{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-14", "file": "debates1980-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "408d7a3a7e7b1913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-14a.1203.0", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the House made a very clear statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-14a.1203.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-14", "file": "debates1980-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "408d7a3a7e7b1913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-14a.1204.2", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NEWS MEDIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that, on the whole, Conservatives are polite and tend to believe that repetition is impolite? Will he therefore invite our right hon. Friend to overcome his natural diffidence when meeting representatives of the national press and to keep repeating that the countering of high unemployment and rising living standards", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-14a.1204.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-14", "file": "debates1980-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "408d7a3a7e7b1913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-14a.1204.4", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NEWS MEDIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "Am I right in my belief that", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-14a.1204.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-14", "file": "debates1980-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "408d7a3a7e7b1913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-14a.1210.0", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "preceding_text": " a prolonged strike? Is there no point at which the Government would intervene to bring the parties together? The whole of the right hon. Gentleman's statement is a reiteration of the case made by the BSC. The Secretary of State in no way shows that he is in the least aware of the views of the unions concerned, or of the fact that since 1975 productivity has risen by 16 per cent. in British Steel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-14a.1210.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-14", "file": "debates1980-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "408d7a3a7e7b1913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-14a.1247.1", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TENANTS' RIGHTS, ETC. (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "The houses in the private sector to which the hon. Gentleman refers do not belong to the State. It is not up to me to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-14a.1247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-14", "file": "debates1980-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "408d7a3a7e7b1913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-14a.1248.0", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TENANTS' RIGHTS, ETC. (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State has referred to the transition between the voluntary scheme and the statutory one in the Bill. He will know that the three housing authorities in my constituency are not politically composed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-14a.1248.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-14", "file": "debates1980-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "408d7a3a7e7b1913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-14a.1249.0", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TENANTS' RIGHTS, ETC. (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman agree at least that there is unanimity on the following two propositions: first, that the discount scheme in the terms suggested will entail a heavy cost to every other ratepayer—that is, to local authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-14a.1249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-14", "file": "debates1980-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "408d7a3a7e7b1913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-14a.1264.1", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TENANTS' RIGHTS, ETC. (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "ld claims previously made about the tremendous saving in public expenditure were ludicrous. Depending or the assumptions used, one could produce figures showing financial benefit from the sale of council houses, or showing considerable deficit, as a number of independent studies have already shown. The financial consequences cannot be assessed by mathematical calculations and untested assumptions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-14a.1264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-14", "file": "debates1980-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "408d7a3a7e7b1913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-14a.1266.1", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TENANTS' RIGHTS, ETC. (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "at will happen under these proposals. The local authorities will be left with all the problem areas. Far from this measure improving the balance of local authority stock, it will considerably increase the problems. The Government have swept aside all these practical objections, including the objections put forward by COSLA. The claim that COSLA is in favour of the Bill is a lie, to put it bluntly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-14a.1266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-14", "file": "debates1980-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "408d7a3a7e7b1913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-14a.1273.0", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TENANTS' RIGHTS, ETC. (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "In the first instance, the hon. Gentleman will bear in mind that the house is available for buying only to the person living in it and continuing to live in it for the rest of his life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-14a.1273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-14", "file": "debates1980-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "408d7a3a7e7b1913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-14a.1281.0", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TENANTS' RIGHTS, ETC. (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Martin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Martin", "preceding_text": "here has 180,000 houses in its stock and the Government have had one meeting only with the district council—one meeting with representatives of a city which has many housing problems. Glasgow has great difficulty in overcoming those problems without facing this particular piece of legislation. As a result of the Bill, the local authority will be forced to sell houses which were not built for sale.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-14a.1281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-14", "file": "debates1980-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "408d7a3a7e7b1913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-14a.1311.2", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TENANTS' RIGHTS, ETC. (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "r Members have failed to grasp—whether it be the hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar) or the right hon. Member for Glasgow, Craigton (Mr. Millan)—that there is social injustice and imbalance within the housing schemes in our great cities and in other areas. It is a matter of luck, or who one's friends are, whether one gets the nice house to which the hon. Member for Garscadden referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-14a.1311.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-14", "file": "debates1980-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "408d7a3a7e7b1913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-14a.1311.2", "colnum": "1311", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TENANTS' RIGHTS, ETC. (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "ing at the time and maintained and repaired at considerable expense. If the houses are that bad, the market value will be low, and the houses will be regarded as a bargain by some young person who sees an opportunity to progress from Garscadden across that little divide to Bears-den on the other side. The right hon. Member said that flats will not go. He was saying that it was a disaster to build—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-14a.1311.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-14", "file": "debates1980-01-14a.xml", "sha256": "408d7a3a7e7b1913", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-14a.1342.3", "colnum": "1342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TENANTS' RIGHTS, ETC. (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I have not yet got the permission of those hon. Members to name them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-14a.1342.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-15", "file": "debates1980-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "63835235debfce5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-15a.1428.3", "colnum": "1428", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "f this country in her demand that our contribution to the EEC budget should be reduced? Will she go to Rome, and future meetings of the EEC, in the knowledge that she has the support of the vast majority of the British people in demanding that we get justice within the EEC. Does she realise that she should not necessarily listen to members of the Opposition who, when all is said and done, actually", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-15a.1428.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-15", "file": "debates1980-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "63835235debfce5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-15a.1446.6", "colnum": "1446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ate steps to facilitate a sale under the Bill, I shall be able to take over the transaction. Clause 22 gives me the powers and discretion necessary to do so effectively. Let me say at once to the House that I regard that as a reserve power. I shall use it only when I find that I have to protect tenants from the illegal behaviour or deliberate delaying tactics of the councils under which they live.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-15a.1446.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-15", "file": "debates1980-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "63835235debfce5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-15a.1471.1", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "heme. Moreover, 44 per cent. of council tenants are in receipt of either a Department of Health and Social Security income support or rent rebates. They will not buy their houses. The pattern that will emerge in consequence is that the richer tenants will buy the better houses and the poorer tenants will be left with those that remain. I do not know how to describe that in terms of social justice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-15a.1471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-15", "file": "debates1980-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "63835235debfce5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-15a.1567.1", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "le of Ely(Mr. Freud) to refresh his memory of the observations his hon. Friend made on that question during the Second Reading debate on the Education Bill. The right hon. Member for Sparkbrook said that he would vote against the Bill, but he has not made clear whether the Labour Party would withdraw the right to buy from 6 million council tenants. Would the Labour Party withdraw the right to buy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-15a.1567.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-15", "file": "debates1980-01-15a.xml", "sha256": "63835235debfce5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-15a.1585.2", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "I am not particularly worried whether, technically, it is a single motion or whether it is a series of motions. It would be hard to convince my three colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-15a.1585.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-16", "file": "debates1980-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "28bbfd32b6c8f81a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-16a.1614.3", "colnum": "1614", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Gilmour", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Gilmour", "preceding_text": " killed daily before the ceasefire. That again calls for considerable congratulations to all concerned—to the Governor, the monitoring force, the Rhodesian forces and the Patriotic Front. I have already said what I have to say about Beit bridge. I cannot accept that the presence just across the border of a very small detachment of South Africans can be said to be a foreign involvement in Rhodesia.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-16a.1614.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-01-16", "file": "debates1980-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "28bbfd32b6c8f81a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-16a.1642.7", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "I should like simply to suggest that since—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-16a.1642.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-16", "file": "debates1980-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "28bbfd32b6c8f81a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-16a.1647.0", "colnum": "1647", "heading": "GAS AND ELECTRICITY INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "nefit very widely, often over those who did not need it. I very much prefer the scheme developed by my right hon. Friend and announced in October, which provides a basis for support, in a time of high energy costs, over a far wider area of all consumers. It will meet the needs far more effectively than the electricity discount scheme, which was generally recognised as a bad scheme and a silly one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-16a.1647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-16", "file": "debates1980-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "28bbfd32b6c8f81a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-16a.1663.1", "colnum": "1663", "heading": "DOGS (CONTROL)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "g into account other road users. I could go on to list many other problems, particularly the problem of stray dogs searching their way through dustbins and turning them upside down in order to get sufficient food. There is the problem that one finds on pavements as a result of dog dirt, and the difficulties on playing fields. There is also the question of the farce of the present licensing system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-16a.1663.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-16", "file": "debates1980-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "28bbfd32b6c8f81a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-16a.1757.1", "colnum": "1757", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT", "cue_speaker": "Mr.Roberts", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Which ones do?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.Roberts", "preceding_text": "Yes. There is not much difference between Liberal-Conservative rule in Liverpool and Conservative rule in Sefton. The problems are similar. One of the advantages that some Labour authorities have—it will not be long-lived under this Government—is having money in reserve because of prudent management. Neither Liverpool nor the metropolitan district of Sefton has that advantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-16a.1757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-16", "file": "debates1980-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "28bbfd32b6c8f81a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-16a.1777.1", "colnum": "1777", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"By how much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": " all authorities. It is implicit in the present way in which rate support grant is organised. We are merely making more explicit what is implicit. I should have thought that hon. Members would welcome that. In those circumstances, it is inevitable that a number of authorities will exceed the notional uniform rate, but we have made clear that only those authorities that are substantially in excess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-16a.1777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-16", "file": "debates1980-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "28bbfd32b6c8f81a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-16a.1797.3", "colnum": "1797", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "his is all the money that this country has earned and can afford to spend upon supporting local government. I am sure that the hon. Member for South Ayrshire (Mr. Foulkes), who is well versed in these matters, will accept that there is no such thing as a limitless, bottomless purse into which we can dig. Therefore, he must accept that were I able to make a calculation such as he wishes me to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-16a.1797.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-16", "file": "debates1980-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "28bbfd32b6c8f81a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-16a.1814.0", "colnum": "1814", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT (SCOTLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Iain Sproat", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Iain Sproat", "preceding_text": "settlement which my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has brought to the House tonight. In one word in his speech, which I thought was almost the most important thing he said, he described this as a realistic settlement. Realism was the one commodity which was totally absent from all the speeches we have heard by Labour Members. The fact is that the Government had to cut public expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-16a.1814.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-17", "file": "debates1980-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d6aca81cbc6189f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1867.0", "colnum": "1867", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I very rarely wake up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-17", "file": "debates1980-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d6aca81cbc6189f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1876.2", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "RATE SUPPORT GRANT (DEBATE)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "preceding_text": " by the hon. Gentleman, we have read the official record. The part of my speech that the hon. Gentleman quoted was uttered in reply to a question from Labour Members. Therefore, it did not come from the official text from which I was delivering the speech. My memory is that I said \"expenditure decisions and speeches.\" If it is acceptable to the House, I can instruct Hansard , the Official Report —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1876.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-17", "file": "debates1980-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d6aca81cbc6189f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1877.3", "colnum": "1877", "heading": "CORRIGENDUM", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "\"I must tell the Opposition that they would have no difficulty because it will be clear from the restricted number of authorities affected and from the speeches and decisions that they have made that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1877.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-17", "file": "debates1980-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d6aca81cbc6189f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1888.0", "colnum": "1888", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More threats.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "The Government have put before the House proposals to change trade union law, and we shall have to see whether any further changes have to be considered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-17", "file": "debates1980-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d6aca81cbc6189f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1894.0", "colnum": "1894", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "preceding_text": "This debate takes place as we enter the third week of a dispute in the steel industry that is of such potential danger to the whole of the British economy that I am astonished that the Secretary of State should at this stage have made so thin an offering to the House and that he should have gone back on all the basic principles which have governed Government and the industry in past years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1894.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-17", "file": "debates1980-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d6aca81cbc6189f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1894.0", "colnum": "1894", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "preceding_text": "at is important? Does he not want to know why, when for 53 years a moderate trade union has not called for a national strike, it has called for one now? On one matter I agree with the Secretary of State. It is impossible to isolate this debate from the dispute. This is not a dispute between management on the one hand and unions on the other. This is a dispute between the Government and the unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1894.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-01-17", "file": "debates1980-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d6aca81cbc6189f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1895.5", "colnum": "1895", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "What is new about all this? My predecessor, the right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Varley), said in the House that part of the then Government's policy was that the financial objectives of the BSC should be to break even by the financial year 1979–80.\"—[ Official Report , 22 May 1978; Vol. 950, c. 1105.] Our requirement for BSC to break even is for one year later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1895.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-17", "file": "debates1980-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d6aca81cbc6189f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1895.8", "colnum": "1895", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the world slump?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "Of course it was Government policy that it should break even, but the economic conditions that occurred after that—mostly attributable to the right hon. Gentleman and the Government Front Bench", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1895.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-17", "file": "debates1980-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d6aca81cbc6189f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1895.8", "colnum": "1895", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": " should break even, but the economic conditions that occurred after that—mostly attributable to the right hon. Gentleman and the Government Front Bench [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the world slump?\"] Hon. Gentlemen shout about a world slump. I will deal with that in a moment—I intended to do so—and we shall see exactly where we are on that issue. Let us examine what the Secretary of State is saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1895.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-17", "file": "debates1980-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d6aca81cbc6189f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1897.1", "colnum": "1897", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Tell that to Mr. Sirs\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "Nor did the Secretary of State point out that, as a result of those closures, which have nothing to do with the immediate dispute in the steel industry, 21 pits may be idle and mine workers will be out of work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1897.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-17", "file": "debates1980-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d6aca81cbc6189f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1950.0", "colnum": "1950", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adam Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adam Butler", "preceding_text": "That is what ACAS is doing. It is trying to establish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1950.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-17", "file": "debates1980-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d6aca81cbc6189f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1952.2", "colnum": "1952", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ifor Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ifor Davies", "preceding_text": "priority, which is the essence of the debate, is to settle the steel strike. It is not a strike that affects only steel workers but one that affects all sections of the community. That point has been raised by many hon. Members. The Secretary of State defends his policy of non-intervention by claiming that he is not the management. But in his speech on 13 December he said: I am not the management—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1952.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-17", "file": "debates1980-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d6aca81cbc6189f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1991.0", "colnum": "1991", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of industry (Mr. Adam Butler)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"In my town, they are the community.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of industry (Mr. Adam Butler)", "preceding_text": "less into British Steel. Opposition Members have chosen in this debate to give support to the idea that this strike is a strike against the Government. I prefer to adopt the view of the right hon. Member for Down, South (Mr. Powell), who said that it is a strike against reality. I would go further and say that it is a strike against the community as a whole, including the steel workers themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1991.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-17", "file": "debates1980-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d6aca81cbc6189f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1991.0", "colnum": "1991", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of industry (Mr. Adam Butler)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the hon. Gentleman here for?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of industry (Mr. Adam Butler)", "preceding_text": "my town, they are the community.\"] That is correct. It is a strike against the community as a whole. There are no winners in this strike. The first Member to give weight to the view that this is a strike against the Government was, predictably, the right hon. Member for Deptford (Mr. Silkin). We accept that he and his hon. Friends are here for the politics, and the country should not be surprised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1991.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-17", "file": "debates1980-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d6aca81cbc6189f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1992.1", "colnum": "1992", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not in the steel areas.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way. I have hardly begun my speech. Nothing could be more serious than a real political strike—which this is not—when a faction in our society refuses to accept the ballot box as a way of choosing the Government of this country. The Government were elected by secret ballot with an almost unprecedented swing and with a massive majority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-17", "file": "debates1980-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d6aca81cbc6189f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1994.1", "colnum": "1994", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What does it say?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "Yes; if I can lay my hand immediately on the press release, I shall be able to do so. The British Steel press release makes its position clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.1994.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-17", "file": "debates1980-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d6aca81cbc6189f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.2018.0", "colnum": "2018", "heading": "RHODESIA (CONSTITUTION, ELECTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "preceding_text": "I am trying to understand the Opposition's position. Presumably they do not want the Rhodesian security forces and/or the Patriotic Front to guard the Rhodesian side of the bridge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.2018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-17", "file": "debates1980-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "5d6aca81cbc6189f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.2053.1", "colnum": "2053", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (FRIDAY SITTINGS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It is a matter of choice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "ssible for members of the Bar practising in court on a particular day from Monday to Thursday to be here by 4.30 pm. But, of course, on a Friday the same position applies. Members of the Bar could be here at 4 pm in order to vote on a matter of importance. But now it will be very difficult for members of the Bar to be here at 2.30 pm to vote on a matter of importance if they are engaged in a case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-17a.2053.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-01-18", "file": "debates1980-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "98b736ac5a36dc50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-18a.2074.6", "colnum": "2074", "heading": "JURY VETTING (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "preceding_text": "I beg to move—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-18a.2074.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-18", "file": "debates1980-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "98b736ac5a36dc50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-18a.2090.1", "colnum": "2090", "heading": "GREATER MANCHESTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "increases every two years instead of every three as at present. That is a great blow to tenants of private landlords in my constituency. The myth put about by the Government that landlords are miserable, put-upon people who long to improve their houses if they have the opportunity is not borne out by several landlords in my constituency, one group of whom is a gang of crooks and should be in gaol.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-18a.2090.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-01-18", "file": "debates1980-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "98b736ac5a36dc50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-18a.2173.2", "colnum": "2173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — JURY VETTING (ABOLITION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-18a.2173.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-01-18", "file": "debates1980-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "98b736ac5a36dc50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-18a.2173.6", "colnum": "2173", "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/1980-01-18a.2173.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-21", "file": "debates1980-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "391f572fb4b57df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-21a.18.3", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "The letter written from my office, not by me, to the Wales TUC—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-21a.18.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-21", "file": "debates1980-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "391f572fb4b57df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-21a.73.2", "colnum": "73", "heading": "NORTHERN REGION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mark Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mark Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the opportunity of being called in the debate, but I am not sure whether I have any status to address the House in the eyes of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-21a.73.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-21", "file": "debates1980-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "391f572fb4b57df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-21a.73.2", "colnum": "73", "heading": "NORTHERN REGION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mark Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mark Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "him that the part of my consti- tuency that lies within Cumbria also lies within the area of North-Western Industrial Development Association, as does the constituency of the right hon. Member for Barrow-in-Furness (Mr. Booth). Therefore, I take it that both the right hon. Gentleman and myself would be excluded from some northern development area if a future Labour Government sought to create one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-21a.73.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-22", "file": "debates1980-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "24a3a92e086aeb80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-22a.201.4", "colnum": "201", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "The answer to the right hon. Gentleman's first question is \"Yes\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-22a.201.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-22", "file": "debates1980-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "24a3a92e086aeb80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-22a.393.1", "colnum": "393", "heading": "EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I should like to give a firm commitment, but it is quite impossible always to do that, when we may almost be doing some horse dealing about what goes on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-22a.393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-23", "file": "debates1980-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "021f4a648c918f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-23a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "RHODESIA", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luce", "preceding_text": "I am a little surprised by the one-sided nature of those questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-23a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-23", "file": "debates1980-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "021f4a648c918f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-23a.458.4", "colnum": "458", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "e Member for Lancaster (Mrs. Kellett-Bowman) referred, that all charges should be eliminated. It put the cost at about £200 million at the price levels of a year or so ago. I have to tell the House that, if the charges were to be abolished today, this could be achieved only by a cut in spending on the National Health Service by an equivalent figure, and today's figure would be nearer £250 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-23a.458.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-23", "file": "debates1980-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "021f4a648c918f3c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-23a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "t. Children in areas receiving fluoridated water have markedly healthier teeth, and I understand why the Royal Commission recommended legislation. However, on such a controversial issue we in this country have to proceed by consent and I must tell the House that the Government have, at the moment, no proposals for legislation. Rather, let us see whether we can achieve better results by persuasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-23a.464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-24", "file": "debates1980-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "aac0c71cc7f61eeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-24a.628.2", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "Of course not. It will take time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-24a.628.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-24", "file": "debates1980-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "aac0c71cc7f61eeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-24a.631.4", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will recall that what we have achieved so far is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-24a.631.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-24", "file": "debates1980-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "aac0c71cc7f61eeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-24a.639.3", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINLSTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman's suggestion is absolute nonsense. Counter-inflation policy rests with the Treasury, where it should rest, and with the Cabinet as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-24a.639.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-24", "file": "debates1980-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "aac0c71cc7f61eeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-24a.644.1", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINLSTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady asked me a question and I will answer in the form of an interrogative, if I may. Does not the right hon. Lady believe that my reputation in the country on matters concerning industrial disputes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-24a.644.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-01-24", "file": "debates1980-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "aac0c71cc7f61eeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-24a.644.5", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINLSTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Nor can people who strike run away from their responsibilities. Nor can anyone in a democracy run away from his responsibility. I am very concerned about jobs and I can see little point in workers striking when they have no dispute with their employer, or in striking to do themselves out of a good job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-24a.644.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-24", "file": "debates1980-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "aac0c71cc7f61eeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-24a.650.1", "colnum": "650", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "There has been a very full written statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-24a.650.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-24", "file": "debates1980-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "aac0c71cc7f61eeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-24a.653.5", "colnum": "653", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "As the Services Committee is meeting next week, is my right hon. Friend more optimistic that a sensible system of agreed but limited access for Euro- pean Members can be proposed for discussion?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-24a.653.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-24", "file": "debates1980-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "aac0c71cc7f61eeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-24a.655.1", "colnum": "655", "heading": "AFGHANISTAN", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Sir Ian Gilmour)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Sir Ian Gilmour)", "preceding_text": "k forward to rebuilding a mutually satisfactory relationship with the people and Government of Iran once the American hostages in Tehran have been released. Above all, we believe that one of the most important of all possible contributions to the political stability of the area would be a settlement of the Arab-Israel conflict, which recognised the rights of the Palestine people as well as Israel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-24a.655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-24", "file": "debates1980-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "aac0c71cc7f61eeb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-24a.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "NUCLEAR WEAPONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "preceding_text": "y cruise systems at the present time. That is the argument that they have advanced in the NATO discussions. There seems to be a strong case for joint control. I cannot believe that it would be a major issue with our American allies. We are entitled to wholly satisfactory guarantees that nuclear weapons are never dispatched from this island except with the express consent of the British Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-24a.764.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-25", "file": "debates1980-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "76ebe8f322d50320", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-25a.834.1", "colnum": "834", "heading": "LEISURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "only horsemen are affected; the children who rode over the South Downs would not have had that right if such legislation had applied there. They would not have had the consequent boost to them individually, to their schools and to their families. Others affected on Dartmoor include hang-gliding enthusiasts. Everyone is up in arms. The Bill must be opposed, and I hope that the House will reject it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-25a.834.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-01-25", "file": "debates1980-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "76ebe8f322d50320", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-25a.891.22", "colnum": "891", "heading": "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/1980-01-25a.891.21"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-28", "file": "debates1980-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "757dd7dc5f45af2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-28a.929.0", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PICKETING", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "rtherance of a trade dispute are favoured compared with others, namely, sections 15 and 13 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974, as amended. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Employment and the Government have shown that they are not satisfied with either. Current proposals for changing them are contained in the Bill that is before the House. Since the Bill was presented—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-28a.929.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-28", "file": "debates1980-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "757dd7dc5f45af2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-28a.953.3", "colnum": "953", "heading": "EAST-WEST RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "No, I would not agree with the hon. Gentleman about the right hon. Lady's speech. I am not accustomed to give encomiums to her, and I do not do so this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-28a.953.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-28", "file": "debates1980-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "757dd7dc5f45af2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-28a.953.3", "colnum": "953", "heading": "EAST-WEST RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "e hon. Gentleman about the right hon. Lady's speech. I am not accustomed to give encomiums to her, and I do not do so this afternoon. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] I am sure that everybody will come to his own judgment. With some of the things that she said I found myself in total agreement, and others, I thought, were phrased in a way which would not create the area of understanding that I am coming to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-28a.953.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-28", "file": "debates1980-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "757dd7dc5f45af2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-28a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "EAST-WEST RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman does.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamond", "preceding_text": "hat we were unaware of those interests and that we have done nothing about them for the past two years? I find that incredible. I believe that we were actively engaged in encouraging subversion in Afghanistan. Therefore, when we look at these possibilities more deeply than has been done in the House today, we see a perfectly legitimate reason for the Soviet Union to send assistance to Afghanistan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-28a.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-28", "file": "debates1980-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "757dd7dc5f45af2d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-28a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "EAST-WEST RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamond", "preceding_text": "ast two years? I find that incredible. I believe that we were actively engaged in encouraging subversion in Afghanistan. Therefore, when we look at these possibilities more deeply than has been done in the House today, we see a perfectly legitimate reason for the Soviet Union to send assistance to Afghanistan. [HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman does.\"] This may be a minority opinion in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-28a.984.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-29", "file": "debates1980-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "260e0d0aff0a65b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1103.4", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman recognises that the Government have given a clear promise to bring forward further proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1103.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-29", "file": "debates1980-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "260e0d0aff0a65b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1104.1", "colnum": "1104", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "Is that good enough?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1104.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-29", "file": "debates1980-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "260e0d0aff0a65b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1120.4", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend now deplore the rabble-rousing partnership at work yesterday between Mr. Arthur Scargill and the deputy leader of the Labour Party, the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Foot)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1120.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-29", "file": "debates1980-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "260e0d0aff0a65b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1124.0", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MR. SPEAKER (PERSONAL STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I shall make a brief personal statement. Those who were in the Chamber earlier this afternoon will know that right hon. and hon. Members were kind enough to give me birthday greetings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-29", "file": "debates1980-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "260e0d0aff0a65b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1124.0", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MR. SPEAKER (PERSONAL STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "about my intentions for the future. It is but eight months since the House did me the honour of electing me Mr. Speaker for the life of this Parliament. That is a trust that I hope to fulfil. I do not wish to tempt providence, but I am feeling as fit as when I assumed the Chair. Therefore, it is my intention to continue to serve the House for this Parliament as it invited me to do eight month ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1124.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-29", "file": "debates1980-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "260e0d0aff0a65b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1131.3", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "onservative hon. Members spend their time demanding that we should accept commercial judgments. The OPEC countries have a vested interest in ensuring that the price of gas, which it currently does little about other than burn, rises to meet oil prices. It is not in the interests of this country, or in the interests of Western Europe or anyone in the world, that gas prices should follow oil prices.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1131.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-29", "file": "debates1980-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "260e0d0aff0a65b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1132.6", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Hon. Members. \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "cept the highest energy prices that operate in the world, our industry, which is already experiencing great difficulty against the exchange rate, will have a particularly difficult time. Conservative Members will have to face the fact that it is not in our interests to tie domestic gas prices to oil prices. Of course, gas prices must bear some relationship, because they cannot be divorced totally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1132.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-29", "file": "debates1980-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "260e0d0aff0a65b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1164.0", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "This is a curious debate. I found the comments of the right hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dr. Owen) quite irrelevant to the problems of gas and energy policy. It seems to me that the sooner he goes back to foreign affairs, the better for him and for the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-29", "file": "debates1980-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "260e0d0aff0a65b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1193.1", "colnum": "1193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — GAS PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "If that means keeping pace with oil, it means that the Arabs are fixing the costs of our industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-29", "file": "debates1980-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "260e0d0aff0a65b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1213.0", "colnum": "1213", "heading": "EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "I realise that we now have a majority of over 50 hon. Members. We therefore have a responsibility to get our legislation through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1213.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-29", "file": "debates1980-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "260e0d0aff0a65b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1219.0", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "amentary duties of scrutiny. It could have been impotence. I realise, however, that the Opposition on that occasion were led by the right hon. Member for Chelmsford (Mr. St. John-Stevas). He is anything but impotent. Consequently, we acquit the Opposition of that charge. We can only conclude that it is a matter of complaint. The right hon. and learned Gentleman accuses me of enjoying my own voice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1219.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-01-29", "file": "debates1980-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "260e0d0aff0a65b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1220.1", "colnum": "1220", "heading": "EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mark Carlisle", "preceding_text": "This is a total irrelevance. It should be made clear that at 4.30 pm today the hon. Gentleman and I knew that we were opening the debate. I can assure him that the notes from which I was speaking were all handwritten.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1220.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-29", "file": "debates1980-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "260e0d0aff0a65b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1246.0", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Gentleman has raised that point. Of course I have a duty to represent the views of my constituents who happen to be Catholics. As my right hon. and learned Friend well knows, I have done so vigorously, fully and frequently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-29", "file": "debates1980-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "260e0d0aff0a65b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1260.2", "colnum": "1260", "heading": "EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "olicy on which it is proposed to curtail debate, both in Committee and on Report. They are elements which no Government, Labour or Conservative, have ever proposed touching in the many Bills on education since 1976. This is a truly revolutionary change, which is dawning on the country only slowly. We receive letters about this change from women's institutes, the National Farmers' Union, and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1260.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-29", "file": "debates1980-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "260e0d0aff0a65b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1268.1", "colnum": "1268", "heading": "EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "What I am suggesting is that the attitude of the Government on this point is reasonable and flexible and that we do not expect any change in practice. May I get back to the subject of the guillotine? Speaking as a parliamentarian, I regard the guillotine as a necessary evil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-29", "file": "debates1980-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "260e0d0aff0a65b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1269.8", "colnum": "1269", "heading": "EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "In general, Labour Governments have been traditionally much more eager to resort to guillotines than Tory Governments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1269.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-29", "file": "debates1980-01-29a.xml", "sha256": "260e0d0aff0a65b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1271.0", "colnum": "1271", "heading": "EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "inational schools in a discriminatory way—answer a substantive point? Will it still be the case that parents who have not had to find substantial fares for their children to travel to school will now—as a result of the Bill and of the Goverment's action—have to pay £90 to send their children to a primary school and £133 to send their children to secondary schools? For the first time in the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-29a.1271.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-30", "file": "debates1980-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "63f4578602bf0179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-30a.1345.6", "colnum": "1345", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Municipal Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "at which, by an overwhelming majority, it was decided to advise councillors not to proceed with the decision to build a new headquarters. That matter is totally within the decision of the local councillors. Some Conservative councillors have now called an emergency meeting of the council and it will be for the council—asa result of that meeting—to decide what to do. I wish to make one other point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-30a.1345.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-30", "file": "debates1980-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "63f4578602bf0179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-30a.1362.1", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "TELEVISING OF PARLIAMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": ". Members may argue that people have access to the radio, but that is not an appropriate medium. It is appropriate for continuous coverage, because it is cheap, but, for the rest, the microphones pick up every extraneous noise and give the impression of chaos and disorder of a sort that you, Mr. Speaker, would never allow. The listener is infuriated by radio because he cannot see what is going on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-30a.1362.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-30", "file": "debates1980-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "63f4578602bf0179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-30a.1447.1", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "preceding_text": "Yes; it would be hard not to agree with that sort of statement. I shall be brief because I see the Whips racing around the Chamber trying to persuade hon. Members to end the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-30a.1447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-30", "file": "debates1980-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "63f4578602bf0179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-30a.1455.0", "colnum": "1455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Rather than face that horrific possibility, I withdraw all imputations that the hon. Member is a member of the Establishment. As I look at him, I do have doubts. Never mind. I accept the hon. Gentleman's assurance. I am not a member of the Establishment on either ground. I am a free spirit and I range as far as the Chief Whip allows me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-30a.1455.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-30", "file": "debates1980-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "63f4578602bf0179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-30a.1476.4", "colnum": "1476", "heading": "SCHOOL MILK AND MEALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macfarlane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macfarlane", "preceding_text": "ing the past 24 sittings of the Committee. There have been exaggerated claims that we are destroying the school meals service and free meals, neither of which is true. The Government have done nothing over the past seven or eight months to destroy the provision of free meals. There is nothing planned in the legislation that will destroy the free school meal service. The House must understand that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-30a.1476.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-30", "file": "debates1980-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "63f4578602bf0179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-30a.1477.4", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "SCHOOL MILK AND MEALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macfarlane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macfarlane", "preceding_text": "fit of Opposition Members, because they appear to show a callous disregard for the true facts. The White Paper \"The Government's Expenditure Plans 1980–81\", Cmnd. 7746, which was published in November of last year, began with these words: Public expenditure is at the heart of Britain's present economic difficulties. Those economic difficulties were perpetrated largely by Opposition Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-30a.1477.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-30", "file": "debates1980-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "63f4578602bf0179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-30a.1479.3", "colnum": "1479", "heading": "SCHOOL MILK AND MEALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macfarlane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macfarlane", "preceding_text": "tion authority to make its own decisions about the school meals service it wants to provide, including the charging policy, under the powers that we propose to give the authorities. Although it will be for each local education authority to decide its own priorities in the light of its own circumstances, the Government's policy of safeguarding educational standards is well known to all authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-30a.1479.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-30", "file": "debates1980-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "63f4578602bf0179", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-30a.1512.1", "colnum": "1512", "heading": "SCHOOL MILK AND MEALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "I will come to that point in a minute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-30a.1512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-31", "file": "debates1980-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "a8541cd8e1fed651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-31a.1558.2", "colnum": "1558", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Gas.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I believe that what my hon. Friend is saying is that where there is a monopoly that is a bad bargain for the public, that results in very high prices without commensurate service. I agree with my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-31a.1558.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-31", "file": "debates1980-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "a8541cd8e1fed651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-31a.1562.4", "colnum": "1562", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has escalated the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-31a.1562.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-01-31", "file": "debates1980-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "a8541cd8e1fed651", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-31a.1573.0", "colnum": "1573", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary, of course, has power to exclude a person on the ground that his judgment is that the exclusion is conducive to the public good.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-01-31a.1573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-01", "file": "debates1980-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "8b3b89b4f899ca99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-01a.1741.1", "colnum": "1741", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "it to the right hon. Gentleman that in the motion there is a fundamental misunderstanding of what current events in Afghanistan are about. In fact, by doing this I challenge the whole premise of the motion. I make it clear that I do not think that the Red Army should be in Afghanistan—for very similar reasons to those which lead me to believe that the British Army should not be in Northern Ireland", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-01a.1741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-01", "file": "debates1980-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "8b3b89b4f899ca99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-01a.1793.0", "colnum": "1793", "heading": "NATIONAL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. D. Concannon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. D. Concannon", "preceding_text": " brave act for an hon. Member to make one's maiden speech on defence, but I managed to do so. If acted upon, I believe that the motion before us would be seen as another over-reaction. I do not believe that it is necessary, and certainly I think that it would be misunderstood. Such a measure is not required by the Armed Forces, and I am sure that the nation's youth would react most strongly to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-01a.1793.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-02-01", "file": "debates1980-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "8b3b89b4f899ca99", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-01a.1827.9", "colnum": "1827", "heading": "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/1980-02-01a.1827.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-04", "file": "debates1980-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "40a56beef991aae9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-04a.16.1", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. There is no doubt that competition restrains prices substantially, but the effect is difficult to isolate in terms of precise figures and varies from industry to industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-04a.16.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-04", "file": "debates1980-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "40a56beef991aae9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-04a.28.4", "colnum": "28", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": " serious though that is. The real damage is to confidence and to future orders for British steel. The right hon. Gentleman's second question showed that, once again, he has flinched from putting what he really means. He has asked me to intervene when what he really means—I do not know why he does not say so openly—is that he wishes to Government to find more money from the long-suffering taxpayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-04a.28.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-04", "file": "debates1980-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "40a56beef991aae9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-04a.29.0", "colnum": "29", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is quite wrong to say that I have not said openly what I believe—I have said it in debate after debate—and that proves that he does not listen, any more than he listens—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-04a.29.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-04", "file": "debates1980-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "40a56beef991aae9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-04a.151.1", "colnum": "151", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": " £48 million. The Secretary of State, in the press handout, states; I can now tell the House that, within the reduced public expenditure programme we have been discussing, the Government are planning to make available some £48 million over the next two years for remedial measures of this kind. So they are within the existing programmes, as far as one can gather. We want to know whether that is so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-04a.151.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-04", "file": "debates1980-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "40a56beef991aae9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-04a.156.5", "colnum": "156", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is it coming from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "It is not bogus at all. The hon. Member will recognise that when I tell him squarely that this £48 million is additional money for the WDA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-04a.156.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-02-04", "file": "debates1980-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "40a56beef991aae9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-04a.157.0", "colnum": "157", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "It is not bogus at all. The hon. Member will recognise that when I tell him squarely that this £48 million is additional money for the WDA—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is it coming from?\"]—and other agencies for industrial development. I am asked where the money comes from. It is taxpayers' money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-04a.156.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-04", "file": "debates1980-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "40a56beef991aae9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-04a.160.3", "colnum": "160", "heading": "WELSH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "I have given way a great deal. A number of complete subjects have been debated, to which I shall not have time to refer. We are committed to a strong regional policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-04a.160.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-04", "file": "debates1980-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "40a56beef991aae9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-04a.207.1", "colnum": "207", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY (SOUTH WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "ial headroom that it may now see in its other markets created by the recent sharp rise in oil prices. At the recent tripartite meeting between the Government, the NCB and the mining unions, it was clear that all were convinced that the coal industry could enjoy a prosperous future and make a crucial contribution to the country's energy needs, provided only that it could supply the amounts of coal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-04a.207.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-02-05", "file": "debates1980-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "16b704e190bd5536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-05a.212.1", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": " Education (No. 2) Bill, will seriously damage mandatory educational provision? It will devastate the non-mandatory sector and abolish virtually all educational welfare provisions such as school meals. Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman agree that the industrial action that is being taken today by teachers is a reflection of the real concern felt by them, if not by all Conservative Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-05a.212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-05", "file": "debates1980-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "16b704e190bd5536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-05a.231.3", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I did not see the programme. I have more or less read the script, together with the radio script—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-05a.231.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-05", "file": "debates1980-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "16b704e190bd5536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-05a.266.1", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT, PLANNING AND LAND (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"He said so.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "d by the Secretary of State's personal judgment about their motives. Time and time again—and it will appear even more forcibly when we talk of revenue control—the Bill gives the Secretary of State not only the right to make his own decisions about the performance of local authorities, but their performance is judged by his opinion of their intentions, which seems to me to be fundamentally bad law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-05a.266.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-05", "file": "debates1980-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "16b704e190bd5536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-05a.266.2", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT, PLANNING AND LAND (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. My colleague the Minister for Housing and Construction was originally making this interruption, because inadvertently—I hope it was inadvertently—it was his feeling that the right hon. Gentleman was casting aspersions upon the technical competence of Hansard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-05a.266.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-05", "file": "debates1980-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "16b704e190bd5536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-05a.266.3", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT, PLANNING AND LAND (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "No. I make it absolutely clear that what I said about the error in Hansard last week was in no way intended to reflect on the Hansard authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-05a.266.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-05", "file": "debates1980-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "16b704e190bd5536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-05a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT, PLANNING AND LAND (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "I know that my hon. Friend will say that it is an office of profit. I shall come to that point. I have asked the Secretary of State whether local representatives are to be included on the development corporation. I cannot state his final reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-05a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-05", "file": "debates1980-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "16b704e190bd5536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-05a.285.0", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT, PLANNING AND LAND (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. D. Concannon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. D. Concannon", "preceding_text": "problems will become national and not local if the Bill goes through unamended. If I start hearing about problems with housing and repairs after the Bill goes through, let me say to the Minister that he will have to sort out my housing problems. The Minister is coming dangerously close to upsetting the balance between central and local government, and he should think hard and long before doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-05a.285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-05", "file": "debates1980-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "16b704e190bd5536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-05a.300.6", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT, PLANNING AND LAND (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "set up in 1974 took two years—that is understandable for a big job—to produce its strategic plan. The urban development corporation will have to go through that process all over again. The strategic plan is pretty good. It provides for 33,000 new jobs, for 23,000 new dwellings and for all the services that go with them. Every single bit of that strategic plan is on schedule, except for two things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-05a.300.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-05", "file": "debates1980-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "16b704e190bd5536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-05a.317.0", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT, PLANNING AND LAND (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "preceding_text": "e Mersey Docks and Harbour Board. On top of that, he is on the northern regional board of the National Westminster Bank. All that considered, and knowing that the hon. Member is such an enthusiast for this concept, may I ask whether he would care to indicate whether a person such as this gentleman will have sufficient time to do the kind of work that will be necessary, and whether he is convinced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-05a.317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-05", "file": "debates1980-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "16b704e190bd5536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-05a.358.1", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT, PLANNING AND LAND (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Oakes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Oakes", "preceding_text": "in provisions are bitterly and vigorously opposed by all three local government associations, all of them completely Conservative-controlled. It is opposed by individual authorities, of varied political complexions, as so many hon. Members on both sides of the House have pointed out. It is opposed by trade unions, by individual pressure groups, by the Liberal Party and by the Welsh National Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-05a.358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-05", "file": "debates1980-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "16b704e190bd5536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-05a.410.0", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (ENERGY PROGRAMME AND NUCLEAR PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "itten statement. However, when one is in breach of an undertaking to the House it is always preferable to make an oral statement to the House. On the issues involved, when we analyse what the Secretary of State has said we realise that he has indicated that it is no subsidy. As far as I can understand what he was saying, the terms of the loans are not giving us any preference, apart from the fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-05a.410.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-05", "file": "debates1980-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "16b704e190bd5536", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-05a.412.3", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (ENERGY PROGRAMME AND NUCLEAR PROPOSALS)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "ced difficult years under successive Governments. Substantial investment has gone into the industry from 1974 onwards, and it has begun to pay off. Over the past year the coal industry's record is striking. Production is rising, and at an accelerating rate. The indicator of absence, which includes absenteeism, but also non-appearance at work, is substantially down. The third aspect is recruitment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-05a.412.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-06", "file": "debates1980-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "0213d5fbed2a6368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-06a.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "l secretary not been tapped but that the telephones of other members of the STUC have not been tapped illegally by security services personnel or anyone else? If the Minister cannot give the STUC that assurance, will he inform the House this afternoon what possible reasons there can be for tapping the telephones of hard-working, honest people who do their best for this country? Will he also state—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-06a.472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-06", "file": "debates1980-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "0213d5fbed2a6368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-06a.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "telephones of other members of the STUC have not been tapped illegally by security services personnel or anyone else? If the Minister cannot give the STUC that assurance, will he inform the House this afternoon what possible reasons there can be for tapping the telephones of hard-working, honest people who do their best for this country? Will he also state—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"] Will he also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-06a.472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-06", "file": "debates1980-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "0213d5fbed2a6368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-06a.475.2", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "The right hon Gentleman knows all about high unemployment figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-06a.475.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-06", "file": "debates1980-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "0213d5fbed2a6368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-06a.480.4", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": " that is not the cause of the terrible unemployment, there must be other causes. Does not the hon. Gentleman agree that I, at least, have been consistent on the matter, no matter on which side of the House I have sat? Does he think that it is an absurd anomaly that one can drive from Brighton right up to Dundee and the only bit of road for which one has to pay is the bit across the Firth of Forth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-06a.480.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-06", "file": "debates1980-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "0213d5fbed2a6368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-06a.552.2", "colnum": "552", "heading": "INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman made one remark to which I should like to call particular attention—that we cannot leave reorganisation to the private sector. In all conscience, one could not accuse him and his friends of having done that. They have left nothing to the private sector of industry. They have been constant in their tampering and interference—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-06a.552.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-06", "file": "debates1980-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "0213d5fbed2a6368", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-06a.570.3", "colnum": "570", "heading": "INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about steel?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "preceding_text": " delighted that the hon. Gentleman has asked that question, because it enables me to refer to the facts of productivity in nationalised industries. If one considers the 1960s and early 1970s, when investment in gas and electricity under public ownership during the 1950s had had time to take effect, one will see that productivity was uniformly higher in those sectors than in manufacturing industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-06a.570.