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "to compensate those who are dismissed as a result of their refusal to join a trade union. I welcome this evidence of growing political maturity, but the approach behind the hon. Member's motion demonstrates a total misunderstanding of the recent legislation on the issue of the closed shop. The Government are neutral. They are neutral on the closed shop and the legislation reflects that neutrality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-11a.1675.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-11", "file": "debates1978-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "d9d21c67131634e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-11a.1692.1", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ave a good case for doing so. I am not complaining because anybody has protested. All I am saying is that I repudiate any suggestion that what happened yesterday was an unsatisfactory development in the debate in the Committee. What happened yesterday was that the Chair went out of its way to accommodate the requests of the Committee, and my hon. Friend the Minister of State in charge of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-11a.1692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-11", "file": "debates1978-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "d9d21c67131634e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-11a.1693.1", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "had a better Bill. The Leader of the House said that we can, perhaps, continue discussions. Why not then, be more forthcoming? Why not say now that he will agree to call the Business Committee and have a discussion, without commitment, of course? He can put the point to the Opposition and to the Liberals. The Lib-Lab pact is in on this and my right hon. Friend has the other half of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-11a.1693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-11", "file": "debates1978-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "d9d21c67131634e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-11a.1698.1", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackintosh", "preceding_text": " Assembly. The second reason why the Minister of State may have withheld certain powers from the devolved Assembly and kept them with the Secretary of State is that some of them relate to the local application of economic planning, of regional incentives and the whole regional economic policy. When this happens it not only entrenches on some Brussels provisions but also entrenches on the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-11a.1698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-11", "file": "debates1978-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "d9d21c67131634e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-11a.1742.2", "colnum": "1742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "f the Secretary of State to refer a Bill. It is difficult to conceive any matter on which the Assembly can legislate which could not be said to affect indirectly a non-devolved matter. Page 7 of the document refers to borrowing powers, and it is for this reason that it is of special relevance to what took place yesterday. We should have discussed this issue yesterday, but we never got round to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-11a.1742.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-11", "file": "debates1978-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "d9d21c67131634e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-11a.1794.3", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is rather naughtily putting words into my mouth that I have not in any way expressed. I think that we have this business of abortion across the border just about right at present, so let us leave it that way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-11a.1794.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-11", "file": "debates1978-01-11a.xml", "sha256": "d9d21c67131634e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-11a.1821.1", "colnum": "1821", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister bear in mind that what he was saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-11a.1821.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-12", "file": "debates1978-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "e7de9f63dfad3d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1836.0", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State tell the House precisely what Mr. Lynch said that offends against the traditional support of the Labour Party for a united Ireland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1836.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-12", "file": "debates1978-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "e7de9f63dfad3d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1859.0", "colnum": "1859", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "mine the matter afresh. However, if my hon. Friend is implying that any documents that are asked for should automatically be supplied to a Select Committee, I say that that would be a serious departure from the way in which Select Committees have previously operated. It would not just be dangerous to the Government; it would be extremely injurious to the rights of Back-Bench Members of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1859.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-12", "file": "debates1978-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "e7de9f63dfad3d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1860.1", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Lady, there were some discussions about the date on which we should be able to have the Supply Day on Agriculture, for which the Opposition had asked. She is quite correct in that. The right hon. Lady is also correct in saying that she had asked for it to be on the previous Thursday. However, for the reasons that have been given we believed that it would be better to have it on the Monday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1860.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-01-12", "file": "debates1978-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "e7de9f63dfad3d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1860.2", "colnum": "1860", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "hon. Lady is also correct in saying that she had asked for it to be on the previous Thursday. However, for the reasons that have been given we believed that it would be better to have it on the Monday. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Although I am prepared to consider the right hon. Lady's representations, I cannot say that we shall depart from what we have indicated. If I may now turn to the other matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-12", "file": "debates1978-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "e7de9f63dfad3d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1867.0", "colnum": "1867", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "When representations were made to us about this debate, we indicated the reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-12", "file": "debates1978-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "e7de9f63dfad3d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1868.3", "colnum": "1868", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I have already answered the first part of the hon. Gentleman's question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1868.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-12", "file": "debates1978-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "e7de9f63dfad3d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1868.3", "colnum": "1868", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " said earlier—though I do not know whether the House will agree—we should await the views and recommendations of the Procedure Committee, which is studying procedure generally, because this does raise important questions. If we were to agree to the proposition made by the Select Committee, it would not merely affect the operation of that Select Committee but it would affect the whole relationship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1868.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-12", "file": "debates1978-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "e7de9f63dfad3d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1871.1", "colnum": "1871", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I have told the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-12", "file": "debates1978-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "e7de9f63dfad3d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1875.0", "colnum": "1875", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "What I have answered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1875.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-12", "file": "debates1978-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "e7de9f63dfad3d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1900.0", "colnum": "1900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "stead of an X, one marks preferences up to the total number of candidates, although the voter does not have to use all the preferences. Any candidate who obtains 50 per cent. of the preferences is elected. If a candidate does not obtain 50 per cent. of the preferences, the bottom candidate drops out and the preferences are redistributed. That process continues until one candidate has 50 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1900.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-12", "file": "debates1978-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "e7de9f63dfad3d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1900.0", "colnum": "1900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "g does not comprise alternative votes. It concerns a single vote. Where 50 per cent. of the vote is cast for an individual man there is no problem. The candidate is returned forthwith. If he does not achieve 50 per cent. of the vote, there is a requirement in that constituency for the second preferences to be added up and at least 50 per cent. broadly based support for the candidate must be shown—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1900.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-12", "file": "debates1978-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "e7de9f63dfad3d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1901.0", "colnum": "1901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "simple. If we were to have the system that he suggests, all Labour voters who did not want a Conservative as their second preference would choose the SNP candidate. All Conservative voters who did not want the Labour candidate as their second preference would vote for the SNP. The hon. Member must think that we were born yesterday. He is using sheer SNP policy. I have never heard anything like it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-12", "file": "debates1978-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "e7de9f63dfad3d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1982.0", "colnum": "1982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "The method of elections to the House of Commons is long established, and therefore to make an exception for Northern Ireland would be absolute madness. It would be introducing something entirely new. But it was the hon. Gentleman's Government who abolished Stormont, with the support of the majority of the House, and who introduced the single transferable vote system into Northern Ireland.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1982.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-12", "file": "debates1978-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "e7de9f63dfad3d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1986.3", "colnum": "1986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend does not understand. I do not regard it as being a matter of guilt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1986.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-12", "file": "debates1978-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "e7de9f63dfad3d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1987.0", "colnum": "1987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": " from Northern Ireland. I know that is one reason why the United Ulster Unionist Council is opposed to the Common Market. It believes that it is either a Popish plot or that it brings them closer to Catholics on the Continent or Members from the Republic of Ireland and immediately the Red Hand of Maynooth is held up in horror. I happen to believe that the European Assembly could be a useful forum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1987.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-12", "file": "debates1978-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "e7de9f63dfad3d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1987.0", "colnum": "1987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "sembly. I believe that it is vitally important that if the vote of the minority community is about 35 per cent. to 40 per cent. it should be represented. The hon. Member for Oldham, East (Mr. Lamond) asked why Northern Ireland should not be treated the same as the rest of the United Kingdom. The Committee has to face the fact that Northern Ireland is not the same as the rest of the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1987.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-12", "file": "debates1978-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "e7de9f63dfad3d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1987.0", "colnum": "1987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": " it does between Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg if the North and the South of Ireland could live together. What is different about Northern Ireland is that it is the only place in the United Kingdom where there is virtually martial law. It is the only place in United Kingdom where there is continued and continuing violence. It is the only place in the United Kingdom where there are \"no-go\" areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1987.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-12", "file": "debates1978-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "e7de9f63dfad3d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1999.6", "colnum": "1999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Harrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Harrison", "preceding_text": "Well, if both issues were not put on behalf of the Government Front Bench I shall accept both.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.1999.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-12", "file": "debates1978-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "e7de9f63dfad3d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.2000.1", "colnum": "2000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Godman Irvine. I sat here listening, I know what was intended, and I think that it would be best—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.2000.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-01-12", "file": "debates1978-01-12a.xml", "sha256": "e7de9f63dfad3d01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.2002.2", "colnum": "2002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (LIBRARY)", "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. Thomas Cox. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-12a.2002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-13", "file": "debates1978-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "7cd8b1296eec5c5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-13a.2106.3", "colnum": "2106", "heading": "UNIVERSITIES (FINANCIAL SITUATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "f they are to get more resources, we find the universities saying they can be given those extra resources only at the expense of universities. I am certainly not in favour of taking from one and giving to the other. I am in favour of a levelling up. That has always been a good Socialist principle. We should try to see that all parts of the country and all sections of society benefit from the best—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-13a.2106.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-01-13", "file": "debates1978-01-13a.xml", "sha256": "7cd8b1296eec5c5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-13a.2120.10", "colnum": "2120", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (LIBRARY)", "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. Graham. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-13a.2120.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-16", "file": "debates1978-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "739b9c5df85977a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-16a.35.2", "colnum": "35", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read the rest of the report.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "he conclusion that I must ask the House to consider is, what should the Government have done at that stage? We were then four months into the financial year. Had we jumped to the conclusion that was contained in the Select Committee report published a week ago that there should be closure of a number of older plants, particularly those maintained in production as a result of Lord Beswick's review—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-16a.35.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-16", "file": "debates1978-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "739b9c5df85977a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-16a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "We have all known for a long time that steel is in a deteriorating position in market terms in a financial sense. This applies not only to our industry but to the world situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-16a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-16", "file": "debates1978-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "739b9c5df85977a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-16a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "PRIME MINISTER (SOUTH ASIA VISIT)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his usual shabby approach to these matters. The question of overseas aid is not only of humanitarian benefit to the peoples of the world but is also of great value to Britain. It builds an economic infrastructure for Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-16a.59.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-01-16", "file": "debates1978-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "739b9c5df85977a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-16a.212.5", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSE OF COMMONS (LIBRARY)", "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/1978-01-16a.212.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-17", "file": "debates1978-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "968abc0d35853d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "On the first part of his question, I do not disagree with the hon. Gentleman, but I think that it would be wiser if he did not use such phrases as \"trench warfare\", which seem to be sensationalising the situation of a small minority of pupils.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.237.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-01-17", "file": "debates1978-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "968abc0d35853d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.250.2", "colnum": "250", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Freedom of the Press!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Grant", "preceding_text": "ng one side or the other. No one who was present yesterday or who read Hansard could possibly take that view. There are a whole series of precedents, Mr. Speaker, whereby accusations of partiality on the part of the Speaker have been held to be a contempt of the House. I ask you, therefore, to consider whether this is a contempt of the House which should be referred to the Committee of Privileges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-17", "file": "debates1978-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "968abc0d35853d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.250.6", "colnum": "250", "heading": "MOTORWAY NOISE (INSULATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Hodgson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Hodgson", "preceding_text": "I beg to move—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.250.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-17", "file": "debates1978-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "968abc0d35853d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.256.3", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Schedule 10", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Harry Ewing)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Harry Ewing)", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Murton. If it helps the Committee for me to inform it about the meeting with the Scottish Committee of the BMA this morning I can assure hon. Gentlemen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.256.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-17", "file": "debates1978-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "968abc0d35853d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.277.0", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Schedule 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Sproat", "preceding_text": "I must admit that I had not intended to take part in this debate, and I shall do so only briefly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-17", "file": "debates1978-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "968abc0d35853d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.291.3", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Schedule 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Crawford", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS; \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Crawford", "preceding_text": "I beg to move—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-17", "file": "debates1978-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "968abc0d35853d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.291.3", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Schedule 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Crawford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Crawford", "preceding_text": "I beg to move—[HON. MEMBERS; \"Speak up.\"] I am enjoying listening to the hon. Member for West Stirlingshire (Mr. Canavan).—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.291.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-17", "file": "debates1978-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "968abc0d35853d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.295.0", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Schedule 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crawford", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crawford", "preceding_text": "I shall come back to this matter later. If we are going to quote from The Guardian, the hon. Member will have read—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-17", "file": "debates1978-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "968abc0d35853d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.309.0", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Schedule 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Sillars", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Sillars", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend arguing that, if we had the ability to impose Socialist controls on Scottish capitalism while people south of the border continued not to have such controls imposed upon them, we would be worse off north of the border in terms of economic control potential than people south of the border?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.309.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-17", "file": "debates1978-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "968abc0d35853d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.343.3", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Schedule 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "vertime shows that the pattern throughout the country is now very similar. We are not working more overtime or more hours per week than other parts of the country. When faced with that argument, SNP Members again change their ground. They never stand firm on a single argument. They then say that what we should really take into account is total personal income per head. This very valuable document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.343.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-17", "file": "debates1978-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "968abc0d35853d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Schedule 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "When I say that it has not worked I am not saying that it has not worked altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-17", "file": "debates1978-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "968abc0d35853d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.362.1", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Schedule 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": " for Aberdeenshire, East should be obligatory reading for every member of the Cabinet. It is a matter of regret—I mean no disrespect to my own Front Bench—that members of the Labour Cabinet have not been present to hear some of these proceedings. Listening to that kind of speech would surely persuade them of what is really going on. 8.45 p.m. I turn to the amendment and the manufacturing industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-17", "file": "debates1978-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "968abc0d35853d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Schedule 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "sy about who has the monopoly of concern about the terrible unemployment situation in Scotland. I have hurt the feelings of the hon. Member for Aberdeenshire, East—the truth always hurts—but he has got all that he asked for. I hope that we do not hear him giving any more hypocritical, tear-jerking statements about concern for the unemployed when the record of his party is displayed in this letter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-17", "file": "debates1978-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "968abc0d35853d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Schedule 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "he record of the Scottish nationalists, as displayed in this letter and in their evidence to the public inquiry, will not bear examination. My hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen, North (Mr. Hughes) dealt adequately with the time-honoured SNP argument that people in Scotland are paid less than in the United Kingdom as a whole, so I shall not dwell on that aspect. I draw my remarks to a conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-17", "file": "debates1978-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "968abc0d35853d9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.405.2", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Schedule 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": " because of that point—not because it is an SNP amendment—that it is basically an argument about where devolution stops and separation begins. For the first time ever I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for West Lothian. It is probably at that point that separation is in danger of starting. That brings me to my hon. Friend the Member for West Lothian. I say bluntly, frankly and in all fairness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-17a.405.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-18", "file": "debates1978-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "26009efca4f7bdb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-18a.459.1", "colnum": "459", "heading": "QUESTION OF PRIVILEGE (Mr. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "may have been miscon strued. I shall see that a copy of the complete text of the letter is recorded in the Journal. In view of this, I am sure that the House will not wish to take action which might lead to the matter being pursued further. I am, however, deeply grateful to the hon. Gentleman for raising the matter, because the impartiality of Mr. Speaker is of the utmost importance to this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-18a.459.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-01-18", "file": "debates1978-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "26009efca4f7bdb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-18a.469.2", "colnum": "469", "heading": "PICKETING (REGISTRATION AND CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh. Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Nicholas Ridley.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister and myself, Sir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-18a.469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-18", "file": "debates1978-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "26009efca4f7bdb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-18a.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reid", "preceding_text": "o suggest that the SNP or the Labour Party—because it has put very much the same evidence to the Annan Commission—wants to see STV take over Grampian and Border. One of the things that Mr. Hetherington has done is to prove that with small facilities one can create new broadcasting communities. I congratulate him on what he has done for Shetland with Radio Shetland and for Orkney with Radio Orkney.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-18a.545.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-18", "file": "debates1978-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "26009efca4f7bdb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-18a.571.5", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Francis Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Pym", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Murton. Now that the chopper has fallen and we have completed our business on this section of the Bill, I think it is right to draw the attention of the Committee and the Leader of the House in his absence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-18a.571.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-18", "file": "debates1978-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "26009efca4f7bdb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-18a.573.2", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Murton. This is a matter in which we must look to you for protection. You will notice that the Lord President is not in his place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-18a.573.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-18", "file": "debates1978-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "26009efca4f7bdb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-18a.573.2", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"There are not many of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "preceding_text": ". We are invited to approve key parts of the legislation without a debate. This is reminiscent of the Reichstag. We must look to you, Mr. Murton, for guidance, because the Leader of the House is not here. If he were here, we would be addressing these questions to him. If you glance to your right, Mr. Chairman, you will see hon. Members on the Government Benches sitting smugly and apparently proud—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-18a.573.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-18", "file": "debates1978-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "26009efca4f7bdb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-18a.602.2", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (JURISDICTION AND JUDGEMENTS) CONVENTION", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Mr. Peter Archer)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General (Mr. Peter Archer)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That this House takes note of Commission documents Nos. R/2962/76 and R/2963/76 on Jurisdiction and Judgement Conventions. I was expecting my right hon. and learned Friend the Lord Advocate to introduce the debate. Perhaps I can assist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-18a.602.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-18", "file": "debates1978-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "26009efca4f7bdb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-18a.614.1", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (JURISDICTION AND JUDGEMENTS) CONVENTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "nce, appeal or argument of that sort.\" I can foresee that there will be problems. Perhaps there will be fewer problems than before, but I fear not because of the obligation of application. I do not say that there should not be some international arrangement of this sort: any of us can see that there will be clear advantages in some international arrangements in legal matters. That is common sense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-18a.614.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-19", "file": "debates1978-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cf72bdfc1a056af0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-19a.656.0", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Does the right hon. Gentleman?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful to the right hon. Lady for her careful study of my remarks. I hope that she will continue it. As regards the position of collective bargaining, I am also very happy to see the Conservative Party espousing this cause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-19a.656.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-19", "file": "debates1978-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cf72bdfc1a056af0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-19a.656.2", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that it is a test of the wisdom of democracy. That is why I constantly seek to persuade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-19a.656.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-19", "file": "debates1978-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cf72bdfc1a056af0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-19a.663.5", "colnum": "663", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "There are commitments by the party and by the Government to a series of measures. If the time of Parliament were to be consumed by the direct elections Bill, there would be much less time available for many other matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-19a.663.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-19", "file": "debates1978-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cf72bdfc1a056af0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-19a.663.8", "colnum": "663", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fernyhough", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether my right hon. Friend would reconsider his decision about a guillotine of the debates on direct elections to Europe? I ask on the basis that this is not the only country which will fail to conform to the timetable that has been laid down by the EEC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-19a.663.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-19", "file": "debates1978-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cf72bdfc1a056af0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-19a.666.2", "colnum": "666", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my hon. Friendly is likely to reconsider the last part of his remarks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-19a.666.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-19", "file": "debates1978-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cf72bdfc1a056af0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-19a.672.5", "colnum": "672", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "preceding_text": "In case my right hon. Friend should be misled, may I ask him whether he is aware that some of us on this side of the House are very pleased and welcome the announcement that there is to be a timetable motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-19a.672.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-19", "file": "debates1978-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cf72bdfc1a056af0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-19a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "The job of the Opposition and of the House would be to examine the proposals that were put forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-19a.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-19", "file": "debates1978-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "cf72bdfc1a056af0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-19a.734.3", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman has not read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "preceding_text": "t that did not reach the statute book. The simple fact is that this Bill will reach the statute book. Bills that are introduced but which never get anywhere have rarely solved any problems. This Bill will be implemented and will, I believe, help solve some problems. I do not believe that it will solve all the problems of rural transport, but it makes a solid contribution. I welcome and support it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-19a.734.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-20", "file": "debates1978-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "2b6a4700b73bae39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-20a.837.2", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Holland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Holland", "preceding_text": " the work force which have the confidence of the employees whether or not they belong to a union. The Bill removes responsibility from ACAS to take account of the wishes of employees about recognition issues if those employees do not happen to be members of a certified, independent trade union. It gives ACAS the right in certain circumstances to impose its will against the wishes of the employees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-20a.837.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-20", "file": "debates1978-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "2b6a4700b73bae39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-20a.841.1", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where are the Liberals?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "preceding_text": "re far more preoccupied with giving the statutory right not to belong to a trade union, and from that basic philosophic approach sprang all the dangers and difficulties of their industrial relations legislation, which they have now admitted was so deplorable that even they have abandoned it. I find the attitude of the Liberal Party, as expressed by its Leader again this morning, quite astonishing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-20a.841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-20", "file": "debates1978-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "2b6a4700b73bae39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-20a.855.0", "colnum": "855", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us why.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "preceding_text": "etween two parties only—the union and Mr. Ward. But there was a silent and third party which had been much affected by it and were entitled to have their views considered—the workers inside the factory. The decision was taken without ascertaining their opinions as the Act said they should be. That requirement was an essential safeguard of their liberties. It was not fulfilled. I believe that ACAS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-20a.855.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-20", "file": "debates1978-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "2b6a4700b73bae39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-20a.894.1", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Liberal Members are not sitting today.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "es the plaudits of the House on that count. I cannot go along with the Utopian naivety of the Leader of the Liberal Party—it is one of his most lovable characteristics—when he says \"Do nothing until you can do everything\". Even when he knows that there is something wrong he says \"Do not put it right until we have a great review of the whole doo-da\". That is a typical sitting-on-the-fence attitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-20a.894.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-20", "file": "debates1978-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "2b6a4700b73bae39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-20a.910.1", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "osed to trade unions root and branch. If ever I saw the need—recognised many years ago by the Labour Representation Committee—for a Labour Government to legislate for working people, it is today. If matters were left to the Conservative Party, we should be back in the days of good will between slave and slave master, between master and servant. These are the harsh realities. Every inch of the way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-20a.910.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-20", "file": "debates1978-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "2b6a4700b73bae39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-20a.919.0", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Litterick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Litterick", "preceding_text": "nagement, being American, was about as paranoid in the matter as are so many hon. Members opposite. It sought to take some form of counter-action. This being Britain, the management could not hire gangsters to beat up the people who were most active in the process of organising the union. So, believe it or not, it cast its net around for another union. Sad to say, it found one—an easy, soft union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-20a.919.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-23", "file": "debates1978-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec41544c3ba5ec39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.944.1", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The Ryder Plan is being looked at again by the new chairman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.944.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-23", "file": "debates1978-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec41544c3ba5ec39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.948.7", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "conomic climate right. I draw the hon. Member's attention to an item in the Observer yesterday which made the point that shares and reserves were up, the pound was up, inflation was down, interest rates were down, medium term loans were at their lowest rate for a number of years, the country was earning its keep for the first time for many years and foreigners were putting money into this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.948.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-23", "file": "debates1978-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec41544c3ba5ec39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.955.4", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gwilym Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gwilym Roberts", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend accept that, although there is a general need to stimulate investment in the public and private sectors, there is a particular need to stimulate investment in areas of high technology—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.955.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-23", "file": "debates1978-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec41544c3ba5ec39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.971.5", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": " Government's failure over many months to make a substantial move on the green pound has assured the Continental producer—I ought not to exclude the Irish producer—of a payment of a very substantial amount from the Commission. That payment is called the monetary compensatory amount and is a figure which is calculated according to formulae of quite fiendish complexity which I shall not go into now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.971.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-23", "file": "debates1978-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec41544c3ba5ec39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.971.5", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Peyton", "preceding_text": "arge increases which have taken place since 1974 and in particular to the increase of —1,000 million in our food imports last year. Butter in Germany has a wholesale price of about —1,000 a tonne more than that which prevails here. German butter, which used to be imported here in quite negligible quantities just a few years ago, has now reached a sizeable imports proportion of 50,000 tonnes or so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.971.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-01-23", "file": "debates1978-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec41544c3ba5ec39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.976.1", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "That is the green pound.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Swain", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that, under the system devised by the Conservative Government it has been possible for some considerable time to export live cattle from Great Britain to Holland and Belgium, where they are slaughtered, and receive a 13p per lb. subsidy, to process them there, and then for us to reimport them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.976.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-23", "file": "debates1978-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec41544c3ba5ec39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.980.2", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Silkin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Silkin)", "preceding_text": "jesty's Government in requesting the Commission to propose an immediate devaluation of the Green Pound by 5 per cent. as part of a move, in the course of 1978, to increase the net income of such producers by 10 per cent., an amount which corresponds to the guidelines figure in the Government's incomes policy. Before discussing that amendment, put down in my name and those of my right hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.980.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-23", "file": "debates1978-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec41544c3ba5ec39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.980.2", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Silkin)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Silkin)", "preceding_text": "n applying the EUA to the common agricultural policy. In Brussels I have so far taken the line that decisions on these two points must be taken jointly, since decisions on the unit of account to be applied, in effect, determine the level at which prices must be aligned. I have to tell the House, however, that it is already clear that there is very little prospect of either the EUA or automaticity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.980.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-23", "file": "debates1978-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec41544c3ba5ec39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.1086.1", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "e to get into a muddle tonight, in that the Government amendment were to be defeated, and then by mischance, when the main Question came to be put on our motion, that were also to be defeated—I suppose one ought to be prepared forf every eventuality—we should expect the Minister to go on with the devaluation of 5 per cent. in the green pound straight away, in spite of the result on the first vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.1086.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-23", "file": "debates1978-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec41544c3ba5ec39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.1090.3", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "preceding_text": "I turn now to the position within agriculture as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.1090.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-23", "file": "debates1978-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec41544c3ba5ec39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.1090.6", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "preceding_text": "ole of the livestock sector, as he sought to imply and, indeed, said implicitly in his speech. Let us take the most important and the biggest livestock sector in terms of agricultural gross domestic product, a sector that is even bigger than cereals—milk production. Milk producers have done very well. They have had higher net returns in the last year, 1977, than they have had for a very long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.1090.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-23", "file": "debates1978-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec41544c3ba5ec39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.1092.3", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "preceding_text": "I assure the right hon. Gentleman that the farmers, be they cereal farmers or farmers for the Milk Marketing Board, will not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.1092.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-23", "file": "debates1978-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec41544c3ba5ec39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.1092.3", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman that the farmers, be they cereal farmers or farmers for the Milk Marketing Board, will not—[ Interruption. ] Individually, the farmers for the Milk Marketing Board do not look a gift horse in the mouth. They will not turn down this increase, but it is not needed. The right hon. Gentleman does not appreciate the situation. He ought not to believe everything that everyone says to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.1092.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-23", "file": "debates1978-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec41544c3ba5ec39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.1094.0", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister recall that, over a period of many years, the Commission and the Council of Ministers have been strongly opposed to selective devaluations?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.1094.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-23", "file": "debates1978-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec41544c3ba5ec39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (CIVIL AIRCRAFT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Even you\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I remember it particularly well, because Rolls-Royce makes the engines, and a large amount of the systems for the F28 are manufactured in Britain. It is a question of the balance of advantage. Anybody can be wrong, even in the industry, let alone politicians looking at the matter from the outside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-01-23", "file": "debates1978-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "ec41544c3ba5ec39", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.1142.2", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION PARTIES (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "the following paragraph for paragraph 2 of that Resolution:— 'That for the purpose of determining the annual maxima of such assistance the following formula shall apply: £550 for each seat won by the party concerned plus £1·10 for every 200 votes cast for it at the preceding General Election, provided that the maximum payable to any party shall not exceed £165,000.'—[ Mr. Walter Harrison. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-23a.1142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-24", "file": "debates1978-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "4f6b058e44beaaca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-24a.1175.2", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not want to go as far as that at the present time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-24a.1175.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-24", "file": "debates1978-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "4f6b058e44beaaca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-24a.1177.0", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "TUC AND CBI", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is true that the decisions taken by the trade unions and their members over the past three years, including the 12-month rule that they voluntarily adopted this year, have helped to reduce inflation substantially, but have reduced the standard of life. I am glad to say that in the fourth quarter of 1977 the standard of life of the British people, for the first time for some time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-24a.1177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-24", "file": "debates1978-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "4f6b058e44beaaca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-24a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY DOCUMENTS (PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "otion was on the civil sector. Hence, the Chair ruled that it was out of order to discuss any matters concerning military aviation. If one looks at the document from the Community one finds that pages 7 and 8 in particular and pages 6 and 7 of Annex 1 deal specifically with the military sector. In particular, there is a proposal to set up a European common procurement agency for military aircraft.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-24a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-24", "file": "debates1978-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "4f6b058e44beaaca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-24a.1184.4", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "preceding_text": "an does the right hon. Member for Cambridgeshire (Mr. Pym) what the normal procedures of the House in this matter are. Nobody knows better than the right hon. Gentleman does the way in which decisions of Business Committees are reported to the House. Nobody knows better than the right hon. Gentleman does what the Order Paper is for. In fact, what we are doing on this occasion is to follow exactly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-24a.1184.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-24", "file": "debates1978-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "4f6b058e44beaaca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-24a.1185.0", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": " to the point of order, Mr. Speaker. If there is nothing sinister, would it not have been a simple matter—indeed, a matter of courtesy—to report to you what the Business Committee is up to? Frankly, it seems to some of us—I choose my words carefully—that, if these rumours are true, there is a danger that the Business of the House, without Mr. Speaker's knowledge, is being manipulated in such a way", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-24a.1185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-24", "file": "debates1978-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "4f6b058e44beaaca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-24a.1264.0", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "I shall be brief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-24a.1264.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-24", "file": "debates1978-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "4f6b058e44beaaca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-24a.1281.7", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "hat were done, many of the undesirable features of the present joint system would be eliminated. That brings me to my next point, which concerns the nature of the support in future that central Government will give for their central functions. It seems to me that we are working back—not wittingly; I think unwittingly—to the old system of specific grants, which we have been trying to get away with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-24a.1281.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-24", "file": "debates1978-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "4f6b058e44beaaca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-24a.1305.1", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"A family heirloom.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "sponse of the hon. Member for Ay (Mr. Younger) and, perhaps, less surprisingly, that of the hon. Member for West Lothian (Mr. Dalyell) to the self-evident statement by the Secretary of State that the Assembly will have the right to vary the rate support grant that it gives to local authorities. It is as if the hon. Members had just purchased a house and suddenly discovered a skeleton in the attic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-24a.1305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-24", "file": "debates1978-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "4f6b058e44beaaca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-24a.1314.4", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "The Minister has treated this subject in an arrogant and silly way. I say so because I raised a serious question about a situation which could arise, I put it to the Minister that obviously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-24a.1314.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-24", "file": "debates1978-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "4f6b058e44beaaca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-24a.1328.1", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "ds—we shall not get much help from below the Gangway—if we are to prevent a massive increase in borrowing powers. The only way in which we can prevent it is by the negative procedure under subsection (4). I know that many of my right hon. and hon. Friends wish to address the Committee on this crucial amendment. We can look for no support from SNP Members. We have no support from the Liberal Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-24a.1328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-24", "file": "debates1978-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "4f6b058e44beaaca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-24a.1332.0", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parker", "preceding_text": "en the different parts of the United Kingdom but the central organisation will remain in Scotland. How can the Commission work effectively if it does not know ahead where its money is coming from? The organisation should not be devolved. All the finance should come from the United Kingdom Parliament. Each part of the country would then know what moneys it had to spend as part of a national policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-24a.1332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-24", "file": "debates1978-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "4f6b058e44beaaca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-24a.1333.6", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "s made by United Kingdom Ministers would not be able to alter the borrowing limits for public bodies operating in devolved fields in Scotland. The ministerial power is in the Bill, and we take the view that the House of Commons should remain responsible for approving the major financial limits on developed expenditure, in particular the annual block funds, dealt with in Clause 46, and the amounts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-24a.1333.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-01-24", "file": "debates1978-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "4f6b058e44beaaca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-24a.1344.0", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION PARTIES (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "tution of the following paragraph for paragraph 2 of that Resolution: — 'That for the purpose of determining the annual maxima of such assistance the following formula shall apply: £550 for each seat won by the party concerned plus £1·10 for every 200 votes cast for it at the preceding General Election, provided that the maximum payable to any party shall not exceed £165,000.'—[ Mr. Tinn. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-24a.1343.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-25", "file": "debates1978-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a572c77ab06f1bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1393.1", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "THERMAL REACTOR POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " for his comments, and I shall try to deal with the issues he raised. I welcome his endorsement of our decision that the gas-cooled technology on which we have been working for 20 or 30 years in this country should be continued in the way I have described. In regard to PWR, if he carefully examines my statement, which was written with great precision, he will see why I do not want to go beyond it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-25", "file": "debates1978-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a572c77ab06f1bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1393.1", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "THERMAL REACTOR POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about research?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "e and be approved. That is contained precisely in the paragraphs in question. This is a genuine desire by the generating board that there should be an option available. In its judgment the site work cannot begin until 1982. It will be seen from my statement that the Government endorse that intention. On the subject of Winfrith, that plant is operating and supplying power to the grid at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-25", "file": "debates1978-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a572c77ab06f1bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1416.0", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "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": "n followed in these matters. That was correct, and I think that anyone who considers the facts will understand that I was referring to the way in which the proceedings of the Business Committee are presented to the House. We have followed precisely the way in which that has been done on previous occasions. It was to that that I was referring, and I believe that I was correct in saying so. Further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-25", "file": "debates1978-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a572c77ab06f1bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1416.0", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are on a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "preceding_text": "s to that that I was referring, and I believe that I was correct in saying so. Further—[ Interruption. ] What I am about to say may assist the House in dealing with the matter. As for the proposals that we took to the Business Committee, which were to be reported to the House under these procedures, we had come forward with those proposals to the Committee in response to proposals and suggestions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1416.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-01-25", "file": "debates1978-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a572c77ab06f1bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1416.1", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You are on a point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "preceding_text": "ook to the Business Committee, which were to be reported to the House under these procedures, we had come forward with those proposals to the Committee in response to proposals and suggestions—[HON. MEMBERS: \"You are on a point of order.\"] If hon. Members will permit me, I am on the point of order. I hope that I shall be able to assist the House. We were responding to requests and representations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1416.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-25", "file": "debates1978-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a572c77ab06f1bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1416.3", "colnum": "1416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I am on a point of order. We were responding to requests that had been made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1416.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-25", "file": "debates1978-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a572c77ab06f1bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1430.0", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "No one could be more Scottish than the right hon. Gentleman. This seems to be a further reason why people in the rest of the United Kingdom should be allowed to vote. There is also the point which has been made about the terrible tendency to pretend that Britain is two countries. It is as though we were playing a perpetual football match between the English and the Scots. It makes me utterly sick.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1430.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-25", "file": "debates1978-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a572c77ab06f1bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1430.0", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "son why people in the rest of the United Kingdom should be allowed to vote. There is also the point which has been made about the terrible tendency to pretend that Britain is two countries. It is as though we were playing a perpetual football match between the English and the Scots. It makes me utterly sick. [ Interruption. ] I may say that each time Scotland gets beaten I am almost jolly pleased.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1430.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-25", "file": "debates1978-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a572c77ab06f1bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1430.0", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. G. D. Galbraith", "preceding_text": "hat each time Scotland gets beaten I am almost jolly pleased. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I say that because in my opinion these endless international football matches do not do any good at all for international relations. They stir things up. No one would like to be living in an area anywhere near a football match taking place between England and Scotland. Anyone who does not admit that is a hypocrite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1430.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-25", "file": "debates1978-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a572c77ab06f1bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1433.1", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Bain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Bain", "preceding_text": "previously. Beyond that, we are trying to define the extent of any referendum which should be held within any area of the United Kingdom. Moreover, when Conservative Members say that they will make lengthy speeches on the amendments and that they wish to make rapid progress, this is thought of very ill by Members such as myself, who have to listen to them virtually filibustering their way through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-25", "file": "debates1978-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a572c77ab06f1bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1439.1", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bain", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So does the hon. Lady.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bain", "preceding_text": "nly be a need to consult people south of the border? Beyond that, many people south of the border are neither acquainted with nor interested in many of the issues. They can hardly be relied upon to give a balanced judgment. Some of the speeches from hon. Members who represent constituencies south of the border show a distinct lack of knowledge of Scottish institutions and the Scottish way of life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-25", "file": "debates1978-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a572c77ab06f1bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1440.0", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "ains the Scots and England contains the English, and that that is what we are talking about. That is not what we are talking about. We are talking about an absolutely artificial and historic division of the land of Britain, which now, above that line, has more Englishmen and Irishmen than Scots, and below the line has more Scots than are above the line. Therefore, it is an utterly absurd argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1440.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-25", "file": "debates1978-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a572c77ab06f1bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1446.0", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "preceding_text": "age if the Scottish people were gaining a little political freedom, of which I am in favour, because by giving a little political freedom one gives strength to people not to separate but to gain strength in greater unity—and by producing that greater unity within the United Kingdom. The Committee knows that I have expressed these views on many occasions, perhaps to the dismay of many hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-25", "file": "debates1978-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a572c77ab06f1bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1498.1", "colnum": "1498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": " the concept of the referendum is to be introduced into the constitution of any country, it should be removed from the hands of Government or those with a vested interest in the answer and put into the hands of an independent judicial body which will genuinely set up the referendum question. A number of countries that have operated referendums have been those that have tended towards dictatorship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-25", "file": "debates1978-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a572c77ab06f1bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1504.3", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Siliars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Siliars", "preceding_text": "If the amendment is passed, it is my intention on Report to table an amendment and talk to the Minister of State without tempting him into the umbrella campaign and hoping for his support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1504.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-25", "file": "debates1978-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a572c77ab06f1bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1511.1", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "I give way to my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-25", "file": "debates1978-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a572c77ab06f1bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1522.6", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "he writer of those pages will also shout foul. I believe that the main popular Press of Scotland will shout foul. Not only will it not listen to the arguments of logic; it will not listen to the arguments. The popular Press has to sell, and to be popular in the sense of selling it has to be populist in its policies. That means following the SNP and SLP line and looking for the easy interpretation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1522.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-25", "file": "debates1978-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a572c77ab06f1bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1522.6", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": " it will not listen to the arguments. The popular Press has to sell, and to be popular in the sense of selling it has to be populist in its policies. That means following the SNP and SLP line and looking for the easy interpretation. [ Interruption. ] That is not an argument against the referendum; it is an argument against giving weapons to those who would challenge the validity of the referendum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1522.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-25", "file": "debates1978-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a572c77ab06f1bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1538.3", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is it important?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "not do much about it. We could have seen an amendment if there had been one on the Notice Paper. My hon. Friend has offered an explanation, but I do not think it meets the point that it was open to him as a Member of Parliament and a member of the Committee of the whole House dealing with the referendum Bill to table an amendment, which would have been consistent with that which he has tabled now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1538.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-25", "file": "debates1978-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a572c77ab06f1bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1538.3", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have already been changed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Member of Parliament and a member of the Committee of the whole House dealing with the referendum Bill to table an amendment, which would have been consistent with that which he has tabled now. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Is it important?\"] I shall say why it is important. If one changes the rules between one referendum and another, people will ask very searching questions as to why that change has been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1538.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-25", "file": "debates1978-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a572c77ab06f1bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1539.1", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " another. Who is to know? There might be yet another. I do not know. The last suggestion came from the right hon. Lady the Leader of the Opposition, who promised to have referendums on industrial disputes. That would lead us to having many more than were ever contemplated before. If I do not persuade the supporters of the amendment that there is a great deal of practical importance in there being—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-25", "file": "debates1978-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a572c77ab06f1bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1539.1", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Member for Cambridgeshire (Mr. Pym) more or less conceded this point. He approached the matter in his usual critical way, but I did not understand him to commend the amendment to the Committee. He was making some of the same points as I have been seeking to make to the Committee, albeit in a different way. It is not necessary for me to repeat them, and I do not have the capacity to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-25", "file": "debates1978-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a572c77ab06f1bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1539.1", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "n a different way. It is not necessary for me to repeat them, and I do not have the capacity to do so. [ Interruption. ] I have not been speaking very long having regard to the number of speeches that were made and also, if I may say so, to the length of some of them. The right hon. Gentleman may not have been present the whole time, but undoubtedly there have been several fairly lengthy speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1539.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-01-25", "file": "debates1978-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a572c77ab06f1bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1545.1", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheating.", "preceding_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "What happens in the Division Lobbies is not a matter for me. I shall ask the Serjeant at Arms to find out what is happening in the Lobby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1545.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-01-25", "file": "debates1978-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "5a572c77ab06f1bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1555.1", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 17", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Down.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-25a.1555.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1571.5", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for West Stirlingshire (Mr. Canavan) men tioned unemployment. How does the Chancellor of the Exchequer account for the fact that, according to a Written Answer that I have received today, unemployment in this country is higher than in any other major Western industrial country—higher than in the United States, France, Germany and Italy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1571.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1573.4", "colnum": "1573", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I am not proud of the debts which in large part I inherited from the previous Administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1573.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1588.3", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "sion is investigating the present proposed increase, and I think that it is due to report in two or three weeks' time. Perhaps we had better see what it does. As for the relationship between increased prices and increased incomes, this is one of the basic reasons why we should continue to work to keep down inflation. I am glad to see that British Rail has not increased its fares since January 1977", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1588.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1588.3", "colnum": "1588", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" January 1978, not 1977.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "hat it is due to report in two or three weeks' time. Perhaps we had better see what it does. As for the relationship between increased prices and increased incomes, this is one of the basic reasons why we should continue to work to keep down inflation. I am glad to see that British Rail has not increased its fares since January 1977 [ Interruption. ] Well in general. I hope that it will not do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1588.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1595.3", "colnum": "1595", "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": "That is an unworthy charge to be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1595.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1596.3", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (DIVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "ese facts were reported to the Chairman in Committee at the time, and there is no doubt in my mind that the action taken by him in ordering the Tellers to return immediately to the Table was correctly taken. I add that whether or not the hon. Members who were left in the Lobby were counted, it would not have made any difference to the result of the Division. In looking for precedents this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1596.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1597.2", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (DIVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "If the House wishes it, I shall have the report of the Serjeant at Arms to me inserted in Hansard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1597.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1597.3", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (DIVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1597.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1600.5", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (DIVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watt", "preceding_text": "As one of those who were principally involved last night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1600.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1600.5", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (DIVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watt", "preceding_text": "As one of those who were principally involved last night—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I really cannot understand the excitement that is being engendered. The Whips of the SNP were engaged in prolonged discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1600.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1600.5", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (DIVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watt", "preceding_text": "As one of those who were principally involved last night—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] I really cannot understand the excitement that is being engendered. The Whips of the SNP were engaged in prolonged discussion—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—with the Government Whips. No Ministers were involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1600.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1600.5", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (DIVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watt", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watt", "preceding_text": " \"Oh.\"] I really cannot understand the excitement that is being engendered. The Whips of the SNP were engaged in prolonged discussion—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—with the Government Whips. No Ministers were involved. [ Interruption. ] Perhaps I may tell the House that had it been our intention deliberately to prolong proceedings, my hon. Friends on the SNP Bench would have done it in an orthodox manner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1600.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1600.5", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (DIVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watt", "preceding_text": "g engendered. The Whips of the SNP were engaged in prolonged discussion—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—with the Government Whips. No Ministers were involved. [ Interruption. ] Perhaps I may tell the House that had it been our intention deliberately to prolong proceedings, my hon. Friends on the SNP Bench would have done it in an orthodox manner—[ Laughter. ]—by raising points of order until the time limit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1600.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1600.5", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (DIVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watt", "preceding_text": "e engaged in prolonged discussion—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—with the Government Whips. No Ministers were involved. [ Interruption. ] Perhaps I may tell the House that had it been our intention deliberately to prolong proceedings, my hon. Friends on the SNP Bench would have done it in an orthodox manner—[ Laughter. ]—by raising points of order until the time limit. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It was because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1600.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1601.2", "colnum": "1601", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (DIVISION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watt", "preceding_text": "I shall certainly make it as brief as possible, if I am allowed to do so, Mr. Speaker. Surely the fact that I did not use that method indicates to the House most sincerely that SNP Members had no intention whatsoever of unduly prolonging the proceedings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1609.3", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Like last night?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I agree that if that occurs it can bring the House into disrespect, but in many cases there is much more influence on the House, and on the Government and on Ministers, than people understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1609.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1628.3", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "nformed the Council of Foreign Ministers on 17th January this year of the present stage reached by the European Assembly Elections Bill and explained the implications for the May-June 1978 target date. I am told that this news came as no surprise to the Council of Foreign Ministers. Indeed, it is by no means certain that all other member States would have been ready for elections by May-June 1978.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1628.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1631.0", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "All I am implying is that eventually the recommendations for the 78 constituencies will be brought to the House in the form of an order, on which the House will vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1631.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1633.0", "colnum": "1633", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Marten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"We have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Marten", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will recognise that one of the key issues in the Bill relates to the powers of the European Assembly. The Foreign Secretary promised to introduce a new clause in this regard which we have not yet seen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1633.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1635.4", "colnum": "1635", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I can only explain why it has taken us so long. But, knowing of the knowledge of my right hon. Friend and his allies, I am sure that the point can be dealt with in a matter of moments. The timetable motion proposes that two full days should be allocated to the further consideration of the Bill in Committee and that a further day should be allocated to Report and Third Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1635.