{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-15", "file": "debates1979-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "ae318f863d8ca472", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-15a.1313.2", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OFFICIAL SECRETS ACTS", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Infrequently.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "On the evidence available to me when I made my decision it was perfectly appropriate to bring those charges and to give consent to the bringing of them. However, evidence which comes to light in the course of a case not infrequently changes the view that one takes.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-15a.1313.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-15", "file": "debates1979-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "ae318f863d8ca472", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-15a.1323.2", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "ESSENTIAL SUPPLIES AND SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I have no power to instruct chief constables in their duties. They know the law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-15a.1323.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-16", "file": "debates1979-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "cb35ad85a71e15d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-16a.1504.2", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "GUADELOUPE SUMMIT MEETING", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We had a serious discussion about the attitude that should be taken. We were meeting in the middle of an unresolved situation. I therefore do not claim that we reached a precise decision on what the attitude of the West should be. But there was a mind-clearing of the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-16a.1504.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-16", "file": "debates1979-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "cb35ad85a71e15d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-16a.1517.0", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "GHOST WORKERS (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moonman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moonman", "preceding_text": "tantiated and which, if they were, would be a matter for criminal procedures. But then he adds a further element of exaggeration, and the whole thing is carried off, not very well, with breathtaking impertinence. I believe that the substance of industrial relations within the newspaper industry, of which I have many years of operational experience as a member of the National Graphical Association—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-16a.1517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-16", "file": "debates1979-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "cb35ad85a71e15d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-16a.1533.0", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Ashton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was illegal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Ashton", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady referred to the law as it was in 1972. Is she not aware that the picketing that took place at the Salt-ley coke depot which was led by Arthur Scargill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-16a.1533.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-01-16", "file": "debates1979-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "cb35ad85a71e15d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-16a.1533.1", "colnum": "1533", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Ashton", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady referred to the law as it was in 1972. Is she not aware that the picketing that took place at the Salt-ley coke depot which was led by Arthur Scargill—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It was illegal.\"] It might have been illegal, but it worked from the union point of view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-16a.1533.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-01-16", "file": "debates1979-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "cb35ad85a71e15d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-16a.1534.5", "colnum": "1534", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "Of course I shall. I am only too delighted to do so. Hon. Members are being most helpful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-16a.1534.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-16", "file": "debates1979-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "cb35ad85a71e15d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-16a.1541.1", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "isten to them. But I would seriously and earnestly beg the right hon. Lady not to give way to overmuch indignation when she is negotiating on these issues. We have found by a long experience of history that it is not sufficient to refer to a large number of one's fellow citizens, as one of the Sunday newspapers did, as enemies within the gate. That is not the way that one can handle these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-16a.1541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-16", "file": "debates1979-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "cb35ad85a71e15d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-16a.1541.1", "colnum": "1541", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. James Callaghan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mr. James Callaghan)", "preceding_text": "t of a number of ports, although usually on a restricted basis and not at all at Hull or Felixstowe. Picketing of some food manufacturers and suppliers of animal feedingstuffs continues, but has eased. In general, while vehicles belonging to the Road Haulage Association, even when carrying priority supplies, continue to face problems, what are called own account operators are not being restricted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-16a.1541.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-16", "file": "debates1979-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "cb35ad85a71e15d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-16a.1614.3", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he now? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "particularly the TGWU. We heard simply nothing from the Government until the Prime Minister came home and made that ghastly bloomer of trying to make out that there was no crisis and saying how parochial it all looked. Then, by God, it hit him —and I presume he hit the rest of his colleagues very soon afterwards. Where the Secretary of State for Employment has been in all this, heaven alone knows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-16a.1614.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-16", "file": "debates1979-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "cb35ad85a71e15d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-16a.1628.0", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "of course we will introduce it at any moment when we believe that its introduction will increase the flow of food and materials. In answer to those many hon. Members who cited the difficulties faced by firms and workers in their constituencies, perhaps I can say that in all cases of such difficulty the first step to be taken is to get in touch with the 24-hour emergency committees in every region.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-16a.1628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-16", "file": "debates1979-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "cb35ad85a71e15d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-16a.1634.1", "colnum": "1634", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Marshall", "preceding_text": "The House has rarely heard a more disgraceful speech from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. His attitude was incomprehensible. He made not a single constructive comment. He simply wound himself up into the old party political routine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-16a.1634.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-16", "file": "debates1979-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "cb35ad85a71e15d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-16a.1636.0", "colnum": "1636", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "ing those in my own constituency —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-16a.1636.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-16", "file": "debates1979-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "cb35ad85a71e15d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-16a.1648.3", "colnum": "1648", "heading": "HOUSING (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "der for any local authority to decide that it will not proceed with a capital building programme because of any lack of housing support money, because that money is provided. My hon. Friend has the second element right in that when he provides for the total budget it is no less than it would have been had the previous subsidy system existed. In other words, the order does not provide for any cuts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-16a.1648.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-16", "file": "debates1979-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "cb35ad85a71e15d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-16a.1652.1", "colnum": "1652", "heading": "HOUSING (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "n 1 of the Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1978. Most of us have this information only through the courtesy of Strathkelvin district council, which was kind enough to send us a copy today together with its criticism of its content. It would seem to us to be in the interests of better government and to be helpful to us if we could have this kind of information available to us earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-16a.1652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-17", "file": "debates1979-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "eeece50972531ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-17a.1705.1", "colnum": "1705", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "I think that all right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House must recognise certain facts. The majority of people in this country did not want to enter the EEC in 1972 and 1973.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-17a.1705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-17", "file": "debates1979-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "eeece50972531ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-17a.1715.1", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "to all those countries, my right hon. Friend is regarded as a friend by those whom he visited and as a man whom they can trust. This in some ways applies to the second part of the right hon. Gentleman's question. I would not hesitate to ask my right hon. Friend whether he would make his services available in certain circumstances to repeat such a visit or, indeed, to go there on a different basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-17a.1715.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-17", "file": "debates1979-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "eeece50972531ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-17a.1717.3", "colnum": "1717", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The second question is hypothetical. I ought to go as far as I can to satisfy the House, but I do not think that I can add to the answer that I gave to the previous question. It would depend, obviously, upon the attitude of those who took over the internal responsibilities that have been exercised in Rhodesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-17a.1717.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-17", "file": "debates1979-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "eeece50972531ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-17a.1719.4", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Both ways.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I fear that incursions into other countries do have that result and, indeed, have influenced the lack of negotiation. These incursions should be called off—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-17a.1719.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-17", "file": "debates1979-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "eeece50972531ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-17a.1722.0", "colnum": "1722", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are the Government doing about it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " suppose that they could fight on until the country is a desert, but that should not be a policy that the British Government should appear to encourage. Therefore, we must work to try to get them round the negotiating table. I do not believe that any Conservative Member would dissent from that. They know that it is far better to try to get a peaceful settlement than to allow the fighting to go on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-17a.1722.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-17", "file": "debates1979-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "eeece50972531ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-17a.1727.1", "colnum": "1727", "heading": "WATER SUPPLIES (NORTH-WEST ENGLAND)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not today?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. There will be a statement to the House tomorrow, and I am sure that it will cover this matter, which is very important. Indeed, there may be other questions that other hon. Members will naturally wish to raise. A statement will be made to the House tomorrow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-17a.1727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-17", "file": "debates1979-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "eeece50972531ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-17a.1834.0", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ellis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is 39 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ellis", "preceding_text": "hat is an even bigger condemnation of these amendments. I cannot see why, if the ratio of the divide in Northern Ireland is 60 to 40, there is not a similar ratio in representation in the seats that we already have. The outcome of these extra seats is, in the circumstances, unlikely to change the situation one iota. What it is likely to do is further to alienate the already alienated 40 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-17a.1834.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-17", "file": "debates1979-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "eeece50972531ccc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-17a.1910.1", "colnum": "1910", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Ellis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Win.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Ellis", "preceding_text": "d and in the north. I believe that that will go on, and that we shall not improve the position by this measure. As regards the voting position in the House, if a decision were taken to increase representation because of the domestic situation, that would be a heinous crime. I want to see a Labour Government returned. I hope that we shall lose the next General Election. If the card had been played—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-17a.1910.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-18", "file": "debates1979-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "82bf4747735d61d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1929.5", "colnum": "1929", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "employers through the price code? Employers are being bludgeoned into paying excessive pay claims. Does the Minister think that the road hauliers are rushing around trying to force pound notes into the pockets of their reluctant employees? Would it not be better to try clipping the wings of over-powerful, over-arrogant and totally unworthy leaders of the trade union movement in this country today?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1929.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-18", "file": "debates1979-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "82bf4747735d61d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1945.0", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that neither in her television broadcast last evening nor in her speech to the House of Commons on Tuesday did the Leader of the Opposition make any reference to how the Tories would tackle the problems of inflation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1945.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-18", "file": "debates1979-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "82bf4747735d61d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1945.0", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that neither in her television broadcast last evening nor in her speech to the House of Commons on Tuesday did the Leader of the Opposition make any reference to how the Tories would tackle the problems of inflation? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] Short-term, ill-considered proposals on trade union legislation would not help the country in the present situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1945.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-18", "file": "debates1979-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "82bf4747735d61d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1945.0", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "ckle the problems of inflation? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] Short-term, ill-considered proposals on trade union legislation would not help the country in the present situation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] Will my right hon. Friend continue to impress upon the trade union movement that inflationary wage increases have no relevance to social justice and are not in the best interests of working people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1945.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-18", "file": "debates1979-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "82bf4747735d61d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1945.3", "colnum": "1945", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Paul Bryan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Paul Bryan", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister appreciate that in the East Riding of Yorkshire we have the biggest concentration of pigs in the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1945.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-18", "file": "debates1979-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "82bf4747735d61d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1947.7", "colnum": "1947", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stoddart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stoddart", "preceding_text": "Thank you for your guidance, Mr. Speaker, but I did not call the right hon. Lady a hypocrite. I merely said that the political broadcast was an exercise in hypocrisy, and I think it was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1947.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-18", "file": "debates1979-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "82bf4747735d61d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1948.1", "colnum": "1948", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Swain", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that he has often said in this House that prevention is better than cure? Does he not consider that the crisis facing this country today would have been prevented had his Cabinet given a flat-rate increase right across the board during the early stages of negotiations? I am sure, having done my sums on this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1948.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-18", "file": "debates1979-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "82bf4747735d61d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1949.4", "colnum": "1949", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1949.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-18", "file": "debates1979-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "82bf4747735d61d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1961.2", "colnum": "1961", "heading": "ROAD HAULAGE (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loyden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loyden", "preceding_text": "ivers' strike quickly to an end and that this week those officers have been involved daily in dealing with the matters to which she referred? It is absolutely untrue that the union so far, in its instructions to its members, has not been able to penetrate the membership in that way. The membership is responding. The code of practice being issued today has the full backing of the union's executive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1961.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-18", "file": "debates1979-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "82bf4747735d61d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1963.3", "colnum": "1963", "heading": "ROAD HAULAGE (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "preceding_text": "e series of disputes proves anything it proves clearly that the Conservative Party is the party of the employers? It will not have escaped his notice that all the proposals made by the Conservative Party, in the last four days, for legislative changes would have strengthened the employers' bargaining power. Is it not a disgrace that the Conservative Party should seek to exploit the class struggle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1963.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-18", "file": "debates1979-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "82bf4747735d61d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1964.6", "colnum": "1964", "heading": "ROAD HAULAGE (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " received, that the North-West has suffered particularly. We have to try to ensure that the normal food and water supplies are restored as quickly as possible. People are having to walk 200 or 300 yards to get water, which is a disgrace in a civilised community. But I would point out to the hon. and learned Gentleman and to Opposition Members in their present, if I may call it, union-bashing mood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1964.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-18", "file": "debates1979-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "82bf4747735d61d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1966.3", "colnum": "1966", "heading": "ROAD HAULAGE (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend, with his legal mind, has stated the position exactly as I understand it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1966.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-18", "file": "debates1979-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "82bf4747735d61d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1967.0", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "ROAD HAULAGE (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "I should like the Prime Minister to clarify one point beyond doubt. His hon. Friend the Member for York (Mr. Lyon) said that the picket line had authority to stop—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1967.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-18", "file": "debates1979-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "82bf4747735d61d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1967.2", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "ROAD HAULAGE (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "preceding_text": "Before my right hon. Friend replies, may I say that I did not say that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1967.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-18", "file": "debates1979-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "82bf4747735d61d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1981.3", "colnum": "1981", "heading": "ESSENTIAL SUPPLIES AND SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that much of the problem is still being caused by panic buying in shops?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1981.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-18", "file": "debates1979-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "82bf4747735d61d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1985.1", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "ESSENTIAL SUPPLIES AND SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman repeated what I said to my hon. Friend the Member for Bassetlaw (Mr. Ashton), that panic buying is only a small part of the problem. He spoke about secondary picketing being illegal", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.1985.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-18", "file": "debates1979-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "82bf4747735d61d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.2008.0", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "INDUSTRY BILL", "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": "I really have nothing very much to add to what I said in response to an earlier question on the same subject. I fully appreciate the concern about the truncation of this very important debate. I am not minimising its importance in any sense. But, of course, one of the Government's concerns is that we must get the Bill through before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.2008.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-18", "file": "debates1979-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "82bf4747735d61d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.2008.0", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "INDUSTRY BILL", "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": "he Secretary of State for Industry and to the right hon. Member for Leeds, North-East (Sir K. Joseph), who is in charge of the Bill for the Opposition, that I think that we shall have to take into account the fact that there has been somewhat less time for the Second Reading than had been previously arranged. and I would hope that if we have normal progress during the Committee stage, that can be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.2008.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-18", "file": "debates1979-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "82bf4747735d61d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.2008.2", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "It has.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.2008.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-18", "file": "debates1979-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "82bf4747735d61d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.2008.2", "colnum": "2008", "heading": "INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "t has. [ Interruption .] Hon. Members have not heard yet the conclusion of my remarks. Of course, I believe that that should be taken into account on Report. Therefore, I strongly urge the House not to devote any further time now to points of order but to proceed, because every point of order can only take away further time from the debate. I ask hon. Members to see how we proceed with the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.2008.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-18", "file": "debates1979-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "82bf4747735d61d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.2013.1", "colnum": "2013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. It is the other way round.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Clark", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. You have ruled that, the Orders of the Day having been called, only a Minister of the Crown may move the Adjournment of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.2013.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-18", "file": "debates1979-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "82bf4747735d61d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.2015.1", "colnum": "2015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "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": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. The hon. Member for Westmorland (Mr. Jopling) is perfectly right in his assessment of the position, as I understand it. I was urging that the House should embark upon the debate. I believe that is still the right course. Indeed, I think that it would have been wise if we had done that 20 minutes ago", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.2015.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-18", "file": "debates1979-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "82bf4747735d61d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.2020.2", "colnum": "2020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I believe that I have called everyone except the hon. Member for Woolwich, West (Mr. Bottomley). I shall take his point of order and then call on the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.2020.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-18", "file": "debates1979-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "82bf4747735d61d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.2022.0", "colnum": "2022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have had them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "proceed on the lines that I have suggested, I believe that the whole matter can be perfectly well accommodated. If the right hon. Member for Leeds, North-East (Sir K. Joseph) had acceded to what I suggested earlier, it could have been dealt with. I suggest that we should start upon the debate now. I wish that it could have been done earlier. We can then have discussions through the usual channels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.2022.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-18", "file": "debates1979-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "82bf4747735d61d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.2029.1", "colnum": "2029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, we missed that objective some time ago owing to the troubles that we had, which we explained at the time during the toolmakers' dispute. I want to emphasise however—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.2029.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-18", "file": "debates1979-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "82bf4747735d61d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.2039.2", "colnum": "2039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the Secretaries of State?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "r derelict land, to engage in industrial promotion and to provide loans and advisory services to small firms. My right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Wales and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland have asked me to pay a special tribute today to the imaginative and effective way in which their respective Agencies tackle their formidable and challenging tasks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.2039.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-18", "file": "debates1979-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "82bf4747735d61d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.2056.1", "colnum": "2056", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkins", "preceding_text": " that each company—because it is each company's and each concern's own business—should be required to produce its own agreed proposals to meet its needs for industrial democracy within a given period of, say, six months. I remind the House that in the case of small firms we have legislation on the statute book which meets exactly the bill. I refer to the Industrial Common Ownership Act 1976 which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-18a.2056.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-19", "file": "debates1979-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "a5810236c8389852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-19a.2120.3", "colnum": "2120", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "I have normally found the hon. Gentleman one of the more sensible of hon. Gentlemen opposite—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-19a.2120.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-19", "file": "debates1979-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "a5810236c8389852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-19a.2124.7", "colnum": "2124", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "When the hon. Member uses the word \"intimidation\" he moves into a serious area. Whatever arguments there may be about what the law should say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-19a.2124.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-19", "file": "debates1979-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "a5810236c8389852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-19a.2125.0", "colnum": "2125", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not the Prime Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-19a.2125.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-19", "file": "debates1979-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "a5810236c8389852", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-19a.2221.9", "colnum": "2221", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON AMBULANCE SERVICE (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "preceding_text": "It is no good the hon. Member for Essex, South-East (Sir B. Braine) shouting and believing that that is a substitute for action. I shall not detain the House any longer because I want to provide an opportunity to the Opposition Front Bench spokesman and the Minister to make their contributions. But I do not believe that the majority of ambulance men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-19a.2221.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-22", "file": "debates1979-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "217b5d94b1249702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-22a.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "pplies from reaching hospitals. If that did happen I should take a very serious view of it. It is true that in Scotland there is a considerable problem. Together with the voluntary organisations, the police have made alternative arrangements. In Cardiff the Army has made available a small number of ambulances to help out there. I must tell the hon. Member that I give no instructions to the unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-22a.30.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-22", "file": "debates1979-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "217b5d94b1249702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-22a.40.0", "colnum": "40", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (FREEDOM OF ACCESS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael McGuire", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Speaker. I ask you, with very great respect, not to bother the police with this matter. Like the hon. Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton), I had to travel about 210 miles to get here. I was also stuck in a traffic jam. Realising that I had chosen the wrong route, I doubled back. I suggest that any hon. Member with an ounce of sense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-22a.40.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-22", "file": "debates1979-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "217b5d94b1249702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-22a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has given me a formidable list of detailed questions which require an answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-22a.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-22", "file": "debates1979-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "217b5d94b1249702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-22a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "An hon Member: \"Get on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has given me a formidable list of detailed questions which require an answer—[ Interruption. ]—unless hon. Members do not want an answer to them, of course, which I sometimes suspect. As far as the question of detail is concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-22a.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-22", "file": "debates1979-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "217b5d94b1249702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-22a.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "preceding_text": "ave an incomes policy provided that everything was managed centrally by the State. The result of that, he wrote, was that every individual decision of importance was referred to the centre. That, however, led to economic stagnation. Ota Sic was not some mad Right-wing writer in the Spectator nor some mad Left-wing writer in Tribune, or whatever one might consider to be an extremely Left-wing paper", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-22a.114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-22", "file": "debates1979-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "217b5d94b1249702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-22a.120.1", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "preceding_text": "ers' concern about the emergency cases which have to be conveyed to hospital. I hope that they will say that they, too, give their support to organisations such as the Confederation of Health Service Employees and the other unions involved, which equally want to see that adequate emergency coverage is supplied. I have only recently spoken to officers of COHSE. They still maintain that they regret—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-22a.120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-22", "file": "debates1979-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "217b5d94b1249702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-22a.120.1", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Molloy", "preceding_text": " sort of people that it asks to comment on the current situation. For example, who was the speaker chosen to discuss the present situation following the one o'clock news? It was none other than the man who has all the answers to Britain's problems, Sir Richard Marsh. He said that there was a rift between the Labour Party and the trade unions, as a result of which all these difficulties had arisen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-22a.120.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-22", "file": "debates1979-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "217b5d94b1249702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-22a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "preceding_text": "Neither this party nor anybody else can vote against the supreme sanction which any Government have with regard to the BBC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-22a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-22", "file": "debates1979-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "217b5d94b1249702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-22a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Merlyn Rees)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Merlyn Rees)", "preceding_text": "tect the existing situation. Undoubtedly that has an effect, but the situation has been explained this afternoon. Hon. Members have asked about the situation throughout the country. I have just returned from a meeting of members of the emergency committees. I asked them about the situation. I did not ask the newspapers or the media. They tell me that we are not in a crisis situation at the moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-22a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-22", "file": "debates1979-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "217b5d94b1249702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-22a.157.3", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Liverpool?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "o unions, the TGWU and the URTU, have been involved. But supplies are now being moved out of both the main suppliers at Runcorn and Middlewich. The priority categories appear to have been accepted fully and deliveries of salt in tankers and in bays are on the way back to normal. Sugar supplies should improve quite quickly as a result of the resumption of work at Tate & Lyle at London and Greenock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-22a.157.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-22", "file": "debates1979-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "217b5d94b1249702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-22a.160.3", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the right hon. Gentleman's hon. Friends?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": " the way through this situation. A frontal attack on this difficult situation would not solve the matter. We are aware of our responsibilities. But whether it is food about which the Tory Party is inflamed or something else, we know that the time has not yet come. We shall look at the matter tomorrow and the day after. The problem arises from free collective bargaining, which the Tory Party wants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-22a.160.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-22", "file": "debates1979-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "217b5d94b1249702", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-22a.160.3", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "hat the time has not yet come. We shall look at the matter tomorrow and the day after. The problem arises from free collective bargaining, which the Tory Party wants. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the right hon. Gentleman's hon. Friends?\"] I speak for myself. Free collective bargaining means strikes. The moment there are strikes, the Tory Party cries \"Foul\". We have a serious problem in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-22a.160.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-23", "file": "debates1979-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "126b2c96c7321787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-23a.188.8", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is dead.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": " Times Newspapers closes permanently, the secondary unemployment effects could involve well over 10,000 people and that this is a serious matter? Does he recall that about 13 years ago, Lord Thomson pledged to the Monopolies Commission the whole of his considerable personal wealth in this country to continuing Times Newspapers in being? Since he has taken nearly all that personal wealth to Canada—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-23a.188.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-23", "file": "debates1979-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "126b2c96c7321787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-23a.199.1", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Ms Colquhoun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms Colquhoun", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend tell us where he and members of his Government were yesterday when the low-paid workers came to see them in this House? Surely we have not reached the stage when they consider themselves too good to rub shoulders with the workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-23a.199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-23", "file": "debates1979-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "126b2c96c7321787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-23a.200.3", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "preceding_text": "nal Union of Public Employees, whereby a school which many of my constituents attend was forced to close although the headmaster and all the teachers were determined to carry out their statutory obligation to educate our children? Is the right hon. Gentleman further aware that the headmaster was told that, if that school opened, there would be heavy picketing of both the teachers and the children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-23a.200.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-23", "file": "debates1979-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "126b2c96c7321787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-23a.201.0", "colnum": "201", "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": "ys said and continue to say is that I believe that the trade union movement would work with any Government of this country. That has always been my approach and my principle on the matter. Of course, I do not have details of the school to which the hon. Member has referred. He did not name it—probably very properly. However, I really do not see why anyone is forced to cease work in this situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-23a.201.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-01-23", "file": "debates1979-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "126b2c96c7321787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-23a.202.2", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brotherton", "preceding_text": "rly on the subject of animal feeding stuffs, was quite intolerable and, secondly, that the fact that the right hon. Gentleman is a member of the Transport and General Workers' Union, and that he is sponsored by the TGWU, in no way precludes the right hon. Gentleman from condemning violence and excesses against the law which have been perpetrated by various members of the union to which he belongs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-23a.202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-23", "file": "debates1979-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "126b2c96c7321787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-23a.205.1", "colnum": "205", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (FREEDOM OF ACCESS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have a brief statement to make. Yesterday the hon. Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-23a.205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-23", "file": "debates1979-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "126b2c96c7321787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-23a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "I shall give way to the hon. Lady in a moment. That would not be universally popular, because the hon. Member for Tynemouth (Mr. Trotter) wrote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-23a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-23", "file": "debates1979-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "126b2c96c7321787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-23a.292.1", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Taylor", "preceding_text": " by the Inland Revenue through penal taxation, are being used to prop up inefficient and unsuccessful enterprises that compete with his own company. The successful business man pays extortionate rates of tax and has had any incentive to work harder, which would create jobs, or to sell abroad, which would create jobs, or to improve efficiency at home, which would create jobs, drained away from him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-23a.292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-23", "file": "debates1979-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "126b2c96c7321787", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-23a.368.0", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "The Minister has plainly tried to overwhelm me by flattery of my drafting, and he has gone some way to satisfy our anxieties, at least for the moment. We shall look forward to the further statement that he has promised and give it the keenest possible scrutiny when it arrives. With that assurance, that there will be a further statement reasonably soon, I beg to ask leave to withdraw—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-23a.368.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-24", "file": "debates1979-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "dba02dead6528d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-24a.405.5", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Very wise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": "I have not driven round the South Circular recently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-24a.405.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-24", "file": "debates1979-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "dba02dead6528d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-24a.416.2", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "There are many strong differences of tradition. I have said in the House that if the tachograph had not been invented it would not have been necessary for us to consider its adoption.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-24a.416.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-24", "file": "debates1979-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "dba02dead6528d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-24a.425.0", "colnum": "425", "heading": "ESSENTIAL SUPPLIES AND SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "The House will be grateful for a statement which, unlike some others that have been made, is not complacent in any way. Does the Home Secretary accept that, as a result, his statement represents both a very serious and a deteriorating situation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-24a.425.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-24", "file": "debates1979-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "dba02dead6528d88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-24a.427.0", "colnum": "427", "heading": "ESSENTIAL SUPPLIES AND SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which way did you vote?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "tion other than to continue to report the situation to the House? To return to what the Prime Minister said yesterday about picketing, will the right hon. Gentleman accept that the reaction of lorry drivers is that they now require their union ticket because it is their meal ticket? That is the effect of the closed shop legislation, and unless the Government are prepared to give a clear directive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-24a.427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-25", "file": "debates1979-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b72abc0dbd5ebe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.675.0", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "Is not the Prime Minister's problem over the road hauliers' strike made more difficult by the fact that the Transport and General Workers' Union holds 2 million votes at his party conference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.675.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-25", "file": "debates1979-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b72abc0dbd5ebe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.675.1", "colnum": "675", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentlemen's question was well up to his usual standard. As was rather noisily pointed out to him, he is only 100 per cent. wrong on the number of votes—not that that, if I may say so, is significant, because the Government of this country will carry out their responsibilities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.675.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-25", "file": "debates1979-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b72abc0dbd5ebe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL, BIRMINGHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "ncluding those from Radiotherapy are those whose treatment could most safely, though not ideally be suspended in the short term'. The hon. Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Mrs. Knight) made reference to pickets and interference with patients. No patient's admission to hospital has been interrupted by pickets. I have made inquiries about this. It is true that two patients were delayed at the gate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-25", "file": "debates1979-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b72abc0dbd5ebe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.683.6", "colnum": "683", "heading": "QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL, BIRMINGHAM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molloy", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Would it help the position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.683.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-25", "file": "debates1979-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b72abc0dbd5ebe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.684.6", "colnum": "684", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Silkin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Silkin)", "preceding_text": "there have been improvements in Northern Ireland, South Humberside, Sheerness and Southampton; there has been some improvement also at Tilbury, and a major improvement at Put-fleet, which is especially important for supplies of margarine, which had been causing concern in Merseyside, Avonmouth and Hull there has been no change in the position, but the Government are taking this up with the unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.684.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-25", "file": "debates1979-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b72abc0dbd5ebe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.684.6", "colnum": "684", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Silkin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John Silkin)", "preceding_text": "Avonmouth and Hull there has been no change in the position, but the Government are taking this up with the unions. [ Interruption. ] I rather anticipated that particular titter. That is why I gave a detailed list of the improvements that have been made precisely as a result of the Government's taking up matters with the union. There has been some easing of the difficulties in packaging materials—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.684.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-25", "file": "debates1979-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b72abc0dbd5ebe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.687.0", "colnum": "687", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a waste of time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": " be a little indulgent with me for about 30 seconds before I deal with those questions, because there is a point which hon. Members may not know about and which it might be of advantage to them to know. If hon. Members have detailed difficulties in their own constituencies, it would be helpful if they would get in touch with the regional emergency committees. This has happened in one or two cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-25", "file": "debates1979-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b72abc0dbd5ebe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "I said that I saw no reason to depart from what I said on Monday, which is that the position—and I have to look at it from week to week—over the next weekend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-25", "file": "debates1979-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b72abc0dbd5ebe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watkinson", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend accept that whilst there are difficulties in the West Country, there have been gross exaggerations about the feedingstuffs problem? Does he accept that farming interests in the West Country have told me that feedingstuffs are coming out of the port of Avonmouth?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.691.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-25", "file": "debates1979-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b72abc0dbd5ebe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.692.3", "colnum": "692", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "mited supplies of canned and packaged food? Does he appreciate that these food items are of particular importance to small households and the elderly? The reason for this situation, as the Minister surely recognises, is that secondary picketing is being resumed in some cases, and food manufacturers and distributors are unable to get on with their jobs. Will the Minister clearly tell the House now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.692.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-25", "file": "debates1979-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b72abc0dbd5ebe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.692.3", "colnum": "692", "heading": "FOOD SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "e appreciate that these food items are of particular importance to small households and the elderly? The reason for this situation, as the Minister surely recognises, is that secondary picketing is being resumed in some cases, and food manufacturers and distributors are unable to get on with their jobs. Will the Minister clearly tell the House now—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"]—how food distributors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.692.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-25", "file": "debates1979-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b72abc0dbd5ebe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.700.0", "colnum": "700", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In our time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "The House will have a convenient opportunity this afternoon to debate these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-25", "file": "debates1979-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b72abc0dbd5ebe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.708.0", "colnum": "708", "heading": "PICKETING", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"May?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": " which we have been talking about over the past week or two. Union discipline is a most important aspect, and that is what the Government are trying to achieve. As regards the question of the threat that a person will not be allowed to cross a picket line unless he promises to pay a union subscription, that may very well be—I cannot answer directly—an offence under the provisions of the Theft Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.708.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-25", "file": "debates1979-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b72abc0dbd5ebe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.725.5", "colnum": "725", "heading": "GRAVE DIGGERS AND CREMATORIUM ATTENDANTS (LIVERPOOL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parry", "preceding_text": "he Health Service over the pay application that they have made to the employers. It is time some- body told the House the way in which these employees have fallen behind average earnings during the last three years. For example, in 1975 the average earnings of a male manual worker in a local authority totalled £13·30—lower than the average earnings in other industries and services. In 1978—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.725.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-25", "file": "debates1979-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b72abc0dbd5ebe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.748.0", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We all have.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman said that he had a number of complaints from his constituents about intimidation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.748.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-25", "file": "debates1979-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b72abc0dbd5ebe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.748.1", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": " papers day after day. It is a matter of common knowledge in this House and elsewhere that trade union pickets, be they lawful or unlawful, are demanding sums of money before people can cross picket lines up and down the country, like an informal set of customs officers. If the Prime Minister is seeking to shuffle off his responsibility, the Attorney-General is the senior Law Officer of the Crown—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-25", "file": "debates1979-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b72abc0dbd5ebe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.749.0", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "preceding_text": " the House to it at Question Time. I have actually contacted the individuals, who are willing to give evidence and to stand up, and I actually have the names of the trade union officials concerned. But at 2.30 p.m. today nobody had bothered, as far as the office of the Home Secretary is concerned, even to contact those individuals to see what inquiries should be made. So it really is not any good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.749.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-25", "file": "debates1979-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b72abc0dbd5ebe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Denis Healey)", "preceding_text": " consequences of the present disputes are intolerable, but so far the strictly economic consequences have been far less dramatic than many people expected. For example, when the lorry drivers' strike began unofficially about three weeks ago, most industrialists believed—genuinely, I think—that if it continued as it had begun there would be 1 million more people out of work by the end of last week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-25", "file": "debates1979-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b72abc0dbd5ebe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.759.3", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "lds sincerely—that all our difficulties in collective bargaining are due to some gargantuan increase in the rower of the trade unions brought about by the Labour Government. However, the fact is that the last Conservative Government faced exactly the same problems when they possessed all the powers which the Conservatives now ask us to adopt. All the evidence of history is against their arguments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.759.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-25", "file": "debates1979-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b72abc0dbd5ebe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "t in deciding what type of picketing is lawful and what is not. Everything must depend on the circumstances. We had discussions, for example, about the closed shop and about the threat of being expelled from a union being intimidation. Threats of expulsion from different bodies often play a role in our political life. Winston Churchill had the Whip withdrawn by the Conservative Party in the 1930s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.764.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-25", "file": "debates1979-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b72abc0dbd5ebe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "hat worker. In the world in which we now live we do not see meat very often, but this man has a little rump steak. At 188p a pound, that has gone up in price by 106 per cent. The price of his tea has gone up by 156 per cent., and before he puts more milk in his cup of tea his wife points out that their two children like to drink quite a lot of it. The price of the milk has gone up by 143 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-25", "file": "debates1979-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b72abc0dbd5ebe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"People are eating better.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": " has gone up by 143 per cent. [ Interruption. ] I know that Labour Members do not like the reality of five years of Socialism, but these are the prices that my constituent is paying. My constituent is spending more on less food. He is a little disconcerted by his wife's drawing the realities of life to his attention, and he leaves the dinner table. He tries to put up his feet and watch television.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-25", "file": "debates1979-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b72abc0dbd5ebe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.801.1", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "r cent. does not begin to look like proof of a successful five-year period to my typical, average industrial worker. His wife asks\" What will you do about it? Why don't you write to your MP?\" He goes to do so, but then realises that postage has increased by 157 per cent. He thinks to himself \"The matter might be urgent, so why not telephone him?\" But the telephone bill has gone up by 200 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.801.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-25", "file": "debates1979-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b72abc0dbd5ebe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.806.1", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Nott", "preceding_text": "ical resignation about the frailties of the human condition. The Prime Minister does so of the frailties of the people in this country. At the heart of the problem is that, whether we think of the law, medicine, Parliament, the Army, the Church or, now, the trade unions, in this country we have traditionally organised our affairs in a clublike way. In varying ways, the clubs, now the trade unions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.806.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-25", "file": "debates1979-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "6b72abc0dbd5ebe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.837.3", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Meyer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Meyer", "preceding_text": "sider that the Community attributes enough importance to the need to develop the outlying regions where so much of the British steel industry is situated. In this matter the Commission's record is a good deal better than the Council of Ministers' record. If I had to rely on the good intentions of one body rather than the other, I should much prefer to rely on the good intentions of the Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-25a.837.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-30", "file": "debates1979-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f5eaeabacd5b584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-30a.1375.0", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EATATE AGENTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bendall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bendall", "preceding_text": "I accept that where there is a managing agent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-30a.1375.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-30", "file": "debates1979-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "4f5eaeabacd5b584", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-30a.1412.4", "colnum": "1412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": "e it will pay about £12 to each of 113,000 authors. I do not believe that the Minister of State, left to his own devices, would have produced a Bill of this kind. I do not believe that he thinks it is sensible. Not many hon. Members think that it is sensible. However, the Bill has three or four friends. I gather that my hon. Friend the Member for Cambridge (Mr. Rhodes James) is a new-found friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-30a.1412.