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-07", "file": "debates1980-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4e811c55c4fc0353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "This is a difficult thing to do. All of us in the House claim that we do not rely on public opinion polls. Nor do we. But there was a poll before the conference started in Northern Ireland, which indicated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-07", "file": "debates1980-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4e811c55c4fc0353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.736.0", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shabby\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "As members of the Cabinet seem to be tumbling over themselves to tell the press where they stand on the Employment Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.736.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-07", "file": "debates1980-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4e811c55c4fc0353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.742.2", "colnum": "742", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do something about it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I have every sympathy with my right hon. Friend and other hon. Members on that point. We are faced with a shortage of staff.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.742.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-07", "file": "debates1980-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4e811c55c4fc0353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.816.5", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fraud.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "That may be so for the West Midlands. However, that does not apply to Wolverhampton.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.816.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-07", "file": "debates1980-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4e811c55c4fc0353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.840.1", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "ing in the United Kingdom when they look at the total cost and find that they are getting no benefit whatever from the Government's regional policy. As for distinguishing between what is foot-less and what is not, that is not a matter to be decided by coming to the House of Commons. It is a matter of deciding, in negotiation with the company, whether it will make its investment in the first place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-07", "file": "debates1980-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4e811c55c4fc0353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.857.6", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": " the hon. Gentleman, he replied. He is nothing if not honest. He is always absolutely frank. He said that that was some years ago. He told us that he was wiser than he had been previously. I understand that I believe that Sir Winston Churchill once said—or said many times, for all I know—that consistency was the hobgoblin of small minds. Nobody can accuse the hon. Gentleman of having a small mind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.857.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-07", "file": "debates1980-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4e811c55c4fc0353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.867.1", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "preceding_text": "t public funds, not necessarily with a public shareholding but insisting on a management change. Instead of that deal being done behind closed doors—in a manner which, until quite recently, was familiar in the election of leaders of the Conservative Party—the deal is made explicit in a signed agreement between the management and the Government. [I nterruption. ] There are other kinds of agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-07", "file": "debates1980-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4e811c55c4fc0353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.867.1", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "preceding_text": "servative Party—the deal is made explicit in a signed agreement between the management and the Government. [I nterruption. ] There are other kinds of agreement—[ Interruption. ] It sometimes occurs to me that Conservative Members have forgotten that \"Your Old Boys'Organisation\" spells \"YOBO\", and much of their intervention in the debate comes into that category. There are other types of agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.867.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-07", "file": "debates1980-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4e811c55c4fc0353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.877.0", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "ning lights of this sort available, the Government could have taken action. But the people who organised Norton Villiers Triumph at that time had exactly the same attitude as the Department of Industry has today; they had contempt for the Government. Representatives of the Department of Industry actually had to wait and queue up to give information to NVT in those dark days when it was in decline.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.877.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-07", "file": "debates1980-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4e811c55c4fc0353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "ernment of the day. That was what it amounted to. There were no front-page headlines about that. But that was what was going on for the whole period. We ought to have resisted the opposition, and we ought to have pressed ahead and had some reserve powers on compulsion. My guess is that the next manifesto of the Labour Party will have that view restored to it and we shall have those reserve powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-07", "file": "debates1980-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4e811c55c4fc0353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.885.4", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "preceding_text": " be successful, industry—here I take the point of my hon. Friend the Member for Waltham Forest (Mr. Deakins), because he is quite right—comprises both those who manage and, especially, those who work in it. Without them, nothing will be produced. not even for those customers who do not have much choice under the present Government since imports are coming in and destroying the whole of the market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.885.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-07", "file": "debates1980-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4e811c55c4fc0353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.896.2", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": ". I understand my Friend's proposition. I accept that there may be unavoidable circumstances in which it is necessary to act during a recess, but I hope that we shall never again see a situation where the biggest projects somehow go through during a recess and the tiddlers are left to be debated in Parliament. That is not the way that it should be done. On that basis, with considerable reluctance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.896.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-07", "file": "debates1980-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4e811c55c4fc0353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.896.2", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Schedule 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Vote, vote.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "see a situation where the biggest projects somehow go through during a recess and the tiddlers are left to be debated in Parliament. That is not the way that it should be done. On that basis, with considerable reluctance—[ Interruption. ] I find it deplorable that right hon. and hon. Gentlemen should regard the expenditure of tens of millions of pounds of taxpayers' money as a matter for hilarity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.896.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-07", "file": "debates1980-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4e811c55c4fc0353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.900.0", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Taylor", "preceding_text": "n 12 months' time he will have doubled the total, and we are given the following valuable piece of information, which is an example of the expenditure that we are being asked to approve: Now the counsellor calls about every month to see how the business is progressing. How many counsellors shall we put on the books by approving the clause? I understand that there will be no Division on the clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.900.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-07", "file": "debates1980-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "4e811c55c4fc0353", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.904.5", "colnum": "904", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Hon Members: \"Who by?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "It would have been open to the previous Government to have regularised the position. We regularised it as soon as we had it brought to our attention. I give this assurance. It was brought to our attention only after the Bill had had its Second Reading and was in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-07a.904.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-08", "file": "debates1980-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "5b92c4c310d2d36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.954.2", "colnum": "954", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "I must appeal to the hon. Gentleman in the interests of clarity and truth. He has not answered the first point 1 made, He knows perfectly well that it was not an all-party Committee that produced the report. All the members from the Labour side, including several women members who sat on the Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.954.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-08", "file": "debates1980-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "5b92c4c310d2d36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.960.5", "colnum": "960", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Braine", "preceding_text": " did not listen in Standing Committee. However, on a matter that touches the conscience of hon. Members, most hon. Members wish to hear the argument. I do not doubt that every day of the week abortion on demand is taking place either in private clinics or, in some cases, in National Health Service hospitals. I can prove it. What is more, I said as much in Committee in the presence of the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.960.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-08", "file": "debates1980-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "5b92c4c310d2d36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.962.4", "colnum": "962", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir. B. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir. B. Braine", "preceding_text": "I cannot describe the distress of a doctor who knows that this sort of thing is going on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.962.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-08", "file": "debates1980-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "5b92c4c310d2d36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.963.4", "colnum": "963", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Braine", "preceding_text": "I can deal with only one interruption at a time. I am perfectly willing to go on doing so at considerable length, but I do not wish to weary the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.963.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-08", "file": "debates1980-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "5b92c4c310d2d36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.963.4", "colnum": "963", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir B. Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir B. Braine", "preceding_text": "I can deal with only one interruption at a time. I am perfectly willing to go on doing so at considerable length, but I do not wish to weary the House. [ Interruption. ] I am trying to answer the point that has been put to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.963.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-08", "file": "debates1980-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "5b92c4c310d2d36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.965.0", "colnum": "965", "heading": "New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "some evidence to the House that the provisions of sections 1 and 2 of the Abortion Act 1967 may, in the particular case that he produced to the House, have been broken. If so, that seems to me to be a good case for enforcement of the law, but it does not seem to me to add up to an argument for changing a law which is not being enforced at the present time. I want briefly to turn to the new clause—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.965.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-08", "file": "debates1980-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "5b92c4c310d2d36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.979.5", "colnum": "979", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jo Richardson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jo Richardson", "preceding_text": "ctor need be involved and his opinion required only as to the six-week limit. That is not even abortion on request. The doctor will be under no compulsion to examine the patient or carry out the abortion. It will enable a woman, one hopes having discussed the matter with her partner and family, legally to ask for an abortion in the first six weeks of pregnancy, without the constraints in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.979.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-08", "file": "debates1980-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "5b92c4c310d2d36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "e believes that that is so. As I explained, the term means that the doctor does not have to be present and that he need not even be in the house. The term is often used when a student who is \"under medical supervision\" is operating with no doctor there at all. If hon. Members do not understand this, I can only ask them to check the facts. I assure the House that these are the facts in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-08", "file": "debates1980-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "5b92c4c310d2d36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.985.5", "colnum": "985", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "I have given away enough, and I must get on. Abortion is not a simple, no-account matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.985.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-08", "file": "debates1980-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "5b92c4c310d2d36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.985.5", "colnum": "985", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "I have given away enough, and I must get on. Abortion is not a simple, no-account matter. [ Interruption. ] It is a serious matter and should not be carried out without a serious reason. The clause rejects that view and goes four-square for abortion being used merely as an alternative to contraception.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.985.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-08", "file": "debates1980-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "5b92c4c310d2d36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.985.5", "colnum": "985", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "ason. The clause rejects that view and goes four-square for abortion being used merely as an alternative to contraception. [ Interruption. ] I cannot accept that, because it is im- mensely important for women to take responsibility for what they do and to take measures not to become pregnant, rather than to have this let-out, which is clearly a sort of abortion to be used instead of contraception.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.985.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-08", "file": "debates1980-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "5b92c4c310d2d36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.1002.1", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Black.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "That is another part of the mythology that never seems to change. I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman has any children's homes in his constituency. If so, are they empty or full? If there are children there, what sort of children are they?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.1002.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-08", "file": "debates1980-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "5b92c4c310d2d36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.1002.5", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "to have abortions were prevented from doing so and the children were farmed out for adoption by all the people who are lining up in queues waiting to adopt them. The unfortunate thing about children in care in our society is that, yes, there are children waiting to be adopted, but I doubt very much whether large numbers of people who use this argument would adopt those children that are available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.1002.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-08", "file": "debates1980-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "5b92c4c310d2d36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.1003.2", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "s absolutely right. It is a specious argument which is always raised. But the people who are campaigning against those of us who want a liberal, fair abortion law for both patients and doctors are not the people who have—I do not suppose—any experience of adopting and taking into their homes the kind of children that are left behind. Mostly, they want, I think, blue-eyed, fair-haired little girls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.1003.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-08", "file": "debates1980-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "5b92c4c310d2d36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": " law as it is now, but, if not, the law according to what the House decides. It is important to keep the question of the time limit in perspective. We know that the vast majority of abortions are carried out before 16 weeks. Fewer than 1 per cent. are performed after 20 weeks. Therefore, we are talking about a very small proportion at the upper margin. One must ask to whom the 1 per cent. relates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-08", "file": "debates1980-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "5b92c4c310d2d36e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.1011.0", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend realise that his argument applies equally to 24 weeks, and that many babies aborted at 24 weeks may have a 26-week gestation age? As we now know for certain that above 24 weeks 50 per cent. of such babies have a chance not simply of life but of survival, does not he think that he is running a bit of a risk with life?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-08a.1011.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-11", "file": "debates1980-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9c37602ac6674022", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-11a.1218.1", "colnum": "1218", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "pour hundreds of millions of pounds of public money into the aerospace industry if private enterprise had been successful. It patently and obviously was a failure. During the last two years a tremendous feeling has grown up, and I am particularly conscious of it because about 12,000 to 14,000 aerospace workers live in my area. They are extremely proud of their skill and the product that they make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-11a.1218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-11", "file": "debates1980-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "9c37602ac6674022", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-11a.1235.0", "colnum": "1235", "heading": "SEX EQUALITY LEGISLATION", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Timothy Raison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Timothy Raison)", "preceding_text": "ink that he will have deserved them. What we have just heard from my hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton)—and I think that he was speaking in very much the same sense as my hon. Friend the Member for Orpington—was a firm demand for the repeal of the Sex Discrimination Act, which came into operation in December 1975. I am afraid that here I shall be disappointing my hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-11a.1235.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-12", "file": "debates1980-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a67b51d3a826522f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-12a.1265.7", "colnum": "1265", "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": "The arrest of Mr. Garfield Todd is a matter for the police and I cannot comment upon it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-12a.1265.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-12", "file": "debates1980-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a67b51d3a826522f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-12a.1267.1", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The fact that we had a very high increase in public expenditure this last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-12a.1267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-12", "file": "debates1980-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a67b51d3a826522f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-12a.1447.1", "colnum": "1447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miscampbell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miscampbell", "preceding_text": "s well as a political overtone. Let us consider who will go into the scheme. We all read in the newspapers last week about what will happen at the top end of the scale. Of course, those people will get only £100 or so, although why they should is a little difficult to understand. A family with two children and an income of £8,000 a year, as well as a modest mortgage, will be in the £10,000 bracket", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-12a.1447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-12", "file": "debates1980-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a67b51d3a826522f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-12a.1458.1", "colnum": "1458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Why not Blackpool?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way at the moment. If this amendment were accepted the hon. Member for Bedwellty would storm the country telling local authorities that they should refuse to take part in the scheme. Let us take the case of Manchester.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-12a.1458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-12", "file": "debates1980-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a67b51d3a826522f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-12a.1462.1", "colnum": "1462", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "schools. I do not wish to be accused of knocking State education at all. However, I do not believe that anyone can, with honesty, say that certain centres of academic excellence in our industrial areas are not, for all kinds of historic reasons, based on the old direct grant schools. I used the example of Manchester grammar school. I shall take another example of a school which I recently visited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-12a.1462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-12", "file": "debates1980-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a67b51d3a826522f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-12a.1466.2", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": " pointed out that the segregation of elitist children is not compatible with the comprehensive system. It means that certain parents and children will no longer have access to the comprehensive schools, nor will they be able to add their voices to discussions of the comprehensive system. Certain children will receive special concessions at a time when other children are having concessions removed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-12a.1466.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-12", "file": "debates1980-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a67b51d3a826522f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-12a.1470.3", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "at the school was in Washington. He led us to believe that it was in England. I want to take up an important point about inspection. The local education authority has all its schools inspected by reputable inspectors. We want these schools inspected. For example, teachers who have been kicked out of the maintained sector and fled into the private sector, often because they have assaulted children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-12a.1470.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-12", "file": "debates1980-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a67b51d3a826522f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-12a.1471.0", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "I conclude on this point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-12a.1471.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-12", "file": "debates1980-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a67b51d3a826522f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-12a.1472.2", "colnum": "1472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw,\"", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The Conservatives are a race of hypocrites out for something for themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-12a.1472.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-12", "file": "debates1980-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a67b51d3a826522f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-12a.1477.4", "colnum": "1477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": " to have a mortgage involving repayments of £1,400 a year. After tax and other stoppages, it is likely to have a net income of £4,800 a year. The sum of £354 represents one-tenth of the family's net income after meeting the basic needs of housing, and after tax and national insurance contributions. It is impossible to imagine that such a family would be able to send its child to an assisted place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-12a.1477.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-12", "file": "debates1980-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "a67b51d3a826522f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-12a.1480.0", "colnum": "1480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: 'Choice\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentlemen tells us a sad and heartrending story of a family on £6,000 a year being required to spend £354 a year on school fees for one child, which will be one-tenth of its net income. If the husband and wife each smoked 20 cigarettes a day, how much would they save—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-12a.1480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-13", "file": "debates1980-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "485353b5bf9364ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-13a.1507.2", "colnum": "1507", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Gilmour", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "I agree very much with the drift of the first part of my hon. Friend's question, but I do not at all agree with the second part. The Soviet Union is the only country that has interfered internally in Afghanistan, and we want it to remain that way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-13a.1507.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-02-13", "file": "debates1980-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "485353b5bf9364ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-13a.1516.1", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I must press the Lord Privy Seal on the report in The Guardian.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-13a.1516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-13", "file": "debates1980-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "485353b5bf9364ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-13a.1517.4", "colnum": "1517", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Gilmour", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "I can confirm that, so far as is known, there is no question of the 1 per cent. limit being penetrated this year and that it does not have any immediate application to our budget problem. The House is aware of our approach to these matters. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said after the Dublin conference that progress had been made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-13a.1517.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-13", "file": "debates1980-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "485353b5bf9364ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-13a.1527.5", "colnum": "1527", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leighton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Three times.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leighton", "preceding_text": "W ill the Minister comment on the fact that we currently subsidise the six richest countries of Western Europe by a sum twice as large—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-13a.1527.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-13", "file": "debates1980-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "485353b5bf9364ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-13a.1583.1", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macfarlane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macfarlane", "preceding_text": "dapted the type of storage used. Some authorities have central freezing units and have effective means of distribution. Some authorities may also use local private enterprise. I agree with the hon. Member for Wood Green (Mr. Race), who paid tribute to those who work in the school meals service. I freely and fully acknowledge the enormous contribution that that service makes to the life of schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-13a.1583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-13", "file": "debates1980-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "485353b5bf9364ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-13a.1583.1", "colnum": "1583", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macfarlane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macfarlane", "preceding_text": "pe that I shall always fulfil those words. Over the past five or six months I have communicated with local authority representatives from Devon, Somerset, Sheffield, Liverpool, Merseyside, the North-East and Northumberland. I have been in touch with many local education authorities and I have discussed their plans with them. In every case I found a mood of confidence and enthusiasm for the clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-13a.1583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-13", "file": "debates1980-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "485353b5bf9364ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-13a.1586.0", "colnum": "1586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Ewing", "preceding_text": "s they were speaking for the Minister, and he will want to accept full responsibility for what they said. They said: the percentage savings in meals, milk and transport would have to be proportionately greater if the main education service was not to undergo severe cuts\". It is the cruellest deception for Ministers to seek to present the proposals as a better way of feeding our children at school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-13a.1586.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-13", "file": "debates1980-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "485353b5bf9364ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-13a.1600.4", "colnum": "1600", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Sir N. Bonsor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir N. Bonsor", "preceding_text": "ransport charge upon you.\" Many village schools would have been fought for with far greater vigour had it been known by the inhabitants of many villages and market towns that they would have to pay a charge to send their children to another school. For those reasons, I consider it to be an ill-conceived idea to make this imposition. It would lead also to the closure of many Roman Catholic schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-13a.1600.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-13", "file": "debates1980-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "485353b5bf9364ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-13a.1607.3", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nantwich\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Speaking on behalf, not only of the Opposition but of many Conservative right hon. and hon. Members, I congratulate the hon. Member for Northwich—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-13a.1607.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-13", "file": "debates1980-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "485353b5bf9364ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-13a.1610.0", "colnum": "1610", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "out the hon. Gentleman's responsibilities. I do not think that he spoke on, or was responsible for, education in his party in the last Parliament. But he will, perhaps, recall that the previous Government took steps to impose upon local authorities such as Trafford, in part of my constituency, the obligation of comprehensive education, which struck at the root of the existence of Catholic schools—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-13a.1610.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-13", "file": "debates1980-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "485353b5bf9364ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-13a.1698.1", "colnum": "1698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Council houses?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "It is time that somebody on the Conservative side of the House made it plain on Third Reading that the Government are right to take the view that there should be local democracy and that the local man knows best.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-13a.1698.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-13", "file": "debates1980-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "485353b5bf9364ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-13a.1701.1", "colnum": "1701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman says \"Quite right.\" I am glad that he agrees with us. I only wish that the response from the Secretary of State for the Environment had been more alacritous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-13a.1701.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-02-14", "file": "debates1980-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f86644f6a0bcac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-14a.1745.3", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Who is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend accept that the splendid answer that she gave to my hon. Friend, the Member for Dudley, West (Mr. Blackburn) would have greater national effect it it were publicly backed by the Leader of the Opposition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-14a.1745.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-14", "file": "debates1980-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f86644f6a0bcac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-14a.1841.1", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "COUNTY OF MERSEYSIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "preceding_text": " completed a structure plan which cost £3 million, and it tells us very little that was not already known. Last year it budgeted for a £17 million contingency fund, and it was over-budgeted by £6 million. Nevertheless, it still has to go on putting up the rates, and it is as a result of that that Liverpool city council will have to decide whether to cut back on school meals, school milk and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-14a.1841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-14", "file": "debates1980-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f86644f6a0bcac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-14a.1845.2", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "COUNTY OF MERSEYSIDE BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I came to the Chamber to listen to all the arguments with an open mind. The argument that impressed me most is that which was adduced by my hon. Friend the Minister, and it is very simple.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-14a.1845.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-14", "file": "debates1980-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f86644f6a0bcac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-14a.1908.0", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (COMMON FISHERIES POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Alick Buchanan-Smith)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Alick Buchanan-Smith)", "preceding_text": "me solution and show some concern. Some of the criticism that we have heard from the Opposition stems, I believe, from the hon. Member for Aberdeen, North. There is a certain grudgingness at the fact that we have managed to achieve, in the past nine months, from the Commission and our colleagues in Europe, some movement which the previous Government were not able to obtain. I do not overplay that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-14a.1908.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-14", "file": "debates1980-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "9f86644f6a0bcac4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-14a.1910.1", "colnum": "1910", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (COMMON FISHERIES POLICY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "erned about what has been said and reported about the statistics. We have checked the figures with the Customs and Excise. There has been a certain amount of error, about which I should like to write to my hon. Friend. We find that the Customs and Excise exaggerated—because of the conversion coefficient it used between fresh and processed mackerel. I turn to the economic situation in the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-14a.1910.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-15", "file": "debates1980-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "603ba888ad524e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-15a.1975.1", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Stoddart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Stoddart", "preceding_text": "wished to vote in the Aye Lobby. Secondly, the doors were left unlocked for nine and a half minutes rather than eight minutes. You will appreciate, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that because there were insufficient sheets, some confusion could have been caused in the Aye Lobby, and, more seriously, the fact that the doors were left open for nine and a half minutes could have affected the result of the vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-15a.1975.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-15", "file": "debates1980-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "603ba888ad524e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-15a.1975.1", "colnum": "1975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Stoddart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Stoddart", "preceding_text": " is a gooddeal of noise in various parts of the House, but it is surely self-evident that if the doors were left open for nine and a half minutes instead of eight minutes it gave hon. Members one and a half minutes more to reach the Lobby, and that could have influenced the vote. I should like your guidance, Mr. Deputy Speaker, because the matter has a relevance that is wider than merely the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-15a.1975.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-15", "file": "debates1980-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "603ba888ad524e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-15a.1978.1", "colnum": "1978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Kerr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Kerr", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am confident that the recent exchanges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-15a.1978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-15", "file": "debates1980-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "603ba888ad524e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-15a.1983.5", "colnum": "1983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I should like to ask you, on the question of the locking of the doors, whether you will bear in mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-15a.1983.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-15", "file": "debates1980-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "603ba888ad524e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-15a.1983.5", "colnum": "1983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ABORTION (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Boring.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "with persons getting into the Lobby. It is right that some hon. Members have to come from the Norman Shaw building. If they know that the time has expired, they turn back. Immediately following your decision this morning, Mr. Deputy Speaker, five hon. Members came from the funeral of the late Lord Murray. They were coming to vote. They realised the time had expired, so they did not arrive in time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-15a.1983.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-19", "file": "debates1980-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6ca98a37850ee010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-19a.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "WEST MIDLANDS COUNTY COUNCIL BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "preceding_text": "I think that the Minister read his brief beautifully. I wish he had listened to me. That is what I said. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap\".] It is cheap to insult the political party of a man simply because a Minister is sufficiently deaf not to hear what has been said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-19a.343.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-19", "file": "debates1980-02-19a.xml", "sha256": "6ca98a37850ee010", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-19a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "COUNTY OF MERSEYSIDE BILL [LORDS]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "road. They were entitled to do so. They petitioned against the Bill and the relevant powers. On 10 July 1978 the time came for the petition to be pursued and to be examined by the Committee. Unfortunately, not one of the 41 councillors appeared to pursue the petition. They were noticeable by their absence. They took no part in the proceedings at that stage. It is unfortunate that on Third Reading—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-19a.370.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-21", "file": "debates1980-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "221b1a08c1e22d16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-21a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "AIRPORTS POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " that any Government will change the decision that was made to scrap the project in 1974. I notice that the Secretary of State laid emphasis on Southend when he referred to Maplin. There are many conflicting difficulties in airport policy, but helping Mr. Teddy Taylor is one that is new to me. I am sorry that Southend has had to take the rubbish that Glasgow recently got rid of in the by-election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-21a.707.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-25", "file": "debates1980-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "1c2ad63e5dca049c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-25a.1032.2", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "shall ask for them. So far there have been 14 Committee sittings, including two all-night sittings occupying in all about 60 hours of debate. Of the 18 clauses in the Bill, the Committee has not yet reached clause 6. Of the five schedules, three remain to be debated. The proceedings on this Bill in Committee are taking longer than for any social security Bill since the start of the scheme in 1948.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-25a.1032.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-27", "file": "debates1980-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "009804312280ecf5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-27a.1388.3", "colnum": "1388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept the right hon. Gentleman's assertion. I believe that he is wrong. I do not have the details here, nor does he. It is simply a bare assertion. Let us turn to the Consolidated Gold Fields case and the issues concerned there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-27a.1388.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-28", "file": "debates1980-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "42303ac9a5d58c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1581.1", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "—her words were apposite and well chosen: Where there is discord, may we bring harmony\". Can the right hon. Lady truthfully say that her policies and speeches since that day have been intended to bring harmony and unity?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-28", "file": "debates1980-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "42303ac9a5d58c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1581.1", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "nd unity? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Have they not rather sought to pander to every popular prejudice, to make the trade unions the scapegoat for every ill, to whip up resentment against any unpopular group and to glory in harshness and stridency? Has that not been the Prime Minister's tone since the election? What has gone wrong? The Government faced considerable difficulties when they came to power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-28", "file": "debates1980-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "42303ac9a5d58c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1589.1", "colnum": "1589", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "hip with private industry or on their own account—and, if necessary, the Government should provide the funds to enable it to be done. We must have an active policy and not just the passive approach that we have from the Government today. Our preference is to see the Government intervene in the economy and to assist in the creation of new jobs, in both existing industry and in the new technologies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1589.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-28", "file": "debates1980-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "42303ac9a5d58c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1593.0", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": " fell in 1975, 1976 and 1977. Under the Labour Government, inflation reached a peak of 27 per cent. per annum. The party that he leads presided over the five most catastrophic years in Britain's postwar history. The right hon. Gentleman is not the person to give lectures on Cabinet disarray and disloyalty. He should read what one of his former Cabinet colleagues said about him on 4 December 1968.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-28", "file": "debates1980-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "42303ac9a5d58c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1593.0", "colnum": "1593", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "man is not the person to give lectures on Cabinet disarray and disloyalty. He should read what one of his former Cabinet colleagues said about him on 4 December 1968.—[ Interruption. ] Barbara Castle said: I think Jim Callaghan is the most disloyal and damaging member of the whole Government. The following year she said: We have taken care not to circulate any papers beforehand, knowing our Jim. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1593.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-28", "file": "debates1980-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "42303ac9a5d58c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1594.0", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That is quite enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1594.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-28", "file": "debates1980-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "42303ac9a5d58c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1594.1", "colnum": "1594", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " assign the credit to his incomes policy which promptly collapsed about his ears as his own lifelong allies, the trade unions, rejected both it and him. Having dithered over calling an election in 1978, he tried to buy off the industrial disruption of last winter and finally succumbed. Today the right hon. Gentleman's party, increasingly infiltrated by people who wish to destroy the mixed economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-28", "file": "debates1980-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "42303ac9a5d58c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1597.3", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "SEVERAL HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "years will be published in a few weeks' time, and they will show substantial cuts on Labour's plans. The Opposition will no doubt mount a chorus of complaint in spite of the fact that they were boasting a moment ago that they were able to cut them by 6 per cent. in one year under the aegis of the IMF. But what are the alternative policies? Are the Opposition suggesting that we increase income tax?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1597.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-28", "file": "debates1980-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "42303ac9a5d58c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1597.3", "colnum": "1597", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ce these matters by policy on public sector purchasing, and on research and development. Fifthly, we must adapt to today's markets. We recognise fully the problems of Britain's declining industries and those who work in them—industries which have similar problems in most of the older industrialised countries. These adjustments cannot take place overnight—whether in steel, shipbuilding or railways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1597.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-28", "file": "debates1980-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "42303ac9a5d58c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1602.1", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "At a time when we have to cut public spending, the allocation of these funds on top of what would otherwise have been available to the Welsh Office is a clear sign of our determination to take effective action. I spoke earlier about the wish of the British people last May for a new start and for a Government prepared to tackle the country's problems. We have been in power for less than 10 months.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1602.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-28", "file": "debates1980-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "42303ac9a5d58c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1605.0", "colnum": "1605", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "rms and if they think this is some doctrinaire policy that does not fit in with their economic theories, we shall drift and drift. Third, out of the wreckage of their policies, the Government will have to create a new mood of co-operation in industry. Again, I shall not quote from a party pamphlet. Some very interesting speeches have been made by men in responsible public positions on this theme.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-28", "file": "debates1980-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "42303ac9a5d58c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1618.0", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "puted in any quarter, whatever other factors may be argued to exist, that it is the borrowing propensity of government and the ability of modern government to satisfy their marginal requirements by borrowing from the banks, and thus expanding the currency, which is the sine qua non of inflation—the condition without which there cannot be inflation as we have experienced it in the last two decades.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1618.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-28", "file": "debates1980-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "42303ac9a5d58c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1628.0", "colnum": "1628", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "preceding_text": "festo we should see that even on page 8 we spoke about the borrowing requirement. We said that we would cut the PSBR. In the manifesto we gave a warning that prices would go up and that unemployment would temporarily rise. The Opposition cannot charge the Government with having hoodwinked the public. It was in the manifesto. I do not know how many Members of the Opposition have read the manifesto.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-28", "file": "debates1980-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "42303ac9a5d58c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1645.0", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "t were specially built with public money in Durham and South Wales close because there is no demand for steel. We shall then have mass unemployment, just as we had before the war. People will ask \"Why was it done?\". To be candid, I do not believe for a moment that the Cabinet is mesmerised by monetarism. What it believes is that in order to defend the interests which paid for it to get into power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1645.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-28", "file": "debates1980-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "42303ac9a5d58c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1645.0", "colnum": "1645", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "id, I do not believe for a moment that the Cabinet is mesmerised by monetarism. What it believes is that in order to defend the interests which paid for it to get into power—[ Interruption. ] As so many Conservative Members are now attacking monetarism, is it not nice if I can acquit the Government of true monetarism? They want to raise profit margins. That is the real object of Government policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1645.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-28", "file": "debates1980-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "42303ac9a5d58c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1649.1", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will allow me to continue. I want to be fairly brief because many hon. Members also want to speak. This is the first Government in the lifetime of many people—although those who remember the 1930s will remember a parallel—who do not believe in full employment even as an objective, and who do not believe in the Welfare State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1649.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-28", "file": "debates1980-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "42303ac9a5d58c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1694.3", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "deal further and sought to refer to it as an entirely unproven theory. Which is it? Do the Leader of the Opposition and the Shadow Chancellor regard monetary policy as some way-out eccentricity, or do they regard it as central to the conquest of inflation? It is important for the House to be clear that this is not some manifestation of Friedmanism. John Maynard Keynes, in one of his own. writings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1694.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-28", "file": "debates1980-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "42303ac9a5d58c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1694.3", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "of his own. writings—[ Interruption. ] I am delighted that this evidence should be so applauded by Labour Members. Speaking of monetary policy, Keynes said: This theory is fundamental. Its correspondence with fact is not open to question. That is from \"A Tract On Monetary Reform\". It should be accepted by the Labour Party as well as by everyone else. Long before Professor Milton Friedman was born—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1694.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-28", "file": "debates1980-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "42303ac9a5d58c91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1694.3", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "gher borrowing and for a larger public sector borrowing requirement? What effect do they suggest that would have on interest rates? Or do they want us to go in for less borrowing, to raise taxes, or to go in for lower or higher public expenditure? It would be interesting to have confirmation of one other point. Again the right hon. Gentleman for Leeds, East, in one of his other letters to the IMF—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-28a.1694.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-02-29", "file": "debates1980-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "50487bd7d3ae5d83", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-29a.1799.0", "colnum": "1799", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "preceding_text": "y Service or the Pregnancy Advisory Service on a part-time basis, and that some of them are already working as NHS doctors, while others are working as full-time nurses. Although I managed to keep awake during the entire proceedings of the two Standing Committees dealing with the subject of abortion, the interesting thing is that I do not think I ever heard those who supported either of the Bills—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-02-29a.1799.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-03", "file": "debates1980-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "09db268e7db7a3cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-03a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "HANDICAPPED CHILDREN (EDUCATIONAL TREATMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "hat the Government's professed intention to maintain expenditure on special education at its present level will be fulfilled by local education authorities, especially those authorities which may be tempted to transfer resources from special education into ordinary education under the pressure of the cuts which are being felt in local education authorities and schools of all descriptions? Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-03a.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-03", "file": "debates1980-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "09db268e7db7a3cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-03a.92.2", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"What is the relevance of this?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": ". First, I remind the House of the 1913 Act and the fact that members of trade unions could have a ballot about which party they would pay their funds to. There has not been a ballot since before the 1913 Act. In fact, there has not been a ballot since 1908. So there is one great democratic right which the trade union movement did not use. Let hon. Members read \"The Fifth Estate\" by Robert Taylor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-03a.92.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-03", "file": "debates1980-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "09db268e7db7a3cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-03a.92.2", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "aid in the Chamber over the past three days, we could have finished about two and a half days ago. Let us look at what happened when the law changed so that the onus was moved from contracting out to contracting in. There was a huge and dramatic fall in the number of members contributing. The moment that members had to do something to join or to pay the levy, nobody bothered, or very few bothered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-03a.92.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-03", "file": "debates1980-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "09db268e7db7a3cc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-03a.96.2", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMPANIES BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "I must get on, and I think that I have given way sufficiently. I turn now from this democratically run, much-to-be-admired organisation—the political fund—to how companies run their affairs. First, they run them in an infinitely more democratic way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-03a.96.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-04", "file": "debates1980-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7b0181b9f8f9d9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-04a.225.1", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Will not the Minister admit that from the inception of education in this country the Conservative Party has been trying to trundle our children out of school into the factories as early as possible?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-04a.225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-04", "file": "debates1980-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7b0181b9f8f9d9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-04a.246.2", "colnum": "246", "heading": "RHODESIA (ELECTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Gilmour", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "Normally it is customary to send formal congratulations at the time of independence. Of course we congratulate Mr. Mugabe on his victory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-04a.246.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-04", "file": "debates1980-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7b0181b9f8f9d9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-04a.259.2", "colnum": "259", "heading": "GOVERNMENT OF SCOTLAND (SCOTTISH CONVENTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "tleman should seek to revive the corpse of the Assembly. At its last party conference the Scottish National Party agreed by an overwhelming majority to have no future dealings with any Assembly or with devolution. The third reason for my surprise is that talks are now going on in this House to discover whether there is some way in which the procedures of the government of Scotland can be improved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-04a.259.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-04", "file": "debates1980-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7b0181b9f8f9d9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-04a.267.3", "colnum": "267", "heading": "REVIEW BODY ON TOP SALARIES (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Peanuts.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": " note\" motion enabling us to debate all aspects of the report's recommendations and conclusions. Before turning in more detail to the motion, I should like to comment on some of the points that hon. Members have raised. I know that some hon. Members feel that the recommendations for a revised secretarial allowance of £5,500 and a new research assistant's allowance of £1,250 are not generous enough", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-04a.267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-04", "file": "debates1980-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7b0181b9f8f9d9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-04a.273.0", "colnum": "273", "heading": "REVIEW BODY ON TOP SALARIES (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speak for yourself.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that that conclusion flows from the premise. The allowance represents an improvement. Many hon. Members would not know what to do with a research assistant if they had one. To some a research assistant would be an encumbrance rather than an aid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-04a.273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-04", "file": "debates1980-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7b0181b9f8f9d9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-04a.303.0", "colnum": "303", "heading": "REVIEW BODY ON TOP SALARIES (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "preceding_text": ", but Lord Denning seems to continue to do a physically demanding and particularly hazardous job well into his eighties. I am irritated by the last sentence of the paragraph. Apparently we are supposed to receive a pension of two-thirds of our salary as long as we have been here for 40 years. I was elected to the House at a fairly early age. Even so, that would mean that I must stay until I am 73.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-04a.303.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-04", "file": "debates1980-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7b0181b9f8f9d9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-04a.364.1", "colnum": "364", "heading": "REVIEW BODY ON TOP SALARIES (REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "is is a matter on which progress can be made at a later stage. We are making some progress now. I say to Labour Members who have been pressing me hard on these measures—and I say this, I hope, in an irenic spirit—that very little was done by the previous Government in that respect. A turning point in the whole unfortunate saga was in 1975 when decisions were taken that I have had to get away from.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-04a.364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-04", "file": "debates1980-03-04a.xml", "sha256": "d7b0181b9f8f9d9a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-04a.412.0", "colnum": "412", "heading": "PREVENTION OF TERRORISM", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": "hile a person is held. Ill treatment does not arise as a result of the legislation. If there were ill treatment it would arise whether or not this legislation were on the statute book. Today I checked. The judges' rules apply to detention under the Act and access to solicitors. I assume that that provision still applies. Under the judges' rules communication with friend and relatives is permitted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-04a.412.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-05", "file": "debates1980-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "ca7817564eb95e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-05a.453.6", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend point out to both sides of Scottish industry the need for a proper public appreciation of the role of multinationals in Scotland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-05a.453.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-05", "file": "debates1980-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "ca7817564eb95e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-05a.486.5", "colnum": "486", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "I have to tell the House that in the time since I came to the Dispatch Box at 3.30 pm I have learnt that the Commission has decided today to proceed to implement an interim injunction against France—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-05a.486.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-05", "file": "debates1980-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "ca7817564eb95e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-05a.526.0", "colnum": "526", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stan Thorne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Maynard Keynes\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stan Thorne", "preceding_text": "t earlier in the debate. It was one of the nice little exchanges about whether one is for or against Sigmund Freud or Milton Friedman, I forget which. The argument seemed to promote in the mind of the Secretary of State the idea that \"You cannot buy your way out of unemployment.\" That seems to suggest that the Conservative Party have completely rejected Milton Keynes' general theory on employment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-05a.526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-05", "file": "debates1980-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "ca7817564eb95e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-05a.587.0", "colnum": "587", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "oach to the problems of young people? A young man in my constituency with one A-level and two O-levels was waiting to achieve his third O-level later in the year so that he could qualify in the next academic year for a major award in a university. To fill in that time he was given a second year course in the arts subjects in which he was interested, and he proceeded to go to college on that basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-05a.587.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-05", "file": "debates1980-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "ca7817564eb95e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-05a.590.4", "colnum": "590", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Best", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Best", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has been on his feet for 16 minutes. He has prevented other hon. Members from making contributions to highlight other areas of unemployment, such as Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-05a.590.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-05", "file": "debates1980-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "ca7817564eb95e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-05a.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker", "preceding_text": "very selective memories. The belligerent, aggressive, hectoring and blustering performance of the Secretary of State may have been intended to help the flagging spirits and sagging morale of his party. It was hardly constructive or helpful. He shed little comfort and even less light. I accept that unemployment was high when we were in government. Unemployment was intolerably and unacceptably high.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-05a.591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-05", "file": "debates1980-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "ca7817564eb95e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-05a.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker", "preceding_text": "tably high. [ Interruption. ] We always accepted that. I did not know that the hon. Member for Croydon, South (Sir W. Clark)—who is now barking—had acquired a lot of experience on this subject during debates in the Chamber. He should have the courtesy to listen. However, there is one difference between this Government and the previous Labour Government. We tried to do something about unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-05a.591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-05", "file": "debates1980-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "ca7817564eb95e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-05a.596.5", "colnum": "596", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I assure you, Mr. Speaker, that I can look after myself. I turn now to training. There is a widespread recognition, indeed a universal acceptance, that the regeneration of British industry calls for improved productivity, increased efficiency, and a labour force that can meet the demands of rapidly changing technology.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-05a.596.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-06", "file": "debates1980-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "fae075b86d37a161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-06a.661.4", "colnum": "661", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "ncial provisions as they are now drafted are unworkable, and are the subject of further discussion with the local authorities. The planning provisions are inadequate, and they should be in a separate Bill, and the provisions relating to the Urban Development Corporation manifestly should he in a Hybrid Bill, and are an example of what the Lord Chancellor described once as \"elective dictatorship.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-06a.661.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-06", "file": "debates1980-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "fae075b86d37a161", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-06a.665.7", "colnum": "665", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a plant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "saying, no doubt those operators will have included in their brochure prices some condition to cover potential increases in costs. The Opposition are wrong in saying that it is an abuse of the House to answer a question. This is certainly not a planted question. I had no idea that my hon. Friend was to raise this important matter. He was perfectly entitled to do so, and I have given a full answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-06a.665.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-10", "file": "debates1980-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "e8512fc95b06be8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-10a.954.4", "colnum": "954", "heading": "HOUSING (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": " rate increases. While the right hon. Gentleman was travelling the country urging more rate increases and extra local government expenditure I was actually pleading with local authorities to reduce the level of their expenditure. I had already asked them to reduce spending by 2.5 per cent. next year compared with last year. I had introduced a rate support grant settlement which was absolutely fair", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-10a.954.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-10", "file": "debates1980-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "e8512fc95b06be8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-10a.989.0", "colnum": "989", "heading": "HOUSING (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "ek to mislead the House. The second tendency is, if anything, even more serious for a politician so blatantly on the make. Not only does he fail in his attempts to mislead, but the failure is too easily exposed. The Labour Government had no commitment to increase rents in line with earnings. The foreword to the Green Paper, in any case, pointed out that it was no more than a consultative document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-10a.989.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-10", "file": "debates1980-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "e8512fc95b06be8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-10a.1046.2", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "hat we must have some control over immigration, whether it is white or black. That is accepted. I do not think anyone in the House would argue that there can be unlimited immigration into this country. Having accepted that, what is the logic of the right hon. Member's argument? What does he propose? Is he suggesting that we should send all these coloured people back? Where do we send them back to?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-10a.1046.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-10", "file": "debates1980-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "e8512fc95b06be8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-10a.1047.1", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. K. Harvey Proctor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. K. Harvey Proctor", "preceding_text": "nts have heard the fears of black and white alike. They have witnessed the strains and stresses on the surface in our inner city areas and in our urban conurbations. Both parties have responded by imposing successive controls on immigration, Alas, they may all be typified by the words \"Too little and too late\". In the 1970 election manifesto of the Conservative Party, entitled \"A Better Tomorrow\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-10a.1047.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-10", "file": "debates1980-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "e8512fc95b06be8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-10a.1063.1", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "ediction of the right hon. Gentleman that England will become ungovernable can be proved to be wrong, but at least in recognition of my proposition that there is a vast, terrible and often unrecognised problem that ought to be faced with courage and honesty by this House. When we look at the revised rules we see that it is plain that absolutely all the concessions have been made to the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-10a.1063.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-10", "file": "debates1980-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "e8512fc95b06be8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-10a.1086.1", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "ther hon. Friend, it is true that we have had other people come to these islands, but in nothing like the same quantity and in nothing like the same degree of cultural diversity from the people who were already living here. I would also hazard a guess, knowing the feeling amongst the indigenous population, that this is something that they did not want to arise. Earlier, in the saga of immigration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-10a.1086.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-03-10", "file": "debates1980-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "e8512fc95b06be8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-10a.1087.2", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "Really, I would love to give way, but I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-10a.1087.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-10", "file": "debates1980-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "e8512fc95b06be8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-10a.1087.4", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Absolute rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "nd represents their wishes, they believe that they are speaking out of turn and that they will not get anywhere and that to a certain extent they are mad, out of date and are doing something that is not going to succeed. It requires a certain amount of courage, and I think that the right hon. Member for Down, South has shown more courage on this issue than everybody else in the House put together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-10a.1087.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-10", "file": "debates1980-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "e8512fc95b06be8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-10a.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "IMMIGRATION RULES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "c case comes before the court, if it does. I should have thought that that was thoroughly sensible. I have read the evidence to the Sub-Committee. No one giving evidence to the Sub-Committee said anywhere that he was certain. Several said that it was their view, but that they were expressing a view on a hypothetical and not an actual case. It is an actual case that is bound to matter in the event—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-10a.1100.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-03-11", "file": "debates1980-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "9820e740b6ce6324", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-11a.1147.3", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Ask him.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "She has not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-11a.1147.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-11", "file": "debates1980-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "9820e740b6ce6324", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-11a.1190.4", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (INVALID DIRECTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Mentally afflicted?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellish", "preceding_text": "I shall qualify my statement by saying that the Secretary of State is politically mad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-11a.1190.