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1643.1", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stoddart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stoddart", "preceding_text": "t further comment. There are grave issues, vital to the House and the people, to be discussed. It is disgraceful that the Government should bring forward the guillotine in such restrictive terms. It is more repre- hensible and disgraceful that the Opposition, on an almost unprecedented basis, should advise their Members to vote for the guillotine. Since when have Oppositions voted for guillotines?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1644.3", "colnum": "1644", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Heaven forbid.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "m wrong; for it is rumoured that the word has been passed round \"You watch which way who goes\". What a splendid fashion to conduct opposition ! If that is not sufficient guidance for hon. Members, they have been told \"Well, of course, but you see, if there is an election in October and if\"—this becomes decreasingly probable—\" a Conservative Administration should be formed following that election\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1644.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1673.1", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "preceding_text": "ctability to a powerful Commission that is answerable to no one—not even to the directly elected Assembly which might come into being. In the nature of our constitution it is possible, I confess, for a determined Opposition to hold up public business. I do not know any of the examples where Oppositions have succeeded in holding up any form of business absolutely indefinitely, but in this instance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1681.1", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "preceding_text": "It is a pity that such consultation did not take place, because some kind of compromise could have been reached on the timetable motion. That would have made things easier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1687.1", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the amendment?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "ussions on the procedures by which the constituencies are to be chosen. But, because we are following the first-past-the-post system, if the debate on Clause 3 stand part goes the way that it now seems, the differences compared with all the other proposed legislation will be far less and will need less discussion. There are three outstanding issues and they will be split between two allotted days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1702.2", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT (PRINTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "ion and get it through on the nod, as all Leaders of the House love to do, after midnight. I shall be glad to acquit the right hon. Gentleman of that charge, but there is no evidence to allow me to do so. The motion was tabled for 1 a.m., and if circumstances had not prevented him, he would have been there and the same thing would have happened. The debate therefore started at that unearthly hour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1702.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1716.1", "colnum": "1716", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT (PRINTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moonman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"What information do we have?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moonman", "preceding_text": "I, too, recognise our friendship over the years. All I would say is that if there is a different reason for the debate today, I do not know of it and it is up to my hon. Friend to make that point very clear. I would have thought the reason for this debate was to ensure that we took account of some of the information which we have received regarding the buyers of alternative machinery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1716.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1736.1", "colnum": "1736", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT (PRINTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cooke", "preceding_text": " to avoid that. My hon. Friend the Member for Canterbury has returned time and again to the business of reading Hansard in bed. Now we know that he does it morning and evening. It would be indelicate perhaps to ask what he does at weekends. Perhaps he reads the Hansard of the other House. I think he is determined—he is a very determined man in many ways—to get himself into the newspapers tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1738.1", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "OFFICIAL REPORT (PRINTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "oing on for six months, yet we have heard only tonight that there is a complete change in the factors in the decision. Is that good enough for the House of Commons? This series of debates has shown the House up not very well. The basis of the problem has been lack of information. I raised the point of order at the start of it all only because someone was trying to get the motion through on the nod", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1754.5", "colnum": "1754", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (SOUND BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "olved in any form of editorial control. That, too, is the view of the broadcasting authorities, perhaps not surprisingly, and I suspect that it would be shared by the majority of right hon. and hon. Members. But that does not mean that the broadcasting authorities are unaccountable. The very opposite is the case. The Committee will be in existence, although I hope that it will not meet that often—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1754.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1760.2", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (SOUND BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It will be too late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "rived at. I ask the House to approve a Committee to give directions and perform other duties. I believe that it will have all the powers that it will need while ensuring that the public knows perfectly well that it is receiving independent broadcasting of our proceedings. This is a matter of some importance. But I give my hon. Friends this assurance. If it is found that this system is not working—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1760.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1771.1", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (SOUND BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitehead", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitehead", "preceding_text": "d that they had professional staff who worked for them to put the output together and get it out. They knew something about it. The great danger in the Select Committee in the form proposed is that it will meddle in the matters which are least important and could be most malicious and it will not have sufficient technical knowledge to consider matters of form and technical content and ingredients—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-26", "file": "debates1978-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "0cd72cdf9fd8c2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1782.9", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (LIBRARY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": " business and papers is maintained\". I bow to your wishes, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and continue. It gives me a very good introduction, because I was about to say that we seem to have had a procedural day of it, and this last item is no exception to that unfortunate experience. Not only is this motion for the Services Committee not being moved by either the Lord President or anyone from his Department—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-26a.1782.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-27", "file": "debates1978-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e0cc1dd9d1c7d972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-27a.1912.2", "colnum": "1912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gorst", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gorst", "preceding_text": "I am seeking your guidance, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The question that I want to put to you—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-27a.1912.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-01-27", "file": "debates1978-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "e0cc1dd9d1c7d972", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-27a.1919.6", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION PARTIES (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "n of the following paragraph for paragraph 2 of that Resolution:— 'That for the purpose of determining the annual maxima of such assistance the following formula shall apply: £550 for each seat won by the party concerned plus £1·10 for every 200 votes cast for it at the preceding General Election, provided that the maximum payable to any party shall not exceed £165,000'.—[ Mr. Thomas Cox. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-27a.1919.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-30", "file": "debates1978-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "7e56a659e022ea12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-30a.29.5", "colnum": "29", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (GREEN POUND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "I do not want to ask a long question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-30a.29.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-30", "file": "debates1978-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "7e56a659e022ea12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-30a.30.5", "colnum": "30", "heading": "AGRICULTURE (GREEN POUND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Mills", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister bear in mind that, although it is important to stand up and fight for what is right for this country, surely the problem at present lies in the Minister's attitude, since he has exhausted the good will of the Council of Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-30a.30.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-30", "file": "debates1978-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "7e56a659e022ea12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-30a.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "t instead of following it. I believe that to be the right attitude. The sooner that happens, the better. I repeat that I believe that the temporary employment subsidy should be phased out over a period. I do not believe that the political considerations of continuing with these temporary employment subsidies in certain Labour-held cities will do the Labour Party any good when there is an election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-30a.46.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-30", "file": "debates1978-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "7e56a659e022ea12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-30a.48.3", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I have given way on a number of occasions and I want to get on. I shall endeavour to give way to the hon. Gentleman towards the end of my speech. I come to some of the themes which are of vital consequence if we are to have better employment figures than we have at the moment. Whether we succeed or not will depend very much on how adaptable to change we are as a people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-30a.48.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-30", "file": "debates1978-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "7e56a659e022ea12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-30a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "bt we shall hear more about it in the next few months. There is also the belief that the State knows best about what to do with the oil revenues. I do not believe that any hon. Member on this side would accept that the State has any great knowledge of how best to use the oil revenues. We believe that this will be far better carried out by the marketplace than by any directions from the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-30a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-30", "file": "debates1978-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "7e56a659e022ea12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-30a.58.1", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"If.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "I respond to that gladly, because the right hon. Member for Lowestoft made some reference to it. As far as I can see, what my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer said is completely consistent with what I have been saying. My right hon. Friend contended that we could bring about an increase of between 500,000 and 1 million more jobs in two years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-30a.58.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-30", "file": "debates1978-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "7e56a659e022ea12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-30a.59.0", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "I cannot answer that question", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-30a.59.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-30", "file": "debates1978-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "7e56a659e022ea12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-30a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "to persuade industrialists that they would be justified in investing and that they will get a return on it because they will not suddenly find that there is a stop. Analysing each crisis that has occurred since 1945, we see that it takes longer and longer for industrialists to regain their confidence and to start investing. I am afraid that this occasion will be the longest that we have ever seen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-30a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-30", "file": "debates1978-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "7e56a659e022ea12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-30a.108.1", "colnum": "108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Wirral (Mr. Hunt) makes exactly the point which I made at the beginning of my speech and about which I was jeered at by every hon. Member.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-30a.108.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-30", "file": "debates1978-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "7e56a659e022ea12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-30a.157.3", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "e people of Scotland are now becoming even more convinced that if they follow the ideas of the SNP there will be a devastating loss of jobs in Scotland. In the past I have mentioned some industrialists who have spoken of taking away jobs and factories from Scotland. I can give a number of examples. A major employer in my constituency is the firm of Weir and the chairman of the board recently said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-30a.157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-30", "file": "debates1978-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "7e56a659e022ea12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-30a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Bruce Millan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Bruce Millan)", "preceding_text": "unemployment figures in Britain. A number of speeches have been made on the assumption that over recent months the unemployment figures in Britain, as seasonally adjusted, have deteriorated every month. That is not so. Over the past four months in the United Kingdom as a whole, and taking seasonally adjusted figures, we have shown a slight improvement on the situation that obtained last September—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-30a.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-30", "file": "debates1978-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "7e56a659e022ea12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-30a.163.0", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "I do not accept that at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-30a.163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-30", "file": "debates1978-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "7e56a659e022ea12", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-30a.188.0", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "No, because I am saying that there should be no duty-free liquor between the countries of the Common Market. As I read the draft directive, that indeed would be the case if it came into force, because the rates of duty would be the same in every country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-30a.188.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-01-31", "file": "debates1978-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "de23ae9608bdbefd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.231.4", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State take this early opportunity to correct the very misleading information that he gave to the House yesterday, when he used OECD figures to try to say that we were seventh in the league of unemployment, when in fact he was quoting from Table 7 on page 29 of the latest OECD Economic Outlook, which has a footnote which says These rates are not comparable between countries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.231.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-31", "file": "debates1978-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "de23ae9608bdbefd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.233.2", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stoddart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stoddart", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that deep-seated and long-term unemployment will not be solved in manufacturing industry alone but will need social action as well? Is he aware that if we reduced the retirement age for men to 64 there would be potentially another 250,000 jobs for young people? Will not the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.233.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-31", "file": "debates1978-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "de23ae9608bdbefd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.233.5", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman kindly answer the question put to him by my hon. Friend the Member for Aylesbury (Mr. Raison)—namely, how much extra employment would be created if the money spent on job sub- sidy were diverted to conventional methods of increasing public expenditure? Secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.233.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-31", "file": "debates1978-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "de23ae9608bdbefd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.241.6", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "miting immigration in order that we should have good race relations. Indeed, I introduced a Bill, which became an Act, to that effect. What I am now saying is that the loopholes have been closed and that the only way in which the right hon. Lady can fulfil her undertaking is to take away the rights of wives and children or United Kingdom passport holders or elderly relatives to enter this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.241.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-31", "file": "debates1978-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "de23ae9608bdbefd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.242.2", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "May I take up the Prime Minister on one of those figures?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.242.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-01-31", "file": "debates1978-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "de23ae9608bdbefd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.242.4", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Is it proposed that they should be sent away? Is that what the Conservatives propose? What are the Opposition going to do? As I see it, they have two choices. They can send back people who have been living here for years—those 16,000 who were given citizenship—or they can go back on their clear pledges to wives and children, elderly relatives and United Kingdom passport holders. Which is it to be?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.242.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-31", "file": "debates1978-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "de23ae9608bdbefd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.244.0", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " is what is happening. The numbers arriving for settlement in 1977 were 25 per cent. down on the numbers in 1976. In the interests of this country as a whole, we should try to debate this now and bring the issues out before we get into the excitement of an election. I am glad that we are debating it now. I hope that the right hon. Lady is not hoping to appeal to certain elements in the electorate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-31", "file": "debates1978-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "de23ae9608bdbefd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.248.2", "colnum": "248", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the Prime Minister has done that. You will note. Mr. Speaker, that he said that he would do it and then refrained from doing so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.248.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-31", "file": "debates1978-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "de23ae9608bdbefd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.255.0", "colnum": "255", "heading": "SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS (STORM DAMAGE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "oughout which there have been many examples of individual courage? I wish to put two points to the right hon. Gentleman. In view of the great amount of suffering and hardship in the last few days in the most severe weather conditions that have obtained for many years, will the right hon. Gentleman give the House some indication of weather prospects? Is this situation likely to go on for some time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.255.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-31", "file": "debates1978-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "de23ae9608bdbefd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.258.0", "colnum": "258", "heading": "MEDICINES (PRESCRIPTION ONLY) ORDER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "If I understand the Minister aright, the order is postponed for six months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.258.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-31", "file": "debates1978-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "de23ae9608bdbefd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.269.2", "colnum": "269", "heading": "AGE OF COMPULSORY RETIREMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "people who wish to go on working after pensionable age but who are prevented from doing so by an arbitrarily determined age figure. In some respects our society is obsessed by age figures when those figures are irrelevant to the contribution which any individual can make. We all know that this House has among its hon. Members many elderly so-called young men and many very virile so-called old men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.269.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-31", "file": "debates1978-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "de23ae9608bdbefd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "maintenance of a Government based upon a majority in this House cannot be divided into two, with a majority for English, Welsh and Northern Ireland matters and a separate majority for United Kingdom matters. They are the United Kingdom Government and they have the right to claim the support of those upon whom their exis- tence as a Government depends in whatever legislation comes before the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-31", "file": "debates1978-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "de23ae9608bdbefd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.309.0", "colnum": "309", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "That has clarified the matter somewhat, but I think that the new clause has been put forward for rather different reasons. I think that it has been put forward in a vain and rather silly way to give the Conservative Party in Scotland the best of all possible worlds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.309.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-01-31", "file": "debates1978-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "de23ae9608bdbefd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.369.2", "colnum": "369", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Jeremy Bray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Jeremy Bray", "preceding_text": "nces the attention given to the rural areas with that given to the inner cities, I have not a shadow of doubt that one would find that the urban areas have been neglected in this place and that they deserve sustained representation. 9.15 p.m. I would not be confident that if there were a revision of boundaries in Scotland it would necessarily result in a net reduction of the number of urban seats.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.369.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-01-31", "file": "debates1978-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "de23ae9608bdbefd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.401.7", "colnum": "401", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.401.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-01-31", "file": "debates1978-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "de23ae9608bdbefd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.416.0", "colnum": "416", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "itution of the following paragraph for paragraph 2 of that Resolution:— 'That for the purpose of determining the annual maxima of such assistance the following formula shall apply: £550 for each seat won by the party concerned plus £1·10 for every 200 votes cast for it at the preceding General Election. provided that the maximum payable to any party shall not exceed £165,000.—[ Mr. Shape. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-01-31a.415.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-01", "file": "debates1978-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "2ab00c8b85ead649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.431.6", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right to note the speech made by the right hon and learned Member, who speaks on these matters more frankly than do many of his Conservative colleagues. The House will also recall that in voting against the Second Reading of the Transport Bill only 10 days ago, the Opposition cast a vote against continuing the rail subsidy for the next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.431.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-01", "file": "debates1978-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "2ab00c8b85ead649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.445.0", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "I agree that the Didcot depot is under-used.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-01", "file": "debates1978-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "2ab00c8b85ead649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.445.2", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "With respect to the hon. Gentleman, my powers do not extend to giving instructions to the Transport and General Workers' Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.445.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-01", "file": "debates1978-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "2ab00c8b85ead649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.470.0", "colnum": "470", "heading": "AIRPORTS POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dell", "preceding_text": "It is certainly true that it is inconceivable that there should be a Scottish airport strategy separate and different from that of the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.470.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-01", "file": "debates1978-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "2ab00c8b85ead649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.474.0", "colnum": "474", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (COUN- CIL OF FISHERIES MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "I shall try to be fair. If the right hon. Gentleman is concentrating on the dairy sector, I must tell him that that was not the sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.474.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-01", "file": "debates1978-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "2ab00c8b85ead649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.481.4", "colnum": "481", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (COUN- CIL OF FISHERIES MINISTERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "A lot of my time and energy is spent in dealing with my colleagues in the Council of Ministers in Europe, and I have not enough energy left wholly to deal with my hon. Friend. But such energy as I have leads me to ask him a question which he might consider.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.481.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-01", "file": "debates1978-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "2ab00c8b85ead649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.498.1", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Britton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Britton", "preceding_text": "embly or Executive to suggest that it might happen because it certainly could happen. I suggest that in the case of the United Kingdom Government, as we now stand, there have been many occasions on which infringements of the Bill of Rights which are equivalent to a European convention have been alleged against the United Kingdom Government and action has had to be taken to deal with the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-01", "file": "debates1978-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "2ab00c8b85ead649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.499.1", "colnum": "499", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "I would not agree with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-01", "file": "debates1978-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "2ab00c8b85ead649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.571.2", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "ole. That is a fundamental matter which has been considered and is being considered by a Select Committee of the House of Lords. There are arguments on both sides of the matter. I do not think that it would be wise to come to a decision on whether there should be a Bill of Rights for the United Kingdom as a whole substantially within the context of a Bill creating a devolved Assembly for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.571.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-01", "file": "debates1978-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "2ab00c8b85ead649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. There are much better points, but, as the hon. Gentleman has a number of colleagues who are Scots lawyers, he should take not 50 per cent. instruction from them but 100 per cent. It is clear that he did his best when he put \"interdict\" in, but he could have done better by getting rid of the words \"plaintiff\" and \"defendant\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-01", "file": "debates1978-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "2ab00c8b85ead649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.583.4", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Miss Harvie Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Harvie Anderson", "preceding_text": "I beg to move Amendment No. 447, in page 79, line 7, after 'record)' insert 'transmitted under subsection (1) of this section'. Perhaps—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.583.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-01", "file": "debates1978-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "2ab00c8b85ead649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.610.1", "colnum": "610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "lture, as is presently the situation. In the present system of Government, the Forestry Commission is responsible to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, to the Secretary of State for Scotland and to the Secretary of State for Wales. I know that they are three Ministers in the same Government, but that recognises the Scottish, Welsh and English interests in the development of forestry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-01", "file": "debates1978-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "2ab00c8b85ead649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.619.2", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "pinion. The hon. Member for Ayr (Mr. Younger) must have some very interesting discussions about that with his hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Taylor). There is that difference between agriculture and forestry to which I have drawn attention. I have tried to answer the EEC point and the one concerning the responsibility that the Assembly would have for the development of forestry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.619.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-01", "file": "debates1978-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "2ab00c8b85ead649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.620.3", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ned with the United Kingdom Government and Parliament or be one of the subjects devolved to the Scottish Assembly. I am aware that there has been a substantial argument put up from another part of the House that some of the other functions which are to be devolved, and which are highly pertinent to this matter, such as land use, agricultural management, the countryside, and tourism, have not been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.620.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-01", "file": "debates1978-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "2ab00c8b85ead649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.620.3", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": ". I am aware that there has been a substantial argument put up from another part of the House that some of the other functions which are to be devolved, and which are highly pertinent to this matter, such as land use, agricultural management, the countryside, and tourism, have not been—[ Interruption. ] I have not heard the argument put outwith the House that these subjects should not be devolved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.620.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-01", "file": "debates1978-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "2ab00c8b85ead649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.620.3", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " such as land use, agricultural management, the countryside, and tourism, have not been—[ Interruption. ] I have not heard the argument put outwith the House that these subjects should not be devolved—[ Interruption. ] It would have been quite possible for the hon. Member for Ayr (Mr. Younger) within the context of his argument tonight, to submit that these subjects should not have been devolved.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.620.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-01", "file": "debates1978-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "2ab00c8b85ead649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.621.0", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir Myer. May I, at 10.59 p.m., at the very last minute of the debate, seek your advice and guidance? How on earth, under these procedures, can there be any way in which to discuss the many important matters which have not been discussed, particularly the question of tourism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.621.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-01", "file": "debates1978-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "2ab00c8b85ead649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.631.2", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (DRIVERS' HOURS RULES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Ellis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Ellis", "preceding_text": "de unions to get together to make sense of the new situation. The health of the industry both on the freight and trans port sides is important to the strength and prosperity of the nation. I have tried hard in negotiations in Brussels to create a tolerable framework for the future. We must now all accept the Commission's decision and show common sense and good will in working out the implications.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-01a.631.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-02", "file": "debates1978-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "4782001c65aafd76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.682.7", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "Is it not a scandal that many of my elderly constituents should be genuinely afraid to go out at night? Does the Home Secretary agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.682.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-02", "file": "debates1978-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "4782001c65aafd76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.684.2", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Declare your interest.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.684.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-02", "file": "debates1978-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "4782001c65aafd76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.685.4", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I did not admit that there was a black list.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.685.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-02", "file": "debates1978-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "4782001c65aafd76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.686.0", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I did not discuss this matter with the CBI.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.686.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-02", "file": "debates1978-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "4782001c65aafd76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "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": " Question Time directed at my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Trade, and I suggest that these Questions should be tabled in detail for him to answer. I did not discuss this matter with the CBI in relation to the previous Question. It is not on the list of my public engagements for today, and I have not come here with any information on this matter. There is no secret about this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-02", "file": "debates1978-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "4782001c65aafd76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yarmouth.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "On the subject of loitering in the Division Lobbies and reverting to the matter raised by the hon. Member for Lowestoft—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-02", "file": "debates1978-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "4782001c65aafd76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bloaters.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "On the subject of loitering in the Division Lobbies and reverting to the matter raised by the hon. Member for Lowestoft—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Yarmouth.\"] Is it Yarmouth? Is that the kippers place?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-02", "file": "debates1978-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "4782001c65aafd76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.702.4", "colnum": "702", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": " have heard the Prime Minister and the Leader of the House suggest that the question of a black list of firms should be pursued by way of parliamentary Questions. In fact, before coming into the Chamber for Prime Minister's Questions today, I had been endeavouring to table Questions to individual Departments, and I encountered considerable difficulties of order in getting those Questions accepted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.702.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-02", "file": "debates1978-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "4782001c65aafd76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.702.4", "colnum": "702", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "nsard to the effect that The number of firms for the time being affected by Government discretionary action varies from day to day as up-to-date information comes in about their pay settlements. The number of firms currently blacklisted is 19.\"—[ Official Report, 12th January 1978; Vol. 941, c. 790. ] That Answer has been taken as blocking subsequent Questions about how many are on the black list—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.702.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-02", "file": "debates1978-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "4782001c65aafd76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.704.0", "colnum": "704", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Davies", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that his statement asserts time after time that the Government are prepared to co-operate in reaching a peaceful settlement in Rhodesia only on the basis of the Anglo-American proposals? Does not he realise that such an attitude appears to Her Majesty's Opposition absolutely intolerable", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.704.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-02", "file": "debates1978-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "4782001c65aafd76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.716.0", "colnum": "716", "heading": "HONOURABLE MEMBERS (DECLARATION OF INTEREST)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Merlyn Rees)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Merlyn Rees)", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I spoke this afternoon about a particular point. It is typical of the hon. Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Griffiths) to bring the Prime Minister into this matter to sully the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.716.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-02", "file": "debates1978-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "4782001c65aafd76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.736.0", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molyneaux", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molyneaux", "preceding_text": " and would be more beneficial than the simple majority system. I am not so sure that the United Kingdom Government would now go for the same option in the light of much more detailed calculations that show conclusively that the opposite is more likely to be the case, and that non-Unionists would stand more chance of being elected on the simple majority system given three seats in Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.736.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-02", "file": "debates1978-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "4782001c65aafd76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.747.0", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "preceding_text": "Are not local government elections held throughout the whole of the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.747.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-02", "file": "debates1978-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "4782001c65aafd76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.787.2", "colnum": "787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "t, would create an Assembly, if translated throughout the Community, of more than 1,300 seats. We must consider whether we want 1,300 representatives going to the Assembly. My hon. Friend the Member for Swansea, East (Mr. Anderson) asked \"Why be satisfied with that? Why not have one Member to every 34,000 electors, as in Luxembourg?\". In that event we would have an Assembly of about 5,700 members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.787.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-02", "file": "debates1978-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "4782001c65aafd76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.871.9", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION PARTIES (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph 2 of that Resolution: `That for the purpose of determining the annual maxima of such assistance the following formula shall apply: £550 for each seat won by the party concerned plus £1.10 for every 200 votes cast for it at the preceding General Election, provided that the maximum payable to any party shall not exceed £165,000.' [ Mr. Snape. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-02a.871.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-03", "file": "debates1978-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "02aaab5227f07b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-03a.982.7", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF INFORMATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-03a.982.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-03", "file": "debates1978-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "02aaab5227f07b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-03a.982.11", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUCLEAR WASTE DISPOSAL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-03a.982.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-03", "file": "debates1978-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "02aaab5227f07b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-03a.982.18", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CONTROL OF ENCAMPMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-03a.982.17"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-03", "file": "debates1978-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "02aaab5227f07b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-03a.983.8", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TERTIARY EDUCATION INQUIRY (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-03a.983.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-03", "file": "debates1978-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "02aaab5227f07b59", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-03a.983.12", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION PARTIES (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ution of the following paragraph for paragraph 2 of that Resolution:— 'That for the purpose of determining the annual maxima of such assistance the following formula shall apply: £550 for each seat won by the party concerned plus £1·10 for every 200 votes cast for it at the preceding General Election, provided that the maximum payable to any party shall not exceed £165,000.'—[ Mr. Graham. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-03a.983.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-06", "file": "debates1978-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "880d795052a521be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-06a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman must be joking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "Now that the trend in trade with the EEC is going the other way, will the Minister note that the anti-EEC forces have become silent and we do not hear so much about the persistent uncontrollable deficit within the Community?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-06a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-06", "file": "debates1978-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "880d795052a521be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-06a.1011.6", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "On Merseyside, and particularly in Liverpool, there is a lot of good hotel accommodation available. Will the Minister do his best to ensure that as far as possible tourists are directed to Liverpool?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-06a.1011.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-06", "file": "debates1978-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "880d795052a521be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-06a.1082.3", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "AFRICA (SOVIET POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ims—as he claimed in a Committee Room upstairs—that the guerrillas are not Mr. Nkomo's or Mr. Mugabe's but are Muzorewa's guerrillas. People take different viewpoints depending on how things are going. The right hon. Member for Pavilion said that the Russians had no tradition of involvement in Africa. We certainly have, and it has never been for the benefit of the indigenous population of Africa.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-06a.1082.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-06", "file": "debates1978-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "880d795052a521be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-06a.1088.3", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "AFRICA (SOVIET POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tomlinson", "preceding_text": "y military presence in Southern Africa which heightens the tension in the area. However, I must point out that Angola is a sovereign independent country which is entitled to decide on the countries from which it chooses assistance. The Angolan Government have said that Cubans and Soviets are in Angola at their invitation to assist in the reconstruction of the country in the aftermath of civil war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-06a.1088.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-06", "file": "debates1978-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "880d795052a521be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-06a.1112.2", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (SOUND BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Price", "preceding_text": "If I may answer that point, I think I got this wrong before. The Joint Select Committee came to the view that, as things stood, copyright would in fact rest with the originators—the BBC—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-06a.1112.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-06", "file": "debates1978-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "880d795052a521be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-06a.1175.4", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": " Sir Norman Denning, the right hon. Gentleman asked: 'You have now read the article in the Observer. If the journalist had submitted it to you before it was published, is there anything in it which you could have asked him to exclude because of D notices? ' That was question No. 435. The answer given was, `No'. I approve of the right hon. Gentleman's questioning. He asked some essential questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-06a.1175.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-06", "file": "debates1978-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "880d795052a521be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-06a.1175.4", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "when my right hon. Friend the Member for Huyton goes into great depth in writing on the subject of South African arms. It seems that leaks from the Cabinet are OK, but premature discussion of a Select Committee report, which I thought had been printed, deserves the full-blooded censure of the House of Commons. Hon. Members must make up their minds because we are all under the same law, are we not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-06a.1175.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-06", "file": "debates1978-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "880d795052a521be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-06a.1198.6", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "OPPOSITION PARTIES (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "stitution of the following paragraph for paragraph 2 of that Resolution:— That for the purpose of determining the annual maxima of such assistance the following formula shall apply: £550 for each seat won by the party concerned plus £1·10 for every 200 votes cast for it a the preceding General Election, provided that the maximum payable to any party shall not exceed £165,000:—[ Mr. Bates. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-06a.1198.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-07", "file": "debates1978-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8b953234100e93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1220.4", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not charity.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "preceding_text": "The annual report of the Supplementary Benefits Commission gives a figure of 600,000 pensioners not claiming benefit. Does the right hon. Gentleman understand the reluctance of such people to claim charity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1220.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-07", "file": "debates1978-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8b953234100e93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1232.3", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have been following this matter but I think that I should leave it to the Secretary of State for Transport—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1232.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-07", "file": "debates1978-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8b953234100e93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1238.3", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "SALE OF COUNCIL HOUSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": " one extra house. Secondly, I say it because most successful applicants for council houses do not obtain a new council house but a relet. They get a council house which has been vacated through the death of a previous tenant or by the tenant moving to another town or buying a private house. The total stock of council houses is reduced thereby and simultaneously the pool for relets is also reduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1238.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-07", "file": "debates1978-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8b953234100e93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1238.3", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "SALE OF COUNCIL HOUSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "e most successful applicants for council houses do not obtain a new council house but a relet. They get a council house which has been vacated through the death of a previous tenant or by the tenant moving to another town or buying a private house. The total stock of council houses is reduced thereby and simultaneously the pool for relets is also reduced—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Oh yes, that is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1238.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-07", "file": "debates1978-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8b953234100e93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1238.3", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "SALE OF COUNCIL HOUSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": " reduced thereby and simultaneously the pool for relets is also reduced—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Oh yes, that is true. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Not true.\"] I hope, Mr. Speaker, that you will allow for injury time because of interruptions in my speech. Therefore, the pathetic queue of homeless is lengthened. That is only part of the disastrous effect. Which council houses would be sold? Certainly not the nice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1238.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-07", "file": "debates1978-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8b953234100e93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1240.0", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "SALE OF COUNCIL HOUSES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Nonsense.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": " would have a similar effect. In some cases it is a good bargain for the individual tenant to buy his own house, but it a bad bargain for the community because it costs far more today to build a new council house. It costs about £10,000 which is far more than the price the council receives for the old house. Corporations would lose both capital and revenue. They would lose rents from those houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-07", "file": "debates1978-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8b953234100e93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1240.2", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "SALE OF COUNCIL HOUSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "l waiting list for 28 years. Would the hon. Gentleman keep her waiting even longer? The council concerned is suffering from a terrible housing inheritance. To parody a famous song, \"There's a long, long time awaiting for the home of their dreams\". By reducing the housing stock through this municipal asset-stripping, we should extend homelessness. We need more council houses, not fewer. I conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1240.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-07", "file": "debates1978-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8b953234100e93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1247.8", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY POLICY (GOVERNMENT POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Nott", "preceding_text": "I must open this debate by declaring an interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1247.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-07", "file": "debates1978-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8b953234100e93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1248.3", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY POLICY (GOVERNMENT POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Now.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "I shall respond to the hon. Member for Sowerby (Mr. Madden). I shall be happy to give him a complete list at any time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1248.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-07", "file": "debates1978-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8b953234100e93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1252.1", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY POLICY (GOVERNMENT POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "official policy of the Labour Party not just to vary insurance premiums but to direct savings and to nationalise the insurance companies. That is no doubt in order that people's savings can be invested in building ships for Poland in Labour marginal seats and factories for Ford in South Wales. The ancient mariner who, I am afraid, is not able to be here and has courteously apologised for the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-07", "file": "debates1978-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8b953234100e93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1260.0", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY POLICY (GOVERNMENT POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "The difficulty about giving way to the hon. Gentleman is that he always asks a question so obvious that I intend to deal with it later, as I propose to do on this occasion, not being diverted from what I have to say about the background, which is our successful campaign against inflation. Measured year on year by the retail price index, inflation in this country is today running at single figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-07", "file": "debates1978-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8b953234100e93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1265.3", "colnum": "1265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY POLICY (GOVERNMENT POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "ent that the Government make about the national good and the general economic well-being. It is reasonable and right, and right under the law, that in making that judgment the general interests weighed by the Government should include their opinions on how the fight against inflation will best be encouraged to prosper. It may be that some of the decisions that we have taken under statutory powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1265.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-07", "file": "debates1978-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8b953234100e93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1266.3", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY POLICY (GOVERNMENT POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"John Lewis.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "eltine). Anything that we want to keep secret we do not tell to him. Thirdly, as the intention of the policy is to persuade companies which are on the point of making agreements outside the guidelines to refrain from doing so, its strength is that the company, the moment it is being considered for discretionary action, should know of it at once. Companies have invariably been warned and told that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-07", "file": "debates1978-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8b953234100e93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1266.3", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY POLICY (GOVERNMENT POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Might do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "wspapers and on the radio over the last four days is a reference to a letter written not yesterday or the day before but in the first week of January in which the Government, with what some of us would regard as formal courtesy, expressed regrets that the John Lewis Partnership had not been told that the Government had done what the Government told the John Lewis Partnership they were going to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-07", "file": "debates1978-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8b953234100e93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1268.2", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY POLICY (GOVERNMENT POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Might\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I still propose to explain to the hon. Gentleman, who made such a fuss about George Wimpey over the weekend, what the position is. A wholly owned subsidiary of George Wimpey—Brightside Heating and Ventilation—seemed likely to become party to an agreement outside the guidelines. George Wimpey was told that, in that event, certain action might ensue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1268.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-07", "file": "debates1978-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8b953234100e93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1269.3", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY POLICY (GOVERNMENT POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1269.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-07", "file": "debates1978-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8b953234100e93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1280.0", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY POLICY (GOVERNMENT POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Chicken.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": " supporting an application for emergency debate on the Otis Elevator Company, I shall give way. There is no defence for the right hon. Lady except that she is here today seeking to make political capital. She is a political opportunist of the first order and I am not prepared to go into the Lobby today simply because the Opposition see my hon. Friends and myself as doing their dirty work for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-07", "file": "debates1978-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8b953234100e93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1280.4", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY POLICY (GOVERNMENT POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Latham", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"When it comes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Latham", "preceding_text": "f Employment, uttering threats? Or was it, perhaps, the type of exercise described by an industrialist in The Daily Telegraph on 23rd December, when he said: nothing is being put into writing. Companies are merely being told by telephone.\"? Or was it perhaps what seems to have happened over the John Lewis Partnership? We shall have to examine the correspondence in the Library before we go further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1280.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-07", "file": "debates1978-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8b953234100e93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1280.4", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY POLICY (GOVERNMENT POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Latham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Latham", "preceding_text": "ontinues to dispute the accuracy of the Wimpey story. This is the factual situation. On 5th January a senior official of the contracts division of the Department of Transport rang one of Wimpey's civil engineering estimators and said that, on instructions received from the Treasury, no inquiries for job awards were to be made to Wimpey as the whole group had been placed on the \"tender black list\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1280.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-07", "file": "debates1978-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8b953234100e93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1361.0", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY POLICY (GOVERNMENT POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "in the battle against inflation, for what other ends will unconstitutional means be felt by the Prime Minister, no doubt with equal sincerity, to be justified next? I am glad to see the Prime Minister in his place. Against what form of legal dissent will the next round of sanctions be invoked? That is the issue before Parliament tonight. The Prime Minister likes to pose as the father of the nation", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1361.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-07", "file": "debates1978-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8b953234100e93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1368.1", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY POLICY (GOVERNMENT POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "Actually, I am not. The right hon. and learned Gentleman spoke of what this debate was all about, but I say to him with the greatest possible respect that he does not know what the debate was all about, because he has not been here. The debate was about a series of niggles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-07", "file": "debates1978-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8b953234100e93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1368.1", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY POLICY (GOVERNMENT POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": " and learned Gentleman spoke of what this debate was all about, but I say to him with the greatest possible respect that he does not know what the debate was all about, because he has not been here. The debate was about a series of niggles. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] I know that the Opposition want me to be diverted from the question of alternative policies, but I will not be diverted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-07", "file": "debates1978-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8b953234100e93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1368.1", "colnum": "1368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY POLICY (GOVERNMENT POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "at the debate was all about, because he has not been here. The debate was about a series of niggles. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] I know that the Opposition want me to be diverted from the question of alternative policies, but I will not be diverted. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I will come to the alternative because I think that Conservative Members would like to know what their policy is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1368.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-07", "file": "debates1978-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8b953234100e93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1371.3", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY POLICY (GOVERNMENT POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Price", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1371.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-07", "file": "debates1978-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8b953234100e93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1371.7", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY POLICY (GOVERNMENT POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.David Price", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1371.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-07", "file": "debates1978-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d8b953234100e93e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1417.5", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "SHIPBUILDING (REDUNDANCY PAYMENTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "titution of the following paragraph for paragraph 2 of that Resolution: That for the purpose of determining the annual maxima of such assistance the following formula shall apply: £550 for each seat won by the party concerned plus £1.10 for every 200 votes cast for it at the preceding General Election, provided that the maximum payable to any party shall not exceed £165 000.\"—[ Mr. Jim Marshall. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-07a.1417.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-08", "file": "debates1978-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "9a02dd8943c5cd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-08a.1441.4", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why don't you tell them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister tell the Cabinet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-08a.1441.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-08", "file": "debates1978-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "9a02dd8943c5cd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-08a.1625.4", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacFarquhar", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacFarquhar", "preceding_text": "e for the moment the pious hopes that both pro-Europeans and anti-Europeans express on these occasions, we see that Members of the House of Commons and of the European Assembly will be far too busy to pay any great attention to the work of the other House. Directly elected members of the European Assembly will be wanting to prove themselves, to find out exactly what the job entails and to justify—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-08a.1625.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-08", "file": "debates1978-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "9a02dd8943c5cd16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-08a.1631.7", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "OPPOSITION PARTIES (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ution of the following paragraph for paragraph 2 of that Resolution:— 'That for the purpose of determining the annual maxima of such assistance the following formula shall apply: £550 for each seat won by the party concerned plus £1·10 for every 200 votes cast for it at the preceding General Election, provided that the maximum payable to any party shall not exceed £165,000.'—[ Mr. Graham. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-08a.1631.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-09", "file": "debates1978-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1d0fcdb614363f45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-09a.1657.1", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister accept that comprehensivisation of education is democratisation of the education system?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-09a.1657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-09", "file": "debates1978-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1d0fcdb614363f45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-09a.1659.3", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "preceding_text": "There are good reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-09a.1659.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-09", "file": "debates1978-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1d0fcdb614363f45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-09a.1659.3", "colnum": "1659", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "preceding_text": "There are good reasons. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"]. If the hon. Gentleman had followed other political parties in responding to my invitation when the draft order was in being and if he had discussed this matter with me in my office, he might well have been given an answer. This is not a suitable matter for discussion across the Dispatch Box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-09a.1659.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-09", "file": "debates1978-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1d0fcdb614363f45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-09a.1666.0", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TWICKENHAM", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am aware that the hon. Member for Twickenham (Mr. Jessel) takes a considerable and continuing interest in flooding in his constituency. He has asked a number of Questions about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-09a.1666.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-09", "file": "debates1978-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1d0fcdb614363f45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-09a.1666.5", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TWICKENHAM", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " to see the Multi-Fibre Arrangement wound up. If that happened, we would have a flood of imports. I understand from the right hon. Lady's speech that she is also against export credits, which would destroy the exports that our firms are making. I understand that she at last agrees with her right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, North-East (Sir K. Joseph) that all grants and subsidies are harmful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-09a.1666.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-09", "file": "debates1978-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1d0fcdb614363f45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-09a.1683.4", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "PAY POLICY DEBATE (OFFICIAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "There seems to be a little more in this than meets the eye, Mr. Speaker. As I understand what you read out, the words that many of us distinctly heard—\" we at this time \"—were the words that I distinctly recollect. I think that the report that you have read out indicated that the original report upstairs contained these words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-09a.1683.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-09", "file": "debates1978-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1d0fcdb614363f45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-09a.1683.7", "colnum": "1683", "heading": "PAY POLICY DEBATE (OFFICIAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "y please tell you, Mr. Speaker, why the words did not appear in the Official Report ? Moreover, I understand that when an hon. Member goes to Hansard after he has made a speech he can alter only the grammar and cannot alter anything that changes the content of the speech. That is a well-known rule in the House, for obvious reasons. Why is it that the hon. Gentleman was allowed to alter, and alter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-09a.1683.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-09", "file": "debates1978-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1d0fcdb614363f45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-09a.1684.7", "colnum": "1684", "heading": "PAY POLICY DEBATE (OFFICIAL REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sedentary!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Mendelson", "preceding_text": "dition to the words that have just been discussed as having been left out, there were a number of us—I think that I was the first—who, immediately on the hon. Member for St. Ives (Mr. Nott) having said \"not at present\", asked three times \"Not at present?\". I repeated the phrase. I am asking now, Mr. Speaker, whether you could please ask the Editor of Hansard why this intervention was not reported.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-09a.1684.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-09", "file": "debates1978-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1d0fcdb614363f45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-09a.1702.0", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INNER URBAN AREAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "uman motivation. In looking at the problems of the inner cities, one realises the daunting scale of the difficulties. We have a vicious circle of decay and decline. The historical reasons for it are easy to find and are numerous. Without doubt, the rigidity of rent control practised by one party after another in office has had a cumulative effect which has caused serious problems for city centres.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-09a.1702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-09", "file": "debates1978-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1d0fcdb614363f45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-09a.1744.0", "colnum": "1744", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INNER URBAN AREAS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Litterick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Litterick", "preceding_text": "I have never heard of the Soviet Union's urban problems, but I know that in both West Germany and East Germany, as I was trying to tell the idiot who opened for the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-09a.1744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-10", "file": "debates1978-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "6d63e2ec881d6c9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-10a.1836.0", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF CHILDREN BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that we cannot wait for the report of the Williams Committee because, in the meantime, the problem is getting worse? The police service has received, through the aegis of the Home Office, proposals that the age of consent should be reduced to 14 for both girls and boys—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-10a.1836.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-10", "file": "debates1978-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "6d63e2ec881d6c9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-10a.1836.0", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF CHILDREN BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Shame\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ls that the age of consent should be reduced to 14 for both girls and boys—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—for heterosexual and homosexual behaviour, that the offence of rape should be abolished, that incest should no longer be a specifically defined criminal offence when committed between mutually consenting persons over 14 and that sections of the 1956 and 1967 Acts relating to buggery should be repealed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-10a.1836.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-10", "file": "debates1978-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "6d63e2ec881d6c9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-10a.1898.1", "colnum": "1898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF CHILDREN BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "preceding_text": " that he was totally innocent, and when the police said to him \"What is this jemmy?\", he said \"Well, actually it is a toothpick.\" The police did not altogether agree or believe the burglar. With the greatest of gentleness, I must tell the Minister of State that it is a little difficult to be surprised that hon. Members have been concerned about the attitude of Home Office Ministers on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-10a.1898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-10", "file": "debates1978-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "6d63e2ec881d6c9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-10a.1918.1", "colnum": "1918", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF CHILDREN BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Braine", "preceding_text": "rred. As the House knows, I, too, have some connection with the police. For well over 12 years I have helped to advise senior police officers—not the Police Federation. I know of their concern. My hon. Friend the Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Griffiths) spoke of the submission that the Sexual Law Reform Society is making to the Williams Committee that the age of consent should be reduced to 14—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-10a.1918.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-10", "file": "debates1978-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "6d63e2ec881d6c9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-10a.1919.1", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF CHILDREN BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Braine", "preceding_text": "eness. I repeat that evidence is being given by the Sexual Law Reform Society advising that there should be a reduction in the age of consent to 14. I go further. The Paedophile Information Exchange is also giving evidence. It wishes to legalise sexual behaviour between adults and a consenting child—whatever that may mean—down to the age of 4. That body is giving in evidence to the same committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-10a.1919.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-10", "file": "debates1978-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "6d63e2ec881d6c9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-10a.1925.10", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES (QUALIFICATION OF COMPANY SECRETARIES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-10a.1925.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-10", "file": "debates1978-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "6d63e2ec881d6c9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-10a.1925.17", "colnum": "1925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — AGE OF COMPULSORY RETIREMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-10a.1925.16"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-10", "file": "debates1978-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "6d63e2ec881d6c9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-10a.1926.0", "colnum": "1926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NAVAL DEFENCE (INQUIRY) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-10a.1925.20"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-10", "file": "debates1978-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "6d63e2ec881d6c9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-10a.1926.4", "colnum": "1926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREEDOM OF INFORMATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read. Hon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-10a.1926.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-10", "file": "debates1978-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "6d63e2ec881d6c9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-10a.1926.8", "colnum": "1926", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NUCLEAR WASTE DISPOSAL BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-10a.1926.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-13", "file": "debates1978-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "0aa6b4949ccf7223", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-13a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY POLICY (GOVERNMENT SANCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he, and what happened to it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "rship between Government and industry, there is no hope whatever of a sensible pattern for economic recovery. Let us look in a little more detail at the curious things that have happened. It is ironic to cast one's mind back to what was said by the then Secretary of State for Employment—now the Lord President—on 23rd January 1975 in a debate on that less than revered document, the social contract—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-13a.33.