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-01-31", "file": "debates1979-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "f7ce399a0c8f858c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-31a.1625.1", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PRICE COMMISSION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "I shall be brief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-01-31a.1625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-01", "file": "debates1979-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a27fffb38d1e8e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-01a.1667.0", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Services will be answering a private notice question on this and kindred matters at 3.30 pm this afternoon, as the right hon. Lady knows. I should therefore prefer that any considered comment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-01a.1667.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-01", "file": "debates1979-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a27fffb38d1e8e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-01a.1667.0", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The Opposition are like a rabble.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ternoon, as the right hon. Lady knows. I should therefore prefer that any considered comment—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"]—on the general matters that have been raised about the Health Service and the hospitals was made by him, as I think the right hon. Lady will understand. On the question of volunteers for hospitals, I cannot say that the Cabinet has particularly considered that matter this morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-01a.1667.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-01", "file": "debates1979-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a27fffb38d1e8e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-01a.1667.0", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "binet has particularly considered that matter this morning. [An HON. MEMBER: \"The Opposition are like a rabble.\"] With respect, they are not like a rabble, they are a rabble. What I would say to the right hon. Lady is that it is not acceptable in any community that sick human beings, be they adults or children, should be denied food, and proper attention forbidden to them by the actions of people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-01a.1667.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-01", "file": "debates1979-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a27fffb38d1e8e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-01a.1673.0", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "se any such code? Will he undertake to publish immediately the details of the code, so that at least nobody will be able to deny knowledge of it? When the right hon. Gentleman met the general secretary of NUPE, Mr. Fisher, did he ask him to withdraw the union's official call for the maximum possible disruption of services—and, if not, why not? Will he recognise that the time for dithering is over?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-01a.1673.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-01", "file": "debates1979-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a27fffb38d1e8e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-01a.1677.4", "colnum": "1677", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orbach", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By volunteers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orbach", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that although he said that Westminster hospital was one of those that had closed, as did The Daily Telegraph this morning, I have just returned from Westminster hospital in the last quarter of an hour? I had a full examination which began at two o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-01a.1677.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-01", "file": "debates1979-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a27fffb38d1e8e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-01a.1687.1", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I shall take the three matters raised by the right hon. Lady in reverse order. On the last matter, concerning Iran, the Foreign Secretary will in any case be answering questions next week. I think that it is next week. But if it is thought desirable that he should make a special statement on this subject, I shall certainly consider any such representations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-01a.1687.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-01", "file": "debates1979-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a27fffb38d1e8e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-01a.1695.5", "colnum": "1695", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Miss Richardson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Richardson", "preceding_text": "Now that the Home Secretary is looking urgently into the practice revealed by the case of the Indian lady who arrived at London airport to be subjected to an examination to discover whether she was virgo intacta —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-01a.1695.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-01", "file": "debates1979-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a27fffb38d1e8e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-01a.1700.0", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) knows that criticism of another hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-01a.1700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-01", "file": "debates1979-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "a27fffb38d1e8e3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-01a.1738.3", "colnum": "1738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — RHODESIA (OIL SANCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "d. No minister who respected the fundamental usages of political practice would attempt to read such a note. The committee which unites the law-making power to the law-executing power—which, by virtue of that combination, is, while it lasts and holds together, the most powerful body in the state—is a committee wholly secret. No description of it, at once graphic and authentic, has ever been given.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-01a.1738.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-05", "file": "debates1979-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6e3d1a5104c2f0aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-05a.100.4", "colnum": "100", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Should they be shot?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": " beyond the will and wit of Parliament to come to an agreement on certain basic issues. When we examine the public service dispute that is now taking place, we realise that there are few in this House who are other than ashamed and sickened by what they have read, seen and heard in the last couple of weeks. There should be no strikes in areas where people are at risk. They should not be tolerated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-05a.100.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-05", "file": "debates1979-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6e3d1a5104c2f0aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-05a.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr. David Ennals)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"About time too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr. David Ennals)", "preceding_text": "f this, Opposition Members accuse Ministers of inaction. This charge was made on the radio this morning by the hon. Member for Reading, South—who is still not here. I listened to him with very great interest, because, while he and his right hon Friend the Member for Wanstead and Woodford (Mr. Jenkin) were tucked up in bed, I was engaged in all-night talks on the Westminster hospital group dispute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-05a.106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-05", "file": "debates1979-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6e3d1a5104c2f0aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-05a.126.0", "colnum": "126", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is the Government's chickens which are coming home to roost.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "or four weeks has confirmed my belief that it is not possible to run a modern economy without some sort of permanent incomes policy. I only hope that the same message is getting through to those who espouse unrestrained collective bargaining. I hope that the chickens are coming home to roost for those on the Opposition Front Bench who have been espousing that cause in the past three or four years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-05a.126.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-02-05", "file": "debates1979-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6e3d1a5104c2f0aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-05a.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Health and Social Security (Mr. Roland Moyle)", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman was courteous enough to say that he would raise this matter. There is no truth in it at all. If certain people are saying to the right hon. Gentleman what he has repeated in the House, I can only advise him that they are misleading him. If he continues to repeat this, he is misleading the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-05a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-05", "file": "debates1979-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6e3d1a5104c2f0aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-05a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "Of course, if the right hon. Gentleman tells me that I have been misinformed, I shall withdraw. I am bound to tell him that the sources of my information are pretty impressive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-05a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-05", "file": "debates1979-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6e3d1a5104c2f0aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-05a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are the Minister's policies?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": " the House, I should like to reply to the debate. We have listened to a typically cheap and squalid attack from the right hon. Member for Wanstead and Woodford (Mr. Jenkin). He was totally negative in his approach. He had half an hour in which to set out his policy. I asked him a few questions when I spoke earlier. I asked what were his policies for settling the dispute. Nothing was said in reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-05a.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-05", "file": "debates1979-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "6e3d1a5104c2f0aa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-05a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And on the workers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "MEMBERS: \"What are the Minister's policies?\"] I asked what figures he would suggest for pay rises. Nothing came back. I asked him how he would deal with the problems of inflation. Nothing came back. I asked how he would contain the problems of industrial action. Again, nothing came back. The right hon. Gentleman spent his time in making a squalid attack both on myself and on my right hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-05a.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-06", "file": "debates1979-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "c67093edeaef2271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-06a.201.0", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "a clarification on a firm basis. It is not the first time that that sort of thing has gone adrift. I said and meant that the Government have told the employers that they are prepared to finance their share of an offer of 8·8 per cent. through the rate support grant. I wish the House to know exactly what was in my mind when I went a little further. As an old negotiator I know that sometimes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-06a.201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-06", "file": "debates1979-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "c67093edeaef2271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-06a.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "MR. BHUTTO", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "We on the Conservative Benches are in agreement with the representations to which the Prime Minister has referred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-06a.208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-06", "file": "debates1979-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "c67093edeaef2271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-06a.219.6", "colnum": "219", "heading": "WATER INDUSTRY (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it in order for the Secretary of State for the Environment to make a prepared statement to the House in which he displays a lamentable lack of knowledge of the seriousness of the water supply situation in Lancashire?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-06a.219.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-06", "file": "debates1979-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "c67093edeaef2271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-06a.224.2", "colnum": "224", "heading": "PICKETING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Cope", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Or weeks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Cope", "preceding_text": "tary neighbours as well as to the rest of the House that I believe the wreckers will be defeated and that the sooner this House reasserts itself to lead to that defeat, the better. I realise that it may be impossible for right hon. Members opposite to agree even to clarify the present law on picketing as stated by Ministers. If so, it will fall to us on this side in a few months to do what we can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-06a.224.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-06", "file": "debates1979-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "c67093edeaef2271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-06a.279.1", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "articularly by concessions time and time again and by the so-called social contract, has bred a trade union tiger which it can no longer control and which has turned upon those who have fed it over the last four or five years. It is the Government's inability to stand up to that and their appeasement of it which is causing our problems, particularly at present. A thought occurred to me last night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-06a.279.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-02-06", "file": "debates1979-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "c67093edeaef2271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-06a.358.9", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST MIDLANDS COUNTY COUNCIL BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think the Ayes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-06a.358.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-07", "file": "debates1979-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fbe060016601a4f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-07a.389.6", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "I thank the Lord Advocate for that reply. That was a difficult case and one which, as he knows, I have been aware of for some years. The incident itself was not only regrettable but deplorable. I am glad of the assur- ances that I have had from the Lord Advocate's office and the sheriff principal that this will not happen again. May I add a rider to that? If sheriff officers are used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-07a.389.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-07", "file": "debates1979-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "fbe060016601a4f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-07a.398.0", "colnum": "398", "heading": "SECRETARY OF STATE FOR NORTHERN IRELAND (RADIO INTERVIEW)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "re published yesterday, there was complete unanimity in saying that the Secretary of State, by his comments on this programme, had done untold damage to the political process in Northern Ireland. I make no comment on the opinion of the Secretary of State. However, I say to him that if he is to continue to make comments on the bona fides and the ideologies of political parties in Northern Ireland —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-07a.398.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-08", "file": "debates1979-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "97e1693aa6981e41", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-08a.561.3", "colnum": "561", "heading": "LOCAL AUTHORITY EMPLOYEES (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "so designed that the ratepayers, not the Government, will be expected to pay? Does the right hon. Gentleman recognise that the negotiations that he is now conducting have an implication far outside the area of local government? Many trade unionists have already settled within the Government's targets, and the moderate and responsible leaders of those unions which have already settled will be left—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-08a.561.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-13", "file": "debates1979-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a91c3f4395619040", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-13a.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is a PNQ.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "As there have been tragic events today in Rhodesia which will have engaged the Prime Minister's attention, may I take the opportunity to put to him two brief questions?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-13a.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-13", "file": "debates1979-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a91c3f4395619040", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-13a.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Thatcher", "preceding_text": "nd utterly condemn the callous act of the Patriotic Front in shooting down a civilian aircraft with the loss of 59 lives, some of them British as well as those who were Rhodesian? May I also ask the Prime Minister what is his policy regarding democratic elections in Rhodesia on 20 April? Is he aware that the result of the Rhodesian referendum was one of the most heartening results for a long time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-13a.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-13", "file": "debates1979-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a91c3f4395619040", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-13a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "RHODESIA (AIR CRASH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman's remarks were disgraceful and cheap. From our exhaustive correspondence, the hon. Member will know that we looked very hard at the matter and discussed in correspondence very seriously the issues that he raised. We have no effective means of mounting our own investigation into this tragedy, or, indeed, into the last occasion of an attack on a Rhodesian civilian airliner in September.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-13a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-13", "file": "debates1979-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a91c3f4395619040", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-13a.985.4", "colnum": "985", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "use. They judge their virility and quality by the amount of taxpayers' money that they spend. They spend far more than the money that they raise from the taxpayer. Ever since this Government came to office we have had grossly excessive State spending. It has far exceeded what the Government have been willing to raise from the taxpayer. They have therefore indulged in excessive printing, borrowing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-13a.985.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-13", "file": "debates1979-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a91c3f4395619040", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-13a.985.4", "colnum": "985", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "SEVERAL HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": " so much lower. More and more people are either going abroad or departing from the taxed economy to the moonlit cash economy. There is also the endless cataract of legislation, regulation and the constant pressure of increased nationalisation, subsidisation and politicisation of business. We do not criticise those engaged in nationalised industries. As people they are just the same as anyone else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-13a.985.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-13", "file": "debates1979-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a91c3f4395619040", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-13a.998.1", "colnum": "998", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Mr. Eric G. Varley)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He never mentioned it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Mr. Eric G. Varley)", "preceding_text": "al security benefits and payments. The right hon. Member for Leeds, North-East never used that argument particularly in relation to strikers. I remember well the speeches that he made at the 1972 and 1973 Conservative Party conferences. Let me give one example. The right hon. Gentleman was addressing the 1973 Conservative Party conference about the question of withdrawing social security benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-13a.998.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-13", "file": "debates1979-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "a91c3f4395619040", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-13a.1079.1", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which newspapers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": " Exchequer is based upon high public spending and massive borrowing, and the whole argument of my right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, North-East has been against the high public spending and the massive borrowing—particularly for the fact that it would throw a totally unreal, unnatural and unsustainable burden upon interest rates. In responsible newspapers we see that there is the possibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-13a.1079.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-14", "file": "debates1979-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "e1c58f6cc3c370b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-14a.1143.5", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Probably they never knew about it. The advice issued then by the TUC, as has been the case on so many occasions, was accepted by the unions and this aspect of our industrial relations troubles has been removed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-14a.1143.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-02-14", "file": "debates1979-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "e1c58f6cc3c370b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-14a.1143.5", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "erhaps we should not fix a target for one year and that perhaps a three-year attempt upon this national disease would be better. It is better to try to approach it in this way and I am glad that the general council accepts this. I believe that the CBI will do so, too. As to the impact on current negotiations of this agreement, I am sure that the right hon. Lady will understand if I do not comment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-02-14a.1143.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-06", "file": "debates1979-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0ea9cf309ef4b38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-06a.1071.3", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that the nurses are showing commendable restraint, unlike some other health workers, in refusing to strike? Will the Government recognise that by publicly appreciating it? Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that a basis for a successful settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-06a.1071.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-06", "file": "debates1979-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0ea9cf309ef4b38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-06a.1087.3", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the British people are crying out for a leader—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-06a.1087.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-06", "file": "debates1979-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0ea9cf309ef4b38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-06a.1089.1", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I cannot give an answer at present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-06a.1089.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-03-06", "file": "debates1979-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0ea9cf309ef4b38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-06a.1167.5", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDEPENDENT BROADCASTING AUTHORITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Bryant Godman Irvine)", "preceding_text": "The Question is, That the Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House. As many as are of that opinion say \"Aye\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-06a.1167.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-03-06", "file": "debates1979-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0ea9cf309ef4b38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-06a.1167.7", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDEPENDENT BROADCASTING AUTHORITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "To the contrary, \"No\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-06a.1167.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-03-06", "file": "debates1979-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0ea9cf309ef4b38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-06a.1167.9", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDEPENDENT BROADCASTING AUTHORITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that the Ayes have it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-06a.1167.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-03-06", "file": "debates1979-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "0ea9cf309ef4b38c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-06a.1168.3", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDEPENDENT BROADCASTING AUTHORITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Be that as it may, it is not a matter for the Chair and in any event we are on a Division. The Question is, That the Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-06a.1168.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-07", "file": "debates1979-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4bbfc77553404c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-07a.1263.2", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PAY COMPARABILITY (COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend is saying that it is his view, I would expect it to be as idiosyncratic as usual.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-07a.1263.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-07", "file": "debates1979-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4bbfc77553404c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-07a.1266.1", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PAY COMPARABILITY (COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How will the right hon. Gentleman stop it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I shall try to explain it again. It means that if the public sector were found to be X per cent. behind the private sector, and therefore received X per cent., the private sector should not automatically use that fact, saying \"Now we need X per cent. in order to get ahead again.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-07a.1266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-07", "file": "debates1979-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4bbfc77553404c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-07a.1266.2", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PAY COMPARABILITY (COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is £18,000.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for confirming the press leak that we all read over the weekend. As the professor in question was named, so was his salary, of between £10,000 and £15,000 a year. Will my right hon. Friend confirm or deny that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-07a.1266.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-07", "file": "debates1979-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4bbfc77553404c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-07a.1266.3", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PAY COMPARABILITY (COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend's approach to this matter is not one that I think would be generally shared. As for the question of how the name of the chairman came to be in the press, it is obvious that if the Government are to ask for a chairman they need to consult various people, and those people can indicate to the press, if they wish to do so, what they think and who they think to be appropriate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-07a.1266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-07", "file": "debates1979-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4bbfc77553404c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-07a.1266.3", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PAY COMPARABILITY (COMMISSION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "eed to consult various people, and those people can indicate to the press, if they wish to do so, what they think and who they think to be appropriate. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because that is the modern way of doing things. It is not my way. But this is the way in which we all now proceed. Everybody feels that he is entirely tree to say anything he wants at any time about any suggestion put to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-07a.1266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-07", "file": "debates1979-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4bbfc77553404c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-07a.1281.4", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR FRIDAY 23 MARCH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have to explain to the House that I made an error during the ballot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-07a.1281.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-07", "file": "debates1979-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4bbfc77553404c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-07a.1282.2", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FAMILY VIOLENCE (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Reid", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"MPs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Reid", "preceding_text": "d Russell Dobash at Stirling university—covering 34,000 cases of assaults—shows that one-quarter of serious assaults in Scotland are wife assaults and suggests strongly that the reported cases are only the tip of the iceberg. This is not a working-class problem. Women's Aid has given advice and support to the wives of architects, solicitors, consultant psychiatrists, university professors and MPs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-07a.1282.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-07", "file": "debates1979-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "4bbfc77553404c01", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-07a.1410.1", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (APPROPRIATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": "ave said that I shall bring the hon. Gentleman's remarks to the Secretary of State's attention, and I shall include that aspect. The hon. Member for Belfast, South (Mr. Bradford) spoke about the Arts Council grant to finance the interview with Seam us Twomey. The publication referred to is regarded generally by the Arts Council and others as a magazine of high literary quality and serious content—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-07a.1410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-08", "file": "debates1979-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "ea1459243c30adde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-08a.1480.2", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADES UNION CONGRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not\"?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That is an entirely false conclusion. I do not know that we should introduce, as a basis for fixing remuneration, the question whether people default on their duties.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-08a.1480.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-08", "file": "debates1979-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "ea1459243c30adde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-08a.1482.1", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The answer may not be satisfactory to the right hon. Lady, but at least I have given it. Even I did not see at that time that the result would be so close.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-08a.1482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-08", "file": "debates1979-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "ea1459243c30adde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-08a.1494.4", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "Will the Lord President arrange for a statement to be made next week on the memorandum from the Treasury by Sir Douglas Wass—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-08a.1494.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-08", "file": "debates1979-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "ea1459243c30adde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-08a.1495.0", "colnum": "1495", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I repudiate any suggestion that Ministers have misled the House on this matter. The rumour is that the hon. Gentleman has recovered his position of influence with the leaders of his party. If that were so, this matter would be an eminently good subject for a Supply debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-08a.1495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-08", "file": "debates1979-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "ea1459243c30adde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-08a.1523.0", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE (SUPPLY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "crats are involved. I do not think we should be mealy-mouthed about the role that civil servants play in these matters, but the real kernel of it is that the two Front Benches agree to getting these things, or anything else for that matter, through without any consultation with the Beck Benchers. It is a well-known fact that in the course of the last few days my hon. Friend the Member for Bristol—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-08a.1523.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-08", "file": "debates1979-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "ea1459243c30adde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-08a.1565.3", "colnum": "1565", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION ACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "Not all firms can rely on that. Many of them do not want to take Government grants. When the contract comes to an end they may not be lucky enough to obtain a similar contract. If they have to retain the extra 200 or 300 employees, they may go bust.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-08a.1565.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-08", "file": "debates1979-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "ea1459243c30adde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-08a.1610.3", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION ACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " right hon. Gentleman and the hon. Member for Brentford and Isleworth. My hon. Friend the Member for Sowerby (Mr. Madden), in what I thought was a well-informed and robust speech, paid a tribute to my right hon. Friend, in which I should like to join, in acknowledging the efforts that my right hon. Friend made, toiling through last night, which have now resulted in an undertaking about The Times .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-08a.1610.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-08", "file": "debates1979-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "ea1459243c30adde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-08a.1610.3", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION ACTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the word?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "men send the letter to me saying they would be grateful for my comments. They hope that they can then return such letters to their constituents with a sympathetic note, regretting that the Minister has not dealt with the matter in a more constructive and sympathetic manner. There is a word appropriate to that kind of behaviour, Mr. Speaker, although you might rule me out of order were I to use it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-08a.1610.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-12", "file": "debates1979-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "19b9f98958d65404", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-12a.200.2", "colnum": "200", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "I am tempted to do that. I have given a great deal of thought to the whole problem, but, as is generally known, my influence in this place is on the wane.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-12a.200.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-13", "file": "debates1979-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7bb2b77c92ff9ab7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-13a.249.0", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that, despite the overwhelming support that I have had from the Labour Party and from the public at large, repeatedly on Fridays in this House Conservative Members have blocked my Bill to end the caning of handicapped children?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-13a.249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-13", "file": "debates1979-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7bb2b77c92ff9ab7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-13a.249.0", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grocott", "preceding_text": "he overwhelming support that I have had from the Labour Party and from the public at large, repeatedly on Fridays in this House Conservative Members have blocked my Bill to end the caning of handicapped children? [HON. MEMBERS:\"Shame.\"] Will she now undertake to respond to opinion within the Labour Party and in the country by bringing in immediately a ban on the use of the cane in special schools?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-13a.249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-13", "file": "debates1979-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7bb2b77c92ff9ab7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-13a.265.4", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION ACT 1975", "cue_speaker": "Dr. M. S. Miller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Of those who voted \".", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. M. S. Miller", "preceding_text": "When my right hon. Friend has the opportunity to speak to the Prime Minister when he gets back from his most valuable work in Paris, will he try to impress on him that, although it is by no means the only factor involved in the recent referendum, the main factor is the 52 per cent. of the Scottish people voted\"Yes \", against 48 per cent. who voted\"No \"?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-13a.265.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-13", "file": "debates1979-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7bb2b77c92ff9ab7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-13a.267.7", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS DISQUALIFICATION ACT 1975", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"When? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "It is true that there was a majority against in Wales, but I notice that some of those who emphasise that fact most strongly do not take into acount the similar fact, that in Scotland the vote went the other way. That fact must also be taken into account. I have no doubt that the Prime Minister will lay the order, as has already been indicated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-13a.267.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-13", "file": "debates1979-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7bb2b77c92ff9ab7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-13a.385.3", "colnum": "385", "heading": "COUNTY OF MERSEYSIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "n. It would be wholly wrong for the House to attempt to deal with this multitude of detailed matters which are at the heart of local government. Having served as a local government Minister with my right hon. Friend the Member for Crosby (Mr. Page) I am clear about one thing, and that is that we need to delegate—indeed, perhaps I can say devolve—very much more decision-making in this House to our—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-13a.385.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-14", "file": "debates1979-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "acdcbabcce01f2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-14a.439.5", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander Fletcher", "preceding_text": "How can the Minister justify further expenditure on the proposed Assembly building? Whatever the future for devolution, Ministers have no authority to assume that, for example, the 158 closed-circuit television sets at present being installed at a reported cost of £250,000 will ever be required.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-14a.439.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-14", "file": "debates1979-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "acdcbabcce01f2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-14a.440.4", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady, whom I have never noticed as being much of an expert on housing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-14a.440.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-14", "file": "debates1979-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "acdcbabcce01f2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-14a.502.3", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": " had some experience of market operations. I wonder whether he appreciates the massive loss that would be involved if those portfolios were sold on the open market. We know that if it is the policy of the Government to sell portfolios the price would drop immediately; the price would go down consistently. The selling of portfolios as soon as possible would result in a massive loss of public money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-14a.502.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-14", "file": "debates1979-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "acdcbabcce01f2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-14a.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cronin", "preceding_text": "What would happen to the morale, and consequently the efficiency of those companies, when they learned that their portfolios had been sold off for a nominal price? I suggest that the hon. Member for Kingston upon Thames—who, judging by his bigoted remarks is no doubt due for high office in any prospective Conservative Government—ought to do his homework more carefully about operations in the City.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-14a.503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-14", "file": "debates1979-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "acdcbabcce01f2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-14a.602.0", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "y elections and I shall draw the attention of the House to a number of these. The first set of differences relates to the size of the constituencies. We know that there are 81 seats for this country. There was considerable debates as to how 81 seats should be allocated, but what it means is that the European constituencies are a good deal larger than those that we in this House normally represent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-14a.602.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-14", "file": "debates1979-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "acdcbabcce01f2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-14a.604.4", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "It would be a matter for the courts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-14a.604.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-14", "file": "debates1979-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "acdcbabcce01f2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-14a.616.0", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "I want to be as helpful as possible, especially to my hon. Friends, who are deeply concerned about these regulations, but even if I were to sit down now there would be too little time for hon. Members on either side of the House to express their opinion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-14a.616.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-14", "file": "debates1979-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "acdcbabcce01f2fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-14a.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ARBITRATION BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Gow", "preceding_text": "d judge and of the committee. The Bill makes a very important change in our arbitration law, but it is a change that we welcome. The basis of section 21 of the 1950 Act rests upon the famous judgment delivered by Lord Justice Bankes, as he then was, in the case of Czarnikow v. Roth, Schmidt and Company in 1922. Mr. Blenkinsop, you may not be wholly familiar with the judgment of that learned judge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-14a.646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-15", "file": "debates1979-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f99ebfe68588678b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-15a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": ", too. The sooner we solve the problem on a permanent basis, the better. I warned my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland that I would refer to Scottish matters. The situation in Scotland is not as bad as it has been south of the border, but there are ominous signs that it is becoming worse. NUPE has much to answer for. It has lost a great deal of public support by its activities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-15a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-15", "file": "debates1979-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f99ebfe68588678b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-15a.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "the intervention, but I feel that I ought to comment on two or three of the points that have been made by the right hon. Member for Wanstead and Woodford. He always takes me to task, and he always gets it wrong. He has today as on most of the exchanges, sought to be provocative and virtually has urged me to be provocative. I have refused to respond. If I may deal with the three points he has made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-15a.718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-15", "file": "debates1979-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f99ebfe68588678b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-15a.807.3", "colnum": "807", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Answer the question \".", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "preceding_text": "All the hon. Lady has done is to make me regret that I gave way to her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-15a.807.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-15", "file": "debates1979-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "f99ebfe68588678b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-15a.823.1", "colnum": "823", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moyle", "preceding_text": "mber for Aylesbury (Mr. Raison), in an Adjournement debate, asked for national funding for the spinal injuries unit at Stoke Mandeville. There are 12 postgraduate hospitals in London which want to be nationally funded. The teaching hospitals sometimes make representations that they want to be nationally funded. If these organisations are to be nationally funded, they have to be nationally managed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-15a.823.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-03-16", "file": "debates1979-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "a8a0eace5685f929", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-16a.1058.7", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOBACCO PRODUCTS (CONTROL OF ADVERTISING, SPONSORSHIP AND SALES PROMOTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-16a.1058.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-19", "file": "debates1979-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f14281ffceb15f63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-19a.1114.1", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "n real expenditure on public services we wanted to see moderation in pay settlements. I must make clear that the public purse is not bottomless. If the prices of goods and services rise, and rise faster than we can afford, clearly we shall be able to afford fewer of them. That is a straightforward statement of fact, which most housewives thoroughly understand. Therefore, the policy of cash limits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-19a.1114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-19", "file": "debates1979-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f14281ffceb15f63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-19a.1122.0", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": " decide to take the amount from balances, or from the rates. Power would need to be taken over local authorities to force them to do this, as was done before. That is what would happen. We could not do so under existing legislation. If that legislation were pushed through, expenditure in this area might be affected in 1980–81, or 1981–82, but there would be nothing in 1979–80.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-19a.1122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-19", "file": "debates1979-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f14281ffceb15f63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-19a.1123.3", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": " in Nottingham. No doubt my hon. Friend will tell me. No doubt the Expenditure Committee's report was discussed in great detail. I envy hon. Members their pleasure. I do not dispute that council houses may be sold. After a few years, with larger discounts and a sustained campaign, it would be possible to sell more council houses in some areas. However, not much would be achieved in the first year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-19a.1123.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-19", "file": "debates1979-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f14281ffceb15f63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-19a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "f those in the public sector are conceded, the cash limits must be held firm, and that there must be cuts either in the services provided or in the capital side of the accounts in question. I repeat that the right hon. and learned Gentleman was saying, in effect, that we can meet the legitimate pay claim of the nurses but that we shall need to close down a few hospitals in order to find the money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-19a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-19", "file": "debates1979-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f14281ffceb15f63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-19a.1197.1", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Clemitson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Clemitson", "preceding_text": "h they are constantly telling us they will undertake. As my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary said, the Opposition are basically deceiving the electorate. They are deceiving them in one of two ways. Either they will not carry out the cuts which they say they will carry out, or they will carry them out, which will mean cuts in the Health Service, education, and so on. One or the other of those—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-19a.1197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-19", "file": "debates1979-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f14281ffceb15f63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-19a.1226.5", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "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": "of the delays in repaying VAT to traders. Value added tax of course, is a quite separate tax from income tax collected under pay-as-you-earn, but the Inland Revenue collectors of taxes have been asked to have regard to cash flow difficulties where payments by other Government agencies have been delayed by industrial action. The right hon. and learned Gentleman also asked about The Guardian report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-19a.1226.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-19", "file": "debates1979-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "f14281ffceb15f63", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-19a.1256.1", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause A", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Yes, he did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Wise", "preceding_text": "No, you did not give way to my right hon. Friend the Member for Blackburn (Mrs Castle).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-19a.1256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-20", "file": "debates1979-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4ee7dbf188516583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1299.1", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Is it not an impertinence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-20", "file": "debates1979-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4ee7dbf188516583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1301.1", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Loyden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Loyden", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend give some thought today to the various meetings that he and other Ministers have had on unemployment, especially in the regions? Does he accept that Mersey-side workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-20", "file": "debates1979-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4ee7dbf188516583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1307.2", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "TRADE UNIONS (SECRET BALLOTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Whitney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Whitney", "preceding_text": "o co-operate in the organisation of secret voting, or in any other way. Undoubtedly, some progress has been made. We have the example of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers. After the introduction of a postal balloting system there was a dramatic increase in the percentage poll for union elections. That union now benefits from what is widely regarded as a sensible and moderate leadership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1307.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-20", "file": "debates1979-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4ee7dbf188516583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1307.2", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "TRADE UNIONS (SECRET BALLOTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Whitney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Whitney", "preceding_text": " Workers. After the introduction of a postal balloting system there was a dramatic increase in the percentage poll for union elections. That union now benefits from what is widely regarded as a sensible and moderate leadership. [ Interruption. ] I hope very much that such an accolade from the Conservative Benches will not cause any embarrassment to that leadership. Very much more needs to be done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1307.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-20", "file": "debates1979-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4ee7dbf188516583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1309.1", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "TRADE UNIONS (SECRET BALLOTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitney", "preceding_text": "—because I have no doubt that his story—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1309.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-20", "file": "debates1979-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4ee7dbf188516583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1310.0", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "TRADE UNIONS (SECRET BALLOTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitney", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitney", "preceding_text": "I have no intention of making a special case of Mr. Basnett. I wish to use his story as an example of many, as we know that that story, or worse, can be repeated at many points and in many posts throughout the trade union movement. The case for secret ballots over strike decisions is perhaps less clearcut, but it is nevertheless strong. In order not to delay the House further—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1310.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-20", "file": "debates1979-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4ee7dbf188516583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1310.6", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "TRADE UNIONS (SECRET BALLOTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Litterick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Litterick", "preceding_text": "was even less informative. He bumbled along from one subject to another. He thought that it might be a good idea to have a vote on this, on that and on something else, but he did not stop for a moment to examine the implications of what he was saying. The hon. Gentleman conceded, towards the end of his speech, that the case for having compulsory ballots in a potential strike might not be clearcut.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1310.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-20", "file": "debates1979-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4ee7dbf188516583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1327.1", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "Yes, and I shall have something to say about that which I hope will not fall on deaf ears, nor will even be lost in principle on the hon. Member for Bolsover, whose loyalty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-20", "file": "debates1979-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4ee7dbf188516583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1333.2", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "ereby people say\"Before, the system was such, and whatever the rights and wrongs of it, I demand that you return to that system. Regardless of the needs of the nation, or whether it means that the nurses, doctors, civil servants and Members of Parliament get nothing, I want my bit \". That is the other face of the coin of selfishness which, I hope, I have described with some modesty this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1333.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-20", "file": "debates1979-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4ee7dbf188516583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1348.3", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"It is a national dispute.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "ed areas. We should be told. The electorate in Scotland will want to know whether the right to strike is to be taken away totally or only in selected areas. If it is to be done in selected areas, we should know which ones. People working in those areas might take umbrage and not turn out to vote Conservative. We must bear in mind that this is not a national dispute. It is a United Kingdom dispute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1348.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-20", "file": "debates1979-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4ee7dbf188516583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1372.4", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "spokesman winds up the debate. I am surprised if Tory Members think that that is undemocratic. The Opposition will get nowhere by trying to avoid the questions. Are they in favour of the implementation of the PRU? If they are opposed to strikes in the courts, where else are they prepared to say that strikes should be illegal? What is it that makes them say that the democratic right of individuals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1372.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-20", "file": "debates1979-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4ee7dbf188516583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1373.2", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ry Benches. There is a contradiction there which they cannot and will not resolve. It is my belief that the best way to proceed in this matter and on this strike is to get agreement as quickly as possible. The passage of the Bill will not by itself resolve the problem, but it will resolve other matters in the legal system which have to be resolved. The provocative speeches of Conservative Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1373.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-20", "file": "debates1979-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4ee7dbf188516583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1373.2", "colnum": "1373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Withdraw \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "matter and on this strike is to get agreement as quickly as possible. The passage of the Bill will not by itself resolve the problem, but it will resolve other matters in the legal system which have to be resolved. The provocative speeches of Conservative Members—[HON. MEMBERS:\"No \".] I think that I have touched a raw nerve. They are upset because they have made these speeches time and time again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1373.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-20", "file": "debates1979-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4ee7dbf188516583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1380.1", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate (Mr. Ronald King Murray)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate (Mr. Ronald King Murray)", "preceding_text": " the machinery of justice. In other words, it is a fort-holding operation. I think it has been recognised by hon. Members who have taken part in the debate that the courts have a unique position as the universal place of recourse for redress of injustice and that that function must be given and allowed to be fulfilled. I shall obviously not be able to reply to all the points raised, in the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1380.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-20", "file": "debates1979-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4ee7dbf188516583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1382.1", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"It is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": "I regret giving way to the hon. and learned Gentleman, because the matter is perfectly clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-20", "file": "debates1979-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "4ee7dbf188516583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1392.0", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"It has not been answered.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Advocate", "preceding_text": "I do not propose to answer that any further than it has already been answered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-20a.1392.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-21", "file": "debates1979-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b45069674b4be124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-21a.1497.1", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "NATIONAL UNION OF PUBLIC EMPLOYEES (BIRMINGHAM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eyre", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eyre", "preceding_text": "for three days. The matter is urgent because, by this action, NUPE has broken the code of conduct that was negotiated with the Government. Emergency services are being withdrawn and the minimum level of essential patient services is not being maintained. The chairman of the Birmingham area health authority has been compelled to declare that the attempt to cause the virtual closure of the hospital—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-21a.1497.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-21", "file": "debates1979-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b45069674b4be124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-21a.1547.1", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "PREVENTION OF TERRORISM (SHACKLETON REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jo Richardson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jo Richardson", "preceding_text": "dren, both aged under three years. The whole family was taken to Paddington Green police station. They were all arrested, except the grandmother whom they were visiting. What is absolutely appalling about this case is that the two small children, aged under three years, were kept in Paddington Green police station from 10.30 a.m. until 9.30 p.m. before any relatives were allowed to take them away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-21a.1547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-21", "file": "debates1979-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b45069674b4be124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-21a.1552.5", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "PREVENTION OF TERRORISM (SHACKLETON REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Richardson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Richardson", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for clarifying that point.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-21a.1552.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-21", "file": "debates1979-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "b45069674b4be124", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-21a.1622.6", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "PREVENTION OF TERRORISM (SHACKLETON REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER:\"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "They were taken to the police station until the relatives could be found. They were not fingerprinted. Does anyone believe that the fingerprints of children under the age of two would be of any use? That is the only answer that I can give to my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-21a.1622.