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-11", "file": "debates1980-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "9820e740b6ce6324", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-11a.1219.1", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (INVALID DIRECTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "AN. HON. MEMBER: Brushing his teeth.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "ister of State, I gather, has even walked out of the Committtee on the Health Services Bill, for which he has a responsibility, and has now taken himself off to China. I hope that he has a very productive time there. But there are responsibilities that fall upon Ministers and I ask myself where his Minister if State was. If I may paraphrase on old saying, \"Where was Gerry when the light went out?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-11a.1219.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-11", "file": "debates1980-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "9820e740b6ce6324", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-11a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (INVALID DIRECTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " be permanent. The right hon. Gentleman even sent a letter to regional chairmen advising them on the procedure of temporary closures. To his credit, he told them that a hospital should not be closed temporarily if it was not intended to reopen it. However, the authority had no choice. It was necessary to save £1½ million, so the hospital was closed. There is no chance of its being reopened—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-11a.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-11", "file": "debates1980-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "9820e740b6ce6324", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-11a.1276.0", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (INVALID DIRECTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moyle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Monstrous.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moyle", "preceding_text": "ar (Mr. McCrindle), for Dartford (Mr. Dunn), for Newark (Mr. Alexander), for Faversham (Mr. Moate) and for Fulham (Mr. Stevens) said so. That concludes the history of disasters which set in when the Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham area health authority was suspended by the Secretary of State. In spite of this sorry and dismal story there is in the area concerned a desire to let bygones be bygones.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-11a.1276.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-12", "file": "debates1980-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "596570dba58a9d6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-12a.1341.6", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Best", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Best", "preceding_text": "hat if I do so you will rapidly call me to order. Before I move to the gravamen of what I wish to say, I should like to pay tribute to the prison service. I am sure that my hon. and learned Friend the Minister of State, who is to reply to the debate, will wish to join me in paying tribute to the hard work and effort of the prison officers. I have been in and out of prisons in London for some time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-12a.1341.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-12", "file": "debates1980-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "596570dba58a9d6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-12a.1350.3", "colnum": "1350", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " to you, Mr Deputy Speaker. You say that you are referring to Class IX, Vote 9. I, too, am referring to Class IX, Vote 9. I have here a document that I got from the Vote Office, which I take to be the Ancient and Modern version, which has just arrived. It contains Class IX, Vote 9, which was published on the Notice Board as the subject matter that we were to discuss, and it was the prison service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-12a.1350.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-12", "file": "debates1980-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "596570dba58a9d6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-12a.1402.0", "colnum": "1402", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "ich the Government paid handsomely, or whether the Government did it themselves. Did the Government, with their obsession for supply and demand and monetarist economics, fix the share price, bearing in mind the market? According to The Daily Telegraph on 10 November the shares sold for more than the price put on them. They sold for 364p as opposed to 362p, which is only 1 p difference, it is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-12a.1402.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-12", "file": "debates1980-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "596570dba58a9d6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-12a.1431.2", "colnum": "1431", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman approved it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "e outside my constituency. I am arguing for the site that was on the short-list that was under consideration by Inmos— a site in Cardiff. I am not advancing a constituency argument. The hon. Gentleman may not be aware—there is no reason why he should be—that in the last Administration I was the Minister to whom the original application for an industrial development certificate at Bristol was made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-12a.1431.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-12", "file": "debates1980-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "596570dba58a9d6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-12a.1505.6", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairgrieve", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairgrieve", "preceding_text": "Before I leave the hon. Member for—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-12a.1505.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-12", "file": "debates1980-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "596570dba58a9d6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-12a.1506.1", "colnum": "1506", "heading": "ORDER OF THE DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairgrieve", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairgrieve", "preceding_text": "—which he is entitled to do, and I am entitled to reply in similar vein.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-12a.1506.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-13", "file": "debates1980-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "b5fcfd9f8f5ec2d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-13a.1544.7", "colnum": "1544", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister confirm that the Advisory Committee on Pesticides was not aware of the Swedish experience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-13a.1544.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-13", "file": "debates1980-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "b5fcfd9f8f5ec2d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-13a.1561.0", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We all do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I know that my right hon. Friend feels strongly on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-13a.1561.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-13", "file": "debates1980-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "b5fcfd9f8f5ec2d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-13a.1602.0", "colnum": "1602", "heading": "Orders of the Day — NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (INVALID DIRECTION) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": " in the law—he is also not listening—and he has said that no one would lose any existing rights. However, the Bill states: The instrument…purporting to be a direction…shall have effect and be deemed to have had effect as if it had been a valid direction\". Let us suppose for a moment that the Bill were defeated. The present situation would then apply, and a person who had been sacked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-13a.1602.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-17", "file": "debates1980-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "64f405522323bca6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "OLYMPIC GAMES", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Gilmour", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "In this situation the Government have felt bound to give a lead and to point out the context in which individuals will have to take their own decisions. We fully understand hon. Members' anxiety about the liberty of the individual, but I do not accept that we have in any way harassed or bullied anybody, as has been suggested.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-17", "file": "debates1980-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "64f405522323bca6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.42.1", "colnum": "42", "heading": "OLYMPIC GAMES", "cue_speaker": "Sir L Gilmour", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish. Nonsense\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir L Gilmour", "preceding_text": "ting in the sporting events. I cannot commend such a course. To attend is to become a guest and to accept the rules of the host—technically the International Olympic Committee but in Soviet propaganda terms the Soviet Union. Refusal to comply with the requirements of the organisers would not merely be seen as a discourtesy; it could be represented as a disruption or, in Soviet jargon, hooliganism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.42.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-17", "file": "debates1980-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "64f405522323bca6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "OLYMPIC GAMES", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Gilmour", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "ially for a country with the sporting traditions and achievements of our own. But grave breaches of international order require serious responses, and there is no other Western response that would be so unequivocally clear to millions of ordinary people in the Soviet Union. Another very important element in the present situation is the defence of human rights and the position of Soviet dissidents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-17", "file": "debates1980-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "64f405522323bca6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.52.6", "colnum": "52", "heading": "OLYMPIC GAMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. Is he really suggesting to the House today that there is any comparison between the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.52.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-17", "file": "debates1980-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "64f405522323bca6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "OLYMPIC GAMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heller", "preceding_text": "I really must ask my right hon. Friend what he is saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-17", "file": "debates1980-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "64f405522323bca6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "OLYMPIC GAMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heller", "preceding_text": "I really must ask my right hon. Friend what he is saying. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Is he saying that, if all Western countries agreed, we ought to stay away?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.55.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-03-17", "file": "debates1980-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "64f405522323bca6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.65.0", "colnum": "65", "heading": "OLYMPIC GAMES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "How?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "interests of their people and of their consumers. Can we give aid in this conflict; or must we strengthen those hardliners in the Kremlin who wish to build bigger and better submarines, bigger and better frigates and bigger and better nuclear weapons? A boycott would strengthen the hand of the hardliners. We can show that we do not approve of what has happened in Afghanistan in various other ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.64.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-17", "file": "debates1980-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "64f405522323bca6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.65.2", "colnum": "65", "heading": "OLYMPIC GAMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "those more concerned with peaceful development than military glory or display. This course is wrong. I am not referring only to the course advocated by the Government. I do not like the amendment proposed by my right hon. Friend the Member for Stepney and Poplar (Mr. Shore). It would be totally dishonest not to say so. It is not strong enough. Between now and 10 o'clock I have to do some thinking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.65.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-17", "file": "debates1980-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "64f405522323bca6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.111.0", "colnum": "111", "heading": "OLYMPIC GAMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "mply in terms that are wholly black. We argue that this is a complex issue and that there are various shades of grey. The right hon. Member for Stafford and Stone (Mr. Fraser) has talked about \"bestial acts\". I do not doubt that bestial things are being done every day, but I must point out that bestial acts were committed in Afghanistan long before any soldier of the Red Army entered that country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-17", "file": "debates1980-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "64f405522323bca6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "OLYMPIC GAMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": " know what would happen. That is not the Minister's money. It belongs to those Service men and their wives who raised it at the specific functions. We want an immediate renouncement of that dictatorial and illegal authority. It is no surprise to learn today that only last week Jim Fox, our gold medallist, because he is an Army man, was prevented from appearing on television to discuss this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-17", "file": "debates1980-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "64f405522323bca6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.148.2", "colnum": "148", "heading": "OLYMPIC GAMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "I am glad to accept the assurance of the Lord Privy Seal that it is not happening. Why was the idea put forward in the first place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.148.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-03-17", "file": "debates1980-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "64f405522323bca6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.149.1", "colnum": "149", "heading": "OLYMPIC GAMES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.149.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-17", "file": "debates1980-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "64f405522323bca6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.149.3", "colnum": "149", "heading": "OLYMPIC GAMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ting committee which, as hon. Members know, is called COCOM. We are now considering with our allies how we can tighten the rules applying to exports to the Soviet Union. Until that consideration has been undertaken, the United Kingdom will not submit to COCOM any proposals for exports to the Soviet Union. I hope that my right hon. Friend will feel that that meets the second point in his amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.149.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-17", "file": "debates1980-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "64f405522323bca6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.152.3", "colnum": "152", "heading": "OLYMPIC GAMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": " out the detailed investigation believed, that there was a way through the COCOM procedures that might enhance the Soviet military presence, that would certainly be a subject of concern to us. We are not asking that Britain make a unilateral decision to boycott the Olympic games. We are not asking that Britain act alone in the world. The world is already taking decisions. In country after country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.152.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-17", "file": "debates1980-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "64f405522323bca6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.157.0", "colnum": "157", "heading": "OLYMPIC GAMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Those funds will certainly be made available to that organisation, but not as part of the cost of going to the Moscow Olympics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.157.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-17", "file": "debates1980-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "64f405522323bca6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.157.6", "colnum": "157", "heading": "OLYMPIC GAMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I should like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.157.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-17", "file": "debates1980-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "64f405522323bca6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.157.6", "colnum": "157", "heading": "OLYMPIC GAMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": " heard the arguments, and it will be for them to make their own individual judgments in the light of those arguments. The question of the broadcasting authorities has been raised. My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has made it clear that the decision on whether to cover the Games rests, by charter and statute, with the BBC and the IBA. We shall not interfere with the decisions that they take.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.157.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-17", "file": "debates1980-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "64f405522323bca6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "OLYMPIC GAMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I cannot accept that there has been no consultation with sporting interests. There have been problems because certain of the sporting representatives have been widely travelling abroad during the time of the consultations. But my right hon. and hon. Friends have been in continual discussion with leading representatives of the sporting organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-17", "file": "debates1980-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "64f405522323bca6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "OLYMPIC GAMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "It is the Government's duty to give a lead not only to this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-17", "file": "debates1980-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "64f405522323bca6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "OLYMPIC GAMES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "It is the Government's duty to give a lead not only to this House—[ Interruption. ] I am sorry, but there is not enough time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-17a.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-18", "file": "debates1980-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "98ce12394202e111", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-18a.207.0", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have discussed that matter with the German Chancellor from time to time. He is the first to recognise that we set up the structure of unions in West Germany after the last war.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-18a.207.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-18", "file": "debates1980-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "98ce12394202e111", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-18a.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is the right hon. Gentleman who has the worst unemployment record in the post-war years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-18a.208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-18", "file": "debates1980-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "98ce12394202e111", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-18a.208.2", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady was very ready recently to give an assurance about payment of Health Service charges. Why cannot she give us a similar assurance now, unless she is proposing to run away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-18a.208.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-18", "file": "debates1980-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "98ce12394202e111", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-18a.209.2", "colnum": "209", "heading": "SCHOOL TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that in bringing this statement to the House the Government show the strategic capacity of the Grand Old Duke of York and the judicial sensitivity of Pontius Pilate? Is he aware that, as a consequence of what he is now doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-18a.209.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-18", "file": "debates1980-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "98ce12394202e111", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-18a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "It was quite wrong not to have done so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-18a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-18", "file": "debates1980-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "98ce12394202e111", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-18a.277.3", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There are new clauses 3, 4, 5 and 6.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "k you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. It puts the House in some difficulty. We wish to move new clause 2 for reasons that I shall explain, but I know that there are strong feelings in regard to amendment ( a ) and new clause 9, which we would also wish to discuss. Can you explain, Mr. Deputy Speaker, what are the intervening amendments that give rise to difficulty? There is only new clause 5 that intervenes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-18a.277.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-18", "file": "debates1980-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "98ce12394202e111", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-18a.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "iminating the poverty trap. I appreciate that it will be a costly exercise, and no doubt the Secretary of State will refer to that when he replies. However, we are discussing steps that could be taken to make child benefit a benefit for the family, which would be of real use to the low-paid and the working poor. Judging by the attendance in the House tonight, not least on the Conservative Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-18a.280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-18", "file": "debates1980-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "98ce12394202e111", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-18a.315.2", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Milton Friedman\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": ". I do not have the relevant quotation before me, but the matter was stated clearly by Mrs. Castle when debating the Child Benefit Bill, when she said that if everything was indexed it would make no difference to anybody. There is a general feeling that if we continue to index more and more and more, we shall end up in the same position as Brazil and Israel, with a 100 per cent. rate of inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-18a.315.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-19", "file": "debates1980-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "3167ce00a1a2f9ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-19a.415.6", "colnum": "415", "heading": "OLYMPIC GAMES (GENEVA TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "—about the likelihood of an effective boycott, including the total absence from Moscow of American and perhaps German athletes. Our consultations with these sporting bodies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-19a.415.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-19", "file": "debates1980-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "3167ce00a1a2f9ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-19a.419.2", "colnum": "419", "heading": "OLYMPIC GAMES (GENEVA TALKS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "ave been criticised in the house, especially by the hon. Member for West Lothian (Mr. Dalyell), who tabled the question, for failure in the past to consult sporting organisations sufficiently. In this enterprise, that is precisely what we intend to do. This enterprise has only just started. The hon. Member for West Lothian would be a little unwise to write it off at this stage. I warn him of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-19a.419.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-19", "file": "debates1980-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "3167ce00a1a2f9ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-19a.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "ated in the Conservative Party's manifesto and it remains the objective. The question is: how and when? The right hon. Member for Manchester, Wythenshawe (Mr. Morris) accused the Government of stopping work which he said was going on in this area, as though in some way or another the change of Government had made a difference. With respect, it made no difference. The problem that I have described—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-19a.503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-20", "file": "debates1980-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "3f0311c99a6630dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-20a.616.6", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dormand", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dormand", "preceding_text": "When will the right hon. and learned Gentleman emerge from his cocoon of fear into the real world to see what effect his policies are having? Will he comment on three aspects of those policies?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-20a.616.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-20", "file": "debates1980-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "3f0311c99a6630dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-20a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-20a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-20", "file": "debates1980-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "3f0311c99a6630dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-20a.660.0", "colnum": "660", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A cost to the housewife\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "Throughout my period in British politics, we have never gone out and bought food at world market prices. We have always had a system of agricultural support that has cost a great deal of money—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-20a.660.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-20", "file": "debates1980-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "3f0311c99a6630dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-20a.688.7", "colnum": "688", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Torney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Torney", "preceding_text": "ss of convenience to the consumer and not even the loss of that social service to the aged, sick, and disabled-although that is important. It means the loss of 50,000 jobs in milk processing, transport and distribution. It means that the whole electric vehicle industry in the United Kingdom, with all its benefits for energy conservation, would be destroyed. That would lead to further unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-20a.688.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-20", "file": "debates1980-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "3f0311c99a6630dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-20a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howells", "preceding_text": "ut as a sheep producer I believe that our best market is here at home, in Britain. I am delighted that the Minister announced this afternoon that an extra 15p per kilogram live weight will be given to fat lamb producers and 3p per kilogram, if I understood him, for old sheep. That is a step in the right direction. Reference has been made to the sheep-meat regime. I believe that we do not need one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-20a.697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-20", "file": "debates1980-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "3f0311c99a6630dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-20a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the green pound?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "preceding_text": "ial Report, 16 March 1977; Vol. 928, c. 468–9.] I put it to the Minister that what we are saying and what my right hon. Friend the Member for Deptford (Mr. Silkin) was saying throughout those years—and we were being pilloried for saying it almost up to the general election—is right. As I understand it, that is also the stance that the right hon. Gentleman has adopted. I support him in that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-20a.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-21", "file": "debates1980-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "dfd8bf7dccd515f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-21a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "RURAL COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "preceding_text": "used to install bathrooms and other facilities in them. I do not believe the Monopolies Commission when it says that there is no monopoly among the brewers. The commission has not looked at the matter on a regional basis. It should look at the way in which the pubs in one wide area have all come under the control of one firm. We are losing the opportunity for a lot of young men to take up farming—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-21a.843.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-03-21", "file": "debates1980-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "dfd8bf7dccd515f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-21a.905.6", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — POLICE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-21a.905.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-24", "file": "debates1980-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "3027f6f86dbb994c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-24a.930.5", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "preceding_text": "When my hon. Friend next meets the chairman of the Post Office, will he seek to persuade him to reconsider the refusal of the Post Office to issue a special stamp to commemorate the opening of the Humber bridge?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-24a.930.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-24", "file": "debates1980-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "3027f6f86dbb994c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-24a.1074.3", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (CONVERGENCE AND BUDGETARY QUESTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " previous Government's so-called renegotiation\"—could form the basis of a solution. Removal of all the restrictions and limitations which at present castrate the financial mechanism, so as to transform it into an effective instrument for redressing this country's excessive gross contribution, would yield us a refund of about £350 million in 1980, or roughly one-third of our likely net contribution", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-24a.1074.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-24", "file": "debates1980-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "3027f6f86dbb994c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-24a.1079.2", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (CONVERGENCE AND BUDGETARY QUESTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "rst part seeks to reaffirm the position taken by the House on the two previous occasions on which we debated the matter, namely, that the United Kingdom net contribution to the Community budget should be zero. The two previous debates took place before the European Council met at Dublin. As I have already made clear, very important positive progress was made at that Council for which the document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-24a.1079.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-24", "file": "debates1980-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "3027f6f86dbb994c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-24a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (CONVERGENCE AND BUDGETARY QUESTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "ot only Britain…but also those who may be minded to oppose it now.\"—[ Official Report, 22 November 1979; Vol. 974, c. 612–13.] My second point concerns the relationship between contribution and expenditure. I do not believe, as some may be tempted to do, that Community spending in the United Kingdom can, of its nature, ever be a satisfactory alternative to a restructuring of the CAP.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-24a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-24", "file": "debates1980-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "3027f6f86dbb994c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-24a.1094.3", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (CONVERGENCE AND BUDGETARY QUESTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "a bad precedent for Britain to break the law. Law and the treaties are the cement of the Community's constitution. If that cracks, the edifice must crumble and collapse. But it would not be only the Community that would be damaged. The high standing of Britain in the world rests in no small measure on the belief that we honour our bond and abide by the law. Lose that, and we lose much—perhaps all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-24a.1094.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-03-24", "file": "debates1980-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "3027f6f86dbb994c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-24a.1096.1", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (CONVERGENCE AND BUDGETARY QUESTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-24a.1096.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-24", "file": "debates1980-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "3027f6f86dbb994c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-24a.1098.2", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (CONVERGENCE AND BUDGETARY QUESTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Does not my hon. Friend agree that my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition made it clear a week ago that the Government should refuse to pay VAT contributions because it was necessary to reach a settlement with the EEC? Is not my hon. Friend arguing the case that he argued when he broke the ranks of the Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-24a.1098.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-24", "file": "debates1980-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "3027f6f86dbb994c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-24a.1098.2", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (CONVERGENCE AND BUDGETARY QUESTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about devolution?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ght hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition made it clear a week ago that the Government should refuse to pay VAT contributions because it was necessary to reach a settlement with the EEC? Is not my hon. Friend arguing the case that he argued when he broke the ranks of the Labour Party—[ Interruption. ] I am sorry if hon. Members do not like my remarks, but he broke the ranks of the Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-24a.1098.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-24", "file": "debates1980-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "3027f6f86dbb994c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-24a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (CONVERGENCE AND BUDGETARY QUESTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wasting time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-24a.1102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-24", "file": "debates1980-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "3027f6f86dbb994c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-24a.1120.0", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (CONVERGENCE AND BUDGETARY QUESTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": " what they want. Is their economic concept of Britain that of a vassal of the United States? I must ask the fundamental question—how can this be changed? The Financial Secretary said that the fundamental character of the CAP must be modified. I agree, but I must emphasise that I am very glad that we have heard little tonight of the nonsense of cheap food. There is no cheap food in the world today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-24a.1120.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-24", "file": "debates1980-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "3027f6f86dbb994c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-24a.1127.1", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (CONVERGENCE AND BUDGETARY QUESTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I am sorry. Time is pressing. I cannot give way. The hon. Gentleman has spoken in this debate. The Government's position is also not credible because the Tory Party has been the European party of British politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-24a.1127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-25", "file": "debates1980-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "9d0da421397e8bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-25a.1176.0", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (CONVERGENCE AND BUDGETARY QUESTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. You will have noticed that in the final question from the right hon. Member for Stepney and Poplar (Mr. Shore) he made two allegations. One was that my hon. Friend the Financial Secretary had not placed before the House last night papers that the Chair had said he was under no obligation to place before the House. Therefore I hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-25a.1176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-25", "file": "debates1980-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "9d0da421397e8bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-25a.1177.1", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (CONVERGENCE AND BUDGETARY QUESTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Perhaps it would be convenient to clear up this matter. We cannot hold another debate now on what took place last night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-25a.1177.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-25", "file": "debates1980-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "9d0da421397e8bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-25a.1359.1", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "preceding_text": " the House to appreciate its importance. The amendment makes only small changes to two sections of the Road Traffic Act 1960 but these changes, I can assure right hon. and hon. Members opposite, are of real consequence to bus operators and their staff. Recent events have highlighted the difficulties and dangers the public transport staff face in dealing with some sections of the travelling public.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-25a.1359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-25", "file": "debates1980-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "9d0da421397e8bc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-25a.1359.1", "colnum": "1359", "heading": "Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "preceding_text": "hon. Members that my speech will last as long as their interjections. The dangers that the public transport staff face in dealing with some sections of the travelling public are real, and it is important that those public servants should be backed by sufficient and unambiguous authority. Bus drivers and conductors are given a range of powers under the regulations mentioned in sections 146 and 147—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-25a.1359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-26", "file": "debates1980-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "75aa011641dfce04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-26a.1413.2", "colnum": "1413", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": " what extent it should involve itself in the details. The meetings at which a withdrawal would have to take place have not happened. What is happening is that the AMA is considering what it should do to co-operate on the details of the scheme with the Government. It is important to understand that the Government are well in a position to proceed without detailed consultation with local government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-26a.1413.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-26", "file": "debates1980-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "75aa011641dfce04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-26a.1424.2", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "s included in the statistics that he quoted for the non-metropolitan district councils? Is he further aware that that borough increased its rate by ½p in the pound, having held the rate virtually steady for the past three years? Does not he accept that Macclesfield could do that because it sold its assets and reduced its staff by 4·5 per cent? Mr. Deputy Speaker, will my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-26a.1424.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-26", "file": "debates1980-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "75aa011641dfce04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-26a.1430.4", "colnum": "1430", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State accept that by virtue of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-26a.1430.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-26", "file": "debates1980-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "75aa011641dfce04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-26a.1453.0", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "grow—defence by 3 per cent. a year, in real terms, up to the end of the period, and law and order by 2½ per cent. a year. Spending on health will continue to grow exactly as planned by the last Government, at about 2 per cent. a year over the period. The cost of this increase will he partly offset by increases in charges, including in particular a £1 prescription charge, from next December.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-26a.1453.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-26", "file": "debates1980-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "75aa011641dfce04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-26a.1453.0", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "w and order by 2½ per cent. a year. Spending on health will continue to grow exactly as planned by the last Government, at about 2 per cent. a year over the period. The cost of this increase will he partly offset by increases in charges, including in particular a £1 prescription charge, from next December. [ Interruption. ] These charges will yield in total about £30 million in a full year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-26a.1453.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-26", "file": "debates1980-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "75aa011641dfce04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-26a.1491.0", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": " bound to say that I resist and resent this kind of Budget put forward in this way. I now turn to the question of deeming. The Chancellor told us that he intends to ensure that £12 a week is disregarded in the payment of benefits to the family of a striker. I do not know whether many people know it, but strikers are already treated worse than unemployed people in terms of social security benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-26a.1491.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-26", "file": "debates1980-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "75aa011641dfce04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-26a.1491.0", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "efits paid to a striker's family, we find that the short-term benefits make no allowance for the man himself, but a deduction of about £15 a week is made. The striker is £15 a week worse off than the man who is unemployed. The Government now propose to make him a further £12 worse off than the unemployed man. This is the way in which the Government will create social tension out of all proportion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-26a.1491.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-26", "file": "debates1980-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "75aa011641dfce04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-26a.1491.0", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": " on means-tested benefits.\"—[ Official Report, 17 June 1977; Vol 933, c.794–95.] There is an overwhelming case—and every Conservative Member knows it—for the undertakings that have been given to raise the child benefit to £5.20. Although we have only just heard what the Chancellor said about personal allowances, I believe that I am right in saying that he has also chiselled in that respect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-26a.1491.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-26", "file": "debates1980-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "75aa011641dfce04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-26a.1491.0", "colnum": "1491", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ition takes place, the equivalent figure should be £1,405, not £1,375. For the married man, he is proposing to raise the personall allowance to £2,145, but he is making him worse off. He is abolishing the reduced rate of 25p and replacing it by the figure of £2,145, whereas, in order to start square, it ought to be £2,165. I note that there is no contradiction of this. The House will want to know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-26a.1491.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-26", "file": "debates1980-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "75aa011641dfce04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-26a.1531.1", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "STEVENAGE DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": ", after that date otherwise than in the normal course of business\". That refers to the fact that the authority purports in the Bill to nullify any sale that has taken place after 19 October 1979 and transfer it, at the price at which it was bought, to the Stevenage development authority. That is retrospective legislation of which this House usually throws out any consideration. Secondly, it means—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-26a.1531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-26", "file": "debates1980-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "75aa011641dfce04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-26a.1554.0", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "STEVENAGE DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY BILL (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "en the most charitable hon. Member would share my view that the Minister's answer was not the least ambiguous that we have ever had from a Government Minister. I ask him the question again. If he wants the House to move on from this point, he can answer \"Yes\" or \"No\", and we shall leave the matter. Does the Secretary of State at this moment have the power to require new towns to sell their assets?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-26a.1554.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-26", "file": "debates1980-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "75aa011641dfce04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-26a.1604.0", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (WORKER PROTECTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "uce the tachometer, the answer would have been \"No\". To introduce it will cost £300 million. So here we are, at a time when we are cutting public expenditure because of the severe economic crisis in which we find ourselves, introducing another measure which will do us no good but will considerably increase the costs of this country. It is intolerable. I believe that we should co-operate in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-26a.1604.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-27", "file": "debates1980-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a8748457ba380b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-27a.1649.5", "colnum": "1649", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I would be very surprised if a sub-postmaster with one employee had no alternative source of income. I was brought up in a shop with a sub-post office", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-27a.1649.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-27", "file": "debates1980-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a8748457ba380b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-27a.1665.1", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS (UPRAT1NG)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "We did not increase it to £1.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-27a.1665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-27", "file": "debates1980-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a8748457ba380b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-27a.1665.1", "colnum": "1665", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS (UPRAT1NG)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": " yet law and he has no right to give the uprating based on prices only. The Bill has not even gone to another place and we are entitled to know why the 1975 Act has not been implemented. We have had difficulty with the Secretary of State on previous issues. In regard to pensioners, if a shortfall is forecast, will the Secretary of State make it good and not act as he did on the previous shortfall?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-27a.1665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-27", "file": "debates1980-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a8748457ba380b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-27a.1666.2", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS (UPRAT1NG)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "he anticipated rate of inflation between the previous uprating and the next. Therefore, inflation has been taken fully into account. It is suggested that the measures concerning strikers' families represent an attack on the trade union movement. The amount of supplementary benefit which has been paid to the steel strikers to date is over £8 million. The Iron and Steel Trades Confederation has not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-27a.1666.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-27", "file": "debates1980-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a8748457ba380b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-27a.1679.6", "colnum": "1679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "ing to the Red Book. It was under 12 per cent. During the first six months after the Chancellor came to power it rose by over 14 per cent., and we have had to add to that, according to the Red Book, 2 per cent. or 3 per cent. because of evasion of the corset by acceptances, bills and other means—a practice that developed real economic importance only after May last year, according to the Red Book.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-27a.1679.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-27", "file": "debates1980-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a8748457ba380b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-27a.1687.1", "colnum": "1687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "spect, the hon. Gentleman is entirely wrong in his interpretation of what my right hon. Friend said. I see my right hon. Friend sitting in his place, wreathed in his normal geniality. I have no doubt, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that his charm and ebullience will lead you to give him an opportunity of explaining to the House later precisely what he said, precisely what he did, and precisely what followed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-27a.1687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-27", "file": "debates1980-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a8748457ba380b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-27a.1688.2", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. Let me run over—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-27a.1688.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-27", "file": "debates1980-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a8748457ba380b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-27a.1702.1", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"A reduction.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I should like to compare this Government's aspirations with the performance delivered by the right hon. Gentleman. We have in prospect a projected rise of 4 per cent. in total public spending in real terms over the survey period from 1980–81 to 1983–84.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-27a.1702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-27", "file": "debates1980-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a8748457ba380b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-27a.1702.1", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It has style.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "sh to freedom. However, before I place the laurels around him, I must add that the following year he increased public spending by more than 5½ per cent. Therefore, one was practically back to where one was before dislocations of the sudden and dramatic drop of the proceeding year. That is the roller coaster approach to public expenditure. It may have its drama, and it may get its headlines—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-27a.1702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-27", "file": "debates1980-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a8748457ba380b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-27a.1702.1", "colnum": "1702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "—[HON. MEMBERS: \"It has style.\"] That may be, but we are hoping for a more consistent and stable approach in the remorseless winding down of the levels of public spending. There will be no quick dash for freedom with regard to this subject. That is because I do not believe that inflation can be killed by a cavalry charge. Even if I thought that, there are no Prince Ruperts on this Treasury Bench.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-27a.1702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-27", "file": "debates1980-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a8748457ba380b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-27a.1707.0", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "nder his stewardship the figures were lamentable compared with those of this Government. I commend my right hon. and learned Friend's Budget to the House. It seeks, above all, to secure the necessary time for the success of our central policy. There are certain areas where one can already see changes that will be to our advantage. The Budget will encourage the small business sector of the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-27a.1707.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-27", "file": "debates1980-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a8748457ba380b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-27a.1707.0", "colnum": "1707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": " economy reflecting the consequences of North Sea oil and gas. Ten months ago a mandate was secured for the policies that my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer is pursuing. They are policies designed for the span of a full Parlia- ment. Time will be their judge and vindication. This Budget consolidates such polices, which will reduce inflation though the passage of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-27a.1707.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-27", "file": "debates1980-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a8748457ba380b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-27a.1724.5", "colnum": "1724", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman indicates that he has a total lack of understanding of the trade union movement. Not every strike is official. Many strikes are unofficial. In every unofficial strike, when there is no strike pay, workers' wives and families will suffer. What about the workers who are not members of trade unions and who go on strike from time to time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-27a.1724.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-27", "file": "debates1980-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "0a8748457ba380b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-27a.1770.0", "colnum": "1770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Horam", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Horam", "preceding_text": "by other factors, one of which is Government action. Ignoring that common sense point of view sometimes leads members of the Government into the most odd positions. For example, the Secretary of State for Trade said only the other day that an increase in VAT had nothing to do with inflation. That attitude may be very pure. I do not know whether the right hon. Gen- tleman is one of the gang of six—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-27a.1770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-28", "file": "debates1980-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "d21965a5e06b0443", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-28a.1876.0", "colnum": "1876", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (BRANDT REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "l politicians. What is important about the Brandt report is that it clothes with respectability ideas which, at any rate until recently, would have been thought to be \"way out\" and over-idealistic, if not cranky. I pay tribute to the courtesy of the right hon. Member for Sidcup (Mr. Heath), who would have been entitled to an hour of this debate, and who has sat so patiently to listen to all of us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-28a.1876.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-31", "file": "debates1980-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "923bb98758b5a22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-31a.9.7", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Soviet-manufactured Greeting Cards", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "Friend for that answer. Does he recognise that there has been a 40 per cent. increase in Christmas cards alone over the last year, that sales are one-third down on those of last year, and that at least one company, Waldorf Cards, has laid off 80 men and is pulling out of the market? How much longer will this industry be expected to subsidise the British military effort—the Russian military effort?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-31a.9.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-31", "file": "debates1980-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "923bb98758b5a22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-31a.20.6", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — British Airports Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "overed by statutory blight provisions, the Government have decided to introduce a clause into the Civil Aviation Bill now before the House which will confer powers on the BAA to acquire by agreement land which may be required for airport development in future but which is not immediately required for that purpose. That clause will not extend or affect the BAA's existing compulsory purchase powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-31a.20.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-31", "file": "debates1980-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "923bb98758b5a22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-31a.44.3", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "With respect to the right hon. Gentleman, that is not what was said. At the time it was said—and it was perfectly true—that we had no plans to introduce any new charges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-31a.44.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-31", "file": "debates1980-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "923bb98758b5a22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-31a.62.1", "colnum": "62", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "kers' families were a tiny proportion of the total benefits paid. We should stick to the principles of a civilised society, where we have given the lead to other countries. On average, the first £15 of any benefits claimed by a striker for his family is for him to pay. Then there is a further £12 a week on top of that, which makes a total of £27 before a striker's family starts receiving benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-31a.62.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-31", "file": "debates1980-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "923bb98758b5a22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-31a.65.5", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "—to meet the demands in the NHS. But that is a matter for the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-31a.65.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-31", "file": "debates1980-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "923bb98758b5a22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-31a.66.3", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "I am sure that these are the worst aspects of this Budget. I am convinced that in its day of action the TUC will make this a centre point in the discussions and demonstrations that take place throughout the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-31a.66.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-31", "file": "debates1980-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "923bb98758b5a22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-31a.77.0", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"That is not true\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grieve", "preceding_text": "a union or those running it can say that it does not matter whether they go on strike and the taxpayer will pay, there is no sanction in the background to make people consider the factors in the situation. It is wholly wrong that the taxpayer should be asked, and should have been asked all these years, to subsidise strikes when Britain has been one of the most strike-ridden countries in the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-31a.77.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-31", "file": "debates1980-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "923bb98758b5a22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-31a.155.0", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Nigel Lawson)", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Nigel Lawson)", "preceding_text": "ng speeches. I should perhaps reply personally in writing to him about the points that he made with his characteristically informed comment and search for the truth. I shall, however, refer to one matter that he raised, because it was commented upon by other hon. Members during the debate. That was the proposal that cigarettes and tobacco generally should be abstracted from the retail price index.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-31a.155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-03-31", "file": "debates1980-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "923bb98758b5a22a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-31a.155.0", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Nigel Lawson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Nigel Lawson)", "preceding_text": "ex that excluded them would not be regarded as properly measuring retail prices. However, we have introduced the tax and price index, which gives a better perspective to these matters by taking into account other things that people have to pay for, such as income tax and national insurance contributions. In relative terms, the weight of tobacco and alcohol is less in the TPI, although it is there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-03-31a.155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-01", "file": "debates1980-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "0241ad378462cdfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-01a.233.3", "colnum": "233", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "ce or three times in the rest of my speech that I am not romantic about small firms. Small firms have a part to play in the task of increasing productivity, not because they are more apt to have higher productivity than are large firms—I do not believe that to be true—but for a reason I shall try to explain. Small firms, new businesses have many advantages. They are the yeomen of a modern economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-01a.233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-01", "file": "debates1980-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "0241ad378462cdfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-01a.233.3", "colnum": "233", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "fer jobs to some of those who are released by the achievement of higher productivity. I come now to the whole range of improvements in the economic climate for small businesses which my right hon. and learned Friend has introduced in his Budget as part of a sensible policy to reverse the uncomprehending hostility or indifference to small businesses which has dominated policies over the past years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-01a.233.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-01", "file": "debates1980-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "0241ad378462cdfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-01a.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Ah !\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "We had better see where enterprise zones go first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-01a.245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-01", "file": "debates1980-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "0241ad378462cdfc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-01a.340.1", "colnum": "340", "heading": "BUDGET RESOLUTIONS AND ECONOMIC SITUATION", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "er for Worthing, who feels that they fall short of what should have been achieved, and on the other hand by the Opposition, who have sought to present these cuts as the most savage act since Ghengis Khan. Nothing could be a more grotesque caricature of what we have been doing. The choices that we have made in our spending programme have been dominated by our determination to achieve a fair result—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-01a.340.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-02", "file": "debates1980-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "d05bccd5853ee927", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-02a.416.3", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "preceding_text": "The Crown Office gives as much notice as possible. Regrettably this is not always very long. I intend to prosecute Mr. Speaker next week in the Glasgow High Court and I shall see the position for myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-02a.416.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-04-02", "file": "debates1980-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "d05bccd5853ee927", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-02a.482.3", "colnum": "482", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER AND MAY DAY)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The hon. Gentleman should withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It was exceedingly discourteous by my standards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-02a.482.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-02", "file": "debates1980-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "d05bccd5853ee927", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-02a.487.1", "colnum": "487", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER AND MAY DAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "y what we believe—namely, that the people of Suffolk are proud to help in the defence of Britain. It is all right for Labour Members to laugh, but it was people like them who left this country defenceless against the Nazis. It was the Peace Pledge Union and the other Left-wing \"wets\" who left this country defenceless against the other Fascist group—not the Russian Fascists, but the black Fascists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-02a.487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-02", "file": "debates1980-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "d05bccd5853ee927", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-02a.524.5", "colnum": "524", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (EASTER AND MAY DAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": ", together with our European partners, if that is likely to be helpful. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister made clear in a statement on 20 March the Government's attitude to contacts with the Palestine Liberation Organisation. I welcome the opportunity to reaffirm what she said then. I turn to the remarks about the Civil List made by my hon. Friend the Member for Fife, Central (Mr. Hamilton).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-02a.524.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-02", "file": "debates1980-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "d05bccd5853ee927", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-02a.539.0", "colnum": "539", "heading": "EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "preceding_text": " me to it by putting an amendment on the Order Paper about an even more appalling feature of this timetable motion. I do not think that there is a precedent for this motion. If there is, perhaps the Government will tell us. In effect, they are saying that any time that we spend discussing the timetable motion will automatically be deducted from the time that we have left to discuss the amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-02a.539.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-02", "file": "debates1980-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "d05bccd5853ee927", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-02a.585.8", "colnum": "585", "heading": "EDUCATION (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "I shall be brief on these amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-02a.585.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-03", "file": "debates1980-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "ff4820b1ab78272d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-03a.644.2", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": " office details 11 days ago, that about a year ago to the day 30 Russian technical advisers were forced to eat their own testicles, they were then skinned alive and their heads were paraded through Herat by Afghan factions? Does the right hon. Lady agree that it is not surprising that Mother Russia will not sit by and see factional crises of militant irredentist Islam on her Central Asian borders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-03a.644.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-03", "file": "debates1980-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "ff4820b1ab78272d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-03a.652.2", "colnum": "652", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "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. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Since it has been the invariable practice of Governments to accept and implement the will of the House, will the Leader of the House tell us what he is doing about early-day motion No. 17, which now has the signatures of 312 hon. Members from all parties?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-03a.652.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-03", "file": "debates1980-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "ff4820b1ab78272d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-03a.728.1", "colnum": "728", "heading": "RATES (GOVERNMENT CONTRIBUTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hill (Southampton, Test)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hill (Southampton, Test)", "preceding_text": "of future charging systems, and in particular how far charges can be better related to demand. I am sure that that is right. He went on to say: Water authorities have the power, in cases of hardship, to make certain arrangements.\"—[ Official Report, 25 July 1979; Vol. 971, c. 587–8.] I am not sure what those arrangements are, but I am sure that my hon. Friend will do his best to press them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-03a.728.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-14", "file": "debates1980-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2049fe1f07d8a403", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-14a.788.5", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "Does the Paymaster General consider that the low standing of the public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-14a.788.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-14", "file": "debates1980-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2049fe1f07d8a403", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-14a.788.5", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "Does the Paymaster General consider that the low standing of the public—[ Interruption ]— of the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-14a.788.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-14", "file": "debates1980-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2049fe1f07d8a403", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-14a.815.1", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "under clause 2 will have the right of release from detention after a maximum of six hours. I mention that to illustrate the difference between the two legal systems. The amazement of most Scots lawyers at various aspects of the English legal system is matched only by that of English lawyers at ours. The question, therefore, to be asked of the provisions of the Bill is\"Are they right for Scotland?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-14a.815.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-14", "file": "debates1980-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2049fe1f07d8a403", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-14a.830.1", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Milan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Milan", "preceding_text": "in Scotland are good. In most instances they are very good. However, that does not mean that certain sections of the community are not worried about police powers and that there are not many complaints about police behaviour. In Scotland we have avoided some of the difficulties which have prejudiced and embittered relationships between the police and the public in England. That has arisen in part—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-14a.830.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-14", "file": "debates1980-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2049fe1f07d8a403", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-14a.835.3", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milan", "preceding_text": "I know the hon. Gentleman's interest in these matters and I hope that he will make his speech later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-14a.835.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-14", "file": "debates1980-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2049fe1f07d8a403", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-14a.872.2", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member for Southend, East\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "to making a speech of 10 minutes. Therefore, I can deal only with one or two issues. There is a significant difference between the Bill and the previous Labour Bill regarding the powers of search. I think that the Labour Bill was also a bad Bill in respect of the first few clauses. I opposed the detention powers. The real progenitor of the powers of search is the hon. Member for Glasgow, Cathcart—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-14a.872.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-14", "file": "debates1980-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2049fe1f07d8a403", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-14a.893.0", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Hogg", "preceding_text": "dergo. If the clause is enacted, the accused will be in the position of finding it very difficult to refuse to answer questions, and certainly at the trial refusal to answer will be regarded by a jury as an admission of guilt. The Bill represents major changes and major losses in our civil liberties and in our rights. It is an attack on freedom. It is the second attack on freedom that we have had.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-14a.893.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-14", "file": "debates1980-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "2049fe1f07d8a403", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-14a.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CRIMINAL JUSTICE (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is new to Parliament. He should understand that law reform measures are not necessarily based on committee reports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-14a.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-15", "file": "debates1980-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "fe40b0602f69ba3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-15a.1007.3", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister take time today to reflect on the mounting evidence emerging this week—not only from her Chancellor of the Exchequer—that her economic strategy is destroying Britain's industrial base?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-15a.1007.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-15", "file": "debates1980-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "fe40b0602f69ba3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-15a.1007.3", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister take time today to reflect on the mounting evidence emerging this week—not only from her Chancellor of the Exchequer—that her economic strategy is destroying Britain's industrial base? [HON MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] Will she further consider a reversal of those policies which have led to a soaring inflation rate of 20 per cent., rising unemployment and crippling interest rates,—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-15a.1007.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-15", "file": "debates1980-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "fe40b0602f69ba3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-15a.1008.0", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend take time today to read the reports in the press about the rate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-15a.1008.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-15", "file": "debates1980-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "fe40b0602f69ba3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-15a.1013.2", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, what happens in the next year will depend exactly on how hard and how efficiently people work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-15a.1013.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-15", "file": "debates1980-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "fe40b0602f69ba3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-15a.1037.2", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ces for taxation. The second point that I make is that if we look at the position as it will be in November 1980 and compare it with what family allowances and the child tax allowances were in the last full year, 1977, revalued in line with the Rooker/Wise formula, we see that there is no doubt that a great many families will be significantly better off than if they had stayed with the old system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-15a.1037.