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-13", "file": "debates1978-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "0aa6b4949ccf7223", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-13a.40.3", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY POLICY (GOVERNMENT SANCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "s a total of 30 per cent., which again would damage the company, and again cause mass redundancies. Is that also correct? Is it one of the Government's discretionary sanctions to try to withdraw the celebrated 714 certificate? We shall want an answer to that before the end of the debate. What is clear is that the threat of imposing sanctions in that way carries a serious risk of mass redundancies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-13a.40.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-13", "file": "debates1978-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "0aa6b4949ccf7223", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-13a.40.5", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY POLICY (GOVERNMENT SANCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer now.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "I shall give the Chancellor a chance to reply. We want an answer. I certainly hope that he will answer that question, because it is a serious issue. If he does not know, he ought to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-13a.40.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-13", "file": "debates1978-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "0aa6b4949ccf7223", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-13a.40.6", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY POLICY (GOVERNMENT SANCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": " are set free by his statement to the Court of Appeal last week—free to pay the agreed sums—and that, despite the threats which were made to them, they will not be subjected to any withdrawal of Government contracts hereafter. Unless that is the position, the Attorney-General's statement to the Court of Appeal has no significance and no meaning. That deals with the Attorney-General for the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-13a.40.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-13", "file": "debates1978-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "0aa6b4949ccf7223", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-13a.57.2", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY POLICY (GOVERNMENT SANCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "rtant aims of reducing inflation is to enable us to reduce unemployment, it would be absurd if that were not so. I have been asked many questions about Ford and Vauxhall. The Vauxhall settlement was made very early in the pay round. The Ford settlement was reached only a week or two later, at a time when we still believed that we could have much more flexibility than has turned out to be the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-13a.57.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-13", "file": "debates1978-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "0aa6b4949ccf7223", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-13a.83.1", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY POLICY (GOVERNMENT SANCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"They believe it already.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "t the Labour Government are really an adjunct of the Soviet Government and the East Europeans. That is what they are trying to put across to the general public—that the Labour Government are an anti-democratic, bureaucratic Government who will bring in an East European society. They think that if they say it often enough, consistently enough, for long enough, eventually the people will believe it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-13a.83.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-13", "file": "debates1978-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "0aa6b4949ccf7223", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-13a.84.0", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY POLICY (GOVERNMENT SANCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "s weekend's Sunday Express written by the hon. Member for Stratford-on-Avon (Mr. Maude). I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman is not here; I had hoped that he would be. This is what he wrote: It is freedom—your freedom—and my freedom—which is in danger … The truth is that Labour politicians have no respect at all for the spirit of the Constitution. They want their own way by hook or by crook.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-13a.83.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-13", "file": "debates1978-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "0aa6b4949ccf7223", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-13a.86.1", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY POLICY (GOVERNMENT SANCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "preceding_text": "hich are generally more efficient and certainly far more decentralised than Government diktat or administrative decision. Why, therefore, in our opinion, cannot the market be left to decide the whole question of pay? The first question I must ask in answer to that is whether a monopoly forces up prices. I think that the answer which the Conservative and Liberal Parties would give clearly is \"Yes.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-13a.86.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-13", "file": "debates1978-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "0aa6b4949ccf7223", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-13a.134.0", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY POLICY (GOVERNMENT SANCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is well able to pursue his case, but I suspect that it is not within the intellectual argument that I have been developing. Let me turn to another aspect which is causing some worry. Of course, some publicity has been given to the report of the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments and its expression of view about extramural funds. Para 12 of that report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-13a.134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-13", "file": "debates1978-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "0aa6b4949ccf7223", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-13a.146.1", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAY POLICY (GOVERNMENT SANCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Prior", "preceding_text": "by whom?— that increases have been paid to your employees which may be in breach of the current pay restrictions. The policy as you may be aware, is voluntary and there is no obligation on the company to provide us with information. However, in view of the fact that sanctions may be imposed upon a company shown to be in breach of the policy I should be grateful for your comments on the allegation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-13a.146.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-13", "file": "debates1978-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "0aa6b4949ccf7223", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-13a.178.1", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION PARTIES (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I referred to the Government first. The hon. Gentleman cannot be listening. He should dig his ears out. Perhaps some of the money should be used for him to dig his ears out. I referred to the Government, then to the Tory Opposition, and then to the Shadow Government, the Liberal Party. The Liberal Shadow Chancellor is not here. I am attacking them all, because they—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-13a.178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-13", "file": "debates1978-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "0aa6b4949ccf7223", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-13a.196.1", "colnum": "196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION PARTIES (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "preceding_text": "sition Whips' Office, have been capable of having their salaries increased, in some cases quite substantially. When funds for Opposition parties were first voted the then Leader of the House said that it was the Government's intention that what was being voted should be examined from time to time in the light of inflation and other questions to see whether it was still the appropriate arrangement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-13a.196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-13", "file": "debates1978-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "0aa6b4949ccf7223", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-13a.200.2", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION PARTIES (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman can ask—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-13a.200.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-14", "file": "debates1978-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "b66ca365dc40bd23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-14a.237.0", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We are administering it. Perhaps the hon. Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton) does not understand that. I hope that the Opposition understand that what is taking place on immigration today takes place under their Act and their rules and that it is now the law of the country. I make a proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-14a.237.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-14", "file": "debates1978-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "b66ca365dc40bd23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-14a.239.4", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SELECT COMMITTEES (MINISTERIAL WITNESSES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is a very high level.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury (Mr. Ridley) is operating at about his usual level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-14a.239.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-14", "file": "debates1978-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "b66ca365dc40bd23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-14a.323.2", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "do that any more, because the colour has gone from the Liberal Bench. Tonight, perhaps he was tired, but his speech was more like the twirling of the kilt than the cutting of the knife. With respect to him, I do not think that he cut a very graceful picture as he tried to get out of his difficulties, the Liberal Party having given certain undertakings which it now manifestly has failed to achieve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-14a.323.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-14", "file": "debates1978-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "b66ca365dc40bd23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-14a.323.2", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": " has gone from the Liberal Bench. Tonight, perhaps he was tired, but his speech was more like the twirling of the kilt than the cutting of the knife. With respect to him, I do not think that he cut a very graceful picture as he tried to get out of his difficulties, the Liberal Party having given certain undertakings which it now manifestly has failed to achieve—[ Interruption. ] The Liberal Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-14a.323.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-14", "file": "debates1978-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "b66ca365dc40bd23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-14a.364.2", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "I am not prepared to do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-14a.364.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-14", "file": "debates1978-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "b66ca365dc40bd23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-14a.375.2", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "ppy to respond under whatever Christian name you may allocate to me for the moment, Mr. Speaker. When I read New Clauses 4 and 5 I thought they were so eminently sensible, so reasonable and so carefully drafted that I could not conceive that there would be any serious resistance to them from the Government Front Bench. I thought that no assistance from me would be necessary to carry them into law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-14a.375.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-14", "file": "debates1978-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "b66ca365dc40bd23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-14a.375.2", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A significant role.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "ht they were so eminently sensible, so reasonable and so carefully drafted that I could not conceive that there would be any serious resistance to them from the Government Front Bench. I thought that no assistance from me would be necessary to carry them into law—[ Interruption. ] I am encouraged by the plaudits from the other side to think that perhaps I have a modest role to play in this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-14a.375.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-15", "file": "debates1978-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "3402af2ad9b37b04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-15a.495.0", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, Hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": ". The Royal Commission took the view that an Assembly of 100 Members was quite sufficient to do all the work required of it. The kind of Assembly proposed by the Royal Commission is close to the Assembly proposed by the Government. Whatever the form of election that might be applied, the hon. Gentleman can easily bring forward proposals for an Assembly of the size proposed by the Royal Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-15a.494.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-15", "file": "debates1978-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "3402af2ad9b37b04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-15a.496.4", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "ll. Given the decision to have the parliamentary constituency as the basis for election to the Assembly, if the number of parliamentary constituencies were to be reduced it would automatically reduce the size of the Assembly. I hope that that is clearly understood. The hon. Member for Pentlands also said that the Government had not sought to justify the increase from the original number of 138 to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-15a.496.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-15", "file": "debates1978-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "3402af2ad9b37b04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-15a.582.1", "colnum": "582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "I do not feel competent to speak about India.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-15a.582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-15", "file": "debates1978-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "3402af2ad9b37b04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-15a.583.1", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "I think it reasonably unlikely that the House of Commons would have passed a referendum Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-15a.583.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-15", "file": "debates1978-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "3402af2ad9b37b04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-15a.594.2", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where are they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": " When the House last considered this matter, the Government spoke strongly against the amendment that was carried. On the following day, the Lord President said in the House: The Government are taking stock of the situation in the light of these amendments and we shall come forward on Report with our own proposals to deal with the matter.\"—[ Official Report, 26th January, 1978; Vol. 942, c. 1605].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-15a.594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-16", "file": "debates1978-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "2b3f2fc8aa4df898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-16a.657.6", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I notice that I am always being enjoined to take time off. I only wish that I could sometimes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-16a.657.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-16", "file": "debates1978-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "2b3f2fc8aa4df898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-16a.660.0", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What time?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am not sure whether everyone heard the address properly, but it is 400 High Road, Ilford.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-16a.660.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-16", "file": "debates1978-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "2b3f2fc8aa4df898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-16a.666.1", "colnum": "666", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brocklebank-Fowler", "preceding_text": "In his reply to the right hon. Member for Devon, North (Mr. Thorpe), the Foreign Secretary recognised that progress had been made in these talks in Rhodesia. Will he now place on record his unqualified approval of the breakthrough which has taken place, and will he also urge the United States Ambassador to the United Nations to be far more cautious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-16a.666.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-16", "file": "debates1978-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "2b3f2fc8aa4df898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-16a.668.0", "colnum": "668", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You hope\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Since this new arrangement is bound to collapse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-16a.668.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-16", "file": "debates1978-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "2b3f2fc8aa4df898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-16a.714.3", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Filibustering\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "preceding_text": "It seems generally agreed that the decision about salaries must be made unanimously by the Council of Ministers at the end of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-16a.714.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-16", "file": "debates1978-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "2b3f2fc8aa4df898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-16a.789.1", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Even putting them in prison.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "preceding_text": "That is an extremely simple question to answer. Surely if we switch from an appointive method of putting anybody anywhere to an elective method of putting anybody anywhere, we democratise the process—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-16a.789.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-16", "file": "debates1978-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "2b3f2fc8aa4df898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-16a.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "he other half. I must start by thanking my hon. Friend the Member for Guildford (Mr. Howell) for his kind and generous remarks from the Opposition Front Bench. It was very good of him. I have been opposing Britain's membership of the Community now, I think, for 17 years altogether. I was rather underground about it for two years when I was a junior Minister and I could not really do it overground—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-16a.798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-16", "file": "debates1978-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "2b3f2fc8aa4df898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-16a.819.1", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Royle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For bad.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Royle", "preceding_text": "I look forward to the moment when my hon. Friend and his few supporters on this side of the House and many supporters opposite will cease opposing every new development in the Community and will start working within the Community. For good or bad, we are members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-16a.819.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-16", "file": "debates1978-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "2b3f2fc8aa4df898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-16a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "which we have to breath the breath of life; it is not some puppet that we are creating in our own image; it is something that, once we have set it up, will have its own life and power. If we are looking for an analogy, a closer analogy would be a Frankenstein, a monster, for it is a power which, once we have established it, will be independent of us, and of which the nature will be to take from us", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-16a.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-16", "file": "debates1978-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "2b3f2fc8aa4df898", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-16a.834.0", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why should he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "to pretend that there was some sort of renegotiation and some sort of way in which they were doing things for which the Conservative Government had not provided. What the Minister will not do and has not done is to say \"I stand firmly by the provisions of Articles 100 to 103 of the Treaty of Accession. I stand firmly by the undertakings which my predecessor in office gave in the House of Commons.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-16a.834.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-17", "file": "debates1978-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3bd93bf2027f0ead", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-17a.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE WORKERS (INDUSTRIAL ACTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn Hooson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emlyn Hooson", "preceding_text": "desirability of a Bill of this kind. After discussions between the Government Departments concerned and our own spokesmen, it was found impossible for the Liberal Party to agree on a joint approach with the Government on this problem. The Bill is very much more modest than the proposals that the Government originally had in mind. Nevertheless, I am unable to support the hon. Gentleman on his Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-17a.875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-17", "file": "debates1978-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3bd93bf2027f0ead", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-17a.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE WORKERS (INDUSTRIAL ACTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "l Report, 11th December 1970; Vol. 808, c. 821.] Unfortunately, in their abolition of criminal penalties they missed the offences in the Post Office and Telegraph Acts, leaving the Post Office workers in a position from which they rescued the gas. water and electricity workers. I ought not to blame the Conservatives too much for that. Few of us at that time realised that these constraints existed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-17a.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-17", "file": "debates1978-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3bd93bf2027f0ead", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-17a.921.1", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE WORKERS (INDUSTRIAL ACTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "Bill has the support of the trade unions within the Post Office organisation, representing the responsible men and women to whom the hon. Member for Chingford paid tribute. I hope that he does not praise them one minute and kick their backsides in the rest of his remarks. That is not the way to endear himself to these loyal men and women. He says that he has never met an angry postman in his life—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-17a.921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-17", "file": "debates1978-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "3bd93bf2027f0ead", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-17a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POST OFFICE WORKERS (INDUSTRIAL ACTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clemitson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Be careful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clemitson", "preceding_text": " have since been added, was submitted to a Joint Committee of both Houses of Parliament in 1896. I trust your Lordships skill give the Bill a Second Reading. Again, I was rather frustrated in my purpose. I was trying to find out the purpose of those sections, why they were inserted, and so on. Therefore, I had to go still further back. I got back to 1837. This was just after Fs were printed as Ss.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-17a.933.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-21", "file": "debates1978-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "2b834532a833e526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-21a.1191.3", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "That question is under consideration at present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-21a.1191.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-21", "file": "debates1978-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "2b834532a833e526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-21a.1192.1", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert C. Brown", "preceding_text": " sure that the House will wish to join me in expressing our deepest sympathy to Mrs. Corden-Lloyd and her family, and, indeed, to the Second Battalion, the Royal Green Jackets, which has also suffered a grievous loss. It was my privilege and pleasure to know Iain as a superb commanding officer, a very great and gallant soldier. The Army and the nation are much the poorer with his untimely passing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-21a.1192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-21", "file": "debates1978-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "2b834532a833e526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-21a.1192.2", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "he Opposition and accepted by the Government, but did not the right hon. Gentleman mislead the House by asserting that my hon. Friend the Member for Abingdon (Mr. Neave) shared his previous complacency about the tide having turned against the terrorist? Will the Minister go further than the remarks he has just made and say that he will increase Army, and particularly SAS, activity in the Province?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-21a.1192.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-21", "file": "debates1978-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "2b834532a833e526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-21a.1200.0", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Lamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Were you there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Lamond", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that to deploy the neutron bomb in Western Europe must lower the threshold of nuclear war? Does he accept that President Brezhnev was in earnest when he said in the Kremlin on 2nd November—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-21a.1200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-21", "file": "debates1978-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "2b834532a833e526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-21a.1206.3", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "preceding_text": "When the Prime Minister meets his NATO colleagues, will he feel able to speak with pride about Britain's Armed Forces?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-21a.1206.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-21", "file": "debates1978-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "2b834532a833e526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-21a.1206.3", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTH ATLANTIC COUNCIL", "cue_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rear-Admiral Morgan-Giles", "preceding_text": "When the Prime Minister meets his NATO colleagues, will he feel able to speak with pride about Britain's Armed Forces? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] If so, will he take his miserable little Secretary of State by the scruff of the neck—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-21a.1206.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-21", "file": "debates1978-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "2b834532a833e526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-21a.1210.1", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TUC", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"8·4 per cent. 8·4 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "y that was increasing at a rate of 28 per cent. The right hon. Lady should be ashamed of having been a member of a Government which allowed inflation to roar away in the manner that it did. We have now repaired the damage that the right hon. Lady did. We shall go on repairing it. We shall ensure that the rate of inflation does not in any way approach what it was when the Conservatives left office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-21a.1210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-21", "file": "debates1978-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "2b834532a833e526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-21a.1225.6", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "By a fortunate coincidence this debate succeeds by a few days the Chequers conference at which, we are credibly informed, the Government debated their Budget strategy. In due course, perhaps, some latter-day Crossman will tell us precisely what position any particular Member of the Government took up. But for the moment it must be a matter for conjecture. But at least today's debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-21a.1225.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-21", "file": "debates1978-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "2b834532a833e526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-21a.1225.6", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "tion on this can be summarised easily. A married man on average earnings is now paying more in tax and national insurance contributions out of a smaller real income than he did in 1973. More than that, proportionately he is paying away a greater part of his income than any comparable person in any other country of the Common Market. I move a little higher up the scale and come to middling incomes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-21a.1225.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-21", "file": "debates1978-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "2b834532a833e526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-21a.1231.1", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. and learned Gentleman has said that twice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "stantial room for manoeuvre to the Government in the fiscal field. Then the Chief Secretary suggested a switch from direct to indirect taxation, which I give to the hon. Member for Sowerby (Mr. Madden). He said on that occasion that VAT would be nothing like as regressive as we often thought … but it cannot be done over-night.\"—[ Official Report, 3rd March 1977, Vol. 926, c. 666–72]—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-21a.1231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-21", "file": "debates1978-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "2b834532a833e526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-21a.1281.4", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "iends of time in which to make their speeches, and some of them are prepared to debate these issues with the Tory Front Bench and with the Government Front Bench. Everyone has been affected by what the hon. Member for Worthing (Mr. Higgins) is seeking to imply. I have implied that richer people have not been so affected. I have chosen one example of someone who walked away with £12 a week or more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-21a.1281.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-21", "file": "debates1978-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "2b834532a833e526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-21a.1283.1", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Pardoe", "preceding_text": "pposition must have specific programmes for reducing expenditure. What is it that the Government do now that will not be done under the Conservatives? We will never get an answer to that question from the Tories. The reason is that every member of the Shadow Administration is generally in favour of cutting public expenditure, but at the same time each one depends on making promises to increase it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-21a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-21", "file": "debates1978-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "2b834532a833e526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-21a.1341.2", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TAXATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or by increasing production.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "duce tax levels by £5 billion to what they were in 1973, I fail to see how they can do that without drastic cuts in public expenditure. However, let us give the Tories the benefit of the doubt. Let us suppose that they do not want to cut public expenditure. How would they finance continuing reductions in taxation? There are only two ways of doing it—by borrowing in the market or by printing money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-21a.1341.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-21", "file": "debates1978-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "2b834532a833e526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-21a.1375.1", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' SECRETARIES AND RESEARCH ASSISTANTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"With what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "I sincerely hope that hon. Members who feel that their secretaries are worth more will take the appropriate action and pay them more, as, I have no doubt, some Members do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-21a.1375.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-22", "file": "debates1978-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "13c2894dd671c760", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-22a.1477.1", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "H0N. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "As I listened to the speech of the right hon. Member for Cambridgeshire (Mr. Pym) I found it hard to believe that he was speaking for the party that in 1967, the year before the Kilbrandon Commission was established, set up a shadow constitutional commision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-22a.1477.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-22", "file": "debates1978-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "13c2894dd671c760", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-22a.1489.1", "colnum": "1489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman raised this subject earlier as a matter of privilege. I have kept my powder dry because I believe that it may be referred to again. I ask to be excused from dealing with the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-22a.1489.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-22", "file": "debates1978-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "13c2894dd671c760", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-22a.1490.4", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It did\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "said that they were not. At least the hon. Member for Islington, South and Finsbury (Mr. Cunningham) made some case for making the change. There was no doubt that the rules were being changed. I was opposed, as I still am, to entry into the Common Market, but in the debates on that issue it never crossed my mind, as it did not cross the mind of anyone else, to introduce a 40 per cent. requirement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-22a.1490.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-22", "file": "debates1978-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "13c2894dd671c760", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-22a.1491.0", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It was a new clause.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "lington, South and Finsbury (Mr. Cunningham) made some case for making the change. There was no doubt that the rules were being changed. I was opposed, as I still am, to entry into the Common Market, but in the debates on that issue it never crossed my mind, as it did not cross the mind of anyone else, to introduce a 40 per cent. requirement—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It did\".] I never saw such an amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-22a.1490.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-22", "file": "debates1978-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "13c2894dd671c760", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-22a.1491.4", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You abstained.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " the Assembly. In that vote 40 per cent. of Scottish Members voted in favour of the amendment, which was lost. In fact, 90 per cent. of those who voted were non-Scottish. There was the vote to amend the 33⅓ per cent. hurdle and to introduce a 40 per cent. hurdle. In that vote 43 per cent. of the Scottish Members voted against the amendment and 90 per cent. of those voting were non-Scottish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-22a.1491.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-22", "file": "debates1978-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "13c2894dd671c760", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-22a.1505.1", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That sounds like Pym.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "ews but because we believe certain things. That is one of the things that I believe. In those circumstances, I believe that we should pass this legislation, but given the rejection of federalism, I believe that the House or the parties, whether by means of a Speaker's Conference or otherwise, must determine soon how to consider the position of Scottish MPs in relation to English devolved subjects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-22a.1505.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-22", "file": "debates1978-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "13c2894dd671c760", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-22a.1541.6", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Not true.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bain", "preceding_text": "The opinion polls that have been taken in Scotland on this issue have always shown that the Scottish people support the concept of devolution by two to one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-22a.1541.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-22", "file": "debates1978-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "13c2894dd671c760", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-22a.1567.3", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "unworkable legislation. It is not only that I and certain of my hon. Friends, including the hon. Members for Penistone (Mr. Mendelson) and Liverpool, West Derby (Mr. Ogden), know that we are giving a Third Reading to a bad Bill. It is my judgment—I cannot put it any higher—that by now perhaps the overwhelming majority of the Parliamentary Labour Party have gradually arrived at the same conclusion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-22a.1567.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-22", "file": "debates1978-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "13c2894dd671c760", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-22a.1571.1", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "That is a hypothetical question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-22a.1571.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-22", "file": "debates1978-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "13c2894dd671c760", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-22a.1571.3", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Almost certainly the answer would be \"Yes\".—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-22a.1571.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-22", "file": "debates1978-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "13c2894dd671c760", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-22a.1597.3", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where has it worked?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "It is not the case that it has never worked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-22a.1597.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-23", "file": "debates1978-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "300db095159b7a63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-23a.1692.1", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I shall give the House my views on next year's monetary targets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-23a.1692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-23", "file": "debates1978-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "300db095159b7a63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-23a.1706.0", "colnum": "1706", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "I am coming to the question. I also understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-23a.1706.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-27", "file": "debates1978-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c57b85bab674d736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-27a.3.2", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "ing at some stage the Select Committee's report. The Government are giving it urgent consideration and will report in the usual way and follow the practice of all Governments. The hon. Gentleman fails to understand the report that the British Steel Corporation submitted to the Select Committee from the independent auditors, Messrs. Coopers and Lybrand, in which the senior partner Mr. R. L. Emmitt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-27a.3.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-27", "file": "debates1978-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c57b85bab674d736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-27a.19.0", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is, as always, misinformed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-27a.19.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-27", "file": "debates1978-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c57b85bab674d736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-27a.33.2", "colnum": "33", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (COUNCIL OF MINISTERS' MEETINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Does \"sheepmeat regime\" mean mutton and lamb?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-27a.33.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-27", "file": "debates1978-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c57b85bab674d736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-27a.45.8", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I have proposed that there should be a project. I do not suggest that there should be more than one centre to start with. I want to see one established as an experiment and if it works I want to see others set up as well. We should be able to try a new system, as nothing else has worked so far. To summarise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-27a.45.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-27", "file": "debates1978-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c57b85bab674d736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-27a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speed", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speed", "preceding_text": "de it clear that the Conservative Party upholds the promises that we have made to United Kingdom passport holders. The right hon. Gentleman must not make that case. The only thing that I am saying, as has been said by my right hon. Friend, is that if we faced a situation in which hundreds of thousands of people were still to come in from East Africa, we should have to look at that situation again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-27a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-27", "file": "debates1978-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c57b85bab674d736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-27a.50.0", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "If it is not what I said, I withdraw that as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-27a.50.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-27", "file": "debates1978-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c57b85bab674d736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-27a.50.0", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "If it is not what I said, I withdraw that as well. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"] But let us be clear: what I am saying is that the impression in the country on immigration and law and order is that only one party is concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-27a.50.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-27", "file": "debates1978-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c57b85bab674d736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-27a.50.0", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": " [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"] But let us be clear: what I am saying is that the impression in the country on immigration and law and order is that only one party is concerned—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—and that is untrue. The fact that the Tories cheered those words proves what I say, that that is what is being said. That is not true. With regard to the causes of crime, is it the growth of television?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-27a.50.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-27", "file": "debates1978-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c57b85bab674d736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-27a.60.2", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "have to take that into account. If this is the intention of people marching in the street, I know one thing is true, more at by-elections perhaps than on other sorts of marches: the ordinary people of an area have the right at any time to go about their lawful business. At a by-election they have the right to go about and not to be prevented by people, most of whom come into the area from outside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-27a.60.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-27", "file": "debates1978-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c57b85bab674d736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-27a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Brynmor John)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Grunwick.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Brynmor John)", "preceding_text": "he standards of fictional programmes were all that mattered. But there is the question of imitative crime—of people seeing what happens abroad and imitating it in this country. That is why we cannot divorce ourselves from the world scene. Another approach trotted out with scanter and scanter evidence to support it is that respect for the law has somehow been weakened by members of this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-27a.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-27", "file": "debates1978-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c57b85bab674d736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-27a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Brynmor John)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Brynmor John)", "preceding_text": "ountry to picket peacefully. I wonder how long that would remain the position under a Conservative Government. In any event, when we last debated the matter on 12th November 1977, Opposition Members were saying that the courts were too weak in their sentencing policy and that the juvenile courts were a mess. I wonder how much respect for the law the Opposition think that sort of comment engenders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-27a.161.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-27", "file": "debates1978-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "c57b85bab674d736", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-27a.179.2", "colnum": "179", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (JURISDICTION AND JUDGMENTS CONVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": "I am not aware that I said that I would not be sure. What I would say—I am quite clear about it—is that in my judgment primary legislation by Act of Parliament would be appropriate in this case. Obviously, however, I cannot commit the Government to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-27a.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-28", "file": "debates1978-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "86c53f4c7e02edb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-28a.233.3", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grant", "preceding_text": "Of course, I cannot give such an assurance. I can only conclude that the hon. Gentleman has not read the Department of Employment Gazette of the Official Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-28a.233.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-02-28", "file": "debates1978-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "86c53f4c7e02edb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-28a.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "Bearing in mind that this is the fourth anniversary of the Labour Government's accession to power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-28a.238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-28", "file": "debates1978-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "86c53f4c7e02edb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-28a.239.3", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is a consequence, as I have said so often at this Dispatch Box, of our low productivity", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-28a.239.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-28", "file": "debates1978-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "86c53f4c7e02edb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-28a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY (LEGISLATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " of time. However, there is another problem in respect of which we are not able to use procedures which are available to deal with other Bills and in respect of blocking motions which do not appear on the Order Paper about such Bills as the Government's proposed Electricity Bill, which is not being brought before the House because of the antics and blocking motions in private by the Liberal Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-28a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-02-28", "file": "debates1978-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "86c53f4c7e02edb0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-28a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Clause 15", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With the leave of the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambie", "preceding_text": "Despite the remarks of my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-02-28a.361.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-01", "file": "debates1978-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "47e359183ffe9ce3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-01a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "As the hon. and learned Gentleman knows, the Conservative Party appointed the first Minister for Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-01a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-01", "file": "debates1978-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "47e359183ffe9ce3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-01a.523.7", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "I go on to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-01a.523.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-01", "file": "debates1978-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "47e359183ffe9ce3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-01a.537.1", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend subsequently returned to the Chamber. If my hon. Friend ever achieves that seniority in politics which I suspect he thinks—and some may think—his due, he may discover that senior persons in politics cannot always be present in the Chamber throughout a debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-01a.537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-01", "file": "debates1978-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "47e359183ffe9ce3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-01a.610.1", "colnum": "610", "heading": "PART VI", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Morris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Morris", "preceding_text": "It may be right for me to intervene now. I want to give an opportunity for at least one other Member to catch the eye of the Chair before the debate ends. It is a pity that we have not had more time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-01a.610.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-01", "file": "debates1978-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "47e359183ffe9ce3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-01a.611.1", "colnum": "611", "heading": "PART VI", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member knows perfectly well that we were dealing with a quite novel system there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-01a.611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-01", "file": "debates1978-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "47e359183ffe9ce3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-01a.611.8", "colnum": "611", "heading": "PART VI", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "I have listened to the debate and I want to reply to hon. Members and be courteous to them, otherwise they will be complaining that I have not replied. I cannot win. I shall seek to show that the particular system of 50 Members directly elected and 25 who would be elected in an entirely different manner is a system that is not known to be working in any part of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-01a.611.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-02", "file": "debates1978-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "a0c9979400751ddf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-02a.641.7", "colnum": "641", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman has the great advantage that he does not need to plough through the 174 recommendations of the Annan Report. I would be surprised if he did so when the debate takes place. The fact is that there are 500 pages in the report, 174 recommendations and many representations on them. It would be doing less than justice to the importance of the subject if we were to rush the matter through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-02a.641.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-02", "file": "debates1978-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "a0c9979400751ddf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-02a.656.5", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Has the Prime Minister noted the apology offered to the House on Tuesday by the Secretary of State for Employment for using incorrect international unemployment comparisons? Since the Prime Minister has joined the Secretary of State for Employment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-02a.656.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-02", "file": "debates1978-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "a0c9979400751ddf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-02a.658.0", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I notice that the right hon. Lady now uses the word \"most\". In fact, our biggest competitor in Western Europe has a comparatively worse record on unemployment than we have. I refer to Germany, where unemployment has increased by four times since 1973.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-02a.658.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-02", "file": "debates1978-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "a0c9979400751ddf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-02a.658.3", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give the figure.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Whatever may be said, I promise you, Mr. Speaker, that it does not disturb me in the slightest. Germany, of course, is the prime exemplar of the market economy to which the right hon. Lady refers. Its unemployment record is much worse than ours by comparison.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-02a.658.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-02", "file": "debates1978-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "a0c9979400751ddf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-02a.661.1", "colnum": "661", "heading": "GOVERNMENT LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friends should not become obsessed with the Leader of the Conservative Party. The electorate will judge for themselves at the General Election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-02a.661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-02", "file": "debates1978-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "a0c9979400751ddf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-02a.662.1", "colnum": "662", "heading": "SUPPLEMENTARY QUESTIONS (MR. SPEAKER'S STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Arising out of Prime Minister's Questions, I have a very brief statement to make. There has been an increasing tendency in recent months for hon. Members to send me messages requesting to be called for supplementary questions on Prime Minister's Questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-02a.662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-02", "file": "debates1978-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "a0c9979400751ddf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-02a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "New Clause No. 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "he British way of life. If I challenged Conservative Members to tell me the dif- ferences between the English way of life and the British way of life, they would be hard put to give me an answer. The English or British way of life is not under threat, but our way of life is. We are a very old nation, and we are determined to live as a nation. Perhaps I may be allowed to quote a few words of Welsh—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-02a.691.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-03", "file": "debates1978-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "857692dc322649d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-03a.932.8", "colnum": "932", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (KENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Ovenden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Ovenden", "preceding_text": "er Health Service depend on the reallocation of resources away from the over-funded areas. I welcome the determined stand that the Secretary of State has made in trying to persuade Greenwich and Bexley area to live within its means. But progress there is slow. Perhaps my hon. Friend the Minister of State can tell us something about that. He may have a personal constituency interest in this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-03a.932.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-03-06", "file": "debates1978-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "a6fddb9072132232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-06a.957.2", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Taxpayers.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "I have ensured that 26 new centres will be opened this year. As a result of 100 per cent. Government grants, no cost will fall on the ratepayers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-06a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-06", "file": "debates1978-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "a6fddb9072132232", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-06a.977.0", "colnum": "977", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Smith.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maudling", "preceding_text": "I welcome the right hon. Gentleman's intention to build on what has been achieved in the past week or two. I have two questions to put to him. First, twice this afternoon he used the word \"genuine\". Does he believe that there is anything in the agreement recently reached in Salisbury which is not genuine?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-06a.977.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-03-07", "file": "debates1978-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4d6d5420f6ca6df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-07a.1221.3", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CBI and TUC", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I fear that, on that basis, about three-quarters of the present House of Commons would have to go—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-07a.1221.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-07", "file": "debates1978-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4d6d5420f6ca6df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-07a.1222.0", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CBI and TUC", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " Opposition should expect me to come here charged with every figure in my head that the gang of four has sedulously fed her for Prime Minister's Questions. I would agree with the right hon. Lady that efforts to overcome inflation combined with the problems of the oil-producing countries have created a situation in which it has not been possible to grow. However, we have broadly overcome inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-07a.1222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-07", "file": "debates1978-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4d6d5420f6ca6df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-07a.1228.1", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "ng to the important position of No. 8, I found subsequently, last Tuesday, that it was on the agenda of the Department of Social Services, the result being, of course, that it is now No. 46 or something like that. I have a novel suggestion for both of us, Mr. Speaker. On the basis that you were to some extent wrong regarding the guidance you had been given and the fact that the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-07a.1228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-07", "file": "debates1978-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4d6d5420f6ca6df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-07a.1268.1", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Wales provides enough material for us, without embarking further afield—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-07a.1268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-07", "file": "debates1978-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4d6d5420f6ca6df4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-07a.1349.1", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Clause 16", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Standing orders.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Godman Irvine. That is a judgment from the Chair. However, I think that it is reasonable and sensible to argue that one cannot make up one's mind about pecuniary interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-07a.1349.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-08", "file": "debates1978-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "0e1ee5d4a8729d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-08a.1409.2", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have rumbled you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": " upon one or two of the major companies? The statement refers to the extension of direct labour organisations and the encouragement of co-operatives at the lowest level. This is not the full nationalisation of the industry. As the Estates Times has said about those who speak for the Opposition, they want to start doing something serious before they are to be taken into consideration on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-08a.1409.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-08", "file": "debates1978-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "0e1ee5d4a8729d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-08a.1413.2", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "I do not follow my hon. Friend's reasoning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-08a.1413.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-08", "file": "debates1978-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "0e1ee5d4a8729d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-08a.1419.4", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "There are serious inadequacies in that Bill. On the general point, I and the Government need no urging to get local authorities and housing associations to do more in democratising their procedures and in involving tenants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-08a.1419.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-08", "file": "debates1978-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "0e1ee5d4a8729d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-08a.1474.4", "colnum": "1474", "heading": "Clause 25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "o so, because I do not like being out of order. In view of what the hon. Gentleman said earlier, however, and in view of his allegation against me, I am sure, Mr. God-man Irvine, that you recognise my need to react as forcefully as possible. On subsequent occasions we all have cause to hear a statement from the hon. Gentleman withdrawing what he has said because of the bulk of evidence against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-08a.1474.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-08", "file": "debates1978-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "0e1ee5d4a8729d63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-08a.1538.2", "colnum": "1538", "heading": "Clause 35", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "country for the purposes of the Bill? I cannot find a definition of \"country\" in any definition clause in the Bill. That being so, does Clause 29 interdict the Welsh Assembly and its Executive from negotiating with the authorities of the Isle of Man on matters which undoubtedly fall within the province of the Welsh Assembly? I honestly do not know. I suspect that the Minister does not know either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-08a.1538.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-09", "file": "debates1978-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "63ed866df3b44b7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1591.0", "colnum": "1591", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter", "preceding_text": "It is always possible that all the postal votes went to the loser in the election rather than to my hon. Friend, but I am afraid that we do not know, because records have since been destroyed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1591.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-09", "file": "debates1978-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "63ed866df3b44b7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1602.2", "colnum": "1602", "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": "It so happens that before I came into the House I was looking into this matter. I am therefore able to say rather unusually that I am aware of the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1602.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-09", "file": "debates1978-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "63ed866df3b44b7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1603.0", "colnum": "1603", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He would not be called.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend went at the invitation of Mr. Vance and met President Carter. He also had the intention, if the Security Council debate had taken a relatively short time, to speak in that debate. But I understand that that debate is now likely to be extended for several days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1603.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-03-09", "file": "debates1978-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "63ed866df3b44b7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1604.5", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1604.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-09", "file": "debates1978-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "63ed866df3b44b7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1605.3", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "preceding_text": "ractice in recent years for Prime Minister's Question Time to be the equivalent of a presidential Press conference? If that is the case, and in view of the fact that Prime Minister's Question Time will be broadcast immediately after Easter, could not the Leader of the Opposition, if she so chooses, come up with four, five, six or even seven supplementary questions and therefore dominate the whole—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1605.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-09", "file": "debates1978-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "63ed866df3b44b7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1616.1", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not only their constituents.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "As I have said to my hon. Friends from Merseyside who have put earlier questions, I fully recognise their deep concern on behalf of their constituents about unemployment in their area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-09", "file": "debates1978-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "63ed866df3b44b7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1616.7", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Government time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman puts that question to me, but I can put it to him, too. The Opposition have many opportunities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1616.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-03-09", "file": "debates1978-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "63ed866df3b44b7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1618.6", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cover up.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "From the way that the hon. Gentleman has put the matter, I believe that it would be a waste of the time of the House of Commons to pursue it further.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1618.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-09", "file": "debates1978-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "63ed866df3b44b7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1631.2", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "w the amount of loss due to it. I hope they will not try to escape by claiming that other steel industries are doing as badly, because I have a list of the losses of the main steel industries of the world and of the British Steel Corporation per tonne. That is the significant figure. Its loss per tonne in 1977 was the highest of all and it is accompanied at the top by other State-owned industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1631.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-09", "file": "debates1978-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "63ed866df3b44b7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1631.2", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": " current year was seen to rise dramatically? What did they do? The Secretary of State went on holiday. I do not imagine that the head of a private firm, faced with shocking conditions that would have bankrupted a giant enterprise, would have gone on holiday without asking probing questions. There seems to have been general assumptions by Ministers of access to the bottomless purse of the taxpayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1631.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-09", "file": "debates1978-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "63ed866df3b44b7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1651.3", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "million tonnes rising to 39 million tonnes in 1977, an increase of 222 per cent. It did so with the help of the Marshall Plan. We then come to Japan. In 1950 Japan produced 4.8 million tonnes and in 1977 102·4 million tonnes an increase of 2,030 per cent. It did so under a system in which steel production is private enterprise but backed by an industrial bank and the central banking system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1651.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-09", "file": "debates1978-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "63ed866df3b44b7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1658.1", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Kerr", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Kerr", "preceding_text": "h an Opposition we do not know. As a result of events that took place more than 300 years ago, she is able to avoid—and indeed must avoid—the spectacle on the Opposition Benches up with which some of us have had to put every day of our working lives and which causes many of us to mutter with well-meant fervour, as well as loyalty, \"God Save the Queen\". However, let me revert to the matter in hand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1658.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-09", "file": "debates1978-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "63ed866df3b44b7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1675.0", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "Of course, the point is irrelevant when my hon. Friend is out by £200 million but, of course, it is a cause for massive concern when the BSC is out by that amount. That is the first point. Point No. 2—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-09", "file": "debates1978-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "63ed866df3b44b7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1675.0", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "have the real professionals. They have more sense. They know they were wrong and that it was a massive elementary mistake. But until it was exposed, they could go on using a forecasting error much more easily made by the BSC in the teribly difficult circumstances in which it was operating, for the precisely party-political purposes that they intended. That is what this is about. I shall show that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-09", "file": "debates1978-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "63ed866df3b44b7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1676.1", "colnum": "1676", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. Let me finish. Paragraph 10 says: The most recent Government forecast —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-09", "file": "debates1978-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "63ed866df3b44b7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1677.6", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "There is nothing in the letter from the Chief Secretary that refers to the actual loss being forecast by British Steel at the time of the questions to which his hon. Friend is referring. Furthermore, there is nothing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1677.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-09", "file": "debates1978-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "63ed866df3b44b7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1747.4", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister of State tell the House the truth, that it was nationalisation by the Labour Government and then the renewed threat of nationalisation throughout the second half of the 1960s that left this country behind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1747.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-03-09", "file": "debates1978-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "63ed866df3b44b7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1748.0", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "That is the kind of party nonsense that this Select Committee Report demolishes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1747.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-09", "file": "debates1978-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "63ed866df3b44b7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1748.4", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do you?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "ories would do about investment in the industry. The Conservatives voted against investment in the Iron and Steel (Amendment) Bill. The country has the right to know what the Conservatives would do about redundancies. The Select Committee report calls for a clearly defined specific reduction in the size of the workforce in each of the next five years\". Do the Opposition accept that recommendation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-09a.1748.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-10", "file": "debates1978-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "0bbea9537f3de6a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-10a.1817.1", "colnum": "1817", "heading": "LABOUR PARTY'S PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman is asking me whether that statement was in Labour Weekly, my answer is that it certainly was. I did not want to deal in great detail with defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-10a.1817.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-10", "file": "debates1978-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "0bbea9537f3de6a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-10a.1836.3", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "LABOUR PARTY'S PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"TOO long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ustrial decisions must be consulted in advance and be given full access to information. We want to bring in more and more information. In that respect we are not even at the level of the United States. We are saying that up to a point we must have a planned society. However, we must have information so that the people may be involved in the planning process. I now turn to one or two other matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-10a.1836.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-10", "file": "debates1978-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "0bbea9537f3de6a5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-10a.1836.3", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "LABOUR PARTY'S PROGRAMME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": " that level. Those are our proposals. Of course, they mean public ownership, but that is not nationalisation. The Opposition are ignorant—I mean ignorant—about these matters. They do not understand that public ownership can take many and diverse forms. It does not mean full-scale nationalisation of an industry Private companies can exist alongside one large State corporation. I conclude by saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-10a.1836.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-13", "file": "debates1978-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d4b88a4f1e0774f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-13a.24.3", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which model?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "Has the Minister tried to buy a British Leyland car recently? May I tell him that I have—last week—and was quoted four months to six months delivery for the model that I wanted?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-13a.24.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-13", "file": "debates1978-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d4b88a4f1e0774f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-13a.24.3", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "Has the Minister tried to buy a British Leyland car recently? May I tell him that I have—last week—and was quoted four months to six months delivery for the model that I wanted? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Which model?\"] The model that I wanted. I am proud to declare my interest. It was a Jaguar.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-13a.24.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-13", "file": "debates1978-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d4b88a4f1e0774f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-13a.38.1", "colnum": "38", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Would the Committee be free to recommend to the House that some disciplinary action should be applied to those other newspapers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-13a.38.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-13", "file": "debates1978-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d4b88a4f1e0774f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-13a.57.0", "colnum": "57", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "It is necessary to await the report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-13a.57.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-13", "file": "debates1978-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d4b88a4f1e0774f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-13a.57.2", "colnum": "57", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Pay?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": " Services in maintaining fire cover during the firemen's strike between mid-November and mid-January. Since then the Services have been engaged in relief operations in the snow in Scotland and in the West Country. As is their custom and tradition, the Services turned to these extra tasks with professionalism and good humour. For many they meant separation from their families and long hours of pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-13a.57.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-13", "file": "debates1978-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "2d4b88a4f1e0774f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-13a.149.1", "colnum": "149", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Critchley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Critchley", "preceding_text": "Obviously defence spending has to be set in the context of what a country can afford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-13a.149.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-14", "file": "debates1978-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "2c1e882472a4d69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-14a.215.4", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'Two years ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "I am glad to hear that the hon. Member welcomes the mathematics inquiry. But it would be very helpful if occasionally the Opposition gave credit where it was deserved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-14a.215.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-03-14", "file": "debates1978-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "2c1e882472a4d69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-14a.216.0", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign!", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": " Opposition fail consistently to indicate that we have very high and improving standards in science teaching. The hon. Member for Brent, North (Dr. Boyson), in quoting the results of a survey which was criticial of mathematics teaching, pointed out neither that the position in West Germany with a selective system had declined more rapidly nor that in science teaching we were the best in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-14a.215.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-14", "file": "debates1978-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "2c1e882472a4d69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-14a.216.5", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When you have done it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am not sure whether the hon. Member is congratulating me or—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-14a.216.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-14", "file": "debates1978-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "2c1e882472a4d69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-14a.220.4", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am very grateful for all the suggestions that have been made to me about what I should say in my speech tonight. I shall take them all into account. There will be a debate on this matter on Thursday, and I shall look forward to hearing the hon. Member's views on the matter then.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-14a.220.