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-22", "file": "debates1979-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "acc3b0dd0d44c021", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-22a.1689.0", "colnum": "1689", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Or the Government Benches.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Renée Short", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend find some time today to study the transcript of the broadcast yesterday by Dr. Rhoodie in order to consider whether he should hold an inquiry into whether any British politicians on the Opposition Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-22a.1689.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-22", "file": "debates1979-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "acc3b0dd0d44c021", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-22a.1690.1", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wyn Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wyn Roberts", "preceding_text": "Is it true, as is alleged in the Western Mail today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-22a.1690.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-22", "file": "debates1979-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "acc3b0dd0d44c021", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-22a.1850.1", "colnum": "1850", "heading": "FIREARM CERTIFICATES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "preceding_text": "sure. I cannot agree with the hon. Member for East Grinstead (Mr. Johnson Smith), who would like to invite the Minister to his rifle club. I can only say that, if the Minister came to the rifle club in my constituency, I would fear for her life. There would be no kindness, because my constituents are exceedingly angry. It is felt—and this is a pretty common feeling—that the Government are looking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-22a.1850.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-03-23", "file": "debates1979-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "eb90e29a61a54b54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-23a.1967.2", "colnum": "1967", "heading": "DEER BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-23a.1967.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-26", "file": "debates1979-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "f5b094853e9d20ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-26a.25.6", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "It is a modest proposal, and it is one of the measures that should be left to the vote of the House when we come to deal with these lesser procedural matters, if I may so describe them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-26a.25.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-26", "file": "debates1979-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "f5b094853e9d20ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-26a.30.3", "colnum": "30", "heading": "OFFSHORE OIL LICENSING (SIXTH ROUND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "When the Government came into office there was no petroleum revenue tax, there was no obligation to sell the oil, and the British sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-26a.30.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-26", "file": "debates1979-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "f5b094853e9d20ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-26a.50.0", "colnum": "50", "heading": "DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mulley", "preceding_text": "taken their primary task of contributing to peace and security in Europe and elsewhere; they have continued to discharge their heavy burdens in support of the civil power in Northern Ireland, where 13 earned awards for gallantry and 21 gave their lives. I am sure that the House will join with me in expressing appreciation for the devotion to duty which the forces have shown in this difficult task.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-26a.50.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-26", "file": "debates1979-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "f5b094853e9d20ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-26a.174.1", "colnum": "174", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (ENERGY POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " to Ministers and from Ministers to officials. There are officials over there every day of the week, with two of our officials in Brussels at any one moment. There is a shift from public debate to private council meetings, and there is no Hansard report to record tomorrow's meeting of the Energy Council. There is also a shift from legislation to directive, from flexible policies to rigid policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-26a.174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-26", "file": "debates1979-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "f5b094853e9d20ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-26a.174.1", "colnum": "174", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (ENERGY POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ember States, each basing itself on national policies approved by the House of Commons. This motion is just such an opportunity to reach a view. It is not an argument based on our being in or out; it relates to the sort of European energy policy that is wanted and the role to be adopted by Parliament and people. The House will do well not to try to argue these matters in a pre-election atmosphere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-26a.174.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-03-27", "file": "debates1979-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "e26b8b541af5ae86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-27a.236.4", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No. The hon. Gentleman has question No. 3.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "Am I being called to put a supplementary question, Mr. Speaker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-27a.236.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-27", "file": "debates1979-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "e26b8b541af5ae86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-27a.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "f the nature that she mentioned, because that would be impossible to achieve. Strikes of this sort are always bound to interfere either with Government business or with the rights and the claims of the public on the Government. I very much hope that these will be minimised as far as possible. I can assure the right hon. Lady that we are doing that, but I cannot guarantee perfection in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-27a.255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-27", "file": "debates1979-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "e26b8b541af5ae86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-27a.256.3", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I quite agree with the hon. Gentleman that I have no guilty feelings. I just have feelings of indignation that the press cannot report the facts which have been given to it day after day.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-27a.256.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-27", "file": "debates1979-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "e26b8b541af5ae86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-27a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or the Irish Sea.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashley", "preceding_text": "If the Prime Minister finds time today to consider any possible vote of censure, will he tell the Liberals, the Scottish National Party, the Welsh nationalists and the Ulster Unionists to go and jump in the North Sea?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-27a.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-27", "file": "debates1979-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "e26b8b541af5ae86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-27a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pattie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pattie", "preceding_text": "I said that if this American feature were imported into our particular system, it would be extremely interesting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-27a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-27", "file": "debates1979-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "e26b8b541af5ae86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-27a.389.3", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Gilbert", "preceding_text": "e was in Chicago he talked about it being \"obsolescent\" without any \"virtually\" in front of the word. There are a series of other complaints of which the hon. Member saw fit to deliver himself in Chicago. I regard the hon. Gentleman with considerable respect and affection, and I am very sorry that he chose to make so inaccurate and distorted an attack on his country's defences while he was abroad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-27a.389.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.461.3", "colnum": "461", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher (Finchley)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Margaret Thatcher (Finchley)", "preceding_text": "er rate. For every extra unit of output from a worker in British industry over the last five years, our least efficient competitors—the Italians—produced two units, the Americans more than three, the French four and a half, the Germans five and a half and the Japanese more than six. In the same world conditions that we face, their Governments seem to be able to generate the conditions for success.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.461.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.472.4", "colnum": "472", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "eginning. On the contrary, all that she was doing was to offer us the stale and outdated 1970 Conservative Party election manifesto. I know that the Opposition want to forget the years 1970–74. The right hon. Member for Sidcup (Mr. Heath), the former leader of the party, is removed from Conservative Party collective thinking like Trotsky was blotted out of the photographs of the Stalin era.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.472.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prune Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prune Minister", "preceding_text": "Prime Minister in 1963. Each of the main planks of the right hon. Lady's platform today was nailed down in the 1970 manifesto—cut taxes, curb the power of the trade unions, restore respect for law and order, full-hearted support for the European Community, and centralised power decentralised. It was all there. What was the result when they were elected? Property speculators were given a free hand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.479.3", "colnum": "479", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hodge.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I was saying, property speculators were given a free hand, credit control was abolished, and the money supply was increased to finance some pretty phoney finance companies. The Conservatives opened up one of the most discreditable periods in the history of the City of London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.479.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.479.3", "colnum": "479", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "this Government the average is about 9 per cent. a year. When the Conservatives were in power they got rid of the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation. This time they want to hamstring the National Enterprise Board. They intend to cut public expenditure. They keep saying so. What do they propose to do? Do they propose to stop the National Enterprise Board funding the new Rolls-Royce aero-engines?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.479.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.479.3", "colnum": "479", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "social services. They will be overcome only if we harness the energy and the ideals of our people to build a fairer and more just society. Let need, not greed, be our motto. Our purpose as a Government and as a party is to present a bold, Socialist challenge to all these problems as we face these tasks. I ask for the confidence of the House and of the country so that we may continue with our work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.479.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.482.1", "colnum": "482", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I have just received a message that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.483.1", "colnum": "483", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "I have just received a message that the State dinner that you were to give tonight to a foreign parliamentary delegation has been cancelled due to industrial action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.483.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.483.6", "colnum": "483", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "ll be obvious to everybody in this House that there are only two Lobbies. Although the Prime Minister had his fun at our expense, I have to make it absolutely clear, in view of some of the letters I have been receiving in the past couple of days, that there is no question, in our voting for a general election tonight, of appearing to be voting in any way for the Conservative Party, simply because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.483.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.485.0", "colnum": "485", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": " from the question of the future of the Government. The two other party leaders have already dwelt on their record. It is perhaps unusual for the Leader of the Liberal Party in modern times to be talking of the record of the Liberal Party, but I intend to do so, because I believe that the record shows that the period of greatest success in modern government was the period of the Lib-Lab agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.485.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.486.1", "colnum": "486", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "he Opposition, promised that if a Conservative Government were returned, mortgages would be pegged at 9¾ per cent.; yet when the Conservatives left office, mortgage rates were at 11 per cent. Under the Labour Government they went up to 12¼ per cent. In the period of the Lib-Lab pact they were down to 8½ per cent. If we use those figures as a yardstick, we were more successful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.493.3", "colnum": "493", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should not try to rewrite history. The vote that took place in Scotland was not in accordance with what was agreed by this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.493.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.493.3", "colnum": "493", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": " shall have an election very soon. The right hon. Lady has stated the grounds on which the election campaign will be fought. I should be very happy to fight on those grounds. It was interesting that there was not a word in her speech about the EEC. I wonder why. Is it the Conservative Opposition's policy that we give up and stop arguing about the CAP or the budget? Nothing was said in that regard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.493.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.493.3", "colnum": "493", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wave back.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "mpaign will be fought. I should be very happy to fight on those grounds. It was interesting that there was not a word in her speech about the EEC. I wonder why. Is it the Conservative Opposition's policy that we give up and stop arguing about the CAP or the budget? Nothing was said in that regard. [ Interruption. ] I do not know whether hon. Members are waving to me, or what they are trying to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.493.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.498.1", "colnum": "498", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "able to the people of Wales. Nor have they succeeded in correcting the failures of the Tories in their Local Government Act 1972. Under this Government, the rate support grant paid to the counties in Wales which are non-metropolitan has been eroded, with the resources transferred to the inner cities of England. This has resulted in a mean rate increase of 24 per cent. for the coming year in Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.498.3", "colnum": "498", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "Despite a pretence of an equalisation of water charges between Wales and England, water rates in Wales still remain 58 per cent. higher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.498.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.557.1", "colnum": "557", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "I do not want to go into the reasons why the world experienced a recession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.557.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.562.1", "colnum": "562", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": " in the next few months. In a vote of confidence debate we must look at the Government's record. Let us consider the record of the Government in relation to the pledges and promises set out in the manifesto. There has probably not been a Government in this country in the post-war period who have implemented so many of their pledges and fulfilled so many of their promises as the present Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.562.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.563.1", "colnum": "563", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": "f in real terms than they were in 1974. They are far better off under a Labour Government than they ever were in the previous four years of a Tory Government—20 per cent. better off in real terms today. There are also new measures such as the Employment Protection Act 1975 and the Health and Safety at Work, etc. Act 1975. I accept that unemployment is intolerably high and at an unacceptable level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.563.1", "colnum": "563", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": "en, women and juveniles who at least have a wage, some sense of job satisfaction and the self-respect of being at work when they would otherwise be on the dole. On Merseyside, 33,000 people are in work today because of this Government's employment measures, and over 100,000 in the North-West alone. Yet every one of them would be on the dole the day after a Conservative Government came into office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.565.3", "colnum": "565", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": " the Conservative Party has committed itself, and it has never denied that fact. This would have calamitous consequences for the majority of my constituents, who are low paid and do not have the wherewithal to pay for private medicine or for the payments for which the Conservative Party is calling. Labour Members do not have to go on the defensive. Our record is clear and clean, and is a good one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.565.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.567.1", "colnum": "567", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "istics have been stated, the figures argued, and all the talk about GNP and the average national wage is said and done, the best yardstick of the quality of a Government is the condition of their people. I shall mention some names of which few, if any, hon. Members have ever heard. They are real people, and they will make their judgment on the amount of confidence that they have in the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.567.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.567.1", "colnum": "567", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "al wage is said and done, the best yardstick of the quality of a Government is the condition of their people. I shall mention some names of which few, if any, hon. Members have ever heard. They are real people, and they will make their judgment on the amount of confidence that they have in the Government. [ Interruption. ] A few moments ago, an hon. Member talked about taxation of the highly paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.567.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.569.1", "colnum": "569", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "he Prime Minister's Government been involved in this winter with the lorry drivers, with the ambulance men, with the gravediggers and with the hospital workers; what are the Government involved in now with the Civil Service, if it is not confrontation? Then came the most bizarre claim of all. In answer to my right hon. Friend's admirably clear and unanswerable exposure of the Government's failure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.569.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.575.1", "colnum": "575", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "preceding_text": "hat I might have said. I shall return later to the speeches of the right hon. Gentleman and the right hon. Lady the Leader of the Opposition. First, I should like to refer to some of the extremely important speeches that have been made by representatives of the smaller parties in the House. I do not know whether all hon. Members understand that this is a House in which smaller parties have rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.575.1", "colnum": "575", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Michael Foot)", "preceding_text": " proposal, but the Leader of the Opposition said in reply to my hon. Friend the Member for West Lothian (Mr. Dalyell) that she proposed—and I think that this is a fair summary of what she said—talks about talks about talks about talks. That is her proposal for devolution. In fact, I think that my summary of her reply is rather complimentary because what she really proposes is to do nothing at all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.581.0", "colnum": "581", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ts of what has occurred that the Conservatives wish to leave out of the reckoning. Worst of all, perhaps, the greatest disservice that the right hon. Lady does to the country in the way in which she presents the argument is that she seeks to pretend that all the burdens and problems that we have had to contend with in the past four years—and nobody can say that the storm has not been a fierce one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.581.0", "colnum": "581", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "oduced by this country, even if that wealth was not as great as we wanted to it to be, that we have been able to weather the storm and prepare for other times. So what will happen? What will once again be the choice at the next election? It will not be so dissimilar from the choice that the country had to make in 1945, or even in 1940 when the Labour Party had to come to the rescue of the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.581.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.582.1", "colnum": "582", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "d for the same reactionary policies as they will vote for tonight. It is sometimes in the most difficult and painful moments of our history that the country has turned to the Labour Party for salvation, and it has never turned in vain. We saved the country in 1940, and we did it again in 1945. We set out to rescue the country—or what was left of it—in 1974. Here again in 1979 we shall do the same—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.582.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.583.1", "colnum": "583", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "They are trying to stop me from getting your vote as well, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-28", "file": "debates1979-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "dc842b0d4aba473e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.583.1", "colnum": "583", "heading": "SERVICE WIDOWS (PROVISION OF PENSIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "They are trying to stop me from getting your vote as well, Mr. Speaker. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"] I do not know why Conservative Members are saying that this is shameful. I think that it is high time that the Tory Party recovered some sense of humour, even if it has lost everything else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-28a.583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-29", "file": "debates1979-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "bacc6079964cfb75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-29a.614.8", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "I shall not be standing. If that were to be done, it would avoid confusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-29a.614.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-29", "file": "debates1979-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "bacc6079964cfb75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-29a.615.3", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "preceding_text": "Peterborough will be satisfied with warding arrangements on 3 May. But does the Minister propose any changes in the arrangements for the parish council elections on that day, which are a third complication?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-29a.615.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-29", "file": "debates1979-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "bacc6079964cfb75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-29a.624.5", "colnum": "624", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now; now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "If the House would prefer it, the best course would be for my right hon. Friend to make a statement to the House tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-29a.624.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-29", "file": "debates1979-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "bacc6079964cfb75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-29a.625.2", "colnum": "625", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Of course I wish to satisfy the House. I want to secure the best way of proceeding with this matter. It was our belief that we had dealt with this issue in a perfectly normal way. There will be full opportunities to debate the matter on Monday. If a statement is to be made today, it would have to be done at 10 p.m.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-29a.625.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-29", "file": "debates1979-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "bacc6079964cfb75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-29a.625.3", "colnum": "625", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Clearly the House wants the statement to be made today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-29a.625.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-29", "file": "debates1979-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "bacc6079964cfb75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-29a.626.1", "colnum": "626", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Ellis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Ellis", "preceding_text": "Does the Lord President agree that this uproar could have been foreseen, because Conservative Members do not want the election on the same day as the local elections? They want the local elections to be held later, so that there will be a poor turnout. Generally, people in this country would like the convenience of going to the elections once, as there will be many elections this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-29a.626.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-29", "file": "debates1979-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "bacc6079964cfb75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-29a.667.0", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Philip Holland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Philip Holland", "preceding_text": "Is the Home Secretary aware that in rural constituencies, for example, in my own constituency and, I suspect, in many others, there are not only borough council elections on that Thursday but also parish council elections?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-29a.667.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-29", "file": "debates1979-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "bacc6079964cfb75", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-29a.673.4", "colnum": "673", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Moat", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is a public Holiday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Moat", "preceding_text": "Does the Home Secretary agree that there is nothing sacrosanct about having a general election on a Thursday? Has it occurred to him that all the doubts and confusion and the need for legislation could have been avoided if he went for, say, Tuesday 1 May, which would still be possible within the time scale?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-29a.673.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-03-30", "file": "debates1979-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "24f92f1b9dbdf087", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-30a.833.0", "colnum": "833", "heading": "MERCHANT SHIPPING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\" Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "n Ireland, difficulty arises as to the definition of what is the United Kingdom and what is Great Britain, and some of the benefits are denied to seamen sailing from Northern Ireland in British-registered ships. I have in mind two cases now, and I am prepared to write to my hon. Friend about them. The latest one is about an unfair dismissal case, and I hope that the Minister, in his last few days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-03-30a.833.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-04-02", "file": "debates1979-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1ed73c1c96964649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-02a.920.0", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "r Lowestoft (Mr. Prior) said on one occasion that he is very much in favour of the NEB and wants to support it. He gave a press interview in Birmingham at which he said he was in favour of British Leyland. I am not quite so sure about the attitude of the right hon. Member for Leeds, North-East (Sir K. Joseph). I think that it is still official Conservative policy that the NEB should be abolished.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-02a.920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-04-02", "file": "debates1979-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1ed73c1c96964649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-02a.922.3", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "This utter claptrap from the Opposition and the CBI has led to a grave misunderstanding of planning agreements. As I have indicated from this Dispatch Box previously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-02a.922.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-04-02", "file": "debates1979-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1ed73c1c96964649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-02a.941.2", "colnum": "941", "heading": "SECURITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "preceding_text": "Today, Mr. Speaker, my car was examined by a security man who had a lighted cigarette in his mouth. I would like to suggest that such panic measures are no help—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-02a.941.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-04-02", "file": "debates1979-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1ed73c1c96964649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-02a.952.0", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Litterick", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have dealt with that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Litterick", "preceding_text": "I notice that paragraph 2 is unqualified, but there has been no mention of by-elections. In the city of Birmingham on 3 May.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-02a.952.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-04-02", "file": "debates1979-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "1ed73c1c96964649", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-02a.989.1", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "I would willingly accept anything designed to improve the present confusion. Of course, in a district such as my own, where district and constituency are exactly coterminous, that would be an admirable solution, and it ought to be available for the returning officer to opt for that if he so wishes, at the very least. I do not wish to continue at greater length—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-02a.989.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-04-03", "file": "debates1979-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "5ac3b9ad4d39f5be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-03a.1148.1", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": " considered independently by the Standing Commission, which will now take that course. The sanctimonious stuff we have just heard from the right hon. Gentleman comes ill from the Opposition Benches when we remember the way in which the Conservatives have treated nurses' claims over the years. In the last 10 years it has always been a Labour Government who have brought in proper pay for our nurses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-03a.1148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-04-03", "file": "debates1979-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "5ac3b9ad4d39f5be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-03a.1150.3", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "May I draw the Minister's attention to the fact that the Conservative Party has given a firm commitment not to cut expenditure on health and social services?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-03a.1150.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-04-03", "file": "debates1979-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "5ac3b9ad4d39f5be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-03a.1151.6", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is in it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Before the Secretary of State becomes involved in his general election campaign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-03a.1151.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-04-03", "file": "debates1979-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "5ac3b9ad4d39f5be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-03a.1166.0", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURE MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "when the Minister addresses us on these important subjects, he has not had a chance to explain himself more fully, and particularly to deal with the gaps? I should like to ask a number of questions. Does the right hon. Gentleman contemplate any further devaluation of the green pound this year? Is he aware that, during his tenure of office, he has not offered much either to consumer or to producer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-03a.1166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-04-03", "file": "debates1979-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "5ac3b9ad4d39f5be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-03a.1166.0", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURE MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "n himself more fully, and particularly to deal with the gaps? I should like to ask a number of questions. Does the right hon. Gentleman contemplate any further devaluation of the green pound this year? Is he aware that, during his tenure of office, he has not offered much either to consumer or to producer—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, come on.\"] The snakepit is a bit lively this afternoon. I wonder whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-03a.1166.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-04-03", "file": "debates1979-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "5ac3b9ad4d39f5be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-03a.1167.1", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURE MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "—as to induce me to use an improper term to describe their occupants, I withdraw it, Mr. Speaker, and I apologise to you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-03a.1167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-04-03", "file": "debates1979-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "5ac3b9ad4d39f5be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-03a.1179.2", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (COUNCIL OF AGRICULTURE MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "Let me try to make it clear to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-03a.1179.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-04-03", "file": "debates1979-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "5ac3b9ad4d39f5be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-03a.1200.0", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": " it where it was left by my noble Friend Lord Barber, one should not now begin paying that tax on savings income until one attained a savings income of £4,500 a year. But under this Government and this Chancellor even people who have retired begin paying that investment income surcharge on an investment income of £2,500. That is one of the most shameful things of all about the Chancellor's record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-03a.1200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-04-03", "file": "debates1979-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "5ac3b9ad4d39f5be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-03a.1205.0", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "The next Chancellor will inherit a balance of payments precariously in balance as compared with the forecast that the Chancellor was making two years ago of a surplus of £3 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-03a.1205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-04-03", "file": "debates1979-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "5ac3b9ad4d39f5be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-03a.1251.1", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Joel Barnett)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Joel Barnett)", "preceding_text": "tribute to her for the work that she has done, particularly in the cause of women, and, not least, for what she has done to persuade the House of Commons, the Labour Party, the trade union movement and the country generally to recognise the value of child benefits, which have now been brought to fruition in this Finance Bill, which has phased out child tax allowances and introduced child benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-03a.1251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-04-04", "file": "debates1979-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "f3461579514026c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-04a.1299.0", "colnum": "1299", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stan Crowther", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stan Crowther", "preceding_text": "Despite the doubling, does my right hon. Friend agree that in its early years the scheme has been a grave disappointment to those who—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-04a.1299.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-04-04", "file": "debates1979-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "f3461579514026c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-04a.1301.3", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of the Environment (Mr. Denis Howell)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of the Environment (Mr. Denis Howell)", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-04a.1301.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-04-04", "file": "debates1979-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "f3461579514026c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-04a.1314.0", "colnum": "1314", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman had not even read the proposals that we had put forward. He was so full of his prejudices—as were other Members, including at that time Liberal Members—against DLOs that he, like them, did not even bother to find out what we were proposing. The Bill is in draft in the Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-04a.1314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-04-04", "file": "debates1979-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "f3461579514026c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-04a.1316.2", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "THE HON. MEMBER FOR CHINGFORD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Badinage\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Speaker. I think it is well known that from time to time there is bandiage across the Floor of the House from hon. Members below the Gangway on each side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-04-04a.1316.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-09", "file": "debates1979-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "e464a7ef69538198", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-09a.7.1", "colnum": "7", "heading": "ELECTION OF SPEAKER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Thomas", "preceding_text": "tle Paul, and I shall quote his advice to the Thessalonians: Stand fast and hold the traditions ye have been taught. By long tradition, this House, when it gives its trust to the Member elected as Speaker, rightly expects from the Chair complete independence, impartiality and fair play, for minority interests and for majorities. The rights of Back Benchers are as sacred as those of Front Benchers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-09a.7.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-15", "file": "debates1979-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9b5a79a5f054b9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-15a.57.1", "colnum": "57", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "s, first, that the Government will give priority to economic policy and to controlling inflation. I look upon inflation as the greatest problem facing the country and the Government. It is clear from the figures published last week that we have inherited not just a rising, but a rapidly rising, rate of inflation. The Guardian on Saturday, and again this morning, was forecasting that even with the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-15a.57.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-15", "file": "debates1979-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9b5a79a5f054b9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-15a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"We noticed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "n our parliamentary procedures as chairman of the Hansard Society. I am interested in what he had to say about the reform of our procedures and in his proposals for an Official Information Act. I am not sure how far that will find favour generally on his Front Bench, but when people get on the Front Bench they find things a little more difficult than they thought when they sat on the Back Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-15a.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-15", "file": "debates1979-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9b5a79a5f054b9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-15a.59.1", "colnum": "59", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": " Lady not to let her own Right wing push her into courses which will be dangerous for this country and for our relationships with the Commonwealth. Whatever views are taken of Mr. Nkomo and Mr. Mugabe, it is vital that they be brought into the peacemaking process. I regret, too—and this is another matter that will be raised at Lusaka—that there is no mention of overseas aid in the Gracious Speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-15a.59.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-15", "file": "debates1979-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9b5a79a5f054b9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-15a.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Oh, yes, I shall be glad to do that. The hon. Gentleman has probably forgotten it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-15a.66.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-15", "file": "debates1979-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9b5a79a5f054b9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-15a.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Oh, yes, I shall be glad to do that. The hon. Gentleman has probably forgotten it. [HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"] I shall produce it in due course. I shall send it to the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-15a.66.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-15", "file": "debates1979-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9b5a79a5f054b9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-15a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ter only a week in office. Before the election, the electorate was given to understand, in a series of television commercials that were produced, directed, scripted and screened by Saatchi and Saatchi, against a misty background of deep blue, that a vote for the Conservatives and a change of Government would ensure that this country made a rapid return to some Utopian state of greatness and bliss.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-15a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-15", "file": "debates1979-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9b5a79a5f054b9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-15a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "021; That is not the impression that the country formed when those Conservative party political broadcasts were being screened. I dare say that we can scrape up from the Conservative manifesto some qualifying phrases in the fine print. But the right hon. Lady and her advertising agents bear the full responsibility for the impression that they have created, aided, of course, by a sycophantic press—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-15a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-15", "file": "debates1979-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9b5a79a5f054b9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-15a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " hands of these matters and sit back and say \"We have reduced income tax. We have set you free. Our fiscal and monetary policies will take care of these matters. We have strangulated the National Enterprise Board. We have got rid of the artificial jobs.\" The Government simply will not be able to do this. They will need positive measures, such things as encouraging early retirement of older people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-15a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-15", "file": "debates1979-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9b5a79a5f054b9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-15a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ve set you free. Our fiscal and monetary policies will take care of these matters. We have strangulated the National Enterprise Board. We have got rid of the artificial jobs.\" The Government simply will not be able to do this. They will need positive measures, such things as encouraging early retirement of older people—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—and their replacement by young people as they come along.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-15a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-15", "file": "debates1979-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9b5a79a5f054b9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-15a.68.1", "colnum": "68", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about oil?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "and industrial regeneration. Our exports were up by nearly 20 per cent. in volume from 1974. Imports were up by 5 per cent. in volume from 1974. We had arrested the decline in the United Kingdom's share of world trade after it had persisted for many years. So, whereas in 1974 our exports covered about 75 per cent. or 76 per cent. of our imports, today they are covering 96 per cent. of our imports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-15a.68.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-15", "file": "debates1979-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9b5a79a5f054b9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-15a.75.1", "colnum": "75", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " withdrawal of means-tested benefits. During the election campaign the then Prime Minister tried to give the impression that our tax reliefs would benefit only those in high income groups. I wonder whether he knows how many people on very low incomes, wages and pensions bear quite a high burden of tax. He does not, and they do. I well remember coming across one person during one of my walk-abouts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-15a.75.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-15", "file": "debates1979-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9b5a79a5f054b9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-15a.79.0", "colnum": "79", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d they should not be denied it because of dogma. We shall fight to improve education standards. We shall have to make better use of our resources and schools will need to have clear aims and pursue them with vigour. Greater choice and higher standards will be our aims in education. We shall also work to improve the use of resources in the National Health Service and to simplify its administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-15a.79.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-15", "file": "debates1979-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "e9b5a79a5f054b9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-15a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "SEVERAL HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "ery fulsome way for the oversight and for the lack of courtesy and action on the part of his Department. I hope that my colleagues in Government will ensure that the road problems in my area are not overlooked. From what we have heard in speeches by Opposition Members so far, one would have thought that the Tory Party is a hard-faced party concerned only with profits and not concerned with people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-15a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-16", "file": "debates1979-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "14c1e4c486d173dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-16a.219.5", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "With great respect to the right hon. Member, I am dealing with education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-16a.219.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-16", "file": "debates1979-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "14c1e4c486d173dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-16a.223.0", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "Yes, it will include the widest possible information, if it can be made available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-16a.223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-16", "file": "debates1979-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "14c1e4c486d173dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-16a.223.2", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "quired to encourage good work and good behaviour from pupils. We wish to see more emphasis placed on those practical skills and we welcome the increased attention that is now being given to those matters in training institutions. There are important matters concerning the education and training of those between the ages of 16 and 18, but time does not permit me to deal with them in any detail now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-16a.223.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-05-16", "file": "debates1979-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "14c1e4c486d173dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-16a.230.0", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "re the words, \"the new freedom\", used by the Secretary of State—I wonder whether the right hon. and learned Gentleman could tell us how it will operate in practice as well as in theory. For instance, if the new council in Tameside decides that it wants to convert its secondary schools to comprehensive schools, will the new freedom apply to it, or does the new freedom operate in only one direction?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-16a.228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-16", "file": "debates1979-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "14c1e4c486d173dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-16a.231.1", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "ision performance in which the Secretary of State and I took part on Friday 4 May that the right hon. and learned Gentleman is inclined to cavil about the nature of the uprating promise that we made. To avoid a tedious semantic argument, therefore, let me put the question in very simple terms. Will the Government accept the same pension obligation as the Labour Government accepted? Do they accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-16a.231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-16", "file": "debates1979-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "14c1e4c486d173dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-16a.235.1", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": ". The second is the fall in the school rolls which she, I am sure, would happily echo, as I do standing in her shadow. That was one of the reasons why she was able to make the progress which was a spectacular part of our history when we were in office. During the time of our three Secretaries of State, especially the one who abolished the grammar schools and now serves in the Conservative Cabinet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-16a.235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-16", "file": "debates1979-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "14c1e4c486d173dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-16a.235.3", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "ive Party during the election campaign about comprehensive education. The Secretary of State will understand that those who sit on the Opposition Benches feel that there is much to regret from those three weeks, not least the result. After the result, the most regrettable feature of that campaign seems to me to be the appalling campaign of denigration which was waged against comprehensive schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-16a.235.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-16", "file": "debates1979-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "14c1e4c486d173dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-16a.277.1", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "of this Government. They have rushed in without full explanation and engaged in bribery that has opened wide the flood-gates. We are in for confrontations which Conservative Members have placed deliberately on the agenda because they do not understand working people. When one listens to their speeches on education, one feels that they should talk to ordinary people and find out what they are like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-16a.277.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-16", "file": "debates1979-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "14c1e4c486d173dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-16a.363.4", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "education in our schools. Some concern has been voiced recently, particularly in industry and commerce, about educational standards in schools and the low level of achievement by some school leavers. But I am also told by those in education that such evidence as is available in Scotland suggests that pupils' performance in the basic skills of literacy and numeracy has not fallen over recent years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-16a.363.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-16", "file": "debates1979-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "14c1e4c486d173dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-16a.363.4", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "and numeracy has not fallen over recent years. [ Interruption. ] Wherever the truth lies, I am anxious to improve the quality of education and to encourage the schools and colleges of further education to keep pace with the changing demands of modern life. Since my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, North (Mr. Fletcher) will be responsible in the Scottish Office for both education and industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-16a.363.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-16", "file": "debates1979-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "14c1e4c486d173dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-16a.363.4", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "em or not. It is not surprising that the schools preferred to aim at independence. The inevitable result was to raise fees and to exclude from those schools a most valuable element—the able children of lower income families, the children of parents who wanted to see their children make the most of their ability and who were prepared to make sacrifices but who could not afford to pay the full cost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-16a.363.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-17", "file": "debates1979-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "1039843179b58dff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-17a.393.5", "colnum": "393", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. St. John-Stevas)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This motion?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. St. John-Stevas)", "preceding_text": "Yes, I can give the right hon. Gentleman that assurance. A motion will be moved as soon as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-17a.393.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-17", "file": "debates1979-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "1039843179b58dff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-17a.393.5", "colnum": "393", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. St. John-Stevas)", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. St. John-Stevas)", "preceding_text": "Yes, I can give the right hon. Gentleman that assurance. A motion will be moved as soon as possible. [HON. MEMBERS: \"This motion?\"] No, another motion will be moved, or this motion will be amended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-17a.393.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-17", "file": "debates1979-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "1039843179b58dff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-17a.393.5", "colnum": "393", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. St. John-Stevas)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. St. John-Stevas)", "preceding_text": "Yes, I can give the right hon. Gentleman that assurance. A motion will be moved as soon as possible. [HON. MEMBERS: \"This motion?\"] No, another motion will be moved, or this motion will be amended. [Hon. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Because objections have been expressed, and I am taking those objections into account. Hon. Gentlemen must not be annoyed with me, because I am acceding to their wishes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-17a.393.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-17", "file": "debates1979-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "1039843179b58dff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-17a.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "vote for her at this general election. I do not believe that the majority of people in this country believe in the absurdity that cutting the tax of the rich by 25 per cent. and cutting that of the vast majority by only 2 per cent. will, as the Gracious Speech puts it, lay a secure basis for investment, productivity and increased employment in all parts of the United Kingdom. That is just rubbish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-17a.439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-21", "file": "debates1979-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "4b63ffc219792466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-21a.695.7", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric G. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Kill it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric G. Varley", "preceding_text": "little seminars in the Centre for Political Studies. He is a Minister of the Crown, responsible to this House. I shall put all the easy questions to the right hon. Gentleman first. The first one concerns what he intends to do about the industrial strategy which the Labour Government pursued for three and a half years and conducted within the frame-work of the National Economic Development Council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-21a.695.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-21", "file": "debates1979-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "4b63ffc219792466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-21a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "in his local paper. That paper does not get as far as London or the constituency where I was campaigning. However, the hon. Gentleman said that there was a nasty suspicion that an undated but signed statement was already in the possession of the Secretary of State for Industry announcing the closing of steelmaking at Shotton. The hon. Gentleman knows that that is not true, and that it was not true", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-21a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-21", "file": "debates1979-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "4b63ffc219792466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-21a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": " it be allowed to proceed, or will it also be the victim of some corporate asset stripping? Last Tuesday, the Prime Minister offered her usual glib sloganising analyses of complicated and deep-seated problems. She summed up our industrial problems in this way: The problem is not one of creating new artificial jobs but of creating genuine new jobs.\"—[ Official Report, 15 May 1979; Vol. 967, c. 77.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-21a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-21", "file": "debates1979-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "4b63ffc219792466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-21a.705.4", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "rnment bring with them a different analysis and a different set of policies. The analysis takes into account the lessons that we have learn from the past during periods of Conservative Governments and, certainly, Labour Governments. A fresh set of policies will arise out of that analysis. The House will not expect me to announce today how these general policies of ours are to be applied in detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-21a.705.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-21", "file": "debates1979-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "4b63ffc219792466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-21a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "use must answer before it can discuss the amendment is. what is the source of jobs? There is a total difference between the analyses of the two main parties. We believe that the main source of jobs is the customer at home and abroad. The trading sector which seeks to satisfy the customer at home and abroad supports the jobs inside the trading sector and also all the jobs in the non-trading sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-21a.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-21", "file": "debates1979-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "4b63ffc219792466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-21a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "nse. If the source of new jobs is the customer, the source of rising standards of living, which we all wish to see, is rising productivity and the supply of goods and services which customers want. Jobs and rising standards of living do not come from Governments. The function of Governments is to create the conditions which encourage the satisfaction of customers and rising levels of productivity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-21a.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-21", "file": "debates1979-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "4b63ffc219792466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-21a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "hich customers want. Jobs and rising standards of living do not come from Governments. The function of Governments is to create the conditions which encourage the satisfaction of customers and rising levels of productivity. [ Interruption. ] Hon. Gentlemen must recognise that not even the TUC can compel overseas customers to buy British goods and services if they prefer foreign goods and services.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-21a.707.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-21", "file": "debates1979-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "4b63ffc219792466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-21a.718.1", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "nding labour force. Yet against that background the right hon. Gentleman proposes to switch off the life support system. There will be more redundancies. There will be lost production and lost trade. There will be greater costs. There will be reduced public provision. There will be lower productivity as men seek to protect themselves by work sharing. There will be emigration of our skilled people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-21a.718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-21", "file": "debates1979-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "4b63ffc219792466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-21a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. James Prior)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. James Prior)", "preceding_text": "o made maiden speeches today. My hon. Friend the Member for Liverpool, Gars-ton (Mr. Thornton) was the first maiden speaker from the Government side. He used to be a river boat pilot. We are pleased to see the hon. Member fur Liverpool, Kirkdale (Mr. Dunn) back in his seat looking a good deal better than a few months ago. We recognise the problems of Merseyside. I shall go to Merseyside on Friday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-21a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-21", "file": "debates1979-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "4b63ffc219792466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-21a.825.1", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"0h\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "of this summer. But when I have been asked this question on previous occasions, I have said that by \"overwhelming\" I mean that we should accept what has, on the whole, been general practice with regard to the introduction of closed shops, and that is that about 90 per cent.