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-15", "file": "debates1980-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "fe40b0602f69ba3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-15a.1042.2", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "efit remains at 13 weeks, and the clause does not, of course, affect the 13 week link-up period for the supplementary benefit long-term scale rate. Clause 4 of the Bill provides for the reduction and eventual abolition of the earnings-related supplement which, at present, is added to unemployment benefit, sickness benefit, maternity allowance and the widows' allowance. This may seem a drastic step", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-15a.1042.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-15", "file": "debates1980-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "fe40b0602f69ba3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-15a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "First, nobody pays strikers. Secondly, no other country has a nationally financed system that is the same as the British system. While we pay it through national financing, as Mr. Gennard says in his article, some countries pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-15a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-15", "file": "debates1980-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "fe40b0602f69ba3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-15a.1066.3", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "The point that I am making is that benefit is paid to strikers' families. What do the Government propose?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-15a.1066.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-15", "file": "debates1980-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "fe40b0602f69ba3e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-15a.1132.1", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "The obvious solution is for the hon. Gentleman to vote against the Bill and against the attack on the work injured.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-15a.1132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-16", "file": "debates1980-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "5becb17e1f1b2f44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-16a.1184.3", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Gilmour", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will appreciate that we have no standing in the case of Mr. Mandela, so I do not think that it would be right for us to make formal representations on his behalf.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-16a.1184.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-16", "file": "debates1980-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "5becb17e1f1b2f44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-16a.1231.1", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "HOUSING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman misses the point, because they have already exercised the discretion. What they may have done is to anticipate the allocation of funds which they did not then in fact receive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-16a.1231.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-16", "file": "debates1980-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "5becb17e1f1b2f44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-16a.1236.0", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "HOUSING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Twice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "on by which I wish to judge the unreasonableness of the motion is the behaviour of the Opposition in Committee. The right hon. Gentleman was honest enough to describe the behaviour of my hon. Friends by saying that they had not made totally speedy progress. I think that he phrased it in that subdued way because no one who has attended the Committee—and I have enjoyed that privilege more than once—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-16a.1236.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-16", "file": "debates1980-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "5becb17e1f1b2f44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-16a.1238.1", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "HOUSING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "nd we are considering the alternative possibilities carefully. We shall be making propsals, as promised, shortly.\"—[ Official Report, 16 January 1980; Vol. 976, c. 1776.] \"Shortly\" turned out to be 2 April, the day before the House rose for the Easter Recess. The hon. Member for Huntingdonshire (Mr. Major)—he may well be in the House, but I do not have the privilege of being able to recognise him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-16a.1238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-16", "file": "debates1980-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "5becb17e1f1b2f44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-16a.1247.0", "colnum": "1247", "heading": "HOUSING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I think that it will be exactly as the right hon. Gentleman said in an unguarded moment. Council house starts in those years will be for the old and for the very special categories—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-16a.1247.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-16", "file": "debates1980-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "5becb17e1f1b2f44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-16a.1251.0", "colnum": "1251", "heading": "HOUSING BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "anchester city council would have been the subject of a very short debate, but apparently not. We discussed the rather curious habit of the hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw) of arresting his constituents as they go about their business. We also discussed the fact that the hon. Member for Bootle was unable to get a council house and was forced, poor chap, to go out and become an owner-occupier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-16a.1251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-16", "file": "debates1980-04-16a.xml", "sha256": "5becb17e1f1b2f44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-16a.1407.1", "colnum": "1407", "heading": "SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY REDUNDANCY PAYMENTS (NORTHERN IRELAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "All of us must try to persuade both management and the work force that their future depends upon their efforts. It is essentially that, and no more than that. I do not know how I stand for time and whether there is an opportunity to deal with the remaining questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-16a.1407.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-04-17", "file": "debates1980-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "0f5b4493705615ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-17a.1453.6", "colnum": "1453", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Guy Barnett", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister agree that one of the most valuable contributions of self-sufficiency in agriculture would be for us to eat our own sheep-meat, rather than send it to France?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-17a.1453.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-17", "file": "debates1980-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "0f5b4493705615ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-17a.1500.3", "colnum": "1500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "his benefit I shall repeat that sentence: the immunities approach has created two strong forces which continually pull against each other. On the one hand, the fundamental antipathy to the law and all its works of many in the trade union movement has been fed and nurtured by it. Since their right to exist and to operate has seemed to stem from their holding a position in many senses above the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-17a.1500.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-17", "file": "debates1980-04-17a.xml", "sha256": "0f5b4493705615ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-17a.1508.2", "colnum": "1508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "I should like to come to that in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-17a.1508.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-18", "file": "debates1980-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "7001764a1584abc5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-18a.1631.8", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Speller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Speller", "preceding_text": "ental lobby requires us to cease using modern methods. The problems of the Third world demonstrate what happens when one operates subsistence farming with none of the modern machinery or methods. However, it is my thesis that, if we are to be successful, we cannot say only \"Let business prosper\" or \"Let the conservationists reign.\" I remember a song from \"Oklahoma\". I shall not attempt to sing it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-18a.1631.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-21", "file": "debates1980-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "9049364b6b7757ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-21a.3.4", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "I think that the statement the right hon. Gentleman has just made will do considerable additional damage to the Welsh economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-21a.3.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-21", "file": "debates1980-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "9049364b6b7757ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-21a.17.0", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "Under the Labour Government there was a declining trend in house building. We have continued those policies and met their guarantee of an 80 per cent. allocation. I have nothing to add to the answer given by my hon. Friend the Under Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-21a.17.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-21", "file": "debates1980-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "9049364b6b7757ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-21a.41.4", "colnum": "41", "heading": "NORTH-WEST ENGLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James A. Dunn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"North Fylde\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James A. Dunn", "preceding_text": "In following the hon. Member for Blackpool, South—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-21a.41.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-21", "file": "debates1980-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "9049364b6b7757ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-21a.44.0", "colnum": "44", "heading": "NORTH-WEST ENGLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "Lancaster we should be on our uppers. In the past 10 years we had had no fewer than 2,604 redundancies and when the new regional boundaries were being drawn our unemployment rate was well over 6 per cent. That is why we retained our intermediate area status. Over the past several months one of our most important employers, Storley Bros., declared, first, 160 workers and then 52 workers redundant.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-21a.44.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-21", "file": "debates1980-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "9049364b6b7757ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-21a.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "NORTH-WEST ENGLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stan Thorne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the Liberals?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stan Thorne", "preceding_text": "2013;76 without mentioning that the Labour Government increased the rate support grant to make possible the holding down of those rates. One can say that the Tories nationally and locally are consistent and radical. Their aim is clear. It is to destroy the Welfare State both nationally and locally. The Liberals are inconsistent, gimmicky, immoral and, in certain circumstances, downright dishonest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-21a.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-21", "file": "debates1980-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "9049364b6b7757ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-21a.83.0", "colnum": "83", "heading": "NORTH-WEST ENGLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mark Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mark Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "ions. Morecambe and Heysham have established two records in the last few months, I am happy to report. First, it has been announced that we are to have the largest nuclear complex in the whole of Europe, which is very good for local employment. Secondly, it has been announced in the last few weeks that some entrepreneurs are making the necessary investment to build the largest big wheel in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-21a.83.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-21", "file": "debates1980-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "9049364b6b7757ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-21a.102.3", "colnum": "102", "heading": "NORTH-WEST ENGLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "with a 14 per cent. increase in its rates under a Conservative council, with Gorton, with a 28·8 per cent. increase under a Labour council, and Oldham, a Conservative majority and an increase of 15·9 per cent., with Stalybridge and Hyde, Labour, 33 per cent. North Fylde, 16 per cent., Rossendale, 14·5 per cent. and Lancaster, 16·7 per cent., all Conservative controlled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-21a.102.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-21", "file": "debates1980-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "9049364b6b7757ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-21a.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "YORKSHIRE", "cue_speaker": "Sir D. Kaberry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir D. Kaberry", "preceding_text": "I cannot answer that question. I am not a right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-21a.114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-21", "file": "debates1980-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "9049364b6b7757ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-21a.132.1", "colnum": "132", "heading": "YORKSHIRE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Worse.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waller", "preceding_text": "I do not think that either party has a creditable record in this regard. The proposals by the Labour Party at that time would have produced very much the same results as have been seen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-21a.132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-21", "file": "debates1980-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "9049364b6b7757ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-21a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "YORKSHIRE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Shaw", "preceding_text": "e of our difficulties. That is true. However, high interest rates are a symptom of other things, particularly inflation. We suffer not only from our inflation, but from world-wide inflation. High rates of interest are not peculiar to this country. In deciding when to reduce interest rates the Government must look at events in other countries, particularly America. The quicker that we can get back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-21a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-21", "file": "debates1980-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "9049364b6b7757ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-21a.160.3", "colnum": "160", "heading": "YORKSHIRE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "preceding_text": "mething to do with it. My right hon. Friend the Member for Howden (Sir P. Bryan) expressed his concern for the growers, and this was emphasised by other hon. Members from the area. Their remarks will be drawn to the attention of my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. The hon. Member for Dewsbury (Mr. Ginsburg) has not stayed to hear my comments on what he had to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-21a.160.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-21", "file": "debates1980-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "9049364b6b7757ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-21a.162.8", "colnum": "162", "heading": "YORKSHIRE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "preceding_text": "Immediately these decisions were taken prices on the home market would increase, because there would be a guaranteed market for our goods, whether or not they were produced efficiently. In the long term, the greatest damage would be done to our exports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-21a.162.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-21", "file": "debates1980-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "9049364b6b7757ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-21a.165.6", "colnum": "165", "heading": "CRIMINAL JUSTICE (SCOTLAND) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Bernard Weatherill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How could we?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Bernard Weatherill)", "preceding_text": "These are debating points which hon. Members could and should have raised in the previous debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-21a.165.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-21", "file": "debates1980-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "9049364b6b7757ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-21a.180.1", "colnum": "180", "heading": "CRIMINAL JUSTICE (SCOTLAND) [MONEY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": " other bodies. This Government, like the previous one, have not allowed a specific amount for this purpose under the Bill. We are following the precedent set by our predecessors, and that is an appropriate way of pursuing the matter. Unfortunately, the debate has to be terminated within a minute, but I intend to give much fuller details in Committee. I hope that the explanations that I have given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-21a.180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-22", "file": "debates1980-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "630cdff965dd7f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-22a.212.0", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that, in view of the dangerous situation in the Middle East, the respect in which Britain is held in that part of the world, the international prestige of her right hon. and noble Friend the Foreign Secretary and the restrictions currently imposed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-22a.212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-22", "file": "debates1980-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "630cdff965dd7f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-22a.212.0", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "ew of the dangerous situation in the Middle East, the respect in which Britain is held in that part of the world, the international prestige of her right hon. and noble Friend the Foreign Secretary and the restrictions currently imposed—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"]—on American foreign policy, there is both an excellent opportunity and an urgent need for Britain—with or without our European partners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-22a.212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-22", "file": "debates1980-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "630cdff965dd7f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-22a.218.2", "colnum": "218", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY BILLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. As you are aware, there are two Social Security Bills passing through Parliament at the same time. What makes that unique is that they are similar Bills covering the same areas for debate in many instances. I refer to the Social Security (No. 1) Bill and the Social Security (No. 2) Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-22a.218.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-22", "file": "debates1980-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "630cdff965dd7f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-22a.242.0", "colnum": "242", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Dunn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Dunn", "preceding_text": " right to strike is, and must remain a basic freedom, it can never be a right that is superior to all other rights. That is a view that Conservative Members would endorse and they would add that the right to be consulted can never be denied. 4.30 pm Most Members of Parliament have received a letter today from Mr. Roger Gale, vice-chairman of the Conservative Trades Unionists' Communications Group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-22a.242.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-22", "file": "debates1980-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "630cdff965dd7f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-22a.253.0", "colnum": "253", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Colvin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Colvin", "preceding_text": " of secret ballots should be debated in more detail than hitherto and at the earliest opportunity. That opportunity is now. I support the new clauses, but I admit that we do not expect to win the vote tonight. Perhaps we may not need to vote. I believe that we have performed a useful function in giving the House the opportunity to debate the question of statutory ballots for almost the first time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-22a.253.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-22", "file": "debates1980-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "630cdff965dd7f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-22a.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "preceding_text": "I have a feeling that the NUJ is one example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-22a.255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-22", "file": "debates1980-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "630cdff965dd7f14", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-22a.263.1", "colnum": "263", "heading": "New Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": "I have listened with interest to the points raised on both sides of the House. It appears to me that the arguments on one side have been well thought out and the arguments on the other side have been extremely badly thought out and have entirely missed the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-22a.263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-23", "file": "debates1980-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c583d940a47dace0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.433.0", "colnum": "433", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT M25", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Dunn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Reading \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Dunn", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the annual report of British Railways published today indicates that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.433.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-23", "file": "debates1980-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c583d940a47dace0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.472.3", "colnum": "472", "heading": "IRAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree with my hon. Friend's first point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.472.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-23", "file": "debates1980-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c583d940a47dace0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.551.1", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "sphere of understanding and tolerance. The Synod, in better and more eloquent language than I can employ, reflects the view that I put to the Committee and the House. It says: It is the argument of this Paper that strong democratic institutions including trade unions, which deal tolerantly with dissenting minorities, and whose power is checked by adequate social mechanisms to ensure this tolerance", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-23", "file": "debates1980-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c583d940a47dace0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.553.0", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "ough this has been an extremely interesting, valuable and wide-ranging debate, it is not about the principle of whether there should or should not be a closed shop as a legitimate institution under our industrial relations law. Many of my hon. Friends have acknowledge that the closed shop, distasteful though it may be and is to myself and, I believe, to virtually all my right hon. and hon. Friends", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.553.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-23", "file": "debates1980-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c583d940a47dace0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.560.1", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "lic. They are also confusing the fact that, if I put a foot wrong, I can be disciplined by the disciplinary procedures of the Bar, just as chemists, doctors and dentists can be disciplined by their organisations, and I can be sued for negligence. Lest it be said that the internal disciplinary procedures make it a closed shop, I should point out that there is always a right of appeal to the judges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.560.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-23", "file": "debates1980-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c583d940a47dace0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.569.2", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The most recent information that we have about union membership agreements, if there is concern about whether they are operating properly, is contained in the article published in the Employment Gazette in November last year. It was compiled by Mr. Gennard, Mr. Dunn and Mr. Wright of the industrial relations department of the London School of Economics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.569.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-23", "file": "debates1980-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c583d940a47dace0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.585.3", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" More \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "in closed shops to have the same privileges as those about to join a closed shop and to vote on whether they wish to stay in. I understand that there are about 25 million in work in this country, of whom about half are trade unionists. Half of those trade unionists are in closed shops. I do not think that it is disputed that one-third of all trade unionists voted Conservative at the last election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.585.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-23", "file": "debates1980-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c583d940a47dace0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.592.8", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "scussion. Perhaps I can answer straight away one of the questions posed by the hon. Member for Chester-le-Street (Mr. Rad-ice). I am indeed utterly and entirely opposed to closed shops. I believe that they are evil and that they are an unacceptable infringement of personal liberty. What is more, I believe that the closed shop is the basis of most of the abuse of trade union power in this country.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.592.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-23", "file": "debates1980-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c583d940a47dace0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.596.1", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "I was under the impression that the majority of workers at that firm had clearly demonstrated that they did not want a closed shop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.596.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-04-23", "file": "debates1980-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c583d940a47dace0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.603.3", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order. Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leighton", "preceding_text": "No. Sit down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.603.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-23", "file": "debates1980-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c583d940a47dace0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.605.1", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leighton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leighton", "preceding_text": " I worked for two newspapers. I shall not advertise them. One had the largest Sunday circulation. The hon. Member for Stretford, who is laughing, featured in that paper quite recently, boosted the circulation and gave employment to members of my union. The other was the largest daily selling newspaper. In one chapel there were 600 members and in the other there were 400. We had quarterly meetings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.605.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-23", "file": "debates1980-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c583d940a47dace0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.613.1", "colnum": "613", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Rubbish \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "ntleman asks \" How many? \". I do not know. But I do know that when this House approved the agreement for the Post Office to have workers on its board, it was approved only in order to save the Post Office union from carrying out a witch-hunt against those workers, some of whom had worked there for 30 years, who refused to join a trade union, despite the fact that a closed shop had been introduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-23", "file": "debates1980-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c583d940a47dace0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.614.0", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Lloyd", "preceding_text": "t down colleagues would still be a strong binding factor. So, of course—one should not underestimate this—would the readiness of almost everyone to believe that he was worth even more than his representatives were arguing for him. The only real question for us is what the law should be. I believe that the ideal is quite clear. People should be free to belong to a union or not to belong to a union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.614.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-23", "file": "debates1980-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c583d940a47dace0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.623.3", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Yes, a ballot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "There are millions of people who deeply regret having this Government, but they have to put up with them for the moment. In our democracy we have to put up with things that we do not necessarily like, because no democracy and no system is perfect. Any system which allows the present lot to be elected as the Government is far from perfect, but people have to put up with it until the next election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.623.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-23", "file": "debates1980-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c583d940a47dace0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.625.2", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": " this afternoon. He was a powerful personality, and he made an immense contribution to British industry and to the Confederation of British Industry. In public he was a powerful advocate for his case, and in private he was a warm and very gentle man. The nation is very much the poorer for his passing from us. I thought that the House would like to join tonight in sending our sympathy to his widow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.625.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-23", "file": "debates1980-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c583d940a47dace0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.635.0", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \" Come to the amendment \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "amendments also concerns individual rights and freedoms, and I hope that Conservative Members will remain in their places in considerable numbers so that we can go through the amendments which deal with the monstrous provisions in the Bill which will take away the unfair dismissal rights of newly established firms employing fewer than 20 people. Those provisions will create a new caste of workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.635.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-23", "file": "debates1980-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c583d940a47dace0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.635.0", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \" What about your friends? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "ake away the unfair dismissal rights of newly established firms employing fewer than 20 people. Those provisions will create a new caste of workers. [Hon. Members: \" Come to the amendment \".] I will come to the amendment, but there are important minority issues that will come up later during this sitting and we hope that hon. Members will take them as seriously as they appeared to take this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.635.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-23", "file": "debates1980-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c583d940a47dace0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.637.3", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": " and to achieve higher performance. I refer to a document that might appeal to some Conservative Members. It is entitled \"A Christian enquiry into compulsory trade union membership\". It describes itself as \"An Anglican Comment on Current Affairs \". There is a foreword by the Right Rev. Robin Woods, Bishop of Worcester. There is a saying that the Anglican Church is the Conservative Party at prayer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.637.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-04-23", "file": "debates1980-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c583d940a47dace0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.645.1", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Richard Crawshaw)", "preceding_text": "The Question is, That the amendment be made. As many as are of that opinion say \" Aye \".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.645.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-04-23", "file": "debates1980-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "c583d940a47dace0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.645.2", "colnum": "645", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Aye.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-23a.645.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-24", "file": "debates1980-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "132536f05a8d52a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-24a.719.1", "colnum": "719", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (AGRICULTURE MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "ious Labour Government. The former Prime Minister, in 1977–78, not only agreed to increase prices of milk, sugar and wine, all in surplus, but actually agreed to increases in prices beyond what the Commission was proposing. For that ex-Prime Minister to lecture the present Prime Minister on giving way on prices is a classic example of the practitioner of the past—I hope—confessing his sins.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-24a.719.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-24", "file": "debates1980-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "132536f05a8d52a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-24a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Consumer Affairs (Mrs. Sally Oppenheim)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Consumer Affairs (Mrs. Sally Oppenheim)", "preceding_text": "utile, but were expensive and damaging, and they cruelly misled people into believing that inflation was being tackled, instead of merely being disguised and delayed. They embarked on legislation such as the Price Commission Act, which cost £7½ million, to restrain the retail price index by a derisory one-tenth of 1 per cent. The right hon. Gentleman made no mention of the Price Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-24a.732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-24", "file": "debates1980-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "132536f05a8d52a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-24a.738.2", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend said nothing of the sort. The hon. Gentleman is wrong on two counts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-24a.738.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-24", "file": "debates1980-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "132536f05a8d52a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-24a.738.2", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "e of inflation is so high despite the strong pound, without which the rate would be even higher. I shall repeat the reasons—the accelerating increase of the money supply that we inherited from the previous Labour Government, accelerating pay increases that we inherited from the Labour Government, accelerating inflation that we inherited from the Labour Government, accelerating raw material prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-24a.738.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-24", "file": "debates1980-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "132536f05a8d52a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-24a.739.3", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": " make no apologies for facing those realities or for rejecting the political quackery of the Labour Party. The motion—which I call upon the House to reject—has a hollow ring. It is founded on hypocrisy. It condemns a situation for which the Labour Party is largely responsible. It rejects the constructive and realistic policies that we are following. The fight against inflation still has to be won.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-24a.739.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-24", "file": "debates1980-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "132536f05a8d52a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-24a.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Miss Boothroyd", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"It is an expensive area.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Boothroyd", "preceding_text": " which he as a retailer has to pay. There is considerable concern about this matter. The competition policy about which we have heard so much from the Government has certainly not been exercised. I have checked the price of petrol in London within the last few days, and I have found it to be nothing less than £1·38 a per gallon to £1·40 per gallon in the area around here that I use.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-24a.752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-24", "file": "debates1980-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "132536f05a8d52a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-24a.774.0", "colnum": "774", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade (Mr Norman Tebbit)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade (Mr Norman Tebbit)", "preceding_text": "his motion. They are not very serious, in my judgment. All through the afternoon we had a lot of talk about double digit inflation. Until the hon. Member for Norwood (Mr. Fraser) rose to speak, I do not think that the Opposition mustered a double digit roll of Members on their Benches. At one time there were three, then five, and then there was the big deal when the number went up to six, I think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-24a.774.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-24", "file": "debates1980-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "132536f05a8d52a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-24a.775.3", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COST OF LIVING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" You are the Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "ister, speaking on the BBC programme \" The World this Weekend \", two years ago, saying 30 per cent. wage increases—roughly 30 per cent. price increases. Five per cent. wage increases—roughly 5 per cent. price increases. Ten per cent. wage increases—roughly 10 per cent. price increases. That was the Labour Government's view. But have the present Opposition done anything in the last 10 or 12 months—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-24a.775.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-24", "file": "debates1980-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "132536f05a8d52a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-24a.798.6", "colnum": "798", "heading": "DARTMOOR COMMONS BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "preceding_text": "I have said that Dartmoor is a place that ought to be open to all If everyone behaves reasonably, there is no reason why everyone should not enjoy the benefits of the moor. All that I am saying is that these days one cannot expect everyone to behave properly, without some sort of control. I wonder whether any of us has parked a caravan by the side of a stream and polluted that stream?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-24a.798.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-24", "file": "debates1980-04-24a.xml", "sha256": "132536f05a8d52a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-24a.811.1", "colnum": "811", "heading": "DARTMOOR COMMONS BILL [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" It is still raining.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "he national parks. I have visited the highest points of Dartmoor during a blizzard to meet people trapped by many feet of snow—people who were trying to look after their stock and to keep the milk industry going. I sympathise with them. I shall not say a word of criticism about them. I have also visited Dartmoor in the middle of the worst droughts that we have experienced—with spectacular results!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-24a.811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-25", "file": "debates1980-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "cc21d8684bc25881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-25a.879.0", "colnum": "879", "heading": "IRAN", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Gilmour", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "Everyone, I think, will agree that the United States should show the utmost restraint, and that over the last few months it has shown the utmost restraint. We want to draw—and I think the right hon. Gentleman did by implication draw—a clear distinction between an attempt to rescue the hostages, on the one hand, and military action against Iran, on the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-25a.879.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-25", "file": "debates1980-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "cc21d8684bc25881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-25a.881.3", "colnum": "881", "heading": "IRAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that the Islamic Governments believe that the political reconstruction of Iran depends upon the trial of the Shah? Should not world Powers, therefore, now be discussing the extradition of the Shah, if that is the legal position demanded by the Iranian Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-25a.881.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-25", "file": "debates1980-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "cc21d8684bc25881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-25a.881.3", "colnum": "881", "heading": "IRAN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "preceding_text": " that is the legal position demanded by the Iranian Government? [ Interruption .] On the basis of such discussions, will the Lord Privy Seal now say that the Government are totally opposed to military intervention in Iran and will in no circumstances support that intervention? Is it not the case that we are now beginning to pay the penalty in the disruption of good relations with the Soviet Union?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-25a.881.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-25", "file": "debates1980-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "cc21d8684bc25881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-25a.884.0", "colnum": "884", "heading": "IRAN", "cue_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has drawn a distinction between a rescue operation and military intervention. Since he said that he was aware that there would be some rescue attempts, will he answer the question that has been put to him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-25a.884.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-25", "file": "debates1980-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "cc21d8684bc25881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-25a.884.0", "colnum": "884", "heading": "IRAN", "cue_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "preceding_text": " drawn a distinction between a rescue operation and military intervention. Since he said that he was aware that there would be some rescue attempts, will he answer the question that has been put to him? [ Interruption .] The right hon. Gentleman said that he was informed—HON. MEMBERS: \" The possibility.\"] The right hon. Gentleman said that he was aware that there was likely to be a rescue attempt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-25a.884.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-28", "file": "debates1980-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "064484419efd30dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-28a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "BIRKENHEAD (UNEMPLOYMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Field", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Field", "preceding_text": "Birkenhead, for every five men who were employed in shipbuilding a year ago, only four remain. The men have fulfilled their part of the bargain to the letter and spirit of the agreement. The second part of the plan was that British Shipbuilders would seek merchant shipbuilding orders, as it has been trying to do, and that we would bring forward public orders. In Birkenhead, we hoped to get orders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-28a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-28", "file": "debates1980-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "064484419efd30dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-28a.1046.1", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "DEFENCE ESTIMATES 1980", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. That is just an indication of the ostrich-like attitude that the Home Office is adopting to this subject. This is an issue, beyond all others, where there should be the greatest possible public discussion and public knowledge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-28a.1046.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-28", "file": "debates1980-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "064484419efd30dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-28a.1046.1", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "DEFENCE ESTIMATES 1980", "cue_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir J. Eden", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. That is just an indication of the ostrich-like attitude that the Home Office is adopting to this subject. This is an issue, beyond all others, where there should be the greatest possible public discussion and public knowledge. [ Interruption. ] If hon. Members do not like what they hear or are told, let them join others and disappear from the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-28a.1046.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-28", "file": "debates1980-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "064484419efd30dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-28a.1102.0", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "DEFENCE ESTIMATES 1980", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Defence for the Army (Mr. Barney Hayhoe)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Defence for the Army (Mr. Barney Hayhoe)", "preceding_text": "not sure whether he was in favour of buying more ships or whether he was criticising the size of the budget for being insufficient to order more, At the same time, he said that the budget was too big, anyway. Perhaps these contradictions were not all that unexpected in the context of this debate. We have had a good and constructive debate with very powerful speeches by a number of my hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-28a.1102.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-29", "file": "debates1980-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "364b4a2f35530ffa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-29a.1125.9", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Question No. 1, Dr. Mawhinney. Question No. 2, Mr. Dormand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-29a.1125.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-29", "file": "debates1980-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "364b4a2f35530ffa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-29a.1134.0", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I understand that the right hon. Gentleman and many other hon. Members are anxious about the Government's proposals. He will know that the pressures of the public sector borrowing requirement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-29a.1134.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-29", "file": "debates1980-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "364b4a2f35530ffa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-29a.1150.2", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Had the right hon. Gentleman been in power today the level of taxation would have been a great deal higher. In the first two Budgets of the Labour Government the level of income tax was increased, as was indirect tax. If the right hon. Gentleman takes the view which I deduce from his comments, I trust that he will repudiate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-29a.1150.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-29", "file": "debates1980-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "364b4a2f35530ffa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-29a.1153.2", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL (LUXEMBOURG MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "t to make the most of it. As to Afghanistan, has the right hon. Lady any indication that Afghanistan itself is ready to resume its traditional neutrality and non-alignment? That would be a satisfactory way out, as in the case of Austria, but Austria and countries such as Austria have indicated their willingness. Is there any indication whether or not Afghanistan is ready to leave the Soviet orbit?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-29a.1153.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-29", "file": "debates1980-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "364b4a2f35530ffa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-29a.1316.2", "colnum": "1316", "heading": "CENSUS ORDER 1980", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": ", and I am grateful for his comments. My local authority considers that this census is extremely important. The chief executive of the Macclesfield borough council has told me that in the consultations that have taken place on this census he is concerned about the low priority which may well be afforded to processing the Cheshire results. I hope that the Minister will comment on that in his reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-29a.1316.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-29", "file": "debates1980-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "364b4a2f35530ffa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-29a.1322.1", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "CENSUS ORDER 1980", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Race", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did not reassure them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Race", "preceding_text": "I shall not, for the reason that my right hon. Friend and others have already given. The combination of fear about the confidentiality of the census, fear about the attitude of one of the local Conservative Parties and fears in all the directions that I have mentioned, led people to reject the test question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-29a.1322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-30", "file": "debates1980-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "be0508181778ec8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1383.1", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "PRISONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wheeler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wheeler", "preceding_text": "I welcome this opportunity to support my right hon. Friend in his statement, which I completely endorse. The whole House must be aware of the serious problem in the prison service, with a prison population in excess of 44,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-30", "file": "debates1980-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "be0508181778ec8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1383.1", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "PRISONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wheeler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wheeler", "preceding_text": "I welcome this opportunity to support my right hon. Friend in his statement, which I completely endorse. The whole House must be aware of the serious problem in the prison service, with a prison population in excess of 44,000. [HON. MEMBERS: \" Question.\"] I welcome the review of prison building. I hope that my right hon. Friend will consider the other alternatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1383.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-30", "file": "debates1980-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "be0508181778ec8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1425.4", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "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": " was in some spirit of burlesque that Labour Members spoke of a sexist attack upon women and a deliberate attempt to strike at those who are most vulnerable. I remind the House of two things, one of which the Government have done and the other of which the Government have taken power to do in the Bill. Those two things are directly relevant to the debate. The Bill introduces a new right for women.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1425.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-30", "file": "debates1980-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "be0508181778ec8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1463.0", "colnum": "1463", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "nes of mass picketing that disfigured the face of industrial Britain during the winter of discontent. We all recall it vividly. I start instead with a quotation from today's issue of The Guardian, which describes what is now happening outside the offices of the Express and Star newspaper in Wolverhampton. I quote the report of Mr. Paul Johnson—not, I should have thought, a particular union basher.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1463.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-30", "file": "debates1980-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "be0508181778ec8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1464.1", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "nt Prime Minister, both the former Home Secretary and the present Home Secretary, and both the former Secretary of State for Employment and the present Secretary of State for Employment, all agreed on one thing, namely, that numbers can intimidate and that numbers do obstruct. The former Prime Minister said: those who latch on to this in order to turn an industrial dispute into a political battle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-30", "file": "debates1980-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "be0508181778ec8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1503.2", "colnum": "1503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "It is customary on Third Reading to make some introductory remarks before turning to the measures included in the Bill. Conservative Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1503.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-30", "file": "debates1980-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "be0508181778ec8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1510.0", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crowther", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \" They are on strike.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crowther", "preceding_text": "of questions to which, no doubt, the right hon. Gentleman will reply in due course. However, it would have been appropriate to use a different occasion for putting questions. What has worried me ever since the Bill began its tortuous course is that the public, who are dependent on the press, television and radio for their information, know very little about its contents or about its implications.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1510.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-30", "file": "debates1980-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "be0508181778ec8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1516.0", "colnum": "1516", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "al law out of it. One day someone will refuse to pay a fine, will refuse to be distrained, and will be imprisoned. I have considerable regard for the Secretary of State—much more than some of his hon. Friends have for him—but he should now be getting his right hon. and learned Friend to increase the staff of the Official Solicitor's Department, because many more official solicitors will be needed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1516.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-30", "file": "debates1980-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "be0508181778ec8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1519.2", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" More \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "ember for Winchester (Mr. Brown). Winchester's blast furnaces light up the night sky, right across the New Forest and down to Beaulieu Creek. We have heard about industrial relations from the hon. Member for Reigate (Mr. Gardiner). Reigate's busy shipyards emit the clang of metal on metal that reverberates right up St. John's Hill, over the North Downs, and hits the stockbrokers below their belts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1519.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-30", "file": "debates1980-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "be0508181778ec8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1521.0", "colnum": "1521", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \" They are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "preceding_text": "ssion is that the Bill is needed because the interests of capital and of workpeople are becoming more and more similar. There is no point in having a machine costing £1 million if the man who works it can withdraw his labour and bankrupt the company. But increasingly, in an integrated and automated society, that is what happens. We are not dealing with the industrial society of the 1920s or 1930s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1521.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-30", "file": "debates1980-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "be0508181778ec8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1531.0", "colnum": "1531", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker", "preceding_text": "I understand that there is a general feeling in the House that we should rise at a reasonable hour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1531.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-30", "file": "debates1980-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "be0508181778ec8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1547.1", "colnum": "1547", "heading": "BRITISH AEROSPACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": "ger than anticipated. In his letter to me, he wrote: We had previously understood that a settlement would be reached before the appointed day. I have news for him. Has he read the Financial Times of 16 January? There is an article in that paper by Robert Cottrell, who is supposed to know what he is writing about. Presumably he would not have been given a job with the Financial Times if he did not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1547.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-30", "file": "debates1980-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "be0508181778ec8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1552.3", "colnum": "1552", "heading": "BRITISH AEROSPACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": "That is the phrase that I was about to use. I was trying to concentrate on section 31 of the Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries Act 1977, with which the amendment deals. It is with that section that the letter from Sir John Rix is concerned. The letter was sent to all shareholders. I see that the hon. Member for Macclesfield has crossed the Floor. Perhaps he has been persuaded by my arguments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1552.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-30", "file": "debates1980-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "be0508181778ec8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1555.1", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "BRITISH AEROSPACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": "nnot find out about the compensation. It is questions such as these that must be answered before we can agree to take further any amendments like this. The hon. Gentleman goes on to talk about the successor company and its possible flotation. People in the City are beginning to wonder whether the company ever will be floated. It is not our fault that the minimum lending rate stands at 17 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-30", "file": "debates1980-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "be0508181778ec8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1555.1", "colnum": "1555", "heading": "BRITISH AEROSPACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": " in which any benefits from the arbitration proceedings in compensation terms, which might ultimately be paid to the successor company, will not end up in this country. They might end up in foreign hands. As far as we can see, there is nothing in article 40 to prevent that happening. Far from being a technical, drafting amendment—this is why my hon. Friends are showing such great concern about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1555.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-30", "file": "debates1980-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "be0508181778ec8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1575.5", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "BRITISH AEROSPACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "anted to give it detailed and scrupulous consideration. We were absolutely right to do so. Quite clearly, drafting amendments of this sort would not have been necessary if the Government had got it right in the first place. Line 31 of page 7 of the Bill, which is altered by the amendment, includes the words or (in Scotland) by diligence \". Frankly, I am not aware what \" diligence \" is in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1575.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-04-30", "file": "debates1980-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "be0508181778ec8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1575.5", "colnum": "1575", "heading": "BRITISH AEROSPACE BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": " by the amendment, includes the words or (in Scotland) by diligence \". Frankly, I am not aware what \" diligence \" is in Scotland—[ Interruption .] If hon. Members wish to make comments, I am quite willing to give way, especially to the hon. Member for Welwyn and Hatfield (Mr. Murphy), who was singularly silent in Committee and showed a distinct lack of interest, understanding or care for the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-04-30a.1575.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-01", "file": "debates1980-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a6c1e775c348efc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-01a.1613.1", "colnum": "1613", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Carlisle", "preceding_text": "I was encouraged to read in the press that the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-01a.1613.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-01", "file": "debates1980-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a6c1e775c348efc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-01a.1615.5", "colnum": "1615", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "As a wife and a mother—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-01a.1615.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-05-01", "file": "debates1980-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a6c1e775c348efc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-01a.1622.0", "colnum": "1622", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ght sittings, that is to be discussed again at 4.30 this afternoon, and on which there has not been obstruction? Of course, there is bound to be lengthy debate on a Bill of such importance, which cuts benefits and interferes with the rights of people throughout the country. Can the right hon. Gentleman give us any excuse whatsoever for introducing this timetable motion on this Bill in this manner?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-01a.1621.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-01", "file": "debates1980-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a6c1e775c348efc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-01a.1630.1", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "sonal salary will be paid by the BSC at the appropriate rate, based on the recommendations of the Review Body on Top Salaries—currently £48,500 a year. Mr. MacGregor has commitments as a senior partner in Lazard Freres, but his partners have agreed to release him in return for certain financial conditions. These conditions comprise two elements: the first is a payment to Lazard Freres of £675,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-01a.1630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-01", "file": "debates1980-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a6c1e775c348efc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-01a.1630.1", "colnum": "1630", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "s. These conditions comprise two elements: the first is a payment to Lazard Freres of £675,000—[ Interruption .]—for the three years of the appointment, two-thirds of which will be returnable pro rata if he completes less than three years; the second involves payments, again to Lazard Freres in the range of nil to £1,150,000, linked to the performance of the BSC under Mr. MacGregor's chairmanship.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-01a.1630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-01", "file": "debates1980-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a6c1e775c348efc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-01a.1631.3", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "These performance payments would be made in 1984 and 1985 and would be related to certain performance criteria to be agreed between the Department of Industry and Lazards. The level of the performance payments will be assessed by a performance review committee, comprising two persons nominated by me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-01a.1631.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-01", "file": "debates1980-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a6c1e775c348efc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-01a.1631.5", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "The level of the performance payments will be assessed by a performance review committee, comprising two persons nominated by me and two persons by Lazards, with an independent chairman acceptable to both. During the period of his appointment, Mr. MacGregor will cease to be an active partner in Lazard Freres—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-01a.1631.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-01", "file": "debates1980-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a6c1e775c348efc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-01a.1633.2", "colnum": "1633", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "It will certainly fall on the taxpayer, but the transfer fee is paid only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-01a.1633.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-01", "file": "debates1980-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a6c1e775c348efc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-01a.1633.3", "colnum": "1633", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I remind the House about interruptions from a sedentary position. It is a long time since I said it, but it remains valid. They are grossly unparliamentary when they are persisted in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-01a.1633.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-01", "file": "debates1980-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "a6c1e775c348efc3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-01a.1634.1", "colnum": "1634", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "I repeat to the House that the bulk of the transfer package—that is, all except the £225,000—will be paid by the taxpayer only according to performance. I was asked finally what will be the ingredients of the performance criteria.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-01a.1634.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-02", "file": "debates1980-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "c831377119734466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-02a.1769.0", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Leaving aside the question of bank holidays and which one is worse than another, I do not feel as strongly about this bank holiday as I do about the subsequent bank holiday which has confused our calendar by confusing the traditional religious Whitsun with a new secular holiday. That was an even greater mistake—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-02a.1769.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-05-02", "file": "debates1980-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "c831377119734466", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-02a.1836.4", "colnum": "1836", "heading": "STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS, &c.", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Bernard Weatherill)", "preceding_text": "In order to save the time of the House, I propose to put together the Questions on the 10 motions relating to statutory instruments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-02a.1836.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-06", "file": "debates1980-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "300c27f382ea83cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-06a.13.6", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "May I congratulate my hon. Friend on the Department's decision this morning regarding Highbury Grove school, which is a good decision about a good school? In considering the recent application by the London borough of Ealing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-06a.13.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-06", "file": "debates1980-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "300c27f382ea83cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-06a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "MEMBERS' CONSTITUENCY INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "btain suggests that this convention is not inviolate, but, like most sensible conventions, has to be subject to reasonable exceptions. But the fact that there are exceptions does not mean that the convention can be ignored altogether. Clearly a large number of hon. Members have within their constituencies big industrial concerns, airports, railway stations or whatever, which have general interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-06a.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-06", "file": "debates1980-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "300c27f382ea83cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-06a.37.2", "colnum": "37", "heading": "MEMBERS' CONSTITUENCY INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It must be very difficult for the hon. Member for Inverness (Mr. Johnston), with the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) chattering all the time whilst he is trying to speak—and the hon. Member for Nottingham, West (Mr. English).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-06a.37.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-06", "file": "debates1980-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "300c27f382ea83cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-06a.38.3", "colnum": "38", "heading": "MEMBERS' CONSTITUENCY INTERESTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "by the hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar). With six of these I would not in any way quarrel, but I should have thought that the convention of the House would suggest that the civilised and sensible thing to do was for the hon. Gentleman to give me some notice of it. However—and this is the point that I wish to raise with you, Mr. Speaker—if you take the first question that he raised —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-06a.38.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-06", "file": "debates1980-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "300c27f382ea83cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-06a.49.1", "colnum": "49", "heading": "HOUSE OF LORDS (ABOLITION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud (Isle of Ely)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud (Isle of Ely)", "preceding_text": "x00B7;3 per cent.—still a pittance. Throughout that time the Opposition have opposed. While they represented a considerable majority of the people, their chance of success lay in resorting to the sort of gestures that the hon. Member for Perry Barr and I have had to indulge in in respect of the Social Security (No. 2) Bill, or in looking to our longstop in the House of Lords. What do the Lords do?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-06a.49.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-06", "file": "debates1980-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "300c27f382ea83cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-06a.61.4", "colnum": "61", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY (No. 2) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "I anticipate that the Opposition may deploy three arguments in resisting the motion. They may argue that the Government are proceeding with undue haste. They may argue that lengthy debate is essential in view of the nature of the changes proposed and that debate so far has been responsible and restrained. They may argue that there is no precedent for a guillotine in circumstances such as these—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-06a.61.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-06", "file": "debates1980-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "300c27f382ea83cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-06a.76.3", "colnum": "76", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY (No. 2) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not payments, cuts\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Griffiths", "preceding_text": " of time and the total time taken. I would have thought that a relatively short Bill such as this, because it has a clear distinction of principle, could have been debated in Committee in a reasonable and rational manner with due regard to the need to bring the discussions to an end, not for the benefit of hon. Members but for the benefit of those who are to receive the payments we are discussing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-06a.76.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-06", "file": "debates1980-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "300c27f382ea83cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-06a.78.0", "colnum": "78", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY (No. 2) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman also referred, in terms that I think most hon. Members of the Committee regretted, to the Royal Family. Such interventions make a timetable motion essential. Opposition Members will know that the length of time on each amendment and each clause will be limited and will thus stick to the point. There is tacit agreement on both sides of the House that a timetable motion is necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-06a.78.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-06", "file": "debates1980-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "300c27f382ea83cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-06a.78.0", "colnum": "78", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY (No. 2) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": ". Opposition Members will know that the length of time on each amendment and each clause will be limited and will thus stick to the point. There is tacit agreement on both sides of the House that a timetable motion is necessary—[HON. MEMBERS: Rubbish.] Despite what Opposition Members say, there is evidence that, from the beginning, they were unable to sustain the pace that they had set themselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-06a.78.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-05-06", "file": "debates1980-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "300c27f382ea83cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-06a.80.3", "colnum": "80", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY (No. 2) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The hon. Gentleman was asleep.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Clark", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend might point out that the attendance on the Opposition side was notable by its diminution during the hours of night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-06a.80.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-05-06", "file": "debates1980-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "300c27f382ea83cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-06a.84.0", "colnum": "84", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY (No. 2) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman obviously is suffering from a lapse of memory. I referred to the last Labour Government introducing five guillotines on five Bills in one day. The right hon. Gentleman spoke in the debate on the Health Services Bill which was his Bill subject to the guillotine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-06a.83.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-06", "file": "debates1980-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "300c27f382ea83cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-06a.117.1", "colnum": "117", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY (No. 2) BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "I shall come to the hon. Gentleman in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-06a.117.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-05-06", "file": "debates1980-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "300c27f382ea83cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-06a.170.1", "colnum": "170", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Question is the business motion. As many as are of that opinion say \"Aye\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-06a.170.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-07", "file": "debates1980-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "9934338d1fe88086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-07a.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "As usual the hon. Gentleman spoils a good point by extraordinary exaggeration. He might recall that, when I left the Scottish Office, unemployment was 88,400 and by the time that he left office in May last year it was no less than 181,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-07a.