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-14", "file": "debates1978-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "2c1e882472a4d69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-14a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Forty-five minutes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": " Administration would stop public money being used by the National Enterprise Board and British Leyland. The NEB is a major instrument in preserving jobs such as those at British Leyland during the current recession and in providing investment to ensure that when world trade picks up our manufacturing base will be of sufficient strength to take the fullest advantage of the opportunities presented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-14a.246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-14", "file": "debates1978-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "2c1e882472a4d69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-14a.250.2", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman now withdraw his lie?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-14a.250.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-14", "file": "debates1978-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "2c1e882472a4d69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-14a.251.2", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "I shall be very happy to withdraw the word—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-14a.251.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-14", "file": "debates1978-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "2c1e882472a4d69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-14a.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Look at Brezhnev's figures.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamond", "preceding_text": "We rely on statements of the United States and, in this country, on the assessments of many people who have a direct financial and career interest in building up the war machine in the United States and in this country. We must look at the figures with some suspicion to make sure they are correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-14a.275.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-14", "file": "debates1978-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "2c1e882472a4d69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-14a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Pay more.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "ggested. The report is due very soon. It is with the Pay Review Body. It will be published. The Government's response will be made public shortly thereafter. The Government will then stand by such criticism as may or may not be directed towards them as a result of their response to the Pay Review Body's report. It would be interesting to know what the Conservative Party would propose to do on pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-14a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-14", "file": "debates1978-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "2c1e882472a4d69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-14a.362.3", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "Splendid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-14a.362.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-14", "file": "debates1978-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "2c1e882472a4d69d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-14a.364.2", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS \"More than 4 per cent\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "Four per cent. of what? The right hon. Gentleman does not know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-14a.364.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-15", "file": "debates1978-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "6a12b86edee97656", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-15a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Bain", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Bain", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister also bear in mind that average family income in Scotland is substantially lower than it is elsewhere in the United Kingdom?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-15a.416.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-16", "file": "debates1978-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "91bf79a8341a7457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-16a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "MR. SPEAKER'S CHAPLAIN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The House will be aware that the Reverend Canon David Edwards, who has been Speaker's Chaplain since September 1974, has been appointed Dean of Norwich. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] On Thursday next, 23rd March, he will be conducting our Prayers for the last time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-16a.636.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-16", "file": "debates1978-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "91bf79a8341a7457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-16a.660.1", "colnum": "660", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "ief Secretary's style but a description of the thinking, if that is not too charitable a word, that lies behind the document. The document contains no analysis of the Government's planned demand on resources. That has disappeared. It contains no monetary analysis or reference to money supply. It is not surprising when this afternoon's figures show money supply roaring ahead by 14¾ per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-16a.660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-16", "file": "debates1978-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "91bf79a8341a7457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-16a.670.4", "colnum": "670", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Unemployment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "aintain employment and to expand production in other places. There is no need to go on down this desperate road. Labour Members do not seem to understand that there is another way of running the economy. For example, the United States of America, with a 5 per cent. wealth tax and a top rate of income tax of 50 per cent. on incomes higher than in this country, has over the last three years created—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-16a.670.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-16", "file": "debates1978-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "91bf79a8341a7457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-16a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No money.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "larger saving could be made if the Government were willing to encourage the sale of council houses. Finally, savings could be made if the Government were to abandon those elements of Socialism which they have already placed on the statute book which threaten to cause a good deal of Labour Members not to be content with what has happened. The Community Land Act, for example, is being doubly futile.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-16a.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-16", "file": "debates1978-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "91bf79a8341a7457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-16a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Woy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "sses of government. I want to venture just one more quotation from Crossman Volume III, because this is about what happens if one has a five-year—indeed, a much less than five-year —future projection of public expenditure. Once again, it is Crossman and the right hon. Member for Blackburn (Mrs. Castle) on the one side, against the person whom it is now allowable in this Chamber to refer to as Roy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-16a.683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-16", "file": "debates1978-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "91bf79a8341a7457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-16a.728.2", "colnum": "728", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reg Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reg Prentice", "preceding_text": "ment pension or widow's pension; I mean sickness benefit and unemployment benefit. It should be the Government's policy to open up a meaningful gap between what people can earn at work, even in low-paid jobs, and what they can gain in national insurance benefits. In general, I want to see a shift, to which many hon. Members have referred, from transfer payments towards capital programmes, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-16a.728.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-16", "file": "debates1978-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "91bf79a8341a7457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-16a.756.1", "colnum": "756", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Lawson", "preceding_text": "es. The Chief Secretary himself, for example, has pointed out frequently the rocketing cost of indiscriminate housing subsidies, and he has given this as an example of where the present Government have got their priorities wrong. But he has been unable to do anything about it, of course, because he could not get it through a Labour Cabinet. Then there are all manner of expensive Socialist follies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-16a.756.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-16", "file": "debates1978-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "91bf79a8341a7457", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-16a.805.3", "colnum": "805", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (ECONOMIC POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"National?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "preceding_text": " then desirable. It is a real world in which the nations are interdependent and where living standards can be protected or raised only in an expanding economy, itself the consequence of trade becoming freer and freer, markets expanding, with an unimpeded evolution towards new means of producing goods and services. Fifteen years later, all except four under the rule of the National Socialist Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-16a.805.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-17", "file": "debates1978-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "e5b0495f5e71cc2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-17a.899.5", "colnum": "899", "heading": "THE FAMILY>", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Litterick", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Litterick", "preceding_text": " British education system in its upper reaches. Moreover, it is difficult to resist the rewards of allowing oneself to be integrated into the bourgeois value system via our education system. One learns very quickly to get on by agreeing with the people who have the power to upgrade one. One learns that, and one learns either to define oneself as a rebel against that value system or to collaborate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-17a.899.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-03-17", "file": "debates1978-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "e5b0495f5e71cc2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-17a.933.16", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SELECT COMMITTEE ON SOUND BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That Miss Betty Boothroyd, Mr. Robert Cooke, Mr. Clement Freud, Mr. Robert Mellish, Sir Anthony Royle and Mr. Nigel Spearing be Members of the Select Committee on Sound Broadcasting.—[ Mr. Thomas Cox. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-17a.933.15"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-20", "file": "debates1978-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8da4f1bc1728455a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-20a.1010.1", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "the least, a little faulty. I refer to a policy of robbing Peter to pay Paul. I should have thought that the resolution of Merseyside's problems within the context that my hon. Friend has outlined today would not survive, long term, on the basis of taking something from somewhere else in order to try to compensate over a relatively short period. What is needed on Merseyside, as, indeed, is needed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-20a.1010.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-20", "file": "debates1978-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8da4f1bc1728455a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-20a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr Michael Foot)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr Michael Foot)", "preceding_text": " evidence to the Speaker's Conference, and I believe that there is a just claim for an increase in the number of representatives in this House from Northern Ireland. The Government approached the matter in that light, but we shall be indicating to the House soon after the recess how we propose to proceed. My hon. Friend the Member for Oldham, East (Mr. Lamond) spoke at the beginning of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-20a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-20", "file": "debates1978-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8da4f1bc1728455a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-20a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr Michael Foot)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr Michael Foot)", "preceding_text": "y and the Government as a whole. This debate has concentrated on the position in Merseyside, and unemployment on Merseyside is as serious as in any other part of the country. Nobody would dispute that—not even those who, including myself, represent other constituencies which are suffering very heavy unemployment. I come to the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-20a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-20", "file": "debates1978-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8da4f1bc1728455a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-20a.1067.0", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ons. Both the management and the Government are prepared to consider those plans seriously and to ascertain whether they can act upon them. I hope that my hon. Friends will not wish me to speak at great length on whether we should establish special new machinery or adapt older machinery in Merseyside. It is sometimes said—this was argued by my hon. Friend the Member for Ormskirk (Mr. Kilroy-Silk)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-20a.1067.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-20", "file": "debates1978-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "8da4f1bc1728455a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-20a.1068.3", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loyden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What have you achieved?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loyden", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that over the past two years my hon. Friends and I have been meeting the combined stewards of the Lucas factory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-20a.1068.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-21", "file": "debates1978-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "00fa47124a30d775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-21a.1303.2", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"HOW do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "preceding_text": "As it is clear, as the Secretary of State and my hon. Friends have said, that the members of the Armed Forces show no desire to join a trade union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-21a.1303.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-21", "file": "debates1978-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "00fa47124a30d775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-21a.1321.1", "colnum": "1321", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Today.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As my hon. Friend will know, the report that was made by my right hon. Friend the Minister of State, Department of Employment was published shortly before the Session began. I can tell my hon. Friend that the Bill to establish a co-operative development agency will be introduced this week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-21a.1321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-21", "file": "debates1978-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "00fa47124a30d775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-21a.1326.0", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "NORTH SEA OIL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Stand up for Britain.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "rise? Is he aware that he took an unnecessary swipe at overseas companies who are helping in that process? Without their technology, he would probably not have been in a position to make his statement about how the revenues would be spent. If other countries made the same strictures on BP as the right hon. Gentleman has made on overseas companies, this country would be very much the poorer for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-21a.1326.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-21", "file": "debates1978-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "00fa47124a30d775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-21a.1328.1", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "NORTH SEA OIL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rudent to make total cuts in taxation in respect of this when we clearly should provide additional resources to find new energy investment against the day when the oil starts to run out. I believe also that there will be a substantial feeling in the country that it is right to refurbish our social fabric which would mean the rebuilding of some of our great cities including the east end of Glasgow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-21a.1328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-21", "file": "debates1978-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "00fa47124a30d775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-21a.1328.1", "colnum": "1328", "heading": "NORTH SEA OIL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "learly should provide additional resources to find new energy investment against the day when the oil starts to run out. I believe also that there will be a substantial feeling in the country that it is right to refurbish our social fabric which would mean the rebuilding of some of our great cities including the east end of Glasgow—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, here.\"]—and other such great cities as that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-21a.1328.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-21", "file": "debates1978-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "00fa47124a30d775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-21a.1337.1", "colnum": "1337", "heading": "NORTH SEA OIL", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that, until the Opposition make an official correction, there is obviously a substantial difference between us. As I understand it, their principal priority is the reduction of taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-21a.1337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-21", "file": "debates1978-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "00fa47124a30d775", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-21a.1383.2", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Watkinson", "preceding_text": "re is endemic structural surplus. That is considered the appropriate way, the market way, to deal with it. Sooner or later, however, given the enormous capacity of Europe to produce food, we must have a planned approach to agriculture in Europe in order to deal with the vast surpluses and the potential surpluses. Europe may turn to a system of quotas, which may not be acceptable to the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-21a.1383.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-22", "file": "debates1978-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "51b2f05eef0324ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-22a.1500.1", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "As I have indicated to the right hon. Gentleman, the setting up of a mission is not a decision to be taken by the British Government alone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-22a.1500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-22", "file": "debates1978-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "51b2f05eef0324ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-22a.1513.0", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "e Government are perhaps beginning to grapple—we cannot tell how seriously from the statement—with only half of the steel part of our economic problems—namely, overmanning and the search for competitiveness? Is he also aware that the Opposition want to see an internationally competitive industry and every sensible step taken to stimulate the growth of new jobs to reduce unemployment repercussions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-22a.1513.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-22", "file": "debates1978-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "51b2f05eef0324ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-22a.1532.2", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Don't count on it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "preceding_text": "I shall defend myself in some other place. What my right hon. Friend has announced means redundancies. May we be assured that redundancy payments will be generous—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-22a.1532.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-22", "file": "debates1978-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "51b2f05eef0324ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-22a.1533.12", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wakeham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wakeham", "preceding_text": "72, the intention of which was to do very similar things. That amendment was tabled by three distinguished members of the Treasury Bench—the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury and the Financial Secretary. The fact that they tabled that amendment in 1972 would not necessarily commend it to my hon. Friends, but I believe that it prevents Labour Members being against it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-22a.1533.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-22", "file": "debates1978-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "51b2f05eef0324ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-22a.1556.1", "colnum": "1556", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "onfusions arise. The incident of the blistered fish in the Irish Sea was one example of something which turned out to have been a long-established event. Perhaps the Foreign Secretary will be able to give us the medical title for the virus involved. However, it was not attributable to the subject that we are discussing tonight. In one Sunday newspaper, which had better be nameles on this occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-22a.1556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-22", "file": "debates1978-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "51b2f05eef0324ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-22a.1608.8", "colnum": "1608", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "I am giving my personal opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-22a.1608.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-22", "file": "debates1978-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "51b2f05eef0324ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-22a.1609.0", "colnum": "1609", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "He may have made such a demand. It is one thing to say that a candidate is demanding something, but quite another to say that that candidate is committing his party as a matter of policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-22a.1609.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-03-22", "file": "debates1978-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "51b2f05eef0324ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-22a.1672.1", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why in such a hurry?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": " there will be a gradual growing together and convergence of view on this issue. Scientific opinion in all countries is divided on many of the questions involved. There is not a single scientific view in the United States any more than there is a single scientific view in this country. Our task is to try to exercise the best judgment we can make on what is a highly technical and scientific problem", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-03-22a.1672.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-04-03", "file": "debates1978-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "3c71acf7b5dd8a1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-03a.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "ve to face pressure from him and many of my many of my colleagues, but my brother is the Minister with responsibility for disabled people, and he keeps me on my toes on this subject. It is not true for the hon. Gentleman to suggest that the Civil Service makes life difficult for registered disabled people to come into the Civil Service. We go to great lengths to recruit registered disabled people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-03a.21.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-03", "file": "debates1978-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "3c71acf7b5dd8a1e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-03a.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH REGULATIONS (AIRCRAFT AND SHIPS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "f Customs and Excise, who received us very graciously, and we had a most useful discussion. Following that visit, the chairman wrote me two letters. I am particularly concerned with the animal health side of the matter. The animal health regulations are very extensive—to such an extent that the master of a tramp steamer must radio ahead to say that he has on board a mouse suffering from diarrhoea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-03a.179.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-04-04", "file": "debates1978-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "c4592714c5b4567c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-04a.233.2", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am ready to do so. But I hope that the hon. Member for Christchurch and Lymington (Mr. Adley), who was associated with the dirty tricks brigade on this occasion, will make his apology, because I know that he said it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-04a.233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-04", "file": "debates1978-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "c4592714c5b4567c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-04a.233.4", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SECRETARY OF STATE FOR SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. We realise that the Prime Minister does not like persistent questioning, and we also realise that if the Secretary of State for Social Services had made a statement, for which some of us have been asking, these allegations would not have arisen. May I reply to the Prime Minister's insult—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-04a.233.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-04", "file": "debates1978-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "c4592714c5b4567c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-04a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON MEMBER: \"What about Nicaragua?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If I look at the figures that I happen to have in front of me, I see that the position in Canada is much worse. I take it that that would be a major competitor. I see that the position in Italy is much worse. I take it that that would be a major competitor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-04a.235.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-04-04", "file": "debates1978-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "c4592714c5b4567c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-04a.235.3", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-04a.235.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-04", "file": "debates1978-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "c4592714c5b4567c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-04a.237.3", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — QUESTIONS TO THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "of an hour that the Prime Minister was answering Questions, the Leader of the Opposition took not just one, two or three questions, but on occasion went beyond that. I understand that at the time you assured the House that there was nothing that we could do about it, except to encourage the Members concerned to be circumspect about this matter. May I ask you, Mr. Chairman, that you go beyond that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-04a.237.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-04", "file": "debates1978-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "c4592714c5b4567c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-04a.250.3", "colnum": "250", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (BROADCASTING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. That does not quite answer my point. As far as I understand it, we are going out live for the hour of Questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-04a.250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-04", "file": "debates1978-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "c4592714c5b4567c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-04a.269.2", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis", "preceding_text": "I felt that the Serjeant at Arms should have gone on that task in his knickerbockers and with his sword as somebody representing the House of Commons in the twentieth century. The point I am making is that the whole basis of the Government's proposals is to try to devise a political structure that will cater for present-day conditions. Clearly the Government will not get the matter right first go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-04a.269.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-04", "file": "debates1978-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "c4592714c5b4567c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-04a.389.0", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend is playing with words, especially since he is a Treasury Minister speaking for a Department in which Ministers have been known not even to give evidence to a Select Committee, let alone debate things in the open. Fine words about the necessity for public debate do not come too well from a Treasury Minister, although I know my hon. Friend's commitment to openness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-04a.389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-05", "file": "debates1978-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "88c9dbae70b280e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-05a.440.0", "colnum": "440", "heading": "OIL AND GAS (LICENSING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "preceding_text": "ganise, will the Secretary of State take it that we have the gravest reservations about the rest of his statement? No mention was made of the fact that it flies in the face of all the assurances given by Ministers on the Second Reading of the Petroleum and Submarine Pipe-lines Bill that the British National Oil Corporation would not be given special privileges as a State oil company in this field.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-05a.440.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-05", "file": "debates1978-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "88c9dbae70b280e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-05a.446.0", "colnum": "446", "heading": "OIL AND GAS (LICENSING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree with me that Dr. Johnson had a fair point when he said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-05a.446.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-05", "file": "debates1978-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "88c9dbae70b280e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-05a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "OIL AND GAS (LICENSING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "preceding_text": "bour Government recognised that it was a Conservative Government who brought the oil on the continental shelf into firm British ownership under the Continental Shelf Act 1964? Does he not accept that a Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer had already announced in 1973 that a new taxation regime would be introduced, and that, as not a drop of oil was landed here until 1975, no revenue was lost?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-05a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-05", "file": "debates1978-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "88c9dbae70b280e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-05a.449.1", "colnum": "449", "heading": "OIL AND GAS (LICENSING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom King", "preceding_text": "British ownership under the Continental Shelf Act 1964? Does he not accept that a Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer had already announced in 1973 that a new taxation regime would be introduced, and that, as not a drop of oil was landed here until 1975, no revenue was lost? [ Interruption. ] Moreover, it was the rapid escalation of prices in 1973–74 which made the taxation imperative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-05a.449.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-05", "file": "debates1978-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "88c9dbae70b280e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-05a.450.3", "colnum": "450", "heading": "INVESTMENT INCOME SURCHARGE (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John MacGregor", "preceding_text": "se people is that this is not unearned income at all. What they are getting after the age of 65 is income out of savings earned out of a hard working life and out of taxed income during that working life. There is no wonder that there is so little incentive to save in certain directions today, especially after inflation is taken into account. No wonder that the children of so many of these people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-05a.450.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-05", "file": "debates1978-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "88c9dbae70b280e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-05a.463.8", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Francis Pym", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They would.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Pym", "preceding_text": "dy hopes and wishes, the system will work satisfactorily. Almost any system will operate satisfactorily on that basis. If the Assembly ever comes into existence, we all hope that it will be like that. Let us suppose, however, that that is not the case. No one would claim that the people of Wales are paragons of virtue. I do not think that anybody has claimed that, not even the Welshmen themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-05a.463.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-05", "file": "debates1978-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "88c9dbae70b280e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-05a.492.0", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "preceding_text": "It is, I think, common knowledge that the Minister of State, Treasury, is no enthusiast for devolution to Wales", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-05a.492.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-05", "file": "debates1978-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "88c9dbae70b280e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-05a.492.3", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBER: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "There is one aspect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-05a.492.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-05", "file": "debates1978-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "88c9dbae70b280e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-05a.581.1", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "considered the report of the working party and endorsed it. Further work is now in hand. We are expecting a second report in May or June. We are taking steps so that we can take a dummy run, as it were, using the new Welsh proposals alongside the present system. That will enable us to test the efficacy of the system. I think that I have sought to deal with most of the points that have been raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-05a.581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-06", "file": "debates1978-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2f57590074b0893a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-06a.619.2", "colnum": "619", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Does the Home Secretary agree that it is very important to deal with subversion before it arises as well as after it has arisen?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-06a.619.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-06", "file": "debates1978-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2f57590074b0893a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-06a.624.3", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not senior ones.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "There are 63 attendance centres in England and Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-06a.624.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-06", "file": "debates1978-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2f57590074b0893a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-06a.632.1", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady will be satisfied in due course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-06a.632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-06", "file": "debates1978-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2f57590074b0893a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-06a.632.3", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The issues on which the election will be fought in due course—indeed, it seems to me that in some ways it has already started—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-06a.632.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-06", "file": "debates1978-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2f57590074b0893a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-06a.797.4", "colnum": "797", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CO-OPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then sit down\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman wish to intervene? If he does not, I shall be grateful if he will agree to keep quiet. The Under-Secretary of State has chosen to introduce notes of controversy where none exists. As the Bill is drafted, there are few areas of controversy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-06a.797.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-07", "file": "debates1978-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "09bbd3747c2dc85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-07a.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "e politically well placed to see that it is difficult to change it. The majority of the members of the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party walked into the trap set and laid for them by the hon. Member for Sidcup (Mr. Heath). They signed the Treaty. The Liberals did not even see that they could ensure that the marketing boards were preserved. We have had to do that since the treaty was signed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-07a.879.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-04-07", "file": "debates1978-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "09bbd3747c2dc85c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-07a.924.3", "colnum": "924", "heading": "COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is absolute humbug.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "It is incredible cant for the hon. Member for Bradford, South to argue on the one hand for import controls for textiles and clothing and on the other to call for their abolition for food—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-07a.924.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-10", "file": "debates1978-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "a225e08ffe785ee4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-10a.961.1", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": "blow to the Government's industrial strategy on Friday by announcing 8,000 redundancies? Does he not also agree that it is entirely in character with this company, which has been promoting its financial situation, that over recent years it has found it possible to donate £5,000 a year to British United Industrialists, a rabid anti-Labour organisation? Does he not agree, further, that this company—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-10a.961.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-10", "file": "debates1978-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "a225e08ffe785ee4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-10a.977.1", "colnum": "977", "heading": "SPILLERS FRENCH (BAKERY CLOSURES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "restructuring. However, I must tell the hon. Gentleman that I myself, last August—and I repeated it at the turn of the year—knowing that there were difficulties of overcapacity and of dropping demand in this industry, asked the Bakers Federation whether it would wish the Government to assist it in any way, with advice or in any other way in restructuring. I am still waiting for a response to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-10a.977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-10", "file": "debates1978-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "a225e08ffe785ee4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-10a.994.2", "colnum": "994", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL (COPENHAGEN MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What was ours?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This would be an average growth rate to be aimed at. As the House will see from the figures I gave, it would mean a large increase, considering that the average growth rate in the Community was only 1·9 per cent. during last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-10a.994.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-10", "file": "debates1978-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "a225e08ffe785ee4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-10a.1010.4", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "NATIONAL ENTERPRISE BOARD (CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loyden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loyden", "preceding_text": "n my constituency which has been supported by the NEB which has been given the task of creating employment opportunities in the area? Is my right hon. Friend aware, further, that it is my firm opinion that the Government's decision to back the Edwardes plan has triggered off a number of decisions by major companies to close factories or to declare redundancies resulting in the loss of 15,000 jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-10a.1010.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-10", "file": "debates1978-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "a225e08ffe785ee4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-10a.1011.2", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "NATIONAL ENTERPRISE BOARD (CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": " we cannot do that by means of drip feeding. I have made it plain already that what we practised two years ago was incorrect. I do not think that it helped one little bit. A vote against this much-needed investment would be a vote against our one nationally owned major vehicle assembler and it would be interpreted in some quarters as a vote of no confidence in this country's largest export earner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-10a.1011.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-04-10", "file": "debates1978-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "a225e08ffe785ee4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-10a.1012.3", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "NATIONAL ENTERPRISE BOARD (CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "preceding_text": "Mr. Miller rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-10a.1012.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-10", "file": "debates1978-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "a225e08ffe785ee4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-10a.1014.0", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "NATIONAL ENTERPRISE BOARD (CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "We have enough difficult questions to deal with without attempting to answer hypothetical ones. I shall try to deal with each of the questions in turn. But the first crucial matter to make clear is that the Secretary of State has fallen below even his standards in his presentation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-10a.1014.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-10", "file": "debates1978-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "a225e08ffe785ee4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-10a.1020.1", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "NATIONAL ENTERPRISE BOARD (CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "I think that Mr. Michael Edwardes would well understand our anxiety. He has to face putting right a tangled inheritance from years past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-10a.1020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-10", "file": "debates1978-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "a225e08ffe785ee4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-10a.1111.0", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "NATIONAL ENTERPRISE BOARD (CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman know that he is, as usual, talking absolute and utter rubbish?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-10a.1111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-10", "file": "debates1978-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "a225e08ffe785ee4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-10a.1111.1", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "NATIONAL ENTERPRISE BOARD (CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Will it be printed?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "That is the sort of reaction from the hon. Gentleman which is entirely predictable. If he had heard his hon. Friend the Member for Garston, he would have better understood what I meant. Perhaps he will read his hon. Friend's speech tomorrow morning and see exactly why I made those remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-10a.1111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-10", "file": "debates1978-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "a225e08ffe785ee4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-10a.1114.1", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "NATIONAL ENTERPRISE BOARD (CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Industry (Mr. Gerald Kaufman)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Industry (Mr. Gerald Kaufman)", "preceding_text": "uncement of the company's failure and the Government's intentions, all made on the same day. As for information, the House was provided with none. We had to make do with an oral statement, and on that flimsy basis Parliament nationalised Rolls-Royce in 17 hours flat. We had a chorus from the Opposition today, with one refrain: if money is needed for Leyland, sell off its Special Products division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-10a.1114.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-04-11", "file": "debates1978-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0d50bfd481f4800c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-11a.1158.4", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We cannot hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moyle", "preceding_text": "I agree that there is considerable room for improvement in services for the mentally ill and handicapped in these areas. I assure my hon. Friend that I am in constant and regular touch with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-11a.1158.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-04-11", "file": "debates1978-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0d50bfd481f4800c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-11a.1167.8", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Turn round. We cannot hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moyle", "preceding_text": "The Health Services Board, under the Health Services Act 1976, subsequently consolidated, has the duty of deciding on these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-11a.1167.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-11", "file": "debates1978-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0d50bfd481f4800c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-11a.1180.6", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. You have often pointed out that we have discussed the difficulties in which Back-Bench Members are placed because of the limited nature of Questions put to the Prime Minister. In seeking to put the question that I put, I had two objectives: one, to draw attention to the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-11a.1180.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-11", "file": "debates1978-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0d50bfd481f4800c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-11a.1180.8", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO THE PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": "—to draw attention to the courageous speech made by the hon. Member for Worthing (Mr. Higgins)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-11a.1180.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-11", "file": "debates1978-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0d50bfd481f4800c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-11a.1209.2", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "preceding_text": "rgon and a good deal simpler. However, I am bound to say that I did not notice it. This is, of course, the Chancellor's thirteenth Budget. The style has changed a great deal, and I think that the House has benefited from the change in style and from its being shorter. With regard to my comment on the Budget, perhaps it is known in this House but not outside that this has to be wholly off the cuff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-11a.1209.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-11", "file": "debates1978-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0d50bfd481f4800c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-11a.1209.5", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"VAT.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "er-term effect, which is not immediately seen, can be very damaging. But that effect ought to be foreseen. May I deal first with what is seen with some of the tax cuts that he has mentioned? First, I take small businesses. Will the right hon. Gentleman please remember that it was his Government who successively damaged small businesses with capital transfer tax and then with one tax after another—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-11a.1209.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-11", "file": "debates1978-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0d50bfd481f4800c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-11a.1209.5", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "ed tax liability goes the better it will be. I think that the right hon. Gentleman's main tax changes will very soon disappear without being noticed. He has announced changes on personal income tax to the tune of about £2,150 million. Last year, he announced changes on personal income tax to the tune of about £2,250 million, and they very soon disappeared without trace, in that they were absorbed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-11a.1209.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-11", "file": "debates1978-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0d50bfd481f4800c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-11a.1209.5", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Off the cuff.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "tune of about £2,150 million. Last year, he announced changes on personal income tax to the tune of about £2,250 million, and they very soon disappeared without trace, in that they were absorbed—[ Interruption. ] I am reading from the right hon. Gentleman's broadcast last year, in which he said that it would cost a lot of money to do all that he proposed. He said that it would cost £2,250 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-11a.1209.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-11", "file": "debates1978-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0d50bfd481f4800c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-11a.1209.5", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Some cuff.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "ges on personal income tax to the tune of about £2,250 million, and they very soon disappeared without trace, in that they were absorbed—[ Interruption. ] I am reading from the right hon. Gentleman's broadcast last year, in which he said that it would cost a lot of money to do all that he proposed. He said that it would cost £2,250 million—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Off the cuff.\"] Of course, I armed myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-11a.1209.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-11", "file": "debates1978-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0d50bfd481f4800c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-11a.1209.5", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "cting more, provided that he could make room for them in the public expenditure side of his Budget. I notice that he has brought back again the reduced rate band, one of his predecessors having abolished it. The reason why it was abolished, of course, was that it was very complicated administratively. One of the effects of bringing it back is that we could never, in fact, have a tax credit system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-11a.1209.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-11", "file": "debates1978-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "0d50bfd481f4800c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-11a.1212.1", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "urope before the Labour Party could get school milk back for the 7 to 11 age group. I notice, secondly, that he announced with a very great flourish an increase in expenditure on school building of £40 million. That would be the equivalent of about £20 million in my time. It is about the smallest increase that I have ever heard of in relation to school building. It was almost not worth announcing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-11a.1212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-12", "file": "debates1978-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "dd2cecab9e426423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-12a.1381.8", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Armstrong", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Armstrong", "preceding_text": "Yes, indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-12a.1381.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-12", "file": "debates1978-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "dd2cecab9e426423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-12a.1427.0", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "is his policy. It is as foolish to imagine that the Good Samaritan could answer the terrifying social and financial problems of a modern State as to argue that income tax cuts are the simple answer to our poor industrial performance. To accept that kind of argument—and it is the only argument that has ever been pursued from the Opposition Front Bench; I have never heard another argument from them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-12a.1427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-12", "file": "debates1978-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "dd2cecab9e426423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-12a.1427.0", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is it now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "s rubbish, because it ignores the facts completely. In the 1950s, prosperity in Britain was certainly growing, but the growth was near the bottom of the international league and was the lowest in Western Europe. Between 1950 and 1962, our national wealth grew about 2·3 per cent. a year. In the United States, the growth was 3·3 per cent., and in Western Germany it was over 7 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-12a.1427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-12", "file": "debates1978-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "dd2cecab9e426423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-12a.1427.0", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "about 2·3 per cent. a year. In the United States, the growth was 3·3 per cent., and in Western Germany it was over 7 per cent. [An HON. MEMBER: \"What is it now?\"] Of course, it is very much lower in Western Germany, in the United States and in the whole of the OECD. What is more, they did not start from the kind of situation from which the present Government started in February 1974.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-12a.1427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-12", "file": "debates1978-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "dd2cecab9e426423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-12a.1428.1", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "No, I do not think so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-12a.1428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-12", "file": "debates1978-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "dd2cecab9e426423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-12a.1428.1", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "No, I do not think so. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"] I shall finish this point and then give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-12a.1428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-12", "file": "debates1978-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "dd2cecab9e426423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-12a.1429.0", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "Actually we are not producing less than we were four years ago, as the hon. Gentleman will see if he cares to look at the figures. If he cares to look at the growth of output over the last four years, he will see that most other countries have done very badly as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-12a.1429.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-12", "file": "debates1978-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "dd2cecab9e426423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-12a.1429.2", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "t the same time create more jobs, or at least prevent the loss of existing jobs, there are very severe limits to what can be achieved against a background of slow growth in world trade. However, as the Chancellor said yesterday, the Budget measures make our contribution to world expansion. I am certainly hopeful that the further summit meeting in July will make it possible to do more, but for now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-12a.1429.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-12", "file": "debates1978-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "dd2cecab9e426423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-12a.1429.2", "colnum": "1429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "e have done too much, getting the balance wrong, both within what we felt able to do on taxation and between taxation and public expenditure. I want to deal with this criticism, but, before I do, it will not surprise the House if I start with a conclusion—namely, that with the criticism so diverse and wide-ranging, most reasonable observers will conclude that the Chancellor has got it about right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-12a.1429.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-12", "file": "debates1978-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "dd2cecab9e426423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-12a.1436.3", "colnum": "1436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "That is very interesting. The right hon. and learned Gentleman is trying to get out of what he said earlier. All he is doing now is to talk in generalities, without telling us where he would cut.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-12a.1436.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-12", "file": "debates1978-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "dd2cecab9e426423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-12a.1441.1", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel ()", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel ()", "preceding_text": "ho has explained why he has had to leave the Chamber. I make no complaint about that. He had quite a lot of fun at the expense of the Liberal Party. I make no complaint about that. He was described by one distinguished political commentator as \"Mogadon man\"—guaranteed to put everyone to sleep. I thought that was rather unfair because I counted only three Conservative Members asleep this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-12a.1441.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-04-12", "file": "debates1978-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "dd2cecab9e426423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-12a.1447.1", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The hon. Member will not be there.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member should join us on that Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-12a.1447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-12", "file": "debates1978-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "dd2cecab9e426423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-12a.1491.1", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Crawford ()", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Crawford ()", "preceding_text": "o see the start of some kind of different economic strategy in Scotland. The fact that the rather restrictive pay policy operating in England is not to be extended to Scotland is a welcome step in the right direction. The Government and the Liberal Party have made their proposals, but we still do not know what are the Conservative Party's proposals. Let me read into the record the SNP's proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-12a.1491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-12", "file": "debates1978-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "dd2cecab9e426423", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-12a.1530.1", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Robert Sheldon)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Robert Sheldon)", "preceding_text": "Wallasey (Mrs. Chalker) replied to the statement made by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Services. We understand all these matters, but the nearest we have had to a definition came in yesterday's reply by the Leader of the Opposition. Referring to the reduced rate band, she said One of the effects of bringing it back is that we could never, in fact, have a tax credit system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-12a.1530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-13", "file": "debates1978-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "8e6a0cf7dd42955d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-13a.1661.1", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the Leader of the Opposition for putting it in that direct way. I thought I had already said that. I know of no intention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-13a.1661.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-13", "file": "debates1978-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "8e6a0cf7dd42955d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-13a.1663.0", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have already received—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-13a.1663.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-13", "file": "debates1978-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "8e6a0cf7dd42955d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-13a.1667.1", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I agree with what the right hon. Gentleman says. He and my right hon. Friend the Member for Anglesey (Mr. Hughes) have made representations. Indeed, hon. Members from all parts of the House have also made representations on this subject. I hope that when the legislation is brought forward, it will command general assent", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-13a.1667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-13", "file": "debates1978-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "8e6a0cf7dd42955d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-13a.1675.2", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that he said that one of his primary responsibilities is to ensure the supply of papers to the House? Does he agree that he is failing in one of his primary responsibilities?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-13a.1675.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-13", "file": "debates1978-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "8e6a0cf7dd42955d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-13a.1677.1", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "lad that he has recovered his voice at last. As for saying that it is a national disgrace that I have not provided Government time to debate a matter about which the Opposition asked only last week, such an absurdity cannot possibly be sustained. If the Opposition thought that it was such a national disgrace that we have not yet had a debate on Rhodesia, they could choose to have it next Thursday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-13a.1677.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-13", "file": "debates1978-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "8e6a0cf7dd42955d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-13a.1692.1", "colnum": "1692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "It is a great pleasure for me to be following the speech of the right hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State. I do not believe that we have been engaged in public debate in such close proximity since the bright June of 1970. Indeed, I seem to catch an echo of the public platform, rather than the debating chamber, in his speech today. It was uncharacteristically bombastic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-13a.1692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-13", "file": "debates1978-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "8e6a0cf7dd42955d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-13a.1693.1", "colnum": "1693", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": ", totally overlooking the great measure introduced by my right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, North-East (Sir K. Joseph), which put a rather different complexion on the problem which the right hon. Gentleman sketched in such a superficial and partisan way. I shall not get drawn further into that. That is something we can debate from public platforms. It is not a serious matter for debate today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-13a.1693.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-13", "file": "debates1978-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "8e6a0cf7dd42955d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-13a.1725.1", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Wainwright", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Wainwright", "preceding_text": "t also all small business can expect to have some shelter from a fiscal system that is almost entirely designed to deal with large business organisations. During the 25 years that I was a partner in a very mixed accountancy practice in the North of England, I got fed to the teeth with explaining to clients from small and medium-size businesses, whose eyes became increasingly glazed as I droned on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-13a.1725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-13", "file": "debates1978-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "8e6a0cf7dd42955d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-13a.1725.1", "colnum": "1725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Wainwright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not Jack Jones.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Wainwright", "preceding_text": " repeat, in my experience a lot of this fear is \"phoney\". It is blown up to sustain this trade in devices for trying to defeat the Revenue and so on. But there is no doubt that it exists. All too often in the industrial area where I live and which I represent people say to me and to others \"There is no chance now of building up a business in the way that Jack Jones or John Smith did 20 years ago.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-13a.1725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-17", "file": "debates1978-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "4eb0ad4c173ae01d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-17a.5.0", "colnum": "5", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "The price of flour and the general operation of milling in this country justify some sort of investigation, but whether this is the right moment for it is a different matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-17a.5.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-17", "file": "debates1978-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "4eb0ad4c173ae01d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-17a.9.3", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "I understand that the City is concerned because it thinks that the Budget was far too generous and there has been a crisis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-17a.9.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-17", "file": "debates1978-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "4eb0ad4c173ae01d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-17a.17.0", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Two.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend continue the good work he has been doing in spite of the carping criticism from the Tory Party? But will he take note that the public are afraid of big business? The milling and bread-making business has now gone into three big firms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-17a.17.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-17", "file": "debates1978-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "4eb0ad4c173ae01d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-17a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "like some sort of talisman when the appropriate time comes. Thus, in addition to the measures themselves, the Budget Statement contained the ritual obeisance from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He declared: The country owes a lasting debt to our trade union movement for its invaluable contribution\"—[ Official Report, 11th April 1978; Vol. 947, c. 1189–1203]. to the reduction of inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-17a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-17", "file": "debates1978-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "4eb0ad4c173ae01d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-17a.144.1", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Nott", "preceding_text": " Exchequer interrupted my hon. Friend the Member for Blaby (Mr. Lawson) to ask what we, the Conservatives, thought the borrowing requirement should be, I felt that it was a revealing interruption. He was seeking some ammunition for his knockabout wind-up in which he will add up all our increases in expenditure and consider the borrowing requirement. That has nothing whatever to do with the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-17a.144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-18", "file": "debates1978-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "181eda2dc5ef0454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-18a.253.4", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman need have no fears. As soon as I saw this report on the tape at 1 o'clock, I asked that inquiries should be made. I did not have the replies by the time I came here at 2.30. I shall have the reply and we shall be able to check and see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-18a.253.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-18", "file": "debates1978-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "181eda2dc5ef0454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-18a.256.6", "colnum": "256", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS, (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. We really ought to have protection from statements made that the leaflet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-18a.256.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-04-18", "file": "debates1978-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "181eda2dc5ef0454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-18a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "QUESTIONS TO MINISTERS, (MR. SPEAKER'S RULING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "r to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. It may be that Opposition Members regard the matter as a bore, but the hon. Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Griffiths) made the statement that the leaflet was an incitement to public disorder. As you yourself said, Mr. Speaker, you have not seen the leaflet. In my view, 99·9 per cent. of Members of this House have not seen the leaflet. I have seen it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-18a.257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-18", "file": "debates1978-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "181eda2dc5ef0454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-18a.260.0", "colnum": "260", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"IS the right hon. Gentleman on the Marxist side or the other side?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorpe", "preceding_text": "both of the Patriotic Front and of the Salisbury internal settlement have urged on each in turn the necessity for a genuine attempt to bring both sides together? Is he aware that if he were to give unqualified support, as the right hon. Member for Knutsford (Mr. Davies) has suggested, to one side to the exclusion of the other, it would completely defeat any prospect of getting both sides together?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-18a.260.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-18", "file": "debates1978-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "181eda2dc5ef0454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-18a.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Clause 61", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "We are back to an old familiar point. In any event I do not accept that \"modify\" means \"extend\" or, at least, \"extend significantly\". As it stands the Bill says that a Minister may by order modify or exclude any of the provisions of the Act. The Opposition repeatedly argue that if the Welsh Assembly asks the Minister so to do the Minister will inevitably and inexorably do it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-18a.304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-18", "file": "debates1978-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "181eda2dc5ef0454", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-18a.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Sir Myer. In view of the fact that it would be absolutely ludicrous for a 40 per cent. position to exist in the Scotland Bill and not in the Wales Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-18a.280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-20", "file": "debates1978-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "f423601017a51ae8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-20a.665.2", "colnum": "665", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister is ducking the main question. He will not get sufficient people training for extra skills until the differentials are restored. Is he aware that skillcentres have vacancies for those who wish to take up engineering skills—vacancies that are not being filled by our workers are going instead to foreigners?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-20a.665.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-20", "file": "debates1978-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "f423601017a51ae8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-20a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "t no one can deny, and I do not deny, that reorganisation has not fulfilled the hopes of its progenitors. My right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, North-East (Sir K. Joseph) said last Saturday that the NHS reorganisation had been in part patchy, in part awful, in part not bad and in part curable\". It has proved over-bureaucratic, but reorganisation is not responsible for much of the bureaucracy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-20a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-20", "file": "debates1978-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "f423601017a51ae8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-20a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "preceding_text": " jobs, and teacher training colleges are being closed down. That is the sort of thing that is happening in the social services in the brave new world that we say we live in. Our social provision in Britain is being curtailed. Where is the money to come from in my South East Thames Region? It is to come from London. London is thought to be too well provided for. Many hon. Members will dispute that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-20a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-20", "file": "debates1978-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "f423601017a51ae8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-20a.792.2", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gerard Vaughan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gerard Vaughan", "preceding_text": "onsultants that he had worked all his life to get where he was and, now that he was there, he did not think that it was worth it. I recently asked another surgeon why he was looking so fed up and he said that he no longer enjoyed working within the National Health Service. One nurse in a roomful of nurses said that she was no longer so proud, when asked what she did, to reply that she was a nurse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-20a.792.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-20", "file": "debates1978-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "f423601017a51ae8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-20a.806.3", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moyle", "preceding_text": "That is a feeble excuse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-20a.806.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-20", "file": "debates1978-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "f423601017a51ae8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-20a.806.3", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moyle", "preceding_text": "ernment which introduced the Health Service reorganisation, and he was. After the Health Service reorganisation went through, he joined that Government so he could not have found much that was objectionable in the reorganised Service. There have been more blinding lights on the Opposition Benches than Paul ever saw on the road to Tarsus on this question of the reorganisation of the Health Service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-20a.806.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-20", "file": "debates1978-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "f423601017a51ae8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-20a.806.7", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moyle", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Get on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moyle", "preceding_text": " has a very bad Press. Anyone would think that he was a single-handed party on his own, but the fact is that he was just one member of a Government that included the right hon. Member for Wanstead and Woodford. He cannot get out of it on any ground on which the hon. Member for Aylesbury got out of it. The right hon. Member voted for every hook, line and sinker, dot and comma of the reorganisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-20a.806.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-21", "file": "debates1978-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "1dc0a47f31aff192", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-21a.937.1", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Secretary of State.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "saying that Bridlington should be superior to the law. As we have seen in this case—there are many others, but this is the one that I know best because it affects my constituents—the rules were clearly bent and, because there is no appeal, nothing can be done about it. The question of no appeal is relevant here. I am glad that the Minister of State—I think that he is the Minister of State—is here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-21a.937.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-24", "file": "debates1978-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "db4ce35ddc6998e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-24a.975.5", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Braine", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister confirm, however, that if one includes invisibles, the New Zealand trade is of very great importance to the British economy and that any attempt to diminish New Zealand's exports of lamb to this country would not only be bad for consumers here but would limit New Zealand's capacity to go on importing British goods?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-24a.975.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-27", "file": "debates1978-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "243ed31e329ee9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-27a.1615.8", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "While welcoming the details of the tax cuts for the lower-paid and the free school milk, and so on, and while knowing that there would be twice the level of unemployment if the Tories were in power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-27a.1615.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-27", "file": "debates1978-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "243ed31e329ee9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-27a.1664.1", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "\"using the tax system\", as the Chief Secretary did. But what is this to mean if they are doing no more than relying upon the law of the land as it is enacted on the statute book and as it is, in some of these cases, still being tested through the courts? When the Chief Secretary—as I imagine he did and, indeed, he confessed as much; the confessions of a previously practising tax avoidance adviser—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-27a.1664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-27", "file": "debates1978-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "243ed31e329ee9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-27a.1752.0", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "or any major political party in this country to combine with another party in order to muck around with the Government's Budget strategy. I shall listen with interest for the answers to the questions. There is another reason why there is less cause this year to muck around with the Government's Budget figures. I emphasise that I have no intention of trying to change any figures in the Finance Bill", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-27a.1752.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-27", "file": "debates1978-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "243ed31e329ee9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-27a.1787.1", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "se long-deferred amendments, many of which have received a passing benevolent glance from him in previous years. Our pretext for proposing these amendments to cut the basic rate and investment income surcharge at the higher rates are very simple and clear. We take our theme from the Chancellor of the Exchequer himself, who said that this was to be an incentive Budget and not a Budget of sacrifice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-27a.1787.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-04-27", "file": "debates1978-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "243ed31e329ee9d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-27a.1787.1", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "fford to live in this country is one who can live entirely on substantial amounts of capital, because, after the crushing burden of direct taxation, he probably cannot live on his income. This was a very engaging slip of the right hon. Gentleman, and I have no doubt that we shall be able to explore it on other occasions. In many ways, this is a disappointing Budget and a disappointing Finance Bill", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-04-27a.1787.