—between 80 per cent. and 90 per cent.—of the work force would vote in favour of a closed shop before it should be introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-21a.825.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-21", "file": "debates1979-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "4b63ffc219792466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-21a.827.0", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. Will he tell us something about the proposed Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-21a.827.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-22", "file": "debates1979-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "e023b2470a80ab92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-22a.857.6", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "My right hon. and learned Friend endorses generally the criteria set out in circular 5/77. I am sorry, I have got the wrong answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-22a.857.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-22", "file": "debates1979-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "e023b2470a80ab92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-22a.874.7", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY, PAY AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "can put up with this sort of hectoring at close quarters every day at No. 10, I suppose that we in the House will have to learn to put up with it. I must say that the right hon. Lady has chosen some remarkable companions for her new Order of St. Francis. She has chosen 14 peers to make sure that her kitchen Cabinet is \"fit for the Ritz\", to quote her leading admirer in the Conservative newspapers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-22a.874.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-22", "file": "debates1979-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "e023b2470a80ab92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-22a.874.7", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY, PAY AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "f St. Francis. She has chosen 14 peers to make sure that her kitchen Cabinet is \"fit for the Ritz\", to quote her leading admirer in the Conservative newspapers. [ Interruption. ] The key Members, who have been paraded in front of us during the debate in the last few days, are more suitable for the \"Dirty Dozen\" than for a monastic order. We had Brother Michael at the Department of the Environment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-22a.874.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-22", "file": "debates1979-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "e023b2470a80ab92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-22a.874.7", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY, PAY AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": " to find one foreign statesman to welcome the right hon. Lady's election, other than Franz Josef Strauss and Ian Smith. We shall listen this afternoon to Brother Geoffrey at the Treasury, who has been locked up in the same cell with the right hon. Member for Oswestry (Mr. Biffen), the hon. Member for Blaby (Mr. Lawson), the hon. and learned Member for Dover and Deal (Mr. Rees), and Lord Cockfield—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-22a.874.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-22", "file": "debates1979-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "e023b2470a80ab92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-22a.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY, PAY AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "of gilts the financing of the PSBR is bound to depend. The Chancellor may therefore gain nothing in relation to the money supply and the financing of the borrowing requirement. The one certainty is that to dump this enormous public asset on the market at this time would lead to an indigestion that would be likely to rule out the rights issues upon which British industry depends for new investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-22a.885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-22", "file": "debates1979-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "e023b2470a80ab92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-22a.891.1", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY, PAY AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": " My hon. Friends will remember well the boast of the cuts that he had made—thousands of millions of pounds—before that. Today the scene is transformed and he tells us, with a candour that the nation did not get at the time of the general election, that the implementation of the Rooker-Wise amendment was not a cut in income tax at all. This is surely very characteristic of the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-22a.891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-22", "file": "debates1979-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "e023b2470a80ab92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-22a.897.1", "colnum": "897", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY, PAY AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "ained, that does not mean that this Government will be slow to look after United Kingdom interests in the Community or elsewhere. I have already made it clear at last week's meeting of the European Finance Council that we need urgently a change in the budgetary arrangements of the Community, which leave us at present with a net contribution to the Community quite disproportionate to our resources.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-22a.897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-22", "file": "debates1979-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "e023b2470a80ab92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-22a.899.1", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY, PAY AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "n that we press our case as strongly as we do. The difference between our approach and that of the Opposition is that we shall be approaching this issue in a constructive rather than a destructive spirit, showing that we want to engage fully and actively with our partners in developing the Community. The problems that face us both at home and abroad are serious. I shall be making no rash promises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-22a.899.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-22", "file": "debates1979-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "e023b2470a80ab92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-22a.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY, PAY AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "h pay increases as appear to be in the pipeline we shall make across-the-board reductions in cash limits so as to ensure that they are not fully accommodated. I have said that there will be no increase in cash limits to take account of variations in the price forecasts, but we shall be taking account of the pay increases and then making offsetting reductions, which will be announced in due course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-22a.905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-22", "file": "debates1979-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "e023b2470a80ab92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-22a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY, PAY AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "xercise. The Government must thrash out the matter with the trade unions and organised workers to achieve something that is socially and economically acceptable. I fear that the Government are going about the process in the wrong way. Next winter, when we reach the next round of wage demands, the kind of industrial unrest that I envisage will make last winter's look like a Sunday-school tea party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-22a.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-22", "file": "debates1979-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "e023b2470a80ab92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-22a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY, PAY AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "of turning back. Some members of the Government have already abandoned those policies, it appears, but we are not quite sure about the right hon. Lady. All her colleagues apparently have abandoned the most vicious and reprehensible proposal to be included in their so-called trade union legislation—the proposal for the imposition on strikers' families. That, I gather, has been abandoned altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-22a.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-22", "file": "debates1979-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "e023b2470a80ab92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-22a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY, PAY AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "n legislation—the proposal for the imposition on strikers' families. That, I gather, has been abandoned altogether. [ Interruption. ] If hon. Members who are interrupting me now would listen to the rest of the debate, they would hear that many of the other items will have to be abandoned. There is a proposal, for example, about a secret ballot. Many of us are very much in favour of secret ballots.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-22a.988.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-05-22", "file": "debates1979-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "e023b2470a80ab92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-22a.1000.0", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY, PAY AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "rn to the terms of the amendment that has been tabled by the Opposition, and studiously avoided by the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale this evening. When one looks at what it says, perhaps the right hon. Gentleman was being prudent. It humbly regrets that the Government policies will divide the nation, inflict grave damage on Britain's economic performance, raise prices, and increase unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-22a.999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-22", "file": "debates1979-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "e023b2470a80ab92", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-22a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ECONOMY, PAY AND PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "whose idea it is to mount the ladder of opportunity and then kick it away lest anyone else should climb to where they have reached. There is one other passage in the right hon. Gentleman's speech to which I should like to refer. It is really the heart of the matter, when he boasted in relation to the National Health Service—incidentally, that was the creation of a Conservative-dominated coalition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-22a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-05-23", "file": "debates1979-05-23a.xml", "sha256": "ab1ec8473e873c81", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-23a.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SPRING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ecause in that debate we tended to be distracted on to philosophical issues and away from some of the practical problems which are on the Government's desk. I hope that the Leader of the House will start a tradition in ministerial replies of moving away from that and giving the House some hard-headed, practical, revealing and enlightening answers to some of the questions that have been put to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-05-23a.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-11", "file": "debates1979-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "144ad78b4d548fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-11a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "OIL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": ". I take the view that the people I have mentioned—motorists, and people going to work by car—are just as vital to the British economy as are other areas. The right way forward, I am convinced, is to stick to the working arrangements between the oil industry and the Government, and to protect the country from being saddled with an enormous and expensive apparatus at this present level of shortage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-11a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-11", "file": "debates1979-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "144ad78b4d548fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-11a.41.0", "colnum": "41", "heading": "OIL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "ioned the right hon. Gentleman's constituency. There are other constituencies and other areas where particular problems have arisen. We have moved to help them. There was mention earlier of British Rail. The Government intervened there, and as a result essential services have not been cut. The only cuts made were ones that would probably have had to be made anyway in the light of sensible economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-11a.41.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-11", "file": "debates1979-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "144ad78b4d548fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-11a.42.1", "colnum": "42", "heading": "OIL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "r treatment for customers throughout the country wherever there is hardship. But if there are difficulties in this matter and in the way in which our oil industry is organised which apparently have given us these problems—in contrast, we are told, to lesser problems in neighbouring countries—they arise in part from the nature, structure and organisation of the oil industry which we have inherited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-11a.42.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-11", "file": "debates1979-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "144ad78b4d548fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-11a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "OIL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says that he thinks that the public want the Government to dictate. It is my view that the public do not want that and, indeed, expressed their wish against dictation of that kind in recent opportunities at the polls. The hon. Member asks \"Is it not desirable to go for some system of rationing?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-11a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-11", "file": "debates1979-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "144ad78b4d548fa7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-11a.50.0", "colnum": "50", "heading": "OIL SUPPLIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "I am obviously in close contact with my right hon. Friend the Minister of Transport about these matters. However, I deplore the hon. Gentleman's suggestion that motorists on the road are in all cases in some way inessential or a down-graded category.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-11a.50.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-12", "file": "debates1979-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "04bc7da9b3186ec2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-12a.226.2", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "I think that a uniform would do the hon. Gentleman quite a lot of good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-12a.226.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-12", "file": "debates1979-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "04bc7da9b3186ec2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-12a.238.2", "colnum": "238", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL BACKGROUND", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "In this disturbed situation, the European Community can, and should, be a source of stability and strength for its members. In one important area, however, present EEC policies are seriously hindering our efforts to help ourselves. The United Kingdom and Italy, which are among the poorer members of the Community, are transferring substantial resources to richer member States—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-12a.238.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-12", "file": "debates1979-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "04bc7da9b3186ec2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-12a.238.2", "colnum": "238", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL BACKGROUND", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e important area, however, present EEC policies are seriously hindering our efforts to help ourselves. The United Kingdom and Italy, which are among the poorer members of the Community, are transferring substantial resources to richer member States—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"]—chiefly through the Community budget. We have already made it very clear to our partners that this cannot be allowed to continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-12a.238.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-12", "file": "debates1979-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "04bc7da9b3186ec2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-12a.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "MONETARY POLICY", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The Bank of England is accordingly rolling forward the supplementary special deposit scheme, or \"corset\", by three months on the existing basis. In addition, the Bank is announcing, this afternoon, an increase in its minimum lending rate by 2 per cent. to 14 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-12a.243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-12", "file": "debates1979-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "04bc7da9b3186ec2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-12a.258.4", "colnum": "258", "heading": "INCOME TAX", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "stment income is even worse. Such rates bring in very little revenue. But they kill incentive and are patently un-just. Some members of the previous Government recognised this, but they did nothing about it. I now propose an overdue measure of reform. The top rate on earned income will be cut from the present 83 per cent. to 60 per cent. This now top rate will apply to taxable income over £25,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-12a.258.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-12", "file": "debates1979-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "04bc7da9b3186ec2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-12a.351.1", "colnum": "351", "heading": "GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Cartwright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Flexible\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Cartwright", "preceding_text": "ne-man operation is looking for. Therefore, I believe that the guarantee powers proposed in clause 9 are very useful indeed. I was sorry to hear the statement of the hon. Member for Hampstead (Mr. Finsberg). If he is not dizzy with his convolutions, I think that most of the rest of us are. He started by opposing the powers, then he supported the powers and now he is back again opposing the powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-12a.351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-12", "file": "debates1979-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "04bc7da9b3186ec2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-12a.365.6", "colnum": "365", "heading": "COMMITTEE OF SELECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "preceding_text": ", Mr. Hugh Delargy, ensured that the vested interest opposed to that of the Chief Whip should also have two members—quite different from the original proposal. On another occasion it was suggested by one individual that Members should be knocked oil a Select Committee not because of anything that they had done on the Select Committee but in connection with another matter on the Floor of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-12a.365.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-13", "file": "debates1979-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e073c56f2ccf4e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-13a.418.5", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "preceding_text": "the Minister whether the discussions on immigration made it plain that the present flow of refugees, now totalling 100,000 detected so far this year—which threatens to inundate Hong Kong—cannot be allowed to continue? Therefore, will the Government make it plain to the Peking Government that we look to them for strong action on this front? Will we back it up by reinforcing the troops in Hong Kong?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-13a.418.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-13", "file": "debates1979-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e073c56f2ccf4e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-13a.423.2", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "owever, that co-ordination should not go too far, because the recent elections demonstrate quite clearly that the vast majority of the people of Britain have very strong reservations about the Common Market if radical changes in the CAP and our massive budgetary contributions and other affairs cannot be made? The decision at the elections by the majority of the people was to get out of the Market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-13a.423.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-13", "file": "debates1979-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e073c56f2ccf4e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-13a.424.1", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Gilmour", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "We have not put forward precise proposals because we do not believe that that is the right way of going about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-13a.424.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-13", "file": "debates1979-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e073c56f2ccf4e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-13a.440.2", "colnum": "440", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS (UPRATING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to you, Mr. Speaker. I have three main points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-13a.440.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-13", "file": "debates1979-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e073c56f2ccf4e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-13a.440.2", "colnum": "440", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS (UPRATING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "us as the number of unemployed increases? What is his estimate of the rate of inflation in November? Is it the 16 per cent. figure given in one paragraph of the Budget Statement, or is it the 20 per cent. figure to which he referred elsewhere? What does he propose to do to help the long-term unemployed, still stuck on short-term benefits and now to be penalised by Budget measures? My second point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-13a.440.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-13", "file": "debates1979-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e073c56f2ccf4e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-13a.450.2", "colnum": "450", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS (UPRATING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " a little sad that the right hon. Gentleman should continue to stoop to the level of the lowest cartoonist. May I make it clear to the right hon. Gentleman, as he obviously did not understand it yesterday from my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor, that an increase in VAT which this year adds three and a half percentage points to the rise in the cost of living is a once-for-all addition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-13a.450.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-13", "file": "debates1979-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e073c56f2ccf4e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-13a.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "totality of the Government's economic policy over the year ahead. That is shown in the action that has been taken for the public sector borrowing requirement, for the M3 monetary aggregates and in the raising of the minimum lending rate. No one could look at that package and suggest that it was a soft option. I should like to take up the point that was put to me by the Chancellor of the Exchequer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-13a.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-13", "file": "debates1979-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e073c56f2ccf4e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-13a.477.0", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Of course I held those views and still do. I did a great deal to change the balance when I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-13a.477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-13", "file": "debates1979-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e073c56f2ccf4e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-13a.477.0", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Of course I held those views and still do. I did a great deal to change the balance when I—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Oh, yes. On occasion I taxation under the Conservatives represented a majority of the revenue. I switched it to a minority during my period of office. I cut income tax repeatedly and on occasion I made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-13a.477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-13", "file": "debates1979-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e073c56f2ccf4e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-13a.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": " activities carried on under the Votes of the Department of Industry and the Department of Employment. They cover the full range of State economic activities that are normally described as an industrial policy. I have no doubt that this area of debate will extend through the lifetime of this Parliament, for what has been presented to the House of necessity could be only a very preliminary package.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-13a.484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-13", "file": "debates1979-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e073c56f2ccf4e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-13a.502.3", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "preceding_text": "Budget. Before I leave the question of direct versus indirect taxation, I must say something about the extraordinary action of the Government in reducing the top rate at one go without altering the lowest rate in any respect. It seems to us that the Government should either have tackled the undoubtedly necessary reduction in the top rate over two years, coming down this year to, say, 70 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-13a.502.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-13", "file": "debates1979-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "e073c56f2ccf4e40", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-13a.532.1", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stan Thorne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stan Thorne", "preceding_text": " Deal (Mr. Rees)—to the fact that the Conservatives have a mandate to pursue certain policies. That must be challenged, because it is largely myth. The reality is that in the election 76 per cent. of the electorate voted, and of that 76 per cent. only 44 per cent. voted Conservative. Therefore, of the number who voted, 56 per cent. rejected the ideology or philosophy put forward by the Tory Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-13a.532.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-14", "file": "debates1979-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "4479aced2957e314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-14a.620.0", "colnum": "620", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I think that the Government are proceeding with all reasonable speed on the Boyle report, and it is right that the Prime Minister, before taking further steps, should consult the Leader of the Opposition. On the second matter, the repeal of the Scotland Act, I appreciate the point that the right hon. Gentleman is making, but that issue is quite separate from the issue of all-party talks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-14a.620.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-14", "file": "debates1979-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "4479aced2957e314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-14a.622.5", "colnum": "622", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I know of my hon. Friend's interest in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-14a.622.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-14", "file": "debates1979-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "4479aced2957e314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-14a.653.2", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "e shortest memory of anybody in the House. When under the right hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey) inflation went to 29 per cent., the Labour Government indulged in sleight of hand. They changed the basis period, so that pensioners never had any protection from inflation. It is a little much for them to accuse us because we are following to the letter legislation that is on the statute book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-14a.653.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-14", "file": "debates1979-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "4479aced2957e314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-14a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Alexander", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Alexander", "preceding_text": "cords what can be done. I belive that not to do so would be unfair and unacceptable to pensioners. I am sure that I have spoken far too long and I shall probably not catch your eye again, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for a long time. I was advised by my family that whenever I made my maiden speech I should not on any account speak in the economic affairs debate. They tell me I know nothing about economics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-14a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-14", "file": "debates1979-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "4479aced2957e314", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-14a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "roposed is not merely that the thresholds should keep pace with inflation. We propose that they should be double that. I wish that the hon. Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Rooker) were in the Chamber tonight. He would have been pleased at that. I wish that Mrs. Wise, if for that reason alone, were in the House also, for she could have joined with us in applauding these particular increases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-14a.757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-18", "file": "debates1979-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "f5e8451d1cb9a177", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-18a.900.0", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — THEATRES TRUST ACT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Created by you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I am well aware of the problems that face that body. It is something of a Frankenstein monster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-18a.900.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-18", "file": "debates1979-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "f5e8451d1cb9a177", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-18a.959.0", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "arties. He said to me \"Do you know, I nearly wrote to the Chancellor after the Budget\". I thought \"My God, what will come next?\" But I was wrong. He said \"I nearly wrote to the Chancellor because in all the years I have watched you politicians at work, this is the first occasion I can recall on which a Government have come into office and said what they intended to do and then proceeded to do it.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-18a.959.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-18", "file": "debates1979-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "f5e8451d1cb9a177", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-18a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. W. Rooker (Birmingham, Perry Barr)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. W. Rooker (Birmingham, Perry Barr)", "preceding_text": " Chancellor should have done a little more there.\" We had one hon. Member this afternoon who said that he thought that VAT should have been raised to 20 per cent. I hope that the Hansard reporters have recorded that. Certainly, members of the Tory Party are moving back from the euphoria with which they greeted the Chancellor last week when they were waving their Order Papers. They have moved away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-18a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-18", "file": "debates1979-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "f5e8451d1cb9a177", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-18a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. W. Rooker (Birmingham, Perry Barr)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. W. Rooker (Birmingham, Perry Barr)", "preceding_text": "ir living standards eroded, and they will not stand for it. Some people will complain. It will be no good the Government Benches saying to us \"You must help us. You are the loyal Opposition. You must not cause this ferment outside, with all these people marching and demonstrating in the streets.\" This is self-inflicted, and it is quite deliberate naked class politics on the part of the Tory Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-18a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-18", "file": "debates1979-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "f5e8451d1cb9a177", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-18a.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "ling their vast budgets and only too eager to compete with the Chancellor in the cuts and savagery which they are prepared to employ. I predict now massive cuts next year in local government services, in housing, a reduced rate support grant, a massive increase in rates and large cuts in both regional and industrial aid. Therefore, I turn to the major consequences for the economy. I must be brief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-18a.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-18", "file": "debates1979-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "f5e8451d1cb9a177", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-18a.1036.0", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-18a.1036.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-18", "file": "debates1979-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "f5e8451d1cb9a177", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-18a.1039.1", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "g a Christmas bonus of £10. We are putting up the lone parent premium and increasing the mobility allowance. Those measures are worth substantial sums of money. It is ludicrous to characterise them as mean or inequitable. They are the most generous of the social part of this Budget. It was suggested that we were doing insufficient to help the low paid. No Budget has done more to help the low paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-18a.1039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-18", "file": "debates1979-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "f5e8451d1cb9a177", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-18a.1039.1", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A wealth tax.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "edged to get down to £8½ billion. How would he have set about finding that £3 billion? He has given some indication of what he would have done. He says that he would have squeezed public spending by holding tight to cash limits and that he would have deferred regional development grants, as we would have done. That would have got him £500 million. He would have introduced a duty on betting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-18a.1039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-18", "file": "debates1979-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "f5e8451d1cb9a177", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-18a.1067.3", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (WATER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Marks", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speak for yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Marks", "preceding_text": "this Government should feel than we have heard so far. The hon. Member for Burton (Mr. Lawrence) asked about the standards of purity laid down for drinking water. This is the third directive on drinking water which has been submitted. The first laid down the standard of the purity of drinking water, which seemed a reasonable thing to do because nowadays we drink a great deal of each other's water.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-18a.1067.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-19", "file": "debates1979-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "f640169da7a867cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-19a.1098.0", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I think that right hon. and hon. Members who were in government until a little while ago should know that these forecasts are notoriously unreliable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-19a.1098.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-19", "file": "debates1979-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "f640169da7a867cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-19a.1105.4", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"By how much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "Looking at the figures, one is amazed at the hypocrisy of Labour Members and surprised that they are even able to open their mouths. I suspect that unemployment will rise in the next 12 to 18 months through a combination of factors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-19a.1105.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-19", "file": "debates1979-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "f640169da7a867cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-19a.1119.3", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Mark Carlisle)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Mark Carlisle)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. Since this is the first occasion on which the hon. Member for Bedwellty (Mr. Kinnock) has taken his place on the Labour Front Bench, I wish to begin by congratulating him on his appointment as Shadow spokesman on education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-19a.1119.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-19", "file": "debates1979-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "f640169da7a867cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-19a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"So did you\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "House. I hope that the hon. Member for Sheffield, Hillsborough (Mr. Flannery), who is a member of the teaching profession, will be thoroughly ashamed, when he reads his speech in Hansard tomorrow, of what he has said—not only to the House, but beyond, through the press, to the people of this country. The hon. Gentleman was critical of the present Government, stating that they all went to Oxbridge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-19a.1186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-19", "file": "debates1979-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "f640169da7a867cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-19a.1187.1", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "ervative in Hillsborough. So the hon. Gentleman does not speak for all those in his constituency. Perhaps some who voted for him previously decided this time that his example in the House did not encourage them to do so again. During his rather long speech the hon. Member also said that all was well in education and that the comprehensive system would be a panacea and would lead to future success—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-19a.1187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-19", "file": "debates1979-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "f640169da7a867cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-19a.1200.1", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "preceding_text": "he 1960s—when I was a Member for a Birmingham constituency—before it went comprehensive Birmingham was selecting 35 per cent. of the age group to go to grammar schools. If London had not gone comprehensive one of its problems, particularly in the inner city areas, would have been that it would have been selecting 50 per cent., 60 per cent. or even 70 per cent. of the youngsters for grammar schools", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-19a.1200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-19", "file": "debates1979-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "f640169da7a867cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-19a.1228.1", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "hat is the fact of the matter. Nobody who has observed a community that operates a selective 11-plus system can doubt that on the morning of the results there are not faces of schoolchildren wreathed in smiles at having encoutnered the examination. There are floods of tears in many homes. The guilt for those tears will remain on the backs of the right hon. and learned Gentleman and his colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-19a.1228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-19", "file": "debates1979-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "f640169da7a867cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-19a.1228.1", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "getting on with the job of education. The only interests who want the Bill are those buried in the political permafrost of their own prejudice and privilege. They are the Tories who control various local education authorities. Such persons are frequently an embarrassment to many Conservatives, especially the more progressive strands of the party. However, they exist and they are easily identified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-19a.1228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-19", "file": "debates1979-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "f640169da7a867cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-19a.1235.1", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ard a partisan, doctrinaire, and unwanted measure.\"—[ Official Report, 4 February 1976; Vol. 904, c. 1233–4.] I say \"Aye\" to that when it is applied to this Bill. Of course, the right hon. Gentleman is not now in education. He is a collector of fine things—mainly, as far as I can make out, Government Ministries. He is Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster He is Lord President of the Council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-19a.1235.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-19", "file": "debates1979-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "f640169da7a867cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-19a.1264.4", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AIRCRAFT NOISE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "preceding_text": " no disputing that those stations exist and that the Community's destination is the station at the end of the line, the federation of Western European States. It is a rather peculiar railway. There are two lines running from the first station to the last, going through every station, but, unlike passengers on normal railway systems, passengers at any station can take a train only in one direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-19a.1264.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-20", "file": "debates1979-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "03a96ceea3b1b9a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-20a.1309.4", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The situation we have inherited is that 26 weeks is the average waiting time for a test in the United Kingdom. It is for that reason that we have recruited more examiners. As my hon. Friend is aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-20a.1309.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-20", "file": "debates1979-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "03a96ceea3b1b9a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-20a.1351.1", "colnum": "1351", "heading": "SCOTLAND ACT 1978 (REPEAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "an's contribution somewhat odd in that respect, in that from a position of always having been opposed to devolution he reached the conclusion that he still was. That was hardly original, and not a marvellous response to the situation in which we now find ourselves. It is worth remembering three small points. The first is that a Royal Commission was set up composed of relatively uninvolved persons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-20a.1351.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-20", "file": "debates1979-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "03a96ceea3b1b9a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-20a.1434.1", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "SCOTLAND ACT 1978 (REPEAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which is which?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Henderson", "preceding_text": " to the Tory record on devolution. That caused some incredulity on the Opposition benches, which was surprising because of the solid achievements, rather than the pious postulations which have characterised the Opposition's approach to devolution. In the past five years I have assisted my hon. Friend the Member for Galloway in writing a pamphlet called \"The Scottish Conservatives—past and future\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-20a.1434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-20", "file": "debates1979-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "03a96ceea3b1b9a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-20a.1440.1", "colnum": "1440", "heading": "SCOTLAND ACT 1978 (REPEAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "preceding_text": "d to spend a little longer each year in Holy-rood House it would be no bad thing. Edinburgh could then perhaps be regarded as more of a capital city than it is at the moment. I believe that the issue is as much emotional as one of hard practical common sense. Another step which could be taken would be for Her Majesty to receive, from time to time, foreign royalty in Edinburgh instead of in London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-20a.1440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-20", "file": "debates1979-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "03a96ceea3b1b9a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-20a.1458.2", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "SCOTLAND ACT 1978 (REPEAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I shall try to answer that point. We believe that it would be against the interests of all concerned if further discussions were to extend throughout the life of this Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-20a.1458.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-21", "file": "debates1979-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "821a7a675ff200a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-21a.1478.1", "colnum": "1478", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman really cannot get away with that. The fact is that he will spend £2,000 million in the coming year in cutting the standard rate of tax and giving £600 million worth of relief to those on the higher rates. It is because he has to finance that £10,000 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-21a.1478.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-21", "file": "debates1979-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "821a7a675ff200a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-21a.1506.0", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I hope that it will be for the convenience of the House if the substance of all these matters is debated together. The votes will then be taken individually on the amendments and the motions which Mr. Speaker selects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-21a.1506.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-21", "file": "debates1979-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "821a7a675ff200a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-21a.1508.1", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT AND MINISTERS (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas)", "preceding_text": "the House will recognise that it would be entirely wrong if we in this House were to treat ourselves more favourably than others. We have therefore decided to recommend to the House that the full parliamentary increases should not be brought in immediately, but in three equal stages, the first in the present month, the second in June 1980 and the third in June 1981. That is over a two-year period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-21a.1508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-21", "file": "debates1979-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "821a7a675ff200a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-21a.1511.0", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT AND MINISTERS (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "posals in advance to the right hon. Gentleman. I did so myself to the leaders of the various minority parties in the House. No doubt the Leader of the Opposition will express the Opposition view and supplement anything that has been said by the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale. But I must stress that this is not a matter for consultations in the sense implied by the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-21a.1511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-21", "file": "debates1979-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "821a7a675ff200a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-21a.1511.0", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT AND MINISTERS (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "e of Commons. The right hon. Gentleman referred, secondly, to the question of the linkage of salaries in this House to some other criterion. This is an extremely complex question, because it raises social questions of other people's standing and their needs throughout the country. We have to decide what Members' salaries should be linked to. The Boyle report recommended against any form of linkage", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-21a.1511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-21", "file": "debates1979-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "821a7a675ff200a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-21a.1513.1", "colnum": "1513", "heading": "MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT AND MINISTERS (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Three years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "ament—and even more of Ministers—have fallen dramatically behind. That was due to the anomaly of the last decision not to implement the £8,000 recommendation, which, as the right hon. Gentleman candidly admitted, he supported. That is the difference between this recommendation of the Government and that on the previous occasion. We have accepted that figure, but have said that it should be phased—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-21a.1513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-21", "file": "debates1979-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "821a7a675ff200a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-21a.1519.0", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT AND MINISTERS (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "If I may correct my hon. Friend, I believe that there is a difference between the staging and the period over which it is staged. Before there is a great storm again, I remind the House that this is a three-stage award over a two-year period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-21a.1519.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-21", "file": "debates1979-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "821a7a675ff200a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-21a.1520.1", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT AND MINISTERS (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "The Cabinet has thought very carefully about these matters and has given its view to the House. I, as Leader of the House, am most willing to receive representations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-21a.1520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-21", "file": "debates1979-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "821a7a675ff200a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-21a.1521.0", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT AND MINISTERS (PAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "On the question of a free vote, I must point out that the proposals that have been put before the House are Government proposals. Since they are Government proposals, they will be supported by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-21a.1521.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-21", "file": "debates1979-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "821a7a675ff200a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-21a.1637.3", "colnum": "1637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GREATER LONDON COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg)", "preceding_text": "The House gave the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-21a.1637.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-22", "file": "debates1979-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "4277b90ccbb321ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-22a.1666.4", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my right hon. Friend on bringing good news back from the Community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-22a.1666.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-22", "file": "debates1979-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "4277b90ccbb321ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-22a.1667.3", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Despite all the verbiage, is it not the case that, before the right hon. Gentleman went to the Council, he said in very forceful terms that he was going to press for a complete price freeze, and to that extent it has been a disastrous failure? The right hon. Gentleman is well known as a professional con trickster—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-22a.1667.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-22", "file": "debates1979-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "4277b90ccbb321ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-22a.1667.5", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "No, Mr. Speaker, it is not a reflection on his honour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-22a.1667.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-22", "file": "debates1979-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "4277b90ccbb321ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-22a.1667.5", "colnum": "1667", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "No, Mr. Speaker, it is not a reflection on his honour—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"] It is a matter of taste.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-22a.1667.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-22", "file": "debates1979-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "4277b90ccbb321ba", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-22a.1681.1", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY (SALARIES AND PENSIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "would be grateful if the Government would look at this aspect as well, as it concerns our Members of the Assembly. All of this arises out of the national-rate-of-pay principle, which I agree is the right course to follow. There seems to be some feeling about the dual mandate problem. I was checking another point yesterday and found that it was the sixteenth anniversary of my entry into this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-22a.1681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-25", "file": "debates1979-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "07fb72703dd3cff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-25a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "SELECT COMMITTEES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "real difficulties caused by the straddling nature of the committee. The Home Office has a number of grant-aided bodies—for example, the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Commission for Racial Equality. Will it be possible for the departmental committee to investigate them? They fell outside the purview of the Select Committee on Nationalised Industries. There has been a growth of such bodies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-25a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-25", "file": "debates1979-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "07fb72703dd3cff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-25a.56.0", "colnum": "56", "heading": "SELECT COMMITTEES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "ssions on this point under the previous Administration the question arose as to whether the job should be given to the Attorney-General. The feeling was, quite properly, that the Attorney-General's job was to advise the Government, not the Select Committees. We should be clear about this important matter. It is not enough just to employ any old lawyer—and I do not say that in any derogatory sense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-25a.56.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-25", "file": "debates1979-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "07fb72703dd3cff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-25a.84.3", "colnum": "84", "heading": "SELECT COMMITTEES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Do not be so sure.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman has corrected me because I do not think that the content of Cabinet committees would be of the least interest to hon. Members or to members of Select Committees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-25a.84.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-25", "file": "debates1979-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "07fb72703dd3cff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-25a.98.5", "colnum": "98", "heading": "SELECT COMMITTEES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I read the evidence that my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham, West (Mr. English) gave to the Committee, and it is wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-25a.98.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-25", "file": "debates1979-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "07fb72703dd3cff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-25a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "SELECT COMMITTEES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Gentleman is showing off.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "k to Westminster. My right hon. Friend the Member for Taunton (Mr. du Cann) pressed me about the future. He asked \"What about the rest of the report?\", as did a number of other right hon. and hon. Members. I consider the motions to be only the first instalment, but a massive first instalment, of the Committee's proposals, covering almost one-third of them. It is the \"premier pas qui coûte.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-25a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-25", "file": "debates1979-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "07fb72703dd3cff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-25a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "SELECT COMMITTEES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "duty will be to find out where the books have been cooked—for that matter, what cooks to book—and other related subjects. There is a further step. There are 50 or so recommendations of the Procedure Committee left: various pleas for limited time for speeches in certain circumstances, at certain times of the day, changes in the hours of the House, that the House should rise on Friday at, say, 9.30—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-25a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-26", "file": "debates1979-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "b94d889aa0e82bcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-26a.282.0", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "ught to be at risk, as expressed by an early-day motion signed by right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House? Will she express her abhorrence of this action and see, perhaps with the Foreign Secretary, what action Britain, in conjunction with other African and Commonwealth nations, might take to try to impress on the present Ghana Government that unilateral action sweeping to one side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-26a.282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-26", "file": "debates1979-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "b94d889aa0e82bcf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-26a.286.2", "colnum": "286", "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": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, the shipbuilding plan is under review. He will also be aware that there is surplus capacity in this country, as well as in others, and that reducing that surplus capacity will be a painful process. It is not a process that we wish to undergo but one which the situation means we shall have to undergo.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-26a.286.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-27", "file": "debates1979-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "9a328173223f260a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-27a.420.0", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Withdraw\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": " unless they contained a clear statement of the financial and manpower implications to local authorities? Does he remember that the day after that he issued a circular to local authorities about the sale of council houses and flats which contained not a scintilla of detail about the financial and manpower implications of that circular? Will he stop misleading the House and start telling the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-27a.420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-27", "file": "debates1979-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "9a328173223f260a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-27a.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "It is precisely because we care about housing need and are conscious of the fact that about ½ million dwellings have been lost from the privately rented sector that it is not possible statutorily to give private sector tenants the right to buy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-27a.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-27", "file": "debates1979-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "9a328173223f260a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-27a.432.2", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is very experienced in these matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-27a.432.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-27", "file": "debates1979-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "9a328173223f260a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-27a.435.4", "colnum": "435", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "Is not the Minister aware that the local authority has discussed this report and refused to take action, and that the problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-27a.435.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-27", "file": "debates1979-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "9a328173223f260a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-27a.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": "—has admitted on television that unemployment will increase \"significantly\". He is not prepared to deny that by the end of this year unemployment may reach 2 million or more. I see that the right hon. Gentleman makes no move to deny it now. Conservative Members complained in the past five years, as did my hon. Friends and I, about every minor rise in unemployment. But they are not complaining now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-27a.560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-27", "file": "debates1979-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "9a328173223f260a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-27a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. Peter Rees)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. Peter Rees)", "preceding_text": "is right hon. and hon. Friends in his intellectual odyssey. I admire the right hon. Gentleman's stamina and his zest for battle, and I express my sympathy to him that the exigencies of the struggle for power in the Labour Party have kept him in the hard and unrewarding economic and fiscal field when no doubt he would have preferred to move untrammelled into such lusher pastures as foreign affairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-27a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-27", "file": "debates1979-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "9a328173223f260a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-27a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. Peter Rees)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. Peter Rees)", "preceding_text": "hard and unrewarding economic and fiscal field when no doubt he would have preferred to move untrammelled into such lusher pastures as foreign affairs—[ Interruption. ] I am flattered and reassured that the right hon. Gentleman, for whom I have great personal admiration, should come into the Chamber at this moment. I never know how to respond to him when he is in his skittish and flirtatious mood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-27a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-27", "file": "debates1979-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "9a328173223f260a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-27a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. Peter Rees)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Finance Bill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. Peter Rees)", "preceding_text": "ssons from his hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Rooker), whom I congratulate unreservedly on his promotion. Dare I say that I hope that he will not lose his cutting edge on the Opposition Front Bench, because he was far better able to make that kind of speech from the Back Benches than his hon. Friend the Member for Ormskirk. I return to the right hon. Member for Leeds, East—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-27a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-27", "file": "debates1979-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "9a328173223f260a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-27a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. Peter Rees)", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What about the weather? \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. Peter Rees)", "preceding_text": "he week after to explore the minutiae, and I hope that I shall be offering the House a few observations on it. Responding to the right hon. Gentleman's overtures, I am glad that we shall have the continuing benefit of his great experience in our debates. Butskellism may be dead, but who knows the kind of intellectual rapport we shall be able to establish with the right hon. Member for Leeds, East?