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-07", "file": "debates1980-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "9934338d1fe88086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-07a.295.0", "colnum": "295", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Answer it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "I understand that the right hon. Gentleman has to strive particularly hard to make points of that kind, but that intervention is unworthy of him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-07a.295.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-07", "file": "debates1980-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "9934338d1fe88086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-07a.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I have read it, my dear fellow.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-07a.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-07", "file": "debates1980-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "9934338d1fe88086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-07a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "tunity to pursue its current plans for electifi-cation and a single track Channel tunnel, that would be certain to pay a handsome profit, but it is forbidden to do so because of the cash limits which the Government have imposed on its borrowing. Why cannot those industries, which have prospects of profitable investment, go to the markets for their borrowing, just as BNOC has done over many years?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-07a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-07", "file": "debates1980-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "9934338d1fe88086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-07a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "hon. members: \" Too long! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " will lose its various battles for world trade, unless it puts that money into industry. The director-general of NEDO made the same point in a paper which I gather was discussed at the NEDC meeting this morning. We have had no sign that the Prime Minister or the Chancellor of the Exchequer is listening. The nearest thing to a \" U-turn \" occurred on Sunday. The Prime Minister gave a long interview.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-07a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-07", "file": "debates1980-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "9934338d1fe88086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-07a.361.0", "colnum": "361", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terence Higgins", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terence Higgins", "preceding_text": "r saying that the Select Committee ought to look into the matter further and that the House of Commons itself ought to do so, as it is doing this evening. In that context, I find it worrying that in regard to the period covered by the White Paper, though not the period covered by the Red Book, the Government seem to be adopting an anti-quantitative attitude, for want of a less eloquent expression—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-07a.361.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-07", "file": "debates1980-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "9934338d1fe88086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-07a.405.1", "colnum": "405", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Why? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": " that the paragraphs that are supposed to justify the Government's spending consist of clichés about the virtues of private enterprise in housing. I hope that we shall get some information from the Chief Secretary about what is really intended in housing. It was my hope that the Secretary of State for the Environment would speak this evening, but I am delighted that he is here in his place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-07a.405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-07", "file": "debates1980-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "9934338d1fe88086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-07a.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "PUBLIC EXPENDITURE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "The Clegg award is included in the 23 per cent. I was out of the Chamber for my right hon. Friend's contribution, but I believe that he was more concerned with the staging of Civil Service pay, which is the 25 per cent. There is an element of staging in order to bring this year's pay award to civil servants within the 14 per cent., but it is a small element of staging of about 2 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-07a.414.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-07", "file": "debates1980-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "9934338d1fe88086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-07a.435.0", "colnum": "435", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (SANCTIONS AND AMNESTY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh! \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "I listened with great care to my hon. Friend who presented this order and to the speech of the right hon. Member for Stepney and Poplar (Mr. Shore) from the Opposition Dispatch Box. Having considerable regard for the right hon. Gentleman, if I may say so, I think that he is making a bit of a meal out of a molehill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-07a.435.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-07", "file": "debates1980-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "9934338d1fe88086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-07a.441.0", "colnum": "441", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (SANCTIONS AND AMNESTY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who? Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Churchill", "preceding_text": "This order is designed to wipe the slate clean in respect of breaches of the Southern Rhodesia sanctions orders and to protect from further proceedings certain oil companies and other commercial interests. There will no doubt be certain Opposition Members, whichever way they vote, who will heave heavy sighs of relief when this order is carried.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-07a.441.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-07", "file": "debates1980-05-07a.xml", "sha256": "9934338d1fe88086", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-07a.452.1", "colnum": "452", "heading": "SOUTHERN RHODESIA (SANCTIONS AND AMNESTY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. loan Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. loan Evans", "preceding_text": " there are those in this House who have stated their principles since illegality, have stood by them, and will continue to do so until the end. We are discussing what was a United Nations sanctions order. When the Smith regime took the illegal action in 1965, and sanctions were imposed, it was because Members of this House went to the United Nations and asked for such sanctions against the regime.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-07a.452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-08", "file": "debates1980-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "fbe09320cf154c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.507.1", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuade", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuade", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State make a statement about the murder of a member of the SAS?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-08", "file": "debates1980-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "fbe09320cf154c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.507.1", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuade", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuade", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State make a statement about the murder of a member of the SAS? [ Interruption. ] He was murdered in my constituency, close to where the hon. Member for Belfast West (Mr. Fitt) lives. The members of the IRA, who were surrounded, gave themselves up. What weapons were seized and what charges have resulted from the incident?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-08", "file": "debates1980-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "fbe09320cf154c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.519.3", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman take account of the fact that there were two important court decisions yesterday? On the first one, about the day of action, what the judge himself said, whatever views may be held about the particular decision, was that each trade unionist must appreciate that choice to work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.519.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-08", "file": "debates1980-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "fbe09320cf154c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.519.5", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman also take account of the fact that in the other court judgment yesterday there was, as many of us believe, a verdict given which could involve a very serious infringement of the freedom of the press? Since I should have thought that this is a matter that would fall within the right hon. Gentleman's province, will he take account of that judgment, and if in fact Lord Denning's judgment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.519.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-08", "file": "debates1980-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "fbe09320cf154c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.520.2", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "If Lord Denning's judgment is upheld—which would be quite a rarity on these occasions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.520.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-08", "file": "debates1980-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "fbe09320cf154c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.547.5", "colnum": "547", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "ad for many years. All this, obviously, will enable us to put these matters into context. My own enthusiasms, inevitably, are always somewhat more muted, as is my nature, but I think it well that the House should know that these are the views of my right hon. Friend, and I hope that the press will give as much publicity to the remarks that I have quoted as they did to those that he made yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.547.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-08", "file": "debates1980-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "fbe09320cf154c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.561.2", "colnum": "561", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Like you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " Bill which we are now discussing, mark the most spectacular U-turn in Government policy, because they deliberately cancel out all the tax benefits which the British people gained from the first Budget. This second Budget is increasing total Government revenue by £1,500 million, and everyone in the country is now much worse off after two Tory budgets, except a tiny minority of very wealthy people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.561.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-08", "file": "debates1980-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "fbe09320cf154c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.561.2", "colnum": "561", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "rely on a long report in The Times —was that he had the gall to lecture countries which are suffering from the oil price increase, rather than benefiting, not to follow his example in deflating their economies so as to reduce world growth. The Select Committee was certainly right to believe that the Government's growth forecasts are a great deal too optimistic, but in that case every other aspect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.561.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-08", "file": "debates1980-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "fbe09320cf154c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.561.2", "colnum": "561", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "tee was certainly right to believe that the Government's growth forecasts are a great deal too optimistic, but in that case every other aspect—[ Interruption. ] I wonder whether the hon. Member for Knutsford, who is very habituated to chattering away in a recumbent posture, would either shut up or stand up. If the growth prospect over the next four years is as bad as the Select Committee made out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.561.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-08", "file": "debates1980-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "fbe09320cf154c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.561.2", "colnum": "561", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "and a half to two years. But the Chief Secretary put her right on that. He told us, quite rightly, in a pleasant Biffenism, if I may so call it, that there was no mechanistic and succinctly demonstrable link between a movement in the money supply and a subsequent change in inflation. Of course, the right hon. Gentleman is right. There are long and variable lags—like the hon. Member for Knuts-ford.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.561.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-08", "file": "debates1980-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "fbe09320cf154c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.561.2", "colnum": "561", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "re was no mechanistic and succinctly demonstrable link between a movement in the money supply and a subsequent change in inflation. Of course, the right hon. Gentleman is right. There are long and variable lags—like the hon. Member for Knuts-ford. [ Interruption. ] But there may also—and the right hon. Gentleman would admit this—be no link whatever; in fact, nobody has ever proved a link to exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.561.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-08", "file": "debates1980-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "fbe09320cf154c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.575.1", "colnum": "575", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman allow me to continue for a moment? I shall give way to him eventually. Quite apart from the level of the PSBR, the right hon. Gentleman also owes it to the House to say what his attitude on incomes policy is. He has criticised the policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-08", "file": "debates1980-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "fbe09320cf154c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.575.1", "colnum": "575", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "l policy. He has said that manufacturing industry in Britain is in great difficulty. But what is his industrial policy? Is he in favour of general import controls or selective import controls? He has made some speech somewhere, in some remote part of our island, saying something on import controls, I have no doubt, but why does he not come to the House and present an alternative industrial policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.575.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-08", "file": "debates1980-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "fbe09320cf154c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.612.4", "colnum": "612", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyon", "preceding_text": " an interim measure, but the Government, as I understand from clause 24, intend to reduce it this year and to cut it off altogether next year. I note that the Financial Secretary shakes his head. I hope that I may have an assurance that that is not what the clause means, but that is what I understand it to mean. I believe that the Commission for Racial Equality also understands it in the same way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.612.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-08", "file": "debates1980-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "fbe09320cf154c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.648.1", "colnum": "648", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "to improve the supply side of industry. We were told that incentives should be given to the skilled worker and middle manager. I accept that premise, but the reality of this Government's policies are different. Neither the skilled worker nor middle manager has benefited from their two Finance Bills and Budgets. A person earning £5,000 a year—and I assume that a skilled worker will earn about that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.648.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-08", "file": "debates1980-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "fbe09320cf154c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.651.0", "colnum": "651", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Mr. Speaker, but if this is not a point of order, I do not know what is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-08", "file": "debates1980-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "fbe09320cf154c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.652.0", "colnum": "652", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) 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": "be aware of the difficult physical factors. The House will know that there has been a record of slippage in this area which would make it extremely rash for any Government, even one presided over by the right hon. Member for Leeds, East, with his robust optimism and cavalier disregard for the facts, to make forecasts. We have approached this problem with a little more humility and circumspection.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.652.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-08", "file": "debates1980-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "fbe09320cf154c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" A re-tread.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "that we have been a little over-optimistic on our growth rates but a little cautious on our petroleum revenue tax forecast. It may be, therefore, that the two cancel each other out. Perhaps we are aiming roughly at the right objectives. The hon. Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Wainwright) gave a pale imitation of the kind of speech that Mr. John Pardoe would have given on behalf of the Liberal Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-08", "file": "debates1980-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "fbe09320cf154c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.677.0", "colnum": "677", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT, PLANNING AND LAND (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "s predicament, which also runs true. I hope that the Government will deny this categorically if it is untrue. That association believes that the Government are in no undue haste to get the Local Government, Planning and Land (No. 2) Bill on the statute book because they have not the slightest idea of how they will implement their block grant proposals and are still touting them around the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-08", "file": "debates1980-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "fbe09320cf154c20", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.677.0", "colnum": "677", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT, PLANNING AND LAND (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "ster of State had better fulfil his promise and produce the formula about how the block grant will work, which he assured the Committee would be published the moment he had worked it out. I am afraid he cannot have it both ways. If he can work it out, he owes it to the Committee to fulfil his promise and publish. If he does not, we must assume, as he is a man of honour, that he cannot work it out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-08a.677.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-09", "file": "debates1980-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "af176bb38e2b1a52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-09a.733.0", "colnum": "733", "heading": "SMOKING AND HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Morris", "preceding_text": "Not only the tobacco industry but the whole marketing industry takes it seriously—and we must never forget that we remain a country that relies on marketing. I should like to pick out three key elements in the marketing function. If there were a vote on whether we should have advertising, I suspect that the majority of hon. Members would say that we should not. I recognise that I am in a minority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-09a.733.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-09", "file": "debates1980-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "af176bb38e2b1a52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-09a.748.0", "colnum": "748", "heading": "SMOKING AND HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "tute tobacco. I do not think that it is possible to retrieve that one. But if the tobacco industry, through its research, reaches the stage where it can manufacture a safer cigarette, I hope that the Department will support it. It is a mistake to think that we can stop people smoking. I understand that advertising has been abolished in Norway, yet just as many people in Norway now smoke as before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-09a.748.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-09", "file": "debates1980-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "af176bb38e2b1a52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-09a.749.1", "colnum": "749", "heading": "SMOKING AND HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Test it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "But that will not happen, as I think the right hon. and learned Gentleman knows perfectly well. The right hon. and learned Gentleman is saying that the Government should ban advertising right across the board. I do not think that will happen. We would have to legislate to make it happen, and I have already indicated that I do not believe that in this Parliament there is a majority for such a Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-09a.749.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-09", "file": "debates1980-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "af176bb38e2b1a52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-09a.750.1", "colnum": "750", "heading": "SMOKING AND HEALTH", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "ortant that people should do so in moderation. But then there are many other things, from drink to sex, in which they should also indulge with moderation. I do not believe for a moment that many of the horrendous health hazards which are portrayed can be laid at the door of cigarette smoking. I believe that many other factors are involved. Plenty of people who do not smoke suffer from lung cancer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-09a.750.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-05-09", "file": "debates1980-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "af176bb38e2b1a52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-09a.794.12", "colnum": "794", "heading": "WATER SERVICES CHARGES (REBATES) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-09a.794.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-05-09", "file": "debates1980-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "af176bb38e2b1a52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-09a.794.16", "colnum": "794", "heading": "CHILD BENEFIT (UPRATING) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-09a.794.15"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-05-09", "file": "debates1980-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "af176bb38e2b1a52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-09a.794.20", "colnum": "794", "heading": "LAND DRAINAGE (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-09a.794.19"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-12", "file": "debates1980-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "740462df76f69707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-12a.831.4", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McElhone", "preceding_text": "e sabotaging its chances of success by making a 14 per cent. cut in real terms in the aid programme for the next four years? Is it not hypocritical for the Lord Chancellor, at the Scottish Tory Party conference on Saturday, to question the morality of trade unionists when the Government are guilty of immorality in cutting the aid programme in order to give tax hand-outs to rich taxpayers? Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-12a.831.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-12", "file": "debates1980-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "740462df76f69707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-12a.909.2", "colnum": "909", "heading": "FUEL PRICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "I know that the Minister is a compassionate man and that he is doing his best in the present difficult economic situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-12a.909.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-12", "file": "debates1980-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "740462df76f69707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-12a.923.5", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRAN (TEMPORARY POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may be allowed to develop my argument. I shall not give way; I intend to develop this argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-12a.923.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-12", "file": "debates1980-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "740462df76f69707", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-12a.968.1", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — IRAN (TEMPORARY POWERS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is confirming what I feared. If the Bill is enacted, we shall have given the Government their enabling powers. It is only after the Bill's enactment that we shall know what the Government intend to do with it. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will not try to mislead the House on that score. The other thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-12a.968.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-13", "file": "debates1980-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "cb01139d3f9f0fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1094.2", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "ould have wanted to ask questions would not be here. My hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Maxton) has said that he would have made a speech for an hour, as would my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, Central (Mr. Cook). All of them have parades and various engagements tomorrow. Do not tell me that the Government business managers did not know perfectly well what they were up to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1094.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-13", "file": "debates1980-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "cb01139d3f9f0fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1094.2", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "ould have made a speech for an hour, as would my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, Central (Mr. Cook). All of them have parades and various engagements tomorrow. Do not tell me that the Government business managers did not know perfectly well what they were up to. [ Interruption .] It may be that we shall have both today and tomorrow, because this Bill is much more important than the Gas Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1094.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-13", "file": "debates1980-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "cb01139d3f9f0fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1101.4", "colnum": "1101", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "re given us. Unless we take advantage of the tools that are available, there will be no proper scrutiny at all. The First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means, who has been in the Chair, is very vigilant, as are my colleagues. I think I can therefore claim that I have not been guilty of repetition and that I have put forward valid questions that might have been better presented in a Select Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1101.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-13", "file": "debates1980-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "cb01139d3f9f0fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": "ent, that there is every possibility that the French could use the sanctions issue as an excuse—I use that word advisedly—to switch the sourcing of that contract from the United Kingdom into France. I quote briefly from a memorandum which the stewards brought to me this morning. I praise the Talbot Stoke joint shop stewards committee in the Coventry workshop for the notes they have supplied to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-13", "file": "debates1980-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "cb01139d3f9f0fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": "Coventry and possibly 19,000 people up and down the country. I find it a very serious issue. The possibility that because of the Government's action we could lose a vital car contract to one of his so-called trading partners, if the contract goes to France, I take very seriously indeed. I only hope that an equally serious attitude will be concentrated upon that contract by the Department of Trade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-13", "file": "debates1980-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "cb01139d3f9f0fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1161.5", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "I move on to amendment No. 9, on which again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1161.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-13", "file": "debates1980-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "cb01139d3f9f0fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1161.5", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "e shall regard as a contract made before the date on which the order is made and, therefore, excluded from the powers in the Bill. Where, on the other hand, there is a major change in the terms of a contract or where a contract which has come to an end is renewed, we propose to regard this as a new contract. But each contract will have to be considered on its merits. It will be a question of fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1161.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-05-13", "file": "debates1980-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "cb01139d3f9f0fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1164.4", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "I do not know to what the Minister is referring, but it appears that he is accusing me of spending time in the bar. That is not true and the remark should be withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-13", "file": "debates1980-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "cb01139d3f9f0fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1221.3", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "With votes of 165 to 17, these proceedings are like taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1221.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-13", "file": "debates1980-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "cb01139d3f9f0fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1230.1", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "e paving stones and asking the awkward questions, one gets further and further into its unworkability. All the difficulties crawl out from underneath the paving stones. It is the job of the House of Commons to lift those paving stones. Therefore, the Government had better concentrate their minds on the co-ordination of penalties. When Dr. Waldheim comes to London on Saturday on his official visit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-13", "file": "debates1980-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "cb01139d3f9f0fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1234.3", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "an Assembly. She noted that the Commission had no responsibility. I think that she will agree that the European Parliament has no responsibility. However, that does not stop it from passing resolutions. But, nevertheless, this again is a grey area. The way that it relates to penalties is this. I borrow the phrase of the right hon. Member for Down, South. Do we go pari passu with other competitors?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-13", "file": "debates1980-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "cb01139d3f9f0fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1236.3", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "It does.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1236.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-13", "file": "debates1980-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "cb01139d3f9f0fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1236.3", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "It does. [ Interruption .] It is dated 13 May—very much up to date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1236.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-13", "file": "debates1980-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "cb01139d3f9f0fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1246.1", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holland", "preceding_text": "With respect, Mr. Godman Irvine, may I emphasise the essential point. This is a crucial clause in the Bill. It is bizarre that the Bill does not specify penalties.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-13", "file": "debates1980-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "cb01139d3f9f0fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1259.1", "colnum": "1259", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Lamond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Lamond", "preceding_text": "ly and finally successfully sought to move the closure. I shall not, of course, make any attempt to make the speech which I would have done if I had been called. That would be completely out of order. I simply say that I hope you will draw to the attention of the Government, if that is within your powers, the fact that although the hour is late—I appreciate the mounting irritation of Tory Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1259.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-13", "file": "debates1980-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "cb01139d3f9f0fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1279.3", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Let us get on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "8 Act. Earlier, the problem was raised in terms of the 1939 Act. But how does what we are discussing fit in with section 3 of the 1939 Act? It reads: If any goods are imported, exported, carried coastwise or shipped as ships' stores in contravention either of an order under this Act or of the law relating to trading with the enemy \"— how one defines \"the enemy\" is open to question; and then ( b )—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1279.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-13", "file": "debates1980-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "cb01139d3f9f0fce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1282.0", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": " is precisely the kind of difficulty. Although I would have preferred to substitute a more likely company than a Liechtenstein company, this is a real scenario. My hon. Friend took it as an example, but it is a good example of the morass we sink into once we go down a road like this. The Minister of State said that we should not be discussing the 1939 Act. We are dealing here with precedental law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-13a.1282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-14", "file": "debates1980-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "12a6ffd9ece47812", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-14a.1571.0", "colnum": "1571", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SPRING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "has established in my constituency an experimental nuclear reactor. Are the safety precautions sufficient to protect us? We could be vulnerable to terrorist attack, and we have just had the Iranian embassy incident. I do not want to see those chaps blowing the nuclear waste bottles sky high. Thousands upon thousands of people would then lose their lives, and we should be nuclearised for 150 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-14a.1571.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-14", "file": "debates1980-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "12a6ffd9ece47812", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-14a.1577.0", "colnum": "1577", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SPRING)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas)", "preceding_text": "ical and major contribution towards the alleviation of the unemployment problem. May I say how glad we are to see the hon. Gentleman in his place today? He is his usual courageous and resilient self. I turn to my hon. Friend the Member for Halesowen and Stourbridge (Mr. Stokes), who brought us back again, as he always does in his speeches, to basic principles. I very much agreed with what he said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-14a.1577.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-14", "file": "debates1980-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "12a6ffd9ece47812", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-14a.1631.0", "colnum": "1631", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. R. B. Cant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Which countries? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. R. B. Cant", "preceding_text": " relatively cheaply. That should be a matter of policy. I do not know whether we can justify a policy that is based on the equalisation of gas and oil prices, or an attempt to equalise, in a broader sense, all fuel prices. Before we wake up one day and find that we do not have an industry, we must come to grips with the fact that if we have these advantages we should use them. Other nations do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-14a.1631.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-14", "file": "debates1980-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "12a6ffd9ece47812", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-14a.1660.1", "colnum": "1660", "heading": "SEA FISH INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "lking of imports to the docks coming in on fishing boats. That is no problem. We welcome them because they make a contribution to the dock and port charges that we all face. I am talking of frozen and block imports, of fish coming in on the roll-on/roll-off ferries in containers, which are swamping our markets; imports coming in, with the jobs taken out, which make no contribution to our industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-14a.1660.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-14", "file": "debates1980-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "12a6ffd9ece47812", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-14a.1661.6", "colnum": "1661", "heading": "SEA FISH INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"£3 million.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "In response to the demands of the industry, how adequate is this minor contribution today and the £2 million of aid that the Government have produced?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-14a.1661.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-14", "file": "debates1980-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "12a6ffd9ece47812", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-14a.1678.0", "colnum": "1678", "heading": "SEA FISH INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Where is he now? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Fraser", "preceding_text": " Kingdom. However, it is worthy of note that it was as a result of the Select Committee on Scottish Affairs —giving the impulse and drive from the North-East of Scotland—that this measure has come forward. If nothing else, that is indicative of the effort for the fishing industry which is being made from Scotland. In an utterly superficial intervention from the right hon. Member for Western Isles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-14a.1678.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-15", "file": "debates1980-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "52e8d4091aa46d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-15a.1737.4", "colnum": "1737", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the support from the Opposition Benches on this question. It is certain that this question arises out of the common fisheries policy agreement, but only this week France has given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-15a.1737.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-15", "file": "debates1980-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "52e8d4091aa46d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-15a.1743.4", "colnum": "1743", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that in her first year of office it has come as a surprise to some—a very good surprise—that she has turned out to be such an outstanding leader—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-15a.1743.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-15", "file": "debates1980-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "52e8d4091aa46d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-15a.1745.0", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Porter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Porter", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware of the threat today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-15a.1745.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-15", "file": "debates1980-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "52e8d4091aa46d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-15a.1745.0", "colnum": "1745", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Porter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Porter", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Friend aware of the threat today—[HON. MEMBERS: \" Reading.\"] Well, at least it shows that I can read. Is ray right hon. Friend aware of the threat of closure to the Daily Star —I emphasise that it is the Daily Star and not the Morning Star , whose closure would not disturb me at all—which is the direct result of the sulking of SOGAT at the legal right of Express Newspapers Ltd. to produce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-15a.1745.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-05-15", "file": "debates1980-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "52e8d4091aa46d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-15a.1792.1", "colnum": "1792", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have already made it clear to the hon. Member for Fife, Central that it appeared to me from what he said that he was indicating that the hon. Lady was deliberately misleading the House. In those circumstances, he is not in order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-15a.1792.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-15", "file": "debates1980-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "52e8d4091aa46d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-15a.1834.2", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" There is nothing wrong with that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "preceding_text": "ship, whether it be direct or indirect, still exists. Such sums of money as are received by the partnership must inevitably increase the goodwill of that partnership and, therefore, increase his stake in it. We heard from the Secretary of State that Mr. MacGregor sank his life savings into Lazard Freres. That is up to him. Inevitably, the value of those savings must grow if such payments are made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-15a.1834.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-15", "file": "debates1980-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "52e8d4091aa46d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-15a.1834.2", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "preceding_text": "eres. That is up to him. Inevitably, the value of those savings must grow if such payments are made. [HON. MEMBERS: \" There is nothing wrong with that.\"] Conservative Members may not think that there is anything wrong with it, but I can assure them that that is not the view that will be taken throughout the country. Thirdly, Mr. MacGregor is 67 years old. I make no point about that, except to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-15a.1834.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-15", "file": "debates1980-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "52e8d4091aa46d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-15a.1834.2", "colnum": "1834", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Did they ask you? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "preceding_text": "ens to head-hunters? They also go immediately for their list of the great and the good. Indeed, I assume that some of the names are supplied by the Civil Service Department. They do what is called \" a trawl \". In answer to a question from one of my hon. Friends, the right hon. Gentleman said that Russell Reynolds had considered 31 people—not much of a trawl; more a fish farm when one thinks of it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-15a.1834.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-15", "file": "debates1980-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "52e8d4091aa46d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-15a.1874.0", "colnum": "1874", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "enough to run it down to the 15 million tonnes that the Government talk about, but they will run it down even further, if the statement by Mr. MacGregor is to mean anything at all. I do not claim or ask that the Government should consider these matters on grounds of public service to the community. We know that they do not care about that. But what about defence? I am no great military strategist—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-15a.1874.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-15", "file": "debates1980-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "52e8d4091aa46d0d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-15a.1880.6", "colnum": "1880", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION (CHAIRMAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should not misrepresent the policy of the previous Government. He said that Mr. MacGregor was appointed as deputy chairman of Leyland by the last Government. He was not. He was appointed by the National Enterprise Board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-15a.1880.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-19", "file": "debates1980-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "865b56368e1f0f32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-19a.31.1", "colnum": "31", "heading": "IRAN", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Gilmour", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "ss leading to the release of the hostages. On the question of retrospection, the right hon. Gentleman is not quite right. He will be aware of what the Minister of State said in the House on the Second Reading of the Iran (Temporary Powers) Bill. In order to make it clear to the House I shall quote what my hon. Friend said at col. 919 of the Official Report . In fact, at col. 921 he said it better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-19a.31.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-19", "file": "debates1980-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "865b56368e1f0f32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-19a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "IRAN", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Gilmour", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "With respect to the hon. Gentleman, the debate to which he is referring took place a week ago, so I do not think that the last part of his question is very relevant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-19a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-19", "file": "debates1980-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "865b56368e1f0f32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-19a.47.0", "colnum": "47", "heading": "IRAN (LORD PRIVY SEAL'S STATEMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "d new legislation on Iran (Temporary Powers) in the light of the Lord Privy Seal's statement and the Government's decision to backdate the imposition of sanctions to 4 November 1979 \". The House has heard the exchanges that took place. The Lord Privy Seal made clear that a debate would take place, and that this order cannot proceed without a debate. I think that I have not misjudged the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-19a.47.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-19", "file": "debates1980-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "865b56368e1f0f32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-19a.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "I am not sure how to respond to that, except to say that I do not know where our half will come from in a half-and-half scheme. Our commitments are now equal to our allocation,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-19a.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-19", "file": "debates1980-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "865b56368e1f0f32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-19a.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "thout being guilty of playing one area off against another, is to ask when the problems of neighbouring areas are so similar, why should the reduction for Sand-well in 1979–80 be only 4·8 per cent., Wolverhampton 7·3 per cent. and the average for the whole of the West Midlands 23 per cent., with Walsall cut by over 33 per cent? The average cut in Wales is 24·8 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-19a.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-19", "file": "debates1980-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "865b56368e1f0f32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-19a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George", "preceding_text": "With so many people on the waiting list and requiring every type of accommodation, the prospects of these problems being resolved are nil. In conclusion, I very much hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-19a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-19", "file": "debates1980-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "865b56368e1f0f32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-19a.205.2", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": " authorities will be left with only the worst in their ownership. This will cause the stigmatisation of the public sector. It will also mean that families living in the kind of flats the hon. Member for Edge Hill describes will be made prisoners for longer than ever in those flats because they will not be able to transfer to the house and garden they desire because those properties have been sold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-19a.205.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-20", "file": "debates1980-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ee0c220d31a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-20a.247.7", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I appeal to hon. Members not to try to twist a question into—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-20a.247.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-20", "file": "debates1980-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ee0c220d31a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-20a.249.1", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "is compliment. I recognise that it comes from an expert in these matters. With regard to advice from him on matters such as increasing prices, I really do not think that he is an expert in telling us how to get these down, bearing in mind that he was a member of a Government who raised electricity prices by 169 per cent., who raised postal charges by 148 per cent., rail transport by 172 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-20a.249.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-20", "file": "debates1980-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ee0c220d31a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-20a.249.5", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that the right hon. Gentleman will find that the retail prices index will come down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-20a.249.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-20", "file": "debates1980-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ee0c220d31a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-20a.249.5", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that the right hon. Gentleman will find that the retail prices index will come down—[HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"] The right hon. Gentleman will know full well when it will come down, for a technical reason. It will come down in July-August.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-20a.249.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-20", "file": "debates1980-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ee0c220d31a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-20a.287.2", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "In 10 or 15 years, which is the soonest that we are likely to be in opposition, we might be unhappy if the Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-20a.287.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-20", "file": "debates1980-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ee0c220d31a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-20a.294.4", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "It is also an inaccurate point of argument, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The hon. Gentleman said that I might have been misleading the House inadvertently. If I mislead the House, it will be deliberately and not inadvertently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-20a.294.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-20", "file": "debates1980-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ee0c220d31a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-20a.345.0", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Clause 51", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Costain", "preceding_text": "Does the hon. Gentleman realise that they are also preventing trade union pension funds from being used to buy houses for investment? Instead of doing that, they are being used to buy antiques. Explain that away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-20a.345.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-20", "file": "debates1980-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ee0c220d31a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-20a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Clause 125", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tilley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tilley", "preceding_text": "pers. But the point is made, and the warning is there. I wish to make it clear that, while we accept most of amendment No. 94 because it improves the Bill, we are not in any way convinced that it is an improvement on the present position. We fully support amendment No. 116 because we were convinced long before Conservative Members that the Campaign for Private Tenants' Rights had the matter right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-20a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-20", "file": "debates1980-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ee0c220d31a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-20a.440.0", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Clause 125", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get to the point.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "s House long enough to know that the Tory Party believes that if someone makes a lot of profit he is very good and very successful. It does not matter how one makes that profit, just as long as one makes it. Only last week we heard that the banks were making hundreds of millions of pounds in profits. Today we heard that one of the oil companies has made £750 million. What does the Tory Party want?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-20a.440.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-20", "file": "debates1980-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ee0c220d31a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-20a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Clause 125", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "lats have arrangements agreed by all concerned. An independent maintenance trustee is a party to the arrangement. I am not criticising, as the hon. Member for Lambeth, Central (Mr. Tilley) did rather cheaply, the fact that the organisation that prepared the amendment is wicked because it hopes that it might receive fees. He mentioned that one of its directors was connected with a property company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-20a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-20", "file": "debates1980-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "6e0ee0c220d31a4d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-20a.446.1", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Clause 125", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "y from which I will take absolutely no stick is the Opposition party, who battled for years to deny private tenants any service charge rights—and it knows that that is true. I believe that, through our proposals and the proposals that will be introduced in another place, we are getting nearer to the best position for private tenants. I accept that we do not go as far as my hon. Friends would wish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-20a.446.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-21", "file": "debates1980-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6da8cc0d25ebb6b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.495.3", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mawby", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the House will be very pleased with those figures and with the tremendous increase in safety? Does he not agree that the decline of 30 per cent. in the number of casualties can be ascribed mainly to the development of the motorway network? Will he acknowledge that motorways are our safest roads and that they have an accident rate that is nearly one tenth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.495.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-21", "file": "debates1980-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6da8cc0d25ebb6b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.507.1", "colnum": "507", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (REFERENDUM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Canavan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Canavan", "preceding_text": " I can point to damage in my constituency to industries such as chipboard, foundries and paper. A few weeks ago I visited a paper mill that is due to close in the town of Denny. Both management and trade unions put forcefully to me the point that our membership of the Common Market meant a reduction in our share of the United Kingdom market—let alone the European market—rather than an improvement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-21", "file": "debates1980-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6da8cc0d25ebb6b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (REFERENDUM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "m, knowing that in due course they will be accountable at the polls. As a passionate advocate of proportional representation, I argue that the basis of this representative government is distorted, but this has nothing to do with the acceptance of the value of representative government per se. Referendums are advocated only by those who believe that they would win a referendum at a particular time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-21", "file": "debates1980-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6da8cc0d25ebb6b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (REFERENDUM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": " not. That is an indication of the fact that those who argue for the Bill, irrespective of the validity of the arguments, are interested only in ensuring that a reflection of public opinion is achieved at a time when they feel that their view holds water. Secondly, if the Bill were accepted, it would be taken as a clear sign from the House that it wished to turn its back on the European Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-21", "file": "debates1980-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6da8cc0d25ebb6b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.511.1", "colnum": "511", "heading": "EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (REFERENDUM)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "ter. Secondly, if the Bill were accepted, it would be taken as a clear sign from the House that it wished to turn its back on the European Community. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] When one considers the history of Europe in this century alone and the particularly dangerous instability of the wider world at the moment and the limited nature of our disagreements—I stress that—against the deep gulfs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.511.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-05-21", "file": "debates1980-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6da8cc0d25ebb6b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.592.4", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "Mr. Jenkin rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.592.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-21", "file": "debates1980-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6da8cc0d25ebb6b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.612.6", "colnum": "612", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "nnot decide that he has refused it and so disentitle him to benefit. Yet surveys have shown that up to 55 per cent. of those who are drawing unemployment benefit in these circumstances are not really looking for work. When a Government are being forced to make savings, as we are, in the social security budget, as I explained in an earlier debate, and when we are endeavouring to protect pensioners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.612.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-21", "file": "debates1980-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6da8cc0d25ebb6b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.618.1", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "that argument, but the additional increase in supplementary benefit is part of the calculation that has arrived at the net saving of £130 million. The hon. Gentleman has a great understanding of these matters, but he has uncharacteristically fallen into the error of confusing how benefits are paid for with measuring the entitlement of the individual. The benefits are paid on a pay-as-you-go basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-21", "file": "debates1980-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6da8cc0d25ebb6b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.618.1", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " but he has uncharacteristically fallen into the error of confusing how benefits are paid for with measuring the entitlement of the individual. The benefits are paid on a pay-as-you-go basis. [ Interruption .] This year's contributions are paying for this year's benefits. That is the basis on which successive Governments have run the national insurance fund. The question of entitlement to benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.618.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-21", "file": "debates1980-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6da8cc0d25ebb6b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "rs. In consequence, the amount of money that is needed to finance strikes is not always available. I was a Minister at the time of the firemen's strike last winter, when Conservative Members came to see me in deputations. They deplored the fact that benefit was not being paid to single strikers. They said that they had come across such cases, and were astounded that the benefit was not being paid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-21", "file": "debates1980-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6da8cc0d25ebb6b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.649.0", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorant", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorant", "preceding_text": "nists have subscribed their money with due faith, week after week, in the honest belief that they will be helped when there is a strike. They have always believed that. It may be welfare, help for their families or help in some other area, but they have always believed that that was the purpose of their contributions. Many trade union leaders have had nice holidays in various parts of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.649.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-21", "file": "debates1980-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6da8cc0d25ebb6b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.652.3", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "o award doctors a 32 per cent. increase in salary. The Minister for Health got a roasting by that most gentle organisation, the Royal College of Nursing, which has written into its rules the rule that nurses shall not come out on strike but is now balloting its members for strike action. If that ballot is in favour of strike action, who will be to blame for the strike—the Government or the nurses?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.652.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-21", "file": "debates1980-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6da8cc0d25ebb6b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.654.0", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "way all social security benefits. One would have thought that the poor, weak and feeble were being left to suffer. In other countries, where such provision has never been made, strikers' families suffer. Many people in Britain do not want such social security payments to be made. Understandably, they believe that if social security benefits are given to strikers' families, it will encourage those—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.654.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-05-21", "file": "debates1980-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6da8cc0d25ebb6b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.655.5", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "Mr. Cryer rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.655.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-21", "file": "debates1980-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6da8cc0d25ebb6b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.659.0", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "y that, perhaps, it would have been more sensible if they had not gone on strike. Anything which causes trade unions to think twice before they engage upon a prolonged strike is to the benefit of society. Secondly, the clause is constructive because it strengthens trade unionism. More people will join the unions and will want to centralise the democratic power and control upon the correct leaders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.659.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-21", "file": "debates1980-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6da8cc0d25ebb6b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.661.5", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "cue_text": "interruption ,", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "preceding_text": "nion had been responsible for paying its members, it would have thought very long and hard about keeping its members out on strike from the middle of February until the beginning of April for an extra 1 per cent. The hardship that was inflicted as a result of the prolonging of that strike was considerable, notwithstanding the fact that at that time benefits for strikers' families were being paid.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.661.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-21", "file": "debates1980-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6da8cc0d25ebb6b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.662.1", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has made the crucial point which we have been trying to make and have made successfully from these Benches. As he has rightly stated, the steel strike would have ended far more quickly and the steel workers would have lost far less money. Heaven knows, the nation lost about £1,500 million during the steel strike.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-21", "file": "debates1980-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "6da8cc0d25ebb6b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.662.1", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "d strike benefit to its members. The General and Municipal Workers Union made, in my view, a very fair contribution to its members. The hard feelings that existed within the unions involved in the steel strike in my constituency were engendered because the ISTC was bailed out by the Exchequer. Some unions made payments to their members in good faith, yet they find that they are at a disadvantage.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-21a.662.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-22", "file": "debates1980-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "f0597e06f0704654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-22a.699.4", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I think that the right hon. Gentleman has been in this place long enough to know that he should table a question on the Order Paper when he wishes to raise such a matter. His supplementary question has nothing to do with the question of my hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-22a.699.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-22", "file": "debates1980-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "f0597e06f0704654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-22a.712.4", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disturbances?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "I revert to the Prime Minister's reply earlier to the hon. Member for Down, North (Mr. Kilfedder). Does she agree that if the continuing disturbances in Northern Ireland", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-22a.712.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-22", "file": "debates1980-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "f0597e06f0704654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-22a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " Mr. Speaker, but there is, by implication, a severe criticism of the Government for putting down on a Thursday Bills subject to guillotine motions which may eat into the time allowed for business questions. May we hope that, in the light of the matter having been raised, the Government will not on any future occasion put down such business on a Thursday, which curtails the rights of hon. Members?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-22a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-22", "file": "debates1980-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "f0597e06f0704654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-22a.778.2", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Scott", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Bootle (Mr. Roberts) has been a Member of the House only during this Parliament I wonder what sort of speech he would have made had he been sitting on the Government Back Benches when the Labour Government presided over the reductions in the rate of council house building from the level that they inherited down to that which existed when they left office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-22a.778.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-22", "file": "debates1980-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "f0597e06f0704654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-22a.813.7", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way at all.. I am trying to answer the point, such as it was, made by the right hon. Member for Brent, East in his offensive speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-22a.813.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-22", "file": "debates1980-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "f0597e06f0704654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-22a.813.7", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL (ALLOCATION OF TIME)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way at all.. I am trying to answer the point, such as it was, made by the right hon. Member for Brent, East in his offensive speech. [ Interruption .] He is still being offensive, rude and unparliamentary from a sedentary position. The normal procedure for many years has been to make the best possible estimate, and then uprate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-22a.813.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-05-22", "file": "debates1980-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "f0597e06f0704654", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-22a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SOCIAL SECURITY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Orme", "preceding_text": "ub-postmasters, whose fears were raised in relation to the payment of benefits. This is a very important issue. It concerns the payment of benefits to millions of beneficiaries. How they receive the payments is very important. Pensioners in particular feel very strongly about any change. The vast majority of them like to obtain their benefits weekly in cash. In consequence, they were very fearful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-05-22a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-02", "file": "debates1980-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "34dd8521b31c71fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-02a.1047.2", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (FOREIGN AFFAIRS COUNCIL MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": " dissatisfaction with the EEC? How can the Lord Privy Seal justify his retreat from the position of broad balance to an agreement to pay out no less than £1,500 million over the next three years to countries that are more prosperous than Britain, and for the sole purpose of increasing the already unmanageable food surplus? When will the Prime Minister cease playing Lady Bountiful to the Community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-02a.1047.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-02", "file": "debates1980-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "34dd8521b31c71fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-02a.1049.1", "colnum": "1049", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (FOREIGN AFFAIRS COUNCIL MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "We have had a fine display of bogus indignation but not a single reply to any of the questions that I put to the right hon. Gentleman. I shall not repeat them all—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-02a.1049.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-02", "file": "debates1980-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "34dd8521b31c71fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-02a.1051.1", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (FOREIGN AFFAIRS COUNCIL MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that however many pledges and prepared positions the Government abandon, there is in this country a deep and rising determination that we must be free, sooner or later, from the intolerable limitations placed upon our freedom of action by our membership of the EEC—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-02a.1051.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-02", "file": "debates1980-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "34dd8521b31c71fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-02a.1051.5", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (FOREIGN AFFAIRS COUNCIL MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman accept and agree that much credit for this settlement goes to our Community partners, not least the German Liberals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-02a.1051.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-02", "file": "debates1980-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "34dd8521b31c71fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-02a.1100.1", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Keynesianism.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "at it would represent a terrible flirtation with corporatism. As Keith Middlemass pointed out in a recent book—an extremely good book—on the British political system, it is that sort of co-operative approach which was at the foundation of British economic management for 50 years, until the last 15 years or so, and they were rather more successful years for the economy than the last 10 or 15 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-02a.1100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-02", "file": "debates1980-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "34dd8521b31c71fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-02a.1120.0", "colnum": "1120", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" A wet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "The debate has been interesting. Some remarkably interesting contributions have been made by Conservative Members. When the hon. Member for Bath (Mr. Patten) rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-02a.1120.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-02", "file": "debates1980-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "34dd8521b31c71fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-02a.1139.1", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "m particularly material. Anyone who was schooled in the belief that a week—or even a year—is a long time is not necessarily best equipped to take guidance on economic policy, where one has to take full advantage of the span of a full Parliament—and that is what we intend to do. Of course, I do not deny for a moment that there are transitional difficulties. It would be foolish to pretend otherwise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-02a.1139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-02", "file": "debates1980-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "34dd8521b31c71fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-02a.1140.0", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooley", "preceding_text": "The Chief Secretary is a very sensible chap. Does it occur to him that if one is manifestly heading for a precipice there is more sense in changing direction than going over it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-02a.1140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-02", "file": "debates1980-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "34dd8521b31c71fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-02a.1140.5", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": " that is a factor in the equation. We must remember that the market assessment of interest rates takes a forward view of inflation. It is not merely a matter of measuring the current rate of inflation with the current minimum lending rate. The Government's position remains precisely as outlined on Second Reading. We believe that there is the possibility of a fall in interest rates later this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-02a.1140.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-02", "file": "debates1980-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "34dd8521b31c71fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-02a.1197.0", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooley", "preceding_text": "ltogether, but it might help a little. The hon. Member for Knutsford (Mr. Bruce-Gardyne) must support my amendment if he supports the one moved by my hon. Friend the Member for Gateshead, West, because its purpose is to single out a precise but small group of people who will need help and protection against the ferocious rate of inflation that has been set in motion and to which we can see no end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-02a.1197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-02", "file": "debates1980-06-02a.xml", "sha256": "34dd8521b31c71fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-02a.1203.3", "colnum": "1203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": "No, let me finish the point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-02a.1203.