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-02", "file": "debates1978-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "790ef35b0b2c4442", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-02a.20.1", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " wonder whether the hon. Gentleman listens, because we have been having this dialogue over many months now and I have repeatedly pointed out to him that these are matters on which it would be quite inappropriate for the Government to interfere. I have said repeatedly that we would hope that where union membership agreements were entered into they would be handled in a flexible and tolerant manner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-02a.20.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-02", "file": "debates1978-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "790ef35b0b2c4442", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-02a.25.4", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "As the Prime Minister betrayed the Armed Forces of the Crown in his statement last week about their pay settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-02a.25.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-02", "file": "debates1978-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "790ef35b0b2c4442", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-02a.29.3", "colnum": "29", "heading": "CHIEF OF DEFENCE STAFF (SPEECH)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say 'potential'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Frederic Bennett", "preceding_text": "Was Sir Neil Cameron incorrect in referring to the Soviet Union as the only potential enemy which our forces in Europe are facing at present?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-02a.29.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-03", "file": "debates1978-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "9649f6bd60fb4588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-03a.236.2", "colnum": "236", "heading": "TRADES UNIONS (FREEDOM OF POLITICAL ASSOCIATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "preceding_text": "n\". None of those things is in my Bill. It relates instead to three specific events which have caused me concern. The first is the case of the National Union of Railwaymen and the National Front. I believe that the National Front is an obnoxious organisation, but so long as it is legal, it is legal. The attempt to expel members from the NUR for their active support of the National Front is as bad—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-03a.236.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-05-03", "file": "debates1978-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "9649f6bd60fb4588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-03a.242.2", "colnum": "242", "heading": "TRADES UNIONS (FREEDOM OF POLITICAL ASSOCIATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Litterick", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-03a.242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-03", "file": "debates1978-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "9649f6bd60fb4588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-03a.247.0", "colnum": "247", "heading": "TRADES UNIONS (FREEDOM OF POLITICAL ASSOCIATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, he did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Can you help the House a little further with regard to the ruling which you gave just before the Division? If my memory serves me right, my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Mr. Litterick) did not call the hon. Member for Christchurch and Lymington (Mr. Adley) \"ignorant bigot\". He said that the Bill was based on ignorance and bigotry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-03a.247.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-03", "file": "debates1978-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "9649f6bd60fb4588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-03a.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "lution is implemented. I understood that the Conservatives had at least confirmed, if not revealed, that policy in the debates in Committee. Without sensible commencement provisions, the holding of a referendum before the implementation of this legislation would not be possible. The Government have tabled New Clause No. 1 to repair the damage that was inflicted, perhaps accidentally, in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-03a.255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-03", "file": "debates1978-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "9649f6bd60fb4588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-03a.335.0", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roderick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Parliament\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roderick", "preceding_text": "Does not my hon. Friend acknowledge that every conceivable kind of body puts pressure upon us for more powers? It would not be simply Assemblies that would do so. Councils do it. Pressure groups of all kinds are formed to get more powers, but they are allowed more powers only with the authority of the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-03a.335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-03", "file": "debates1978-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "9649f6bd60fb4588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-03a.386.1", "colnum": "386", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "ituation will exist in the Welsh Assembly. Before time runs out, I want to deal with the complex points raised by my hon. Friend the Member for West Lothian (Mr. Dalyell) and the right hon. and learned Member for Huntingdonshire with regard to the Law Lords. None of the arguments apply in Wales. The powers to be exercised by the Assembly are set out in the Bill, and there can be little or no room—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-03a.386.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-04", "file": "debates1978-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "62a75a98b730a0ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-04a.426.3", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "—that have to have police protection. The question of police protection arises at meetings for people putting forward mainstream political views. To attempt to work out cost on the basis of the views put forward by candidates would be the wrong approach. It is rather like football matches. Some people say that the football clubs should pay for the number of police that are outside the ground.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-04a.426.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-04", "file": "debates1978-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "62a75a98b730a0ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-04a.442.0", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "In the time that the Prime Minister saves by not visiting Rhodesia, may I ask him to consider the idea of using some now disused open prisons, as weekend prisons for adult offenders—a matter about which I wrote to the Home Secretary?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-04a.442.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-05-04", "file": "debates1978-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "62a75a98b730a0ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-04a.445.6", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "Why is the right hon. Gentleman incapable of giving a straight answer to a straight question on political parties in this country? Will he condemn Marxism wherever it occurs in his party? I condemn it everywhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-04a.445.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-04", "file": "debates1978-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "62a75a98b730a0ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-04a.445.9", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So was China.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That is a long way from Streatham.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-04a.445.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-04", "file": "debates1978-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "62a75a98b730a0ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-04a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "e to holding free elections. The UANC has also pointed out that moves have not yet been made to end racial discrimination and that—and I quote— If it is expected that the guerrillas should respond to the call for a ceasefire, it must be shown, tangibly, that if they returned home they would not suffer the same racial humiliation and disabilities under which they lived before they took to the bush.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-04a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-04", "file": "debates1978-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "62a75a98b730a0ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-04a.472.8", "colnum": "472", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "tors in a country which has never had an election on that scale. Why should it not be possible right now, whatever the outcome, to move towards assisting in the formation of that register and all the complex arrangements which go into the creation of an election? Does the Foreign Secretary feel that he can respond to my appeal in this respect? It seems so self-evident that that is the thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-04a.472.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-04", "file": "debates1978-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "62a75a98b730a0ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-04a.559.1", "colnum": "559", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Rifkind", "preceding_text": " a guarantee of unimpeded progress towards majority rule on the basis of the 1961 constitution, is clearly to be found within the internal agreement. Again, the fact that there have been no retrogressive amendments of the 1961 constitution is clearly not something that one would question as not being conceded. There have been dramatic improvements in the political status of the African population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-04a.559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-04", "file": "debates1978-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "62a75a98b730a0ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-04a.585.0", "colnum": "585", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Abducted\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "ision between the words \"internal\" and \"external\" as if external meant foreigners. The factor which should matter to us most is that large numbers of young Rhodesians and young Zimbabweans are not foreigners. They are not Cubans. They are not any external force. They may have come under influences—Marxist or otherwise—but they are first and foremost Zimbabweans who are outside the political system", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-04a.585.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-05-08", "file": "debates1978-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "a03c442123ae2beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-08a.791.2", "colnum": "791", "heading": "PERSONAL STATEMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "ge in exchanges which are more often candid and colourful rather than precise and parliamentary. But my importation of such phraseology into the Chamber was inexcusable. Unfortunately, I cannot expunge the offensive words, but I have already written to the right hon. Member for Knutsford apologising to him, and now I wish to extend my apology to you, Sir, and to the House for my regrettable lapse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-08a.791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-08", "file": "debates1978-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "a03c442123ae2beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-08a.807.2", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "for the National Enterprise Board. In the first place, this is not an increased authorisation for the current year. It is an increase in the statutory limit for all the Board's funds for the foreseeable future. But if we withheld from the NEB this year any money beyond the £700 million statutory limit which existed before April, we would bring the NEB's activity to a complete halt later this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-08a.807.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-08", "file": "debates1978-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "a03c442123ae2beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-08a.807.2", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ted before April, we would bring the NEB's activity to a complete halt later this year. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I am glad to hear the Opposition cheering that remark. Now let me spell out what that would mean. We would have to deny British Leyland any funds beyond the £450 million that we authorised recently and risk throwing 100,000 people out of work. I hope the Opposition will cheer that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-08a.807.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-08", "file": "debates1978-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "a03c442123ae2beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-08a.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "e effect on employment of an increase of 1½ per cent. would be absolutely marginal. It is impossible to estimate exactly what it would be, but we are, after all, dealing with employers who, but for the Government's guidelines, would almost certainly be increasing the earnings of their work force by about 20 per cent. to 25 per cent. instead of something between 12 per cent. and 14 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-08a.835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-08", "file": "debates1978-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "a03c442123ae2beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-08a.839.2", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "e a great deal of difference to those people in the way they do their work because what is wrong with the situation is the miserable rates of pay that they get compared, for example, with the smart-alec accountants in industry, the marketing people, the legal people and others who are way above those at the productive end of industry. That is where the trouble lies. Industry will not pay properly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-08a.839.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-08", "file": "debates1978-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "a03c442123ae2beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-08a.853.2", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crawford", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crawford", "preceding_text": "em in particular. It may be easy to be in favour of these in the abstract but not in the actual. Over the last two or three weeks, the Chancellor has been saying that a reduction of 1p in the standard rate would not wreck the Budget strategy whereas a 2p reduction would. Surely it would be in the interests of the Conservative Party, if it is seriously concerned about bringing down this Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-08a.853.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-08", "file": "debates1978-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "a03c442123ae2beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-08a.901.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paul Hawkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paul Hawkins", "preceding_text": "s Budget does nothing to equalise the capital taxation on land between land owned by owner-occupiers and land owned by pension funds and the like. If we do not look out, more and more land will be owned by pension funds and trustees and the owner-occupier will be squeezed out and the family farm will disappear. For these reasons, I am delighted to have the opportunity of voting against the Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-08a.901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-08", "file": "debates1978-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "a03c442123ae2beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-08a.906.1", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I thought that the right hon. Gentleman would have come up with a better intervention than that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-08a.906.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-05-08", "file": "debates1978-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "a03c442123ae2beb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-08a.922.0", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer, answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Murton. This is the first Government ever to be defeated on the crucial question of the basic rate of income tax. Since a Government to whom the House has denied Supply in this way can never recover their authority to govern, ought they not, in honour, give the people a chance to elect a new Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-08a.921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-09", "file": "debates1978-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "d4031b898563ca94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-09a.971.7", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OPPOSITION LEADERS AND WHIPS (SALARY)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "That schedule fixes the annual salary of the Leader of the Opposition at £9,500.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-09a.971.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-09", "file": "debates1978-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "d4031b898563ca94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-09a.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Clause 12.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that one can expect that following such a review and reorganisation of local government as is laid down in Clause 13—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-09a.998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-09", "file": "debates1978-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "d4031b898563ca94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-09a.1026.1", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"None.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Minister of State for that intervention. I am not sure what parliamentary process is involved in Clause 60.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-09a.1026.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-09", "file": "debates1978-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "d4031b898563ca94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-09a.1041.1", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Padley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Padley", "preceding_text": "Minister at the same time. But, because the stronghold of the Liberal Party in those days was in Wales, his good fortune offended the Nonconformist conscience and he was obliged to go down to Cardiff in 1895 and promise the Welsh people a Welsh Parliament. My hon. Friend the Member for Wrexham (Mr. Ellis) is not with us, but there was a man called Tom Ellis who was Chief Whip of the Liberal Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-09a.1041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-09", "file": "debates1978-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "d4031b898563ca94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-09a.1053.1", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ioan Evans", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He will campaign in Aberdare too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ioan Evans", "preceding_text": "n (Mr. Howells) is not here to explain why he took that line in Committee. No doubt when the referendum campaign gets under way, the hon. and learned Member for Montgomery will be campaigning and explaining to the people of Montgomery—and no doubt he will carry the Liberal banner to other parts of Wales—why he tried to deny the Welsh people the opportunity to determine whether they want this Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-09a.1053.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-09", "file": "debates1978-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "d4031b898563ca94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-09a.1084.1", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "lk only briefly about the referendum. The proposition has been advanced, especially by the nationalists and to a lesser extent by my right hon. and hon. Friends, that the referendum will be unfair because of the ignorance or lack of understanding of the people of Wales. What is more, they have said repeatedly that the resources of the bosses will be put on the side of the anti-devolution argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-09a.1084.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-10", "file": "debates1978-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5b251f322ed02bf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-10a.1191.1", "colnum": "1191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "The answer that was given to my hon. Friend the Member for Blaby dealt with each of these points step by step. This amendment, as it stands, operates only to raise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-10a.1191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-10", "file": "debates1978-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5b251f322ed02bf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-10a.1192.4", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much do you earn?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. and learned Gentleman cannot answer those difficult questions, can he answer a very simple one? It may well be that I would want to support him in the Lobby. Therefore, can he tell me the answer to the question posed by my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol, North-West (Mr. Thomas)? How much is he asking me to help to give, as a tax handout, to a gentleman earning £25,000 a year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-10a.1192.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-10", "file": "debates1978-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5b251f322ed02bf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-10a.1200.1", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Roy Jenkins.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "Indeed. The hon. Gentleman quotes Torn Jones and Humperdinck. But let him harken to the roll call of people whose names are well known who have left this country because of high marginal tax rates: Tom Jones, David Bowie, James Hunt, Jackie Stewart, Sean Connery, Richard Burton, Marty Feldman, Len Deighton, Joe Bugner, the Rolling Stones, Englebert Humperdinek—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-10a.1200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-10", "file": "debates1978-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5b251f322ed02bf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-10a.1221.0", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Incentives.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "ing of this year, why did he say We must lead the market instead of following it. This task, as always, will be primarily the task of alert and energetic entrepreneurs\"? Why does he believe that those alert and energetic entrepreneurs will be able to do the job? Why are they not undertaking it? Is it not something to do with our taxation system? The tax system stops such people from taking action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-10a.1221.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-10", "file": "debates1978-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5b251f322ed02bf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-10a.1230.1", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "ome Opposition Members, including the right hon. Member for Down, South (Mr. Powell)—is that most of us in politics gain our satisfaction from the job we do rather than from the wealth or money we make. But outside this House, the people who have the job of running industry and taking the responsibility for it, have to get their satisfaction from making money, from the financial rewards of the job", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-10a.1230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-10", "file": "debates1978-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5b251f322ed02bf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-10a.1260.1", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mendelson", "preceding_text": "of their industries, the technology involved, building up their businesses or—if they belong to a publicly-owned industry—their responsibility to the nation and their industry as they are with their immediate monetary income. To say anything else is complete nonsense. To build a taxation system on such a travesty of the truth is bound to lead to disaster. 7.15 p.m. But away from all this nonsense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-10a.1260.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-10", "file": "debates1978-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5b251f322ed02bf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-10a.1318.1", "colnum": "1318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "h I consider the line should be drawn is different from the Opposition's view. But what the Opposition have not argued is whether there should be a distinction at all. I have said that we have exempted from investment income surcharge the vast majority of people on small incomes. I concede that I would draw the line at a lower investment figure and a lower capital figure than would the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-10a.1318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-10", "file": "debates1978-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5b251f322ed02bf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-10a.1323.0", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": " give away another £100 million. But he knows that he has been virtually guaranteed, in so far as it is within the power of anyone in the Committee to guarantee anything, the votes of the Liberal Party for the introduction of a wealth tax. The Liberal Party has not stopped the Government from introducing a wealth tax. I have begged the right hon. Gentleman on bended knee to introduce a wealth tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-10a.1323.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-10", "file": "debates1978-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5b251f322ed02bf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-10a.1341.0", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": " above an investment income of £1,700 while those over retirement age start paying it at an investment income of £2,500. The whole point of the amendment is that there are other groups in society, apart from those over retirement age, who are equally entitled to this kind of distinction. The amendment refers to single-parent families, who have many of the same sort of disadvantages as the retired.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-10a.1341.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-10", "file": "debates1978-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5b251f322ed02bf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-10a.1356.3", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "ster of State, Treasury, opposing the amendment, gave as the cost of the amendment an amount which related to the consequential amendment as well. However, later the Chancellor of the Exchequer thought that cheating was the only way out of the corner in which he found himself. He thought that he had to be a trickster and in this way he is trying to wriggle out of the jam in which he finds himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-10a.1356.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-05-10", "file": "debates1978-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5b251f322ed02bf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-10a.1356.9", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I was quoting the hon. Member for Penistone (Mr. Mendelson), who used the term \"trickster\" earlier in the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-10a.1356.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-05-10", "file": "debates1978-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5b251f322ed02bf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-10a.1357.0", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The First Deputy Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. Let us end the proceedings on a peaceful note. I have acted strictly according to the duties of the Chair. A manuscript amendment has been presented and I have selected it. Similarly, the motion to report Progress is equally in order. The hon. Member for Blaby has used certain unparliamentary terms and I must call upon him to withdraw them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-10a.1356.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-11", "file": "debates1978-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "79b9b274493af64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-11a.1401.3", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Gillingham.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Faced, as I am, with this Opposition, I agree with the hon. Member for Rochester—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-11a.1401.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-11", "file": "debates1978-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "79b9b274493af64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-11a.1459.1", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Meyer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was not in the White Paper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Meyer", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that I supported the strategy of BSC, which at that time envisaged a substantial expansion of the British steel industry, only on an express undertaking given to me at the time by Mr. Tom Boardman, the then Minister for Industry, that the closure of Shotton would be deferred in order to enable that particular question to be re-examined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-11a.1459.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-11", "file": "debates1978-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "79b9b274493af64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-11a.1487.5", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not for long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Page", "preceding_text": "I wish to make two quick points, the first being of a general nature and the second of constituency interest, as I am one of the few Conservative Members with a steel works in their area", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-11a.1487.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-11", "file": "debates1978-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "79b9b274493af64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-11a.1520.1", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose money?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "factories saying 'We shall have that and that\", taking the best of everything. Those are the realities. Therefore, in the minute remaining to me I say to the Conservatives \"Stop huffing and puffing about the money. We need the money. Industry needs the money. You can go on saying this as much as you want. But our job, yours and mine, is to make the Corporation a success, so let us have the money.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-11a.1520.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-11", "file": "debates1978-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "79b9b274493af64c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-11a.1539.1", "colnum": "1539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRON AND STEEL (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "in the previous financial year 21 per cent. of the British Steel Corporation's investment went to Scotland. The BSC's document \"Prospects for Steel\" makes clear that Scotland can expect a steady 15 per cent. of capital expenditure from 1978 to 1980. The Tories demand the expenditure of vast sums on particular projects in particular areas. But tonight they will vote to cut off the money completely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-11a.1539.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-15", "file": "debates1978-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e4a2b2411f1276de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-15a.30.2", "colnum": "30", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONTROL OF THE EXECUTIVE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The payroll vote.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "preceding_text": "r example, too often take place far away from this Chamber and its influence. There is the growth in party discipline which is too obvious and too certain to need more description than the plain statement. Then there is the growth of the vested interest of the placemen, the Ministers and their acolytes. We now have a new term of art to describe that situation—the ministerial vote, as it is called.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-15a.30.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-05-15", "file": "debates1978-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e4a2b2411f1276de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-15a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY CONTROL OF THE EXECUTIVE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Patronage.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Michael Cocks)", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-15a.81.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-15", "file": "debates1978-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e4a2b2411f1276de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-15a.113.1", "colnum": "113", "heading": "WINDSCALE (SPECIAL DEVELOPMENT ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "ications that it is less safe and less scrupulous than other dangerous industries. Having said that, however, we are lucky in that we have never had a major incident in our nuclear industry. No one can guarantee, no Government can, and no hon. Member can, that there might not be some incident in the future. The fact that 10,000 people were prepared to go to Trafalgar Square peacefully on a Sunday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-15a.113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-15", "file": "debates1978-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e4a2b2411f1276de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-15a.113.1", "colnum": "113", "heading": "WINDSCALE (SPECIAL DEVELOPMENT ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "stries. Having said that, however, we are lucky in that we have never had a major incident in our nuclear industry. No one can guarantee, no Government can, and no hon. Member can, that there might not be some incident in the future. The fact that 10,000 people were prepared to go to Trafalgar Square peacefully on a Sunday—[ Interruption. ]—and 3,000 to Torness on the South-East coast of Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-15a.113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-15", "file": "debates1978-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e4a2b2411f1276de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-15a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "WINDSCALE (SPECIAL DEVELOPMENT ORDER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Tomney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Tomney", "preceding_text": " for Henley mentioned President Kennedy and the moon shot and that the factor could be multiplied by 10. That is nearly right. The scientists who presented Kennedy with a total bill for the moon landing themselves multiplied it by 10 in the hope that Kennedy would back down. However, Kennedy took one look at the figures and said \"Get on with it. We shall find the money.\" Look at what has resulted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-15a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-16", "file": "debates1978-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "4d6ef948560cd63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-16a.221.5", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Would not the Secretary of State agree that if the Prime Minister wishes to be taken seriously in his new-found concern for the family—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-16a.221.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-05-16", "file": "debates1978-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "4d6ef948560cd63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-16a.223.3", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "As local authorities in some parts of the country are now embarked upon appointing their education committees in the absence of any change in the law, does not the hon. Lady think that the time is ripe to remind them that governing bodies should contain people who are genuinely representative of the interests involved in schools, and not simply political placemen?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-16a.223.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-16", "file": "debates1978-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "4d6ef948560cd63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-16a.240.0", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "AN. HON. MEMBER: \"What is your majority, Bob?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend should not be worried, because most of us thought that the speeches were jolly good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-16a.240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-16", "file": "debates1978-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "4d6ef948560cd63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-16a.240.4", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "han a question asking for information, but I must tell her that, in addition to the benefits that I have already mentioned in reply to the Question of the hon. Member for Rutland and Stamford (Mr. Lewis), we have, as she will remember, kept the price of school meals steady during the course of the current year. I am particularly glad that we were able to increase the provision of free school milk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-16a.240.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-05-16", "file": "debates1978-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "4d6ef948560cd63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-16a.242.3", "colnum": "242", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh, not again.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "Is it not extraordinary that this ship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-16a.242.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-16", "file": "debates1978-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "4d6ef948560cd63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-16a.263.2", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "This is a matter which is not new to the Committee, but I make no apology whatever for bringing it before the Committee again on this occasion. It is a new clause to index the capital gains tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-16a.263.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-16", "file": "debates1978-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "4d6ef948560cd63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-16a.289.1", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not the owner.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": "eculators, people who buy for no other purpose than to make large capital gains. The hon. Member for Blaby read us a letter, which perhaps touched some of us, about a small shopkeeper suffering real hardship at the end of his days. That may well be a genuine case. But I suggest to the hon. Gentleman that his new clause will chiefly benefit such people as Mr. Harry Hyams, the owner of Centre Point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-16a.289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-16", "file": "debates1978-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "4d6ef948560cd63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-16a.369.2", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"GO on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "32 cases he upheld the complaint. Since the Committee is obviously avid for evidence. I refer it to the report of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration on the investigations completed from November 1977 to January 1978. There are about eight or nine cases there, and I am sorely tempted to take the Committee through them in some detail, since there is a rich vein of ore to be exploited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-16a.369.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-16", "file": "debates1978-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "4d6ef948560cd63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-16a.370.1", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I see the hon. Lady shaking her head. I am not absolutely certain that she was in the House of Commons—she was certainly not a member of the Committee which considered the Finance Bill—when we debated the inquisitorial powers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-16a.370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-16", "file": "debates1978-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "4d6ef948560cd63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-16a.413.4", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "ut that there is a massive tax fiddle going on due to the fact that there are 250,000 proof gallons of whisky a year on which no duty is paid. This whisky is that which is drawn off for sampling. It is not an insignificant amount of whisky. When one realises that from each cask or vat of whisky one-tenth of a gallon may be drawn off for sampling purposes, one can see that there is scope for abuse.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-16a.413.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-16", "file": "debates1978-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "4d6ef948560cd63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-16a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "nd Auditor General, that the maximum allowable sample is always taken. There is never a cask where there is a need to take less than one-tenth of a gallon. The statistical specialists in the House will know that there must be some occasions on some casks, which will be smaller than some that the hon. Member for Banff (Mr. Watt) mentioned, where there is no need to take the full amount as a sample.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-16a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-16", "file": "debates1978-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "4d6ef948560cd63b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-16a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Out of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "re in the short term. They have come forward with no plans to make sure that all whisky is covered by the duty. There is nothing in the clause or the speech of the hon. Member for Ayr to show that they have even read the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. We have heard nothing about whether they will do anything about this. The Opposition should have the good grace to comment on the report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-16a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-17", "file": "debates1978-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "0cafc65142e70184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-17a.443.5", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Ewing", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. In view of the unsatisfactory nature of that reply, I beg to give notice that I shall seek to raise the matter on the Adjournment at the earliest possible opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-17a.443.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-17", "file": "debates1978-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "0cafc65142e70184", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-17a.522.3", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "I said that the hon. Gentleman was an honourable man. I do not wish easily to amend my words, any more than I wish to see the Bill amended in this respect, but I would say that there was a certain deviousness in the hon. Gentleman's argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-17a.522.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-18", "file": "debates1978-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "624e677b7eea3a87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-18a.930.1", "colnum": "930", "heading": "BREAD PRICES", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary a State for Prices and Consumer Protection (Mr. Robert Maclennan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary a State for Prices and Consumer Protection (Mr. Robert Maclennan)", "preceding_text": "utes of his speech might well have been more pertinently raised by the hon. Member for Gloucester (Mrs. Oppenheim) when she initiated the comparable debate last year. Perhaps they would have been more germane to that debate than to this one. My right hon. Friend described the purposes of the order in last year's debate when he said that the Government no longer control the wholesale price of bread", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-18a.930.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-05-19", "file": "debates1978-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4b10edf9d81a6f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-19a.948.1", "colnum": "948", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "on the three motions relating to Statutory Instruments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-19a.948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-19", "file": "debates1978-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "4b10edf9d81a6f87", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-19a.956.0", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOMES INSULATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "ures. Perhaps we can pursue the matter in greater detail in Committee. I repeat that the quickest and most economic way of handling this matter is by getting lofts insulated. If we pursue the matter, we shall find in Committee that this is not a contradiction of the percentage figures. It takes account of the economics of the matter and the speed with which one can do the job. That is what I said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-19a.956.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-05-22", "file": "debates1978-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "36b8cabc45727360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-22a.1121.4", "colnum": "1121", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to the hon. Gentleman. However, I do not have such a discretion. The House instructs me that the matter must be decided forthwith. By leave of the House I will put both motions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-22a.1121.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-22", "file": "debates1978-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "36b8cabc45727360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-22a.1124.4", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "preceding_text": " is nearly three to one, 56 of our Chieftain tanks in BAOR have had to be put in mothballs because of the shortage of men. The Secretary of State could hardly want a more apt or damaging comment on his stewardship. We on this side of the House are the first to agree that Labour Secretaries of State for Defence have many difficulties—and nearly all those difficulties sit below the Gangway opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-22a.1124.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-22", "file": "debates1978-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "36b8cabc45727360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-22a.1248.1", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "What the hon. Gentleman is asking me to do is to give an undertaking with respect to the operation of a formula that was designed by his right hon. Friends, the present Opposition. It is the Government who have taken care of LOA. I am not in a position to give any guarantee on LOA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-22a.1248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-22", "file": "debates1978-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "36b8cabc45727360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-22a.1249.1", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARMED FORCES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman. I shall be happy to do so either by correspondence or in answer to Questions. One thing that the debate has clarified is the Opposition's final view on what forces' pay should be. The House could be excused for having a little vagueness on the subject. For example, on 14th March 1978 the hon. Member for Stretford said: The Opposition are asking for a return to full comparability\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-22a.1249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-22", "file": "debates1978-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "36b8cabc45727360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-22a.1267.1", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "inciple, to the application of public funds for investment in industry. We feel, however, that the need for grants of taxpayers' money to industry of any kind will arise only in rare and special cases. We believe that if the economic climate were put right, the need would dwindle almost to vanishing point, because the market would satisfy the needs of successful industry. We are certainly opposed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-22a.1267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-22", "file": "debates1978-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "36b8cabc45727360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-22a.1282.3", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nick Budgen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick Budgen", "preceding_text": "tate for Industry that in every respect the Government were being most careful with the taxpayers' money. Yet in the month or so that has followed we find that in two important respects the way in which the Secretary of State presented his case has been confounded by the facts. I noted his reference to the foundry industry, because it so happens that I recently inherited a few shares in a foundry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-22a.1282.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-22", "file": "debates1978-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "36b8cabc45727360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-22a.1287.0", "colnum": "1287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "No remark must be made which casts any imputation on the honour of an hon. Member. I hope that the hon. Gentleman did not in fact use that expression, because the Chair did not hear it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-22a.1287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-22", "file": "debates1978-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "36b8cabc45727360", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-22a.1288.0", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in a moment", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-22a.1288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-23", "file": "debates1978-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1413117921f5a3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-23a.1330.4", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "With due respect, I ask the Prime Minister whether, after the cuts which have particularly affected paratroopers, this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-23a.1330.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-23", "file": "debates1978-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1413117921f5a3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-23a.1338.1", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nt that worker directors and, indeed, the joint representation committees should be drawn from employees of the company. I come now to the particular points made by the right hon. Lady. First, all employees can be involved in consultation. Whether the joint representation committee will include them will be a matter for discussion, because clearly the statute will not be able to cover that aspect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-23a.1338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-23", "file": "debates1978-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1413117921f5a3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-23a.1445.1", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (TREATIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not tonight.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hurd", "preceding_text": "This order is a further step forward in a cause —that of holding direct elections to the European Parliament—which most of us on this side have heartily welcomed and exerted ourselves to forward—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-23a.1445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-23", "file": "debates1978-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1413117921f5a3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-23a.1445.1", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (TREATIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hurd", "preceding_text": "e to say something about it. The subject of salaries and allowances has dominated the debate. My hon. Friend the Member for Banbury (Mr. Marten) rehearsed his strong constitutional objections to the whole idea of direct elections. He then talked about salaries and allowances. Others less fastidious than he are now concentrating their whole opposition on the question of money. This is a great pity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-23a.1445.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-05-23", "file": "debates1978-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1413117921f5a3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-23a.1461.1", "colnum": "1461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (TREATIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. This is a point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-23a.1461.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-23", "file": "debates1978-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1413117921f5a3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-23a.1462.4", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (TREATIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I wonder whether the House would like to come to a quick decision on this matter. Shall I put the Question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-23a.1462.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-05-23", "file": "debates1978-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1413117921f5a3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-23a.1464.4", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (TREATIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Is it the will of the House that I put the Question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-23a.1464.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-23", "file": "debates1978-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1413117921f5a3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-23a.1477.3", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (TREATIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Meyer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Meyer", "preceding_text": "h a foreigner is as good as an Englishman and we are all human beings together. I find the emergence of what I can only call a national Socialism on the Left of the Labour Party, and also among respected figures in the Centre of that party, a deeply disturbing phenomenon. My hon. Friend the Member for Banbury asked whether the European Parliament was the first step on the road to a federal Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-23a.1477.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-23", "file": "debates1978-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1413117921f5a3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-23a.1477.3", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (TREATIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Meyer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Arrogance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Meyer", "preceding_text": "ep on the road to a federal Europe. [Hon. Members \"Yes.\"] I must answer that by saying \"Alas, no, it is not.\" But it is the first step towards providing that leadership which the other members of the Community have looked for in vain to this country. Ever since the Community was first formed, its progress has been held back by a longing for this country to come in and take its place as the leader.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-23a.1477.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-23", "file": "debates1978-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1413117921f5a3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-23a.1494.7", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (TREATIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "kind of power suggested by one hon. Member? I believe that the contrary will happen. The hon. Member for Oswestry (Mr. Biffen) described the situation adequately. The process that is in being is designed to take power away from national Governments. Europe is not becoming the outward-looking unit which the European \"hot gospellers\" in this House suggest. Some of them appear to have been well paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-23a.1494.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-23", "file": "debates1978-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "1413117921f5a3e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-23a.1505.9", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOLOMON ISLANDS BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "I do not want to detain the Committee for long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-23a.1505.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-24", "file": "debates1978-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "08b9276d4569d640", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-24a.1559.2", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that at this morning's meeting of the national executive committee of the Labour Party there was unanimous opposition to what has happened to Mr. Orlov and others like him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-24a.1559.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-24", "file": "debates1978-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "08b9276d4569d640", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-24a.1559.2", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": " they would realise that we are fighting against injustices in all parts of the world, including the Soviet Union. Is my hon. Friend aware that we feel that the Government could be a little more forthright on the question of those who are monitoring the Helsinki agreement in the Soviet Union? We understand that the British Government do not want to endanger our relationships with the Soviet Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-24a.1559.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-24", "file": "debates1978-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "08b9276d4569d640", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-24a.1664.1", "colnum": "1664", "heading": "GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Guy Barnett)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Guy Barnett)", "preceding_text": "e Greater London area, and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has announced his intention to designate the districts of Brent, Ealing, Haringey and Wandsworth. These decisions were made on the basis of a clearly thought-out appreciation of the measure of problems faced by individual London boroughs. I submit that it is possible for decisions of this kind to be made only by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-24a.1664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-25", "file": "debates1978-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "35166c90d01fb685", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-25a.1745.2", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "fortunes of the political parties over the course of the past 12 months? Does he recall, for instance, that at the Tory Party conference only last year buoyant members were displaying badges that said \"Put a woman on top for a change\" and now, only nine months later a disaffected Conservative printer is issuing to the Liberal Party Whips' Office badges and car stickers which say \"Ditch the bitch\"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-25a.1745.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-05-25", "file": "debates1978-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "35166c90d01fb685", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-25a.1852.1", "colnum": "1852", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ryman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ryman", "preceding_text": "ubjects further except to say that of course it is the duty of the Secretary of State for Defence to get the best possible deal that he can for all members of the Services. A category of very important people who have been altogether forgotten so far in this debate, at any rate in the speeches I have heard, are the widows of officers and men killed on active duty. I have had drawn to my attention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-05-25a.1852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-06", "file": "debates1978-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "8dbe428dbbd16ef7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-06a.21.5", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Answer 'Yes' or 'No'.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There seems to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-06a.21.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-07", "file": "debates1978-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "51d591c8cdea51f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-07a.171.2", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fry", "preceding_text": "Did the Minister read the recent statement of Mr. James Tye, the director-general of the British Safety Council, who said that the general deterioration of road surfaces has already caused unnecessary accidents and the situation can only get worse\"? Will the Minister now admit that the Government's cutback in funds for road maintenance over recent years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-07a.171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-07", "file": "debates1978-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "51d591c8cdea51f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-07a.202.1", "colnum": "202", "heading": "TRADE UNION OFFICIALS (REGISTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stoddart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are your colleagues?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stoddart", "preceding_text": "Yes, indeed, Mr. Speaker. While many of the colleagues of the hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury (Mr. Ridley) are at Epsom today, either losing their shirts or—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-07a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-07", "file": "debates1978-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "51d591c8cdea51f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-07a.202.3", "colnum": "202", "heading": "TRADE UNION OFFICIALS (REGISTRATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stoddart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stoddart", "preceding_text": "se the hon. Member trying to deny that that is his objective. It is little wonder that trade union leaders are worried and concerned about the grim possibility of a future Tory Government. They see in statements and actions by the hon. Member, who is reputed to have the ear of the Tory leader, the heralding of a new era of conflict, replete, as before, with regular six-monthly states of emergency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-07a.202.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-08", "file": "debates1978-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "ef7ac4071e9192f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-08a.360.3", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to hear that. If, at some time during the months remaining between now and the General Election, the Prime Minister is able to visit Cornwall, he will find that Cornwall's economy and the public services generally are suffering greatly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-08a.360.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-08", "file": "debates1978-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "ef7ac4071e9192f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-08a.360.4", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Surprise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. I think that I could find it a very interesting hour to go through all the proposals for increased public expenditure from the Conservative Party—which, by coincidence, I have in front of me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-08a.360.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-08", "file": "debates1978-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "ef7ac4071e9192f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-08a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree, however, that those people who believe that the City of London has now taken over the government of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-08a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-08", "file": "debates1978-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "ef7ac4071e9192f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-08a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree, however, that those people who believe that the City of London has now taken over the government of this country—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] There is now widespread belief that many money brokers, who are enjoying the greatest bonanza in their history, are demanding from the Government that the minimum lending rate be at least 10 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-08a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-08", "file": "debates1978-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "ef7ac4071e9192f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-08a.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": " him? First, this is the fourteenth Budget during a Labour Administration, but the first one to be announced outside the House of Commons. Can he name any other occasion on which a proposed increase of taxation of £1,500 million—the equivalent of 4p on the standard rate of tax—has been announced to the Press but not to the House of Commons? Second, is he not aware that this latest economic crisis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-08a.362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-08", "file": "debates1978-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "ef7ac4071e9192f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-08a.373.5", "colnum": "373", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I have already dealt fully with that point in my previous reply. The right hon. Lady was suggesting that in some way or other a statement had to be made from this Dispatch Box—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-08a.373.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-08", "file": "debates1978-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "ef7ac4071e9192f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-08a.416.3", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the House is sometimes a little impatient when in a debate of this kind one Privy Councillor rises after another. However, I suppose that I may, in a kind of inverted way, claim the indulgence of the House, as this may be the last occasion when I shall talk in the House on foreign affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-08a.416.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-08", "file": "debates1978-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "ef7ac4071e9192f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-08a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "preceding_text": " Members from both sides of the House speak at them they bring a breath of fresh air to the debates because we are probably among the very few who are not reading briefs provided for us by our Government. We also learn the way in which the minds of other parliamentarians work when we attend drafting committees. I shall have to drop out of my speech the best two stories that I had intended to tell.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-08a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-08", "file": "debates1978-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "ef7ac4071e9192f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-08a.491.1", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FOREIGN AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hurd", "preceding_text": " meeting with his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence which, for various reasons, I felt unable to get out of. One of the themes running through the debate, yesterday perhaps more than today, has been that of human rights. That is inevitably in a world in which, unfortunately, tyranny is almost normal, and the infringement of human rights apparently more common than their respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-08a.491.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-06-09", "file": "debates1978-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "fd9eae4948e5617b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-09a.524.3", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPRESSION OF TERRORISM BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Aye\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "There are no amendments on Consideration. The Question is, That the Bill be now read the Third time. As many as are of that opinion say \"Aye\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-09a.524.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-12", "file": "debates1978-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "9bea3189cdae55c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-12a.655.0", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SMALL FIRMS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": " prophetic prescience not given to me, I took his Question to be referring to my right hon. Friend's Budget and not to the recent financial measures that were taken. That Budget was replete with very important concessions for small businesses. It was very warmly welcomed by most responsible people in that area. The recent financial measures were in no way specially burdensome on small businesses.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-12a.655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-13", "file": "debates1978-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "edf0765c31950811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-13a.830.7", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about food?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "An increase in value added tax would have put up immediately the retail price index substantially.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-13a.830.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-13", "file": "debates1978-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "edf0765c31950811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-13a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "TUVALU BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Lee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rhodesia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Lee", "preceding_text": "e occasions. I express a welcome and a word of good will for the country that is to become independent. It is strange how, over the years, these occasions should have become numerous, but progressively less and less controversial. After the rather bitter debates over India immediately after the war, the tempo has diminished until now, unfortunately, the number of hon. Members taking part is small.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-13a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-14", "file": "debates1978-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "876e50079b206406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-14a.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "DIRECT LABOUR (RESTRICTION OF WORKS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": " the magnitude of Ronan Point. It goes further than that. Although I would not accuse most building firms of corruption, there has been a remarkable incidence of it in the industry. I could refer to Poulson, Bryant, Murphy and many others. Direct labour building brings important benefits to the community. It saves for tenants and ratepayers the profits which would otherwise go to the shareholders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-14a.1006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-14", "file": "debates1978-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "876e50079b206406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-14a.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "DIRECT LABOUR (RESTRICTION OF WORKS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": " months at a time, causing serious hardship to tenants, including young mothers and the aged. The contract was ended and now the work is done successfully by Manchester DLO lift maintenance department. Rochdale and Conservative-controlled Trafford—the latter represented by the hon. Member for Stretford (Mr. Churchill)—have followed suit and halved their expenses. That brings me to my final point —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-14a.1006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-14", "file": "debates1978-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "876e50079b206406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-14a.1042.1", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "having listened to him this afternoon, that he would not know a penitent's stool if he saw one—or as serious economic debates in which the Opposition of the day put forward alternatives. The fact is that today's debate is neither of these things. If this had been a debate simply ticking off the Chancellor I have no hesitation in saying that my colleagues and I would have voted against him tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-14a.1042.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-14", "file": "debates1978-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "876e50079b206406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-14a.1123.3", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I shall tell the right hon. Gentleman this as well. I think that trade unionists have behaved with remarkable responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-14a.1123.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-14", "file": "debates1978-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "876e50079b206406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-14a.1123.3", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "ng else. They have been shabbily rewarded by the present Government, because present policies are not working for them now. The more the working man takes stock of his position and the more he understands his country's and his firm's position, the more he will seek the change in policy that is essential if we are to get production and productivity moving forward. The Government offer confrontation", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-14a.1123.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-14", "file": "debates1978-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "876e50079b206406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-14a.1127.1", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I will give the right hon. Gentleman the theme on which I believe and I know my party will fight the election when it comes. As we approach the next election, let us take for our guide words from an American—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-14a.1127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-14", "file": "debates1978-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "876e50079b206406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-14a.1130.0", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I thought that I had already done so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-14a.1130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-14", "file": "debates1978-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "876e50079b206406", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-14a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Try it\".", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "erves the support of this House. In my view, it does not. In my view, what we are doing, within the limitations of being a minority Government—that is why we must ask for a vote of confidence tonight—is to face the issues of inflation and unemployment that confront this country. We are combating them with a fair degree of success and with much more support in the country than we have in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-14a.1136.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-06-15", "file": "debates1978-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "415451e53a4c40ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-15a.1183.2", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I must explain to the hon. Gentleman that when that matter comes to be discussed he may make reference to it, but not until it is being discussed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-15a.1183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-15", "file": "debates1978-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "415451e53a4c40ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-15a.1183.6", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Did the hon. Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Rooker) make a reflection upon the honour of a Member of another place?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-15a.1183.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-15", "file": "debates1978-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "415451e53a4c40ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-15a.1184.1", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker. I am in some difficulty, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-15a.1184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-15", "file": "debates1978-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "415451e53a4c40ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-15a.1185.0", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I understood the hon. Member for Perry Barr to say that the chairman had participated in an illegal price ring. That is not what the Order Paper says. The Order Paper says that the firm has participated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-15a.1185.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-06-15", "file": "debates1978-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "415451e53a4c40ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-15a.1185.2", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": " Rooker), as far as we can ascertain, has withdrawn, although it was a somewhat equivocal withdrawal, can you give the House some guidance? Is it not deeply disturbing that a substantial number of Government supporters, with certain political tendencies, who sit below the Gangway are never willing to play by the discipline and rules of this House, a fact which continually bedevils our proceedings?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-15a.1185.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-15", "file": "debates1978-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "415451e53a4c40ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-15a.1187.1", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "That this House believes that the export of live farm animals for slaughter or further fattening should cease.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-15a.1187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-15", "file": "debates1978-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "415451e53a4c40ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-15a.1196.1", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "If the Community is enlarged, it is virtually certain that that rush will be considerably intensified. There is no point in arguing today how we reached this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-15a.1196.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-15", "file": "debates1978-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "415451e53a4c40ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-15a.1218.3", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FISHING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watt", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Member will get the opportunity to stand up for the hon. Member for Bute and North Ayrshire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-15a.1218.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-20", "file": "debates1978-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "720f76520741ac10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-20a.214.0", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "were given the chance to spell out their policy on 20th April. However, the questions were never answered. Perhaps we shall get an answer now. Does the Conservative Party, if it is ever elected to govern, propose to bring in new charges for those who go to see a doctor? Does it propose to bring in new charges for being in hospital? Does the right hon. Member for Wanstead and Woodford (Mr. Jenkin)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-20a.214.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-20", "file": "debates1978-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "720f76520741ac10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-20a.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (MATRIMONIAL CAUSES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "Division comes at the end of the debate. I shall do so despite my strong belief that, wherever possible, unless a contrary case can be made out, the law in Northern Ireland as a part of the United Kingdom ought to be uniform with the law in Great Britain, uniform in principle and, unless there be contrary reason, uniform in detail. Nevertheless, I conceive it to be right to vote against the order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-20a.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-20", "file": "debates1978-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "720f76520741ac10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-20a.356.1", "colnum": "356", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (MATRIMONIAL CAUSES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Kilfedder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Kilfedder", "preceding_text": " the absolute indissolubility of marriage. The Liberal Party has moved on from those days, though it now has in its ranks the hon. Member for Cornwall, North (Mr. Pardoe), who in a recent outburst about the people of Northern Ireland showed that he needed a rest from his parliamentary activities. We had a number of attempts to reform the divorce law. In 1937, we had another Matrimonial Causes Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-20a.356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-20", "file": "debates1978-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "720f76520741ac10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-20a.358.0", "colnum": "358", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (MATRIMONIAL CAUSES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "ho were not wealthy would usually have to do without—said that as the law stood then, those who wished to bring an end to marriage were forced to take one of two alternatives; they must either commit adultery and provide a ground for divorce to their partner or they must commit perjury. That is not what we would recommend as a basis for the law which was supposed to have the respect of the people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-20a.358.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-21", "file": "debates1978-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "020f509fd7ef7175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-21a.481.1", "colnum": "481", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Helier", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Not again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Helier", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-21a.481.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-21", "file": "debates1978-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "020f509fd7ef7175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-21a.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ceiling.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "preceding_text": "I think that the whole House is grateful to the Secretary of State for the frankness with which he set forth the yardstick by which he proposes to measure the rate of increase in council house rents. He said that it should be roughly in line with the rate of increase in wages. I take that to mean that in the current year 15 per cent. will be about the minimum increase which we can expect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-21a.503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-21", "file": "debates1978-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "020f509fd7ef7175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-21a.606.1", "colnum": "606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": ". Does the hon. Member for Hornsey say \"Cut investment programmes\" after having complained about \"phoney\" cuts that we are supposed to have imposed? Will he please tell us—I shall gladly give way—whether he will maintain the present level of housing investment in the public sector and whether, when economic circumstances permit it, he will support an expansion of that provision? I gladly give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-21a.606.