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-27a.573.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-27", "file": "debates1979-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "9a328173223f260a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-27a.581.5", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": " go into the case for or against the convention itself and the protocols. I am sensitive to the anxieties of companies that operate in states currently applying the unitary system—California and Oregon—and the points that have been made by hon. Members before and during the debate. We shall consider closely the future of this convention and amending protocols in the light of debates in the Senate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-27a.581.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-27", "file": "debates1979-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "9a328173223f260a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-27a.581.5", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Division.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "f this convention and amending protocols in the light of debates in the Senate. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"] I appreciate that Opposition Members are not taking the close interest in this matter of some companies. Should the Senate ratify the convention and protocols an order will be embodied in our domestic legislation later in the year which the House will have a full opportunity to debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-27a.581.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-28", "file": "debates1979-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c849ed16546ea69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-28a.655.4", "colnum": "655", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I am happy to say that the immediate problem of the allotment of rooms and desks to hon. Members has been satisfactorily solved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-28a.655.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-28", "file": "debates1979-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c849ed16546ea69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-28a.655.4", "colnum": "655", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "tribute to those who have been so co-operative in this matter—and to those who have encouraged them to be so. I am aware that in the long term the situation is not satisfactory. I am looking into the matter. We shall shortly be bringing the issue before the Services Committee to see whether better use can be made of such accommodation as we have. In the long run, we need a new Parliament building.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-28a.655.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-28", "file": "debates1979-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c849ed16546ea69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-28a.656.1", "colnum": "656", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When will that be?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Certainly I shall convey those requests to my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, but I am sure that she will have thought of those matters already. My right hon. Friend will make her statement on the day after her return.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-28a.656.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-28", "file": "debates1979-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c849ed16546ea69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-28a.661.6", "colnum": "661", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "May I revert to the rather evasive replies of the Leader of the House about the ratification of SALT II and the prospect of a debate? There is a serious need to debate that and show the United States Senate and the American people that the House is united in wishing that agreement to be ratified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-28a.661.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-28", "file": "debates1979-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c849ed16546ea69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-28a.716.2", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST MIDLANDS COUNTY COUNCIL BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "That is the very point I am making. If they organise the procession, they must give notice to the police of their intention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-28a.716.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-06-28", "file": "debates1979-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "3c849ed16546ea69", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-28a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WEST MIDLANDS COUNTY COUNCIL BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows more about Birmingham than 1 shall ever know, but I cannot see how he can nevertheless say with quite such confidence that this provision would not have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-06-28a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-02", "file": "debates1979-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "204a842dca318d9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-02a.883.3", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman might assume that if I gave an answer I did not think that it was nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-02a.883.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-02", "file": "debates1979-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "204a842dca318d9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-02a.899.3", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": " have received a number of complaints from tourist bodies in popular holiday areas that some people have cancelled holiday bookings because of fears about petrol shortages. I know the industry is also concerned that the petrol price increases may harm their business. However, careful driving can easily reduce fuel consumption by 10 per cent. Income tax cuts will also counter-balance higher prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-02a.899.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-02", "file": "debates1979-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "204a842dca318d9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-02a.913.0", "colnum": "913", "heading": "PETROLEUM PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "products will go to Europe rather than this country? We have to pay international prices. I would also like to mention tourism. Supplies in the West Country are now much better, but will my right hon. Friend take on board the fact that a number of petrol stations are closing on Saturdays and Sundays in order to save wage costs? Those are the days when there is the normal turnover of holidaymakers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-02a.913.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-02", "file": "debates1979-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "204a842dca318d9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-02a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND ACT 1974", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerard Fitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerard Fitt", "preceding_text": "reland is completely unlike housing problems in any other part of the United Kingdom. In Northern Ireland people live in Catholic ghettos and in Protestant ghettos. The reason why they live in Catholic ghettos in West Belfast at the moment is that they were burnt out, shot out and stoned out of Protestant areas such as Rathcoole and other parts of Belfast. They now live in West Belfast for safety—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-02a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-02", "file": "debates1979-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "204a842dca318d9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-02a.1007.1", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND ACT 1974", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerard Fitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerard Fitt", "preceding_text": "atholic ghettos and in Protestant ghettos. The reason why they live in Catholic ghettos in West Belfast at the moment is that they were burnt out, shot out and stoned out of Protestant areas such as Rathcoole and other parts of Belfast. They now live in West Belfast for safety—[ Interruption. ] This is exactly the reason why we cannot apply Tory doctrinaire standards to the sale of council houses—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-02a.1007.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-02", "file": "debates1979-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "204a842dca318d9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-02a.1011.1", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND ACT 1974", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fitt", "preceding_text": "That is the type of mentality that brought about the existence of the Northern Ireland State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-02a.1011.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-07-02", "file": "debates1979-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "204a842dca318d9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-02a.1069.5", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "PUBLIC ACCOUNTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That Mr. Joel Barnett, Mr. A. P. Costain, Dr. John Cunningham, Mr. W. W. Hamilton, Mr. Peter Hordern, Mr. Barry Jones, Sir Timothy Kitson, Mr. James Lamond, Mr. Nigel Lawson, Mr. Michael Morris, Mr. John Prescott, Mr. Michael Shaw and Mr. Robert Tayler be Members of the Committee of Public Accounts.—[ Mr. John Stradling Thomas. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-02a.1069.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-03", "file": "debates1979-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5a9b7256902f7459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-03a.1098.0", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "If I may reply to the longwinded and dry verbiage of the hon. Member for Keighley (Mr. Cryer), my hon. Friend has indicated that there is no reduction in the nursery programme. There is only a reduction in an increased nursery programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-03a.1098.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-03", "file": "debates1979-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5a9b7256902f7459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-03a.1114.0", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "TOKYO SUMMIT MEETING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Let us have a whip round.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "May I welcome the right hon. Lady's return after what has been an arduous journey—despite the fact that she deprived me of a visit to Australia this year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-03a.1114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-03", "file": "debates1979-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5a9b7256902f7459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-03a.1114.0", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "TOKYO SUMMIT MEETING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "hon. Lady and the Government to proceed with caution and to emphasise the need for safety, despite the pretty successful operation of the PWR system, and to moderate her enthusiasm for going ahead with large-scale development of nuclear energy, in view of the substantial reserves that we have? We must, of course, proceed at a steady pace, but there is no need for a rush programme on this. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-03a.1114.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-03", "file": "debates1979-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5a9b7256902f7459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-03a.1125.2", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "TOKYO SUMMIT MEETING", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We are agreeing to resolve it into targets within the total commitment, and we are agreeing to resolve it into targets at Dublin.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-03a.1125.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-03", "file": "debates1979-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5a9b7256902f7459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-03a.1160.1", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. B. Cant", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"Greed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. B. Cant", "preceding_text": "culous. Therefore, this is somethting to which I hope the Chief Secretary, who is interested in these matters, will apply himself. Otherwise, the estimated negative growth in the economy of minus 1 per cent. may well become, as one forecast says, minus 4 per cent. As one or two of my hon. Friends have said, we are now being ruled by a group of politicians who are consumed with a brand of ideology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-03a.1160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-03", "file": "debates1979-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5a9b7256902f7459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-03a.1163.1", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cant", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Poetic licence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cant", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend the Member for Fife Central said that he read The Daily Telegraph because it gave him an insight into Tory thinking. The Daily Telegraph is getting a lot of free publicity this afternoon. For the first time in my reading of it, I found that The Daily Telegraph even came out against the Government last Friday or Saturday, saying that increasing the MLR was the Tories' first big mistake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-03a.1163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-03", "file": "debates1979-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5a9b7256902f7459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-03a.1173.0", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": "dicine and the necessity for strong measures to deal with the problem. The Government talk in a nebulous way about the need for an incentive economy and greater opportunities. For whom are the incentives? For whom are the opportunities? They are only for that privileged, select band that the Tory Party has always represented, favoured and been quick to repay with largess after winning an election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-03a.1173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-03", "file": "debates1979-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5a9b7256902f7459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-03a.1249.1", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": " The hon. Member for Stockport, North (Mr. Bennett) spoke to amendment No. 13 which covers goods and services supplied to or by youth hostels. He will appreciate that, although youth hostels deal with a rather specialised section of the community and do very good work which we entirely appreciate, they are, in a sense, providing accommodation and are in competition with boarding houses and hotels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-03a.1249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-03", "file": "debates1979-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5a9b7256902f7459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-03a.1251.1", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I take careful note of what the hon. Gentleman says. Constant discussions obviously go on with my hon. Friends in another Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-03a.1251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-03", "file": "debates1979-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5a9b7256902f7459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-03a.1252.0", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": "iderable pressure as a result of this increase in taxation. That is what the amendments are about. They seek a reduction in tax back to the position at which these bodies were taxed before the Chancellor introduced his Budget. Perhaps I can go through that list again in order to make quite clear what the Government are doing. My hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Rooker) moved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-03a.1252.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-03", "file": "debates1979-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5a9b7256902f7459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-03a.1269.0", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Conlan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bernard Conlan", "preceding_text": "ay that in order to pay for the tax concessions the Government have had to increase VAT to the astronomical level of 15 per cent. They will say that they must do this in order to meet the demands of the higher paid in industry and this country generally, and of the brewers, who must be paid. Yet this is the sort of policy that the proposers of the amendment—and I exclude my misguided hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-03a.1269.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-03", "file": "debates1979-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5a9b7256902f7459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-03a.1278.0", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "k for voluntary organisations—for example, the league of friends, which helps those who are really in need. At that time there were fewer than 10 Conservative Members in the Chamber. There are more than 50 now and we are talking about horses. Conservatives have got their priorities wrong. I agree with a number of contributions that have been made by Labour Members. I shall tell you something else—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-03a.1278.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-03", "file": "debates1979-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5a9b7256902f7459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-03a.1289.2", "colnum": "1289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is normally extremely courteous and I can only conclude that it is getting rather late and that perhaps he is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-03a.1289.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-03", "file": "debates1979-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "5a9b7256902f7459", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-03a.1329.1", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Today.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": "s whole business of heritage, churches, and so on, if we are ever to tackle the problem in an economic way and ask for the sort of contribution to our economy which I am sure it is capable of making. That is sufficient on that subject. I could extend these remarks to cover other items under the heading of repairs and maintenance. It is possible that we shall need to return to this debate tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-03a.1329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-04", "file": "debates1979-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "9554c544a4b1af6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-04a.1363.0", "colnum": "1363", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear. Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman has been a Member of the House for a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-04a.1363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-04", "file": "debates1979-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "9554c544a4b1af6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-04a.1392.0", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "EC that would like to see us impose VAT on new construction. The Government's efforts in the direction of the construction industry have not been marvellous. Even Sir Maurice Laing, who has just received an award from Aims of Industry for his great struggle for freedom against nationalisation of the construction industry—that was a phoney battle anyway, since we never intended to nationalize land—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-04a.1392.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-05", "file": "debates1979-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0fc2b7c6846b01d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-05a.1545.8", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "epressing that most questions asked in this House are purely about security, particularly when everyone knows that any solution must be a political one? I gather that the right hon. Gentleman agrees with that. Does he also agree that the Ulster Unionists in this House merely want to return to the old Stormont regime, although they know that what Stormont did precipitated all that is happening now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-05a.1545.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-05", "file": "debates1979-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0fc2b7c6846b01d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-05a.1545.8", "colnum": "1545", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "ws that any solution must be a political one? I gather that the right hon. Gentleman agrees with that. Does he also agree that the Ulster Unionists in this House merely want to return to the old Stormont regime, although they know that what Stormont did precipitated all that is happening now—[ Interruption. ] I appreciate that Unionist Members do not want to listen to this, because it is relevant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-05a.1545.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-05", "file": "debates1979-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0fc2b7c6846b01d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-05a.1561.6", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "That this House urges Her Majesty's Government to ban the import of all whale products and to work to secure a world wide ban on the slaughter of whales.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that early-day motion 17, calling for a ban on the import of whale products and urging the Government to work for international agreement to bring about the end of the slaughter of whales on the high seas, has now been signed by nearly 100 right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-05a.1561.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-05", "file": "debates1979-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0fc2b7c6846b01d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-05a.1568.6", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I always deprecate personal references—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-05a.1568.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-05", "file": "debates1979-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0fc2b7c6846b01d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-05a.1590.1", "colnum": "1590", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "ll, only three weeks since we had the Budget debate, which is an occasion for fairly wide-ranging economic discussion. I slightly wonder whether we need to go over the ground at such length after such a short interval. When I heard the right hon. Gentleman apparently repeating the debate that we had yesterday on clause 2, it seemed to me that the time might have been spent rather better elsewhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-05a.1590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-05", "file": "debates1979-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0fc2b7c6846b01d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-05a.1670.0", "colnum": "1670", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "rate of increase in the retail price index. I am speaking with great circumspection and great agnosticism. Such is life in the House of Commons that one does not necessarily have enough time to listen to the BBC Radio 4 programme \"PM\". Therefore, not all my hon. Friends may have heard the valuable endorsement of the Government's prospects that fortuitously fell from the lips of Mr. Dominic Harrod.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-05a.1670.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-05", "file": "debates1979-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0fc2b7c6846b01d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-05a.1681.4", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": " the recession and depression. We know the argument that if public expenditure and taxation are cut, money is released for small businesses and entrepreneurs to create more jobs. I do not believe that that will happen. Perhaps a few extra jobs will be created by a few small business men. I hope so. Certainly the Opposition are as much in favour of developing small businesses as are the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-05a.1681.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-05", "file": "debates1979-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0fc2b7c6846b01d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-05a.1681.4", "colnum": "1681", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": "ley mentality similar to that which exists in many parts of the United States. I ask the Chief Secretary not to be mesmerised by some of the reports from the United States of America showing considerable growth in small businesses, because that country is quite different from the United Kingdom. It is not the tax climate or structure which has caused it but many other far more deep-rooted reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-05a.1681.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-05", "file": "debates1979-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0fc2b7c6846b01d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-05a.1686.1", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "FINANCE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ment down. It may generate a few jobs but only a very few in relation to the large number of jobs which will be lost, partly as a result of the world recession and partly as a result of the Government's public expenditure policies. I want to say a very brief word about the EEC budget, which has not been mentioned in the debate. I thought that the Chief Secretary was responsible for the EEC budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-05a.1686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-09", "file": "debates1979-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "56929002c1579cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-09a.8.3", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Sensible? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "I can confirm that BNOC has been encouraged to renegotiate some of its contracts in line with a more normal trading pattern and the more sensible price regime which now prevails in the British market than the one which we found when we came to office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-09a.8.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-09", "file": "debates1979-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "56929002c1579cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-09a.22.2", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" That was very good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I remind the House that Question Time is not the time for speeches but for questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-09a.22.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-09", "file": "debates1979-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "56929002c1579cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-09a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "is Budget has created, to suggest that we shall be that much more successful. All I am saying is that we shall look at the problem. We are not blind to it. We do not find the system of perquisites particularly attractive. Perhaps we are not quite so carried away and emotional about the subject as the right hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends. We look at it with, perhaps, a rather more worldly eye.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-09a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-09", "file": "debates1979-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "56929002c1579cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-09a.104.2", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "It is always a survey in the Financial Times or some record. My hon. Friends, on the other hand, speak with a good deal of first-hand experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-09a.104.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-09", "file": "debates1979-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "56929002c1579cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-09a.118.1", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "e able to hand something on to their children. The hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Meacher) displays great lack of knowledge of the basic instinct of men and women. They wish to provide for themselves, for their families, and for the next generation of their families. They want their children to do the things that they could not do. I want to make generous provision for my children—I have three—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-09a.118.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-09", "file": "debates1979-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "56929002c1579cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-09a.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "Basically, I am not debating this Finance Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-09a.168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-09", "file": "debates1979-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "56929002c1579cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-09a.175.0", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Porter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Why not? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Porter", "preceding_text": "arr (Mr. Rooker), which will not be difficult. As I understand it, the purpose of the amendment is to restrict the power and right of the Government to assess the position regarding pensions or any other aspect of public expenditure on an annual basis. I was not a member of the House which discussed and voted for the Rooker-Wise amendment. Indeed, if I had been here I should not have voted for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-09a.175.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-09", "file": "debates1979-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "56929002c1579cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-09a.175.0", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Porter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Porter", "preceding_text": " right of the Government to assess the position regarding pensions or any other aspect of public expenditure on an annual basis. I was not a member of the House which discussed and voted for the Rooker-Wise amendment. Indeed, if I had been here I should not have voted for it. [HON. MEMBERS: \" Why not? \"] My reason is simple, and I shall explain it to you, Sir Stephen, if you at least are interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-09a.175.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-09", "file": "debates1979-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "56929002c1579cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-09a.178.1", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Look this way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "No. I have not said that at all. I am just saying that many considerations are involved in this matter; that indexation of social security, child and other benefits, is of a totally different nature from indexation of tax allowances, and that it is important that that should be borne in mind. My hon. Friend the Member for Bebington—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-09a.178.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-07-09", "file": "debates1979-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "56929002c1579cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-09a.178.2", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Speak to the Chair.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "y considerations are involved in this matter; that indexation of social security, child and other benefits, is of a totally different nature from indexation of tax allowances, and that it is important that that should be borne in mind. My hon. Friend the Member for Bebington—[HON. MEMBERS: \" Look this way.\"] My hon. Friend the Member for Bebington and Ellesmere Port (Mr. Porter) sits on this side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-09a.178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-09", "file": "debates1979-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "56929002c1579cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-09a.198.0", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "You have been extremely generous, Sir Stephen, in allowing a debate on child benefit on a clause that has nothing whatever to do with child benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-09a.198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-09", "file": "debates1979-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "56929002c1579cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-09a.220.2", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Clause 16", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "invitation from an assistant secretary to the United States Treasury, Mr. Lubick, to go to Washington in September to review the scene with him. I know that the right hon. Gentleman has encouraged me to do that and has sung the charms of Washington in the autumn, and who knows better than he about this? This is not, as I said, a personal pleasure jaunt. There will be serious business to attend to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-09a.220.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-10", "file": "debates1979-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "a4f944ea5fa2d8cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-10a.259.7", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "In view of the virtual certainty of mortgage rate increases, will the right hon. Lady acknowledge to the TUC that the average worker will now make a considerable loss from the Budget, and not a net gain as she previously claimed, while she made a gain of about £43 a week?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-10a.259.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-10", "file": "debates1979-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "a4f944ea5fa2d8cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-10a.288.4", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Clause 17", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has been long enough in the House, and has served on one or two Finance Bill Committees, to know that the Opposition cannot table amendments to increase taxation. An amendment was tabled by the Scottish National Party, but it was not selected. We will consider that complicated and difficult matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-10a.288.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-10", "file": "debates1979-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "a4f944ea5fa2d8cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-10a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "had devised, bore a little hardly, perhaps, on discretionary settlements. I regard the right hon. Gentleman, on the whole, as a very unprejudiced and candid hon. Member but I believe that, exhibiting one of his few prejudices—or perhaps here he is merely deferring to the prejudices of his hon. Friends below the Gangway—he feels that practically all settlements are great vehicles for tax avoidance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-10a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-10", "file": "debates1979-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "a4f944ea5fa2d8cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-10a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Clause 22", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "e, I regret to say, to produce to the House before the next Finance Bill the necessary measures to make it a bearable tax—the kind of tax with which all the commercial, agricultural and individual interests of this country can live in the years to come. Provided we achieve a little goodwill from Opposition Members I am sure that we shall be able to find a common basis on which to humanise the tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-10a.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-10", "file": "debates1979-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "a4f944ea5fa2d8cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-10a.355.6", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Clause 23", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": "000 to £50,000. I gather that that means that £50,000 worth of development value will be completely free of tax. Can the Financial Secretary confirm that when he replies? Although I appreciate that any increase in current use value would be subject to capital gains tax, perhaps the Financial Secretary can tell us whether the whole £50,000 is free of tax, or whether capital gains tax applies to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-10a.355.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-10", "file": "debates1979-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "a4f944ea5fa2d8cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-10a.355.6", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Clause 23", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": " will be completely free of tax. Can the Financial Secretary confirm that when he replies? Although I appreciate that any increase in current use value would be subject to capital gains tax, perhaps the Financial Secretary can tell us whether the whole £50,000 is free of tax, or whether capital gains tax applies to it— [Interruption.] Perhaps he will also confirm that the actual rates of tax paid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-10a.355.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-10", "file": "debates1979-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "a4f944ea5fa2d8cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-10a.357.1", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Clause 23", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " 52 per cent., the rate of corporation tax, otherwise the rate of tax on betterment profit would be less than the rate paid on other forms of profit, which clearly could not be justified. The reason why we have pitched this rate at a higher rate than 52 per cent.—namely, 60 per cent.—reflects this special betterment element, and the fact that sales of land are different from sales of other assets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-10a.357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-10", "file": "debates1979-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "a4f944ea5fa2d8cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-10a.357.1", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Clause 23", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "forms of profit, which clearly could not be justified. The reason why we have pitched this rate at a higher rate than 52 per cent.—namely, 60 per cent.—reflects this special betterment element, and the fact that sales of land are different from sales of other assets— [Interruption.] The other question that the right hon. Gentleman asked me was whether the £50.000 exempt slice was indeed an exempt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-10a.357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-10", "file": "debates1979-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "a4f944ea5fa2d8cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-10a.437.3", "colnum": "437", "heading": "LIVERPOOL INNER RING ROAD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " first obtained. The position is that, because of continued indecision, a large and conspicuous swathe of underused land now runs through parts of Liverpool, property values have been interfered with, enterprises have been stunted, and communities have been left uncertain about their future. The continuing delay of a firm decision on the road has caused substantial blight to property in the city —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-10a.437.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-10", "file": "debates1979-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "a4f944ea5fa2d8cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-10a.437.3", "colnum": "437", "heading": "LIVERPOOL INNER RING ROAD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "erruption. ]—and in such a situation it is plain that further delay whilst a public inquiry is now held, 13 years after the proposal was first mooted, cannot be in the interests of Liverpool. As one who has visited Liverpool from time to time as a sympathetic political visitor and observer, I find the apparent dereliction of Liverpool one of the most disturbing sights that one can see in the city—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-10a.437.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-10", "file": "debates1979-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "a4f944ea5fa2d8cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-10a.437.3", "colnum": "437", "heading": "LIVERPOOL INNER RING ROAD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "would simply perpetuate the blight that is already damaging Liverpool. If the Merseyside county council decides to go ahead with the road—and it is for the council to decide—at least if the road begins to be constructed it will be refreshing to see something being built on the ground of value to the transport system of Liverpool in replacement of the blighted property that is there at the moment.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-10a.437.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-11", "file": "debates1979-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "2a85cbf8bf22f43f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-11a.469.2", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Why cannot we have the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in this place instead of in the House of Lords? It is totally undemocratic that we cannot question directly the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-11a.469.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-11", "file": "debates1979-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "2a85cbf8bf22f43f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-11a.469.5", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That is a matter for the Prime Minister and not for me. I explain to the House once again, in case there were hon. Members not present when we had a similar situation the other day, that when Overseas Development questions finished—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-11a.469.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-11", "file": "debates1979-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "2a85cbf8bf22f43f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-11a.516.1", "colnum": "516", "heading": "MEMBERS' SALARIES AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "In the past the pride of hon. Members has often been derived from birth, from nobility, from wealth. from the possession of broad acres. It has been that which has given pride and status—a status that they brought into the House as well as finding in the House—to Members of Parliament in past generations. That is no longer the sort of pride that will serve in our own time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-11a.516.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-11", "file": "debates1979-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "2a85cbf8bf22f43f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-11a.551.5", "colnum": "551", "heading": "MEMBERS' SALARIES AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" What does that mean? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has not been here very long, but the House is conducted according to the generality of resolutions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-11a.551.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-11", "file": "debates1979-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "2a85cbf8bf22f43f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-11a.580.1", "colnum": "580", "heading": "MEMBERS' SALARIES AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": " must be fair about it. We do not have to convince ourselves or our colleagues in the House that we need an increase. We have to convince the people outside the House that we should have the increase that has been suggested. However, the Conservatives wanted to go further than that and have it all at once. That is why the Conservative Back Benchers erupted—the stockbroker belt, as I would call it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-11a.580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-11", "file": "debates1979-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "2a85cbf8bf22f43f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-11a.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "MEMBERS' SALARIES AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "tation and carry out its duties efficiently and intelligently, with Members being remunerated not in an excessive manner but in such manner as will enable them to do their job properly. I believe that the proposals now before the House serve those two purposes. The vote tonight is entirely free. Each Member of the House is himself responsible for the way in which he votes. Everyone is responsible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-11a.591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-11", "file": "debates1979-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "2a85cbf8bf22f43f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-11a.595.1", "colnum": "595", "heading": "MEMBERS' SALARIES AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" He will.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "ard work and, above all, I believe, their determination and their strength of will. I congratulate them on it. At the same time, I feel that we should be wise to listen also to the voice of the hon. Member for Ashfield (Mr. Haynes), who spoke in the debate today. He was accused of making the same speech twice. If I may say so, it is such an excellent speech that I would make it again if I were he.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-11a.595.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-11", "file": "debates1979-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "2a85cbf8bf22f43f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-11a.632.1", "colnum": "632", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT (SHIRE COUNTIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "ious Secretary of State at the expense of non-London authorities. More than anything else, this has caused the erosion of the shire counties' position. I might add that in spite of this political gerrymandering Labour managed to lose control in short order of both the GLC and the London Boroughs Association as people were not prepared to be bought off in a shameless way by the previous Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-11a.632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-12", "file": "debates1979-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "dfa46944c1ef2d65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.648.5", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marland", "preceding_text": "As a farmer, I naturally welcome the message from my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer. However, land ownership is still vulnerable to a future Government who may seek to launch a dogmatic attack on land ownership; a Government who are not sympathetic to the needs of agriculture. Inflation has had—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.648.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-12", "file": "debates1979-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "dfa46944c1ef2d65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.658.6", "colnum": "658", "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 leaves 70 per cent. to go to the rest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.658.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-12", "file": "debates1979-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "dfa46944c1ef2d65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.673.0", "colnum": "673", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "uld die as a result of the closure of this unit? Does that situation not bear a small comparison with the clamourings that went on when the right hon. Gentleman and his colleagues were in opposition, when a few hospital workers were out on strike for a few days? Why do not the right hon. Gentleman and the rest of his colleagues in the Cabinet, led by this heartless woman, stop this human butchery?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.673.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-12", "file": "debates1979-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "dfa46944c1ef2d65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.673.1", "colnum": "673", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Ask the hon. Gentleman to withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We are accustomed to hard hitting in this House, but it is a matter of taste as to what is said. I can say no more, except that it is a matter of taste—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.673.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-12", "file": "debates1979-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "dfa46944c1ef2d65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.674.3", "colnum": "674", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "On the question of the dispute involving the Parliamentary Press, I do not think that it necessarily helps matters to have continual statements from Ministers on the details of industrial disputes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.674.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-12", "file": "debates1979-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "dfa46944c1ef2d65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.692.1", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Member for Aberavon (Mr. Morris) said that the matter was as clear as a pikestaff. If it were as clear as a pikestaff, I do not understand why the Bill has been before the House for such a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.692.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-12", "file": "debates1979-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "dfa46944c1ef2d65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.696.0", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No, no, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I am ruling only on the Bill, and I shall make no general ruling. The Bill does not alter the charge, and a money Bill is not necessary. I have made my ruling and the House should move on to new clause 1.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.696.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-12", "file": "debates1979-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "dfa46944c1ef2d65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.733.2", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the right hon. Gentleman has not understood what I was saying. His request is that we should not proceed with Third Reading. In the discussions which have taken place, my right hon. Friends and I have not been convinced that there is a point of substance involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.733.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-12", "file": "debates1979-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "dfa46944c1ef2d65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.748.2", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \" Absolute nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I might point out that I have been here for the bulk of the debate", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.748.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-12", "file": "debates1979-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "dfa46944c1ef2d65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.750.1", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "ve, even if it was not, if the numbers taken away were limited to 10 per cent. In our inner cities, even though to begin with 10 or 15 per cent. will be selected, the drop in population and the inability to close schools means that in the second year 20 per cent. will be taken for grammar schools, where everybody wants his child to go, and in the fifth or sixth year, 50 per cent. will be selected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.750.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-12", "file": "debates1979-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "dfa46944c1ef2d65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.759.1", "colnum": "759", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "I quite agree with that excellent summary of my peroration. I am quite sure that several of my hon. Friends will be seeking to catch your eye later in the debate, Mr. Deputy Speaker, whether it be today or tomorrow. Obviously, the debate will continue for a little time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.759.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-12", "file": "debates1979-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "dfa46944c1ef2d65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.780.4", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "preceding_text": "I am indebted to several right hon. and hon. Members for clarifying the situation. I was laying emphasis on a distinction—which may well appear unclear to several hon. Members on the Government Benches—between convergent and divergent thinking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.780.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-12", "file": "debates1979-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "dfa46944c1ef2d65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.780.4", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "preceding_text": "nches—between convergent and divergent thinking. [ Interruption. ] I understand that for some of those who have not had the privilege of failing the 11-plus because, at a certain stage in their lives, they were fortunate enough to fall upon the lower rung of the topmost escalator in our society—in other words, going from prep school to public schools—may find such a distinction difficult to grasp.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.780.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-12", "file": "debates1979-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "dfa46944c1ef2d65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.794.1", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "ildren in grammar schools and in secondary modern schools to transfer. Therefore, there must be meshing of the curriculum uniforms and other aspects of school life, so that if children are transferred from secondary modern schools to grammar schools or vice versa the trauma of that movement is kept to a minimum. A further important point is that there must be comparability in teacher-pupil ratios.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.794.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-12", "file": "debates1979-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "dfa46944c1ef2d65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "ause, drafted perfectly. It relates very much to State schools, which the Tories may be forgiven for knowing nothing about since they have never been in them. But these are some of the harsh realities that they will have to face, because they will be here for a long time. The Tories want to get their hands on the education system because they have never been happy about the removal of the 11-plus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-12", "file": "debates1979-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "dfa46944c1ef2d65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": " passed the 11-plus that they were not seen in public on that Saturday. What a disgusting thing to blare in a child's ears at the age of 11 that he is a failure because he has not passed the 11-plus. How dare any of us do that? The Tories, of course, need not worry about things like that. They have the money to send their children to the crammers and prep schools. They do not need this new clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-12", "file": "debates1979-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "dfa46944c1ef2d65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.824.0", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "I shall be brief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.824.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-12", "file": "debates1979-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "dfa46944c1ef2d65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.824.2", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Order, order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "in which I am not a specialist, but it is manifest that, ignorant as I am, I know a great deal more about it than all the Conservative Members except the Under-Secretary, because none of them knows enough about it to utter even a single syllable. The second reason is that the main purpose of the amendment has been discussed earlier. Is it necessary to ensure that when a major change is being made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.824.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-12", "file": "debates1979-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "dfa46944c1ef2d65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Why?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "sic problem for the Government side is that for all they say about not being anti-comprehensive and for all they say about not wishing to reintroduce the 11-plus, this is exactly what the Bill is designed to do. The Bill makes life easier for local education authorities that do not want to go comprehensive. It makes life more difficult for local education authorities that want to go comprehensive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-12", "file": "debates1979-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "dfa46944c1ef2d65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "y short Bill. I refer hon. Members who wish to enlighten themselves to subsection (4) of clause 1. I would also refer them to subsection (1) of clause 1, removing the provisions in the 1976 Act which allowed development plans and section 13 notices to be considered in conjunction. This simplified and made easier the passage of comprehensive schemes into existence. The Bill makes it more difficult.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-12", "file": "debates1979-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "dfa46944c1ef2d65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.840.1", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "In two ways. Under clause 1(4), if a local authority wishes to continue with its plans as at present, it has to take the initiative and elect to do so. The onus—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-12", "file": "debates1979-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "dfa46944c1ef2d65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.840.7", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" All of them? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "\" Yes \" to all my hon. Friend's questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.840.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-12", "file": "debates1979-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "dfa46944c1ef2d65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.857.6", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": " that the major issue remained the reorganisation of education. The evidence is to be found not simply in the Labour Party's manifesto, declarations and statements by candidates in the local press and the material delivered to each house in Tameside. Perhaps the most convincing evidence comes from the Conservative declarations in May: Vote Conservative. Tameside is better with the Conservatives \".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.857.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-12", "file": "debates1979-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "dfa46944c1ef2d65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.862.1", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I still think that there are substantial grounds for believing that there was a distorted weighting in the use of those statistics. It certainly does not meet two other important points.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-12", "file": "debates1979-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "dfa46944c1ef2d65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.862.1", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are your friends?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I still think that there are substantial grounds for believing that there was a distorted weighting in the use of those statistics. It certainly does not meet two other important points. [Interruption.] I hope that there will be as much interest when we next discuss these matters more thoroughly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.862.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-12", "file": "debates1979-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "dfa46944c1ef2d65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.867.0", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "sonably lead anyone to believe that we want to tie for all time—to use the hon. Gentleman's words—the system, to immobilise it, to freeze it, to pickle it, or to put it to sleep. We have no wish to anaesthetise the comprehensive school system, now or at any other time. Nor is it the case that if the amendment were accepted there could be no more section 13 notices. Let me read the amendment again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-12a.867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-13", "file": "debates1979-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "349653885d755e46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-13a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corrie", "preceding_text": "I cannot say when it was conducted, but I have a photostat here. I shall let the hon. Member have a copy afterwards, if he would like it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-13a.893.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-13", "file": "debates1979-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "349653885d755e46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-13a.898.0", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corrie", "preceding_text": "I shall not give personal examples, because many of these were letters from people all over the country, writing in a personal capacity to their Member of Parliament. That is a private—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-13a.898.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-13", "file": "debates1979-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "349653885d755e46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-13a.903.1", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corrie", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corrie", "preceding_text": "y before voting today and to consider carefully where we should go from here. I present the Bill, always remembering that it is this House which will finally agree its contents. It may go through much change, but the important thing to remember is the principle which it embodies. The House of Commons is the guardian of the rights of the people. It should not be bludgeoned by large pressure groups.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-13a.903.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-13", "file": "debates1979-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "349653885d755e46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-13a.912.1", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Ancram", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" There is none.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Ancram", "preceding_text": "tions. The hon. Member for Edinburgh, East (Mr. Strang), in an intervention, said that he thought there was too much in this Bill. It could be argued that there is too little. There are other aspects which might well have been put in—aspects such as the practice of carrying out medical experiments upon live aborted foetuses which, because of the uncertainty of the definition of the law at present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-13a.912.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-13", "file": "debates1979-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "349653885d755e46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-13a.948.1", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James A. Dunn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James A. Dunn", "preceding_text": "When the Minister says that he is firmly convinced, and accepts, on medical evidence, that there was no potential for the continuation of the life of that foetus, he accepts that there was life for the foetus after it was aborted. He admitted that for half an hour at least—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-13a.948.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-13", "file": "debates1979-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "349653885d755e46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-13a.961.1", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "peration is messy, dangerous and unpredictable, and nobody likes it. Whatever our views, we must try to humanise and control the abuses so far as humanly possible. I believe that both Front Benches agree that Governments of all political persuasions have done their utmost to see that human conditions prevail. It is not without significance that, with a few exceptions, this has been a party matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-13a.961.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-13", "file": "debates1979-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "349653885d755e46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-13a.961.1", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "kes it. Whatever our views, we must try to humanise and control the abuses so far as humanly possible. I believe that both Front Benches agree that Governments of all political persuasions have done their utmost to see that human conditions prevail. It is not without significance that, with a few exceptions, this has been a party matter—[HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"] Very well, it has been a class matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-13a.961.