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-03", "file": "debates1980-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7775c14dca03650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-03a.1246.1", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of one thing I can assure the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-03a.1246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-03", "file": "debates1980-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7775c14dca03650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-03a.1246.1", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Answer \"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of one thing I can assure the hon. Gentleman—[ Interruption ]. My right hon. and learned Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-03a.1246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-03", "file": "debates1980-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7775c14dca03650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-03a.1276.1", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "e Exchequer said that they were looking at it in some kind of way. I do not suggest that it is easy to bring in an excess profits tax. The Financial Secretary is not a tax expert, but he is an expert on many other things. However, the Minister of State is a great tax expert. I do not know what Lord Cockfield is doing in this non-interventionist Government, but I am sure that he is doing something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-03a.1276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-03", "file": "debates1980-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7775c14dca03650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-03a.1282.1", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " current accounts, on which, as the right hon. Gentleman pointed out, no interest is paid. The fact that last year, 1979, the four big banks together made total profits of £1½ billion before tax has inevitably caused a great deal of comment. But this must be seen in perspective. The clearing banks are very large businesses indeed, with world-wide deposits of over £70 billion, and employing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-03a.1282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-03", "file": "debates1980-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7775c14dca03650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-03a.1362.0", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "preceding_text": "I am quite convinced that our stand on indexation is every bit as united and common as were the arguments advanced from the Conservative Benches during the previous debate. All that I can say is that in the Liberal Party there are not more than 11 views. There appear to be far more views on the Conservative Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-03a.1362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-03", "file": "debates1980-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7775c14dca03650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-03a.1378.2", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "if the schools are left alone. That is at the heart of the objection of Socialists to the system. It is a privileged system. It is built for people who believe in privilege. I congratulate my hon. Friends on tabling the amendment. It shows that there is unity of opinion on these Benches that we wish, by one means or another, to phase out these iniquitous institutions to which we positively object.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-03a.1378.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-03", "file": "debates1980-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7775c14dca03650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-03a.1381.0", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) 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": " some accident of a statute of Queen Elizabeth I—in fact, it was a statute of 1601—that clothed educational establishments such as Eton—I cannot remember whether it was the right hon. Gentleman who singled out that great establishment of learning—with charitable status. The whole question of charitable status has been reviewed consistently by the courts and refined and enlarged over the centuries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-03a.1381.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-03", "file": "debates1980-06-03a.xml", "sha256": "f7775c14dca03650", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-03a.1384.3", "colnum": "1384", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (NO. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "n to this point, obviously he has focused his mind on it. It could be circumvented to a degree, because, for instance, as I understand it, not many of the denominational schools have covenants made out in their favour. The covenants are usually made out in favour of the diocesan authorities, and therefore the diocesan authorities could perhaps channel the money to the schools without being caught.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-03a.1384.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-04", "file": "debates1980-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "317b577166b2a0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-04a.1434.0", "colnum": "1434", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooley", "preceding_text": " not had time to analyse the scheme thoroughly, but in the course of a casual reading of it I got the impression that public houses would not benefit from it. Indeed, I am dubious whether working men's clubs would benefit from it. Obviously, I take advice on that from the Financial Secretary. My hon. Friend ilustrates my point very well. As these zones are drawn, any kind of wide-ranging activity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-04a.1434.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-04", "file": "debates1980-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "317b577166b2a0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-04a.1504.0", "colnum": "1504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "preceding_text": "ishing a series of warehouses—what some of us regard as jobs on wheels? Clearly, the number of jobs generated by warehousing may be minimal, and therefore the job creation element, the real reason for this proposal, may be minimal, too. There is the problem of hedge-hopping. Because the Government are proposing to create a zone of privilege, what will happen to the non-privileged areas outside it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-04a.1504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-04", "file": "debates1980-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "317b577166b2a0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-04a.1511.1", "colnum": "1511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": ". Hooley). There was an instructive division of view between the hon. Member for Heeley, who was much opposed to the concept but who backed down later, and the hon. Member for Sheffield, Attercliffe (Mr. Duffy\"), who was anxious that Sheffield should have an enterprise zone. The hon. Member for Attercliffe had the courtesy to explain why he is not in his place now. He has a naval dinner to attend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-04a.1511.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-04", "file": "debates1980-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "317b577166b2a0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-04a.1515.1", "colnum": "1515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "ple. If the Labour Party wished to set up its office in an enterprise zone, we would, out of the goodness of our hearts, grant it the 100 per cent. allowance, despite the fact that it is not a trade, profession or vocation, although Labour Members may feel in their hearts that it is a trade, profession or vocation. The right hon. Gentleman asked for an example. That is the example that I give him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-04a.1515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-04", "file": "debates1980-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "317b577166b2a0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-04a.1519.0", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "ustry in the neighbourhoods was not answered. That question was put by my hon. Friend the Member for Greenwich (Mr. Barnett), who had ministerial responsibility for these matters, and by my hon. Friends the Members for Sheffield, Heeley (Mr. Hooley) and for Newham, South (Mr. Spearing). The question was, what would happen to industry that had survived on the edges of one of these enterprise zones?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-04a.1519.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-04", "file": "debates1980-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "317b577166b2a0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-04a.1525.5", "colnum": "1525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. H. H. Skeet", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. H. H. Skeet", "preceding_text": "he United Kingdom. The Government may therefore be encouraged to reduce the petroleum revenue tax from 70 to 65 per cent. Seventy per cent. would yield £2·5 billion, and 65 per cent. £2·3 billion, so the loss would not be that great. With three major tax changes within the compass of one year, the Government are making effective use of Socialist legislation—the Oil Taxation Act 1975.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-04a.1525.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-04", "file": "debates1980-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "317b577166b2a0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-04a.1535.0", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Garrett", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Garrett", "preceding_text": "I oppose the amendment to reduce the rates of petroleum revenue tax. The amendment gives us an opportunity to press our case that the level of petroleum revenue tax, and, indeed, other taxation on oil companies, is too low.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-04a.1535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-04", "file": "debates1980-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "317b577166b2a0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-04a.1585.1", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "IRAN (SANCTIONS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Rowlands", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Rowlands", "preceding_text": "reasonably accurate description and practical illustration of what this paragraph means—that is, if a company has been selling fridges to Iran and then finds a demand for washing machines, within the terms of this paragraph it could sell washing machines. As the Member of Parliament representing the largest washing machines factory in Europe, I have a rather particular interest in the proposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-04a.1585.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-04", "file": "debates1980-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "317b577166b2a0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-04a.1619.2", "colnum": "1619", "heading": "IRAN (EXPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Stoddart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" No \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Stoddart", "preceding_text": "man does not have a friend left in the House tonight. Bearing in mind the charming manner in which he used to deal with me when we served on the Finance Bill Committee, I feel very sorry for him. I wish that there was some way in which he could get out of the tangle and mess into which he has got himself. But there we are: the hon. Gentleman has taken on this great role of Parliamentary Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-04a.1619.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-04", "file": "debates1980-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "317b577166b2a0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-04a.1625.0", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "IRAN (EXPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clive Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clive Soley", "preceding_text": "It stiffened the resistance—exactly as the bombing of North Vietnam stiffened the resistance of the North Vietnamese. As a number of my hon. Friends and some Conservative Members have indicated, the actions that we are taking against Iran, if they are noticed—I doubt that they will be even noticed—will be used by the Ayatollah Khomeini to organise his resistance in the way that has been described.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-04a.1625.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-04", "file": "debates1980-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "317b577166b2a0c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-04a.1625.0", "colnum": "1625", "heading": "IRAN (EXPORTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clive Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clive Soley", "preceding_text": "ance in the way that has been described. [ Interruption .] I have not voted for anything on this matter, and I have no intention of doing so. As I said in an earlier debate on this matter, my right hon. Friend the Member for Stepney and Poplar (Mr. Shore) made an excellent speech and a first-class analysis of the problem but, unfortunately, he came to the wrong conclusion. It is as simple as that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-04a.1625.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-05", "file": "debates1980-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "9e534252678735a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-05a.1682.0", "colnum": "1682", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I do not think that that kind of personal reference, which is constantly made by the hon. Gentleman, does anything to advance the serious cause that he no doubt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-05a.1682.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-05", "file": "debates1980-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "9e534252678735a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-05a.1685.6", "colnum": "1685", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman wishes to have a debate urgently, but we have not received urgent representations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-05a.1685.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-05", "file": "debates1980-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "9e534252678735a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-05a.1732.1", "colnum": "1732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS STUDENTS (FEES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William van Srraubenzee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Where are they? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William van Srraubenzee", "preceding_text": "way of an answer to a written question on the last day of term before Christmas. Those are the facts. It is all on record in the Hansard of the day. I shall not delay the House by reading it. To say that there was not controversy about it, as the hon. Member for Bedwellty (Mr. Kinnock) said, to say that it was not a major breach of principle, as the hon. Member for Lewisham, West (Mr. Price) said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-05a.1732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-05", "file": "debates1980-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "9e534252678735a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-05a.1748.1", "colnum": "1748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OVERSEAS STUDENTS (FEES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \" Get on with it then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marten", "preceding_text": "mittees. It is essential to keep a sense of proportion and, above all, not to cry woe prematurely. As my right hon. and learned Friend said, we shall be monitoring the developments as firm facts and figures become available. May I now pick up one or two of the points made in the debate, although not all of them, I am afraid, in the short time I have available since I have to sit down at 7 o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-05a.1748.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-05", "file": "debates1980-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "9e534252678735a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-05a.1778.0", "colnum": "1778", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOITERING WITH INTENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Alton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Alton", "preceding_text": "d, in spite of strong speeches in its support by a former Lord Chancellor. The Minister opposed the Bill, and the Labour Party was noticeable for its absence in the Lobby. So there are some grounds for cynicism concerning this debate. I have often noticed that the Labour Party says very different things in opposition from what it does in government. Nothing has changed now from what happened then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-05a.1778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-05", "file": "debates1980-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "9e534252678735a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-05a.1781.0", "colnum": "1781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOITERING WITH INTENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "preceding_text": "ent waited for Law Commission reports. Previously it was the final report of the working party considering the law on vagrancy. Now the Government amendment talks once again of the Law Commission's report. Then they will say that they do not have time under the pressure of other legislation that inevitably bogs down Governments. Labour and Tory Governments promise the earth and in fact do nothing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-05a.1781.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-05", "file": "debates1980-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "9e534252678735a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-05a.1790.1", "colnum": "1790", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOITERING WITH INTENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "it will leave gaps, and that it is the gaps that cause him concern. I hope that the Minister of State will explain why this law is not used in many parts of the country although the same types of offence as are alleged to require the \" sus \" provision are committed People in one part of the country do not behave differently from those in another part, and I fail to understand how most communities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-05a.1790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-05", "file": "debates1980-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "9e534252678735a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-05a.1791.1", "colnum": "1791", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOITERING WITH INTENT", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": "o not want to make a long speech, and I know that others wish to contribute to the debate. I have already given way once. It was pointed out by the right hon. Member for Crosby (Sir G. Page) that for years before the question of race relations arose people were advocating the abolition of this law. I believe that it goes as far back as 60 years. Certainly, the National Council for Civil Liberties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-05a.1791.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-09", "file": "debates1980-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "3703fbdf9e08f878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-09a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "preceding_text": "I shall come back to that, in a moment, if I may.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-09a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-09", "file": "debates1980-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "3703fbdf9e08f878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-09a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairgrieve", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairgrieve", "preceding_text": "ll and Clyde patients were dying because of the shortage of nurses. I should be most grateful if he would write to me giving me chapter and verse so that I can look into the matter. The hon. Member also talked of the closure of five hospitals in Inverclyde. He knows that that is not unconnected with the opening of Inverclyde district general hospital. One ward was not closed ; it was never opened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-09a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-09", "file": "debates1980-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "3703fbdf9e08f878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-09a.165.4", "colnum": "165", "heading": "HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "n. Friend the Minister for Health. He did not ask it to do it. The hospital has about 400 beds. That capacity can be reduced by taking in the children's hospital. We are left with 300 beds that we want to keep. At least half of those beds can be maintained for local use. Why should we not recognise that there is a gigantic international demand for the opportunity to come to Britain and to receive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-09a.165.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-06-09", "file": "debates1980-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "3703fbdf9e08f878", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-09a.261.4", "colnum": "261", "heading": "HEALTH SERVICES BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Richard Crawshaw)", "preceding_text": "Will it be for the convenience of the House if I put together the Questions on the remaining Government amendments?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-09a.261.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-10", "file": "debates1980-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "9cbf46f397a0d4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-10a.276.8", "colnum": "276", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I would not know. I cannot see them. They may be on the premises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-10a.276.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-10", "file": "debates1980-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "9cbf46f397a0d4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-10a.293.3", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "That sharing is extensive and that the use of worksheets is universal? Does he deny that? Does he consider, since he has already acknowledged that there is an immense shortage of school books in schools, that he—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-10a.293.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-10", "file": "debates1980-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "9cbf46f397a0d4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-10a.293.7", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "When will the right hon. and learned Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-10a.293.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-10", "file": "debates1980-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "9cbf46f397a0d4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-10a.294.3", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the Secretary of State for Defence failed to satisfy the House yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-10a.294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-10", "file": "debates1980-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "9cbf46f397a0d4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-10a.295.4", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If a company has, unfortunately, to declare redundancies, it is obviously because that company is unable to sell its products in the markets of today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-10a.295.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-10", "file": "debates1980-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "9cbf46f397a0d4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-10a.295.4", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If a company has, unfortunately, to declare redundancies, it is obviously because that company is unable to sell its products in the markets of today. [ Interruption .] I can only say that many companies are keeping up their export records very well indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-10a.295.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-10", "file": "debates1980-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "9cbf46f397a0d4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-10a.296.5", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — GRUNTY FEN", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Reading\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "preceding_text": " the Prime Minister aware that that will come as a small blow to my constituents? Will the Prime Minister accept that the fear of Grunty Fenmen is that her Ministers have no idea of how, when or even whether the level of wage settlements will be lowered by her policy of monetarism and of restraining the growth of M3? Will she state how much damage will be done to the economy's productive capacity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-10a.296.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-10", "file": "debates1980-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "9cbf46f397a0d4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-10a.383.2", "colnum": "383", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TENANTS' RIGHTS, ETC. (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Which way?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": " the young and inexperienced—recourse to the law is not an easy process. They find it difficult. Therefore, they tend to be exploited simply because they are not capable of handling the legal procedures. The second major point was that there would be a drying up of holiday lets. I should be very much against that as I let a house in the summer months for my holiday—and a genuine holiday let it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-10a.383.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-10", "file": "debates1980-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "9cbf46f397a0d4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-10a.432.4", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TENANTS' RIGHTS, ETC. (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "I am very interested in the hon. Gentleman's comments about the Midcraigie and Liniathen community association. Is he suggesting that no one in that area will buy any of the houses there? If he is suggesting that, I can assure him that he has got the matter wrong. I grew up in that area. I still have friends living there. There are some who are interested in buying their homes in that area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-10a.432.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-10", "file": "debates1980-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "9cbf46f397a0d4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-10a.437.0", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TENANTS' RIGHTS, ETC. (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "I have a sense of déjà vu. Almost exactly 13 months ago I raised this topic in my maiden speech, when I opposed the sale of council houses. I spoke on the matter again on Second Reading, and spent many weeks in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-10a.437.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-10", "file": "debates1980-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "9cbf46f397a0d4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-10a.445.0", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TENANTS' RIGHTS, ETC. (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lambie", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lambie", "preceding_text": "a measure in England, where they have a majority of Members of Parliament and where they won the last election without fear of contradiction, but they have no right to introduce such a Bill for Scotland where, at the last election, they obtained the votes of fewer than one in four people and where 44 Opposition Members were elected out of a total of 71 Members representing Scottish constituencies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-10a.445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-10", "file": "debates1980-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "9cbf46f397a0d4df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-10a.483.0", "colnum": "483", "heading": "TENANTS' RIGHTS ETC. (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernie Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernie Ross", "preceding_text": "hem. If we had had a chance to discuss that scheme, people might have understood. The previous local authority clearly did not have the support of the people of Dundee. As I suggested earlier, it sought to introduce a scheme that went further than the Bill. The district Labour Party is not a spiteful group of people. It wished to ensure that those who had entered into contracts did not lose money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-10a.483.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-11", "file": "debates1980-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "24eb01ed3f654dd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-11a.542.0", "colnum": "542", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER : \"Roy Jenkins.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "Which political party was in control when the essential decisions about the Glasgow Underground were made?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-11a.542.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-11", "file": "debates1980-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "24eb01ed3f654dd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-11a.651.3", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TENANTS' RIGHTS, ETC. (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": " come from existing housing allocations to local authorities. There is no ceiling on the amount of loan that a local authority can give to a tenant who wishes to purchase a council house. A local authority which provides such a loan will not have to find any cash. There are no public expenditure implications. Monklands district council can happily grant as many loans as it wishes for that purpose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-11a.651.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-11", "file": "debates1980-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "24eb01ed3f654dd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-11a.670.1", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TENANTS' RIGHTS, ETC. (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "It is right and proper that if an elderly person wishes to exercise the same right as other members of the community he should derive the same benefits. A house that has a pre-emption clause tied to it will clearly not be as attractive to a potential purchaser—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-11a.670.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-11", "file": "debates1980-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "24eb01ed3f654dd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-11a.715.6", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TENANTS' RIGHTS, ETC. (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "These amendments will extend to the Housing Corporation the power provided by clause 30—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-11a.715.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-11", "file": "debates1980-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "24eb01ed3f654dd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-11a.718.1", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TENANTS' RIGHTS, ETC. (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "preceding_text": "t strength in his argument. We are trying to lay down guidelines so that people will know about these reserve powers that the Secretary of State is keeping to himself. This is yet another of the secondary legislation powers that will be reserved to the Secretary of State as a result of the Bill. We all know that the Secretary of State for Scotland is a reasonable and moderate man in Cabinet terms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-11a.718.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-06-11", "file": "debates1980-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "24eb01ed3f654dd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-11a.747.8", "colnum": "747", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TENANTS' RIGHTS, ETC. (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Do it formally.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Wilson", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, amendment No. 207, in page 50, line 46, at end insert— '(g) its distance from the home of any member of the tenant's family if proximity to it is essential to the wellbeing of that member or of the tenant.'.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-11a.747.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-06-11", "file": "debates1980-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "24eb01ed3f654dd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-11a.751.5", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TENANTS' RIGHTS, ETC. (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-11a.751.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-11", "file": "debates1980-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "24eb01ed3f654dd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-11a.752.0", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TENANTS' RIGHTS, ETC. (SCOTLAND) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "ddle of the night on the Report stage of a Scottish Bill. That is the time when English and Welsh Members are most sympathetic. I do not approve of the legislative procedures of this House, but we are stuck with them. Those right hon. and hon. Members who do not represent Scottish constituencies should not be rude and intolerant, failing to listen to those of us who are concerned about the issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-11a.752.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-11", "file": "debates1980-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "24eb01ed3f654dd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-11a.765.3", "colnum": "765", "heading": "EDUCATIONALLY DISADVANTAGED PERSONS (MANCHESTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macfarlane", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macfarlane", "preceding_text": "On the other side of the scales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-11a.765.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-11", "file": "debates1980-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "24eb01ed3f654dd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-11a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "EDUCATIONALLY DISADVANTAGED PERSONS (MANCHESTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macfarlane", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macfarlane", "preceding_text": "I want also at this stage to draw to the attention of the House the Government's continuing interest in matters relating to educational disadvantage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-11a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-11", "file": "debates1980-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "24eb01ed3f654dd2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-11a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "EDUCATIONALLY DISADVANTAGED PERSONS (MANCHESTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macfarlane", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macfarlane", "preceding_text": "his stage to draw to the attention of the House the Government's continuing interest in matters relating to educational disadvantage. [ Interruption .] The clossure of the centre does not mean that the Government have lost interest in work to combat educational disadvantage—far from it. Through the work of the inspectorate and the educational disadvantage unit in the Department, we shall continue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-11a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-12", "file": "debates1980-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "8759845be7ae0f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-12a.806.3", "colnum": "806", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Venice\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Emery", "preceding_text": "May I remind my right hon. Friend—although I am sure that he does not need reminding—that the Lord Privy Seal gave the House an assurance that a statement would be made before the Vienna conference, which has already started—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-12a.806.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-12", "file": "debates1980-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "8759845be7ae0f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-12a.810.4", "colnum": "810", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Consett.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "There may be an opportunity for a regional debate. I cannot promise such a debate next week. I read the account of the closure of Shot-ton, and I appreciate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-12a.810.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-12", "file": "debates1980-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "8759845be7ae0f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-12a.813.3", "colnum": "813", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "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. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "Is there any chance of extending the debate on the Royal Navy for perhaps an hour, in view of the great interest in the maritime strategic position in the Indian Ocean? Has my right hon. Friend noted that there is now a clear majority of Members who have signed the early-day motion on whales?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-12a.813.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-12", "file": "debates1980-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "8759845be7ae0f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-12a.815.4", "colnum": "815", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I did not answer the second point raised by the hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw). I shall bring that point to the attention of my right hon. Friend the Lord Privy Seal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-12a.815.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-12", "file": "debates1980-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "8759845be7ae0f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-12a.872.0", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Sir George Young)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Sir George Young)", "preceding_text": "y of State, who said : Who are the victims of their action? Firstly the clients…there will have been countless cases of irreparable damage done by the decision of social workers to leave their clients stranded, in the lurch, unaided. No hon. Member needs reminding of the countless cases of individual hardship caused by the industrial action of ancillary workers during that very winter when—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-12a.872.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-12", "file": "debates1980-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "8759845be7ae0f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-12a.884.0", "colnum": "884", "heading": "CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Clegg \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": " of the rate that the Government have managed over the past year. The right hon. Gentleman went on to dilate more about the problems of the building industry by saying : in Britain, virtually alone of the the world's major countries, it now costs almost 18 per cent. to borrow money to build houses. Those were the days. I hope that the Secretary of State will tell us what has gone wrong since then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-12a.884.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-12", "file": "debates1980-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "8759845be7ae0f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-12a.887.3", "colnum": "887", "heading": "CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "ity in the building industry reduced by about 2 per cent. per annum, they are trying to use that as a justification for cutting at rather more than twice the rate. That is the figure which appears in their White Paper and which is forecast by NEDO. This is a short debate and many of my hon. Friends wish to speak. I wish to deal in the few minutes that I shall allow myself with some specific areas—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-12a.887.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-12", "file": "debates1980-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "8759845be7ae0f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-12a.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "preceding_text": "I have done even better than that. I have done the hon. Member the courtesy of reading the booklet from cover to cover and I am disgusted by what I read. The industry's response was forceful and typical. An organisation called CABIN was formed to fight off that State grab. In the process the organisation exposed the true merits of the then Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-12a.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-12", "file": "debates1980-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "8759845be7ae0f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-12a.917.2", "colnum": "917", "heading": "CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "yardsticks related to densities. Lower-density council housing in inner areas would produce estates even more attractive than the average speculative estate. I am also against the Government's decision to abolish Parker Morris standards. If anything, they need improving on. A house without full central heating or kitchen space for a deep-freeze will be unnacceptable in the not too distant future.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-12a.917.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-12", "file": "debates1980-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "8759845be7ae0f97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-12a.936.0", "colnum": "936", "heading": "CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "cretary of State attacking those who depend on the construction industry's products ; he is attacking those who depend on it for their livelihood. Nowhere is this attack more vicious than in his assault on the direct labour organisations of local authorities. Any industry depends on new blood coming in to revitalise it. It is the DLOs that are providing the construction industry with its trainees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-12a.936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-13", "file": "debates1980-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "08013a9424fc0e7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-13a.1026.3", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "ANGLO-LIBYAN RELATIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Sir Ian Gil-mour)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Sir Ian Gil-mour)", "preceding_text": "ill make a statement about Anglo-Libyan relations. Hon. Members will have seen, in today's press a report of remarks by the head of the Libyan mission in London, Mr. Musa Kusa. I called Mr. Kusa to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office earlier today to tell him that in view of his remarks, his presence in this country is no longer in the interests of Anglo-Libyan relations, and I asked him to leave.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-13a.1026.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-16", "file": "debates1980-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "1dcf7f97dca36336", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-16a.1127.0", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL (VENICE MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "principle has been introduced, namely, that the Palestinian people must be placed in a position to exercise fully their right to self-determination. That is a change of British policy. Does it mean that there is to be in the right hon. Lady's policy a new independent State in the Middle East, which under the right of self-determination can be fully armed on the borders of Israel, Syria and Jordan?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-16a.1127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-16", "file": "debates1980-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "1dcf7f97dca36336", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-16a.1133.0", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "EUROPEAN COUNCIL (VENICE MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-16a.1133.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-16", "file": "debates1980-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "1dcf7f97dca36336", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-16a.1163.1", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (BRANDT REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Gilmour", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "nd 4 June. There are sometimes very difficult decisions to be made in this area. No country's record is entirely without blemish, but, given the difficulties, we have not done badly. A further important factor affecting development is private investment flows. The economic success of countries such as Singapore and South Korea demonstrates what can be done if favourable conditions are encouraged.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-16a.1163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-16", "file": "debates1980-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "1dcf7f97dca36336", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-16a.1197.1", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (BRANDT REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": " picture that is presented to us here, because the pattern of international development has been random and unpredictable, and it continues to be. There is no way in which we can predict it precisely. There is no way in which we can justify the idea of a North-South confrontation. It is a figment of the Western liberal imagination, exploited to our own detriment. We ought to recognise it as such.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-16a.1197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-16", "file": "debates1980-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "1dcf7f97dca36336", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-16a.1197.1", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (BRANDT REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": " revenue transfers through international levies on some of the following : international trade, arms production or exports; international travel —and so on. These are tax measures. The report does not say so. It does not touch upon the questions of international representation. It merely leaves them lying there. We should turn away from them, because they really are objectionable. It is no credit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-16a.1197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-16", "file": "debates1980-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "1dcf7f97dca36336", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-16a.1267.1", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (BRANDT REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Bell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members : \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Bell", "preceding_text": "restricted their families, have the moral duty of supporting an increase of 2,000 million in the equatorial and tropical regions of the world where family limitation does not exist? If people are prepared severely to depress the standards of living in the temperate zone, as one would have to do to achieve that end, and to see themselves, in the final mix of world population, massively outnumbered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-16a.1267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-16", "file": "debates1980-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "1dcf7f97dca36336", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-16a.1286.0", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (BRANDT REPORT)", "cue_speaker": "Dame Judith Hart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Judith Hart", "preceding_text": "port controls and to agree with those of my hon. Friends who have pointed to this as a matter that must concern Labour Members in getting our policies right in terms of protecting both our infant industries and our threatened industries, and at the same time protecting those developing countries that we wish to protect. My view is that we can do it if we have a system of selective quotas, because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-16a.1286.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-17", "file": "debates1980-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "7bff540582bb98a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-17a.1332.8", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. lady, I believe, is aware that the matter to which she refers is covered by the three-months' ruling. Questions cannot be asked about the use of that base because the Prime Minister has indicated that she is not answering questions on the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-17a.1332.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-06-17", "file": "debates1980-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "7bff540582bb98a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-17a.1339.1", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER ENGAGEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. hon. Friend the Secretary of State——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-17a.1339.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-17", "file": "debates1980-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "7bff540582bb98a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-17a.1339.2", "colnum": "1339", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER ENGAGEMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This is very unfair. The Leader of the Opposition was heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-17a.1339.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-17", "file": "debates1980-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "7bff540582bb98a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-17a.1352.2", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "CRUISE MISSILE SITES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "I am thankful to say that the question of blocking questions, Mr. Speaker, is a matter not for me but for you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-17a.1352.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-17", "file": "debates1980-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "7bff540582bb98a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-17a.1369.2", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "AIR SERVICES (LONDON-HONG KONG)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh \".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his remarks. As he says, no one is withdrawing a licence already granted to British Caledonian. It was granted a licence by the CAA and I am upholding that decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-17a.1369.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-17", "file": "debates1980-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "7bff540582bb98a7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-17a.1464.1", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "COAL INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "s both sides of the House. We make that commitment clear in the £600 million-worth of investment in that industry for the next four years. The return is certain. We know what the returns are, not just on new investment, but on old plan-for-colliery pit investment. Our latest assessment suggests that those returns, even on the worst, most pessimistic price and cost assumptions, will be 32 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-17a.1464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-18", "file": "debates1980-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "00bbfe7d97b9f47a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-18a.1548.0", "colnum": "1548", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir I. Gilmour", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir I. Gilmour", "preceding_text": "an says is untrue. The idea that, because Western Europe is dependent upon oil, it is unable to say something about the Middle East is utter rubbish. The implication that the Palestinian people have no rights in themselves and that they are given rights by us only because of the oil problem is also absolute rubbish. The idea that there is any lack of clarity in the Venice statement is also untrue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-18a.1548.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-18", "file": "debates1980-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "00bbfe7d97b9f47a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-18a.1550.4", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "preceding_text": "nt. We think that it is connected more with the seasonal winds. It is true that the enormous influx of people into Hong Kong from both China and Vietnam has placed a tremendous burden on the Hong Kong authorities. It is very much to their credit that they have managed to keep up so well with the situation. The latest figures that we have for the number of Vietnamese boat people still in Hong Kong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-18a.1550.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-18", "file": "debates1980-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "00bbfe7d97b9f47a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-18a.1596.3", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FERRANTI LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "Some of my hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-18a.1596.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-18", "file": "debates1980-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "00bbfe7d97b9f47a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-18a.1596.6", "colnum": "1596", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FERRANTI LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": " a successful company, but it operates in a high-risk business. No one can guarantee the permanent security of everyone employed in it. That is implied in the motion, which reads : believes that any sale of the Board's holding in the company which threatens the wellbeing of the company and the security and future employment prospects of its 17,000 employees\". That implies a guarantee of employment", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-18a.1596.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-18", "file": "debates1980-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "00bbfe7d97b9f47a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-18a.1616.0", "colnum": "1616", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FERRANTI LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "preceding_text": " of the Century\" from which they can profit. That is why this House should speak out loud and clear today in support of those who saved the firm and have made it so successful since. I should like to quote from another of my constituents who wrote to me this week about her fears for the future of the firm. She is Mrs. Maureen Taylor, of 52 Calve Croft Road, Peel Hall, Manchester, 22, and she said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-18a.1616.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-18", "file": "debates1980-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "00bbfe7d97b9f47a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-18a.1634.3", "colnum": "1634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FERRANTI LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "re is the important point—to which I shall return—that we have a situation in which an acquisition by a single bidder would almost certainly provide the taxpayer with a substantially better return than would any other route. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State spelt out logically and clearly the options before the NEB and the Government. He made it clear that his mind has not been made up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-18a.1634.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-18", "file": "debates1980-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "00bbfe7d97b9f47a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-18a.1719.9", "colnum": "1719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — INDUSTRY BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "Yes, indeed—but not on that point. I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for allowing me to put him straight. I said \"Hard luck\" in reference to the fact that the hon. Member for Whitehaven (Dr. Cunningham) had the hon. Member for Workington (Mr. Campbell-Savours) as a neighbouring MP. That is what I was referring to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-18a.1719.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-19", "file": "debates1980-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "22372d7506e51cf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-19a.1769.7", "colnum": "1769", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS : \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "Can the Prime Minister give us one or two examples of com- modities that the Iranians can no longer buy as a result of sanctions? Why does the right hon. Lady believe that our sanctions will be more successful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-19a.1769.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-19", "file": "debates1980-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "22372d7506e51cf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-19a.1780.1", "colnum": "1780", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "The Government have always accepted that for a period there must be high unemployment, until the Government's economic policies begin to bear fruit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-19a.1780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-19", "file": "debates1980-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "22372d7506e51cf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-19a.1787.2", "colnum": "1787", "heading": "STEEL INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "preceding_text": "that his announcement will not be regarded as the be-all and end-all in trying to attract and encourage new industry to the area? Will he accept that local authorities, local industry and I fully accept that we must play our part in attracting and encouraging new industry to the area of Scunthorpe? Will he also accept that during the course of the last few years we have done our best to make sure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-19a.1787.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-19", "file": "debates1980-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "22372d7506e51cf2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-19a.1804.0", "colnum": "1804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — ROYAL NAVY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neville Trotter", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neville Trotter", "preceding_text": "Was not the reason that the hon. Gentleman's Government took all the orders out of the drawer immediately before the election, so that the drawer was left bare?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-19a.1804.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-20", "file": "debates1980-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "10a6a0193f1b2857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-20a.1958.4", "colnum": "1958", "heading": "WEST MIDLANDS (INDUSTRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "It is always, of course, the courtesy of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-20a.1958.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-20", "file": "debates1980-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "10a6a0193f1b2857", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-20a.2006.0", "colnum": "2006", "heading": "WEST MIDLANDS (INDUSTRY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nick Budgen", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nick Budgen", "preceding_text": "ng on the increase in the rates. Ministers have considerable powers of persuasion. I am wholly opposed to improper and unlawful leaning on private citizens, but there is one area in which I think Ministers would properly be able to exercise influence. The Wolverhampton chamber of commerce, in response to that extraordinary increase, has offered its services to monitor local government expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-20a.2006.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-23", "file": "debates1980-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "58a7235351939350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-23a.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I have consulted representatives of the Press Gallery about this. They have an interest in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-23a.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-23", "file": "debates1980-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "58a7235351939350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-23a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "al reorganisation of the hours of sitting of the House should not be recommended. It did, however, recommend the early Friday sitting, and I provided the House with an opportunity to implement that proposal. I do not think that late-night sittings are desirable. Perhaps I might point out to the hon. Member that on only four out of the 181 sitting days of this Session has the House sat after 4 a.m.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-23a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-23", "file": "debates1980-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "58a7235351939350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-23a.27.2", "colnum": "27", "heading": "THE HON. MEMBER FOR BIRMINGHAM, PERRY BARR", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rost", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rost", "preceding_text": "(1971) Ltd. of industrial espionage and charged one of its managers with accepting bribes. The person so accused, one of my constituents, is unable to defend himself because the allegations were made under the protection of parliamentary privilege. The hon. Member for Perry Barr, whom I have, of course, advised of my intention to raise this matter with you but who, I regret, is not in the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-23a.27.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-23", "file": "debates1980-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "58a7235351939350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-23a.68.0", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": " vital part of our contribution to the European theatre of potential operations. If the United Kingdom is not defended in the air, it will not be a secure base for rapid reinforcement from the United States of America and everything that entails for the protection of our ports and airfields. In office and out of office I am convinced that air defence should have priority within the defence budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-23a.68.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-23", "file": "debates1980-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "58a7235351939350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-23a.70.3", "colnum": "70", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "aking allegations about the number of air defence fighters at our disposal is not quite right in the national interest? That is the sort of behaviour that the House had to tolerate month after month when some Conservative Members, though not all of them, were concerned only to secure one end. It had nothing to do with the air defence of the United Kingdom. It had everything to do with their petty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-23a.70.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-23", "file": "debates1980-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "58a7235351939350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-23a.94.2", "colnum": "94", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Goodhew", "preceding_text": "We may have done so in the previous century, but we are not doing so now. We are not expanding into other territories by force of arms, as the Soviets are. It is somewhat naive to suggest that the Soviet Union is frightened of us. We have every reason to be frightened of the Soviet Union and to protect ourselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-23a.94.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-23", "file": "debates1980-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "58a7235351939350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-23a.98.0", "colnum": "98", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "preceding_text": "e civilian populace is enormous. Royal Air Force Ely is a hospital. It is the only hospital in the 400 square miles of the Isle of Ely which is not forced to fight for its existence or threatened with closure. I must thank the Minister for that, because there were rumours that it might have been Royal Air Force Ely, rather than an establishment further north, in Norfolk, which was not to continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-23a.98.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-23", "file": "debates1980-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "58a7235351939350", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-23a.137.0", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": ") described the hon. Gentleman's speech as refreshing. That was not the adjective that I would have applied to the hon. Gentleman's utterances in this debate. What I think this House would like to know is whether what he represented as being Labour policy is in fact Labour policy. Amongst the tangle of words and verbiage that came out in a rather confused order, two things appeared to be apparent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-23a.137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-24", "file": "debates1980-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "ab744e713e184ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.212.0", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "No. I refute the hon. Gentleman's last remarks. What is more, he is not even right about his first remarks, because the amount of money being spent this year is greater than last year and about £50 million greater than two years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-24", "file": "debates1980-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "ab744e713e184ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.216.3", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. The Secretary of State has just made a reference to my being quiet a few months ago. I remind the Minister of Unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-24", "file": "debates1980-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "ab744e713e184ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.216.6", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman must resume his seat.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.216.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-24", "file": "debates1980-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "ab744e713e184ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.216.6", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman must resume his seat. [ Interruption. ] I invite the hon. Gentleman to leave the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.216.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-24", "file": "debates1980-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "ab744e713e184ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.216.6", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman must resume his seat. [ Interruption. ] I invite the hon. Gentleman to leave the Chamber. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Order. It is a very serious matter to ignore any appeal from the Chair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.216.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-24", "file": "debates1980-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "ab744e713e184ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.217.3", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman leaves me with no choice, but in order not to take up the rest of Question Time, if the House agrees, I shall deal with the matter not now but after Question Time. Otherwise, I shall deal with it at once.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.217.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-24", "file": "debates1980-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "ab744e713e184ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.217.3", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman leaves me with no choice, but in order not to take up the rest of Question Time, if the House agrees, I shall deal with the matter not now but after Question Time. Otherwise, I shall deal with it at once. [ Interruption. ] Order. I was not inviting comments. I wish to give the hon. Gentleman a last chance. Will he withdraw from the Chamber?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.217.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-24", "file": "debates1980-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "ab744e713e184ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.217.6", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spriggs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spriggs", "preceding_text": "In view of the Secretary of State's reference to my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner), would it not be in order and help matters if the Secretary of State offered an apology to my hon. Friend?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.217.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-24", "file": "debates1980-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "ab744e713e184ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.217.8", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "May I say that no hon. Member wishes to challenge your ruling, Mr. Speaker?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.217.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-24", "file": "debates1980-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "ab744e713e184ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.224.0", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that it is nonsense to say that high wages are the cause of unemployment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.224.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-24", "file": "debates1980-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "ab744e713e184ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.226.7", "colnum": "226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Of course I have looked at the unemployment figures today. If our top priority is to squeeze inflation out of the economy, we must inevitably suffer some unemployment in the short term.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.226.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-24", "file": "debates1980-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "ab744e713e184ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will have heard my previous reply on the priority of squeezing inflation out of the system. I phrased that reply very carefully. It is almost totally in accordance with what the right hon. Gentleman said when the unemployment figures under his Government were very high. I quote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-24", "file": "debates1980-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "ab744e713e184ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.227.2", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House must listen to the answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.227.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-24", "file": "debates1980-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "ab744e713e184ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.227.4", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Although the country knows it well, is it not right that I should remind the Prime Minister that when I made that statement, the result of the policy was that inflation went down to under 8 per cent., compared with the 22 per cent. that we have now? In the first 12 months of the right hon. Lady's Gov ernment unemployment has increased by 350,000. Under the Labour Government it went down steadily—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.227.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-24", "file": "debates1980-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "ab744e713e184ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.238.5", "colnum": "238", "heading": "VENICE SUMMIT MEETING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is lining his pockets from deals with the Russians.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.238.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-24", "file": "debates1980-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "ab744e713e184ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.250.2", "colnum": "250", "heading": "VENICE SUMMIT MEETING", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ountry. The countries which, in the main, will increase and double their output of coal by 1990 are the United States and Canada. The point was increased production and use. Some of the other countries will have substantially to increase their use. I think that we are way ahead in the proportion of our electricity that comes from coal and in our general use of coal. In so far as there are markets—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.250.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-24", "file": "debates1980-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "ab744e713e184ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "VENICE SUMMIT MEETING", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that it is more than maintained. This year we are investing about£600 million in the coal industry. That is a very large sum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-24", "file": "debates1980-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "ab744e713e184ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.252.1", "colnum": "252", "heading": "VENICE SUMMIT MEETING", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that the external finance limit to the coal industry—£834 million this year—is one of the biggest that we have for our nationalised industries—and heaven knows, the limits are big enough for some of the others as well. All of this has to be found from resources. We cannot indefinitely keep open pits that have exhausted their useful life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.252.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-24", "file": "debates1980-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "ab744e713e184ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.253.4", "colnum": "253", "heading": "VENICE SUMMIT MEETING", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have allowed questions on this statement to go on for much longer than usual. I do not want the House to think that it is a precedent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.253.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-24", "file": "debates1980-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "ab744e713e184ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morgan", "preceding_text": "ne in this case. The position was precisely the same in September as it was in May. The pros and cons of the case were quite unaltered. I would not seek to argue for a moment that there are no cons. It has been frequently argued, for example, that it is for the benefit of Welsh language television that, for example, a programme such as \"Heddiw\" follows on a widely popular one such as \"Nationwide\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-24", "file": "debates1980-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "ab744e713e184ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.345.1", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I have admitted freely that I was having second thoughts. What we promised in the Queen's Speech is exactly what we intend to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-24", "file": "debates1980-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "ab744e713e184ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.345.1", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgrace\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "promised in the Queen's Speech is exactly what we intend to do. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"] I wish to get this matter out of the way. I am happy to be criticised, but I am telling the House, honestly, as I am entitled to, that I said that we would make an early start on Welsh broadcasting on the fourth channel. The Queen's Speech did not say that it would be done exclusively on the fourth channel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-24", "file": "debates1980-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "ab744e713e184ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": " that show his determination to uphold the Welsh language. He is entitled to claim that, and I am entitled to claim it for him. There is no doubt that the Government are strongly committed to the survival and development of the Welsh language. We have made that perfectly clear. Although Opposition Members may disagree with me on other subjects, I am glad to note that we are at one on this subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-24", "file": "debates1980-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "ab744e713e184ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.371.0", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS. \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "sting. We do not support any of the extra-parliamentary and extra-legal actions of Cymdeithasy Iath, or for that matter, the actions of the hon. Member for Merioneth (Mr. Thomas) and the hon. Member for Caernarvon (Mr. Wigley), who announced a few minutes ago—and the Home Secretary blandly sat there and took not the slightest notice—that they were breaking the law by not paying their licence fees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.371.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-24", "file": "debates1980-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "ab744e713e184ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.374.0", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Best", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS. \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Best", "preceding_text": "ry to be in several places at one time. I do not labour the issue on this occasion, but I was serving on the Finance Bill Standing Committee today and unfortunately, as this debate reached the Floor of the House. I was moving an amendment in that Committee. I therefore crave the indulgence of all hon. Members. I ask for that indulgence on the basis that I do not intend to delay the House for long.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.374.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-24", "file": "debates1980-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "ab744e713e184ab2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.385.1", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BROADCASTING BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman wants it all ways. Earlier he protested that the Queen's Speech made his proposals clear, but he now claims that it did nothing of the sort.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-24a.385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-25", "file": "debates1980-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e5eb247a8c6014e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.474.2", "colnum": "474", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "I am not increasing the unemployment figures. As I said a moment ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.474.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-25", "file": "debates1980-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e5eb247a8c6014e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.513.3", "colnum": "513", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has to look at the figures a bit more carefully than that. That is all based on his assumptions of what will happen next year in the first place. In the second place, if he is looking into the future, he must consider the future position about the reduction in the number of school leavers which will arise when the number of people coming on to the market is reduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.513.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-25", "file": "debates1980-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e5eb247a8c6014e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.513.3", "colnum": "513", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "th the right hon. Gentleman is that, when he has had the answer to one question, he cannot take it. What he has to do is to invent a new question. If I give him another 10 answers to this question, he will just invent a new one after that. He would carry much more conviction in the House if he would admit it when he is given an answer to a question and allow people to carry on with their speeches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.513.