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-21", "file": "debates1978-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "020f509fd7ef7175", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-21a.644.1", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Castle", "preceding_text": "st, just as certain eminent ladies did a considerable number of years ago—an event that we shall be celebrating in the near future. I have always worked, I was going to say exactly the same hours as male Members, but, if we were to take a tally, if we were to clock in and clock out, I think that it would be found that women Members of Parliament pro rata had always worked longer hours than the men", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-21a.644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-22", "file": "debates1978-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "e2c1468db47924f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-22a.705.6", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " choice, I promise the hon. Gentleman that we would not have made it. There is a matter for a difference of opinion here. Because we are seeking to fight inflation, I was myself very opposed to raising value added tax, which was another alternative and which would have had a much more immediate effect than the national insurance surcharge will have, since it would have come into force immediately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-22a.705.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-22", "file": "debates1978-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "e2c1468db47924f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-22a.711.0", "colnum": "711", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "will be aware of the continuing dispute between the electricians and the Health Service and will probably have seen reports in the Press today about the situation at Great Ormond Street where heart surgery is having to be postponed. Will he undertake that the Secretary of State keeps the House fully informed about the latest developments? Secondly, as we are now one further week on than last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-22a.711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-22", "file": "debates1978-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "e2c1468db47924f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-22a.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF MINISTERS (FISHERIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "First, may I ask the right hon. Gentleman whether he is aware of the Opposition's complete agreement with him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-22a.718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-22", "file": "debates1978-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "e2c1468db47924f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-22a.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF MINISTERS (FISHERIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "ur regret that the Commission does not yet seem to have recognised the primary importance of conservation? I should like then to ask the right hon. Gentleman whether, in view of the fact that the failure to agree was predictable—indeed, he predicted it himself—he is aware that there will be some disappointment that he has not come here today already prepared with definite measures of conservation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-22a.718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-22", "file": "debates1978-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "e2c1468db47924f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-22a.798.7", "colnum": "798", "heading": "SCOTTISH ECONOMY (OIL RESOURCES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": " people of Scotland. Because this place has failed the people of Scotland, they are looking to new remedies and new ways of deciding matters for themselves. Basically, that is what the argument is about—whether the Scottish people should control things for themselves and should make their own decisions, or whether it is better to leave London to do it for them. That is the great divide between us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-22a.798.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-26", "file": "debates1978-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "72249a6b4ec30d91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-26a.1040.0", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "RHODESIA (BRITISH MISSIONARIES)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Gentleman just said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": " believe that it is very important that we should be open to all sides. That is why I have spent many hours since the internal settlement was established talking to the leaders of the internal settlement and why I went to Salisbury myself with Secretary of State Vance. But if it is argued that we should cut off all links with all the parties, I believe that we would jeopardise our chances gravely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-26a.1040.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-26", "file": "debates1978-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "72249a6b4ec30d91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-26a.1085.1", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shersby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shersby", "preceding_text": "e activities. In an article in The Times last September, William Rees-Mogg made clear that at one time it was argued that the cause of low productivity was that workers resented private capitalism and that public ownership would allow productivity to rise. In fact, the opposite has turned out to be the case. In general, productivity in publicly owned industries is below that in private industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-26a.1085.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-27", "file": "debates1978-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "5192ab4733fc3778", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-27a.1199.2", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "h regard to the right hon. Gentleman's observations about \"mix-up\", I can think of no greater mix-up than the activities of Conservative Members who are continually criticising the Government in respect of defence capability, yet many of them are queueing up outside my office to protest against the enlargement, expansion and increase in the air defence capacity of this country and our NATO allies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-27a.1199.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-28", "file": "debates1978-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "f2138f11aea5ecff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-28a.1386.0", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "As hon. Members will know, I have some difficulty in endorsing editorial comment in the Daily Express. But I note the fact that there is still a considerable body of opinion in this country which does not feel that we have benefited from our membership of the Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-28a.1386.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-29", "file": "debates1978-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "376e52ebe607f173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-29a.1563.0", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lie\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Strange as it may sound to the House, I did not hear the Chancellor's last words. Perhaps wrongly, I was my self engaged in conversation. I want to tell the House that the word \"deceit\", like the word \"mendacity\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-29a.1563.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-29", "file": "debates1978-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "376e52ebe607f173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-29a.1574.1", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "rs generally. The House debated Rhodesia a few weeks ago, but I note the right hon. Lady's representations. On the subject of the timetable motion on the Scotland Bill which is to be taken on Tuesday, I can tell the right hon. Lady that the motion will be tabled on Monday. We have been giving some consideration to the amount of time that we should provide and we were thinking of two or three days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-29a.1574.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-06-29", "file": "debates1978-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "376e52ebe607f173", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-29a.1575.0", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "Still on the subject of the Scotland Bill, will the Leader of the House confirm that the other place took exactly the same time as we took, but discussed the whole Bill, whereas we discussed only parts of it because of the delaying tactics of certain Members of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-06-29a.1575.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-03", "file": "debates1978-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "0d9671be29509ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-03a.30.3", "colnum": "30", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I fully understand the desire of the House that the motion should be on the Order Paper and that the House should have proper time to consider it. We shall be putting it down today. The hon. and learned Member for Cleveland and Whitby (Mr. Brittan) should be a little less impatient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-03a.30.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-03", "file": "debates1978-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "0d9671be29509ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-03a.32.2", "colnum": "32", "heading": "PALACE OF WESTMINSTER (POLITICAL LITERATURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Mr. Speaker. I wish to raise a point of order concerning the displaying of political literature and banners on the railings outside the House by an organisation of building industry employers attacking the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-03a.32.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-03", "file": "debates1978-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "0d9671be29509ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-03a.72.3", "colnum": "72", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (STAFF DISPUTES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "increased private provision and a public sector. The right hon. Member for Leeds, North-East (Sir K. Joseph) has said that the public sector will include the Cinderella services—the geriatrics, and the mental patients—while the private sector will include all the others. In other words, we shall have two Health Services, and one will be able to go into the private sector only if one has the brass.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-03a.72.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-03", "file": "debates1978-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "0d9671be29509ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-03a.77.2", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (STAFF DISPUTES)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "p with the electrician carrying it and he will place it in the socket.\" I said \"How long will all this take?\" She said \"It should not take more than about three days.\" I said \"Please do not go to all that trouble. When I go out to lunch I shall bring a bulb back with me and place it in the socket myself.\" The sister blenched. She said \"Please do not do that because there will be a strike at once.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-03a.77.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-03", "file": "debates1978-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "0d9671be29509ddd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-03a.99.3", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (STAFF DISPUTES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moyle", "preceding_text": "ed. In the meantime, I see that the Tories have not lost their desire to fly by the seat of their pants. That is the trouble with making suggestions about abolishing various parts of the NHS instead of waiting for proper advice. My advice to them is to wait for the Royal Commission, follow it through and take part in the debate then. But all this is largely irrelevant to the subject of the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-03a.99.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-04", "file": "debates1978-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "40772c624c139665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-04a.228.3", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There is a rough relationship between the two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-04a.228.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-04", "file": "debates1978-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "40772c624c139665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-04a.259.4", "colnum": "259", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": " difficult though it may be, even in nationalised industries. We believe that the conditions which I have described discourage the risk taking that is at the heart of the entrepreneurial function, the heart of the function that bring the creation of new and additional jobs. We are not arguing that money is the only motive of the entrepreneur. Many entrepreneurs function almost regardless of money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-04a.259.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-04", "file": "debates1978-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "40772c624c139665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-04a.373.4", "colnum": "373", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "preceding_text": "d areas and to firms of up to 200 people. I believe that the small firms employment subsidy will be very successful indeed. It will certainly help the rural areas. On a personal note, perhaps I may say that I had hoped to visit Cornwall and Somerset tomorrow and the day after. But the concern of the Opposition Front Bench for youth unemployment is so great that they have decided to deny me a pair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-04a.373.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-04", "file": "debates1978-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "40772c624c139665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-04a.384.0", "colnum": "384", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "As we went on, it became clear that some parts of the Bill would not be discussed, and it is a matter of regret that quite a number of clauses were not discussed before the Bill went to another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-04a.384.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-04", "file": "debates1978-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "40772c624c139665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-04a.384.0", "colnum": "384", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "As we went on, it became clear that some parts of the Bill would not be discussed, and it is a matter of regret that quite a number of clauses were not discussed before the Bill went to another place. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I thought that there might be that sort of cry from Conservative Members. It prompts me to ask, whose fault was that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-04a.384.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-04", "file": "debates1978-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "40772c624c139665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-04a.384.2", "colnum": "384", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour wants to abolish the Lords.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Their Lordships do not have guillotines. It would be unthinkable to have such a procedure in another place, but without a guillotine, and having discussed the Bill fully, their Lordships covered the whole Bill in Committee in 13 days—one day fewer than the House of Commons had to consider the Bill in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-04a.384.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-04", "file": "debates1978-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "40772c624c139665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-04a.386.1", "colnum": "386", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Francis Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Pym", "preceding_text": "s. Subsection 7 of the amendment provides that parliamentary approval should be required. The House will wish to debate whether that is an appropriate adjustment. There are also the issues of the variation of election dates and the cost of elections. All these are major matters. Is it practical for the Commons to do justice to all those issues in about two and a half hours? I do not believe it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-04a.386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-04", "file": "debates1978-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "40772c624c139665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-04a.386.1", "colnum": "386", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Francis Pym", "cue_text": "AN. HON. MEMBER: \"That would take us into August.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Pym", "preceding_text": " the motion will not be passed. That is not a particularly revolutionary suggestion. I invite the House to contemplate the consequences of not passing the motion. They are not startling or extraordinary. They will be that the Government will come back with another guillotine motion with a much more generous allocation of time. Is not that what is required and what a lot of hon. Members would like?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-04a.386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-04", "file": "debates1978-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "40772c624c139665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-04a.392.0", "colnum": "392", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "No, I do not think that I can, off the cuff—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-04a.392.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-04", "file": "debates1978-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "40772c624c139665", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-04a.402.1", "colnum": "402", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And disgraceful\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "One always looks to the hon. Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Taylor) to liven up even dull debates. He did his best. If one were to have predicted two adjectives which the hon. Gentleman definitely would have used—and which he uses in every speech —they would have been \"shameful\" and \"insulting\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-04a.402.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-05", "file": "debates1978-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "eb2cd89f41cfb3ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-05a.460.2", "colnum": "460", "heading": "UNITED STATES AIR FORCE (BASE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tories against defence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kershaw", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State accept that I echo what has been said already by my hon. Friends in saying that in my area we recognise that there should be a capability of this kind in this country and if it has to be at Fairford we shall grin and bear it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-05a.460.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-05", "file": "debates1978-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "eb2cd89f41cfb3ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-05a.474.3", "colnum": "474", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "rying my best to lift him up and make him a more credible figure, I am sorry to say that I am not getting very far. If he says, as he does, that there must be higher taxes on what we spend—with which I would not broadly disagree—he is bound to say, if he wants to be credible, where and when he is going to do it. If he does not do that, his whole policy of income tax cuts does not bear examination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-05a.474.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-05", "file": "debates1978-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "eb2cd89f41cfb3ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-05a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "There are a number of curious omissions from the right hon. Gentleman's speech. He began by reminiscing about the basis on which I might once have been paid as a lawyer, rehearsing the old myth that one was paid by the word. As we well know, the right hon. Gentleman, in his own private existence—to which he will shortly be returning—was paid by the amount of tax he avoided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-05a.480.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-07-05", "file": "debates1978-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "eb2cd89f41cfb3ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-05a.488.0", "colnum": "488", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "ary has given an indication of the consequences of this measure on the borrowing requirement. Does it take account of the offsetting expense to the public sector? Will there be a corresponding change in the cash limits for the NHS or will it be this much light as a result of the Government's proposals? Will there be any change in the rate support grant or in any other way to help local government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-05a.487.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-05", "file": "debates1978-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "eb2cd89f41cfb3ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-05a.502.1", "colnum": "502", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pardoe", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Member for Blaby worried about £140 million? If he thinks that he can forecast the borrowing requirement to the nearest £140 million he is more of a lunatic than I take him to be. I am glad that he has now stopped mumbling. He is much better when he stops mumbling.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-05a.502.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-07-05", "file": "debates1978-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "eb2cd89f41cfb3ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-05a.582.0", "colnum": "582", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "n the private sector. That is not surprising. It is characteristic of the Labour Party. For the benefit of the House, which is filling up a little more than was the case earlier during the debate, I shall quote from the Labour Party's last party-political broadcast. This was an important statement of the Government's policy: The Labour Party's aim is the common ownership of the means of production", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-05a.580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-06", "file": "debates1978-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e3ea950d92037110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-06a.651.0", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stoddart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stoddart", "preceding_text": "I perfectly well understand that, Mr. Speaker. I am suggesting that when the Prime Minister meets the TUC and the CBI he should bring these matters to the attention of those bodies. I conclude by saying", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-06a.651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-06", "file": "debates1978-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e3ea950d92037110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-06a.675.1", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": " Front Bench is told what amendments are to be accepted, why on a matter of this kind cannot Back Benchers on both sides be given equal information? I do not make any complaint about the Minister of State telling the Opposition Front Bench, because that is the courteous thing to do. I should have thought, however, that the same information could have been made available to Back Benchers. Secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-06a.675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-06", "file": "debates1978-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e3ea950d92037110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-06a.675.1", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": " not make any complaint about the Minister of State telling the Opposition Front Bench, because that is the courteous thing to do. I should have thought, however, that the same information could have been made available to Back Benchers. Secondly—[ Interruption. ]—on the question of betting and gaming, I should like to return to the issue that I raised with my right hon. Friend the Lord President.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-06a.675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-06", "file": "debates1978-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e3ea950d92037110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-06a.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "y the same degree of support—plus a number of minor parties. In such circumstances, the most important claim of the advocates of proportional representation is that no one party can gain a majority of seats on a minority of votes. Of course, under any system, a party which gains 50 per cent. of the votes will probably secure a majority of seats, but that degree of support is not often forthcoming.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-06a.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-06", "file": "debates1978-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "e3ea950d92037110", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-06a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": " that he has shown in his presentation of the case is one that people have not seen very often in the past. Certainly some of his well-known ideological supporters had, during his presentation of one side of the case, some nervous upsets, which I could see more clearly than the hon. Member. However, I assure him that all seems to be well once again, and he is back in the good old reactionary camp.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-06a.732.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-07-07", "file": "debates1978-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "4d8b4861d05ac3cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-07a.913.3", "colnum": "913", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (APPROPRIATION)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "I give that assurance in the most explicit terms in the following words. I make no imputation. The present recorder of the city of Belfast was a very good Unionist MP and Minister of Home Affairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-07a.913.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-07", "file": "debates1978-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "4d8b4861d05ac3cd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-07a.913.5", "colnum": "913", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (APPROPRIATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "I withdraw any imputations. I shall be delighted to read tomorrow's Hansard —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-07a.913.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-10", "file": "debates1978-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "5b5d78930328c248", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-10a.1012.8", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "What I say to the right hon. Gentleman is that any matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-10a.1012.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-10", "file": "debates1978-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "5b5d78930328c248", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-10a.1015.2", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that his answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, South-West (Mrs. Wise) is about worthy of his Department at present?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-10a.1015.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-10", "file": "debates1978-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "5b5d78930328c248", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-10a.1037.1", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY COUNCIL (BREMEN MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It will depend on a number of factors, including the level of inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-10a.1037.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-10", "file": "debates1978-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "5b5d78930328c248", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-10a.1037.1", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY COUNCIL (BREMEN MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "h of sterling. That is what I wished to say. I apologise to the House for a slip of the tongue. It will depend on several factors, including the strength of sterling, the price of imported commodities and a number of factors of that sort. A great part of the very low rate of inflation in Germany—the lowest in the world. I should think, at the present time—is due to the strength of the deutschmark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-10a.1037.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-10", "file": "debates1978-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "5b5d78930328c248", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-10a.1039.0", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY COUNCIL (BREMEN MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "the whole difference between the present occasion and previous occasions is that the proposed scheme gives a backing to all currencies in order to avoid their being pushed off their parities or unduly depreciated by speculation against those currencies? It is, in fact, a scheme which I put to the German Chancellor in May 1973. Is the Prime Minister not aware that the importance of this initiative—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-10a.1039.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-07-10", "file": "debates1978-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "5b5d78930328c248", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-10a.1041.0", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY COUNCIL (BREMEN MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "another statement to be made by a former Prime Minister—the one who used to come with all the sunshine stories about the Common Market, the one who dragged in the British people, and the one who is now trying to make excuses? Is it not time that you gave opportunities to those Government supporters who will fight to the bitter end against the Common Market, in the way that you yourself used to do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-10a.1040.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-10", "file": "debates1978-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "5b5d78930328c248", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-10a.1041.1", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY COUNCIL (BREMEN MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have to tell the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) that he needs to change his ways in addressing me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-10a.1041.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-07-10", "file": "debates1978-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "5b5d78930328c248", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-10a.1044.3", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "SHCHARANSKY AND GINZBURG (USSR TRIALS)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "And sporting.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "t hon. Friend accept the warm reassurance and support of the House for his statement, except perhaps for that somewhat dubious comment from the right hon. Member for Down, South (Mr. Powell)? Would my right hon. Friend consider, as a measure of the disapproval of Great Britain and of this House of such Soviet behaviour, the suspension from here on of all cultural connections with the Soviet Union?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-10a.1044.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-10", "file": "debates1978-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "5b5d78930328c248", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-10a.1049.1", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "SHCHARANSKY AND GINZBURG (USSR TRIALS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"South Africa.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "ility. In particular, there has been anxiety about the transfer of technology. The House has to be blunt with itself on this issue. It is one thing for us to withhold technology, but all the signs are that many other countries, many of them our allies, would not do the same. We would put our own industry and economic prosperity at risk. If there is any case for taking action in any of these areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-10a.1049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-10", "file": "debates1978-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "5b5d78930328c248", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-10a.1122.5", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (DRAFT BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": " final conclusion, because, as the Prime Minister rightly said, there must be a good deal more examination of this matter. Until the terms have been produced and we are satisfied, I shall take the view that we can safely go into these matters. I do not think that what I have saicl—and, clearly, I am convinced that all those who voted to go into the Cornmon Market must have had these ideas in mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-10a.1122.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-11", "file": "debates1978-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "384dd9a63def2050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-11a.1248.7", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will table a Question, I will give him an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-11a.1248.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-11", "file": "debates1978-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "384dd9a63def2050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-11a.1249.1", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is true that the wholesale price figures published yesterday show that there is likely to be a considerable steadiness in the inflation rate between now and the end of the year, which is as far ahead as I have always wanted to prophesy because so much depends on the next wage round.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-11a.1249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-11", "file": "debates1978-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "384dd9a63def2050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-11a.1250.2", "colnum": "1250", "heading": "CORONERS (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dafydd Wigley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dafydd Wigley", "preceding_text": "I beg to move—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-11a.1250.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-11", "file": "debates1978-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "384dd9a63def2050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-11a.1387.0", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ralph Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ralph Howell", "preceding_text": "re than £75 a week to equal the spending power of a person who is unemployed. If he has four children, he has to have a wage of more than £95 a week to equal the income of the man who is unemployed or sick whilst he is in receipt of tax refunds—and we must not forget that the tax refunds go on until all the tax previously paid has been refunded. That is extremely attractive to a great many people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-11a.1387.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-11", "file": "debates1978-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "384dd9a63def2050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-11a.1407.0", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "failed in our attempt, that the Royal Ulster Constabulary and the Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserve should be included in the same manner as the armed forces of the Crown from whom, in the circumstances of Northern Ireland and in the operations in Northern Ireland, they are scarcely to be distinguished. But the matter does not stop there. No doubt the RUC would have been brought within the scope —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-11a.1407.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-07-12", "file": "debates1978-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b37e0f6780494", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-12a.1490.2", "colnum": "1490", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas-Mann", "preceding_text": "e desirable for him to meet the leader of the GLC, because he would then have the opportunity of pointing out to him the effects of the policy to which the hon. Member for Harrow, East (Mr. Dykes) referred? In the words of an official of the GLC, in response to a request for a transfer for a family in very acute housing need, the GLC replied: I very much regret that the position as far as houses\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-12a.1490.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-12", "file": "debates1978-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b37e0f6780494", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-12a.1564.1", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "thing peculiar about grocers. The same financial principles, problems and restrictions apply to the grocery trade as they do to a multitude of other trades. From previous debates I suspect that the Minister is likely to reply as did the Chief Secretary when he was taxed about this on a previous occasion. He said that nobody pays corporation tax and that he did not know why we should be so excited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-12a.1564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-12", "file": "debates1978-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b37e0f6780494", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-12a.1654.0", "colnum": "1654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": "make an extremely brief speech, because I appreciate that many hon. Gentlemen, both in this Chamber and on the premises, would like progress to be made and to be able to return to their beds at an early hour. I was astounded by the speech of the hon. Member for Cornwall, North (Mr. Pardoe). He said that the whole country is on the fiddle. I wonder what sort of company the Liberal Party mixes with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-12a.1654.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-12", "file": "debates1978-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b37e0f6780494", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-12a.1655.0", "colnum": "1655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-12a.1655.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-12", "file": "debates1978-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b37e0f6780494", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-12a.1663.0", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": " believe also that individuals can be penalised retrospectively where that is for the national interest as a whole. But the case for propounding that must be very powerful and persuasive. When I came to this debate I was inclined to say that I believed that the principle of the rule of law should in no circumstances be infringed. But having heard what my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-12a.1663.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-12", "file": "debates1978-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b37e0f6780494", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-12a.1675.1", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "e, as the House will recall, the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that these schemes were hedged around with a secrecy which amounted to a conspiracy of silence. But still, let us divide £200 million by four. A sum of £50 million pounds would be a considerable sum. I agree that it is a problem that we must face squarely. So again, it is possible that I may lower slightly the temperature of debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-12a.1675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-12", "file": "debates1978-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b37e0f6780494", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-12a.1675.1", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "Revenue was wrong, if indeed it was. But let us accept that the problem of tax avoidance is one that must be faced squarely by an Administration of whatever complexion. Indeed, this is a problem that has faced Conservative Administrations. For all I know, it may well have faced Sir William Harcourt back in 1894. But still, I do not think that it is necessary at this hour to take the debate so far.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-12a.1675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-12", "file": "debates1978-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b37e0f6780494", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-12a.1675.1", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Member for Down, South took us back to what he called the \"Black and Lord\" amendments of 1948. The House has certainly been debating these matters for some 30 years, and I have no doubt for longer than that. Indeed, my right hon. and learned Friend suggested that there were precedents even before the war. The virtue of these rules would be—I do not need to go over them again, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-12a.1675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-12", "file": "debates1978-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "4f4b37e0f6780494", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-12a.1675.1", "colnum": "1675", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "ies and to meet a problem which we all recognise to exist. On clause 28, I commend to the House amendment no. 6, which would make the clause operative only from 6th April, and that is because, consistently with the rules which my right hon. and learned Friend spelled out to the House, the Chief Secretary has failed to put the clause before the House at the earliest opportunity. I end on this note—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-12a.1675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-13", "file": "debates1978-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "7a05646b0ca9612d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-13a.1714.2", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "spects of security, particularly that which is contained in the yellow card instructions at present. Is my right hon. Friend aware—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\")—that regulation no. 2 on that card states: Never use more force than the minimum necessary to enable you to carry out your duties, and always try to handle the security position by other means rather than using firearms\"? In this connection—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-13a.1714.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-13", "file": "debates1978-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "7a05646b0ca9612d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-13a.1714.2", "colnum": "1714", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "ecessary to enable you to carry out your duties, and always try to handle the security position by other means rather than using firearms\"? In this connection—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"]—can my right hon. Friend indicate now what is his opinion of the tragic killing of young John Boyle in Northern Ireland on Tuesday? Does he believe that it is necessary to have an inquiry when the whole community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-13a.1714.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-13", "file": "debates1978-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "7a05646b0ca9612d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-13a.1727.0", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not propose to do that today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-13a.1727.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-13", "file": "debates1978-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "7a05646b0ca9612d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-13a.1739.1", "colnum": "1739", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Was the hon. Member seeking to criticise a ruling that I have made?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-13a.1739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-13", "file": "debates1978-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "7a05646b0ca9612d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-13a.1774.1", "colnum": "1774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"They would be more convincing in Welsh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Chichester (Mr. Nelson) moved amendment (a), which I understand will be pressed to a Division, either now or later on, unless hon. Members are convinced by my arguments in the mean-time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-13a.1774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-13", "file": "debates1978-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "7a05646b0ca9612d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-13a.1880.1", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": " in speaking to amendment no. 9, felt that the directive was not sufficiently clear on this matter. He wanted the directive in certain cases to allow the receiving tax authority to go outside these limits if the providing tax authority consented. I see that the hon. Gentleman nods approval, because that is in the directive and it is in his amendment. I am happy to accept that particular amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-13a.1880.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-07-17", "file": "debates1978-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7d124016a400f7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-17a.8.8", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "The food price index in mid-June had increased by 1049 per cent. since February 1974—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-17a.8.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-17", "file": "debates1978-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7d124016a400f7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-17a.33.0", "colnum": "33", "heading": "POLICE (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Gentleman does, the special allowance for the Royal Ulster Constabulary. Following directly from the Committee's basic assumption that the scales recommended should be implemented on 1st September of this year for the clear reasons which it gives, is the right hon. Gentleman aware that in deciding to phase the award the Government are taking a major risk over the protection of our people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-17a.33.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-17", "file": "debates1978-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7d124016a400f7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-17a.47.2", "colnum": "47", "heading": "WALES BILL (TIMETABLE MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "If there are genuine amendments to the motion when it is tabled, I shall look at them as manuscript amendments, because I do not believe that the House should be robbed of an opportunity of tabling amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-17a.47.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-17", "file": "debates1978-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7d124016a400f7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-17a.114.2", "colnum": "114", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " my hon. Friend the Member for West Lothian (Mr. Dalyell) who said that he would vote for this clause. I think his argument amounted to saying that he had to be very crude in the referendum and that he would try to mislead as much as he could. My hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, Central would have no part of that, I am sure. He represents the respectable part of the Labour \"Vote No\" campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-17a.114.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-17", "file": "debates1978-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7d124016a400f7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-17a.179.1", "colnum": "179", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is a Sudeten Scot and his interest in Scotland in terms of Scottish legislation has been recent and sudden. This may well be the last speech—at least I think that it will be the last speech—I shall be delivering in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-17a.179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-17", "file": "debates1978-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "7d124016a400f7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-17a.186.3", "colnum": "186", "heading": "SCOTLAND BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is none.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "Although the Minister pointed out defects in that amendment, he could suggest no solution to the central problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-17a.186.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-18", "file": "debates1978-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "282ca4ea2c76212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.260.7", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You supply the time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Lord President tells me that he has received no request for a debate on immigration. I would welcome, as I am sure the whole House would welcome, such a debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.260.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-18", "file": "debates1978-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "282ca4ea2c76212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.262.2", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on Margaret.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have long been, as I know my hon. Friends are and I hope many Opposition Members are, an admirer of Nelson Mandela. Whether or not South Africa House accepts the greetings, I should like on behalf of Her Majesty's Government to send him formal greetings from this Dispatch Box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.262.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-18", "file": "debates1978-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "282ca4ea2c76212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.263.7", "colnum": "263", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Common Market.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Stewart", "preceding_text": "As the Government admit that food prices have risen by 104 per cent. since they came to office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.263.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-07-18", "file": "debates1978-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "282ca4ea2c76212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.284.3", "colnum": "284", "heading": "RESTRICTIVE TRADE PRACTICES ACT 1976 (AMENDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "And a peerage.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. W. Rooker", "preceding_text": "on, steal half a dozen shirts and you are likely to find yourself in Marlborough Street Magistrates' Court paying a hefty fine. Sit round a table with three or four other businessmen and agree to rig local authority contracts thereby relieving the public purse of large sums of money and you will probably end up with nothing more than a judicial wigging and a warning not to be so naughty in future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.284.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-18", "file": "debates1978-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "282ca4ea2c76212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.383.1", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Schedule 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "preceding_text": "n the ease with which the Scottish galleries will be able to get a special grant and the ease with which the English and, for that matter, the Welsh and Northern Irish galleries, perhaps, will be able to get a special grant. I have very little doubt that the new arrangement will make it harder for Scottish galleries to get the really big grant that is necessary to buy the really major work of art.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-18", "file": "debates1978-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "282ca4ea2c76212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Schedule 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "in people in the House of Lords, one of whom has got more than a quarter of a million acres of land in Scotland and another of whom is chairman of Pirelli as well as chairman of the Tory Party, and who stole—or, rather, his company stole—£9 million from the Post Office. He has also got more than 40,000 acres of land in Scotland. Is it any wonder that people like that, a load of thieves and rogues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.417.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-07-18", "file": "debates1978-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "282ca4ea2c76212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.417.3", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Schedule 17", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman is going far too far. He may not have mentioned any Member of another place by name, but there were imputations and he must withdraw them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.417.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-18", "file": "debates1978-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "282ca4ea2c76212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.417.7", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Schedule 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "I was referring, Mr. Deputy Speaker, to their ancestors who stole the land from the people of Scotland. They were thieves and rogues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.417.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-07-18", "file": "debates1978-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "282ca4ea2c76212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Schedule 17", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Ingenious, but not satisfactory. The hon. Member must withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-18", "file": "debates1978-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "282ca4ea2c76212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.418.5", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Schedule 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "If I made any imputation, Mr. Deputy Speaker, it was on the fact that certain members of the House of Lords are descended from thieves and rogues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.418.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-18", "file": "debates1978-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "282ca4ea2c76212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.418.5", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Schedule 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "If I made any imputation, Mr. Deputy Speaker, it was on the fact that certain members of the House of Lords are descended from thieves and rogues—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—and that others are mixed up with companies which steal public money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.418.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-18", "file": "debates1978-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "282ca4ea2c76212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.418.7", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Schedule 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "I honestly do not see, Mr. Deputy Speaker, why I should withdraw something which is true. I have said nothing which I would not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.418.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-07-18", "file": "debates1978-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "282ca4ea2c76212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.418.9", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Schedule 17", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name him.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member should withdraw the remark that he made earlier, which was an imputation against a noble Lord. I suggest that the hon. Member does so forthwith. Mr. Canavan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.418.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-07-18", "file": "debates1978-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "282ca4ea2c76212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.418.11", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Schedule 17", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Name him.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Member going to withdraw the imputation which he made?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.418.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-18", "file": "debates1978-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "282ca4ea2c76212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.421.0", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Schedule 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That was not on behalf of the referendum.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "t in any quarter of the House about the Government's entitlement to campaign for their policy on the referendum. Indeed, before we ever dreamed of a referendum in this House the Conservative Government campaigned with public money on behalf of their White Paper, on behalf of the vote, in principle, in the White Paper and on behalf of the vote on the Second Reading of the European Communities Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-18", "file": "debates1978-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "282ca4ea2c76212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Schedule 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "The trade unions are not massively rich organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-18", "file": "debates1978-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "282ca4ea2c76212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Schedule 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "The trade unions are not massively rich organisations. [ Interruption. ] I do not need to reply to that remark. If an election comes along in October or next year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-18", "file": "debates1978-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "282ca4ea2c76212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Schedule 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sillars", "preceding_text": "e Party is returned to Government and if that Conservative Government produce a referendum Bill on industrial relations, part and parcel of that Bill will be a clause providing that the Conservative Government will not involve themselves in compaigning for the question they place upon the ballot paper? I will give way to the hon. and learned Gentleman now if he is prepared to make that commitment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-18", "file": "debates1978-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "282ca4ea2c76212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.424.2", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Schedule 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "I think that the scales should be fairly weighed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.424.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-18", "file": "debates1978-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "282ca4ea2c76212d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.437.3", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Schedule 17", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The purpose of the motion is to provide a timetable for the consideration of amendments made in another place to the Wales Bill. I think that, in principle, the case for an allocation of time motion in respect to the Wales Bill is the same as the case made for such a motion on the Scotland Bill, which the House has already passed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-18a.437.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-07-19", "file": "debates1978-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "867a61a05b387047", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-19a.546.0", "colnum": "546", "heading": "OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "So do we.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. Mr. Michael Latham. I do know the difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-19a.545.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-07-19", "file": "debates1978-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "867a61a05b387047", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-19a.654.3", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cledwyn Hughes", "preceding_text": "uld, but is not the position safeguarded by clause 22, which says: In naming persons to be members of a committee appointed under section 17, 21 or 53 of this Act, other than the Executive Committee, the Assembly shall secure that the balance of parties in the Assembly is, so far as practicable, reflected in the membership of the committee.\"? That will apply in the case of the Executive Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-19a.654.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-20", "file": "debates1978-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "91a5a07e90bda4f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-20a.770.5", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Common Market.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman would care to take the opportunity of explaining how he accounts for the rest of the increases in food prices which have taken place since his Government have been in office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-20a.770.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-20", "file": "debates1978-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "91a5a07e90bda4f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-20a.775.2", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"As modified.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "With regard to the first point, it is not for me to say whether Hansard has been misrepresenting the right hon. Gentleman. Perhaps if he reads his words and those of his hon. Friend he will find all that he needs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-20a.775.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-20", "file": "debates1978-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "91a5a07e90bda4f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-20a.776.3", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman cares to look at the statement issued at the time, he will find that reference was made to a stocktaking of the common agricultural policy, which, I believe, the German Government had promised to initiate. It was in the light of that that the renegotiation took place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-20a.776.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-20", "file": "debates1978-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "91a5a07e90bda4f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-20a.780.0", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is not correct. The figures that are included in order to estimate what public expenditure is likely to be over the next three or four years are not forecasts of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-20a.780.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-07-20", "file": "debates1978-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "91a5a07e90bda4f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-20a.783.5", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It was not a question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Winifred Ewing", "preceding_text": "That is not an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-20a.783.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-07-20", "file": "debates1978-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "91a5a07e90bda4f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-20a.785.1", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "It is a Tory Government.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "preceding_text": "e presumed to be interested in the advance warnings which are available of the sort of catastrophe which arise from advanced forms of Socialism, is there any possibility of his having an early conversation with his opposite number, the Prime Minister of Sweden, to discuss with him the appalling financial consequences for that Government of the present attempts to salvage the shipbuilding industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-20a.785.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-20", "file": "debates1978-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "91a5a07e90bda4f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-20a.788.4", "colnum": "788", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I think that we should see how we proceed. I have announced the proceedings on the Bill today, and I hope that we can get them through in one day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-20a.788.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-20", "file": "debates1978-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "91a5a07e90bda4f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-20a.791.5", "colnum": "791", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Summer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "In view of the phoney trials that have taken place recently in the Soviet Union and of the appalling behaviour of the Government in Chile in perpetrating atrocities almost daily, would it not be a good thing for this House, before we rise for the Easter Recess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-20a.791.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-20", "file": "debates1978-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "91a5a07e90bda4f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-20a.796.2", "colnum": "796", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend confirm that there is another basic freedom called \"the right to work\" which the free world does not seem to handle very well?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-20a.796.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-07-20", "file": "debates1978-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "91a5a07e90bda4f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-20a.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman knows—it has been indicated earlier this week—that it is quite out of order to make a statement of that sort about a member of another place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-20a.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-20", "file": "debates1978-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "91a5a07e90bda4f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-20a.980.7", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Schedule 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-20a.980.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-07-20", "file": "debates1978-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "91a5a07e90bda4f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-20a.1002.0", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Schedule 12", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That the Northern Ireland Committee have leave, at their next sitting, to consider the matter of the Eighth and Ninth Reports of the Examiner of Statutory Rules before resuming consideration of the matter of the Reorganisation of the Housing Executive.—[ Mr. Carter. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-20a.1001.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-21", "file": "debates1978-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1d29228c41cec372", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-21a.1029.0", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "PAY, PRICES AND DIVIDENDS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept from me that there will be a widespread welcome among Government supporters and working men and women for dividend control? Will he accept, further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-21a.1029.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-07-21", "file": "debates1978-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "1d29228c41cec372", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-21a.1030.6", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "PAY, PRICES AND DIVIDENDS", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "A sadist.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I appreciate my hon. Friend's rhetoric, as always. I do not think that the Opposition Front Bench would regard me as a masochist. They might try to attribute to me one of the other—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-21a.1030.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-24", "file": "debates1978-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "e346c8d2a7ab69f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-24a.1159.1", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "preceding_text": "The problem with the hospitals in my area is not that we are spending too much on them but that, because of the policies the nation has been pursuing, we cannot afford to spend more. The only way to solve the problem is to create more wealth in the wealth-creating sections of the economy. There are two areas in which there is real scope for increasing the number of jobs. They are small businesses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-24a.1159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-24", "file": "debates1978-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "e346c8d2a7ab69f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-24a.1212.1", "colnum": "1212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "preceding_text": " in the previous one. If the House, in the hours during which we have spent discussing this problem had succeeded in producing two good ideas an hour, we might have been somewhere near making progress. I have listened to the expression of more hopes and aspirations and benevolent thoughts for constituents than to hard reality. If there is to be an election in October, as clearly as there is to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-24a.1212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-24", "file": "debates1978-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "e346c8d2a7ab69f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-24a.1262.1", "colnum": "1262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ryman", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ryman", "preceding_text": "having nothing to look forward to except the dole. Of about 900 school leavers in my constituency this summer, about 100 will be found employment or training of some kind in the immediate future. That means that about 800 children are leaving school, or have left within the past few weeks, with no prospects of employment or training. That is disgraceful. The Government have nothing to be proud of.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-24a.1262.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-07-24", "file": "debates1978-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "e346c8d2a7ab69f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-24a.1280.2", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that we can solve this problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-24a.1280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-24", "file": "debates1978-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "e346c8d2a7ab69f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-24a.1282.0", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-24a.1282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-24", "file": "debates1978-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "e346c8d2a7ab69f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-24a.1306.2", "colnum": "1306", "heading": "DOCK LABOUR SCHEME", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "preceding_text": "as. We shall not do it by having a series of debates on demarcation issues, which is essentially what the Act will precipitate. By what shall we do it? We have to make it attractive for small businesses to set up again in the dying dockland areas. I accept quite openly that we shall not do this in London without accompanying that with a massive injection of public investment in the infrastructure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-24a.1306.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-07-24", "file": "debates1978-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "e346c8d2a7ab69f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-24a.1325.6", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "DIVIDENDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That in respect of the Dividends Bill, notices of Amendments, new Clauses, and new Schedules to be moved in Committee may be accepted by the Clerks of the Table before the Bill has been read a Second time.—[ Mr. Tinn. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-24a.1325.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-07-25", "file": "debates1978-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "165c2234d558d25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-25a.1359.1", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greville Janner", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that there is a growing body of opinion in the country and in the House that if the present repressive measures continue in the Soviet Union it will be inappropriate for the Olympic Games to be held there in 1980?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-25a.1359.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-25", "file": "debates1978-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "165c2234d558d25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-25a.1360.4", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "Returning to the question of unemployment, does not my right hon. Friend agree that the prospects for economic growth next year are not particularly bright in the Western world? In those circumstances, is it not necessary to turn to structural measures? Will he consider putting a new impetus behind the scheme to encourage earlier retirement so that the youth can gel to work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-25a.1360.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-25", "file": "debates1978-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "165c2234d558d25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-25a.1371.3", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": " allow his employees to join a trade union, and the Tory trade unionist body is not normally entitled to do anything but show its face on a television screen or appear at a Tory Party conference to establish the relationship between the Tory Party hierarchy and the working man. Even this body has declared that it will not tolerate having this person, who has breached the Employment Protection Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-25a.1371.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-25", "file": "debates1978-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "165c2234d558d25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-25a.1371.3", "colnum": "1371", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speed it up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "s breached the Employment Protection Act—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"]—imposed upon the Tory Party. A recent study by the Conservative Centre for Policy Studies, an entirely independent body, has shown that there is little evidence that employment legislation in general and the Employment Protection Act in particular are inhibiting industrial recovery or contributing to high levels of unemployment.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-25a.1371.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-25", "file": "debates1978-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "165c2234d558d25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-25a.1388.1", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n this morning on the re-equipment of the woollen industry and ask himself whether he does not think that this strategy has been justified. I hope that hon. Members have been made aware by company managements and trade unions of the value of the industrial strategy in these matters. We intend to continue full support and to build up the National Enterprise Board. Its subsidiaries now provide jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-25a.1388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-25", "file": "debates1978-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "165c2234d558d25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-25a.1388.1", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " the wrong; Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman and buffoon. Right hon. Members may pick their own roles in this particular pantomime. They may choose them as they please. There is only one occasion when they speak in unison. That is when there is a pay grievance from which they hope to extract some party advantage.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-25a.1388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-25", "file": "debates1978-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "165c2234d558d25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-25a.1393.1", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wasted years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "preceding_text": "onomy in order to transfer it to the unproductive part of it. That is one of the great causes of our problems, because this Government have increased the unproductive sector, and diminished the productive sector, so that during the lifetime of this Government we have had virtually no growth at all. During the period known as the 13 years of Conservative Government, we kept down public expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-25a.1393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-25", "file": "debates1978-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "165c2234d558d25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-25a.1492.1", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "By no means. The Chancellor will recollect the correspondence that we exchanged about this which, if he has the grace and wisdom to recognise it, establishes common ground.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-25a.1492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-25", "file": "debates1978-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "165c2234d558d25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-25a.1492.3", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "led to the middle classes…. We should point up the choice between us and the Tories. Then he emphasised that we need time, time, and we need the trade union secretaries to work up the anti-Tory campaign. Bob came next, and he said: We must do something for the trade unions, they must feel the need for a Labour Government and we must work up their feelings of fear of the Tories. Wedgie said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-25a.1492.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-25", "file": "debates1978-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "165c2234d558d25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-25a.1492.3", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "ctorate must fear them and like us…and, for a lift to our own side, the great thing we want is healthy reflation. Not a flash but a sense that the economy is growing, and without upsetting the international bankers. So much for Wedgie. Then we come to the Chancellor of the Exchequer: Denis only feared that we would stumble this year, which was why he wanted the election as soon as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-25a.1492.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-25", "file": "debates1978-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "165c2234d558d25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-25a.1496.1", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A very good speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "preceding_text": "y tastes a little since we last met. I was a little surprised at their catholicity, if that is the right word. I was interested to see that his hon. Friend the Member for Blaby (Mr. Lawson) has at least introduced him to numbers, which is about time in view of the responsibilities which he claims he wants to follow. In the main, the right hon. and learned Gentleman made a very entertaining speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-25a.1496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-25", "file": "debates1978-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "165c2234d558d25a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-25a.1501.1", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "THE ECONOMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Half?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "crease in the nation's earnings. However, I think that we have learned from experience that any figure which is published, what ever its intended purpose, is liable to be taken as a floor for settlements by those who negotiate. That is why this year we set a guideline of 5 per cent. for settlements, knowing that that is likely to result in an earnings out-turn about half that in the current year —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-25a.1501.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-26", "file": "debates1978-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "334281a05c17e70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-26a.1532.3", "colnum": "1532", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "On the issue of the British information services in New York, and Mr. O'Keefe, is the hon. Gentleman aware that many people equally well informed as himself take a different view of Mr. O'Keefe's dismissal? When overseas quango Jay finishes the round-Britain yacht race in his yacht Norvantes \"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-26a.1532.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-07-26", "file": "debates1978-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "334281a05c17e70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-26a.1534.6", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Davies", "preceding_text": "There is no doubt on the Opposition side of the House that it is desirable for African problems to be solved within Africa. Is not that all the more reason for us to take the most vehement action to get the Cubans out?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-26a.1534.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-26", "file": "debates1978-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "334281a05c17e70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-26a.1542.2", "colnum": "1542", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Clark", "preceding_text": "udicrous example of the apparently unlimited capacity of Her Majesty's Government to sound off about the way in which foreign Governments treat their own nationals and call the odds about who should or should not be brought to trial, what sentences they should receive, and so on? What possible interest can it be to the people whom we represent here how foreign Governments treat their own citizens?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-26a.1542.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-26", "file": "debates1978-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "334281a05c17e70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-26a.1545.3", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheques.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luard", "preceding_text": "Because of the difficulties of security in maintaining large amounts of cash in the passport offices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-26a.1545.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-26", "file": "debates1978-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "334281a05c17e70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-26a.1564.0", "colnum": "1564", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "mportant that we should have more than two authorities providing programmes and news in this country. The main claim for the OBA in this form is that there will be a third authority. I hope that through local broadcasting we shall get even more views, because a country that has only two is losing what it used to have when it had many more newspapers. In regard to Wales—and I say this as a Welshman", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-26a.1564.