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-13", "file": "debates1979-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "349653885d755e46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-13a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No \".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Braine", "preceding_text": "entious objection might prejudice the advancement of their careers \". The Royal College stated: Their fear is amply justified. The Select Committee received numerous complaints and allegations of discrimination, especially about fully qualified doctors being debarred from appointments. Some of the most distinguished men of their year had to leave Britain because they could not obtain appointments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-13a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-13", "file": "debates1979-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "349653885d755e46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-13a.975.2", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Richard Crawshaw)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Richard Crawshaw)", "preceding_text": "When in the Chair, Mr. Speaker always tries to be fair. It is not always within Mr. Speaker's knowledge what point of view an hon. Member will take.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-13a.975.2"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-07-13", "file": "debates1979-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "349653885d755e46", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-13a.983.22", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEARING AID COUNCIL ACT 1968 (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-13a.983.21"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-16", "file": "debates1979-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "6a4dfa1aee394c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-16a.1007.4", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Roger Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Roger Thomas", "preceding_text": "on's cuts is based on falling school rolls? Would the Minister care to suggest to areas such as Dyfed, where the projected populations are static for the next few years, how they will be able to cope with these cuts in expenditure, which are little short of Draconian, causing the closure of establishments and the discontinuance of essential services and provisions? Perhaps I may quote one example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-16a.1007.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-16", "file": "debates1979-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "6a4dfa1aee394c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-16a.1029.4", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" It never is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "of the Treaty of Accession, will be applied in full from 1980. As is explained in the memoranda, the actual United Kingdom gross contribution will depend on the volume of own resources actually established. However, on the basis of the original proposal the gross United Kingdom contribution would amount to about £2,079 million. That does not mean that that will be the figure at the end of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-16a.1029.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-16", "file": "debates1979-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "6a4dfa1aee394c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-16a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "ith the problem of the relationship between the court of auditors of the Commission and the police forces of the nation States. We shall not get far in determining cases of alleged fraud if there is not a working relationship with the police forces of the nation States. When the budget committee of the European Parliament went to Rome, the Italian auditors were less than helpful on those problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-16a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-16", "file": "debates1979-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "6a4dfa1aee394c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-16a.1154.1", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "Of course it is only since this Bill was introduced, because until we had the good luck and good sense to win the general election, the people of Bolton were being required to go to a system of education against the wishes of the local authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-16a.1154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-16", "file": "debates1979-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "6a4dfa1aee394c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-16a.1176.1", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I accept that the issue was not settled clearly by the Council of Ministers last November or December. What I am suggesting is that if one had to guess the intention from the decision as announced, it is more likely that one would guess that a dual salary should not be paid than that it should be paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-16a.1176.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-16", "file": "debates1979-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "6a4dfa1aee394c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-16a.1176.2", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Shelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Shelton", "preceding_text": "We are in a different situation with our system for the simple reason that not only do we have Members of Parliament who are paid, but when they become Ministers they retain a measure of that payment as well. In that sense they are dual mandated within this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-16a.1176.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-16", "file": "debates1979-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "6a4dfa1aee394c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-16a.1204.1", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitehead", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitehead", "preceding_text": "ful and eternally popular in his constituency than the hon. Gentleman, and I salute him for that. But he was in the European Parliament at a time when it was trying to find its feet and was a nominated Assembly. It then had no power and was largely ornamental. I hope that the European Assembly of the future will take to itself additional powers, and that will mean taking to itself additional work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-16a.1204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-17", "file": "debates1979-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "83dbc1dc1049d7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-17a.1281.4", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \" Hear, hear \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "We should keep the matter in proportion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-17a.1281.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-17", "file": "debates1979-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "83dbc1dc1049d7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-17a.1300.3", "colnum": "1300", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "When the Prime Minister eventually meets the CBI, what reply will she give it to its letter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-17a.1300.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-17", "file": "debates1979-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "83dbc1dc1049d7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-17a.1303.4", "colnum": "1303", "heading": "REGIONAL INDUSTRIAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. May I say that I should have thought that it would be wiser to hear the statement and then to take any points of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-17a.1303.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-17", "file": "debates1979-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "83dbc1dc1049d7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-17a.1348.3", "colnum": "1348", "heading": "SHOTTON STEELWORKS", "cue_speaker": "Sir A. Meyer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir A. Meyer", "preceding_text": "I certainly do not withdraw the word \" hunch \". How could I possibly know what letters were on the Minister's desk—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-17a.1348.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-17", "file": "debates1979-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "83dbc1dc1049d7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-17a.1401.0", "colnum": "1401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "I shall deal with that. Obviously, the right hon. Gentleman is slightly ahead of me. Of course, the decision to cut back the increase in public expenditure by 3 per cent.—in other words, so that it rises by only 17 per cent. rather than 20 per cent.—means that certain unpopular decisions have to be made. My party put these points fairly and squarely before the electorate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-17a.1401.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-17", "file": "debates1979-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "83dbc1dc1049d7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-17a.1407.1", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "preceding_text": "mas bonus. The Labour Government took it away and the Conservatives reintroduced it, under pressure. I do not feel able to sit and tolerate this sort of talk, Mr. Deputy Speaker, from the Labour Benches. My views are probably very different from those of my right hon. and hon. Friends on the Front Bench. I should like to see us stop the supply of free teeth, free glasses and free dental equipment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-17a.1407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-17", "file": "debates1979-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "83dbc1dc1049d7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-17a.1409.1", "colnum": "1409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PUBLIC SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "That is typical of what I have to listen to from you fellows. There are so many possibilities open to us. We could increase the Christmas bonus. We could give the pensioners an immediate increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-17a.1409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-17", "file": "debates1979-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "83dbc1dc1049d7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-17a.1463.1", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EAST KILBRIDE DISTRICT COUNCIL BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Lambie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Where are they? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Lambie", "preceding_text": "lf that if the Labour Party had won the general election a Labour Under-Secretary with responsibility for new towns would not have been at the Dispatch Box reading the same speech, written by the same civil servants. I believe that that would have been the policy of a Labour Government. But I say this to the bright, new young Tories who have come here for Scottish seats since the general election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-17a.1463.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-17", "file": "debates1979-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "83dbc1dc1049d7b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-17a.1482.1", "colnum": "1482", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NORTHERN IRELAND (PNEUMOCONIOSIS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Kilfedder", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "es and that every attempt is made to help them. I should like to take up the criticism of the right hon. Member for Down, South, that the order is drawn on the assumption that the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973 is still in force. That Act is in abeyance. He and his colleagues are all in favour of direct rule and total integration. They want all laws to apply throughout the United Kingdom —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-17a.1482.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-18", "file": "debates1979-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6012054333ffb047", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-18a.1778.1", "colnum": "1778", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bendall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bendall", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend accept that 30 years of dispersal of jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-18a.1778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-18", "file": "debates1979-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6012054333ffb047", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-18a.1778.1", "colnum": "1778", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bendall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bendall", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend accept that 30 years of dispersal of jobs—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"]—around the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-18a.1778.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-18", "file": "debates1979-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6012054333ffb047", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-18a.1782.0", "colnum": "1782", "heading": "VIETNAMESE REFUGEES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame, shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "What possible grounds can there be, moral, political, historical or ethnic, for the admission to this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-18a.1782.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-18", "file": "debates1979-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6012054333ffb047", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-18a.1888.1", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "larly as they would have liked to go and, perhaps, as they used to do when VAT was lower. The theatre is an industry beset in any case by the uncertainties of passing taste and fashion, by the uncertainty of audience reaction, and the fallibilities of writer and director and performer. Everything is not perfect in the theatre world. It has its own internal problems. It really is a risk enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-18a.1888.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-18", "file": "debates1979-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6012054333ffb047", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-18a.1917.0", "colnum": "1917", "heading": "Clause 16", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "ated by the House in January 1977, and that clause 16 is only an enabling provision and does not attempt to prejudge the merits of the order. That order can be embodied in our domestic legislation only if it is approved by this House. As I indicated in Committee, I propose to go personally to the United States to reassure myself and, I hope, to offer some reassurance to the House on other aspects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-18a.1917.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-07-18", "file": "debates1979-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "6012054333ffb047", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-18a.1953.4", "colnum": "1953", "heading": "Clause 16", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That Mr. Robert Adley, Mr. Joe Ashton, Mr. Andrew Bennett, Mr. R. B. Cant, Mr. Geoffrey Dodsworth, Mr. Tony Durant, Sir Nigel Fisher, Mr. Percy Grieve, Mr. Geoffrey Johnson Smith, Mr. David Madel, Mr. Charles Morris, Mr. Arthur Palmer, and Mr. Frederick Willey, be members of the Select Committee on Members' Interests.— [Lord James Douglas-Hamilton.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-18a.1953.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-19", "file": "debates1979-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "c69eb7dd8b9e3d24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-19a.1985.6", "colnum": "1985", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Weetch", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \" Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Weetch", "preceding_text": "usy day of engagements, refresh her mind as to the virtues of abrasive competition and make a short, sharp visit to Chancery Lane to the headquarters of the Law Society? Will she tell that body, in stern language, that some of the restrictive practices in certain areas of legal services are contrary to the spirit of competition for which her Government purport to stand? Will she further underline—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-19a.1985.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-19", "file": "debates1979-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "c69eb7dd8b9e3d24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-19a.1992.1", "colnum": "1992", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan (Cardiff, South-East)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan (Cardiff, South-East)", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-19a.1992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-19", "file": "debates1979-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "c69eb7dd8b9e3d24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-19a.1994.2", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" They know already.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I can only repeat my regret at what has happened with regard to Northern Ireland business, and I shall do my best to avoid that in future. The Competition Bill is an important measure to which the Government are committed and which we wish to put into effect as soon as possible. I believe that it is important for many people to know the Government's intentions on it as early as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-19a.1994.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-19", "file": "debates1979-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "c69eb7dd8b9e3d24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-19a.2003.2", "colnum": "2003", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \" Where is the point of order?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "ected to sit well into the night on orders which vitally affect many working men and women and will take away their rights. What puts some query in my mind is this. Hon. Members on the Government Benches, naturally enough, wish to support the Leader of the House as a Conservative Leader of the House and not, as many claim, as one representing the whole of the House, and they therefore tend not to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-19a.2003.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-19", "file": "debates1979-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "c69eb7dd8b9e3d24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-19a.2025.9", "colnum": "2025", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "May I make clear once and for all. Mr. Deputy Speaker, that I advise the Police Federation, just as many other hon. Members advise other asso- ciations. If I agree with the Police Federation, I support its case. If I disagree, I tell it, and I do not support its case. My responsibility is to my constituents and to the national interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-19a.2025.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-19", "file": "debates1979-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "c69eb7dd8b9e3d24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-19a.2028.3", "colnum": "2028", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "I am not sure why the hon. Gentleman excludes terrorism, because 140 police officers have been killed in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-19a.2028.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-19", "file": "debates1979-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "c69eb7dd8b9e3d24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-19a.2081.3", "colnum": "2081", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bradford", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bradford", "preceding_text": "I understand that about 270 people have been sentenced to life imprisonment and have not been let out on the streets. But we are talking about hundreds of prisoners who are let out on the streets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-19a.2081.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-19", "file": "debates1979-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "c69eb7dd8b9e3d24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-19a.2109.1", "colnum": "2109", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" It was not used.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "e that they have now. The murders, bombings and killings were taking place before the present Home Secretary took over as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. There were 200 murders in Northern Ireland in 1973, when capital punishment still existed. It was on the statute book and had not been abolished in Northern Ireland. Its presence did not prevent murders on the scale that I have outlined.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-19a.2109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-19", "file": "debates1979-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "c69eb7dd8b9e3d24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-19a.2115.1", "colnum": "2115", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Gardiner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Gardiner", "preceding_text": " and Peebles (Mr. Steel) and others, and which is frequently put. It is \" What do you say to the danger that mistakes might be made? \" We know that in the past some mistakes have been made and that some innocent men were hanged. Yes, there was the Timothy Evans case, but in our approach to the subject that is a life that has to be put in one side of the scales when we are evaluating this question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-19a.2115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-19", "file": "debates1979-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "c69eb7dd8b9e3d24", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-19a.2115.1", "colnum": "2115", "heading": "CAPITAL PUNISHMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Gardiner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Gardiner", "preceding_text": "eased after serving 12 years or less. The right hon. Gentleman made much of terrorist killings. It is incumbent upon us to answer the argument which has been put by many hon. Members—that by reintroducing capital punishment we would make martyrs of terrorists. There is scope for martyrdom now. Why are martyrs not made of those who lose their lives in gun battles with the security forces in Ulster?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-19a.2115.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-20", "file": "debates1979-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "ad0388bcf5bb7b34", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-20a.2210.0", "colnum": "2210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROAD TRAFFIC (SEAT BELTS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carmichael", "preceding_text": " concessions will be on medical grounds. The question of driving instructors is an interesting one. I am not sure that, when we discuss the mechanics of the matter in Committee, the hon. Gentleman's argument concerning driving instructors will hold up all that well. I have a fair understanding of the job of a driving instructor. He has his dual controls and he has his hand free to touch the wheel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-20a.2210.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-07-24", "file": "debates1979-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6543166f14b13ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.479.14", "colnum": "479", "heading": "REGIONAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "preceding_text": "Mr. John Silkin rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.479.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-24", "file": "debates1979-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6543166f14b13ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "REGIONAL POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "No, I have no time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.480.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-07-24", "file": "debates1979-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6543166f14b13ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.491.3", "colnum": "491", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Patrick Mayhew.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.491.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-07-24", "file": "debates1979-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6543166f14b13ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.491.6", "colnum": "491", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spencer Le Marchant (Comptroller of Her Majesty's Household)", "preceding_text": "Mr. Spencer Le Marchant (Comptroller of Her Majesty's Household) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.491.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-07-24", "file": "debates1979-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6543166f14b13ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.491.10", "colnum": "491", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Le Marchant", "preceding_text": "I beg to move.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.491.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-24", "file": "debates1979-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6543166f14b13ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.491.11", "colnum": "491", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.491.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-24", "file": "debates1979-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6543166f14b13ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.491.13", "colnum": "491", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. James Prior)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. James Prior)", "preceding_text": "Unaccustomed as I am to having this great audience on such an order, I beg to move, That the draft Employment Protection (Handling of Redundancies) Variation Order 1979, which was laid before this House on 10 July, be approved. This order reduces the time for notifications of redundancies for firms where there is a redundancy of 100 people or less, between 10 and 100 to 30 days instead of 90 days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.491.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-24", "file": "debates1979-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6543166f14b13ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.492.7", "colnum": "492", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Apologise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "on) should listen. We are dealing with the order about redundancy, not unfair dismissal. That is what I have been talking about. The purpose of the requirements is sensible. Consultation is required so that the union can discuss the employer's plans to see whether there are ways of reducing redundancies or mitigating their effects. Notification is required so that the Manpower Services Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.492.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-24", "file": "debates1979-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6543166f14b13ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.493.2", "colnum": "493", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Secretary of State for saying that he apologises to the House. He would have had a better hearing if he had not come into the Chamber in such a brazen and contemptible way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.493.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-24", "file": "debates1979-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6543166f14b13ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.493.2", "colnum": "493", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "would have had a better hearing if he had not come into the Chamber in such a brazen and contemptible way. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] I do not know what the Secretary of State thinks is so funny about not being in his place, coming into the Chamber without any notes, reading the order to us and then gracelessly apologising. He had better behave in the House as hon. Members expect him to behave.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.493.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-24", "file": "debates1979-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6543166f14b13ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.493.2", "colnum": "493", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "t the Secretary of State thinks is so funny about not being in his place, coming into the Chamber without any notes, reading the order to us and then gracelessly apologising. He had better behave in the House as hon. Members expect him to behave. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"] I warn Government Members that they had better keep quiet. It is the duty of Government Members to keep quiet and to take it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.493.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-24", "file": "debates1979-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6543166f14b13ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.496.1", "colnum": "496", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "s warning. We are concerned here with employment. We are concerned with the effects that the legislation has had on small businesses in particular. It is generally recognised—I am sure that Labour Members will have found this, just as much as any of my hon. Friends—that over the past four years the Employment Protection Act has been built up as an ogre that is damaging the prospects of employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-24", "file": "debates1979-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6543166f14b13ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Labour doubled it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "preceding_text": "ye (Mr. Gummer) that those of my right hon. and hon. Friends whom he denigrates for not having any managerial experience succeeded in every month of this year from January to May in reducing unemployment, while his right hon. and hon. Friends who have had all the managerial experience have succeeded in the past two months in increasing the level of unemployment by more than a quarter of a million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-24", "file": "debates1979-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6543166f14b13ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.515.1", "colnum": "515", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric G. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric G. Varley", "preceding_text": "ion, which have helped the Manpower Services Commission. It has certainly given the Commission the opportunity to talk about training, retraining and all the other measures which could be put into operation to mitigate the hardship. One of the main arguments which has been used by the Manpower Services Commission when redundancies have occurred has been that it should have adequate time to assist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-24", "file": "debates1979-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6543166f14b13ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.519.1", "colnum": "519", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Patrick Mayhew)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Patrick Mayhew)", "preceding_text": "Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-24", "file": "debates1979-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6543166f14b13ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "I refer the right hon. Gentleman to the Engineering Employers Federation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-24", "file": "debates1979-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6543166f14b13ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.520.1", "colnum": "520", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT PROTECTION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "opinions of those who have to do with the creation of wealth in this country. I refer to a survey carried out by the federation involving over 1,100 companies. Of those companies, 334, nearly 30 per cent., cited the redundancy handling provisions as being particularly influential in the running of their companies. If that is not enough, I shall cite the Birmingham Chamber of Industry and Commerce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.520.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-24", "file": "debates1979-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6543166f14b13ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.527.2", "colnum": "527", "heading": "UNFAIR DISMISSAL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Patrick Mayhew)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Patrick Mayhew)", "preceding_text": "8, and its purpose is to raise the qualifying period of employment for making a complaint of unfair dismissal from the current level of 26 weeks to 52 weeks. Our decision to lay the order again derives from our determination to see that the creation of new jobs is not curtailed by legislation that is unreasonable and unnecessary in its effect. The increase in unemployment over the past five years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.527.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-24", "file": "debates1979-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6543166f14b13ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "UNFAIR DISMISSAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "in largely from small firms. Indeed, in the last year, of the 120 or so representations made to my Department on the subject of the irritation of the unfair dismissal provisions in general, about three-quarters of the letters specifically made the point that the present qualifying period is too short, and since we took office on 3 May we have received some 70 spontaneous letters on the same theme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-24", "file": "debates1979-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6543166f14b13ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "UNFAIR DISMISSAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "terruption .] I never cease to marvel at how the party of the people, as it likes to call itself, expresses profound contempt when the people actually express their views. Apparently, democracy is acceptable only when it agrees with the creed and dogma of the Labour Party. I will not swap surveys with the Opposition, but they know that many surveys support the contention that I am putting forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-24", "file": "debates1979-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6543166f14b13ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "UNFAIR DISMISSAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "'s true potential. If some leeway could be introduced … I would be happy to employ, and have a dire need to employ, more staff. The other letter is from MI Finance Limited. It says: Like so many business people we are deterred from employing more staff due to the present regulations and we are prepared to work harder ourselves rather than take the risk of expanding and employing more staff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-24", "file": "debates1979-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6543166f14b13ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.539.1", "colnum": "539", "heading": "UNFAIR DISMISSAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, unfair\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "My view is that the order will greatly assist the school leaver and the youngster seeking his first job. The reason is simple, and I commend it to the Opposition. Under the present law, a person who has been employed for 26 weeks has a right to claim compensation for unfair dismissal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-24", "file": "debates1979-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6543166f14b13ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "UNFAIR DISMISSAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "oduction and selling. They must produce a standard of discipline and a standard of work that we in this country have not had in the past few years. We must do it in the interests of the country as a whole, with the co-operation of the workers. Of course any Government, particularly a Government in office at a time of economic difficulty such as we shall experience in Britain in the next two years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.553.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-07-24", "file": "debates1979-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6543166f14b13ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.561.2", "colnum": "561", "heading": "MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That Mr. Robert Adley, Mr. Joe Ashton, Mr. Andrew Bennett, Mr. R. B. Cant, Mr. Geoffrey Dodsworth, Mr. Tony Durant, Sir Nigel Fisher, Mr. Percy Grieve, Mr. Geoffrey Johnson Smith, Mr. David Madel, Mr. Charles R. Morris, Mr. Arthur Palmer, and Mr. Frederick Willey, be members of the Select Committee on Members' Interests.—[ Mr. Wakeham .]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-24a.561.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-25", "file": "debates1979-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7777b8f830614091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-25a.593.1", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "preceding_text": "These are obviously very severe problems, but I am sure that the House would agree that we in this country use water in a ridiculous way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-25a.593.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-25", "file": "debates1979-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7777b8f830614091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-25a.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "CLERK OF THE HOUSE (RETIREMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "bute that they deserve when others who give equally good service do not receive even an honourable mention. Very often, Mr. Speaker, some of your staff have been here for 30 or 40 years and have given to hon. Members who have been here for 30 or 40 years equally good service. I am referring to the messengers, to the Serjeant at Arms, to the Library staff. None of those gets a knighthood or an OBE.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-25a.616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-25", "file": "debates1979-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7777b8f830614091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-25a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "CLERK OF THE HOUSE (RETIREMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I have doubts as to whether I should support the motion. I am therefore trying to explain that I may well think that it is a good motion but one that does not go far enough. Therefore, I have doubts as to whether I should support it. One of the reasons why I believe that the motion is not as good as it might be is that it does not include others, in addition to Sir Richard. Therefore, I am saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-25a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-25", "file": "debates1979-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7777b8f830614091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-25a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "CLERK OF THE HOUSE (RETIREMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": " does not go far enough. Therefore, I have doubts as to whether I should support it. One of the reasons why I believe that the motion is not as good as it might be is that it does not include others, in addition to Sir Richard. Therefore, I am saying— [Interruption.] Hon. Members should not keep shouting. If they do not like what I am saying, they can leave the Chamber. There was also John Marlin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-25a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-25", "file": "debates1979-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7777b8f830614091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-25a.618.3", "colnum": "618", "heading": "CLERK OF THE HOUSE (RETIREMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Therefore, Mr. Speaker, I am saying that there may be some doubt as to whether I should support the motion because of the fact that it singles out one individual, Sir Richard Barlas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-25a.618.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-25", "file": "debates1979-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7777b8f830614091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-25a.618.4", "colnum": "618", "heading": "CLERK OF THE HOUSE (RETIREMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Before I put the Question, I ask leave of the House to pay a short personal tribute myself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-25a.618.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-25", "file": "debates1979-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7777b8f830614091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-25a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "SOUTHERN AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "the clouds. I got no clear answer from her as to what she meant and as to her attitude. I do not press the right hon. Lady unduly this afternoon because she has to go and discuss these matters with Commonwealth Prime Ministers, but I repeat her words: British sanctions\", she said, would lapse in November and we doubt very much whether a renewal of sanctions would go through the British Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-25a.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-25", "file": "debates1979-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7777b8f830614091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-25a.634.0", "colnum": "634", "heading": "SOUTHERN AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I think that the words used in Australia were \"the British Parliament\" and not \"the House of Commons\", to which the right hon. Gentleman has referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-25a.634.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-25", "file": "debates1979-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7777b8f830614091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-25a.649.1", "colnum": "649", "heading": "SOUTHERN AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "ly and not by ministerial favour. Their object is not only to maintain standards but to prevent a putsch or coup d'etat. There is then the issue of personality, the issue of Mr. Ian Smith. This is an emotional issue in the House and, I suspect, in the Foreign Office. It is much less an emotional issue in Africa. The Africans know that Ian Smith is the chief of the white tribe in Zimbabwe-Rhodesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-25a.649.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-07-25", "file": "debates1979-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7777b8f830614091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-25a.698.0", "colnum": "698", "heading": "SOUTHERN AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Wrong.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "hand over power, is dead and buried. I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister not just on her excellent speech this afternoon but, above all, on her determination and shrewdness of judgment when she so successfully upstaged the Foreign Office and the United States State Department by declaring that there was no majority in Parliament for the renewal of sanctions this coming November.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-25a.697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-25", "file": "debates1979-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7777b8f830614091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-25a.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "SOUTHERN AFRICA", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Sir Ian Gilmour)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Sir Ian Gilmour)", "preceding_text": " internal parties is all the more remarkable. It has achieved a peaceful transfer of power from a white regime elected by 3 per cent. of the population to a black Government elected by 64 per cent. of the population. Of course it is not perfect. No constitution is flawless, and the constitution of Zimbabwe will require wide acceptability if it is to withstand the strains of a painful independence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-25a.728.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-07-25", "file": "debates1979-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "7777b8f830614091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-25a.845.3", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That Mr. Robert Adley, Mr. Joe Ashton, Mr. Andrew Bennett, Mr. R. B. Cant, Mr. Geoffrey Dodsworth, Mr. Tony Durant, Sir Nigel Fisher, Mr. Percy Grieve, Mr. Geoffrey Johnson Smith, Mr David Madel, Mr. Charles R. Morris, Mr. Arthur Palmer, and Mr. Frederick Willey, be members of the Select Committee on Members' Interests.— [Mr. Brooke.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-25a.845.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-26", "file": "debates1979-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "51b0dbbd27770583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-26a.881.1", "colnum": "881", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-26a.881.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-26", "file": "debates1979-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "51b0dbbd27770583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-26a.884.3", "colnum": "884", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "When the Leader of the House, during his holiday, is ruminating on the events of the last week or so, will he try to do better about the organisation of the business of the House? It is a complete shambles that we should sit until 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning discussing very important matters such as Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-26a.884.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-26", "file": "debates1979-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "51b0dbbd27770583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-26a.888.3", "colnum": "888", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I hope that we shall make progress on the question of a national heritage fund. I am sorry that better progress was not made in the philistine Government who preceded this one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-26a.888.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-26", "file": "debates1979-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "51b0dbbd27770583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-26a.914.5", "colnum": "914", "heading": "CIVIL SERVICE (DISPERSAL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And did not get them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambie", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister realise that he talks nonsense when he says that Scottish Members of Parliament were interested only in jobs from London? Scottish Members were promised 6,000 jobs by the last Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-26a.914.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-26", "file": "debates1979-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "51b0dbbd27770583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-26a.945.1", "colnum": "945", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "preceding_text": "indsor Castle among industrialists, educationists, church leaders and members of the Armed Forces. It was no surprise to me that the most outstanding men there were the three generals. They had the qualities of leadership, they had been staff college trained, they were excellent communicators and, of course, they looked the part. It is people like those that we need in charge of great enterprises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-26a.945.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-07-26", "file": "debates1979-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "51b0dbbd27770583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-26a.1221.2", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "BANABANS (COMPENSATION CLAIMS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "that they recognised the great benefits which their farmers had received over many years from Banaban phosphates. They told me then, and others have told me since, that, irrespective of the case against the British Phosphate Commission, they were prepared to contribute generously to the Banabans in direct bilateral development aid. I trust that this is still the position. My final words are these—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-26a.1221.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-07-26", "file": "debates1979-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "51b0dbbd27770583", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-26a.1236.0", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, That Mr. Robert Adley, Mr. Joe Ashton, Mr. Andrew Bennett, Mr. R. B Cant, Mr. Geoffrey Dodsworth, Mr. Tony Durant, Sir Nigel Fisher, Mr. Percy Grieve, Mr. Geoffrey Johnson Smith, Mr. David Madel, Mr. Charles R. Morris, Mr. Arthur Palmer, and Mr. Frederick Willey, be members of the Select Committee on Members' Interests.— [Mr. Newton.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-07-26a.1235.17"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-10-22", "file": "debates1979-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d82189860b78b9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-22a.15.5", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "As I have already said, it will take time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-22a.15.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-10-22", "file": "debates1979-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d82189860b78b9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-22a.16.3", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "The tax and prices index has risen by 14·1 per cent. according to the last figures and it has been a useful addition to our statistical armoury.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-22a.16.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-10-22", "file": "debates1979-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d82189860b78b9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-22a.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Peter Jay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-22a.22.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-10-22", "file": "debates1979-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d82189860b78b9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-22a.45.6", "colnum": "45", "heading": "FUEL COSTS (ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "Is it not nauseating to listen to some Opposition statements bearing in mind that, according to many statements made at the Labour Party conference and elsewhere, the poor suffered far more in the five years of the Labour Government than in any previous period?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-22a.45.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-10-22", "file": "debates1979-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d82189860b78b9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-22a.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"How would one know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "It is interesting that the hon. Member for Walsall, South (Mr. George), cites the example of the United States. Has he any evidence that the strict rules against insider dealing in the United States have led to any lessening of insider dealing?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-22a.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-10-22", "file": "debates1979-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "d82189860b78b9e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-22a.160.10", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH LEYLAND (PARK ROYAL VEHICLES FACTORY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Laurie Pavitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Laurie Pavitt", "preceding_text": "I am sick at heart at the closure of the Park Royal vehicles factory, one of the finest factories in my constituency. It is a factory with which I have had the honour to be associated since I was first elected to this House 20 years ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-22a.160.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-10-23", "file": "debates1979-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "d88ea63d65b837ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-23a.195.3", "colnum": "195", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CBI", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The alternative is to print money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-23a.195.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-10-23", "file": "debates1979-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "d88ea63d65b837ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-23a.216.0", "colnum": "216", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "By leave of the House, I shall put together the six questions on the motions relating to statutory instruments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-23a.215.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-10-23", "file": "debates1979-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "d88ea63d65b837ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-23a.216.2", "colnum": "216", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I believe that it is No. 5 to which hon. Gentlemen seek to object. Perhaps by leave of the House I may put the first four together, unless there is an objection. The Question is, That the four instruments be referred to a Standing Committee on Statutory Instruments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-23a.216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-10-23", "file": "debates1979-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "d88ea63d65b837ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-23a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPETITION BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Consumer Affairs (Mrs. Sally Oppenheim)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Consumer Affairs (Mrs. Sally Oppenheim)", "preceding_text": "I rise to reply to the debate, facing serried ranks of Labour Members who are deeply concerned about the abolition of price control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-23a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-10-24", "file": "debates1979-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "2193ef8cbf95217c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-24a.426.3", "colnum": "426", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "As to the interim arrangements, does the right hon. Gentleman not understand that British authority is suspect among the great majority of people in Southern Rhodesia, because of the long history of pro-Smithism on the Conservative Back Benches, and, if I may say so, the somewhat partisan chairmanship of his right hon. and noble Friend?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-24a.426.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-10-24", "file": "debates1979-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "2193ef8cbf95217c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-24a.441.5", "colnum": "441", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Total distortion.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "s cannot afford essential textbooks and some are giving up science classes because of the expense of employing laboratory technicians. Many schools will remain closed during January because they cannot afford the fuel bills. Why is it that when Eton, Harrow and Winchester are exempt from the cuts they are being positively helped out of public funds in a way that they have never been helped before?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-24a.441.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-10-24", "file": "debates1979-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "2193ef8cbf95217c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-24a.471.3", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Litherland", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Litherland", "preceding_text": "There are two reasons why I have the honour of making my maiden speech. The first is the deserved elevation to the House of Lords of the former hon. Member for Manchester, Central, the right hon. Harold Wilson—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-24a.471.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-10-24", "file": "debates1979-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "2193ef8cbf95217c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-24a.539.1", "colnum": "539", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "cing fewer day centres, having fewer hot meals, less help in their homes and substantially increased charges. We are talking about the closing down of facilities for the mentally handicapped so that families have no break from the intense strains of caring for their own, handicapped children losing the opportunity to leave cold and impersonal institutions in favour of the warmth of community care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-24a.539.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-10-24", "file": "debates1979-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "2193ef8cbf95217c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-24a.570.1", "colnum": "570", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PARAFFIN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tourism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "e had petrol rationing at this stage. But my right hon. Friend refused to panic—he kept his head when others around him were losing theirs—and overcame the situation. We were being warned of the terrors of a shortage of petrol throughout the holiday season. Yet, because of the action and firm stand that we took, the harvest was gathered without any trouble and we had not problems with the farmers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-24a.570.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-10-25", "file": "debates1979-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "422d461084e43e5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-25a.697.2", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CYSTIC FIBROSIS (PRESCRIPTION CHARGES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "preceding_text": "ose doors will open at any second and a Minister from the Department of Education and Science will issue forth. It has been stated a number of times that I did not give the Department notice. That is contrary to the truth. I gave the Department quite adequate notice to get the Minister who is on duty to come to the House and answer this debate. [HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"] I gave quite adequate notice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-25a.697.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-10-25", "file": "debates1979-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "422d461084e43e5d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-25a.765.3", "colnum": "765", "heading": "PRIVATE EDUCATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macfarlane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macfarlane", "preceding_text": "It is intended that the scheme be set up by the early 1980s. One cannot hope to start it until the year 1981–82. There will be a slow build-up of expenditure to about £50 million. That is the figure. The finance will not be obtained as a result of the expenditure cuts now being made. It will come out of a totally separate fund, as was made clear in the manifesto. The hon. Gentleman may well", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-25a.765.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-10-29", "file": "debates1979-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a14fd736f01e901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-29a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "ware that the inquiry was handled in such a way that the men became so incensed that the colliery suffered a complete stoppage for one day? Further, is the hon. Gentleman aware that Sid Vincent, the general Secretary of the North-Western area, has sent a letter of protest to the chairman of the Health and Safety Executive? Why was a press conference held two days before the coroner's inquest and —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-29a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-10-29", "file": "debates1979-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a14fd736f01e901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-29a.827.2", "colnum": "827", "heading": "EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "th. I put it to him that, on the basis of his own statement, he ought now to accept that we should not proceed with the debate on the Bill today week. In fact, it should be put back for at least a week in order that hon. Members may properly read the Bill and make up their minds how they should proceed with respect to it. I believe the right hon. Gentleman to be an honest Member and that his word—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-29a.827.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-10-29", "file": "debates1979-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a14fd736f01e901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-29a.831.0", "colnum": "831", "heading": "EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "First, let me make my own position absolutely clear. I understand that this is an agreement between both sides of the House, a convention between parties. It is not a matter which Mr Speaker has ever been called to rule upon. Therefore, I advise the House that I am not able to help further on any points of order about when the Bill will be debated. That is not a matter for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-29a.831.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-10-29", "file": "debates1979-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a14fd736f01e901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-29a.838.2", "colnum": "838", "heading": "MEMBERS' MAIL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "preceding_text": "the post office. It has come to my attention that for whatever reason certain Government spokesmen on Friday tried to delay the departure of the 6.30 pm mail from the House of Commons in order that certain envelopes could be taken from the House of Commons post office. I understand that post office officials at the House of Commons, quite rightly, declined to participate in this squalid manoeuvre—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-29a.838.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-10-29", "file": "debates1979-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a14fd736f01e901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-29a.963.0", "colnum": "963", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (ENERGY AND FUEL SUPPLIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Bernard Weatherill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Bernard Weatherill)", "preceding_text": "That is not a matter for the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-29a.963.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-10-29", "file": "debates1979-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "2a14fd736f01e901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-29a.980.2", "colnum": "980", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (ENERGY AND FUEL SUPPLIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Eadie", "cue_text": "SEVERAL HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Eadie", "preceding_text": "pts have been made to denigrate our coal industry, and that is an old-fashioned pastime. At Question Time today the lifespan of coal was given as a thousand years and doubt was expressed about that period. However, it is more like 1,500 years. The figure of 300 years is based on existing production and mining technology, but when that technology improves the period will be extended to 1,500 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-29a.980.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-10-30", "file": "debates1979-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "578d012d7ea9cf17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-30a.1015.0", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Lamond", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Lamond", "preceding_text": "If the Warsaw Pact countries enjoy the vast military superiority which the Secretary of State for Defence claims that they do and yet they have not launched any attack on Western Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-30a.1015.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-10-30", "file": "debates1979-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "578d012d7ea9cf17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-30a.1082.1", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (GREEK ACCESSION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "The matter that we are debating today is neither ephemeral nor transitory. It is a matter of lasting importance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-30a.1082.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-10-30", "file": "debates1979-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "578d012d7ea9cf17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-30a.1107.1", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science (Dr. Rhodes Boyson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science (Dr. Rhodes Boyson)", "preceding_text": "I welcome the opportunity to say that the Government have no objection to the Bill having a Second Reading this evening. We had no objection when the Bill was introduced in the House of Lords and we have no objection now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-10-30a.1107.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-01", "file": "debates1979-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "dbaeb7791c4d8278", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-01a.1458.4", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (WHITE PAPER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "Should the Government be advantaged by a successful negotiation in Dublin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-01a.1458.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-02", "file": "debates1979-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "23184a2428f0b0b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-02a.1715.1", "colnum": "1715", "heading": "LONDON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "ls on education. The same attitude was held by the British Leyland shop stewards but was repudiated when the silent majority were allowed to vote in a secret ballot. However, I shall draw the facts to my right hon. Friend's attention. I welcome what my hon. Friend the Member for Fulham (Mr. Stevens) said about our proposals for home improvements and insulation grants. London has special problems.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-02a.1715.