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-06-25", "file": "debates1980-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e5eb247a8c6014e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.515.4", "colnum": "515", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "From 130,000.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may just finish this passage. Accordingly, the number of places on the training opportunities programme has been somewhat reduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.515.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-25", "file": "debates1980-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e5eb247a8c6014e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.515.7", "colnum": "515", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will have an opportunity, if he catches your eye, Mr. Deputy Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.515.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-25", "file": "debates1980-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e5eb247a8c6014e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.524.0", "colnum": "524", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "preceding_text": "ise—th;s follows from what the hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme was saying—that we must work together to solve this problem, accepting that the economy cannot stand another round of excessive pay increases. In the context of this debate, it is sad that Mr. Len Murray should make another rather senseless speech on the subject this morning, saying that unemployment has no effect on wage demands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.524.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-25", "file": "debates1980-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e5eb247a8c6014e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.536.0", "colnum": "536", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Alton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Alton", "preceding_text": "tural work is one possibility. All sorts of crops need picking from now on. Check whether your local farmer wants help. That is not much use to people living in our cities, where the main unemployment problems occur. That newspaper, rather like some of the speeches from the Government Benches this afternoon, demonstrates a typical insensitivity when looking at the problems of the young unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.536.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-25", "file": "debates1980-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e5eb247a8c6014e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.536.2", "colnum": "536", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "preceding_text": "amental to the issues that we are discussing today. If there are not jobs available for youngsters such as the one mentioned by the hon. Gentleman, that is the fault of the hon. Gentleman's Government. It is the fault, not necessarily of the Secretary of State for Employment, but of many of his colleagues who are not here this afternoon—people from the Treasury and from the Department of Industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.536.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-25", "file": "debates1980-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e5eb247a8c6014e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.538.3", "colnum": "538", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "preceding_text": "—in this House, the mortgage interest rate was 12·25 per cent. By the middle of the pact it had been reduced to 8·5 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.538.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-25", "file": "debates1980-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e5eb247a8c6014e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.538.5", "colnum": "538", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "preceding_text": "been felt in the construction industry. There has been a massive decline in private house building. That, inevitably, has had an effect on construction workers. Only a week or so ago we were discussing the state of the British construction industry, in which close on 200,000 people are out of work. Let us consider next the minimum lending rate. In March 1977, as a result of political co-operation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.538.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-25", "file": "debates1980-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e5eb247a8c6014e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.538.5", "colnum": "538", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "preceding_text": "rch 1977, as a result of political co-operation—[ Interruption. ] I am speaking of political cooperation and what it can achieve, not just carping from the Back Benches. The minimum lending rate then stood at 10·5 per cent. Today it stands at 17 per cent. Inflation, which was reduced to single figures, now stands at 22 per cent. I do not claim that that was all a result of the Lib-Lab pact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.538.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-25", "file": "debates1980-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e5eb247a8c6014e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.538.5", "colnum": "538", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "preceding_text": "ieve, not just carping from the Back Benches. The minimum lending rate then stood at 10·5 per cent. Today it stands at 17 per cent. Inflation, which was reduced to single figures, now stands at 22 per cent. I do not claim that that was all a result of the Lib-Lab pact—[ Interruption. ] Hon. Members may laugh, but I claim that it was a victory for common sense, conciliation and co-operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.538.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-25", "file": "debates1980-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e5eb247a8c6014e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.538.5", "colnum": "538", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "preceding_text": " was reduced to single figures, now stands at 22 per cent. I do not claim that that was all a result of the Lib-Lab pact—[ Interruption. ] Hon. Members may laugh, but I claim that it was a victory for common sense, conciliation and co-operation. [ Interruption. ] I have always supported the principle of political cooperation and agreement, and I also supported the introduction of the Lib-Lab pact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.538.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-25", "file": "debates1980-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e5eb247a8c6014e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.539.7", "colnum": "539", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "preceding_text": "hon. Members to today's edition of the Liverpool Daily Post. The Liverpool Echo last night pointed out that unemployment had reached a record 13 per cent. on Merseyside and commented that it's going to get worse\". The article referred to a jobless total of 98,244—compared with last month's total of 91,534\", and added There are now 11,085 youngsters chasing 73 jobs at careers offices on Merseyside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.539.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-25", "file": "debates1980-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e5eb247a8c6014e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "y of elderly and infirm for whom we have yet to devise the proper caring resources; to work in the hospitals, and to help in nursery schools with young children. The second option could be an environmental option, to do work in our city centres to tidy them up. There are areas of dereliction where much could be done to bring about improvements; to work in our national parks and on private estates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-25", "file": "debates1980-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e5eb247a8c6014e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "r for Keighley (Mr. Cryer) knows. The third option could be a form of cadet national service, in which boys and girls between the ages of 16 and 21 could learn the basic military skills so that, if at a later stage we needed to expand our reserve forces or our civil defence forces, we would have trained people we could slot in. There would be immense benefits for people taking part in this scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-25", "file": "debates1980-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e5eb247a8c6014e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.608.1", "colnum": "608", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "larly, we seem less able to sustain economic growth when we can attain it. The figures for growth of manufacturing output show that we are still not producing as many manufactured goods today as we produced in 1973. In each period we have done worse than in the period before. That is why when Opposition Members suggest the same old remedies they are not suggesting anything that can be made to work", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-25", "file": "debates1980-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e5eb247a8c6014e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.632.1", "colnum": "632", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "to take fare-paying passengers on school buses. There are discernible advantages, in that there are spaces which may be filled, but, on the other hand, we could see a deterioration in school bus services as the operators of those services started shifting their routes about to maximise their income from the use of the school buses to raise money from fare-paying passengers rather than making sure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-25", "file": "debates1980-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e5eb247a8c6014e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.632.1", "colnum": "632", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We do.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": " there are spaces which may be filled, but, on the other hand, we could see a deterioration in school bus services as the operators of those services started shifting their routes about to maximise their income from the use of the school buses to raise money from fare-paying passengers rather than making sure—[ Interruption. ] I do not understand why Conservative Members do not follow my argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.632.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-25", "file": "debates1980-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "6e5eb247a8c6014e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.651.0", "colnum": "651", "heading": "TRANSPORT BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "sed in order to carry fare-paying passengers as well as schoolchildren. If that is the case, there are not only the 250, 600, 900 or whatever may be the number of buses owned by local education authorities but many others as well because this opens the whole issue of contract service buses. We can in fact have buses owned by a public transport authority going along a particular route where, if it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-25a.651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-26", "file": "debates1980-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "68f2e27ba7a86bde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-26a.721.6", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "call saying that he would like to see a massive business portfolio abroad in order that Britain can be great again as it was in the 1930s? Does he remember that he was asked whether that might result in 3 million people being unemployed? Will he tell the House what he told the people on the air—that he would not regard that as unwelcome and that the money would have to be found from North Sea oil?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-26a.721.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-26", "file": "debates1980-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "68f2e27ba7a86bde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-26a.738.5", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "arpets and many others, now that she is sacking dinner ladies up and down the land, and now that she has shunned the nurses, does she have to use her vidictiveness against women cleaners in the various Government Departments, which has resulted in the mass lobby today following the sacking of 68 women cleaners at the Ministry of Defence at Bath and the introduction of a private contracting scheme?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-26a.738.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-06-26", "file": "debates1980-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "68f2e27ba7a86bde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-26a.739.3", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woolmer", "preceding_text": "May I immediately, in the interests of correcting the Prime Minister, point out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-26a.739.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-06-26", "file": "debates1980-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "68f2e27ba7a86bde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-26a.740.2", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Come on, Jim.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molyneaux", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-26a.740.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-26", "file": "debates1980-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "68f2e27ba7a86bde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-26a.740.9", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Who does?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The answer to the question is that Ministers, including the Prime Minister, may be questioned only on those matters for which they are responsible to this House. As yet, the Prime Minister does not claim responsibility for speaking for the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-26a.740.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-06-26", "file": "debates1980-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "68f2e27ba7a86bde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-26a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is asking us to change our whole economic policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-26a.743.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-06-26", "file": "debates1980-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "68f2e27ba7a86bde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-26a.743.3", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "He is asking us to do one of three things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-26a.743.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-26", "file": "debates1980-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "68f2e27ba7a86bde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-26a.747.2", "colnum": "747", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the right hon. Gentleman is correct. I think that the statement on the previous constitutional document was not made in the House, so the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-26a.747.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-26", "file": "debates1980-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "68f2e27ba7a86bde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-26a.754.1", "colnum": "754", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We warned the right hon. Gentleman\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": " for this. The £400 million figure is based on provisional trading forecasts. A firmer figure, which may well be larger, will have to await an up-to-date assessment of the BSC's trading position. Over the past year, the market has fallen away both at home and abroad, with a depressive effect on prices. Meanwhile, the BSC's costs have been rising sharply. The long strike has, as I warned the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-26a.754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-26", "file": "debates1980-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "68f2e27ba7a86bde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-26a.763.1", "colnum": "763", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Bray", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nationalisation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Bray", "preceding_text": "ware that the evidence behind his statement will be examined very carefully in this House and elsewhere to see whether it is a piece of window dressing to give the new chairman of the BSC a low base line from which he can hardly fail to improve? Is the right hon. Gentleman also aware that as banker to the corporation he owes a duty to the House to inquire into the detailed causes of these figures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-26a.763.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-06-26", "file": "debates1980-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "68f2e27ba7a86bde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-26a.771.2", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "indicated assent.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Bernard Weatherhill)", "preceding_text": "Would that be for the convenience of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-26a.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-26", "file": "debates1980-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "68f2e27ba7a86bde", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-26a.819.1", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Orders of the Day — THE ARMY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buck", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buck", "preceding_text": "r discussion of Army discipline. It also ties in with my activities yesterday. I spent yesterday at what—to the right hon. Member for Mansfield (Mr. Concannon) is perhaps home from home—the military corrective training establishment at Colchester. I mention that the right hon. Gentleman has been in that establishment, though I cleared the matter with him before doing so. What a man it made of him!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-26a.819.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-27", "file": "debates1980-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "06193e1dba68830b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-27a.952.6", "colnum": "952", "heading": "BBC ORCHESTRAS (DISBANDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "le responsibility for artistic patronage which cannot and must not be shrugged off when the economic climate gives excuse. The BBC's responsibilities have been and are to furnish the cultural sustenance of drama, of education, of public affairs and of music. I believe that the House this morning should make clear its view that the BBC should take these proposals back and reconsider its intentions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-27a.952.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-27", "file": "debates1980-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "06193e1dba68830b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-27a.977.0", "colnum": "977", "heading": "BBC ORCHESTRAS (DISBANDMENT)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Leon Brittan)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Leon Brittan)", "preceding_text": "ngston upon Hull, Central (Mr. McNamara). I do not think that it would be right for me to attempt to do so. However, I have been informed that Mr. Aubrey Singer, the managing director of BBC Radio, does not accept that he used the phrase attributed to him about grinding down the unions or the orchestras. He informs me that what he said was that he could not see much light at the end of the tunnel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-27a.977.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-27", "file": "debates1980-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "06193e1dba68830b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-27a.1025.2", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (UNITED KINGDOM COMPANIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "sory. The wage provisions of the code cannot be looked at to the exclusion of the code's other provisions. That is one of the reasons why the recent debate in the newspapers has been so misleading. If a company provides good training schemes for its African employees, refuses to differentiate between workers of different races, gives good fringe benefits and has achieved good industrial relations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-27a.1025.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-27", "file": "debates1980-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "06193e1dba68830b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-27a.1042.0", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (UNITED KINGDOM COMPANIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "n. Member for Lanarkshire, North (Mr. Smith), in one of his six or so speeches, spoke of the obligation on my right hon. Friend to apply the code and to evaluate it. He did not mention the article of the Treaty of Rome under which a Community obligation could arise. I feel tolerably certain that there is no such article, because the subject of foreign affairs is not included in the Treaty of Rome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-27a.1042.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-27", "file": "debates1980-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "06193e1dba68830b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-27a.1043.1", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "SOUTH AFRICA (UNITED KINGDOM COMPANIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir R. Bell", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir R. Bell", "preceding_text": "in South Africa how that country should be governed. But no one is prepared to say how it should be governed. The Opposition, except for a few political blow-hards, know that it cannot be run by universal adult suffrage. They know that the economic as well as the political life of South Africa has for some indeterminate time to be dominated by European brains, discipline and communal organisation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-27a.1043.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-30", "file": "debates1980-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "ed351835b615aa15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-30a.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "leman. It is no surprise to me. I am not in the least perturbed about it, nor is my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Industry, so I make no apology for it. It is the appropriate way for us to conduct our affairs in relation to British Airways Limited. I have to emphasise that the company will initially be managed by a board of directors, all of whom will be appointed by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-30a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-30", "file": "debates1980-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "ed351835b615aa15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-30a.1148.1", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "he City. They are not familiar with financial institutions. Many do not even have a Post Office Savings Bank book. But they realise, in an inchoate way, that they have an investment, they have put something by for a rainy day, in British Airways. Such people have every right to expect financial probity, common sense and honesty from the custodians of their wealth. Perhaps I am being rather simple—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-30a.1148.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-30", "file": "debates1980-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "ed351835b615aa15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-30a.1200.1", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "t us have no more talk of maladministration. Private industries can be just as bureaucratic and just as inefficient as publicly-owned industries. I have worked for both kinds, and I know that at times it is difficult to choose between them, although it must be said that nationalised industries usually look after their work force and often their customers a bit better than do private industries do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-30a.1200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-06-30", "file": "debates1980-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "ed351835b615aa15", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-30a.1211.0", "colnum": "1211", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "It seems that the heart of this matter is the fact that the hon. Member for Hackney, Central (Mr. Davis) is still upset because the Secretary of State chose to tell Parliament of the Government's decision before he told the unions. There can be no other way of putting it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-06-30a.1211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-01", "file": "debates1980-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "80313e34a4fea270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-01a.1284.1", "colnum": "1284", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "That is what we want to know today. Does the hon. Gentleman further appreciate that the widespread support for community health councils goes wider than the bodies he mentioned and that support also comes from all political parties at grass roots level?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-01a.1284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-01", "file": "debates1980-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "80313e34a4fea270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-01a.1292.5", "colnum": "1292", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashley", "preceding_text": "th respect, I submit that the fact that I was not named in the question to which I referred is wholly irrelevant, in so far as the whole House knows that I am the only Member who has campaigned for the suspension of the drug Debendox. I respectfully submit, Mr. Speaker, that you are wrong in your interpretation and that I have every right, in view of the fact that the Minister endorsed criticisms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-01a.1292.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-01", "file": "debates1980-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "80313e34a4fea270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-01a.1309.5", "colnum": "1309", "heading": "FERRANTI LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State confirm that he told us nothing that was not available to hon. Members who read The Guardian or other newspapers beforehand? How does he justify a premium—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-01a.1309.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-01", "file": "debates1980-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "80313e34a4fea270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-01a.1310.1", "colnum": "1310", "heading": "FERRANTI LIMITED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that his statement will be warmly welcomed by many Ferranti employees?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-01a.1310.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-01", "file": "debates1980-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "80313e34a4fea270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-01a.1387.0", "colnum": "1387", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "presentatives of employers and unions whom it is consulting. This is one of the reasons why some kind of forum is desirable, where the major participants in the economy can sit down calmly together to consider the implications—for prosperity as well as for unemployment and paybargaining—of the Government's fiscal and monetary policies. My source is a good and authentic Conservative Party document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-01a.1387.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-01", "file": "debates1980-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "80313e34a4fea270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-01a.1394.0", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Smith", "preceding_text": "bout my right hon. Friend. Perhaps the Chief Secretary will answer a simple question. He, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Industry are now stomping the country telling everyone that unless wage increases in the coming year are only 50 per cent. of the level of last year—between 5 per cent. and 10 per cent.—the Government cannot control inflation.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-01a.1394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-01", "file": "debates1980-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "80313e34a4fea270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-01a.1397.4", "colnum": "1397", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Biffen", "preceding_text": "he great problem is the transitional period before which these policies can be seen to be truly effective. I am, I suppose, almost the last person to be the great apostle of dawn. If I have been prepared to call myself the Jeremiah in any Administration—in the belief that there ought always to be a statutory Jeremiah—I am perhaps now speaking out of turn, but I want to say this to my hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-01a.1397.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-01", "file": "debates1980-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "80313e34a4fea270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-01a.1420.0", "colnum": "1420", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Ogden", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Ogden", "preceding_text": "shed to be helpful. He is comparatively new. The House can see what time has done to me, and I hope that it does the same to him. It is not a custom in the House to attack those who cannot defend themselves in this place. We may, by all means, criticise one another, but let Mr. Aubrey Jones be answerable outside. Let former Members who are not able to defend themselves be left out of the argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-01a.1420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-01", "file": "debates1980-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "80313e34a4fea270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-01a.1425.0", "colnum": "1425", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "nt to get involved in an incomes policy for the third successive year. I suppose it was about the ninth, tenth or eleventh time that there had been an incomes policy during the course of the past two decades. I have lost count of the number of times. We are constantly being told by many experts, and particularly by the Liberal Party, which has never been in power and does not know what it is like—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-01a.1425.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-01", "file": "debates1980-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "80313e34a4fea270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-01a.1427.1", "colnum": "1427", "heading": "PRICES AND INCOMES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "It does not include Members of Parliament.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-01a.1427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-02", "file": "debates1980-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c51ea7be5cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1505.4", "colnum": "1505", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Monro", "preceding_text": "Yes, I most certainly do. It is astonishing that Socialist-controlled councils—hard-pressed as they say they are—are prepared to give large sums of money to the Olympic appeal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1505.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-02", "file": "debates1980-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c51ea7be5cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1519.3", "colnum": "1519", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I should have to examine in detail with the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1519.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-02", "file": "debates1980-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c51ea7be5cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1535.2", "colnum": "1535", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (GOVERNMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "e. With great respect, I do not mean to be critical either of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland or the Leader of the House. We have, Mr. Speaker, by arrangement with you, a request that a statement should be made. Therefore, obviously, the Minister must have consulted you. In that statement, he makes a claim that papers are available. We are then advised that the papers are not available", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1535.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-02", "file": "debates1980-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c51ea7be5cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1537.4", "colnum": "1537", "heading": "THE HON. MEMBER FOR BIRMINGHAM, PERRY BARR", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Disgraceful.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1537.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-02", "file": "debates1980-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c51ea7be5cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1554.1", "colnum": "1554", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": " Opposition, on a subject of this kind, face certain fundamental difficulties of their own. I noticed that the right hon. Member for Stepney and Poplar (Mr. Shore) was recorded in The Times of 9 June as saying—I quote his remarkable observation—that there are few issues on which the Labour Party is more united than on its policy towards the Common Market today. He had that to say in the course of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-02", "file": "debates1980-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c51ea7be5cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1561.6", "colnum": "1561", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "I refer to the exchange between my right hon. Friend and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. We all feel that the stand that my right hon. Friend and other Ministers took at that time was commendable. I wish to make it clear that they were standing on Labour Party policy—irrespective of what the Labour Government did at that time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1561.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-02", "file": "debates1980-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c51ea7be5cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1567.1", "colnum": "1567", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "tish budgetary problem\".—[ Official Report , 2 June 1980; Vol. 985, c. 1045.] That 1 per cent. ceiling, of course, meant the ceiling on the VAT contribution and the approaching exhaustion of \"own resources\" for the purposes of the Community's finance. I certainly agree that a major effort will have to be made and that that review has at least a potential importance. But I must warn the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1567.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-02", "file": "debates1980-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c51ea7be5cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1572.2", "colnum": "1572", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Wall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Wall", "preceding_text": "g a good deal for Britain. It needed a great deal of courage. I think that the whole country realises that and is grateful to them. We are discussing a number of documents today. I want to concentrate on document 7389/80 on the common fisheries policy. The right hon. Member for Stepney and Poplar did not refer to that document at all, despite the importance of the fishing industry to this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1572.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-02", "file": "debates1980-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c51ea7be5cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1592.0", "colnum": "1592", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about yours?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Gummer", "preceding_text": "ng in common—their attitude towards any documents that emanate from the European Community. It reminds me of the person who opened the first pages of \"Wuthering Heights\", who is said to have looked at the Bible in order to grab to himself all the promises therein and flung at everybody else the curses. I fear that we approach a debate of this kind by importing into its substance our preconceptions", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1592.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-02", "file": "debates1980-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c51ea7be5cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1604.3", "colnum": "1604", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Myles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Myles", "preceding_text": "aid \"No\". We should not behave like the \"abominable no-man\". That is not the way to be constructive. Having a deadline puts pressure not only on us but also on our European competitors. I shall deal with that later when I talk about fishing matters. On behalf of the fishermen, I ask for nothing less than the seven \"Cs\", I do not mean the high seas. I do not mean that we want to claim all the seas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1604.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-02", "file": "debates1980-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c51ea7be5cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1606.0", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is presumably", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-02", "file": "debates1980-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c51ea7be5cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1606.0", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is presumably[ Interruption. ]—talking about the scrap and build policy, which no doubt he would support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-02", "file": "debates1980-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c51ea7be5cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1606.0", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Elaine Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is presumably[ Interruption. ]—talking about the scrap and build policy, which no doubt he would support. [ Interruption. ] Would he agree that under that policy it is only fair that the compensation paid", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1606.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-02", "file": "debates1980-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c51ea7be5cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1607.0", "colnum": "1607", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Myles", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Myles", "preceding_text": "We can have control of all those things once we get the common fisheries policy agreed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1607.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-02", "file": "debates1980-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c51ea7be5cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1642.0", "colnum": "1642", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The Minister is from the Foreign Office.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "preceding_text": "for a fisheries policy to be negotiated that will be helpful to Britain. It introduces yet another scheme for intervention, this time in the sheepmeat sector. My hon. Friends mentioned the most important point when they said that the so-called fundamental review cannot be a fundamental review at all. The absence of Foreign Office Ministers from the debate is constitutionally of great significance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1642.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-02", "file": "debates1980-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c51ea7be5cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1662.0", "colnum": "1662", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": " in order to cover its overheads and go on to make a profitable output. If through replacement we could produce half that £2,400 million of deficit of manufactured items in the European Community, we could save and bring back to this country 100,000 jobs, so much good is the European Community doing us at the moment. Despite the magnificent achievements of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1662.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-02", "file": "debates1980-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c51ea7be5cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1673.0", "colnum": "1673", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "to support mineral and energy exploration in developing countries? Again, the Brandt report recommends that that should be given. We are aware that help must be given to Zimbabwe. The roundabout allows us to seek help from our partners. Perhaps I could have the Minister's attention, as I should like to ask him a direct question. Indeed, there has been a notable absence of senior Ministers tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1673.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-02", "file": "debates1980-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c51ea7be5cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1686.4", "colnum": "1686", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": " on another occasion. The third thing that the amendment talks about is damaging increases in food prices\". I should like to correct the hon. Member for Renfrewshire, West (Mr. Buchan), who was wrong about sugar prices. He might like to know that the world market price of sugar is £70 to £80 per tonne above the European price at the moment. He said that it was the other way round, and he is wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1686.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-02", "file": "debates1980-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c51ea7be5cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1688.1", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "he effect of this increase on the food price index will be 0·7 per cent., and the effect on the retail price increase will be 0·15 per cent. Indeed, in the last eight years, food prices have risen by 200 per cent., of which the common agricultural policy alone has been the cause of 8 per cent. to 10 per cent. Opposition Members may not entirely understand the way in which this works.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1688.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-02", "file": "debates1980-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c51ea7be5cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1690.0", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "er for Birmingham, Erdington (Mr. Silverman) in particular, as well as the hon. Member for Newham, North-East, the hon. Member for Swansea, East, and my hon. Friend the Member for Aldridge-Brownhills (Mr. Shepherd)—to give a much more careful explanation of the settlement that was reached. If the House will bear with me I shall certainly do that, but it is full of figures and a little complicated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1690.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-02", "file": "debates1980-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c51ea7be5cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1690.0", "colnum": "1690", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "stead of losing £2·1 billion in the last three years of the previous Government we shall have a net contribution of only £1·3 billion, with £2·5 billion saved. I should like to explain how the refund is made. For this purpose I take the year 1980 in order to give the House the full figures. These figures will be in million European units of accounts, and not in million pounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1690.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-02", "file": "debates1980-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c51ea7be5cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1694.0", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I do not know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1694.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-02", "file": "debates1980-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c51ea7be5cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1694.2", "colnum": "1694", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (BUDGET)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman had the cheek to say, in the paper: There are very few issues on which the Labour Party is more united than on its policy in relation to the Common Market. I take the words of my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton, North (Mr. Marlow), that Labour is in a state of transition in its policy towards the Common Market. We, on the other hand, are going to build on the advantages—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1694.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-02", "file": "debates1980-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c51ea7be5cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1700.0", "colnum": "1700", "heading": "SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Bryant God-man Irvine)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Bryant God-man Irvine)", "preceding_text": "I hesitate to interrupt the hon. Lady on her birthday, when I would wish to offer her congratulations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1700.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-02", "file": "debates1980-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c51ea7be5cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1703.2", "colnum": "1703", "heading": "SCHOOLS", "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": " at the 1968 legislation and decided that there was some good in it and that it was important that we carried it on. That showed the breadth of vision and the quality of temperament that exists among my right hon. and hon. Friends. I think that I should mention that on the hon. Lady's birthday. However, there is something that I must bring to the attention of the hon. Lady. There is a change here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1703.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-02", "file": "debates1980-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "c51ea7be5cf29627", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1721.2", "colnum": "1721", "heading": "SCHOOLS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Hertfordshire\".", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": " the question of the 20 per cent., which I and my hon. Friends, and some Opposition hon. Members, considered most important. A local education authority cannot, in the face of parental choice, reduce the intake of schools by 20 per cent. or more over a rolling programme of years without a section 13 notice. The hon. Gentleman said that certain authorities had rushed in to reduce numbers this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-02a.1721.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-03", "file": "debates1980-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6e863b6351d863ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-03a.1752.4", "colnum": "1752", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "the representations made by the deputation that I took to him recently, it is unacceptable in our society that there should be blanket raids involving the arrest of large numbers of innocent people in order to bring to justice those who are in breach of the law and that it is equally unacceptable that any system of passport control for identification purposes should be introduced into our society.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-03a.1752.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-03", "file": "debates1980-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6e863b6351d863ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-03a.1758.1", "colnum": "1758", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Over a period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-03a.1758.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-03", "file": "debates1980-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6e863b6351d863ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-03a.1760.9", "colnum": "1760", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "In regard to the Prime Minister's impending visit to Scotland, does she recognise that the most important matter there is not the eightieth birthday of anybody—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-03a.1760.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-03", "file": "debates1980-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6e863b6351d863ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-03a.1761.0", "colnum": "1761", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Somewhat?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman has a particular case which causes him great concern, of course I or my right hon. Friends will give it full and proper attention. I agree that the unemployment rate in Scotland is somewhat higher than in England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-03a.1761.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-03", "file": "debates1980-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6e863b6351d863ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-03a.1767.0", "colnum": "1767", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether my right hon. Friend has anything to tell the House in relation to statements made by Members of the House under the cloak of privilege? Alternatively, does he have a statement to make about arranging a debate about the statement that was made by the hon. Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Rooker), which has not been retracted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-03a.1767.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-03", "file": "debates1980-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6e863b6351d863ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-03a.1771.3", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I propose to call those hon. Members who have been rising in their places. Mr. Eric Heffer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-03a.1771.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-07-03", "file": "debates1980-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6e863b6351d863ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-03a.1771.5", "colnum": "1771", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Obviously favouritism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-03a.1771.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-03", "file": "debates1980-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6e863b6351d863ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-03a.1891.0", "colnum": "1891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT, PLANNING AND LAND (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Where are Liberal Members now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "class areas of the country when the ladder-and-barrow merchants have come in. The condition of some of the buildings was better before the cowboys touched them. People have said to me \"Our buildings were marvellous before the cowboys came in to modernise them. Look at them now.\" The cowboys were not proper craftsmen. That is happening in Liverpool, where the Liberal council is undermining the DLO.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-03a.1891.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-03", "file": "debates1980-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6e863b6351d863ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-03a.1900.0", "colnum": "1900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT, PLANNING AND LAND (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "e—a glorified employment office. But that is not the purpose of a direct labour organisation, and it is nonsense for anyone to suggest that any council should have an organisation that is set up regardless of the costs that it is likely to involve itself in. The hon. Gentleman talked about training apprentices. Is he not aware that private builders are possibly the biggest trainers of apprentices?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-03a.1900.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-03", "file": "debates1980-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6e863b6351d863ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-03a.1902.0", "colnum": "1902", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT, PLANNING AND LAND (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reg Race", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reg Race", "preceding_text": "uilding industry in our present economic situation is low. The private sector has to get its hands on the maximum amount of profitable work that is available when the Government are cutting public expenditure as they are. Therefore, they have to take away from the public sector a substantial slice of its business to maintain the profits of Costain, Wimpey, and the other large building contractors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-03a.1902.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-03", "file": "debates1980-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "6e863b6351d863ed", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-03a.1921.0", "colnum": "1921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT, PLANNING AND LAND (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crowther", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crowther", "preceding_text": "ng emasculated by the Government. Local government has fallen into the hands of its most implacable enemy. The Secretary of State does not understand the concept of local democracy. I am sorry that he has paid so little attention to our debates today. He has made a few fleeting visits to the Government Front Bench, but he has spent very little time defending these outrageous proposals in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-03a.1921.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-07", "file": "debates1980-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "ff43c991e580609d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-07a.206.2", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Schedule 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "ate levels in the country—may be a deterrent to business and may actively work against that priority? I went to Newcastle once a fortnight for 20 years before I became a Minister, and I know something of the problems of Newcastle and of its industry. May it not be that industry and commerce, which will provide the productive jobs that hon. Members say are desperately needed, will set up elsewhere?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-07a.206.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-08", "file": "debates1980-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "18892314c65dfe58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-08a.274.0", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT, PLANNING AND LAND (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "rs, who are greatly interested in local government. We all remember what happened at Clay Cross. The Government cannot make people do good, bad or indifferent things if those people believe that it is wrong and the Government are being unfair and unkind. Whatever laws are passed and whatever proposals are put forward—\"In Place of Strife\" or whatever else—they all mean nothing without co-operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-08a.274.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-08", "file": "debates1980-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "18892314c65dfe58", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-08a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "AMENDMENTS RELATING TO COMPULSORY ACQUISITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "ng this matter. I entirely agree with what they have had to say about the nature of the clause as it stands. We ought to contemplate for a moment the process by which legislation is prepared in such a way that a clause of this kind can be put into a Bill and go right through the Committee stage and be closely looked at, as far as I can see, by my two hon. Friends only at this late stage on Report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-08a.464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-09", "file": "debates1980-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "73f3688a01ee32fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-09a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "preceding_text": "In that context, does my right hon. Friend agree that the STEP programme is important?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-09a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-09", "file": "debates1980-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "73f3688a01ee32fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-09a.540.2", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend acknowledge that the people of Scotland want more effective and more efficient government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-09a.540.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-07-09", "file": "debates1980-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "73f3688a01ee32fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-09a.545.7", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. and learned Friend for that reply. Will he be surprised to know that I have in my hand a letter from the Tayside police which states \"The Crown Office states\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-09a.545.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-09", "file": "debates1980-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "73f3688a01ee32fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-09a.545.10", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "preceding_text": "With respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-09a.545.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-09", "file": "debates1980-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "73f3688a01ee32fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-09a.668.0", "colnum": "668", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (GOVERNMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Dunlop", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"1690.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Dunlop", "preceding_text": "is debate but in regard to former debates on this problem. I refer to the term \"power sharing\". The alliance Party usually uses the word \"partnership\". Mr. William Craig, the former right hon. Member for Belfast, East, called it \"voluntary coalition\". But essentially it is power sharing. At the risk of boring the House, I want to go back to 1974. Some hon. Members have gone back further than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-09a.668.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-09", "file": "debates1980-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "73f3688a01ee32fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-09a.668.0", "colnum": "668", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (GOVERNMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Dunlop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Dunlop", "preceding_text": "ated with him in the Rhodesian settlement have brought about British democratic practice in Rhodesia. This democratic process has taken place with great effort and with considerable diplomatic pressure by the United States. As a result, the people have elected as their leader and Prime Minister a blood-thirsty, murdering thug who is guilty of the most appalling crimes against both black and white.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-09a.668.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-09", "file": "debates1980-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "73f3688a01ee32fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-09a.672.3", "colnum": "672", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (GOVERNMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunlop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunlop", "preceding_text": "In that case, the thing to do would be to sack the Chief Constable and appoint someone who will ensure that he has decent policemen around him in Northern Ireland. Then the hon. Gentleman criticised the Director of Public Prosecutions because he had not prosecuted in every case that was brought before him. I suppose that the thing to do would be to sack the DPP and get another one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-09a.672.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-09", "file": "debates1980-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "73f3688a01ee32fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-09a.688.0", "colnum": "688", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (GOVERNMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "cient to be negative. Here I part company with many of my colleagues, and I must not pretend otherwise. From a succession of visits to Northern Ireland since 1973, it appears to some of us that with all the difficulties and dangers of which we can be aware there is an argument for giving back to Northern Ireland some kind of healthy local government. I mean by this local government in small units.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-09a.688.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-09", "file": "debates1980-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "73f3688a01ee32fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-09a.688.0", "colnum": "688", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (GOVERNMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "rst. It may create great difficulties in certain places. In his opening speech the Secretary of State talked about the burden on the Northern Ireland Members of Parliament. They get involved in many things in which most hon. Members elsewhere would probably prefer not to be involved. That certainly applies to me in my own constituency. But it is not only that; it is the health of the body politic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-09a.688.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-09", "file": "debates1980-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "73f3688a01ee32fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-09a.688.0", "colnum": "688", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (GOVERNMENT)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "hear.\"] It is important that the local government units should be small ones. But there is one qualification, to which I do not think there will be many \"Hear, hears\". There is a nettle that has to be grasped. We should say that money for schools above the 56 per cent. of the revenue raised in Northern Ireland should be forthcoming only if a fairly rapid plan of integration of schools is produced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-09a.688.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-10", "file": "debates1980-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "002b6e32f469208d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dodging.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is asking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-10", "file": "debates1980-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "002b6e32f469208d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is asking—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Dodging.\"] I do not dodge the issue. I remember very well the right hon. Gentleman saying that one cannot spend one's way out of inflation. He is asking us to do precisely that by printing more money or borrowing more money and putting up the interest rate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-10", "file": "debates1980-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "002b6e32f469208d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.752.2", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is difficult for me to hear what the Prime Minister is saying.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.752.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-10", "file": "debates1980-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "002b6e32f469208d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.753.5", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it not contempt of the House for proceedings of a Select Committee to be disclosed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.753.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-10", "file": "debates1980-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "002b6e32f469208d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.763.0", "colnum": "763", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"In July?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "With respect, the Leader of the House has not answered the question. A normal review is going on. I have known many years when statements have been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.763.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-07-10", "file": "debates1980-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "002b6e32f469208d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.794.3", "colnum": "794", "heading": "INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "Give way to the Secretary of State for Industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.794.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-10", "file": "debates1980-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "002b6e32f469208d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "is even a 1 per cent. alteration from those employed in manufacturing industry to those employed in other sectors, there will be a considerable net loss of jobs—about 70,000 jobs for every 1 per cent. switch in the ratio. If that happens, the tragedy is that the job loss will be felt most in Northern regions, the regions of difficulty, while the glittering new jobs—many new jobs are being created—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-10", "file": "debates1980-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "002b6e32f469208d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.809.2", "colnum": "809", "heading": "INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "hree methods of doing this. The first is to raise unemployment. The second is to legislate to make trade union organisation as difficult as possible, if not impossible. The third is by the mass of propaganda, poured out with the help of Fleet Street—and, alas, the BBC, which fails daily in its charter obligations by not giving a balanced view of the interests of labour as against those of capital—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.809.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-10", "file": "debates1980-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "002b6e32f469208d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.841.1", "colnum": "841", "heading": "INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "I say with great respect to my hon. Friend that that is not true. The Germans, the Japanese and the Swiss have over the past 10 years consistently held down their exchange rates by intervening in the open market. None of them has had external outgoing exchange controls. On occasions they have played around with incoming exchange controls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-10", "file": "debates1980-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "002b6e32f469208d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.848.1", "colnum": "848", "heading": "INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is the hon. Gentleman in favour or not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "I must admit that at one time I felt that the Chancellor might well be attracted by a windfall profits tax on banks. He has resisted it this time. From the debate this evening, a warning should at least percolate from the House to the Big Five—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.848.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-10", "file": "debates1980-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "002b6e32f469208d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.849.1", "colnum": "849", "heading": "INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Escort\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": " put forward the proposals on enterprise zones, especially the need for small workshop areas at a time when we are desperately trying through the Budget to redirect investment money. All of us must ensure that at the critical stage when there is an upturn the industry exists to support it. I should like to refer to the so-called British car industry. We all know that Spain produces the small Ford—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.849.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-10", "file": "debates1980-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "002b6e32f469208d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.865.2", "colnum": "865", "heading": "INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Body", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Body", "preceding_text": "Yes—wish to have. There is no compulsion on me to buy a foreign car. It so happens that, being a good European, as several hon. Members may know I am, I prefer to buy a French car. I regret to say that it is a better car than many manufactured in this country. I regret my decision, but I have made it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.865.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-10", "file": "debates1980-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "002b6e32f469208d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.865.2", "colnum": "865", "heading": "INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Body", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Body", "preceding_text": "t so many people may make such purchases, it is a very different thing—I do not think that this is appreciated on the Opposition Benches—to call for import controls, which are a direct onslaught on the freedom of the British people to buy what they wish to have. An import into Britain—not an enemy missile here to attack us—is something which is willed to come here by the consumers of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.865.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-10", "file": "debates1980-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "002b6e32f469208d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.877.1", "colnum": "877", "heading": "INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": " the real value.\" The answer is simple. If interest rates were cut, the value of the pound would come down, which would make our goods much more competitive instead of having to fight like they are. My hon. Friend the Member for Ormskirk mentioned ICI as a company which is doing extremely well. But even chemical firms are finding difficulty at present in selling abroad, because they are competing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.877.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-10", "file": "debates1980-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "002b6e32f469208d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.884.0", "colnum": "884", "heading": "INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And fishing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "try. If that sort of society is what the Government mean by the words in their amendment— providing a sound basis for sustainable economic and industrial recovery\"— we reject it utterly. We reject it not only because it is wrong, but because we can see what the future holds. What will happen when steel, motor cars, shipbuilding, textiles and all the industries have ceased to exist in this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.884.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-10", "file": "debates1980-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "002b6e32f469208d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.885.4", "colnum": "885", "heading": "INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": " all the other purposes, as well as abating inflation, which he thought the Government must seek to serve. I can only tell him that those precise purposes which he listed are those which the Government constantly seek to reconcile with the overriding priority of abating inflation. Indeed, we are always seeking the optimum combination of public purposes. The right hon. Member for Leeds, South-West—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.885.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-10", "file": "debates1980-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "002b6e32f469208d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.888.7", "colnum": "888", "heading": "INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"You\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "My evidence for that statement comes from last week's editorial in the New Statesman . The New Statesman argues that the present problems of manufacturing industry have been precipitated but not caused by the Government, given the rise in oil prices, inflation and the recession. What has caused the decline in British manufacturing industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.888.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-10", "file": "debates1980-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "002b6e32f469208d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.892.0", "colnum": "892", "heading": "INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": " Member for Nelson and Colne (Mr. Lee) said. Some skilled men and managers will be snapped up by an expanding company if they are released from another company. As inflation and interest rates fall—and they will fall—so, happily, we shall find the pressures reducing. Destocking will come to an end as stocks are adjusted to the lower level of demand. Savings will decrease, and demand will increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.892.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-10", "file": "debates1980-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "002b6e32f469208d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.892.7", "colnum": "892", "heading": "INDUSTRY (GOVERNMENT POLICIES)", "cue_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir K. Joseph", "preceding_text": "This country has been famous in history for the character and adaptability of its people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.892.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-10", "file": "debates1980-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "002b6e32f469208d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.903.6", "colnum": "903", "heading": "UNIVERSITY FEES (HONG KONG STUDENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Paul Bryan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Paul Bryan", "preceding_text": "show directly in their perforence for trading with this country. It will be very difficult for the people of Hong Kong to accept protestations of support from Britain when they see that students from overseas territories of the major EEC countries are treated in Britain on a par with British students while students from Hong Kong, a British overseas territory, are treated in Britain as foreigners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.903.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-10", "file": "debates1980-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "002b6e32f469208d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.907.0", "colnum": "907", "heading": "UNIVERSITY FEES (HONG KONG STUDENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Rowlands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Rowlands", "preceding_text": "anyone believe that we should discriminate against students from Hong Kong, the British Virgin Islands or the remaining dependent territories, of which there are 17 in all, Hong Kong being the largest, when students from French overseas territories are entitled under the EEC rules to study here on the same basis as other EEC students? Will the Minister explain the so-called logic of that argument?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-10a.907.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1030.1", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, if I were to abide by your ruling I would say \"Yes\", and sit down, but the answer to the right hon. Gentleman's first question is \"Yes\". Secondly, the Lord Privy Seal was entertained by Nissan to what I understand was an excellent lunch.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1030.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS (SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "The one point that the right hon. Gentleman ignores from beginning to end of his questions is that my statement was an agreed statement—agreed between me and the chairman of the British Railways Board and his col leagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1057.2", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS (SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "Are not the ritual noises from across the Chamber an insult to the intelligence and integrity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1057.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1057.3", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "BRITISH RAILWAYS (SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We will not hear either the questions or the answers unless—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1057.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1076.3", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Scared.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "I shall not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1076.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1077.0", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": " is the best he can do. What is frightening is that the Government have now begun to delude themselves—and the press that supports them—that their policies are actually working. Ministerial offices in Whitehall and editorial suites in Fleet Street are now the scenes of a mass orgy of self-hypnotism. Glory be, we are told, the inflation rate will come down perhaps in October to 16½ per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1077.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1083.2", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "any right to hawk their social consciences around the House this afternoon. The right hon. Gentleman tries to make out that Conservative Members regard unemployment as a joke and that we laugh about it, but let me tell him that we in the Conservative Government have a better record on unemployment than the Labour Party has. It is because we believe that we must create the real jobs in the economy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1083.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "t them to play in the provision of risk capital. The role of the financial institutions over the MG affair illustrates the wetness, shortsightedness and unadventurous attitude of many of our financial institutions. At the moment they are stuffed full of money, but they will not take the slightest risk of promoting British industrial investment when they are suposed to be providers of risk capital.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1126.1", "colnum": "1126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is still intervening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1126.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1130.1", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "preceding_text": "I wish that my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) would sometimes allow me to say what I want to say. I do not agree with everything that my hon. Friend says, nor do I interrupt him all the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1130.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1177.3", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Paymaster General (Mr. Angus Maude)", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1177.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1178.3", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's party was in government for five years, and look what happened then. The right hon. Member for Salford, West said that the Government can do something and that they must do something. That is not what the Leader of the Opposition said when he was Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1178.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1178.3", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "Front Bench in particular, are in one respect like the Bourbons. They have learnt nothing, but unlike the Bourbons they have forgotten everything that happened when they were the Government. The policies which they are now trying to suggest to us, when they do, are precisely the policies which they know failed when they were in office. When he was Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1178.