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-07-26", "file": "debates1978-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "334281a05c17e70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-26a.1573.1", "colnum": "1573", "heading": "BROADCASTING", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "t is a matter for the Government as a whole. I repeat, those appointed to the BBC and the IBA get very little money and they do an excellent job. They are in no sense the poodles of any political party. With regard to anyone who spoke on the radio this morning, I issued the White Paper at 2.30 this afternoon. I did not issue copies before that, except to a group of people involved in the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-26a.1573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-26", "file": "debates1978-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "334281a05c17e70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-26a.1713.0", "colnum": "1713", "heading": "WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "eed on some of these issues, but once the Labour movement had made up its united mind they would certainly be in the Lobby supporting the Labour Government. That is the profound difference. We know, too, that the behaviour of these Members has already done immense harm to this Labour Government. The fall of the Scotland and Wales Bill led directly to the creation of the Lib-Lab pact, for instance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-26a.1713.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-26", "file": "debates1978-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "334281a05c17e70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-26a.1715.0", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Be a devil, name him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "preceding_text": "mpaign. He fought very valiantly for it, and he persuaded me to accompany him into the Lobby in revolt against the line which our party was taking. I was just about to step into the \"No\" Lobby on that occasion when one of the Government Whips at the time—not, I hasten to add, my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, North (Mr. Grist), but some other Whip whom I shall not name —came sidling up to me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-26a.1715.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-07-26", "file": "debates1978-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "334281a05c17e70a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-26a.1717.1", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "WALES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "preceding_text": "For good fraternal reasons I shall make only a brief comment on the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Newport (Mr. Hughes).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-26a.1717.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-07-27", "file": "debates1978-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9e3507e0f55a9e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1771.11", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Question again proposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1771.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-27", "file": "debates1978-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9e3507e0f55a9e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1772.4", "colnum": "1772", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "t of common objectives by the TUC and the Labour Party. I have noticed that the response to this announcement in the newspapers which support the Opposition has been one of alarm and despondency. On the question of the establishment of a single bank out of the National Savings Bank and the Giro, I hope that this will go ahead as fast as those concerned are able to negotiate the additional details.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1772.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-27", "file": "debates1978-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9e3507e0f55a9e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1794.1", "colnum": "1794", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, as Prime Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Marshall", "preceding_text": "s? Will he not confirm that many of the problems faced by nationalised industries—for example, the difficulties they face over their profit figures in relation to different accounting systems—need to be looked at in the light of the Government's own White Paper, which is long overdue for discussion? Will the Prime Minister undertake to play his part, and when he comes back to the House in October—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-27", "file": "debates1978-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9e3507e0f55a9e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1809.9", "colnum": "1809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVIDENDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "aps one of the most willing Ministers in this House to give way, mainly because I know the kind of interventions that I am likely to get. Therefore, I am perfectly happy to give way. But in the interests of all those other hon. Members who wish to speak. I think that I should try to make a little progress. What I like about Conservative Members is the selective way in which they read from reports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1809.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-27", "file": "debates1978-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9e3507e0f55a9e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1814.4", "colnum": "1814", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVIDENDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": " us how he will achieve it. The right hon. and learned Gentleman explained on television on Friday night that if by any mischance—he did not put it in quite that way—he became a member of the Government if there were a General Election in October he would not scrap the 5 per cent. policy. Apparently he would continue it. That is what he said. His chance of doing that in the face of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1814.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-27", "file": "debates1978-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9e3507e0f55a9e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1901.1", "colnum": "1901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVIDENDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernest G. Perry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernest G. Perry", "preceding_text": "ect not the mistakes but the tendencies of that time. I give them credit for the 1973 measure. I give credit to the right hon. Gentleman and the hon Gentleman for having the foresight to understand what was happening. With fellow Members of the Cabinet, they were responsible for introducing the original legislation. Today we are continuing it. I believe that the need for dividend control has gone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-27", "file": "debates1978-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9e3507e0f55a9e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1919.0", "colnum": "1919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVIDENDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. B. Cant", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. B. Cant", "preceding_text": "I hesitate to halt the hon. Gentleman in full flow, but is not the real truth about this problem that the Bill is necessary because we have now reached a moment of time—this is clear from all the private investors' circulars this week—when we are entering the second leg of a major bull market on the Stock Exchange which will take the FT index to 800?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1919.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-27", "file": "debates1978-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9e3507e0f55a9e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1930.1", "colnum": "1930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DIVIDENDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "prices policy depend on dividend restraint. These, then, are the reasons why, when in Government, both parties introduced controls. They did so for very good reasons—equity and fairness, and because it was necessary to convince people that their sacrifices would not be exploited by others. I accept that dividend restraint cannot be continued indefinitely because of some of its distorting effects.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1930.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-27", "file": "debates1978-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9e3507e0f55a9e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1942.2", "colnum": "1942", "heading": "DIVIDENDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "t of Committee work. We understand. He is not very good at Committee work. But we carried the amendment against the Conservative Government. Then we came back to the House on Report, and the right hon. Gentleman supported me on limiting the duration of the powers. But now the right hon. Gentleman is not supporting me on limiting the duration of the powers. The right hon. Gentleman has turned coat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1942.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-27", "file": "debates1978-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9e3507e0f55a9e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1951.3", "colnum": "1951", "heading": "DIVIDENDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Grocott", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may not be tired, but I am concerned to hear that many of his hon. Friends are. I understand that many of them have gone home to bed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1951.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-27", "file": "debates1978-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9e3507e0f55a9e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1953.0", "colnum": "1953", "heading": "DIVIDENDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percy Grieve", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percy Grieve", "preceding_text": "I support the amendment moved by the hon. Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Wainwright), just as I would support any amendment which was moved endeavouring to cut short or truncate in any way the tragic obtuseness of the measure to which the House has given a Second Reading tonight.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1953.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-27", "file": "debates1978-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9e3507e0f55a9e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1958.7", "colnum": "1958", "heading": "DIVIDENDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "—has just passed into law in Brussels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1958.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-27", "file": "debates1978-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9e3507e0f55a9e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1993.7", "colnum": "1993", "heading": "DIVIDENDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Renton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Renton", "preceding_text": "ered whether I should ever have that privilege. I am also fortunate because this important debate is taking place in the presence of the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and a number of other Ministers. One point that is often stressed in the House, notably by my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Huntingdonshire (Sir D. Renton), is the need for clarity in our legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1993.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-27", "file": "debates1978-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9e3507e0f55a9e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1996.0", "colnum": "1996", "heading": "DIVIDENDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! He has gone\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "o incorporated. If the 1973 Act—notably section 10—is still in force, as we know that it is and that it will be extended after 31st July should the Bill reach the statute book, then, with the benefit of the advice of the Attorney-General, whom we are particularly glad to see in his place, perhaps we shall be told why it is necessary to include clause 2 (2) when the parent Act applies to companies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1996.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-27", "file": "debates1978-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9e3507e0f55a9e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1998.0", "colnum": "1998", "heading": "DIVIDENDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "I wish to support the valid points put forward by my hon. Friend the Member for Eastbourne (Mr. Gow), and in supporting them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1998.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-27", "file": "debates1978-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9e3507e0f55a9e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1998.0", "colnum": "1998", "heading": "DIVIDENDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "I wish to support the valid points put forward by my hon. Friend the Member for Eastbourne (Mr. Gow), and in supporting them—[ Interruption ]—I agree wholeheartedly that the title should be the Restriction of Dividends Bill or the Restraint on Dividends Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1998.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-27", "file": "debates1978-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9e3507e0f55a9e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1998.1", "colnum": "1998", "heading": "DIVIDENDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir Myer. My hon. Friend is in the course of delivering a cogent speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1998.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-27", "file": "debates1978-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9e3507e0f55a9e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1998.3", "colnum": "1998", "heading": "DIVIDENDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": " are very quick to criticise such things as advertisements and newspaper headlines for being misleading. Indeed, they have set up, with all the paraphernalia and bureaucracy of Socialism, bodies to make sure that advertisements and newspapers are not misleading. We have the Press Council and the Advertising Standards Association, the purpose of which is to make sure that titles are not misleading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.1998.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-27", "file": "debates1978-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9e3507e0f55a9e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.2002.5", "colnum": "2002", "heading": "DIVIDENDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Out of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "ple out of work, the Government are kicking them in the teeth and providing very little opportunity for the additional jobs needed to reduce the present intolerable level of unemployment. The present Government inherited only 600,000 unemployed. In the four years of their term of office, they have succeeded in increasing unemployment from 600,000 to 1½ million. That is a serious indictment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.2002.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-27", "file": "debates1978-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9e3507e0f55a9e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.2005.3", "colnum": "2005", "heading": "DIVIDENDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": " only is 50 per cent. of the investment in industry investment by organisations, by pension funds and insurance companies, but a high proportion of that investment is the investment of small and poor people. I think that it was one of the reports put to the committee headed by the right hon. Member for Huyton (Sir H. Wilson), or, if not that, certainly to the Diamond Commission, which pointed out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.2005.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-27", "file": "debates1978-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9e3507e0f55a9e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.2005.3", "colnum": "2005", "heading": "DIVIDENDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "a total statutory income from all sources of less than £2,000 a year, and 25 per cent. had a total statutory income of under £1,000. Hon. Members opposite who seem to wear on their jackets the badge of conscience that they speak for the poorest sectors of society might pause for a moment and recognise that the poorest at present are often people who are investing in pension funds and institutions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.2005.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-27", "file": "debates1978-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9e3507e0f55a9e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.2007.1", "colnum": "2007", "heading": "DIVIDENDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have got the point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "her constituencies throughout the country. I cannot understand what hon. Members find so funny in that and why they come here at this hour of the morning to hoot when a matter of this importance is being discussed. They should be ashamed to behave in that way. 'They only make it the more obvious to people outside that the Labour Party does not really care either for the unemployed or for the poor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.2007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-27", "file": "debates1978-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9e3507e0f55a9e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.2007.1", "colnum": "2007", "heading": "DIVIDENDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "does not really care either for the unemployed or for the poor. [HON. MEMBERS: \"We have got the point.\"] If Labour Members have the point, perhaps they will reflect that the best thing that can be done with the Bill is not to give it a Third Reading. Perhaps they can have time to reflect, and the proceedings on the Bill can be completed at a time when they have given the matter more consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.2007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-27", "file": "debates1978-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9e3507e0f55a9e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.2007.1", "colnum": "2007", "heading": "DIVIDENDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "oint, perhaps they will reflect that the best thing that can be done with the Bill is not to give it a Third Reading. Perhaps they can have time to reflect, and the proceedings on the Bill can be completed at a time when they have given the matter more consideration. [ Interruption. ] When the hon. Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Lead-bitter) speaks, he wishes to command the silence of the whole House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.2007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-27", "file": "debates1978-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "9e3507e0f55a9e78", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.2009.1", "colnum": "2009", "heading": "DIVIDENDS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "We can part with the Bill without sorrow, without regret, and with no praise. There has been no serious defence of the Bill, even from the Treasury Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-27a.2009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-28", "file": "debates1978-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "4b6e15bdd227354b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-28a.2043.3", "colnum": "2043", "heading": "MEMBERS' SALARIES, PENSIONS AND ALLOWANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "as a Member of this House I had no secretary. In those years many complaints were made of me; but one complaint that was not made was that I neglected my correspondence or my duties to my constituents; nor was it urged against me that I was failing in diligence in applying my mind to the matters which successively were put before this House. Has the volume of constituency correspondence increased?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-28a.2043.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-07-31", "file": "debates1978-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "7599fa2e2c9e33bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-31a.13.3", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman misunderstood the position. I pressed the steam coal case 18 months ago, and the Council of Ministers would not agree to it. I felt it right not to hold back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-31a.13.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-07-31", "file": "debates1978-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "7599fa2e2c9e33bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-31a.57.2", "colnum": "57", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "We come now to Lords amendments nos, 2, 3 and 4, to be moved formally. In addition there is also Lords amendment no. 5, which Mr. Speaker indicated should be dealt with in the same grouping. Have I the leave of the House to put the Question on all four altogether?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-07-31a.57.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-08-01", "file": "debates1978-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "55ef056fc000ee00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-01a.249.8", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhart", "preceding_text": "During his busy day will the Prime Minister try to explain to the British people why food prices have doubled in the past four years under a Socialist Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-01a.249.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-08-01", "file": "debates1978-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "55ef056fc000ee00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-01a.250.7", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "So the Prime Minister is prepared to deprive tenants of the discount they already have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-01a.250.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-08-01", "file": "debates1978-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "55ef056fc000ee00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-01a.254.1", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon MEMBERS: \"You are not missing much.\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I cannot hear the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-01a.254.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-08-01", "file": "debates1978-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "55ef056fc000ee00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-01a.257.3", "colnum": "257", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Renton", "preceding_text": " to the Scrutiny Committee and, if he did recommend anything, what transpired. I should also, in fairness to the Lord President as well as to the House—because it is part of the foundation of the case which I seek to make—refer to column 108 of the Official Report of 28th November 1977. As he was concluding his speech, the Lord President said: I hope very much that all the proposals that we have\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-01a.257.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-08-01", "file": "debates1978-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "55ef056fc000ee00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-01a.260.2", "colnum": "260", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Renton", "preceding_text": "Unless we develop practices which will enable the House to consider European affairs more thoroughly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-01a.260.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-08-01", "file": "debates1978-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "55ef056fc000ee00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-01a.262.3", "colnum": "262", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Barbara Castle", "preceding_text": "en challenged as to whether the proposals would be brought back before the end of this Session, my right hon. Friend gave the undertaking to which the right hon. and learned Gentleman has already referred. That undertaking has not been kept. I find it profoundly disturbing that what has happened is that some of my right hon. Friend's colleagues in the Cabinet have not allowed him to keep his word.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-01a.262.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-08-01", "file": "debates1978-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "55ef056fc000ee00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-01a.343.3", "colnum": "343", "heading": "PRIVATE BILLS [Lords] (SUSPENSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not new\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "e to suggest those reasons why I and many other hon. Members are uneasy about these Bills proceeding. They can proceed only if the carryover motion is agreed to. Therefore, it seems to be at least reasonable to enlighten the House about the area which concerns myself and many other hon. Members, namely, the completely new provision in the Bills that seven days notice shall be given of processions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-01a.343.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-08-01", "file": "debates1978-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "55ef056fc000ee00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-01a.471.1", "colnum": "471", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT (LONDON)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And by you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "preceding_text": " blocks. He mentioned the movement out of London of all industries and activities which were not central to a capital city. That was the policy of the GLC up to about 1973. He also mentioned ringways. All those three policies have been reversed. If I remember correctly—although I am not making a party point particularly—at one time or another those policies were espoused by the Conservative Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-01a.471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-08-01", "file": "debates1978-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "55ef056fc000ee00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-01a.500.3", "colnum": "500", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT (LONDON)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "tion. That is on the record, and the hon. Member should know it. I find it very difficult to make my speech when the hon. Member for Leeds, West (Mr. Dean), having woken up, interrupts me from a sedentary position. I shall give way to him if he wishes. As he appears not to wish to do so, I repeat that I deprecate that attack upon Sir Frank Marshall, who has been carrying out his review for no fee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-01a.500.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-08-02", "file": "debates1978-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "2749d5b06e2cc5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-02a.744.4", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Cowardice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "economic and industrial considerations, but also social and human factors. I think it would be very foolish of the House not to look at the matter seriously and in depth. Of course, the chairman of the Port of London Authority put forward certain proposals as a basis for receiving support from the Government. I expect that he is somewhat disappointed that we have not been able to accept them all.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-02a.744.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-08-02", "file": "debates1978-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "2749d5b06e2cc5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-02a.753.9", "colnum": "753", "heading": "NORTH SEA OIL (TAXATION)", "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": " after today, and we propose to halve the oil allowance as from 1st January 1979. There will be special transitional arrangements for expenditure under contracts already entered into. The details are set out in a press statement issued today. I am making copies available to hon. Members from the Vote Office. Provisions to give effect to these proposals will be included in next year's Finance Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-02a.753.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-08-02", "file": "debates1978-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "2749d5b06e2cc5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-02a.783.1", "colnum": "783", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And Chief Chirau?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "ll not work for its success. In view of the great difficulty of mounting any form of elections and a fair test of opinion, it would be an act of total irresponsibility for us to choose sides and to give up all influence on bringing the parties in dispute together. I intend to go on talking to Mr. Nkomo, Bishop Muzorewa, Mr. Sithole, Mr. Mugabe and Mr. Smith. I shall go anywhere to see any of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-02a.783.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-08-02", "file": "debates1978-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "2749d5b06e2cc5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-02a.794.1", "colnum": "794", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It is past.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Stewart", "preceding_text": "epresented their peoples or a large majority of their peoples. Where Ian Smith is unique is that he has started a rebellion for the purpose of ensuring the domination by 5 per cent. of his people over the remaining 95 per cent. That is why one cannot regard him in the same way as insurgent leaders elsewhere. That surely is something that ought to have been condemned and discouraged from the start.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-02a.794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-08-02", "file": "debates1978-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "2749d5b06e2cc5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-02a.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "Why does the right hon. Gentleman keep on talking about support for Mr. Smith? We are talking about support for the internal settlement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-02a.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-08-02", "file": "debates1978-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "2749d5b06e2cc5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-02a.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Maudling", "preceding_text": "ircum stances. My first reason is that the internal settlement was agreed within Rhodesia, between the representatives of the Europeans and the representatives and leaders of the black Nationalist Party in Rhodesia. My second is that the Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary has accepted that the internal settlement meets all the principles for which both sides of the House have stood for many years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-02a.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-08-02", "file": "debates1978-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "2749d5b06e2cc5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-02a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "preceding_text": "democratic elections. The more that they fear the success of the internal settlement and the more encouragement that they continue to get from Government supporters who want to impose their own external settlement, the worse the terrorism may become. What objections have we in this House to the internal settlement? It has achieved, above all, this recognition of the principle of one man, one vote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-02a.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-08-02", "file": "debates1978-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "2749d5b06e2cc5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-02a.847.1", "colnum": "847", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who paid?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "ying at least support to the internal settlement? Surely Rhodesia does not need to follow the sad example of so many of those other countries in Africa. It can be the exception. Whatever Labour Members may say, there is a basic harmony between black, white and coloured in Rhodesia. This aspect of affairs greatly impressed me when I had the pleasure and honour of visiting that country last October.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-02a.847.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-08-02", "file": "debates1978-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "2749d5b06e2cc5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-02a.849.1", "colnum": "849", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way, because I promised to be brief. Food production could be increased, to the advantage of other less fortunate countries which border Rhodesia. Rhodesia has a basic industrial structure of considerable potential, which has been built up since sanctions were imposed. It has one of the most advanced black education systems in the whole of the African continent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-02a.849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-08-02", "file": "debates1978-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "2749d5b06e2cc5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-02a.891.8", "colnum": "891", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "We have explained, and I repeat, the basis on which we would take part in elections", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-02a.891.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-08-02", "file": "debates1978-08-02a.xml", "sha256": "2749d5b06e2cc5a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-02a.891.8", "colnum": "891", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "We have explained, and I repeat, the basis on which we would take part in elections [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I think that the right hon. Member for Knutsford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-02a.891.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-08-03", "file": "debates1978-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "b7da5b948cc09aa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-03a.923.3", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "I have not had the opportunity of reading the evidence, but I have heard the news today. Is my right hon. Friend aware that many of us are somewhat disturbed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-03a.923.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-08-03", "file": "debates1978-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "b7da5b948cc09aa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-03a.924.0", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "It wa,s this sort of concern that caused the setting up of the Royal Commission on the whole prosecuting process. Of course, these matters are handled differently in Scotland. We had a discussion on this matter during the passage of the legislation in 1977. The Commissioner has put his views forward. This is a pretty thick report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-03a.924.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-08-03", "file": "debates1978-08-03a.xml", "sha256": "b7da5b948cc09aa4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-03a.927.0", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Summerskill", "preceding_text": "It is regrettable that Mrs. King, the lady in question, was subject to two inquiries because of two different methods of enforcing the television licensing law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-08-03a.927.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-01", "file": "debates1978-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "df2b7172e8e3676e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-01a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "preceding_text": " not it a disgrace and a reflection on them that there are now 5 million people who have to have recourse to social security? That number has increased by 1 million during the last four years. Whenever there is a Labour Government there will be poverty, because Labour concentrates far too little on wealth creation and far too much or redistributing what there is. The Gracious Speech, Mr. Chairman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-01a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-01", "file": "debates1978-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "df2b7172e8e3676e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-01a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "preceding_text": "ave x per cent. to solve all the many and complicated problems in many different circumstances in industry. Incomes policies of a rigid kind do not fail because they are unpopular. They are, of course, very popular. Looking at all the opinion polls, I naturally have a particular interest in those taken around February 1974. We could have done with more support from the Prime Minister at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-01a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-01", "file": "debates1978-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "df2b7172e8e3676e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-01a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher", "preceding_text": "nd the Member for Oswestry (Mr. Biffen) says about productivity deals is very good. He says that they are the elastic device whereby the policy can be stretched to meet the ultimate truth of the market place. That is exactly what is happening. So, rigid percentage incomes policies at this stage—no: they cannot and they will not hold. However, that does not mean that one can abandon all constraint.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-01a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-01", "file": "debates1978-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "df2b7172e8e3676e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-01a.32.5", "colnum": "32", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "e to the defence of the Western way of life—whether they believe in the low priority accorded by this Government or believe, as we do, that our first duty to freedom is to defend our own. This Gracious Speech is an attempt to try to prove that the Labour Party is what it is not. It is an attempt to prove that it is more moderate than it is, and to keep the Left wing of the party very quiet indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-01a.32.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-01", "file": "debates1978-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "df2b7172e8e3676e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-01a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ving forward. The comprehensive test ban treaty which is our goal will—provided we can get the structure right—provide an effective curb to the dangerous spread of nuclear weapons. Meanwhile at home it is the tide of inflation that is the Government's chief concern. The right hon. Lady addressed some observations to us this afternoon, basically about pay. There was hardly anything about inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-01a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-01", "file": "debates1978-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "df2b7172e8e3676e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-01a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " by North Sea oil. Last year the figure was 38 million tonnes. This year it will be about 55 million tonnes and by 1980 it is probable that we shall reach net self-sufficiency. Each tonne of oil is worth about £50 and it can be seen how valuable an addition this has been to what we have been doing. Our people are better off than a year ago—higher earnings, lower taxes and a reduced inflation rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-01a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-01", "file": "debates1978-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "df2b7172e8e3676e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-01a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "skill or show their strength by insisting on exceeding it, and finally no one or few people get less than the stated figure. The right hon. Lady said that she thought it was a question of whether it should be an average or a norm—that once one states a figure, if one states that it is going to be an average and Ford workers get 15 per cent., who is going to get nought per cent. to make up for it?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-01a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-01", "file": "debates1978-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "df2b7172e8e3676e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-01a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tors know what we are aiming at and they know—and they cannot have it spelt out more clearly than I am doing now—that settlements at more than that figure will result, unless other factors enter into the calculations which we cannot see now, in inflation going up. I have never tried to avoid that conclusion and I do not avoid it now. I must emphasise again and again that that figure still applies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-01a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-01", "file": "debates1978-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "df2b7172e8e3676e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-01a.54.1", "colnum": "54", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not what you said in 1974\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "r Government and of our country. Another argument I hear is that, although the country is generally in favour of moderate settlements for everyone else, that resolve will not last if there is public inconvenience or hardship. It is argued that the public mood will then rapidly change and that people will say \"Give them the money\" or \"Let us have a quiet life\". I hope those who say this are wrong.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-01a.54.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-02", "file": "debates1978-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "5a2e8e6a5fcb7123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-02a.191.2", "colnum": "191", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that these heroic attacks by the courageous young whites of the Smith regime have not been against the armed camps of trained men, where they would have been met with ground-to-air missiles, but against such places as refugee camps and a camp where women civil servants were being trained?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-02a.191.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-02", "file": "debates1978-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "5a2e8e6a5fcb7123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-02a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "tlement. President Kaunda has made his position on the liberation struggle perfectly clear. He is the sovereign Head of State of an independent sovereign country. That country will make its decisions. We have to make our decisions. We have to live together in the world, and we have to face the fact that Zambia has decided to support the liberation forces. We will not support the liberation forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-02a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-02", "file": "debates1978-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "5a2e8e6a5fcb7123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-02a.200.9", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr. David Ennals)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr. David Ennals)", "preceding_text": "an that? And that was after the Budget injection of £50 million. He was saying that under a Tory Government there would not have been that £50 million boost and there would not be any further increases beyond the figures in the White Paper. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will confirm that that is the dismal prospect facing the NHS if the Tories, by misadventure, were to be returned to power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-02a.200.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-02", "file": "debates1978-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "5a2e8e6a5fcb7123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-02a.222.1", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "was demanding was \"just not on\". The Daily Mirror quoted him as saying on 26th October, that …we mustn't create a situation which makes such a hole in the pay policy that there is nothing left. Yet there has now been substantial evidence, from authoritative sources, that pay policy had nothing whatever to do with it. The Sunday Times quoted one of the staff side negotiators, Mr. Ray Harris—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-02a.222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-02", "file": "debates1978-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "5a2e8e6a5fcb7123", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-02a.228.5", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " been going on during the past few weeks? All over the country there were similar stories, and 60,000 cases were added to the waiting list. I have to ask this—have we all gone mad? How can one justify using the sick and injured in this callous and inhuman way? Have we reached such a level of moral bankruptcy that we accept with a resigned shrug that one man's pay claim may be another man's coffin?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-02a.228.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-03", "file": "debates1978-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "0fb83bef34826b49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-03a.460.2", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Chalk face.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oakes", "preceding_text": "Opposition Members, in their bitter opposition to this matter, not just to tell us about it but to go to the ACC and the AMA and tell them how bitterly they oppose what they are telling the Government is essential if schools are to be viable. Again, we have a complete dichotomy or variation between what the Conservative Party in the House is saying and what the people at the coal face, as it were—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-03a.460.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-06", "file": "debates1978-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "048798e7e2841d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-06a.527.4", "colnum": "527", "heading": "HOME OFFICE AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "It is a matter of months. I hope that it will not go long into next year. The national executive committee of the association is an elected body. That is the case with trade unionism as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-06a.527.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-06", "file": "debates1978-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "048798e7e2841d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-06a.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "HOME OFFICE AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": ". Members, about worries expressed by chief constables that they are not receiving enough support from the Government and the highest authorities. I am surprised that the right hon. Gentleman asked me about this, because a number of these matters have been published in the press. There is a great deal of worry that Ministers have not been showing sufficient support for the forces of law and order,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-06a.532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-06", "file": "debates1978-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "048798e7e2841d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-06a.533.3", "colnum": "533", "heading": "HOME OFFICE AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "r the Criminal Law Act 1977 they can attach some conditions to supervision orders, but in the case of care orders they have no say. We think that that is wrong and that it would be desirable for magistrates to be able to make care orders specifying secure accommodation. Of course, it is obvious that that means more places for secure accommodation. As I understand it, there are now only 223 places—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-06a.533.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-06", "file": "debates1978-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "048798e7e2841d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-06a.614.1", "colnum": "614", "heading": "HOME OFFICE AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Ryman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Ryman", "preceding_text": "ecutive to seek to interfere with the sentencing policies of the judges at Crown court level or with magistrates' courts. Therefore, all the wild attacks on the Government's alleged weakness and on individual issues that arise from time to time are not justified by the facts, because once the Government have given the power to the courts it is a matter for the courts to use it strongly but fairly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-06a.614.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-06", "file": "debates1978-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "048798e7e2841d8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-06a.635.3", "colnum": "635", "heading": "HOME OFFICE AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": " The Border had a great deal of innocent fun in saying that what we had been saying all the time was somehow now a movement towards the view that he had been advocating. We have had one conference on vandalism since then. The hon. Member for Burton (Mr. Lawrence) forgets that we had a confer- ence on vandalism soon after my right hon. Friend took office. He appears to have ignored that completely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-06a.635.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-07", "file": "debates1978-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "afa38070c4e21aa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.676.3", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "are that, quite apart from the area of pay, there are other problem areas, such as the top-heavy structure resulting from reorganisation and, partly as a result of the Government's blessing, the cuts proposed by the Opposition? In my view, those cuts ought to be fully restored. We should be arguing for a massive injection of money into the National Health Service in the next Budget, if not before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.676.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-07", "file": "debates1978-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "afa38070c4e21aa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The decision on Ford will be taken in due course, but I cannot be harried at the Dispatch Box—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-07", "file": "debates1978-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "afa38070c4e21aa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.711.0", "colnum": "711", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "w about sanctions ought seriously to consider the stance that they have taken over the past 13 years. It would be totally wrong to argue now that, because sanctions failed by themselves to bring about majority rule, the maintenance of sanctions was a waste of time or, as some have alleged, a farce. Sanctions have been a clear demonstration of a national and international resolve not to accept UDI.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.711.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-07", "file": "debates1978-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "afa38070c4e21aa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "s a blueprint but as a basis for further negotiations. The whole framework depends on agreement. It cannot be imposed, and in the last analysis, if all the parties can agree to any alternative proposals, the British and United States Governments and, I believe, this House will not stand in the way. It is for the Rhodesian people and all those who intend to live in Zimbabwe to decide their destiny.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-07", "file": "debates1978-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "afa38070c4e21aa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.718.1", "colnum": "718", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Francis Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Pym", "preceding_text": "t 45 minutes, sounded something of a reluctant apologia and hardly appropriate to a debate upon the Gracious Speech, which is about the future. Today and tomorrow we are concerned with the whole Rhodesian crisis and the future of that country. That is the debate for which the Opposition asked and which the Government have facilitated. The right hon. Gentleman hardly addressed himself to it at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-07", "file": "debates1978-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "afa38070c4e21aa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.718.1", "colnum": "718", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Francis Pym", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Including Zambia.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Francis Pym", "preceding_text": "ERS: \"Oh.\"] Only for the last few minutes. What he did say I found profoundly disturbing. It seemed to me that he was asking everyone except himself to compromise. We asked for this debate because, obviously, Rhodesia is by far the most critical problem that faces us internationally. The strategic importance of Central and Southern Africa to Europe and the free world could scarcely be exaggerated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-07", "file": "debates1978-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "afa38070c4e21aa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "Yes, I am, and no doubt if the hon. Gentleman catches your eye, Mr. Speaker, he will be able to express his views about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-07", "file": "debates1978-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "afa38070c4e21aa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.723.0", "colnum": "723", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But you did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "I have no wish whatever to misrepresent what the Prime Minister said about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.723.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-11-07", "file": "debates1978-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "afa38070c4e21aa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.738.7", "colnum": "738", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.738.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-07", "file": "debates1978-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "afa38070c4e21aa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.739.4", "colnum": "739", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "Ex-Prime Ministers are not absolved from the normal rules of the House. The right hon. Gentleman gave way to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.739.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-07", "file": "debates1978-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "afa38070c4e21aa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.739.4", "colnum": "739", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "Ex-Prime Ministers are not absolved from the normal rules of the House. The right hon. Gentleman gave way to me. [HON.MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"] I have the same rights as any other hon. Member of this House in debate. The point I wish to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.739.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-07", "file": "debates1978-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "afa38070c4e21aa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.739.7", "colnum": "739", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman is on one of those rare occasions when he is not correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.739.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-11-07", "file": "debates1978-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "afa38070c4e21aa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.739.9", "colnum": "739", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I willingly and gratefully give way to your ruling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.739.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-07", "file": "debates1978-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "afa38070c4e21aa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, but I have given way once too often.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-07", "file": "debates1978-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "afa38070c4e21aa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.747.1", "colnum": "747", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. There were two cases in those years, and certainly at that time, in which allegations were being made about Britain. Indeed, the meeting to which I have referred concerned allegations from the Portuguese. The Portuguese themselves were spreading allegations that Britain was breaking sanctions at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.747.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-07", "file": "debates1978-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "afa38070c4e21aa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.747.3", "colnum": "747", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir H. Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir H. Wilson", "preceding_text": "Before I sit down I intend to say where I think criticism may be applied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.747.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-07", "file": "debates1978-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "afa38070c4e21aa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Clemitson", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Clemitson", "preceding_text": "elf. What matters is power, and information is important only as a means to the end of power. Multinational companies—and here we have the case of a mutinational company in which we are nominally the major shareholders—time and again can exercise more power than elected Governments. Time and again, Governments are seen to be able to do only so much as multinational companies will allow them to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-07a.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-08", "file": "debates1978-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "09165057befe23d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-08a.941.5", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "Has the right hon. Gentleman noticed that opposition to the sale to sitting tenants of the homes in which they live comes, on the one hand, from Socialists who are opposed to the principle of extending home ownership and on the other from Blimps who have never lived in a council house or do not understand the aspirations of those who do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-08a.941.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-08", "file": "debates1978-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "09165057befe23d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-08a.959.1", "colnum": "959", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR NORTHERN IRELAND (STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Speaker. My right hon. Friend the Minister of State will be aware that the statement which he has just given at the Dispatch Box this afternoon will not in any way be acceptable to members of the legal profession in Northern Ireland who feel that the remarks of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-08a.959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-08", "file": "debates1978-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "09165057befe23d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-08a.1018.1", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "I know because I know something about Southern Rhodesia, because I know a great many people in Southern Rhodesia, and because I bother to find out the facts of the situation. The boys in the bush are now the people who represent the real views of the majority of Africans in Southern Rhodesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-08a.1018.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-08", "file": "debates1978-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "09165057befe23d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-08a.1051.1", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "t the United Nations resolution again. It says, in the preamble, that the \"rebellion\" in Rhodesia is a threat to peace and that therefore the United Nations must take certain steps to end the\" rebellion\". A rebellion can only be a rebellion against a sovereign power, and only this House can decide whether there is a rebellion. If we say that there is not a rebellion, then there is not a rebellion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-08a.1051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-08", "file": "debates1978-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "09165057befe23d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-08a.1113.3", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Your last.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "DI. I believe that it has been to the credit of successive Governments and of this House that for 13 years, despite a lot of criticism from many 01 the same people who are making the noises this evening, we have not been prepared to compromise on this issue. In asking the House to agree that section 2 of the 1965 Act should be renewed for a further year, I hope that this will be the last occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-08a.1113.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-08", "file": "debates1978-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "09165057befe23d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-08a.1117.1", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are not racialist.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Jenkins", "preceding_text": "not, one truth has emerged in the course of the last two days' debate. It is that if there was any substance in the claim that failure to use force was the result of the refusal by the Army leaders at the time to use that force, they were encouraged by Conservative Members. The people who have supported and encouraged the white racialist regime in Rhodesia throughout have been Conservative Members", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-08a.1117.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-08", "file": "debates1978-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "09165057befe23d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-08a.1119.1", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "ellion—I remember well that that was the terminology of the time. It was to be the means whereby the rebel territory was to be brought back into its obedience. However, facts soon started to break in, and from delusion we passed to self-delusion. The phrase \"weeks rather than months\" has been hung round the neck of the right hon. Member for Huyton (Sir H. Wilson) like a wine ticket round a carafe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-08a.1119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-09", "file": "debates1978-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "419c722514d008d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-09a.1180.5", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, it certainly was our expectation at that time that MLR would come down within a matter of weeks, and I regret very much that world conditions have prevented it from doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-09a.1180.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-09", "file": "debates1978-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "419c722514d008d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-09a.1181.3", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The change does not enforce a 5 per cent. wage policy, because we are in a period of free collective bargaining.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-09a.1181.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-09", "file": "debates1978-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "419c722514d008d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-09a.1185.5", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "is known, even to the hon. Gentleman, that American rates have gone up during the past few months, which is the general point that I was making. What has changed are the fears of the market about certain consequences that might arise during the winter. Those fears arise out of a number of different considerations. They do not know which way to go. If we enter the EMS, will it make sterling weaker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-09a.1185.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-09", "file": "debates1978-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "419c722514d008d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-09a.1188.2", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": " Committee? Secondly, does the right hon. Gentleman remember the several occasions on which a wish has been expressed by both sides of the House that more time should be allocated whenever possible for debates on reports of Select Committees? As the Government do not have as heavy a timetable and programme as is sometimes the case, will he see whether he can allocate more time to this purpose now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-09a.1188.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-09", "file": "debates1978-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "419c722514d008d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-09a.1211.7", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "y must seek to inform and influence those who are to respond to that. They must consider what institutions to use, whether the NEDC or those which have worked in Germany. But they must seek not to dictate but to guide those who are following this painful path back to collective bargaining. They should not be brandishing a norm; they should be brandishing guidance and the idea of an average figure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-09a.1211.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-09", "file": "debates1978-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "419c722514d008d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-09a.1317.1", "colnum": "1317", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Angus Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Angus Maude", "preceding_text": "nt in power with as little trouble as possible, and with the maximum support from the fringe parties. Some of my hon. Friends have begun to feel, Mr. Speaker, that this has become a Celtic fringe party Parliament, because today, with the exception of my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Surrey, East (Sir G. Howe) and myself, only one English Conservative Member has been called to speak—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-09a.1317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-09", "file": "debates1978-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "419c722514d008d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-09a.1319.1", "colnum": "1319", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": " the Labour Party conference the Prime Minister had been overhead to say to the general secretary of ASTMS: I'm worried, Clive, I can't see my way through this one. I must tell the Prime Minister that we cannot see his way through this one either. If we could, not just see his way through it, but even see the direction of the path which he was trying to take, we might find it easier to support it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-09a.1319.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-09", "file": "debates1978-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "419c722514d008d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-09a.1323.1", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": " Oswestry (Mr. Biffen) said a number of penetrating things about the difficulties of pay policy. We know only too well—we share our knowledge with the Prime Minister and with right hon. and hon. Members opposite—the troubles of pay policy and the troubles that one gets into with pay policies. My record, I think, is fairly consistent on this one. I have always said that circumstances altered cases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-09a.1323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-09", "file": "debates1978-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "419c722514d008d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-09a.1323.1", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Gentleman would, would not he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "iously wrong with them. It is pretty clear from their behaviour that some of them do not. In other words, they have not noticed that circumstances have changed and that they are standing still. In 1972 and 1973, during the period in office of the last Conservative Government, in speeches at two consecutive party conferences I supported absolutely the pay policy of the then Conservative Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-09a.1323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-09", "file": "debates1978-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "419c722514d008d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-09a.1323.1", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "sponsible pay claims in order to increase take-home pay. We also believe that it is essential to stop trying to prevent the creation of wealth and to stifle and strangle initiative and enterprise. Unless we get rid of some of the disincentives to effort, employment and investment, we shall never create wealth and the jobs that the country needs. The Opposition are perfectly clear about pay policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-09a.1323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-09", "file": "debates1978-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "419c722514d008d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-09a.1325.1", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us about the Government's economic policy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "preceding_text": "lowed it then she would be in a much happier situation today. There is the position of the right hon. Member for Sidcup (Mr. Heath) who I see is now trying to pass himself off as an ex-Chief Whip. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman has not now been thrown out like the others. I hope that he tendered his resignation in time. I am sorry to have to say it in the absence of the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-09a.1325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-09", "file": "debates1978-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "419c722514d008d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-09a.1329.0", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "s not perfect and that there should be debates on these topics. However, anyone who studied the industrial history of this country over the past 10 or 25 years would begin to appreciate what enormous advances have been achieved by the trade union movement in terms of democracy, intelligent policy and active support for the welfare of the nation. It would be wrong of hon. Members to write that off—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-09a.1329.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-09", "file": "debates1978-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "419c722514d008d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-09a.1330.3", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about our oil?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "nderstands that the people of this country are seriously interested in bringing down the inflation rate. They know that if we do not succeed in that task we shall not succeed in many of our other aims. When I hear shouts on the lines of \"What achievements have the Labour Government made?\", I am minded to ask the right hon. Lady to consider the balance of payments. Is she interested in that aspect?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-09a.1330.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-09", "file": "debates1978-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "419c722514d008d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-09a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "ECONOMIC AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "land as anywhere else. At the same time we had to ensure that we held the United Kingdom together and carried through policies which were acceptable in the different parts of the United Kingdom. I do not know whether the right hon. Lady the Leader of the Opposition has learned at last that during this period this House had to take adventurous steps in an effort to hold the United Kingdom together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-09a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-10", "file": "debates1978-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3e76c7df43b6ffc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-10a.1355.3", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "CROWN AGENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "cue_text": "Hon. Members. \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Hart", "preceding_text": "If the information had not come out, we would not have been aware of the difficulty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-10a.1355.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-10", "file": "debates1978-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3e76c7df43b6ffc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-10a.1369.3", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Author.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "advisers have done so, and to hear the verse of both Browning and Auden. May I reciprocate with a verse from a lesser-known poet and hope that the Bill and the right hon. Lady escape the fate that befell, in poetry, our late sovereign, Queen Victoria. The right hon. Lady, with her wide knowledge of poetry, will recall the lines. Dust to dust, Ashes to ashes. Into the grave The great Queen crashes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-10a.1369.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-10", "file": "debates1978-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3e76c7df43b6ffc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-10a.1370.3", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "casualties of the election. Since then public lending right has had a rather chequered history. I endeavoured to have a pledge inserted in the Conservative Party election manifesto for the February 1974 election. Everything was rushed, the manifesto was published but to my horror I found that there was no sign of the pledge in it. Inquiry established that it had been left out in error by a typist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-10a.1370.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-10", "file": "debates1978-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3e76c7df43b6ffc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-10a.1370.3", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the others?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "n for that disappointment that when the list of Government Ministers came out when the Labour Government were elected I found the following interesting names: Secretary of State for Education, right hon. R. E. Prentice, M.P. Minister of State G. T. Fowler, M.P. Minister for the Arts, Mr. N. St. John-Stevas, M.P. It was an interesting team. The list had to be withdrawn but I keep it as a curiosity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-10a.1370.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-10", "file": "debates1978-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3e76c7df43b6ffc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-10a.1423.1", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": " aided by colleagues outside the House—that it was quite possible to introduce a practical scheme whereby borrowings could be counted at a central registry and the necessary payments worked out and deducted for authors. Also at that stage—I hope that the House has forgotten it—I made the longest speech of my parliamentary career, speaking from the Opposition Dispatch Box on a motion by John Gorst—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-10a.1423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-10", "file": "debates1978-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3e76c7df43b6ffc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-10a.1450.1", "colnum": "1450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Bill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "ecting taxes, for example, is far heavier in this country than it is in America per pound or dollar collected. We ought to devote some analysis here to the question of cost. Is there any way by which more of the money coming from taxpayers could go direct to authors instead of being used in administration? Next, there is the question of the date of operation, which is left rather vague in the Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-10a.1450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-10", "file": "debates1978-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3e76c7df43b6ffc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-10a.1464.1", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Arrogant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I interrupted myself because you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, were interrupting your listening and I saw no point in both of us speaking at the same time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-10a.1464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-10", "file": "debates1978-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "3e76c7df43b6ffc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-10a.1465.3", "colnum": "1465", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROCEDURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. I rise on a point of order. I am sorry to pursue this, but it is a matter of immense concern to all quarters of the House, regardless of the issue on this occasion. As I understand the position, at 3.59 p.m. the Front Bench spokesman sat down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-10a.1465.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-13", "file": "debates1978-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "d9e8a1a1fe25e47c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-13a.3.2", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Immediately upon the passage of the conference resolution by the Labour Party I contacted British Shipbuilders, drawing its attention to the terms of the resolution and asking it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-13a.3.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-13", "file": "debates1978-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "d9e8a1a1fe25e47c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-13a.10.1", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "We had better wait and see how the negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-13a.10.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-13", "file": "debates1978-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "d9e8a1a1fe25e47c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-13a.12.0", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "Is it not fascinating that the hon. Gentleman does not deny the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-13a.12.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-13", "file": "debates1978-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "d9e8a1a1fe25e47c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-13a.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES, MIDWIVES AND HEALTH VISITORS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn (Kinross and West Perthshire)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn (Kinross and West Perthshire)", "preceding_text": "ointments, the burden and the weight of those organisations is the burden from which the people truly suffer. If the hon. Member for Aberdeen, North (Mr. Hughes) wants nurses to nurse patients and doctors to tend patients rather than doctors and nurses in administrative posts, he shoud oppose this type of legislation. We have been through this process with the reorganisation of the Health Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-13a.95.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-13", "file": "debates1978-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "d9e8a1a1fe25e47c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-13a.115.1", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NURSES, MIDWIVES AND HEALTH VISITORS BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Health and Social Security (Mr. Roland Moyle)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Health and Social Security (Mr. Roland Moyle)", "preceding_text": "on was made during the course of our debate by my hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen, North, who said that the important thing about consultation was that at some stage it had to stop. Frankly, after six years I came to the conclusion that the time had arrived to make decisions. Apart from anything else, there is the question of getting a slot in the programme during a busy parliamentary Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-13a.115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-13", "file": "debates1978-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "d9e8a1a1fe25e47c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-13a.151.3", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PENSIONERS PAYMENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Kilroy-Silk (Ormskirk)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Kilroy-Silk (Ormskirk)", "preceding_text": "ioners. All one has to do is look at the Benches tonight. It is interesting that there are so many of my hon. Friends present that I cannot count them, yet on the Opposition Benches we have the Opposition spokesman asleep, a Whip who has to be here, one Member each from two minority parties and the hon. Member for Northampton, South (Mr. Morris), who is really here only for the Adjournment debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-13a.151.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-15", "file": "debates1978-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "306b92d57cb6c40b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-15a.382.3", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James White", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James White", "preceding_text": "I am getting more and more tired of people saying that Glasgow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-15a.382.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-15", "file": "debates1978-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "306b92d57cb6c40b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-15a.392.0", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heifer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heifer", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that millions of people in this country welcomed his statement and were delighted that the Government had retreated on the question of the cull?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-15a.392.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-15", "file": "debates1978-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "306b92d57cb6c40b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-15a.406.2", "colnum": "406", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (BOMB INCIDENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "Gentleman aware of the overwhelming desire in the Province that this temporary setback should not be the reason for any reaction towards negative and defensive attitudes, and that the normalisation which has been taking place is greatly welcomed and supported? Will the right hon. Gentleman give an assurance that this event will bring no delay in the process of Ulsterisation of the security forces?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-15a.406.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-15", "file": "debates1978-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "306b92d57cb6c40b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-15a.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "PAY AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "example, representatives of the National Union of Mineworkers, the National Union of Railwaymen, and many others. Secondly, on the question of the 5 per cent. pay policy, I recall that the right hon. and learned Gentleman and his right hon. Friend the Member for Lowestoft (Mr. Prior) have both made clear that they support 5 per cent. as about the average level by which settlements should increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-15a.412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-15", "file": "debates1978-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "306b92d57cb6c40b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-15a.420.0", "colnum": "420", "heading": "PAY AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "find myself, if anything, slightly amused by the Opposition's difficulty in deciding whether what happened yesterday was a catastrophe for the Government or rather a good thing in disguise. Perhaps when they have taken their decision on this matter we can pursue it to more benefit. On the question of the money supply and the PSBR, Britain's PSBR is now below the average of many of our competitors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-15a.420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-16", "file": "debates1978-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4068defcd39ad396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-16a.600.2", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have nothing to add to what I have said before in reply to similar questions from the right hon. Lady. It is quite clear that I can never satisfy her whatever I say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-16a.600.