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-02", "file": "debates1979-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "23184a2428f0b0b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-02a.1729.1", "colnum": "1729", "heading": "BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION (EXTERNAL SERVICES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "preceding_text": "I take note of what the right hon. Gentleman says. I have a lot to say, because there is a lot of explaining to be done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-02a.1729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-05", "file": "debates1979-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "0bcab3f66086909f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-05a.43.3", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "owing year. When it is introduced, since it is our intention to take up a proportion of the places in the schools and then phase the scheme in by means of giving assistance to those who enter the schools that year, it means that expenditure in the financial year 1981–82 will be about £6 million and will not build to its full amount of £55 million to £60 million at today's prices until 1888—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-05a.43.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-05", "file": "debates1979-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "0bcab3f66086909f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-05a.45.3", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "rent pays 30p per meal and the taxpayer 24p. The total cost, therefore, is 54p and the food element of that amount is 16p per meal. That does not seem to be very sound economics for the parent, the taxpayer or the child. Whatever Labour Members may say, it is well known that a great deal of food is wasted, and many children who have free meals flog their vouchers and spend the money in other ways—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-05a.45.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-05", "file": "debates1979-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "0bcab3f66086909f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-05a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I am answering the hon. Gentleman's question. Whether my party will adopt such a proposal must be a matter for further debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-05a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-05", "file": "debates1979-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "0bcab3f66086909f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-05a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science (Dr. Rhodes Boyson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science (Dr. Rhodes Boyson)", "preceding_text": "strates the clear divide between both sides of the House in philosophy and the ways in which the matter is approached. First, I pay tribute to the maiden speaker and those who, as the phrase goes, made \"retread\" speeches. My hon. Friend the Member for The Wrekin (Mr. Hawksley) made his maiden speech today. Having spoken in his area, I know that there is a great deal of interest in education there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-05a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-05", "file": "debates1979-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "0bcab3f66086909f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-05a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-05a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-05", "file": "debates1979-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "0bcab3f66086909f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-05a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": " parental choices are not against that. I ask hon. Members to look at what is happening in inner London at present. The schools which inner London is trying to close are the schools to which parents want their children to go. The schools which inner London is trying to keep open—and I cannot understand how even the Labour Party can do this—are in most cases the schools to which no one wants to go.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-05a.154.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-05", "file": "debates1979-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "0bcab3f66086909f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-05a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "lence, social mobility and the open society in an attempt to retain Labour's rotten boroughs in depressed inner cities which have suffered Labour control for 50 years. The sale of council houses, increased parental choice at school, and the assisted places scheme are all part of an attempt to enfranchise them into a socially mobile society and release them from the shackles of Socialist feudalism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-05a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-06", "file": "debates1979-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "bdd0f612a0d28a9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-06a.201.7", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dormand", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dormand", "preceding_text": " development agency—a proposal which has the support of the northern branch of the CBI, which should commend itself to the Minister? Secondly, will he try to persuade the NEB to place one of the Inmos manufacturing units in the Northern region? Thirdly, and equally important, will he immediately increase the grant that is made to the North of England development council? Finally, is it not a fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-06a.201.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-06", "file": "debates1979-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "bdd0f612a0d28a9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-06a.205.7", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must know from past experience that cutbacks in public expenditure do not necessarily lead to increases in unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-06a.205.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-06", "file": "debates1979-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "bdd0f612a0d28a9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-06a.219.7", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have not yet read the letter to which my hon. Friend refers. Naturally, I and most other hon. Members are concerned that for the future of democracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-06a.219.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-06", "file": "debates1979-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "bdd0f612a0d28a9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-06a.230.0", "colnum": "230", "heading": "COASTER \"POOL FISHER\" (LOSS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fourteen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "e co-operation of the Germans has been lacking in any way. I would be astounded and shocked if it were. I am sure that we shall receive their full co-operation. As to the level of manning, I am not in a position positively to say whether the vessel was fully and correctly manned. However, the fact that there was a crew of 15 on a ship of 1,000 tons would probably be a broad hint in that direction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-06a.230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-06", "file": "debates1979-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "bdd0f612a0d28a9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-06a.246.0", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "al of securities and other property held by them. This reflects our policy that the size of the public sector should be reduced. But I cannot say when particular holdings are likely to find buyers. That responsibility lies with the NEB. Some of the companies in which it has holdings are already mature enough to stand on their own feet; others will take more time before they are ready for disposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-06a.246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-06", "file": "debates1979-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "bdd0f612a0d28a9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-06a.246.0", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": ". Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) would prefer me not to answer questions, that is another alternative; but, so far as is compatible with the time available, I prefer to answer as many questions as possible. Subject, however, to the interests of the individual company and of the taxpayer whose money has been invested, we can expect to see disposals by the NEB as a natural part of its activities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-06a.246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-06", "file": "debates1979-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "bdd0f612a0d28a9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-06a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "On the first part of the hon. Gentleman's question, in the unlikely hypothesis that he postulates, the answer is \"Yes\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-06a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-06", "file": "debates1979-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "bdd0f612a0d28a9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-06a.269.1", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir W. Elliott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir W. Elliott", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Lady. She allows me to express a point of view that I have heard business men express several times. I have heard industrialists deplore the fact that their sons are not interested in going into business, as the hon. Lady has suggested. Why? It is because of the enormous amount of Government interference in private business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-06a.269.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-06", "file": "debates1979-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "bdd0f612a0d28a9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-06a.273.1", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman really believes that world pensioners gather together and move their savings from capital—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-06a.273.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-06", "file": "debates1979-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "bdd0f612a0d28a9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-06a.317.1", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": " we have come to the end of the chapter in our industrial history that was written between 1974 and 1979 under the previous Labour Administration. That history is nothing of which Labour Members can be proud. They cannot afford to be proud of bringing the whole legislative process into disrepute by introducing Industry Acts containing many provisions that they had no intention of enacting. Lastly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-06a.317.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-06", "file": "debates1979-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "bdd0f612a0d28a9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-06a.318.3", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "During my speech I have referred to the disclosure of information, as was put forward in the 1975 Act. That was the disclosure of information under planning agreement frameworks to the lower echelons of management and trade unions. I was not referring to the disclosure of members' interests. I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary for helping me out on the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-06a.318.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-06", "file": "debates1979-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "bdd0f612a0d28a9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-06a.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric G. Varley", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Certainly.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric G. Varley", "preceding_text": ". In 1972 the hon. Gentleman kept the House up on a Friday night, during a debate on a previous Industry Bill. In that undertaking he was supported by the right hon. Member for Oswestry (Mr. Biffen). It is no wonder that the Chief Secretary—whom we all congratulate—has had to seek solace in matrimony. The policy of the Secretary of State for Industry on the NEB is unsatisfactory by Tory standards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-06a.343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-06", "file": "debates1979-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "bdd0f612a0d28a9f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-06a.357.7", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "d solely with its distribution, whether it is for education, social service, industrial investment or anything else. Until they learn the simple lesson that wealth has to be created before it can be distributed, they will not make a contribution to bringing this country back to where it ought to belong. That wealth will come from the efforts, skills and inventiveness of those who work in industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-06a.357.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-07", "file": "debates1979-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "207b90f2a340e8f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-07a.385.5", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Will the Minster accept that editorials in the local press in Sheffield and in other cities have complained that the decision has been taken to close one of the first electrified lines and the first great railway tunnel in the world? Will he also accept that, to the people of the great conurbation of South Yorkshire, that seems to demonstrate a lack of faith in the people in the area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-07a.385.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-07", "file": "debates1979-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "207b90f2a340e8f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-07a.400.4", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my hon. Friend is not suggesting that that should be done in isolation. If it were done, it would have to be done to nurses, policemen, Members of Parliament, teachers, and local government officers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-07a.400.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-07", "file": "debates1979-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "207b90f2a340e8f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-07a.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Clearly, the hon. Member for Wycombe (Mr. Whitney) was not aware that we have been forbidden to receive the Bill, which is in the Vote Office. I have been told by the Vote Office that instructions have been given to it that the Bill must not be given to any Member until after the statement and questions upon it are over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-07a.412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-07", "file": "debates1979-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "207b90f2a340e8f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-07a.413.0", "colnum": "413", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": " very much misunderstood and may lead the Government into great difficulties. I can understand that he may not want to renew sanctions for a 12-month period, in view of the advanced stage that he has reached, but will he not consider what I would hope he would have considered already? Why not renew sanctions for a shorter period? For example, why not renew them for three months, or even one month?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-07a.413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-07", "file": "debates1979-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "207b90f2a340e8f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-07a.414.0", "colnum": "414", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Gilmour", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "ng legislation is not suitable—it is not sufficient—for our purposes. Therefore, we must legislate. Equally, the existing legislation, which is not sufficient, runs out next week. Therefore, there is a considerable hurry. I see that theoretically there is a point for debating the Bill on Monday rather than on Thursday or Friday, but the right hon. Gentleman will know why we do not want to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-07a.414.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-07", "file": "debates1979-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "207b90f2a340e8f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-07a.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not a chance.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I very much hope that this short Bill will be disposed of in time to allow Private Members' Bills to proceed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-07a.426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-07", "file": "debates1979-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "207b90f2a340e8f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-07a.450.3", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "e what action they think fit in the light of them. I have now to make a statement on the remedial measures that the Government propose in connection with the announcement by the BSC last Thursday of its decision to close iron and steel making at Corby. In order to attract new employment for those affected by the steel closure, I intend, subject to the necessary approval of the European Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-07a.450.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-07", "file": "debates1979-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "207b90f2a340e8f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-07a.525.0", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": " worries, which have been expressed as eloquently by my hon. Friends as by Labour Members. The Government must act. My right hon. Friend announced a very good package of aid, giving development area status, with its 15 per cent, grant on buildings and plant, eligibility for assistance under section 7, funds from Europe, and, particularly, increased factory building. I understand that, for example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-07a.525.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-07", "file": "debates1979-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "207b90f2a340e8f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-07a.546.1", "colnum": "546", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is no joke.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "I am talking about the area of activity into which the Committee should inquire. My hon. Friends may joke about the issue.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-07a.546.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-07", "file": "debates1979-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "207b90f2a340e8f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-07a.560.2", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — MEMBERS' INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Wickenden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Wickenden", "preceding_text": " not spoilt it in the last 15 minutes by allowing his prejudices to show it would have been much more telling a contribution. Nevertheless, the hon. Gentleman makes a valid point when he says that financial interests must be revealed on the register. I speak as somebody who has fairly significant interests to declare—which are, I hope, properly declared—and also as one who has outside occupations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-07a.560.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-07", "file": "debates1979-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "207b90f2a340e8f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-07a.569.4", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE (SPECIAL BRANCH)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin F. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the Labour Party\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin F. Cook", "preceding_text": "ry background and realises that the forecasting of 1984 might invite invidious comparisons and comment. Whatever the date, or the number between 1·1 million and 1·4 million that has now been reached, that is an apallingly large slice of the adult population of this country. It certainly wildly exceeds the combined membership of the National Front and the Workers' Revolutionary Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-07a.569.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-08", "file": "debates1979-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "523e6feaaf51cffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-08a.601.3", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who has returned?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman were to travel round the country, as I do, he would find many firms, workers, employers and many who have returned to the country since the Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-08a.601.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-08", "file": "debates1979-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "523e6feaaf51cffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-08a.607.5", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We got in touch with the BBC the moment we saw this report in the newspapers this morning. Since then the BBC has issued a statement saying that what happened would appear to be a clear breach on the part of the \"Panorama\" team of standing instructions about filming in Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-08a.607.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-08", "file": "debates1979-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "523e6feaaf51cffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-08a.612.0", "colnum": "612", "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 always prepared to consider things through the usual channels. However, as the right hon. Gentleman indicated, our fear is that his influence might fall just a bit short of securing the full guarantee. If we can have that guarantee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-08a.612.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-08", "file": "debates1979-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "523e6feaaf51cffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-08a.641.1", "colnum": "641", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "g clear that the Leader of the Opposition may not be able to carry out his undertaking. What will be the position of the Leader of the House and the Patronage Secretary when representing the majority of hon. Members? They seek an accommodation with the Opposition on the timetable motion. I suggest that there is an eloquent revolt against the Leader of the Opposition's undertaking on the timetable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-08a.641.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-08", "file": "debates1979-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "523e6feaaf51cffc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-08a.676.1", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOUTHERN RHODESIA BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "preceding_text": "rangement to limit the renewal and timing of the sanctions order to any appropriate period the Government advanced. That could have been discussed in the ordinary way. Incidentally, clause 2 also gives power to establish the Governor. We could have reached that point and held proper discussions about an important constitutional Bill. It would not have detained us for an unnecessary length of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-08a.676.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-11-09", "file": "debates1979-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "1afed6c16c58b856", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-09a.870.6", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HARE COURSING (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-09a.870.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-12", "file": "debates1979-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8b1dd2c4ae8ef104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-12a.919.0", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. F. A. Burden", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. F. A. Burden", "preceding_text": "Is not one of the difficulties the fact that for a very long time the leaders of the Patriotic Front have made it clear in their statements that they are hell-bent on a military result?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-12a.919.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-12", "file": "debates1979-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8b1dd2c4ae8ef104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-12a.1047.3", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rhodes!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "preceding_text": "name of the new country and that the name Rhodesia is to disappear. Do I take it that is the considered conclusion of the conference? I think that this point will bring different degrees of support from different people. Many hon. Members will realise that Zimbabwe refers to a ruin, whereas Rhodesia refers to a country that was created by probably one of the greatest colonial servants of all time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-12a.1047.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-12", "file": "debates1979-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8b1dd2c4ae8ef104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-12a.1062.1", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "What Lord Chitnis said in Zimbabwe-Rhodesia and what he said in this country appear to be in conflict. I can only presume that influence was brought to bear. The vast majority of the observers at those elections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-12a.1062.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-12", "file": "debates1979-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8b1dd2c4ae8ef104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-12a.1063.3", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Knees.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "met representatives of both its black and its white members. The force is one of the finest antiterrorist groups in the world. I am confident that the Patriotic Front would not like to see it survive, because it is perhaps owing to the existence of the Selous Scouts that the Front and its terrorist guerrillas in Zimbabwe-Rhodesia have made such little progress in bringing that country to its feet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-12a.1063.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-12", "file": "debates1979-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8b1dd2c4ae8ef104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-12a.1063.3", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"If he is asked.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": " that I am right, and I am sure that the hon. Gentleman believes that he is right. But his philosophy and mine differ. I believe in Zimbabwe-Rhodesia playing a major part in the development of Southern Africa. It can do that only if it is a stable country. Lieutenant-General Peter Walls has stated publicly—and I believe him—that he will serve loyally any Government who are elected in that country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-12a.1063.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-12", "file": "debates1979-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8b1dd2c4ae8ef104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-12a.1068.0", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ioan Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ioan Evans", "preceding_text": "tate that after the ceasefire, when the Lancaster House talks are over, if we can reach an agreement we shall move forward to elections within two months. We argue that two months is not long enough. There should be a longer period. Let us imagine the situation in Rhodesia. For the past 14 years there was a rebellion against the Crown, which was supported by some members of the Conservative Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-12a.1068.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-12", "file": "debates1979-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8b1dd2c4ae8ef104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-12a.1078.0", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "preceding_text": "there is no practicable alternative. We must use the existing forces. The hon. Gentleman bandied numbers around and spoke of 800 observers and an outside force of 20,000 men. Those are his figures. They are not ours. I do not know where they come from, and as far as I am concerned they are entirely speculative. I do not believe that a force of 20,000 men is available or that it would be desirable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-12a.1078.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-12", "file": "debates1979-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8b1dd2c4ae8ef104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-12a.1090.2", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "ause I want to speak for only a few minutes and to make just one central point. Some of my hon. Friends wish to raise issues concerning other companies. It may well be unfair. As some of my hon. Friends have said in this Chamber and elsewhere, the mere fact that certain directors of Castrol Ltd. are related to present members of the Cabinet may have no significance whatsoever. That is probably so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-12a.1090.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-12", "file": "debates1979-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8b1dd2c4ae8ef104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-12a.1098.0", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Repetition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "emember that the Director of Public Prosecutions had the advantage over most hon. Members in that he saw, and had referred to him, the secret and even more damaging part of the investigation that has not been made public. When my hon. Friend the Member for Perry Barr asked what the DPP was doing in relation to the inquiry into Castro], he was told as he informed the House, by the Attorney-General—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-12a.1098.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-12", "file": "debates1979-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8b1dd2c4ae8ef104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-12a.1099.0", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the Committee will depore the remarks of the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras, South (Mr. Dobson) about the Director of Public Prosecutions", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-12a.1099.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-12", "file": "debates1979-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8b1dd2c4ae8ef104", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-12a.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "New Clause No. 1", "cue_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "preceding_text": "ed up until now is that the Government are no nearer an agreement for an interim period than when they first brought the Bill to the House. When the Lusaka conference took place doubts were expressed about the diffi- culty of getting an agreement on the interim period because of the difficulties that were foreseen. In fact, so much was that the case that when the Lancaster House conference opened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-12a.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-13", "file": "debates1979-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "7ad217fc6e89fd8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-13a.1144.1", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "t anyone on either side of the House to accept, that there is a growing problem for fuel poverty in this country which will not go away? Will the hon. Lady or her right hon. Friend take the lead, with colleagues in other Departments, to establish a clear policy on fuel poverty, involving the operation of the Homes Insulation Act, involving changes in the tariff structure, involving changes in the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-13a.1144.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-13", "file": "debates1979-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "7ad217fc6e89fd8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-13a.1151.5", "colnum": "1151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OFFICE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-13a.1151.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-13", "file": "debates1979-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "7ad217fc6e89fd8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-13a.1223.0", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — REGIONAL AID", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Les Huckfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Les Huckfield", "preceding_text": " to because of our efficient retail system. That is the penetration risk offered by the United Kingdom. I do not want to elaborate on the statistics given by my right hon. and hon. Friends. Our worries were sufficiently underlined when my hon. Friend the Member for Halifax (Dr. Summerskill) said that in the past six months in Halifax, Bradford and one or two other towns clustered around that part—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-13a.1223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-14", "file": "debates1979-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "9789cb7d38f5e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-14a.1315.0", "colnum": "1315", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parris", "preceding_text": "I accept what my right hon. Friend said about the difficulty of direct elections. Does he accept that there is a problem between the Peak park planning board and those who live and work in the park over the planning control authority? The board does a great deal of valuable work, but there is a problem in this respect. Will my right hon. Friend consider three measures that might help? First—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-14a.1315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-14", "file": "debates1979-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "9789cb7d38f5e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-14a.1331.1", "colnum": "1331", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": " Asians. Many hon. Members, such as the hon. Member for Preston, North (Mr. Atkins), will be supporting a proposal that will act against a large number of their constituents. When I was a junior Minister in 1969 I put something through the House which was not very different from what the Home Secretary is doing now. But I was wrong. It was altered in 1974 when my predecessor, Mr. Roy Jenkins—said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-14a.1331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-14", "file": "debates1979-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "9789cb7d38f5e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-14a.1333.0", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neubert", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neubert", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it not the convention of the House that any Front Bench statements made in reply to a Minister's statement should be shorter than the original statement, or at least as long, but not longer by a ratio of two to one?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-14a.1333.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-11-14", "file": "debates1979-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "9789cb7d38f5e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-14a.1339.0", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The right hon. Gentleman was humane.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "preceding_text": "such thought. The movement of free labour means that white people are under few restrictions. Will the right hon. Gentleman also consider carefully the human problems that will arise from the exclusion of an old lady in the Indian Sub-continent who cannot join most of her children in this country, albeit that she may have some land over there? I know that the right hon. Gentleman is a humane Tory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-14a.1338.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-14", "file": "debates1979-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "9789cb7d38f5e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-14a.1345.4", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I find the hon. and learned Gentleman's statement surprising, because under the previous Government—he rightly stated the position—they had to show that they were wholly or mainly dependent on children in this country. We are saying that in addition they should have to show that they are without any other relatives to whom they could turn in their own country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-14a.1345.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-14", "file": "debates1979-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "9789cb7d38f5e5f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-14a.1372.0", "colnum": "1372", "heading": "POLICE AUTHORITIES (POWERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "missioners because there are more States does not seem to me to be a sensible way of trying to build an efficient organisation. It might be better to go back to the drawing board. For example, when people design aircraft they do not exactly add extra weight to an existing machine in order to make it bigger. Equally, it may not be all right to try to build on to the existing administrative machine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-14a.1372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-15", "file": "debates1979-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "e611eedaef98cb7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-15a.1496.2", "colnum": "1496", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — USSR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stoddart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stoddart", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that many people in this country regret the belligerent attitude that she is taking towards the Russians—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-15a.1496.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-15", "file": "debates1979-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "e611eedaef98cb7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-15a.1497.7", "colnum": "1497", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As usual, the Cabinet was united this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-15a.1497.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-15", "file": "debates1979-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "e611eedaef98cb7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-15a.1499.4", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "Shut up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-15a.1499.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-15", "file": "debates1979-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "e611eedaef98cb7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-15a.1499.5", "colnum": "1499", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ilar occasion, was that there was no alternative in the light of the increase in borrowing. If that applied then, it applies now. I must react to the circumstances that face us now. Conditions would have been much easier for us if there had not been the value added tax strikes and problems, and if there had not been the strike that prevented the issuing of telephone bills, which means that we are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-15a.1499.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-15", "file": "debates1979-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "e611eedaef98cb7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-15a.1522.5", "colnum": "1522", "heading": "MONETARY POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "I am astonished that the right hon. Gentleman should seek to perpetuate that falsehood about my right hon. Friend's statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-15a.1522.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-15", "file": "debates1979-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "e611eedaef98cb7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-15a.1530.1", "colnum": "1530", "heading": "SIR ANTHONY BLUNT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "On a different aspect of the point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-15a.1530.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-15", "file": "debates1979-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "e611eedaef98cb7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-15a.1559.1", "colnum": "1559", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PROTECTION OF TRADING INTERESTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Fines not damages\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": " countervailing measures but did not go as far as we did. I believe that we are the first country to bring in this kind of legislation. That is a major extension of legislation which this House should scrutinise carefully. I have very serious reservations about the powers that we allow for the recovery of two-thirds of the damages, which is over the amount of the damages allowed in this situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-15a.1559.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-11-16", "file": "debates1979-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "0493c649f200ef42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-16a.1747.26", "colnum": "1747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FREE PORTS BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-16a.1747.25"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-19", "file": "debates1979-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "8b342b1f719f8e1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-19a.30.2", "colnum": "30", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman understand that many of us view with great suspicion the Government's proposition to have a full debate on Wednesday on the Blunt case?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-19a.30.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-19", "file": "debates1979-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "8b342b1f719f8e1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-19a.54.0", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Kerr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Kerr", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that there would appear to be one tiny clue regarding the total absence of any reference to these matters in the Conservative Party's pre-election propaganda, namely, an interview given by the hon. Member for Chingford (Mr. Tebbitt), now of far greater standing than he was then, in which he indicated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-19a.54.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-19", "file": "debates1979-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "8b342b1f719f8e1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-19a.54.0", "colnum": "54", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Kerr", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Kerr", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that there would appear to be one tiny clue regarding the total absence of any reference to these matters in the Conservative Party's pre-election propaganda, namely, an interview given by the hon. Member for Chingford (Mr. Tebbitt), now of far greater standing than he was then, in which he indicated—[ Interruption. ] I am sorry if I am amusing hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-19a.54.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-19", "file": "debates1979-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "8b342b1f719f8e1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-19a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, you will not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. When I read Hansard tomorrow, hope that I shall be reassured that this is no longer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-19a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-19", "file": "debates1979-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "8b342b1f719f8e1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-19a.156.1", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": " for it. The spheres of influence policy had its uses at the time. It has proved useful to some extent in helping to re-stabilise the relationship between British Caledonian and British Airways, and to get rid of some of the instability which was introduced by the election pledge that was broken subsequently by the Labour Government. But those days are over and we are now going on to a new matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-19a.156.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-19", "file": "debates1979-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "8b342b1f719f8e1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-19a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": " are selling a share in a going concern. I suggest that Opposition Members engage for a few moments in the terrible struggle to allow what reason they possess to overcome their political prejudices. If we had wanted a quick cash-raising exercise, we could easily have sold off British Airways Helocopters, British Airways Hotels, International Aeradio and so on, down the line. We have not done that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-19a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-19", "file": "debates1979-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "8b342b1f719f8e1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-19a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "rector General of Fair Trading and complain of a restriction of competition. I want to try to get the Opposition to understand that we have taken a positive decision to free British Airways from Government control which has never brought any benefit other than the ability to borrow under Treasury guarantee but which has carried with it a very heavy burden of Government interference over the years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-19a.159.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-20", "file": "debates1979-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "ad7aca60f4cd3d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.191.0", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman stop trying to make a virtue out of something which is inherently evil? Does he not realise that, despite the laughter of the well-heeled hon. Ladies and hon. Gentlemen on the Government Benches, the reality is that many of the students are about to be cut off in midcourse? They are in great difficulty. We are already receiving letters from them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-20", "file": "debates1979-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "ad7aca60f4cd3d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.203.2", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend and I have had a certain amount of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.203.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-20", "file": "debates1979-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "ad7aca60f4cd3d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.216.2", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH AEROSPACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "In this country we have what is probably the most efficient system of agriculture in the world. I wish that all business activities were as efficient. It has its own framework, as has agriculture in most countries. I hope that Labour Members will accept that, although I have a doctrine and a thesis, the action proposed in this Bill is not doctrinaire.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.216.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-20", "file": "debates1979-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "ad7aca60f4cd3d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH AEROSPACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Was it a chairman's statement?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "f what the board has to say about his present antics. It said in the British Aerospace News in September—and this is worth listening to: Continuity of operation and concentration on the improvement of organisational efficiency would have been preferable without the uncertainty and distraction of changes effected by Parliament. That is a very good reply from a board in which the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-20", "file": "debates1979-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "ad7aca60f4cd3d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH AEROSPACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "We hope that because of the new dynamism introduced into this country, the new hopeful prospects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-20", "file": "debates1979-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "ad7aca60f4cd3d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH AEROSPACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Freeloading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": ", and it always has done. I see no threat to its continuing to do so because of the proposals in the Bill. Indeed, quite the reverse. I look positively to the future. During the recess I was fortunate enough to visit the United States of America where, with the assistance and co-operation of British Aerospace, I was able to meet some members of the work force and executives at the Grumman company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-20", "file": "debates1979-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "ad7aca60f4cd3d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.273.2", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH AEROSPACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Colvin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Colvin", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.273.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-20", "file": "debates1979-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "ad7aca60f4cd3d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.324.3", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH AEROSPACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": "Germany needs the 'single voice' in aerospace that both Britain and France have had since the latest nationalisation measures in each country. That is the German industry giving its view of the way in which the French Aerospatiale and British Aerospace have been nationalised. The German view is that its industry will have to move towards precisely the same structure as the Labour Government set up", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-20", "file": "debates1979-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "ad7aca60f4cd3d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.327.1", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH AEROSPACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Does the hon. Gentleman read it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": ". Members talk about the need for British Aerospace to make a profit. I can only say that had that been the case under the last Labour Government, if we had insisted rigidly and dogmatically on profit maximisation, we would not now have much of an aircraft industry left. That is the truth. I quote again the Financial Times —Conservative hon. Members' newspaper not ours; their readership, not ours.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-20", "file": "debates1979-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "ad7aca60f4cd3d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.340.0", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BRITISH AEROSPACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Battersea, North (Mr. Jay), and I accept that he makes a fair point. However, I remind him that under the Industry Act 1975 there are provisions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.340.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-20", "file": "debates1979-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "ad7aca60f4cd3d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.866.6", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "When the Prime Minister sees President Carter again, will she make the position regarding the installation of cruise missiles in this country absolutely clear? Is she aware that there is a considerable body of opinion against the siting of cruise missiles in this country and against those decisions being reached without any debate in a free assembly in Parliament here?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.866.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-20", "file": "debates1979-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "ad7aca60f4cd3d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.871.8", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "May I remind the right hon. Gentleman that during the first six months of the last Labour Government the standard rate of income tax rose from 30 per cent. to 33 per cent. and that the top rate was increased from 75 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.871.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-20", "file": "debates1979-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "ad7aca60f4cd3d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.872.2", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "During the first six months of the Conservative Government income tax was reduced from 33p to 30p in the pound and the top rate of income tax was reduced from—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.872.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-20", "file": "debates1979-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "ad7aca60f4cd3d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.879.3", "colnum": "879", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Following the question from my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.879.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-20", "file": "debates1979-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "ad7aca60f4cd3d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.882.2", "colnum": "882", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "It is not outrageous that consideration should be given to the question whether there should be some form of limited access—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.882.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-20", "file": "debates1979-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "ad7aca60f4cd3d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.888.3", "colnum": "888", "heading": "BRITISH LEYLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hal Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hal Miller", "preceding_text": "While I thank my right hon. Friend for the encouragement that he has given to all those who work in BL and for giving the lie to those who put it about that the Government would not support this British industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.888.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-20", "file": "debates1979-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "ad7aca60f4cd3d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.902.5", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "No right hon. or hon. Member on the Labour Benches has ever said so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.902.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-20", "file": "debates1979-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "ad7aca60f4cd3d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.973.1", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "The average couple get £63 a week for the first six months. We had a parliamentary answer on this matter to the hon. Member for Norfolk, North (Mr. Howell).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-20", "file": "debates1979-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "ad7aca60f4cd3d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.974.1", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "who are not. Hon. Members often ask \"Where are all these jobs?\" I shall tell them. This afternoon I called up the chairman of a dairy factory in my constituency. For the last few months he has tried every week to get a man to drive one of his milk floats in the north-east of Scotland. Every week he has put advertisements in the local paper, and every week he has gone to the jobcentre in Peterhead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-20", "file": "debates1979-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "ad7aca60f4cd3d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.974.1", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "ite clearly that if such a job is going begging in a place where 600 people are registered as un employed and there is not one applicant, only someone who is totally blind to reality will refuse to admit that out of that 600 there must be many people who have no intention of getting a job be cause the combination of social security benefits and tax-free moonlighting means that they are better off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-20", "file": "debates1979-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "ad7aca60f4cd3d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.985.0", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "d (Mr. Field), but I shall not deal with the points that he covered. I should apologise to the right hon. Member for Salford, West (Mr. Orme), because I slightly misled him by not adding a figure at the end of the question that I put to him and that he failed to answer, not because he did not understand it, but because he did not have an answer. Per haps I may briefly take him through the figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.985.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-20", "file": "debates1979-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "ad7aca60f4cd3d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.1002.1", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "Let me pursue this, as there are a number of points that I want to get on the record. There are other serious shortcomings. There is the failure to relate the supplementary benefits scheme to our social security system, the failure to co-ordinate these systems with a whole variety of financial support schemes in education, job training—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.1002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-20", "file": "debates1979-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "ad7aca60f4cd3d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.1010.7", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman asked, from a sedentary position, whether I will answer the questions. I am answering some of his.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.1010.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-20", "file": "debates1979-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "ad7aca60f4cd3d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.1012.5", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I remind hon. Members that the Minister has said that he is not giving way during the rest of his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.1012.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-20", "file": "debates1979-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "ad7aca60f4cd3d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.1016.8", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.1016.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-20", "file": "debates1979-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "ad7aca60f4cd3d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.1016.9", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "Other Western countries have shown that by making a success of a free-enterprise economy, they can do better than we are doing for pensioners, widows and the chronically sick.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.1016.9"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1979-11-20", "file": "debates1979-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "ad7aca60f4cd3d18", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.1051.4", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Bryant Godman Irvine)", "preceding_text": "Order. I am not sure that the hon. Gentleman appreciates that we are dealing with the motion relating to Welsh affairs. The question is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-20a.1051.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-21", "file": "debates1979-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e0e16727607f71f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-21a.389.0", "colnum": "389", "heading": "NATIONAL ENTERPRISE BOARD AND ROLLS-ROYCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "preceding_text": "mber of disturbing statements from the Secretary of State, but none, I think, so disturbing as this. The right hon. Gentleman has constantly said in this House, that he would never interfere with the management of the companies with which he was concerned. In this case there can be no other explanation than that he has interfered in one of the most important questions of management in any company—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-21a.389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-21", "file": "debates1979-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e0e16727607f71f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-21a.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "NATIONAL ENTERPRISE BOARD AND ROLLS-ROYCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": " with his description of the difference between the holding company and the subsidiary company as a difference of opinion on the management of the company inherent in the relationship? It is not inherent in the relationship, and the right hon. Gentleman well knows it. It is inherent in the duty of the National Enterprise Board, as a holding company, to supervise and monitor its subsidiary company—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-21a.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-21", "file": "debates1979-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e0e16727607f71f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-21a.405.1", "colnum": "405", "heading": "MR. ANTHONY BLUNT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " inform the Queen's private secretary. On 17 June 1964 a further meeting was held between the Home Secretary, his permanent secretary and the Director-General, in which the Director-General reported that Blunt had admitted spying for the Russians throughout the war when he was serving in the Security Service. The Home Secretary of the day, now Lord Brooke, who, at first, did not recall being told—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-21a.405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-21", "file": "debates1979-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e0e16727607f71f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-21a.405.1", "colnum": "405", "heading": "MR. ANTHONY BLUNT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "n the Home Secretary, his permanent secretary and the Director-General, in which the Director-General reported that Blunt had admitted spying for the Russians throughout the war when he was serving in the Security Service. The Home Secretary of the day, now Lord Brooke, who, at first, did not recall being told—[ Interruption. ] At first, he did not recall being told, which is quite understandable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-21a.405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-21", "file": "debates1979-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e0e16727607f71f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-21a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "MR. ANTHONY BLUNT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I shall start the sentence again. The Home Secretary of the day, now Lord Brooke, who, at first, did not recall being told, has been reminded of these meetings and has, with characteristic integrity, accepted that his memory must have been at fault.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-21a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-21", "file": "debates1979-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e0e16727607f71f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-21a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "MR. ANTHONY BLUNT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "Perhaps my hon. Friend will listen to what I am about to say, in terms of what I believe we should do. The Germans' experience, in their context and in the context of how their constitution is built, is one thing. I do not think that the American security service arrangements—I have to choose my words carefully—have been exactly successful in recent years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-21a.417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-21", "file": "debates1979-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e0e16727607f71f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-21a.429.0", "colnum": "429", "heading": "MR. ANTHONY BLUNT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A Communist?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "ngs arise from the terrifying fact that whatever is said in this debate from whatever source, or whatever is done subsequently, we in this House, and still less the people outside, will never ever know the truth. We are fishing in the deep and dark waters of what is termed \"national security\", and we are battling against the fierce determination of what I call the Establishment to protect its own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-21a.429.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-21", "file": "debates1979-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "4e0e16727607f71f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-21a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "MR. ANTHONY BLUNT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Aitken", "preceding_text": "d the national security agencies. The committee, under the chairmanship of Senator Birch Bayh and the vice-chairmanship of Senator Barry Goldwater, has had the good effect of reassuring the American public that the CIA is fully accountable to the democratic institutions and is not a law unto itself. In the light of some of the Blunt revelations, similar reassurance would not come amiss in Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-21a.446.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-22", "file": "debates1979-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a82ff9d00056f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-22a.554.4", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It has occurred to me that the right hon. Gentleman might ask that question. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] As the right hon. Gentleman knows, interest rates are at this level because too many people want to borrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-22a.554.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-22", "file": "debates1979-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a82ff9d00056f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-22a.557.2", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"It should be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister accept that this is a criticism not of individuals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-22a.557.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-22", "file": "debates1979-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a82ff9d00056f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-22a.559.2", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is not for politicians to try to take over the management of public sector industries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-22a.559.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-22", "file": "debates1979-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a82ff9d00056f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-22a.574.3", "colnum": "574", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT DEBATE, 21 NOVEMBER 1979", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There was no Division.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": " not have been the first time. If any hon. Members had said \"We wish a Division\", I would have replied \"I shall put the Question again\". The House will know that I have sometimes done that in order to ensure that everyone has a sense of fair play. I remained in the Chair while the Chamber was emptying. No one protested that he had wanted a Division. I sat here for three minutes after the Division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-22a.574.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-22", "file": "debates1979-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a82ff9d00056f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-22a.577.1", "colnum": "577", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT DEBATE, 21 NOVEMBER 1979", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Because of the confusion last night and the fact that by the time we managed to get down the aisle you had disappeared from the Chair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-22a.577.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-22", "file": "debates1979-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a82ff9d00056f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-22a.611.0", "colnum": "611", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "I take the hon. Gentleman's point. The fact is that it is both—it is cause and effect. The cause of the policy is the small and inefficient farmer. The joint beneficiary is, as the hon. Member rightly said with his customary perspicacity, the rich and successful farmer as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-22a.611.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-22", "file": "debates1979-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a82ff9d00056f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-22a.615.0", "colnum": "615", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "preceding_text": "(Mr. Shore) that something must be done as quickly as possible about our excessive contribution to the budget. However, hon. Members on both sides of the House would quarrel with his fairly hysterical attitude both to the past history and the latest \"crisis\", as the hon. Gentleman and other Labour Members would call it, and to the absurd, absolutist and existential conclusions reached as a result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-22a.615.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-22", "file": "debates1979-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a82ff9d00056f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-22a.615.0", "colnum": "615", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "preceding_text": "the European summit—for which this Government are now pressing. This Government are insisting, quite rightly—and the whole House will support them—on a solution to this grave problem. It was allowed to become a grave problem because of a mathematical accident. The figures worked out in a way that was not anticipated when the financial mechanism was constructed after the own resources system began.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-22a.615.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-22", "file": "debates1979-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a82ff9d00056f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-22a.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman will contain his impatience, I shall tell him. It can be said that our budgetary contribution is not major. It represents about 0·5 per cent. of our GNP.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-22a.645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-22", "file": "debates1979-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a82ff9d00056f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-22a.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "well benefit from it. The clear message that I wish to leave with the Government and the Prime Minister from the Liberal Party is that we have no doubt that the only reforms which will have a sustained impact on the problems that we and others face are the reforms which suggest a stronger, more integrated and more supranationally directed Community. There is no getting away from the logic of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-22a.645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-22", "file": "debates1979-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a82ff9d00056f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-22a.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "ers of the Community, we cannot have a doctrinal opposition to an increase in the size of the budget. There can be great argument about the way in which the budget is distributed but one cannot argue about size. It is by no accident that propositions emanating from the European Parliament—from which, incidentally, British Liberals are so unfairly excluded—and the Commission are helpful to Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-22a.646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-22", "file": "debates1979-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a82ff9d00056f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-22a.647.0", "colnum": "647", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Gummer", "preceding_text": "inuous threats such as those which were made by the right hon. Member for Stepney and Poplar (Mr. Shore). He has been consistent in his opposition to the European Community and he referred to his predictions having now come about. However, the right hon. Gentleman himself was one of the major causes for our present position. Labour Members should listen carefully to the comments that I shall make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-22a.647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-22", "file": "debates1979-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a82ff9d00056f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-22a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "lation to the large aggregates which make up our balance of payments, the costs arising from EEC entry are not out of line with the kind of random and cylical swings which we expect to be able to handle without much difficulty in the ordinary course of events.\"—[ Official Report, 8 June 1972; Vol. 838, c. 800.] That was the purple passage from the Treasury trying to justify our entry into the EEC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-22a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-22", "file": "debates1979-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "a4a82ff9d00056f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-22a.723.3", "colnum": "723", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is too experienced in these matters, and in international negotiation and in affairs of State, not to realise the absurdity of the right hon. Gentleman's point. Of course we do not envisage extending—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-22a.723.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-26", "file": "debates1979-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "c3d782d1d2115c68", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-26a.1050.0", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "preceding_text": "r for Fife, Central (Mr. Hamilton) and the hon. Member for Harborough (Mr. Farr) did not object when the Whips used to recommend the membership of Select Committees. I do not suggest that my memory is perfect, but I cannot remember one occasion in the 15 years that I have been an hon. Member when either of those hon. Members objected to the membership of any Select Committee proposed by the Whips.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-26a.1050.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-27", "file": "debates1979-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "82df47217e364576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-27a.1099.6", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "dies were extremely promising and were initially conducted on a trinational basis amongst ourselves, the French and the Germans, with the United States having a 2½ per cent. interest? Are not the United States approaching France and Germany to try to get a co-operative development on those lines, and not including the United Kingdom? Does my hon. Friend agree that that is a classic example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-27a.1099.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-27", "file": "debates1979-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "82df47217e364576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-27a.1104.5", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I never knew my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Industry to mislead anybody—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-27a.1104.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-27", "file": "debates1979-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "82df47217e364576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-27a.1105.2", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newens", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Lady take time to explain why it is that when the West has 11,000 targetable nuclear warheads against the Warsaw Pacts's 5,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-27a.1105.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-27", "file": "debates1979-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "82df47217e364576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-27a.1108.2", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSE SALES (WRITTEN QUESTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "uthority tenants who have been tenants of any authority for a period of one year, two years, three years and for each year up to 20 years and for those who have been tenants for more than 20 years. My point yesterday, which still stands, was that the document leaked in The Guardian, which was available in the Department before July, must have contained information that the Minister denied existed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-27a.1108.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-27", "file": "debates1979-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "82df47217e364576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-27a.1129.1", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Rolls-Royce?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": " what we are doing is to try to get a better future for the National Freight Corporation, which means for those people working for it. That is the whole aim of the legislation. The National Freight Corporation will, as a result of the Bill, be freed from the intervention of the Government and civil servants who know little about the day-to-day requirements of running a major transport undertaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-27a.1129.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-27", "file": "debates1979-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "82df47217e364576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-27a.1137.0", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "upplementary support grant or rate support grant in Scotland, to cover reductions of subsidy? Is he prepared to see the unprofitable routes in the network die? The Minister must give us his justification for changing the traffic commissioners' criteria. His argument has been almost totally based on the idea that the commissioners' operation prevents other operators from getting in. That is not so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-27a.1137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-27", "file": "debates1979-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "82df47217e364576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-27a.1239.0", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Making money.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "has a quite exceptional position. There is something of historical survival from former days of widespread public ownership of road haulage. It is in competition with the private sector now. It has only 10 per cent, of the total road freight market. What on earth are Ministers and civil servants doing, having a stake in the removals business, in cold storage and running part of a parcels business?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-27a.1239.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-27", "file": "debates1979-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "82df47217e364576", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-27a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Tory ones.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "novation. The right hon. Member for Barrow-in-Furness said that applications would be made only for profitable routes. That begs the question of what is profitable, and to whom. The profitable routes are not necessarily those that carry the largest number of passengers. The worst losses in the country are suffered by some of the appallingly inefficient municipal and PTE services in the big cities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-27a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-28", "file": "debates1979-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "d08b5b26cbcb33d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1282.6", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend tell his colleagues in Europe that the United Kingdom budget deficit with our friends in the EEC must be reduced to zero, and not a penny less?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1282.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-28", "file": "debates1979-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "d08b5b26cbcb33d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1302.4", "colnum": "1302", "heading": "ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "pated when he published his last Industry Act forecast last autumn. He then predicted that the current account would balance in the first half of this year. In the result, the deficit was almost £2,000 million. That deficit reflects for the most part the very rapid rise in imports—a symptom of the economy's poor supply response to the pre-election consumer boom engineered by the right hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1302.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-28", "file": "debates1979-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "d08b5b26cbcb33d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1344.1", "colnum": "1344", "heading": "ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "Certainly. The reason is that there is no possible logical means of explaining it the other way round, of explaining how prices can rise without the money to pay the higher prices. This is an irreversible process. The concatenation of cause and effect works one way; it does not work the other way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-28", "file": "debates1979-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "d08b5b26cbcb33d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1345.1", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resumption?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "peech the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, the right hon. Member for Leeds, East, made this afternoon. The Government's consolation—their fortification, if they require it, in the course upon which they have embarked—is that there is no alternative to it. Anyone who listened to the speech of the right hon. Gentleman would have realised that it was a sustained plea for a resumption of inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-28", "file": "debates1979-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "d08b5b26cbcb33d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1355.1", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Jolly good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "me up against exactly the same problem. Their cuts, outlined both in the White Paper and in the Budget, have been falling disproportionately on capital. I noted with great interest that, when the right hon. Member for Taunton (Mr. du Cann), the chairman of the 1922 Committee, spoke of the need to consider removing the indexation of social security benefits, the Chief Secretary nodded in agreement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-28", "file": "debates1979-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "d08b5b26cbcb33d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1355.1", "colnum": "1355", "heading": "ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": " with a dogged determination worthy of the converts that we know they are—I excuse the Chief Secretary. They truly do not understand what they are doing. If they did, I cannot believe that even they would continue to pursue this course. When it comes—dare I use the word?—to fanaticism, the Chancellor has nothing to learn from the Ayatollah Khomeini himself. On the money supply, he is so fanatical—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1355.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-28", "file": "debates1979-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "d08b5b26cbcb33d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1360.1", "colnum": "1360", "heading": "ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barnett", "preceding_text": "The Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1360.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-28", "file": "debates1979-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "d08b5b26cbcb33d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1361.2", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Sainsbury", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Sainsbury", "preceding_text": "our to expanding effective organisations. Recent experience has shown that when the patient is finally let out of the straitjacket his symptoms are far worse and harder to cure. If we discard that solution, there is another medical cure that is advanced—put the patient into isolation. That is the sort of \"fortress Britain\" which finds enthusiastic support from the Labour Members below the Gangway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1361.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-28", "file": "debates1979-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "d08b5b26cbcb33d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1369.0", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Taylor", "preceding_text": "or luncheon vouchers and fares of railway commuters. Those pleas will fall on barren ground. Government expenditure must come down and revenue must increase if we are to curb inflation and get the country back on the correct course. In my view, the Government should be prepared to make positive suggestions for further economies for increasing Government revenue. I propose to make some suggestions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1369.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-28", "file": "debates1979-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "d08b5b26cbcb33d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1387.1", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "strategy of Conservative plans over the next five years, the fact is that this strategy, clear as it may be to us, is not always clear to people outside. They see things like the increase in the minimum lending rate and the increase in mortgage interest and they are blinded to what we are trying to do as a long-term objective. Not only will there be occasions when our strategy is blown off course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1387.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-28", "file": "debates1979-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "d08b5b26cbcb33d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1403.0", "colnum": "1403", "heading": "ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Morris", "preceding_text": " of a 17 per cent. minimum lending rate. I recognise equally that it is better to be decisive and bold now than to let things drift for the future. Like other hon. Members, I hope to be in the Chamber when we reach the new century. When we do, I suspect that we shall recognise that the bravest and best decision in the previous quarter century was that of the Chancellor to remove exchange controls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1403.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-28", "file": "debates1979-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "d08b5b26cbcb33d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1417.1", "colnum": "1417", "heading": "ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is impossible.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " go somewhere else. The Chancellor has lost that weapon for controlling the money supply and has nothing left except the interest rate policy—and who knows how that will work out? I should like to quote from a publication entitled \"International Currency Review\". It is not published by the Tribune Group or by the Trades Union Congress. It is probably well to the Right of most Conservative Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-28", "file": "debates1979-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "d08b5b26cbcb33d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1419.0", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Biffen)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Biffen)", "preceding_text": "rguments have centred around four issues: first, the level and pattern of taxation secondly, the level and priorities of public spending thirdly, the present and prospective levels of Government borrowing and how it should be financed; and, finally, the methods that the Government are employing to liberalise the United Kingdom economy and to enable private wealth creation and ownership to develop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-28", "file": "debates1979-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "d08b5b26cbcb33d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1419.0", "colnum": "1419", "heading": "ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Biffen)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Biffen)", "preceding_text": "ed and planned wages. A number of Opposition Members raised the arguments for State supervision of collective bargaining, notably the right hon. Members for Heywood and Royton and for Battersea, North. I simply do not believe that we can have the new Cambridge solution without the planned control of incomes. That is a central paradox within that approach which would split its supporters wide open.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-28", "file": "debates1979-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "d08b5b26cbcb33d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1423.0", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Member for Leeds, East can contain himself, I shall link the remarks of my right hon. and learned Friend to the points that were made in the debate. In his letter to The Times my right hon. and learned Friend stated: Unfortunately, at present the so-called monetarists display an excessively mechanistic attitude which defies reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-28", "file": "debates1979-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "d08b5b26cbcb33d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1425.2", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I cannot give an immediate and specific answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1425.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-28", "file": "debates1979-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "d08b5b26cbcb33d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1426.1", "colnum": "1426", "heading": "ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Faith?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "o believes that he can stand at this Dispatch Box and argue that there will be instant and early remedies and recovery is saying false. This might as well be stated now. A great deal of politics is about creating public expectation. We live in a more unreal world here, it it seems to me, than at times I can ever believe. We need to have faith in settled policies and a determination to fulfil them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-28", "file": "debates1979-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "d08b5b26cbcb33d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "he monetary policy that we seek is one in which public spending, taxation and Government borrowing are so balanced that interest rates are struck at a level that enables credit to fulfil its traditional role. I say to the right hon. Member for Llanelli that I remain totally unrepentant of the views that I have held previously and that the reduction of MLR is a major objective of Government policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-28", "file": "debates1979-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "d08b5b26cbcb33d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "ECONOMIC POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "influence in the world. Above all, we shall pursue that policy knowing that it will be years rather than months that will vindicate our faith. To that end we shall be inspired by the words of Sir Francis Drake, as valid today as 400 years ago: Every great venture must have a beginning, but it is the continuing of the same until the end, until it be thoroughly finished, which yields the true glory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-28", "file": "debates1979-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "d08b5b26cbcb33d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1438.3", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JUSTICES OF THE PEACE BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "I note your ruling, Mr. Deputy Speaker, about keeping strictly to the question of consolidation. I understood that the Bill was expected to go through all its stages this evening. We are now having the Second Reading of a financial clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-28a.1438.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-29", "file": "debates1979-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3c17d64eb3ecf099", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-29a.1487.3", "colnum": "1487", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "May we have a statement or explanation next week on the question why debates that concluded at 10 o'clock in this House have not been fully reported in Hansard, but have been cut off at about 6 o'clock? Is it not wrong that that should be so? It will mean that Members wishing to send the report of a whole debate to constituents will have to send not one but two Hansards,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-29a.1487.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-29", "file": "debates1979-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3c17d64eb3ecf099", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-29a.1544.4", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (GOVERNMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "why I welcome the remarks of the Prime Minister. She said that she saw eye to-eye with the policies that I have advocated on the defeat of the IRA. The Prime Minister said that she believed that the IRA had to be militarily defeated. It was the first time that I have heard a Prime Minister say that since I joined this House. Prime Ministers have always said that if there is a political settlement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-29a.1544.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-29", "file": "debates1979-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3c17d64eb3ecf099", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-29a.1547.0", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (GOVERNMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerard Fitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerard Fitt", "preceding_text": "bers to ensure their continuation in office. By so doing, by giving way to the demands of the Ulster Loyalist Members, and by bartering for their votes, the Labour Government of 1974–79 provoked the open hostility and animosity of the minority population in Northern Ireland. They granted extra seats to the Loyalists. That was bitterly resisted by the minority population in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-29a.1547.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-29", "file": "debates1979-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3c17d64eb3ecf099", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-29a.1547.0", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (GOVERNMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerard Fitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerard Fitt", "preceding_text": " Loyalist Members, and by bartering for their votes, the Labour Government of 1974–79 provoked the open hostility and animosity of the minority population in Northern Ireland. They granted extra seats to the Loyalists. That was bitterly resisted by the minority population in Northern Ireland. [ Interruption. ] As their spokesman in the House, I fought that legislation every inch of the way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-29a.1547.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-29", "file": "debates1979-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3c17d64eb3ecf099", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-29a.1563.1", "colnum": "1563", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (GOVERNMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "hat it is accepted that the Northern Ireland Members should be at the conference for discussions. I deplore the Government's attitude. Their policies, including their policies for Northern Ireland, are dreadful. As my hon. Friend the Member for Belfast, West showed, they will take the food and the milk from the mouths of the children of Northern Ireland and say that they want to solve the problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-29a.1563.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-29", "file": "debates1979-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "3c17d64eb3ecf099", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-29a.1585.2", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (GOVERNMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "ly against the concept of devolved Government at this time, for two reasons. First, the greater the jurisdiction that a Government have, the greater the opportunity for oppression. Secondly, on a matter that perhaps does not concern Northern Irish Members as much as it concerns me, I believe that we shall have to look at devolution again at some future time for the remainder of the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-29a.1585.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-30", "file": "debates1979-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "477ae929a4633806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-30a.1643.1", "colnum": "1643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING ETC. (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. Bonsor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. Bonsor", "preceding_text": "leading quotation from the Secretary of State's parliamentary answer that Mr. Kinman circulated to hon. Members earlier. At the initial point, the incidence of drunken driving offences, as all other driving offences, had an immediately beneficial effect following the implementation of the Clayson report. The letter continues: but these figures have crept up again. Studies of the earlier offences\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-30a.1643.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-30", "file": "debates1979-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "477ae929a4633806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-30a.1651.1", "colnum": "1651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING ETC. (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Atkins", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman not accept that it is a demonstrably proven fact in medical circles that the drinking of wine, malt whisky and sometimes stout is actually medically beneficial?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-30a.1651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-30", "file": "debates1979-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "477ae929a4633806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-30a.1658.0", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING ETC. (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "I should always be happy to spend an afternoon with my hon. Friend—I hope that he does not mind my calling him that—the Member for Wallsend (Mr. Garrett). However, on this matter he and I have different views. Indeed, our experience seems to differ quite markedly. He deflected me from making an important point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-30a.1658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-30", "file": "debates1979-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "477ae929a4633806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-30a.1694.0", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING ETC. (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. F. Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. F. Pawsey", "preceding_text": " the Bill goes through. One justification for the Bill advanced in the debate thus far is that it offers a means of assisting the tourist trade. Pethaps hon. Members will feel, as I do, that if this is a prime reason for promoting the Bill it is a classic case of the tail wagging the dog. It is nonsense to suggest that licensing hours in our country should be governed by a desire to help tourists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-30a.1694.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-11-30", "file": "debates1979-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "477ae929a4633806", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-30a.1732.2", "colnum": "1732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LICENSING ETC. (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"It is about time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ar to be a more common activity than smoking; as almost half report having had an alcoholic drink in the past week in simple numerical terms the current concern over teenage drinking may seem to be justified. It should also be noted that the survey carried out by the National Children's Bureau reported that 37 per cent. of the youngsters under the age of 16 were drinking in public houses. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-11-30a.1732.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-03", "file": "debates1979-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "959ec6aad4b8f1d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-03a.23.4", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "I should like to be fair to the right hon. Gentleman because, as the House knows, there is considerable personal affection between us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-03a.23.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-03", "file": "debates1979-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "959ec6aad4b8f1d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-03a.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL (DUBLIN MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I think that the House will be relieved to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-03a.35.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-03", "file": "debates1979-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "959ec6aad4b8f1d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-03a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL (DUBLIN MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Eighteen months?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e months—as the right hon. Gentleman will have seen from the communiqué, which charged the Commission to find supplementary measures in this country which would raise our receipts from Community expenditure. Certainly the third element, structural changes in the budget, will take longer, but unless they are brought about within the next 18 months we shall be through the 1 per cent. ceiling—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-03a.35.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-03", "file": "debates1979-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "959ec6aad4b8f1d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-03a.77.3", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HERITAGE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Set it to music.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "n 51(2) of the 1946 Act refers back to section 50(3) of the 1946 Act, which is the equivalent of clause 9(2) of the present Bill and not of clause 9(1). Yet in subsection (4) of clause 9 of the present Bill there is a reference back to this subsection (1) rather than to subsection (2). I trust that the Minister is following all this. I am sure that you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, have got the gist of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-03a.77.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-04", "file": "debates1979-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "8f1bec3a61a67c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-04a.265.2", "colnum": "265", "heading": "IMMIGRATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "(Northampton, North): The right hon. Gentleman believes that it is wrong for people in this country to feel that we are being swamped. I received a parliamentary answer today from the Minister of State, Home Office that in the last 20 months 353,000 Iranians entered this country. I asked him further how many were still in the country and how many had left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-04a.265.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-04", "file": "debates1979-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "8f1bec3a61a67c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-04a.278.1", "colnum": "278", "heading": "IMMIGRATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Gardner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the evidence?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Gardner", "preceding_text": "ect of the proposed rules that is causing, and has caused, some concern, and put before the House my personal reasons for justifying the support of that rule relating to husbands and male fiances. There are three reasons why the proposed change can, and should, be supported. The first is that marriage as a means of entering, working and settling in this country is being abused—and has been abused—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-04a.278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-04", "file": "debates1979-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "8f1bec3a61a67c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-04a.279.1", "colnum": "279", "heading": "IMMIGRATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gardner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are illegal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardner", "preceding_text": "h is far, far below the figures with which we must deal today. As we have heard, and as every right hon. and hon. Member appreciates, in May of this year the Conservative Party manifesto undertook to put an end to that concession. I am not—and I want to make this absolutely clear—seeking to argue or to persuade the House that the proposed rules are perfect. They are far from perfect—inevitably so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-04a.279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-04", "file": "debates1979-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "8f1bec3a61a67c17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-04a.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "IMMIGRATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"From the EEC as well.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member may say that it does not matter. I say that something like that in a period of only 20 years certainly matters. In Westminster, 54 per cent. of the births are to mothers who were not born in any part of the United Kingdom. Only about 18 per cent. of these are coloured. Therefore, we are not talking only about coloured immigration. We are talking about immigration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-04a.301.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-05", "file": "debates1979-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "a69890c4cfa75c47", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-05a.543.0", "colnum": "543", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": "irritated. He thought that I was trying to trap him. I was merely asking for information, as the Opposition are entitled to do. Therefore, I hope that the Financial Secretary will make it quite clear that the Government have no intention of cutting the link between pensions and social security benefits and the retail price index. The Government have already changed the law in relation to earnings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-05a.543.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-10", "file": "debates1979-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "349d5c50927194b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-10a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "THE EXECUTIVE AND PUBLIC BODIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "er will come to a halt. There will be no ministerial post for you if you keep raising these awkward questions.\" That is a real element within Parliament. We must move on to open government. That will happen only in the Labour Party because the Conservative accept hierarchy. They accept one ayatollah on their side who makes all the appointments without challenge. The Opposition are more democratic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-10a.951.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-11", "file": "debates1979-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "cb1a8bec69f7e97a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-11a.1102.0", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND(EMERGENCY PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brynmor John", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brynmor John", "preceding_text": "t be combined with steady work towards acceptable political initiatives, and the widespread political changes throughout Ireland will cause uncertain reactions from the men of violence. What is the Prime Minister's or the Secretary of State's intention about seeking an early meeting with the new Taoiseach in order to continue the dialogue on cross-border security begun with the previous Taoiseach?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-11a.1102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-11", "file": "debates1979-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "cb1a8bec69f7e97a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-11a.1158.1", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND(EMERGENCY PROVISIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": " the politicians of Northern Ireland cannot have some say in what the Government will put to the House on the question of the future government of Northern Ireland. There are things in the paper produced by the Secretary of State that are repugnant to Unionists. Yet there is a basis in that document, as it declares that we shall discuss neither a united Ireland nor the old power sharing executive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-11a.1158.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-13", "file": "debates1979-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "0d9e652f90de9e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-13a.1550.3", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "THEATRE NUCLEAR FORCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": ". There are pressures on my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House, as everybody knows, especially in the first Session of a Parliament. The hon. Gentleman is entitled to say that we must provide the time for a debate, and had that time been available we should have done so. At the same time, if the hon. Gentleman and his party felt so strongly about it, they could have used some of their time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-13a.1550.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-13", "file": "debates1979-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "0d9e652f90de9e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-13a.1558.0", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "THEATRE NUCLEAR FORCES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": " that. I have no power to decide whether it shall be debated. As the House knows, under Standing Order No. 9 I am directed to take account of the several factors set out in the Order but to give no reasons for my decision. I have to rule that the right hon. Gentleman's submission does not fall within the provisions of the Standing Order and, therefore, I cannot submit his application to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-13a.1558.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-13", "file": "debates1979-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "0d9e652f90de9e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-13a.1574.0", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are Conservative Members?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Rhondda (Mr. Jones) made a strongly felt speech.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-13a.1574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-13", "file": "debates1979-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "0d9e652f90de9e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-13a.1574.0", "colnum": "1574", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about appointments?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "months after they have left office, with all the experience of that period in office apparently slipping from their memories—that Government intervention in nationalised industry management benefits the industry concerned. As I shall try to show, the evidence is that, however well-intentioned the intervention of Government is in nationalised industry management, it tends to do more harm than good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-13a.1574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-13", "file": "debates1979-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "0d9e652f90de9e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-13a.1578.0", "colnum": "1578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman knows that I am unable to give an answer—it is for the BSC management. I have no reason to cast doubt upon those jobs, but I am not the management—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-13a.1578.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-13", "file": "debates1979-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "0d9e652f90de9e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-13a.1582.7", "colnum": "1582", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "an is confusing the position at the end of the year 1979–80. The British Steel Corporation said that it would not be making a profit at the end of the current financial year. I am saying to the corporation, on behalf of the taxpayer, that it must so organise its affairs that, after depreciation and interest, it does not make an operating loss in the year 1980–81. No one can foretell—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-13a.1582.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-13", "file": "debates1979-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "0d9e652f90de9e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-13a.1586.4", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "d and would have been competitive while some would have gone out of business; and those who worked and invested in them would have found other jobs. It is not necessarily the party that nationalises that is the most effective friend of steel. Labour has all too often given the impression that productivity is not crucial and that the industry could go on losing money at the expense of the taxpayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-13a.1586.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-13", "file": "debates1979-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "0d9e652f90de9e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-13a.1660.1", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "t merely to fall back on preaching the doctrines of pure competition, as he did, shows how utterly unfitted he is for this office. Consider, for example—if anyone wishes—the defence industry. What nonsense it is for the Prime Minister to go around the world shaking her fist at the Russians with one hand while at the same time strangling the coal and steel industries of this country with the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-13a.1660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-13", "file": "debates1979-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "0d9e652f90de9e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-13a.1660.1", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ain the well-being and future of a great country such as ours, steel production should be worked and planned for on a considerably higher basis than that, particularly when we are importing huge quantities of steel at the present time. There are a variety of different reasons for that, but that is all the more reason for not putting out of existence the capacity to make up for those steel imports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-13a.1660.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-13", "file": "debates1979-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "0d9e652f90de9e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-13a.1672.1", "colnum": "1672", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "ilure of action in the past and because every interference by the Government in the internal management of the BSC has been disastrous, it is the present communities that suffer the consequences. It is right for every Government to cushion the violence of change, ease the impact of closure and encourage further employment. I make no attempt to disguise the scale of the problem that we must tackle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-13a.1672.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-13", "file": "debates1979-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "0d9e652f90de9e45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-13a.1685.1", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL INSURANCE (CONTRIBUTIONS AND EARNINGS LIMIT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "omises. This is another promise that they have broken by raising taxation. I do not disagree with that. The largest burden is on the broadest backs—people earning in excess of £8,000 a year. We are not complaining about that. The Government are saying to middle management \"We have given you this incentive Budget\", and a few months later they are taking away all the supposed gains from that Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-13a.1685.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-17", "file": "debates1979-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c942d88b8f6cf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.70.1", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What the Tories think\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "It is not what I think. It is what the country thinks, it is what small businesses think, it is what other people think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.70.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-17", "file": "debates1979-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c942d88b8f6cf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.77.3", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "ill harm and not help industrial relations, the right hon. Gentleman misled the House, and especially the Conservative Party. These are some of the objections. The questions of interpretation are niggling and damaging. If the Tory Party asks the Opposition what we would like to do on this point—as it and the country are entitled to ask—I shall be frank. The reply is this: nothing very spectacular.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.77.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-17", "file": "debates1979-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c942d88b8f6cf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.100.3", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": " It merely trots out a very wide-ranging provision when it talks about grounds of conscience or other deeply-held personal conviction. It is the belief of the majority of railwaymen—at least, the majority that I know and have met—that the deeply held personal conviction held by most of the 11 who were dismissed for not joining a trade union was a desire to avoid paying their union dues to anybody.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.100.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-17", "file": "debates1979-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c942d88b8f6cf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.115.0", "colnum": "115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, he did not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ey do not need the beginnings of Government interference. I shall not take my 10 minutes. I feel that I have covered the basic points that I wished to make. I conclude by saying to the Government \"Prepare for a struggle on this issue, and not only in the House. We shall fight the Bill line by line in every way\". I was delighted to hear my right hon. Friend saying that we would repeal the Bill and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-17", "file": "debates1979-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c942d88b8f6cf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.140.6", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "union and Equity and undermine trade union development itself, this Bill also has the same reeds of destruction. If it is granted a Second Reading tonight, it will be with the acknowledgment of Conservative Members that in particular areas, especially the seafarers, it will seek to destroy particular trade unions and, therefore, deny the rights and benefits of organisation which the majority want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.140.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-17", "file": "debates1979-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c942d88b8f6cf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.142.1", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "rnment on the production of such arrogant legislation. However, I should like to give some facts for the benefit of a number of people who, apparently, are not aware of them. My industry has had a pre-entry closed shop since before the war. Ironically enough, it was supported by the shipowners. At the CBI conference, it was the shipowners who were arguing \"Please retain the closed shop principle\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-17", "file": "debates1979-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c942d88b8f6cf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "they have worked a lot better than some people have been prepared to credit. Certainly experience and, more particularly, the judges in the courts have revealed, if not caused, weaknesses in the procedures that were not there in the first place but were subsequently created by judges who insisted on reading into the provisions words which had been debated long but which were rejected in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-17", "file": "debates1979-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c942d88b8f6cf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "station of the wrong way—a sensible way of proceeding in these matters? If the present arrangements are unsatisfactory, as I think they are, we should try to find better ways. Surely we should have a decent, sensible, civilised way of resolving recognition disputes through proper machinery. Unhappily, the Government seem to prefer the hard way—the way that left blood on the pavements at Willesden.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.152.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-17", "file": "debates1979-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c942d88b8f6cf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.161.1", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "In our manifesto we said that we would reform those aspects of employment protection legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-17", "file": "debates1979-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c942d88b8f6cf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "If I had been a leading member of a Government who produced expenditure plans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-17", "file": "debates1979-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c942d88b8f6cf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "quirement for a secret ballot, on the extension of the conscience clause, and on the provision for compensation for those who are existing employees, such as the British Rail employees, who have the rules unilaterally changed against them and are made to join a trade union or get the sack. I believe that these changes are wanted by the country as a whole and by the majority of trade union members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-17", "file": "debates1979-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c942d88b8f6cf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "extension of the conscience clause, and on the provision for compensation for those who are existing employees, such as the British Rail employees, who have the rules unilaterally changed against them and are made to join a trade union or get the sack. I believe that these changes are wanted by the country as a whole and by the majority of trade union members. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"] The polls—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.167.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-17", "file": "debates1979-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c942d88b8f6cf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.210.3", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER CHARGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "preceding_text": "gives a unit cost—both an average unit cost across the whole of England and Wales and an individual unit cost for each water authority and company. Undertakers with a unit cost below the national average pay into the equalisation pool. Undertakers with a unit cost above the national average receive from the pool. The calculations involved are highly detailed and have to be entrusted to a computer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.210.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-17", "file": "debates1979-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c942d88b8f6cf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.210.3", "colnum": "210", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER CHARGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "preceding_text": "lved are highly detailed and have to be entrusted to a computer. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] I thought that hon. Members would respond in that way. I hesitated before using the word \"computer\". A minor change needs 38 sums to correct it. That being so, perhaps hon. Members will question the whole basis of the scheme. The transfers shown in the present draft order—unlike those in the two previous orders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.210.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-17", "file": "debates1979-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c942d88b8f6cf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER CHARGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Nottingham, West (Mr. English) gives perhaps the best possible illustration of what nonsense this order is, in that one is trying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-17", "file": "debates1979-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c942d88b8f6cf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER CHARGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State knows perfectly well that this order is confined—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-17", "file": "debates1979-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c942d88b8f6cf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.218.0", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER CHARGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "y either from the taxpayers or from the ratepayers. The Under-Secretary said that the Government will repeal the Act. However, he has left the House totally ignorant of how to achieve that which he believes to be desirable. There is one other important reason for the Labour Government's approach in producing such orders. At the end of the day one must have some sort of national strategy for water.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.218.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-17", "file": "debates1979-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c942d88b8f6cf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.230.0", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WATER CHARGES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNair-Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNair-Wilson", "preceding_text": " to pay. It seems to me that the right hon. Gentleman came unstuck in imagining that there was one simple answer which would produce, as he put it, a method which would allow water to be charged to the nation, as is electricity or gas. The right hon. Gentleman knows that that argument is erroneous because he knows the geophysical problems of supplying water in those terms. They are very difficult.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.230.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-17", "file": "debates1979-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "8c942d88b8f6cf2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.243.2", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — STANDING ORDER No. 5 (FRIDAY SITTINGS)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is never here on Fridays.\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "t relates to lines 2, 10 and 18 in Standing Order No. 5 implements that resolution to perfection. I am well aware that the Leader of the House, in that debate, mentioned as an aside that he would prefer it if statements were made at 11 o'clock instead of 9.30 or instead of at the end of proceedings. I suppose that Ministers cannot get to the House before that time, even if Back Benchers can do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-17a.243.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-18", "file": "debates1979-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "d196893e632d3a1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-18a.387.0", "colnum": "387", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rhetorical questions.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman asked me a few questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-18a.387.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-18", "file": "debates1979-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "d196893e632d3a1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-18a.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "e right hon. Gentleman said that I referred to meetings with the NEB. I referred to no such meetings. Secondly, he totally fails to understand the significance of the Secretary of State's accepting a letter of resignation from the chairman of Rolls-Royce without the knowledge of the chairman of NEB, when it was the NEB that had the relationship with Rolls-Royce and the Government did not. Thirdly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-18a.389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-18", "file": "debates1979-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "d196893e632d3a1a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-18a.390.2", "colnum": "390", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (CHRISTMAS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "I shall indeed, Mr. Deputy Speaker. It is not a matter of concern whether the memorandum of understanding—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-18a.390.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-19", "file": "debates1979-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "8a1fb7b33e45ce53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-19a.600.4", "colnum": "600", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "I had intended to ask the question posed by the right hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Grimond).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-19a.600.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-19", "file": "debates1979-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "8a1fb7b33e45ce53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-19a.650.3", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICSES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ons with employers, and this must be welcomed. The poll showed two further things. Nearly three-quarters of the trade union members polled, including nearly 70 per cent. of National Health Service union members, believed either that their unions should support private medicine or that they should take a wholly neutral stance. Only 11 per cent. said that it was the job of their unions to oppose it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-19a.650.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-19", "file": "debates1979-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "8a1fb7b33e45ce53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-19a.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICSES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Young", "preceding_text": "e of opinion between Labour and Conservative Members on that point. It is entirely consistent with our philosophy of individual responsibility that we shall encourage each individual to make provision for himself privately. That provision having been made, the resources which are accumulated should be put to the most effective use. I quote from an article in the News of the World by Frank Chapple.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-19a.762.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1979-12-19", "file": "debates1979-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "8a1fb7b33e45ce53", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-19a.779.1", "colnum": "779", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TACHOGRAPHS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the cost?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "I am not running away from that question. There will, of course, be additional costs on the industry. We know that. There is no secret about that. That has been known for a long time. I am sorry that it may come as a surprise to my hon. Friend, but that is the position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1979-12-19a.779.1"}