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-11-16", "file": "debates1978-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4068defcd39ad396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-16a.600.6", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer!", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer referred us to the policies in the White Paper, and I have sought to refresh my memory. Here is the White Paper! Which paragraph? Which policies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-16a.600.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-16", "file": "debates1978-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4068defcd39ad396", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-16a.602.0", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I read the right hon. Gentleman's impartial letter in The Times today. I think that we had better wait and see, when the report comes forward, what it includes and whether the terms of reference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-16a.602.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-17", "file": "debates1978-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "13901396147b2491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-17a.777.2", "colnum": "777", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "he Industrial Injuries Advisory Council to consider the Pearson recommendations about occupational diseases. This will enable the council to give me advice about the proposal that we should adopt the proof system for industrial diseases, which would enable a claimant to succeed, even if his disease was not prescribed, provided he could show that his disease was a particular risk of his occupation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-17a.777.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-17", "file": "debates1978-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "13901396147b2491", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-17a.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Douglas-Mann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Douglas-Mann", "preceding_text": "te and recovered, as the hon. and learned Member for Montgomery suggested, by the State from the employers, from the road users and from the manufacturer. We could set a limit on the scale of damages to be collected from individuals, and I should like to see the road user compelled to pay a higher premium every time an accident is caused, even, I regret to say, if it is not demonstrably his fault.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-17a.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-20", "file": "debates1978-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "fa469cadf6840a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-20a.892.0", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "The point of inquiries of this sort is to provide an assurance to the British consumer that prices are not increasing unreasonably. There may be occasions when a price increase is unavoidable because costs go up. There are others—the Price Commission has found a good many in the last 18 months—where a price increase can be avoided, and where—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-20a.892.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-20", "file": "debates1978-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "fa469cadf6840a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-20a.901.6", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that that was the suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-20a.901.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-11-20", "file": "debates1978-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "fa469cadf6840a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-20a.911.2", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRICES AND CONSUMER PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is the right hon. Gentleman?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tilley", "preceding_text": "asked the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster whether, in his study of the problems of small firms, he has come to any conclusions about the special problems of small firms, including producer co-operatives, which try to start up in inner city areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-20a.911.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-20", "file": "debates1978-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "fa469cadf6840a48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-20a.987.1", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dafydd Wigley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dafydd Wigley", "preceding_text": " are referring—the \"public companies\" as they will be known after this redefinition. Very often these are institutional investors. Others are among the plethora of remote equity holders. Although shareholders theoretically elect and dismiss directors, in the over- whelming majority of companies we have a self-perpetuating oligarchy which goes on from year to year and from generation to generation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-20a.987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-21", "file": "debates1978-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ae934ff3c19597d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-21a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "Does not my hon. Friend agree that these figures are unacceptably high? Are there not two main factors operating against recruitment? First, there is the terrible apartheid which operates in the Forces between officers and other ranks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-21a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-21", "file": "debates1978-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ae934ff3c19597d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-21a.1088.4", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "at the Phantom aircraft which have replaced older aircraft are far more efficient, and there are more of them. Of course, the hon. Gentleman would like to see many of the other factors which he quoted improved. But it does no good to the morale of the Armed Forces or indeed—I do not think that the Soviet Union will believe it—to other people's appreciation of our efforts to have these things said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-21a.1088.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-21", "file": "debates1978-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ae934ff3c19597d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-21a.1091.1", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I believe that there is a Written Answer on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-21a.1091.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-21", "file": "debates1978-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ae934ff3c19597d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-21a.1107.0", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "BENTLEY COLLIERY (ACCIDENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "ary of State and my colleagues, I, too, express my tribute to the families of those who were killed or injured. At the same time, I must point out that I find that I cannot pay too much heed to what has come from the Opposition. They consistently pay tribute to dead and injured miners, but never do they pay tribute to the miners when they are putting in a pay claim or asking for better conditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-21a.1107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-21", "file": "debates1978-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "1ae934ff3c19597d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-21a.1109.0", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "VEHICLE EXCISE DUTY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "preceding_text": "h as the opportunities that will be available in the House to discuss it, whether the changeover will be by order and whether it will be as a result of an amendment to the Finance Bill—all very important questions to which answers should be given. Because we have had no other opportunity, Mr. Speaker, I call upon you, as the protector of Back Benchers and of the House, to give us that opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-21a.1109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-22", "file": "debates1978-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c776123ab948abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-22a.1230.3", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "I think that we all found it deeply regrettable that the decision was taken to make the raids into Zambia appear to coincide with the discussions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-22a.1230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-22", "file": "debates1978-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c776123ab948abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-22a.1239.2", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "Would not selling Harriers to China be as damaging to peace as the sale of non-military goods would be beneficial? Does my right hon. Friend recognise that this is bound to damage seriously the prospects for detente with the Soviet Union?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-22a.1239.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-22", "file": "debates1978-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c776123ab948abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-22a.1284.0", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "ed to take a view, but they should come clean with the House. It is also worth asking why there is an important difference in the Government's conduct of the referendum compared with the EEC referendum. In the devolution referendum no dispensation is being granted to Ministers who do not favour the devolution legislation. It is no answer to say that it is Government policy. It is no answer to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-22a.1284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-22", "file": "debates1978-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c776123ab948abd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-22a.1335.4", "colnum": "1335", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "I am not surprised at the touchiness of the hon. and learned Member. Having been shifted once already in the past fortnight, he may well be shifted again in the not too distant future, once the General Election comes along. I am sure that his touchiness is due to the fact that he sees the possibility of a \"Yes\" vote looming larger on the horizon. All I am saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-22a.1335.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-23", "file": "debates1978-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "76027827d1dfec0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-23a.1458.5", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "icant scale. The clearing banks have since raised their base rates by 1 per cent. The Building Societies Association announced an increase in the recommended mortgage rate by 2 per cent., although most of that increase was in response to the increase in market rates which preceded the increase in MLR, as the association stated very fairly in announcing its decision. The possibility of a reduction—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-23a.1458.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-23", "file": "debates1978-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "76027827d1dfec0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-23a.1463.4", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is probably in line with most of the Opposition Front Bench on three points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-23a.1463.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-23", "file": "debates1978-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "76027827d1dfec0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-23a.1466.3", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Balderdash\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is talking—I am trying to find a polite word for \"tripe\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-23a.1466.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-23", "file": "debates1978-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "76027827d1dfec0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-23a.1467.4", "colnum": "1467", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "Does not the Chief Secretary understand that there is an overriding need for a full statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer or himself about the way in which the black list will operate and that that statement also requires the approval of this House? Will he understand that the basis on which the Government are seeking to operate is unlawful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-23a.1467.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-23", "file": "debates1978-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "76027827d1dfec0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-23a.1468.4", "colnum": "1468", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "I can tell the right hon. and learned Gentleman that there is no abuse of the law if the Government use discretionary action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-23a.1468.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-23", "file": "debates1978-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "76027827d1dfec0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-23a.1477.0", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "and found that there was no prospects of progress because people were simply making public speeches to one another. I am grateful for what the Leader of the Opposition has said, particularly about my right hon. Friend the Member for Anglesey (Mr. Hughes). I hope that he will leave knowing that he commands the confidence of the great majority of —if not all—right hon. and hon. Members of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-23a.1477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-23", "file": "debates1978-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "76027827d1dfec0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-23a.1577.5", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS (CUSTODIAL REMANDS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Schoolmasterly?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": "is not what the hon. Gentleman said in his speech. It is not what he is doing. We should stop the double talk and keep to one story at all times and all places, which is not what the Tory Party has been doing on this and other issues and on the so-called law and order issue generally. It is no good the hon. Member for Wallasey (Mrs. Chalker) shaking her head in that severe, schoolmasterly fashion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-23a.1577.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-27", "file": "debates1978-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "44fee67e9f1c71c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-27a.11.0", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Not very well.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that I have just had my hair cut downstairs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-27a.11.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-27", "file": "debates1978-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "44fee67e9f1c71c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-27a.33.2", "colnum": "33", "heading": "SECOND CHURCH ESTATES COMMISSIONER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Latham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Latham", "preceding_text": "ion this, but you, Mr. Speaker, and the House will be aware that in recent times certain actions and declarations by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister have suggested that the role of Parliamentary Private Secretary to a Minister is rather different from that which many of us had supposed. If my hon. Friend the Member for Kingswood, by virtue of being a PPS, is now a member of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-27a.33.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-11-27", "file": "debates1978-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "44fee67e9f1c71c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-27a.36.0", "colnum": "36", "heading": "OIL SPILLAGE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. John Morris)", "preceding_text": "nt communities too well aware of the price of coal. Oil, I fear, has its price, too. While it is undoubtedly one of the very foundations of our way of life, we must strive to contain its harmful and unpleasant effects. We have heard over the weekend of the sad fatalities in the diving bell in the North Sea, and I am sure the whole House will join me in conveying heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-27a.35.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-28", "file": "debates1978-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "2b31e6dac43072f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-28a.208.0", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "It is headed by a team of three, including an economist. I do not think that I can say much more than that offhand. But if it will help my hon. Friend, I shall write to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-28a.208.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-28", "file": "debates1978-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "2b31e6dac43072f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-28a.212.2", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have refreshed my memory. It is clearly one of the catchphrases of the Conservative Party. I made clear at the time that because of the increase in money supply under Lord Barber and the way in which price increases were taking place —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-28a.212.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-28", "file": "debates1978-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "2b31e6dac43072f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-28a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "rly unanimous. Having taken evidence and heard the arguments, it decided by 22 votes to one that 17 seats were the appropriate level of representation for Northern Ireland in this House. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister made it clear last April that the Government accepted the recommendations as eminently sensible and fair But I accept that the Bill is not welcomed by everyone in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-28a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-28", "file": "debates1978-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "2b31e6dac43072f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-28a.244.0", "colnum": "244", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"No—Fermanagh", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend talks about democracy, but he knows as well as I do that in Northern Ireland politics is communal politics rather than the type of politics that we have here. There is there a minority community and a majority community. Is it not a fact that at present the minority community is represented by one of our friends only? There are two—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-28a.244.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-28", "file": "debates1978-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "2b31e6dac43072f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-28a.271.3", "colnum": "271", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"There is a bomb in every line.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "perhaps two or three of these seats. Let me tell my right hon. Friend that even if the SDLP won all 17 seats it would not change the problems affecting Northern Ireland. It is not all about seats; it is about many other things in Northern Ireland. The way that the Bill has been introduced clearly comes down in support of one community rather than the other. That is why it will be a total disaster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-28a.271.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-28", "file": "debates1978-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "2b31e6dac43072f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-28a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (REDISTRIBUTION OF SEATS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"He has gone to eat\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "here at that time. I meant to refer to the hon. Member for Down, North (Mr. Kilfedder). I beg the right hon. Gentleman's forgiveness. I was mixing up constituencies but not perhaps attitudes. Apart from the right hon. Member for Down, North, maverick that he has always been, we had a complete change. We had, for example —and I am sorry that he has left the Chamber—the hon. Member for Antrim, North", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-28a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-28", "file": "debates1978-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "2b31e6dac43072f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-28a.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT (GUARANTEE AND COMPENSATION PAYMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "spapers Ltd. proceeds as threatened some difficult legal problems will arise, I believe, in connection with the question whether there are redundancies, how many redundancies, and what the effect on the payment of rebates will be. There is a range of issues. I wonder whether those involved have addressed themselves to this question. I must resist the temptation to be drawn into a wider discussion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-28a.367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-28", "file": "debates1978-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "2b31e6dac43072f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-28a.385.4", "colnum": "385", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT (GUARANTEE AND COMPENSATION PAYMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "nd it seemed that because he was black he was not taken back. If a reinstatement order is made and a person is not taken back, that can increase the award. We should aim at increasing the number who are reinstated. A bundle of money—whatever the amount—is not the same as a job. The money will not last. The money is a stigma to some people: they have no self-respect, because they cannot go to work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-28a.385.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-29", "file": "debates1978-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "ee2b0e4132c55ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-29a.482.2", "colnum": "482", "heading": "EUROPEAN MONETARY SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"That has nothing to do with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor is dealing with one aspect—it is a question to which I shall come in a moment—the necessity for parity changes within the system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-29a.482.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-29", "file": "debates1978-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "ee2b0e4132c55ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-29a.625.0", "colnum": "625", "heading": "EUROPEAN MONETARY SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "s of the European monetary system. I hope that we shall be successful in the discussions. Whatever may be the case with the intervention aspects of the EMS, I hope that nobody in Europe or this House would think it an advantage to the world if we were excluded from a role in relation to the vital task of linking the achievements of European monetary stability with greater world monetary stability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-29a.625.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-29", "file": "debates1978-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "ee2b0e4132c55ecf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-29a.626.3", "colnum": "626", "heading": "EUROPEAN MONETARY SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lever", "preceding_text": "t we be so regarded in due time—making resources available to weaker countries, I have no difficulty. They are much more intelligent than some of the hon. Members roistering on the Opposition Back Benches. Some of them at least have recognised what the right hon. and learned Member for Hexham said, that vision and generosity pay in international affairs in the latter part of the twentieth century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-29a.626.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-30", "file": "debates1978-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "5563fd88a784e056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.680.0", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"How? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "In reply to the suggestion that the police force is infiltrated by Fascist sympathisers, I must tell the House that there are means of investigating such matters which are quite expeditious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-30", "file": "debates1978-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "5563fd88a784e056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.687.3", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER:\"Those areas are Tory-controlled.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that, according to figures published by his own Department, 83 per cent. of reported burglaries in the London area are never cleared up?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.687.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-30", "file": "debates1978-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "5563fd88a784e056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.690.6", "colnum": "690", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TUC", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am aware of those factors, but I still do not think that it would be sensible to take action in the way that the hon. Gentleman describes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.690.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-30", "file": "debates1978-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "5563fd88a784e056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.695.5", "colnum": "695", "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 propose to go into this matter myself. If the hon. Gentleman has any questions to put to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy, no doubt he will do so. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will not pursue the vendetta of his family against the miners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.695.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-11-30", "file": "debates1978-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "5563fd88a784e056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.696.0", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Cheap!", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not propose to go into this matter myself. If the hon. Gentleman has any questions to put to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy, no doubt he will do so. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will not pursue the vendetta of his family against the miners—[ Interruption. ]—at Tonypandy for the third generation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.695.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-30", "file": "debates1978-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "5563fd88a784e056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.696.1", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Mr. Noble.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.696.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-30", "file": "debates1978-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "5563fd88a784e056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.696.2", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.696.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-30", "file": "debates1978-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "5563fd88a784e056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.696.3", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Will the hon. Member for Stretford (Mr. Churchill) wait until after Questions?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.696.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-30", "file": "debates1978-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "5563fd88a784e056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.696.5", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.696.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-30", "file": "debates1978-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "5563fd88a784e056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.696.9", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rose", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.696.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-30", "file": "debates1978-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "5563fd88a784e056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.696.10", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Dishonourable.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Even when hon. Members feel indignant, they must—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.696.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-30", "file": "debates1978-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "5563fd88a784e056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.696.10", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Even when hon. Members feel indignant, they must—[HON. MEMBERS:\"Dishonourable.\"] Order. We must try to keep to the rules of order. The Prime Minister will answer this Question and then we shall have points of order after the supplementary question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.696.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-11-30", "file": "debates1978-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "5563fd88a784e056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.697.0", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, would it be in order for the Prime Minister to withdraw his wholly false smear accusation against my late grandfather, whose vendetta was against not the miners, but the Nazis?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.696.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-30", "file": "debates1978-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "5563fd88a784e056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.697.11", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. If those who seek to raise points of order after I have already said that I do not propose to take further points of order on this matter feel that they can be helpful and not stir up trouble—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.697.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-30", "file": "debates1978-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "5563fd88a784e056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.698.7", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If I had thought that the remark was untruthful, I would not have made it. The record of the late Sir Winston Churchill in that dispute is a matter which is and continues to be deeply felt in South Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.698.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-30", "file": "debates1978-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "5563fd88a784e056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.698.8", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hefter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hefter", "preceding_text": "ment and there had also been a statement by the hon. Member for Stretford (Mr. Churchill), a great baying noise came from the Opposition and you, Mr. Speaker, drew this fact to the attention of Labour Members. I found that very strange indeed. I ask that in future you ask the 73 per cent. of public schoolboys on the Opposition side of the House to behave not like street corner boys but to behave —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.698.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-11-30", "file": "debates1978-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "5563fd88a784e056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.699.2", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "They are.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heller", "preceding_text": "I should like Opposition Members to behave—I shall finish on this point, Mr. Speaker—on the basis of the type of education that they have received.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-30", "file": "debates1978-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "5563fd88a784e056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.700.5", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes James", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes James", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. The events of 1910 and 1911 are indeed a matter of controversy, but I hope that this House and you, Mr. Speaker, will recognise that the actions taken by the then Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.700.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-30", "file": "debates1978-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "5563fd88a784e056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.700.5", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes James", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes James", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. The events of 1910 and 1911 are indeed a matter of controversy, but I hope that this House and you, Mr. Speaker, will recognise that the actions taken by the then Home Secretary—[HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"]—were matters of great restraint.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.700.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-30", "file": "debates1978-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "5563fd88a784e056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.700.10", "colnum": "700", "heading": "CBI", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Noble", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend ignore the synthetic anger of the official Opposition about the Ford situation? When he next meets representatives of the CBI, will he take them on a guided tour of the House of Commons car parks where they will be able to count the number of foreign cars owned by Opposition Members?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.700.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-30", "file": "debates1978-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "5563fd88a784e056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.701.0", "colnum": "701", "heading": "CBI", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "derstand my hon. Friend's point, but I do not think that I shall take that particular course. When I meet CBI representatives I shall be very anxious to discuss with them the points which they put to me in a letter which I received today in which they say that, as far as they know, half a million workers have settled within the Government's 5 per cent. guidelines. But they wish to discuss with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.701.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-30", "file": "debates1978-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "5563fd88a784e056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.737.0", "colnum": "737", "heading": "\" THE TIMES\"NEWSPAPER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. A. Burden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Reductions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. A. Burden", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman appears to be admitting the existence of overmanning, but he should point out that the management of Times Newspapers has made it clear that there will be no dismissals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.737.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-30", "file": "debates1978-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "5563fd88a784e056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.758.0", "colnum": "758", "heading": "\" THE TIMES\"NEWSPAPER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "There are no restrictive practices at all in the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.758.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-11-30", "file": "debates1978-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "5563fd88a784e056", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.758.0", "colnum": "758", "heading": "\" THE TIMES\"NEWSPAPER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "There are no restrictive practices at all in the law—[HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"]—and far from resisting change the House is changing the law every day that it sits.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-11-30a.758.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-01", "file": "debates1978-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7f86596fefdc0704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-01a.903.1", "colnum": "903", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER FOR ADMINISTRATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buck", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buck", "preceding_text": "e that that simple recommendation will be implemented speedily. We recommend that The Commissioner should be able to investigate complaints about matters relating to contractual or other commercial transactions. Paragraphs 23 and 24 of the report involve difficult and complicated matters and I do not intend to take up the time of the House on them. I feel that I am already taking up too much time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-01a.903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-01", "file": "debates1978-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7f86596fefdc0704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-01a.931.1", "colnum": "931", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER FOR ADMINISTRATION", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Civil Service Department (Mr. Charles R. Morris)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Civil Service Department (Mr. Charles R. Morris)", "preceding_text": "r and efficient departmental administration. The hon. and learned Member for Colchester referred to the conclusion in the Select Committee's report that the PCA should be given more general powers of inspection of particular areas of departmental administration, so that general improvements can be achieved. The Government will consider that point along with the others made by the Select Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-01a.931.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-01", "file": "debates1978-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "7f86596fefdc0704", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-01a.938.1", "colnum": "938", "heading": "PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSIONER FOR ADMINISTRATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"It is \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "I understand the disappointment of the hon. Gentleman at what he describes as a negative ministerial response to the debate, but I hope that his view is not shared by hon. Members generally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-01a.938.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-04", "file": "debates1978-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "c6c71b38bcf0dcbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-04a.1153.5", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY (CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "the rules. In the final proposals for England, in some cases the Boundary Commission took note of the local representations, because it made four revisions of its draft proposals, affecting eight European constituencies. It also changed the name of one. The greatest number of individual representations on one subject—that is, 200—was against the inclusion of Plymouth in the Cornwall constituency.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-04a.1153.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-04", "file": "debates1978-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "c6c71b38bcf0dcbe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-04a.1153.5", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY (CONSTITUENCIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": " its draft proposals, affecting eight European constituencies. It also changed the name of one. The greatest number of individual representations on one subject—that is, 200—was against the inclusion of Plymouth in the Cornwall constituency.—[HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear.\"] but for the reasons set out in paragraph 47, on page 15 of the report, the Commission felt unable to accede to those submissions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-04a.1153.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-05", "file": "debates1978-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e41a4642c137bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-05a.1223.3", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I do not think that agreement has been reached on any aspect yet. Discussions on these matters have been taking place. I know that many of my hon. Friends and many other hon. Members are more immediately concerned about salaries in this House.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-05a.1223.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-12-05", "file": "debates1978-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e41a4642c137bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-05a.1225.3", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Those of us who have met the pickets find that they have been behaving exactly as they have been instructed, without placards, and quite peacefully. Will you confirm that it is the right of pickets to picket this place in exactly the same way as anywhere else?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-05a.1225.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-05", "file": "debates1978-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e41a4642c137bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-05a.1320.1", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "tehall does not know best. The Bill is designed to sedate the nation into a slumber so that the pursuit of Socialist dogma in education can continue without being noticed. The Bill is a typical product of the present Department of Education and Science, which is presided over by the Secretary of State whose seemingly pleasant, moderate image enables her to act as the motherly midwife of Socialism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-05a.1320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-05", "file": "debates1978-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e41a4642c137bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-05a.1342.1", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Rhodes Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Rhodes Boyson", "preceding_text": "se I was winding up but was leaving because he had to go to Europe on a delegation. Perhaps he will see whether there is any parental choice there. He spoke about parents making wrong decisions. He referred to the unjustified reputations of schools. It is fascinating that he believes in democracy to the extent of accepting the ability of the people to elect him as the hon. Member for Brent, North.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-05a.1342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-05", "file": "debates1978-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "7e41a4642c137bc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-05a.1354.1", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Education and Science (Mr. Gordon Oakes)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Bureaucrats.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Education and Science (Mr. Gordon Oakes)", "preceding_text": "d are either decisions made by members of councils or by the officers serving them and answerable to them. Education administrators have a difficult job. Their main concern, of course, is the welfare and education of children, but they have to work within limits. They are public servants, and servants of their councils. Their councils will direct policy, and they are the servants of the resources.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-05a.1354.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-06", "file": "debates1978-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f65f8fc45d4260a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-06a.1404.0", "colnum": "1404", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"How long? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "The review has not been in existence for three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-06a.1404.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-12-06", "file": "debates1978-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f65f8fc45d4260a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-06a.1407.0", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": " are predicting that, inevitably, rate increases will be well up into double figures? Does he not recognise that, at least in part, this is a direct consequence of allocating the rate support grant largely on the basis of past patterns of expenditure by local authorities, so that inevitably those authorities that are wasteful and extravagant are encouraged and those that are prudent are penalised?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-06a.1406.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-06", "file": "debates1978-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f65f8fc45d4260a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-06a.1424.1", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY COUNCIL (BRUSSELS MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ed in good faith—I do not blame them for accepting the information; they just happened to be wrong, all of them—that the economies of the Community countries would converge before the transitional period came to an end. That has not happened. The right hon. Lady may blame me for that. I have no doubt that she will. Everybody can judge. The plain truth is that the economies have failed to converge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-06a.1424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-06", "file": "debates1978-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f65f8fc45d4260a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-06a.1576.2", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Litterick", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS:\"Nonsense \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Litterick", "preceding_text": "I appreciate what the Minister has said, but I hope that he, in turn, will appreciate that his comments so far have been general in character, and as a result—and I am sure that this is quite unwitting—he sounds like a member of the Politbureau in the comments he has made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-06a.1576.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-06", "file": "debates1978-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f65f8fc45d4260a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-06a.1576.3", "colnum": "1576", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Concannon", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS:\"He ought to be ashamed of himself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Concannon", "preceding_text": "There are certain things that Ministers have to put up with, but I think it is a bit rich that my hon. Friend should come out with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-06a.1576.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-06", "file": "debates1978-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f65f8fc45d4260a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-06a.1581.8", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "preceding_text": "I am always concerned about the relevance of my party's interventions in debates on Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-06a.1581.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-12-07", "file": "debates1978-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd2f94b87f3a3862", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-07a.1622.2", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY STATEMENT (SUPPLEMENTARY ANSWER)>", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I ask you, Mr. Speaker, whether it is correct for Opposition Members to protest at statements about the national interest, when the Conservative Party, for a long time, has decided, quite wrongly, to claim the Union Jack as its party flag.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-07a.1622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-07", "file": "debates1978-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd2f94b87f3a3862", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-07a.1647.0", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman seems to be having a debate. Does he realise that a large amount of this expenditure is for an increase in forces' pay?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-07a.1647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-07", "file": "debates1978-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd2f94b87f3a3862", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-07a.1647.2", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Rutland and Stamford (Mr. Lewis) raised a point that in many ways impugns the views of many of those who signed the amendment, which is not being debated. I point out to him that many hon. Members on the Government Benches would argue very strongly in favour of that expenditure, which would enhance the pay of the forces. Many of my hon. Friends and I would argue.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-07a.1647.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-07", "file": "debates1978-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd2f94b87f3a3862", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-07a.1658.3", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"What are they? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "nd what do they mean? \". I can remember only one of those items. It involved the salary of paper-keepers. I asked the Minister\"What are paper-keepers?\"There was a great deal of flurrying and to-ing and fro-ing between the Benches and the space behind Mr. Speaker's right hand. The Minister had to blabber on for three-quarters of an hours before he got the answer and told us what paper-keepers were.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-07a.1658.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-07", "file": "debates1978-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd2f94b87f3a3862", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-07a.1690.0", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman must resume his seat when I stand up. I believe that the time has come to stop points of order because, clearly, there have been frivolous points of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-07a.1690.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-07", "file": "debates1978-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd2f94b87f3a3862", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-07a.1697.0", "colnum": "1697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Before things get any worse, Mr. Speaker, may I ask whether it would be possible to suspend the sitting for a brief period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-07a.1697.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-07", "file": "debates1978-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd2f94b87f3a3862", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-07a.1699.9", "colnum": "1699", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "Every cloud—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-07a.1699.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-08", "file": "debates1978-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "57bff88f4836992a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-08a.1728.1", "colnum": "1728", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"That is what we did last night.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I accept the point which the Lord President has made about the importance of procedure. Does he agree that it is precisely because we have no written constitution in this country that procedure is so important? I agree with him that it is the right of Back Benchers to use the procedure of this House in a legitimate way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-08a.1728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-08", "file": "debates1978-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "57bff88f4836992a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-08a.1793.3", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ainly racial totalitarianism, a most regrettable and deplorable kind. But there are many kinds of political totalitarianism that are equally reprehensible, equally disastrously damaging to human relations, equally deserving the censure of the House of Commons. However, time and time again we are preoccupied with censure of Southern Africa. That is the fashionable focus of the censure of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-08a.1793.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-11", "file": "debates1978-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "1943c5d1a40fdc23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-11a.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "OIL SUPPLIES AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heifer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heifer", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Member for Bridgwater withdraw his statement? I did not say what the hon. Member alleged. If he persists in that allegation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-11a.99.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-11", "file": "debates1978-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "1943c5d1a40fdc23", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-11a.103.1", "colnum": "103", "heading": "OIL SUPPLIES AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "ing for the first time, hoping to get allocations in this sixth round. Indeed, hon. Members made representations to me about this on the fifth round. They felt that British companies did not get enough—that is, that independent British companies did not get the share of the fifth round which they felt they should have got. It makes it easier for us if the larger companies are not in there bidding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-11a.103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-12", "file": "debates1978-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "168741ac7e0a54f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-12a.236.6", "colnum": "236", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS AND WINTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may not be terribly quick on the uptake. I have sometimes wondered if that was the case. I am not complaining about that; I am complaining about putting a matter of great importance for Scottish voters on so late at night on a Thursday, when it cannot possibly get proper consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-12a.236.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-12", "file": "debates1978-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "168741ac7e0a54f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-12a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS AND WINTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is discussed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "preceding_text": "esirable if not actually punishable by law. Who suffers? It is the poorest people in the land. They are the ones who suffer under these laws and who have to bear the burden of immigration almost alone. I am so glad that that matter has been raised. The Lord President knows my views. That matter is never discussed, and that is to the great shame of the Lord President, the Government and this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-12a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-12", "file": "debates1978-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "168741ac7e0a54f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-12a.322.2", "colnum": "322", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS AND WINTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "r for Hales-owen and Stourbridge (Mr. Stokes) suggested a debate on the state of the nation I am sorry that he is missing a tribute to himself, because that was a valuable suggestion. A debate on the Health Service was also suggested. The Health Service is facing problems greater than at any moment since its inception under the National Government of 1944 which planned the National Health Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-12a.322.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-12", "file": "debates1978-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "168741ac7e0a54f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-12a.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS AND WINTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ocott) dealt with a number of matters which are the responsibility of the shocking Staffordshire Conservative authority. He is not in the House now—perhaps he has gone off already to deal with that authority, and if so I wish him luck. My hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Rooker) raised the question of the Data Protection Committee's report which was published on 5th December—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-12a.334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-13", "file": "debates1978-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "99325643700acbce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.636.7", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Dennis Canavan.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "Is not the Minister being extremely complacent? Why are the Government so certain that they could exterminate feral mink if rabies came to this country, when they are unable to do anything about it when it is a question of saving poultry on the upland farms or our native species of birds from this voracious, alien carnivore, as it has been so rightly called recently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.636.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-13", "file": "debates1978-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "99325643700acbce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.637.0", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I am not being complacent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.637.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-13", "file": "debates1978-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "99325643700acbce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.687.5", "colnum": "687", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I thought that the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.687.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-13", "file": "debates1978-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "99325643700acbce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Moral Rearmament.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "t go on as we are, on whatever side of the House we may sit. The vast majority of our people and trade unionists are moderate, reasonable people. They are deeply worried about the way things are going. I should like to quote \"The Waterfront and Industrial Pioneer \", not a Conservative paper, which commented on what Tom Jackson had to say the other day at a meeting in another part of this building.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-13", "file": "debates1978-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "99325643700acbce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What would you do? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "ging in money for that purpose? After all, I think that it was in 1975 that 100 Labour Members signed a motion asking the Government to do this. There is no great pressure of Government legislative business at the moment. This would be a measure which would be widely supported throughout the country, and which could do more than anything else to get some balance and moderation into pay bargaining.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-13", "file": "debates1978-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "99325643700acbce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.703.1", "colnum": "703", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "e great country to be relegated to the second division. When my right hon. Friend the Member for Sidcup (Mr. Heath) started the negotiations to enter the European Community, the French rejected the approach because we were too strong. We were too powerful a country to join the Community at that time. Last week, we were too weak even to be a member of the EMS. We have lost our strength in 17 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-13", "file": "debates1978-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "99325643700acbce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.742.3", "colnum": "742", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "t, all through the long, weary years of the building up of the trade union and labour movement, support a fair wage for any working man or woman? The Tories are on record as relentlessly attacking, with all the means in their power, working men and women who struggled for a living wage. We all know what they would do if they were in power. They would, as our amendment says, mount a serious attack—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.742.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-13", "file": "debates1978-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "99325643700acbce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.785.3", "colnum": "785", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "It will be a long and painful road to travel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.785.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-13", "file": "debates1978-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "99325643700acbce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury(Mr. Joel Barnett)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is the worst one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury(Mr. Joel Barnett)", "preceding_text": "e Government are exercising their proper discretion and freedom to buy, as any buyer can. Incidentally, we made it clear from 1975 onwards that we would have regard to all the factors, including the public interest. This is called \"tyrannical \", but it is being done in France and now it is to be done in the United States as well. We are also told that it is tyrannical to withhold selective grants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-13", "file": "debates1978-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "99325643700acbce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.792.4", "colnum": "792", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "bject to sanctions. Some names are published with no explicit consent from us, but, because this is a commercial matter between the Government and the firm concerned, we have said that we shall publish if the firms agree. So far, only one firm has agreed that we should publish. Are the Conservative Opposition asking us arbitrarily, whether or not the firms agree, to publish the names of the firms?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.792.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-13", "file": "debates1978-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "99325643700acbce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "ultimate unfairness of renewed inflation. That is what would happen under the proposals of the Opposition. How are we to avoid the upsurge in inflation and bring it down even further, which is the central problem? There are no quick cures or easy solutions. I am reading from \"The Right Approach \", so I assume that it is right. But if there is no quick cure in the longer term, there will certainly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-13", "file": "debates1978-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "99325643700acbce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "verages. Instead we should have the brandishing of monetary restraint and cash limits. How will that system work? In the two-thirds of one page of the \"blue book\" we do not have that explanation, but there is another book. It is a little blue book containing 50 questions and answers. I read it and there was not one sentence that told us the answer to the problem. I looked a little further afield —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-13", "file": "debates1978-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "99325643700acbce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Lowestoft obviously does not want to hear what the Opposition policy is. The Opposition want free collective bargaining and a tight monetary policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-13", "file": "debates1978-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "99325643700acbce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.798.3", "colnum": "798", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "on believe in free collective bargaining with nothing to keep to the average but a tight monetary policy. We were accused of operating an arbitrary and unjust policy. I can assure the Opposition that there would be nothing more arbitrary and unjust than a tight monetary policy and free collective bargaining which would be arbitrary on small firms in particular. There would be massive bankruptcies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.798.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-13", "file": "debates1978-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "99325643700acbce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.799.7", "colnum": "799", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Say something.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "In today's debate we have heard much extravagant language. We have had not a single alternative. The amendment agrees that we must bring down the rate of inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.799.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-13", "file": "debates1978-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "99325643700acbce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.800.0", "colnum": "800", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "the need to reduce the rate of inflation. The Government are prepared to act on that but the Opposition are prepared to do nothing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.800.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-13", "file": "debates1978-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "99325643700acbce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.800.0", "colnum": "800", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about us? \"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "the need to reduce the rate of inflation. The Government are prepared to act on that but the Opposition are prepared to do nothing—[ Interruption. ] I feel that I shall not be able to make myself heard in the last few minutes, but I shall try. I remember a dispute between the Leader of the Opposition and her right hon. Friend the Member for Sidcup (Mr. Heath).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.800.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-13", "file": "debates1978-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "99325643700acbce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.805.4", "colnum": "805", "heading": "COUNTER-INFLATION POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER:\" Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, the House has just carried a motion declining to support the Government's arbitrary use of economic sanctions against films and workers who have negotiated pay settlements beyond a rigid limit —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.805.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-13", "file": "debates1978-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "99325643700acbce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "EUROPEAN MONETARY SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " time—the idea that a common currency could somehow precede the creation of common political institutions and political union. It is equally fallacious today, whether voiced by pro- or anti-Marketeers. The truth of the matter is probably rather closer to the evidence given to the Expenditure Committee inquiry into the EMS by Professor Laidler, the distinguished economist, monetarist and tax exile.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-13", "file": "debates1978-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "99325643700acbce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.832.3", "colnum": "832", "heading": "EUROPEAN MONETARY SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "Because we have only a limited time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.832.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-13", "file": "debates1978-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "99325643700acbce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "EUROPEAN MONETARY SYSTEM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Stoddart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Stoddart", "preceding_text": "for other hon. Members to hear exactly how far they are committed to a federal Europe. It would also interest the country to know how far they wished to tie this country's economy and monetary system to the German mark and to ditch the Atlantic alliance which has served us so well. That, in effect, is what they are saying. They wish to untie us from the United States and tie us to the German mark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-13a.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.903.6", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FIFE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Wait and see.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I suggest that we wait and see how the House votes tonight —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.903.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.907.5", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "An hon. Member", "cue_text": "The hon. Gentleman is not a very good clairvoyant.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has now turned into an astrologer. I hope that his forecasts are incorrect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.907.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.908.2", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Tell that to Michael.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I must say that I am not a connoisseur of late night programmes. I think that all good people should be in bed by 11 o'clock at night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.908.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.913.6", "colnum": "913", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "An. HON. MEMBER: \"You are the Opposition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "ubmissions to hon. Members from the Association of County Councils and from the Association of District Councils. There are already motions and amendments on the Order Paper dealing with this matter, showing how much it concerns individual authorities and individual counties. I hope very much, Mr. Speaker, that if you will allow the amendments to be called the Opposition will wish to support them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.913.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.922.3", "colnum": "922", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "lation rate. Exports have improved. Sterling has held steady for nearly two years. There is improved growth in the economy, at a faster rate than for some time. As a result of our policies, we have not only increased pensions and other benefits; we have reduced taxes. We have not reduced them as much as the Opposition would like, but they have come down, and that has made a substantial difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.922.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.925.8", "colnum": "925", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ney, as the only thing that will hold inflation? Will she then sit back and wait for the spate of bankruptcies? Is that the policy that the Opposition choose to follow? We all know from the right hon. Lady's speech at Penistone that she believes that wage increases in the public sector must be limited. The Opposition are hoping, perhaps with a misplaced sense of optimism, to become the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.925.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.926.0", "colnum": "926", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Prior", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that I did not put forward the figure of 5 per cent.? He put that figure forward but, unlike him, when we were in a similar position to his in 1973–74, I and my party have not sought to undermine the policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.926.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.927.0", "colnum": "927", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sidcup.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ll be left alone. Perhaps, however, the right hon. Gentleman is not entirely alone. We know that the Opposition do not have a policy about public sector pay and that all they want in the private sector is a free-for-all. We have heard the verdict on it—the verdict given on the present Leader of the Opposition's position by the former Leader of the Opposition, the right hon. Member for Bexleyheath—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.927.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.927.0", "colnum": "927", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, Sidcup.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n is not entirely alone. We know that the Opposition do not have a policy about public sector pay and that all they want in the private sector is a free-for-all. We have heard the verdict on it—the verdict given on the present Leader of the Opposition's position by the former Leader of the Opposition, the right hon. Member for Bexleyheath—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Sidcup.\"]— Bexleyheath, Sidcup (Mr. Heath)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.927.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.929.3", "colnum": "929", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I could proceed to the next part of my speech. Somehow, I do not think that the hon. Gentleman is going to approach this question with the sincerity of his hon. Friend the Member for Norfolk, North (Mr. Howell). I do not think that he is going to try to help me, or even help the debate forward. I am very sorry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.929.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.932.0", "colnum": "932", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now deal with the Ulster Members.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "and now I understand that they will try to trip us up for a fourth time tonight. Scotland will know whose the responsibility is. We have demonstrated our good faith in giving Scotland a chance to declare itself in the referendum on 1st March and it is time that the SNP showed its good faith in this matter by not voting for the Conservatives and crawling along behind them with every chance it gets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.932.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.963.1", "colnum": "963", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: A General Election.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "preceding_text": "inion poll which asked a question that was sufficiently accurate, precise and clear to obtain the view of the country on the matter that we are discussing today. I invite my right hon. Friend—I understand that the Government have machinery for taking soundings of public opinion—to do it. If he does not want to do it, I should be prepared to join with others in financing a real public opinion poll.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.963.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.992.3", "colnum": "992", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about an election? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "saying that I am indifferent to the result of the vote tonight. If it goes against the Government the problems will remain. The people know that, and they also know that the Tories have absolutely no valid or credible alternative to offer. Time and time again they have been asked by the Government to state their alternatives and they have steadily refused to do so, for their own very good reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.992.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.996.1", "colnum": "996", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Rhodes James", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Rhodes James", "preceding_text": "envy and of division have no place in our future and I would hope that when this Government come to an end we shall return to the politics of incentives and of realism—to the politics of common sense. I hope that we shall return to a Government and to a Parliament genuinely dedicated to the resurrection of our nation by our faith in our fellow citizens and their right to chart their own destinies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.996.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was not in October.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "out vandalism. He became concerned about that topic, and the Home Secretary was asked to hold a conference to which the Prime Minister sent a special message. But again nothing happened. In October we had the prize charade of all. The Prime Minister went on television and told the country that he did not intend to have a General Election because there was no need to do so in the national interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1031.1", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "echniques. But, alas for this mirage, the Left wing has refused to lie down. The right hon. Gentleman failed to convince the Labour Party conference on the central issue of Government policy. Indeed, he also failed to convince the TUC. Now he has been humbled by his own Back Benchers. All the time the right hon. Member for Bristol, South-East (Mr. Benn) is breathing down the Prime Minister's neck.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1031.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1035.1", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "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": "tuous for the House of Commons to deal with great sections of the community in that way. I happen to know that for the past two or three years the seamen, through their union, have been urging and demanding that we should introduce a Bill to deal with their industry. Such a Bill has been introduced and we shall carry it forward. I do not know why the Opposition Chief Whip should think me so funny—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1035.1", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "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": "attention before, I am bringing it to his attention now—that this measure, among many others, is one that has been urged on us by a great section of the people in the country. There are measures such as the Education Bill that we are introducing. A huge amount of work has to go into the preparation of the measure, apart from the Bill itself. There is also the Public Lending Right Bill, and I know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1035.1", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "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": "t of intellect the nation can expect from the Conservative Party. We intend to carry that measure through, and I am sorry that the Shadow Leader of the House has not been able to come along and give his support. On a series of other themes we have carried through great legislative changes, and there will be others going forward in this Session. When we return to the House in the middle of January—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1035.1", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "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": "dow Leader of the House has not been able to come along and give his support. On a series of other themes we have carried through great legislative changes, and there will be others going forward in this Session. When we return to the House in the middle of January—[ Interruption ] The House of Commons voted the other day to come back on 15th January and we are accepting the decision of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1035.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1044.2", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "In some respects the appalling industrial relations situation with which we were left in 1974, bad as it was, was the easiest problem that the Tories left. They also left us the biggest deficit in our balance of payments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1044.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1044.3", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the 8·4 per cent? \"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "We had to deal with that and also with the worst inflation for years. I remember it well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1044.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "in the House. He had a favourite phrase about \"picking up the cards\" that he found lying on his table when he became a Minister. I am merely picking up the cards that he has left behind in the Department of the Environment. The case for using regression analysis has been somewhat strengthened this year, both by a practical demonstration of the lack of political bias in this method of distribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Which services should be cut?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "The Government would not be criticised if they had introduced the cuts that we believe to be necessary now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1067.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1067.3", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" What about the cuts? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "The third criticism of the rate support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1067.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1073.1", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cartwright", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cartwright", "preceding_text": "pared the attached paper which I hope will be of use to you. I found the paper of considerable use. I am surprised to see a rather small number of Conservative hon. Members from Greater London taking advantage of it. The basic case made in the document is that which a number of us have made over the years—that London has never received its fair share of the needs element of the rate support grant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1073.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cartwright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Some? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cartwright", "preceding_text": "rest of England and Wales it is £120. So on that calculation Londoners again are paying substantially more in rates than is being paid in the rest of the country. The argument which some hon. Members advance in support of that state of affairs is that London has a much higher average income per head and therefore we can afford to pay higher rates in London. There is, of course, some truth in that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cartwright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cartwright", "preceding_text": "d Islington paying out resources across to boroughs like Richmond, Kingston and Barnet, which, on any assessment, do not need additional resources. In that sense, I much welcome what my right hon. Friend has done in reweighting the equalisation scheme so that it benefits inner London rather more that the LBA's recommendations would have done. May I briefly say a word about the regression analysis?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1096.1", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "I apologise, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am delighted that our inner city areas will get extra resources, but it is monstrous to seek to achieve that by robbing the rural areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1096.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-14", "file": "debates1978-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ec010fea45a207dd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1134.6", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "es, they should have the decency to sit and listen to the answers. It was suggested, first of all, that regression analysis rewards the profligate authorities. This betrays a most disappointing cynicism about local government. As a whole, local authorities are responsible bodies, spending what they need to spend. The system should reward high-spending authorities, if their high spending is needed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-14a.1134.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1978-12-15", "file": "debates1978-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "77024696282c8f09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-15a.1238.0", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "PRISONS (DRUGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "SEVERAL HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I understand that the case of Mr. Ince is sub judice", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1978-12-15a.1238.0"}