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1178.3", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "they are now trying to suggest to us, when they do, are precisely the policies which they know failed when they were in office. When he was Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition said—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"] Why should I not quote what the Leader of the Opposition said? He has his name on this motion criticising the present Government. Let us see what he had to say when he was responsible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1178.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1181.4", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is clear that the Minister is not giving way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1181.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1181.6", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Salford, West did not give way. He seemed to think that he had good reason. I have more to say then he.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1181.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1181.6", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "ing on a training course disqualifies a person from benefit. That depends on the degree of involvement in the course. If it is a part-time or day-to-day course, it would not, because the trainee would be considered to be available for work. If it was a full-time or residential course, and obviously to complete it the trainee could not be available for work, a grant will be substituted for benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1181.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1181.6", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "ar too many young people. Part of the problem is the legacy which we were left by the previous Government, although the main problem is the conquest of inflation, which is what the Government amendment specifies. When Labour Members were in government and more than doubled unemployment, they knew that they had to do something to get inflation down, and under the guidance of the IMF they succeeded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1181.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1184.0", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "that we get reasonable value for money for the best service and products. I repeat that the Opposition's proposals, which amount to no more than pouring more borrowed money into the economy, will not provide lasting, well-paid jobs. Our aim is to get inflation out of the economy so that we can begin to create jobs. There are already signs that people are ready to invest where skills are available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1184.0", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "n to create jobs. There are already signs that people are ready to invest where skills are available—[ Interruption. ] If Labour Members do not wish to hear what I am saying, it shows how incurably light-hearted they are about the problem. If Labour Members really want to keep inflation at its present level—it was a lot higher at one time under the previous Government, and we did not put it there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1184.0", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": " present level—it was a lot higher at one time under the previous Government, and we did not put it there—[ Interruption. ] The myth on the Labour Benches that it is possible to absorb the enormous world increase in oil prices without some fall in living standards has been responsible for half the nonsense that Labour Members talk. We are determined, in the interests of the people of this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1184.0", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "e time under the previous Government, and we did not put it there—[ Interruption. ] The myth on the Labour Benches that it is possible to absorb the enormous world increase in oil prices without some fall in living standards has been responsible for half the nonsense that Labour Members talk. We are determined, in the interests of the people of this country—[ Interruption. ]—to get inflation down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1184.0", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "into our industry and no creation of lasting jobs—I can only say that that does not show the kind of intelligence or compassion on which they pride themselves. What compassion does it show to the old-age pensioners and the retired to recommend policies which Labour Members know will create high inflation and make life difficult for the poor, the disadvantaged and the weak? What sort of compassion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1184.0", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": " or compassion on which they pride themselves. What compassion does it show to the old-age pensioners and the retired to recommend policies which Labour Members know will create high inflation and make life difficult for the poor, the disadvantaged and the weak? What sort of compassion—[ Interruption. ] Perhaps Labour Members will try to listen for one minute. What sort of compassion does it show—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1184.0", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "ssion does it show to the old-age pensioners and the retired to recommend policies which Labour Members know will create high inflation and make life difficult for the poor, the disadvantaged and the weak? What sort of compassion—[ Interruption. ] Perhaps Labour Members will try to listen for one minute. What sort of compassion does it show—[ Interruption. ]—towards the unemployed to make certain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1184.0", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "d to recommend policies which Labour Members know will create high inflation and make life difficult for the poor, the disadvantaged and the weak? What sort of compassion—[ Interruption. ] Perhaps Labour Members will try to listen for one minute. What sort of compassion does it show—[ Interruption. ]—towards the unemployed to make certain—[ Interruption. ] For a party which claims to be concerned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1184.0", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "t sort of compassion—[ Interruption. ] Perhaps Labour Members will try to listen for one minute. What sort of compassion does it show—[ Interruption. ]—towards the unemployed to make certain—[ Interruption. ] For a party which claims to be concerned—[ Interruption. ] For a party which throughout the debate has been producing emotional pleas on behalf of constituents, its performance tonight shows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1184.0", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maude", "preceding_text": "n—[ Interruption. ] For a party which claims to be concerned—[ Interruption. ] For a party which throughout the debate has been producing emotional pleas on behalf of constituents, its performance tonight shows—[ Interruption. ] If Labour Members really cared for the unemployed in their constituencies they would be doing something to support the Government in their efforts to get rid of inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1184.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1186.0", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "before and which they know have failed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1186.0", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "before and which they know have failed—[ Interruption. ] If they have no alternatives to the policies which were rejected by the electorate last May, they are quite clearly unfit to govern this country again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1186.0", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "before and which they know have failed—[ Interruption. ] If they have no alternatives to the policies which were rejected by the electorate last May, they are quite clearly unfit to govern this country again. [ Interruption. ] As for their talk of wanting a general election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-14", "file": "debates1980-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "82a59a55c1f6e2e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1186.0", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " have failed—[ Interruption. ] If they have no alternatives to the policies which were rejected by the electorate last May, they are quite clearly unfit to govern this country again. [ Interruption. ] As for their talk of wanting a general election—[ Interruption ]—they must know perfectly well that they could not win one now if they tried. All the indications are that they would lose an election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-14a.1186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-15", "file": "debates1980-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9dd7ccb5a6614a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1215.4", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "The question that I was about to ask the Minister has just been asked by the hon. Member for Ruislip-Northwood (Mr. Wilkinson).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1215.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-15", "file": "debates1980-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9dd7ccb5a6614a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1219.3", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On their own.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "I think that is less than fair to the French, who make a substantial effort in regard to defence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1219.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-15", "file": "debates1980-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9dd7ccb5a6614a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1231.4", "colnum": "1231", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We had a debate on the nuclear deterrent in January. That was the first debate that we have had in this House on that subject that I remember. The right hon. Gentleman will remember his own reticence on Chevaline.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1231.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-15", "file": "debates1980-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9dd7ccb5a6614a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister expect the 50,000 redundant workers or the 15,000 out-of-work steel-men, or even the hundreds of bankrupt business men—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-15", "file": "debates1980-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9dd7ccb5a6614a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister expect the 50,000 redundant workers or the 15,000 out-of-work steel-men, or even the hundreds of bankrupt business men—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] Of course I am reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-15", "file": "debates1980-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9dd7ccb5a6614a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1232.3", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "ed Wales to such an extent that we have great difficulty in remembering all the things that they have done in 14 months. Does the Prime Minister expect to have the welcome that we normally afford to Prime Ministers or members of Governments when she comes to Wales on Saturday, having devastated the steel industry, created 50,000 redundant workers, and hit the unemployed, the sick and the homeless?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1232.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-15", "file": "debates1980-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9dd7ccb5a6614a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1232.3", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "hey have done in 14 months. Does the Prime Minister expect to have the welcome that we normally afford to Prime Ministers or members of Governments when she comes to Wales on Saturday, having devastated the steel industry, created 50,000 redundant workers, and hit the unemployed, the sick and the homeless? [ Interruption. ] In view of all those things, does she really expect a welcome on Saturday?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1232.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-15", "file": "debates1980-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9dd7ccb5a6614a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1232.3", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "ister expect to have the welcome that we normally afford to Prime Ministers or members of Governments when she comes to Wales on Saturday, having devastated the steel industry, created 50,000 redundant workers, and hit the unemployed, the sick and the homeless? [ Interruption. ] In view of all those things, does she really expect a welcome on Saturday? [ Interruption. ] Would it not be far better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1232.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-15", "file": "debates1980-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9dd7ccb5a6614a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1232.5", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "a Tory Party conference in Ebbw Vale, soon after the shutdown of some of the steelworks in Ebbw Vale had been announced by the previous Government. We realised that it was necessary to try to get the steel firms into a better competitive position. There is still a need to do so. I hope that when I go to Wales the people will realise that the Government have done a great deal to show their concern—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1232.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-15", "file": "debates1980-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9dd7ccb5a6614a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1245.0", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "STRATEGIC NUCLEAR DETERRENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that despite the euphoria that has been shown on the Conservative Benches and in some parts of my side of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1245.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-15", "file": "debates1980-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9dd7ccb5a6614a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1245.0", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "STRATEGIC NUCLEAR DETERRENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that despite the euphoria that has been shown on the Conservative Benches and in some parts of my side of the House—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"]—there were one or two—there will be mililons of people in this country and in other parts of the world who will be in utter despair—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1245.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-15", "file": "debates1980-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9dd7ccb5a6614a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1254.4", "colnum": "1254", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT, PLANNING AND LAND (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Guy Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Guy Barnett", "preceding_text": "h have been made have tended to be made above the valuations which have been put upon the properties.\"—[ Official Report, Standing Committee D, 29 April 1980; c. 618.] For a moment many of us were persuaded by that remark, but the more one thinks about it the odder one finds it. Who put those valuations on the properties? Whoever made those valuations must have seriously underestimated the values.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1254.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-15", "file": "debates1980-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9dd7ccb5a6614a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1267.0", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT, PLANNING AND LAND (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When will that be?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "eir possession at that time, even though it will be needed for socially important developments by the new towns or their local authorities. Those developers had better not expect that they can then sell back the land to a new town, its local authority or to the Government at a massive profit. At least, they had better not expect that they will be able to do so when a Labour Government are elected—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-15", "file": "debates1980-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9dd7ccb5a6614a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1279.0", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT, PLANNING AND LAND (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "preceding_text": "nd generation of new towns, as well as doing that, concentrated on growth centres for industry in development areas. The third generation of new towns was more concerned with the stimulation of economic growth in the context of regional strategies. In the Bill, we are introducing a new dimension to the concept of new towns. We make no apology for doing that. We made no apology for it in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1279.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-15", "file": "debates1980-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "d9dd7ccb5a6614a6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1352.0", "colnum": "1352", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 156", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "We have now arrived, unawares so to speak, at a whole new and important topic—that of the enterprise zones. One might almost have read the Bill, so deftly is it drafted, and not have noticed that the enterprise zones were in it at all. They occupy of the text of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-15a.1352.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-16", "file": "debates1980-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1fc73db1911da0f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-16a.1470.2", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions —", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Lamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Lamond", "preceding_text": "I am the vice-president of the World Peace Council. That is no secret. Hon. Members will find that it is revealed in the Register of Members' Interests. Indeed, they can discover that fact in any reference book that they choose to consult. I am proud to let it be placed on record that I hold that position. Perhaps I may say a few words about the World Peace Council. I shall not speak for too long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-16a.1470.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-16", "file": "debates1980-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1fc73db1911da0f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-16a.1470.4", "colnum": "1470", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions —", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamond", "preceding_text": "ker, for your consideration. If I thought for one moment that the World Peace Council could be described in such a way, I would resign immediately. The World Peace Council has its headquarters in Helsinki. Its executive secretary is a member of the Australian Labour Party. It is financed by contributions from members throughout the world, including myself. None of the money comes from Governments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-16a.1470.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-16", "file": "debates1980-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1fc73db1911da0f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-16a.1471.2", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions —", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that we had better move on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-16a.1471.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-16", "file": "debates1980-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1fc73db1911da0f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-16a.1471.2", "colnum": "1471", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions —", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that we had better move on. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".] Order. It is not for me to call upon the Minister to withdraw his remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-16a.1471.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-16", "file": "debates1980-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1fc73db1911da0f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-16a.1494.1", "colnum": "1494", "heading": "POSTAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "ed, make appropriate relaxations of the monopoly. In addition, the Government will seek to amend the law relating to the Post Office letter monopoly in order to provide powers for the Secretary of State to make further relaxation in respect of certain categories of mail. Moreover, we shall seek powers to remove the monopoly, either in a local area or nationally. These powers will rest in my hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-16a.1494.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-07-16", "file": "debates1980-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1fc73db1911da0f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-16a.1573.1", "colnum": "1573", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Durant", "preceding_text": ". He seemed rather to be shutting the door, and that causes me concern and disappointment. I fully accept his point about the technical nature of the clause and the point that it would not entirely achieve what I am seeking. Therefore, on those grounds I feel that I ought to withdraw the motion. I am sorry that the reply was not as helpful as I had hoped. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-16a.1573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-16", "file": "debates1980-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1fc73db1911da0f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-16a.1618.0", "colnum": "1618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend the Member for Uxbridge (Mr. Loveridge) moved the new clause with his customary moderation and grasp of the commercial realities of the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-16a.1618.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-16", "file": "debates1980-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1fc73db1911da0f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-16a.1638.1", "colnum": "1638", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " been happening to profitability. I hope I have the support of Labour Members for profitability over the next 25 years. 10.30 pm It is a great illusion to assume that the only form of corporate taxation is the corporation tax. There are many other taxes that fall on companies, not least local government rates, which for many companies is a very real tax and a more serious tax than corporation tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-16a.1638.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-16", "file": "debates1980-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1fc73db1911da0f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-16a.1640.0", "colnum": "1640", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has an obsession with the events of 1973–74 and seems incapable of living in the world of today or thinking in any other terms. I was asked what addition there would be to the PSBR if these amendments were accepted—a course that I shall not advise the House to take. There would be an increase in the PSBR of the order of £½ billion this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-16a.1640.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-16", "file": "debates1980-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1fc73db1911da0f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-16a.1657.3", "colnum": "1657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "We want the register to be introduced. If my hon. Friends feel that the register would be no use, we want that problem dealt with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-16a.1657.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-16", "file": "debates1980-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1fc73db1911da0f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-16a.1658.0", "colnum": "1658", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Marshall", "preceding_text": "If I have sensed the feeling of the House correctly, it is that hon. Members wish to make rapid progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-16a.1658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-16", "file": "debates1980-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1fc73db1911da0f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-16a.1688.0", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "preceding_text": "sly abused by the Commission, and the Commission needs to be told in no uncertain terms that it is in future to stick to what article 100 says and not to stretch it. That is a point really rather separate from and independent of the argument whether we should have a common summer time changing basis. The Minister of State smiles, but there is only one reason why this proposal is before us tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-16a.1688.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-16", "file": "debates1980-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "1fc73db1911da0f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-16a.1688.0", "colnum": "1688", "heading": "Orders of the Day — FINANCE (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "preceding_text": "o make a statement to the effect that they are not prepared to have the changeover at any time on Easter Sunday or later. Then there is the question of the time of day that the change is effected. It is the difference between 1 am and 2 am. We in our traditional legislation adopted 2 am because that was the deadest part of the wee hours. By adopting 1 am we come into a slightly more active period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-16a.1688.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-17", "file": "debates1980-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fd9370d13e6ed769", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-17a.1732.1", "colnum": "1732", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "in the Common Market, the British trawling industry has had havoc wreaked upon it, with the result that a fortnight ago a statement was made that there was a \"For sale\" notice on nearly every trawler in the British fleet, including the one that the Prime Minister launched a couple of years ago, the \"Boston Sea Stallion\", which is now losing £2,000 a trip? So much for Tory expertise and efficiency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-17a.1732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-17", "file": "debates1980-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fd9370d13e6ed769", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-17a.1749.8", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that the two are not the same? Does he not accept that if he had studied the history of the CAP he would have realised that the principles are distinct from the objectives? The principles were enunciated at the Stresa conference and in a resolution of the Council in 1960. Those principles included market unity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-17a.1749.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-17", "file": "debates1980-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fd9370d13e6ed769", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-17a.1749.8", "colnum": "1749", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "he same? Does he not accept that if he had studied the history of the CAP he would have realised that the principles are distinct from the objectives? The principles were enunciated at the Stresa conference and in a resolution of the Council in 1960. Those principles included market unity—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] I am not reading. As the police say, I am just refreshing my memory. They included—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-17a.1749.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-17", "file": "debates1980-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fd9370d13e6ed769", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-17a.1753.2", "colnum": "1753", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This matter is still being considered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-17a.1753.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-17", "file": "debates1980-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fd9370d13e6ed769", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-17a.1908.0", "colnum": "1908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTTISH SPECIAL HOUSING ASSOCIATION (MODERNISATION SCHEMES)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Malcolm Rifkind)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Malcolm Rifkind)", "preceding_text": "his morning. No firm decisions have yet been reached on the allocations for any year after the current year. As the SSHA itself has indicated in the article to which the right hon. Gentleman referred. it has been advised for its planning purposes that it would be sensible to contemplate a possible reduction proportionate to the overall reduction in housing expenditure announced in the White Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-17a.1908.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-17", "file": "debates1980-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fd9370d13e6ed769", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-17a.1909.1", "colnum": "1909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTTISH SPECIAL HOUSING ASSOCIATION (MODERNISATION SCHEMES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I had assumed that the right hon. Gentleman had read the White Paper. He will therefore be aware that it shows the global sums available for housing expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-17a.1909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-17", "file": "debates1980-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "fd9370d13e6ed769", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-17a.1909.1", "colnum": "1909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCOTTISH SPECIAL HOUSING ASSOCIATION (MODERNISATION SCHEMES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I had assumed that the right hon. Gentleman had read the White Paper. He will therefore be aware that it shows the global sums available for housing expenditure. [ Interruption. ] Will the right hon. Gentleman please stop mumbling. I gave way to him, and he could at least have the decency to remain quiet while I answer his question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-17a.1909.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-18", "file": "debates1980-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "fcb02bbaaa2730f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-18a.1948.0", "colnum": "1948", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": " No doubt the hon. Member for Down, North (Mr. Kilfedder) will want to comment on this matter. I have already told the Minister in private that the fishermen are being harassed. A number of them have been arrested and taken to Campbeltown. They tell me that, although they were surrounded by Scottish boats, the Scottish boats were left to fish on while they were picked out and taken to Campbeltown.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-18a.1948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-21", "file": "debates1980-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b172cd4522c9503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.9.5", "colnum": "9", "heading": "ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Good answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.9.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-21", "file": "debates1980-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b172cd4522c9503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.44.2", "colnum": "44", "heading": "PUBLIC SECTOR INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Now there is some question whether we shall be able to hold to 15 million tonnes. Sir Monty Finniston put it down to marketing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.44.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-21", "file": "debates1980-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b172cd4522c9503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.68.3", "colnum": "68", "heading": "PUBLIC SECTOR INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Burden", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What was the measurement?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Burden", "preceding_text": " Times contained a report—as I am sure the hon. Member for Vauxhall (Mr. Holland) will be interested to know—in the summer of 1975 that compared the performances of European industries. The values were converted to the existing exchange rates. It is little wonder that Britain was at the bottom in every case. Germany was top in steel, and Britain was bottom. That was in terms of production per man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.68.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-21", "file": "debates1980-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b172cd4522c9503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "PUBLIC SECTOR INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Burden", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"On what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Burden", "preceding_text": "No. I am sorry, but I have quite a lot to say. The National Coal Board was at the bottom of the list with regard to coal. The Netherlands was top with regard to railways, and British Rail was bottom. The same sorry story applies to the National Bus Corporation. It was second from the bottom, and, not surprisingly, London Transport was bottom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-21", "file": "debates1980-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b172cd4522c9503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "PUBLIC SECTOR INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Burden", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What does that mean?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Burden", "preceding_text": ". I am sorry, but I have quite a lot to say. The National Coal Board was at the bottom of the list with regard to coal. The Netherlands was top with regard to railways, and British Rail was bottom. The same sorry story applies to the National Bus Corporation. It was second from the bottom, and, not surprisingly, London Transport was bottom—[Hon. Members: \"On what?\"] On production per unit per man—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-21", "file": "debates1980-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b172cd4522c9503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.73.0", "colnum": "73", "heading": "PUBLIC SECTOR INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Sir F. Burden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir F. Burden", "preceding_text": " gave to the Labour Government on their handling of the nationalised industries in future. I suggest that the IMF told them to look at them objectively and to evaluate cost accountability. If Opposition Members doubt the critical financial situation that arose, why did the Labour Government go to the IMF? Why were they unable even to pay old age pensioners their Christmas bonuses in 1975 and 1976—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.73.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-21", "file": "debates1980-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b172cd4522c9503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.94.1", "colnum": "94", "heading": "PUBLIC SECTOR INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "An Hon. Member: \"It has been starved of investment capital.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": "The evidence is all around us. The private groups have built modern and profitable hotels while British Rail has built only one new hotel since the war. It has made a profit of only £ 328,000 from 39 hotels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.94.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-07-21", "file": "debates1980-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b172cd4522c9503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "PUBLIC SECTOR INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.159.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-07-21", "file": "debates1980-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b172cd4522c9503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.159.10", "colnum": "159", "heading": "PUBLIC SECTOR INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "Mr. Fowler rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.159.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-07-21", "file": "debates1980-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b172cd4522c9503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.162.3", "colnum": "162", "heading": "MEMBERS' SALARIES AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Moate", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. As the arguments on the subject are not unfamiliar to both sides of the House, would it be in order to suggest that we take the votes now and have the debate afterwards?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.162.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-21", "file": "debates1980-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b172cd4522c9503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.164.3", "colnum": "164", "heading": "MEMBERS' SALARIES AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "Is the situation not simply that the Prime Minister and the right hon. Gentleman are abusing the devotion and concern to their parliamentary duties of Opposition Members, because, as he is well aware, most of those on his Back Benches have a multiplicity of directorships, which remove them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-21", "file": "debates1980-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b172cd4522c9503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.164.3", "colnum": "164", "heading": "MEMBERS' SALARIES AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "Is the situation not simply that the Prime Minister and the right hon. Gentleman are abusing the devotion and concern to their parliamentary duties of Opposition Members, because, as he is well aware, most of those on his Back Benches have a multiplicity of directorships, which remove them—[ Interruption. ]—from dependence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-21", "file": "debates1980-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b172cd4522c9503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.164.4", "colnum": "164", "heading": "MEMBERS' SALARIES AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I regret that the hon. Member has injected that somewhat partisan note into the debate. This is a matter which concerns—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.164.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-21", "file": "debates1980-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b172cd4522c9503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.167.1", "colnum": "167", "heading": "MEMBERS' SALARIES AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "a resolution made by the House on 11 July 1979, which still stands. An amendment on the Order Paper seeks to increase the rate of pay for pension purposes. The Government strongly urge its rejection on these grounds; to accept it would place Members of this House in the invidious position of treating themselves more generously than senior members of the Civil Service and the other public services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.167.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-07-21", "file": "debates1980-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b172cd4522c9503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.169.3", "colnum": "169", "heading": "MEMBERS' SALARIES AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "Mr. Higgins rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.169.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-21", "file": "debates1980-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b172cd4522c9503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.169.4", "colnum": "169", "heading": "MEMBERS' SALARIES AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I have given way a great deal, and I must press on. The fourth motion", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.169.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-21", "file": "debates1980-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b172cd4522c9503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.173.4", "colnum": "173", "heading": "MEMBERS' SALARIES AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes, they did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is overlooking some aspects of the point raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Sutton (Mr. Clark). He referred to the services to enable hon. Members to do their job. However, in 1964 hon. Members did not receive a petrol allowance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.173.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-21", "file": "debates1980-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b172cd4522c9503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.173.4", "colnum": "173", "heading": "MEMBERS' SALARIES AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": " However, in 1964 hon. Members did not receive a petrol allowance. [Hon. Members: \"Yes, they did.\"] They did not receive a petrol allowance in their constituencies, or a living away allowance. We have to consider that we are determining what tax the remainder of the community should pay. We should bear in mind the fact that we do not enhance our authority in making those choices if the proportion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.173.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-21", "file": "debates1980-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b172cd4522c9503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "MEMBERS' SALARIES AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward da Cann", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward da Cann", "preceding_text": "peat, that there is no doubt, as the Governor of the Bank of England was remarking upstairs this evening to the Select Committee on the Treasury and Civil Service, that we are in a recession, and, of course, my right hon. Friend is right—the spotlight is on Members of Parliament. So perhaps only one course is open to us today. I certainly would not vote for the Boyle recommendation at this moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-21", "file": "debates1980-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b172cd4522c9503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.188.1", "colnum": "188", "heading": "MEMBERS' SALARIES AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Hugh Dykes. (Hon. Members: \"Vote.\"] Order. It is very difficult for me to ascertain whether it is the will of the House that the Question be put.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.188.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-21", "file": "debates1980-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b172cd4522c9503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.188.4", "colnum": "188", "heading": "MEMBERS' SALARIES AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "preceding_text": "I think there has been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.188.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-21", "file": "debates1980-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b172cd4522c9503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.188.4", "colnum": "188", "heading": "MEMBERS' SALARIES AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "preceding_text": "I think there has been—[ Interruption. ] If I detect the feeling of the House correctly, although hon. Members may wish to come to a vote in due course, without taking as long as some might have expected, none the less there is, I think, a feeling that there should be some further debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.188.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-21", "file": "debates1980-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "7b172cd4522c9503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.188.4", "colnum": "188", "heading": "MEMBERS' SALARIES AND PENSIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "preceding_text": "bject whereas on most occasions at this hour when we are debating matters of national importance there is nothing like this number of hon. Members present. That is a reflection of the feeling that we should try once and for all to exorcise this matter from our debates and decisions, either through the proposal of my right hon. Friend the Member for Taunton (Mr. du Cann) for a committee of Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-21a.188.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-22", "file": "debates1980-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2627ff5b0a5dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.249.3", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Hon. Members \"What has the Secretary of State done?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman does a disservice to the unemployed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-22", "file": "debates1980-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2627ff5b0a5dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.250.4", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What vacancies?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for that informed reply. Because of the importance of matching people to vacancies, will he personally supervise a continuing campaign to get many more employers to register vacancies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.250.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-22", "file": "debates1980-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2627ff5b0a5dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.251.4", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "No one is underestimating the problem of finding jobs. This situation has been with us now for a number of years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.251.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-22", "file": "debates1980-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2627ff5b0a5dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.253.4", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lester", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They are being cut.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lester", "preceding_text": "e for Birmingham of which this is part. Special schemes are being run by ethnic minorities in areas to help meet the problem. The TOPS measure is used considerably by ethnic minorities. In fact, 81 per cent. of those finishing TOPS courses in March 1980 came from the ethnic minorities. All our measures, including the youth opportunities programme and the STEP programme, are designed for all races.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.253.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-22", "file": "debates1980-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2627ff5b0a5dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.255.5", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Wilson", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State realise that unemployment in Scotland is twice that in South-East England, and 50 per cent. above that for the United Kingdom as a whole? While retraining is important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.255.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-22", "file": "debates1980-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2627ff5b0a5dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.255.7", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "People in Scotland will draw their conclusions from the ill-mannered observations such as those that have just been made by the Labour Party, showing its sensitivity and guilt.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.255.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-22", "file": "debates1980-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2627ff5b0a5dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.260.2", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What about the right to work?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "The Government worry about the closed shop because they dislike it as a particular illustration of the dangers of infringing personal liberty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.260.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-22", "file": "debates1980-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2627ff5b0a5dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.260.5", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. and learned Member aware that the people who are destroying liberty are himself and his colleagues in the Government, who are destroying hundreds of thousands of jobs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.260.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-22", "file": "debates1980-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2627ff5b0a5dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.260.7", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Hon. Members \"Out, out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "I believe that Parliament's proper concern for unemployment and for jobs should extend beyond the unemployed to those who have jobs to go to and only need to be allowed to get to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.260.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-22", "file": "debates1980-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2627ff5b0a5dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.260.10", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I am informed by the Manpower Services Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.260.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-22", "file": "debates1980-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2627ff5b0a5dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.260.10", "colnum": "260", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I am informed by the Manpower Services Commission—[ Interruption. ] May I continue, Mr. Speaker? I am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that substantial use—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.260.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-22", "file": "debates1980-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2627ff5b0a5dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.261.0", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I remind hon. Members that we must protect our parliamentary traditions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.261.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-22", "file": "debates1980-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2627ff5b0a5dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.264.9", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend that one of the main reasons for today's distressing unemployment figures is that we have paid ourselves far more than other countries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.264.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-22", "file": "debates1980-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2627ff5b0a5dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.264.11", "colnum": "264", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"At what cost?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Government have made fighting inflation their top priority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.264.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-07-22", "file": "debates1980-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2627ff5b0a5dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Paul Bryan", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend noted that one in four of the resolutions submitted to the Labour Party conference advocates nuclear disarmament? Is my right hon. Friend also aware that the Labour Party's most recent document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.265.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-07-22", "file": "debates1980-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2627ff5b0a5dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.267.4", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Lady take the opportunity today and every day to make clear to the country, as only she can, that the courses that are being commended to her by the official Opposition and by many other voices mean nothing but a deliberate return to hyper-inflation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.267.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-22", "file": "debates1980-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2627ff5b0a5dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.269.2", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman has rejected every fundamental tenet that he espoused in office about how to tackle inflation and unemployment. He said that we could not spend ourselves out of a recession. I recognise that he is concerned, as I am, about the increase in unemployment over the past 14 months. I must remind him that it is not the largest increase in unemployment between May and July of successive years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.269.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-07-22", "file": "debates1980-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2627ff5b0a5dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Callaghan", "preceding_text": "on people out of work in this country, and the figure is going higher. The House must have an opportunity to debate the matter. Is it not the case that men and women and young boys and girls are being thrown out of work through no fault of their own? They are being abandoned by the Government as a result of their policies. The Opposition will put down a motion of censure on the Government shortly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.270.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-07-22", "file": "debates1980-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2627ff5b0a5dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.338.3", "colnum": "338", "heading": "New Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Bill Walker (Perth and East Perthshire) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.338.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-22", "file": "debates1980-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2627ff5b0a5dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.376.0", "colnum": "376", "heading": "New Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Was he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "nt climate of opinion in the country as a whole—by that, I include England and Wales, rather than Scotland—that the \"sus\" laws should go. There is a climate of opinion on both sides of the House, as was shown by the decision of the Select Committee, that the \"sus\" laws should go. Until the bringing into the House of this Bill, the Minister was widely regarded as a liberal in Scottish legal circles", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.376.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-22", "file": "debates1980-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "5c2627ff5b0a5dc1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.404.0", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "ument about tape recorders or video tapes. Everyone agrees that they are necessary. We have sought to prevent the clause being enacted before the non-accused—but accused—in a police station has the protection of a video tape or a tape recorder. We shall certainly support the amendment. There is one person who should lead us into the Lobby on such issues, namely, the Solicitor-General for Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-22a.404.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-23", "file": "debates1980-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "fb5992db9262457d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.495.5", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — New Technology", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "st time that he has adopted that attitude—which has nothing to do with the question or the answer, so it is out of order—may I ask whether it is not a fact that I have the right, much as he, the civil servants and the Government may not like it, to table as many different questions as I choose? It is not for the Minister to sit with a sneer on his face and try to prevent me from putting questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.495.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-23", "file": "debates1980-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "fb5992db9262457d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.496.8", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — New Technology", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I briefly make the point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.496.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-23", "file": "debates1980-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "fb5992db9262457d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.497.2", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — New Technology", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "Further to my point of order, and also perhaps on a different point of order, Mr. Speaker. Controversial statements are made, and people outside are deeply concerned, rightly or wrongly—in my view rightly—about arms being sold to a blood-stained ré gime—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.497.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-23", "file": "debates1980-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "fb5992db9262457d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.499.1", "colnum": "499", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (ENGLAND)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr. Patrick Jenkin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr. Patrick Jenkin)", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, I shall make a statement on changes in the organisation and management of the National Health Service in England. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales is announcing his proposals for Wales today, and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Scotland will be announcing his proposals next week. My Department—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.499.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-23", "file": "debates1980-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "fb5992db9262457d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.499.8", "colnum": "499", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (ENGLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I wish to ask the Secretary of State whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.499.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-23", "file": "debates1980-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "fb5992db9262457d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.502.5", "colnum": "502", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (ENGLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ioan Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ioan Evans", "preceding_text": "When \"Patients First\" was issued, it was issued by the Welsh Office and by the Department of Health and Social Security. I understand that there is to be a statement about Scotland in the House next week", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.502.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-23", "file": "debates1980-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "fb5992db9262457d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.502.6", "colnum": "502", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (ENGLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is not my intention to confine questions to English Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.502.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-23", "file": "debates1980-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "fb5992db9262457d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.503.3", "colnum": "503", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (ENGLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Points of order can be raised but they must relate to the rules of the House. I have tried to help the House as much as I can. I cannot do any more than call the Secretary of State, who has already started to make his statement. I suggest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.503.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-23", "file": "debates1980-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "fb5992db9262457d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.503.4", "colnum": "503", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (ENGLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Speak up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. There is, of course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.503.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-23", "file": "debates1980-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "fb5992db9262457d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.503.4", "colnum": "503", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (ENGLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. There is, of course—[Hon. Members: \"Speak up.\"] I think hon. Members will hear. There is another avenue of approach open to you, Sir. You could—it is within your powers—either on your own decision or at the request of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, order a temporary suspension of the sitting of the House. That would give an opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.503.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-23", "file": "debates1980-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "fb5992db9262457d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.505.1", "colnum": "505", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (ENGLAND)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, I have taken advantage of those exchanges to have a word with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Wales. I hope that the House will be satisfied with this suggestion: with your permission, after my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Services has made his statement, the Secretary of State for Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.505.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-23", "file": "debates1980-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "fb5992db9262457d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.534.0", "colnum": "534", "heading": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (WALES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Best", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Best", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy-Speaker. Is it within the rules of order for one hon. Member to accuse another of acting as some sort of Government lackey—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.534.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-23", "file": "debates1980-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "fb5992db9262457d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "I do not think that there was any obligation to put forward the details of what the share offers to employees might be in the event of a flotation. I merely thought that it would be helpful to the House if I did so now. Had the right hon. Gentleman tabled an amendment on Report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.543.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-23", "file": "debates1980-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "fb5992db9262457d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.578.3", "colnum": "578", "heading": "CIVIL AVIATION BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "rned often do not get all the money that they need. Nor is it any secret that they are often not told how much money they can have until considerably later than is proper for the best management of then business. That sort of interference in the proper management of a commercial organisation is inevitable if it is nationalised. It is one of the reasons why we want to denationalise British Airways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.578.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-23", "file": "debates1980-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "fb5992db9262457d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.619.0", "colnum": "619", "heading": "RESTRICTIONS ON REPORT OF PROCEED INGS INVOLVING PERSON UNDER 16", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Fraser", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Cathcart\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Fraser", "preceding_text": "stened to the whole trial is in the best position to make a decision about what is in the public interest, what should be published, and what should not be published. In those circumstances, it would have been better for the existing onus in solemn procedure in Scotland to have been left as it was. That is the direction in which the public interest and open justice lie. The hon. Member for Maxton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.619.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-23", "file": "debates1980-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "fb5992db9262457d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.632.13", "colnum": "632", "heading": "RESTRICTION ON PASSING SENTENCE OF IMPRISONMENT OR DETENTION ON PERSON NOT LEGALLY REPRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "This is a formidable group of amendments. They are drafting amendments to take account of the fact that borstal training is to be abolished in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.632.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-23", "file": "debates1980-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "fb5992db9262457d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.648.0", "colnum": "648", "heading": "CERTIFICATES AS TO PROOF OF CERTAIN ROUTINE MATTERS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "If the person is represented, by definition it is possible to anticipate points and the objection can be made. If we are talking about the position in which a person is not represented, the point is that in 99 per cent. of such cases it does not make any difference whether the person is formally in court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.648.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-23", "file": "debates1980-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "fb5992db9262457d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (SOCIAL SECURITY)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "The little stretch of water that divides the hon. Member's constituency from the rest of the United Kingdom is nothing. What utter nonsense to make such a comparison. I might as well argue tonight that Rathlin Island, which I also represent in the House, is removed from the rest of the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-23", "file": "debates1980-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "fb5992db9262457d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.699.2", "colnum": "699", "heading": "NORTHERN IRELAND (TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Richard Crawshaw)", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Richard Crawshaw)", "preceding_text": "Is it for the convenience of the House that the two orders be taken together?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-23a.699.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-24", "file": "debates1980-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6f9e59999a369caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-24a.762.0", "colnum": "762", "heading": "ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that it is reasonable to expect that there must be some mobility and that people should be willing to move to where the jobs are available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-24a.762.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-07-24", "file": "debates1980-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6f9e59999a369caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-24a.763.2", "colnum": "763", "heading": "ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where are the jobs?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman agrees with me. There must be some mobility to enable people to move to where the jobs are. [Hon. Gentlemen: \"Where?\"] There are some 400,000 vacant jobs on the usual method of calculation, if people are willing to take them. There must be some mobility if young people want jobs, as there always has been. [Hon. Gentlemen: \"Where?\"] The right hon. Gentleman is making a terrible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-24a.763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-24", "file": "debates1980-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6f9e59999a369caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-24a.771.7", "colnum": "771", "heading": "ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "preceding_text": "e conduct of the Leader of the Opposition, who, during the course of the past week, misbehaved, notably during the concluding stages of Monday's debate by thumping the Dispatch Box and failing to pay attention to the Chair, who has consistently, throughout Question Time today, made an exhibition of himself, and who again, just now, showed his fundamental ignorance of the way in which the business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-24a.771.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-24", "file": "debates1980-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6f9e59999a369caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-24a.772.1", "colnum": "772", "heading": "ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is your tie?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House encourage the responsible Minister to make a statement about the military takeover in Bolivia?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-24a.772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-24", "file": "debates1980-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6f9e59999a369caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-24a.772.1", "colnum": "772", "heading": "ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House encourage the responsible Minister to make a statement about the military takeover in Bolivia? [Hon. Members: \"Where is your tie?\"] Has the right hon. Gentleman seen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-24a.772.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-24", "file": "debates1980-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6f9e59999a369caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-24a.773.5", "colnum": "773", "heading": "ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I have seen the motion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-24a.773.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-24", "file": "debates1980-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6f9e59999a369caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-24a.845.1", "colnum": "845", "heading": "ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"There are fewer pits\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "preceding_text": "way through the period. What have we got for it? I turn to annual production of coal. I shall be absolutely fair and take a period of three years. In 1973 production was 132 million tonnes. In 1974, because of disruption, it was 110 million tonnes, and in 1975 it was 128 million tonnes. It was high. Today we have production of roughly 122·4 million tons. Therefore, production has come down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-24a.845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-24", "file": "debates1980-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6f9e59999a369caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-24a.884.4", "colnum": "884", "heading": "ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "n that respect. There are also attacks upon the miners' voluntary retirement scheme, by withdrawing the first 312 days of unemployment benefit. These are other attacks that are coming from the Tories. That is why I take this opportunity to attack the Tories once again. Some people have the impression that a few of us on the Left wing of the Labour Party do not spend much time attacking the Tories.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-24a.884.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-24", "file": "debates1980-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6f9e59999a369caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-24a.884.4", "colnum": "884", "heading": "ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"They have just walked in.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "he first 312 days of unemployment benefit. These are other attacks that are coming from the Tories. That is why I take this opportunity to attack the Tories once again. Some people have the impression that a few of us on the Left wing of the Labour Party do not spend much time attacking the Tories. [Hon. Members: \"Where are they?\"] I cannot account for them, but I know what I am in business to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-24a.884.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-24", "file": "debates1980-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "6f9e59999a369caa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-24a.884.4", "colnum": "884", "heading": "ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "k the principle of free collective bargaining. There is no doubt at all that a few blue collar workers were stupid enough to believe the Tories' propaganda in many constituencies, particularly in the South of England. They were carried away with some of the fanciful ideas put forward by the Tories. A few people thought that perhaps they would find Utopia under the new axis of Thatcher and Murdoch.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-24a.884.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-25", "file": "debates1980-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "29ccc7771d1177f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-25a.944.0", "colnum": "944", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (NEW ZEALAND BUTTER)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ronald Bell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ronald Bell", "preceding_text": "I have always taken the view that New Zealand was shabbily treated throughout the whole Common Market business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-25a.944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-25", "file": "debates1980-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "29ccc7771d1177f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-25a.972.3", "colnum": "972", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (NEW ZEALAND BUTTER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "uments than to draw a balanced, objective picture. Another reason for the fall in the consumption of butter is that many people have come to the conclusion that eating excessive quantities of butter, as they used to, might be a health hazard. I put it no higher than that. There is a fear about the effects of building up too much cholesterol in the body. That is one reason why people have switched.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-25a.972.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-28", "file": "debates1980-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d20b9661ccdaff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1039.1", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman give a specific assurance to the House that he will steadfastly oppose any introduction of charges for the borrowing of books from libraries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-28", "file": "debates1980-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d20b9661ccdaff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1039.2", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "It is not on my cards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1039.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-28", "file": "debates1980-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d20b9661ccdaff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS (UPRATING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ultation with my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer, I have had to consider the whole matter with extreme care. Some outside forecasters have been suggesting that the Budget forecasts were too optimistic, and I will confess to the House, as I indicated late one night in Standing Committee, that earlier this year I began to wonder whether these forecasters were not right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-28", "file": "debates1980-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d20b9661ccdaff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1057.1", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS (UPRATING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "sely right. That is the best estimate that I can make at present. If it proves to be too low, I assure the House that we will give serious consideration next year to making good from then on any significant shortfall, having regard to economic and other circumstances then. No Government can be expected to give an absolute guarantee that they will make good any significant shortfall, come what may—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1057.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-28", "file": "debates1980-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d20b9661ccdaff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1058.3", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS (UPRATING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "st (Mrs. Short) told an audience the other day that the surplus could be used to finance her Committee's report on perinatal mortality. No doubt we shall have all sorts of other interesting suggestions about the surplus during the course of this debate. But all this is entirely to misunderstand the nature of the Government Actuary's figures. First, there is the sheer uncertainty of such forecasts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1058.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-28", "file": "debates1980-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d20b9661ccdaff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1090.2", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS (UPRATING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "There were two years when there were no Christmas bonuses—1975 and 1976. However, the Christmas bonus was restored in 1977 and 1978.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1090.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-28", "file": "debates1980-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d20b9661ccdaff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1098.5", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS (UPRATING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "It is a convention of the House that right hon. and hon. Members pass letters on to those concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1098.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-28", "file": "debates1980-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d20b9661ccdaff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1098.6", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS (UPRATING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "e hon. Gentleman has taken my name in vain, I must point out that it is a tradition of the House that hon. Members do not deal with the problems of constituents of other hon. Members. Hundreds of people have written to me since I ceased to be Secretary of State, and I follow two practices. Sometimes I send a letter directly to the hon. Member concerned. Sometimes I send a letter to the Department.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1098.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-28", "file": "debates1980-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d20b9661ccdaff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1099.0", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS (UPRATING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "I was not complaining about the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1099.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-28", "file": "debates1980-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d20b9661ccdaff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1159.4", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS (UPRATING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has heard what I said. Let him and the right hon. Gentleman read the record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1159.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-28", "file": "debates1980-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d20b9661ccdaff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1176.0", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Clause 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker", "preceding_text": "may be so identified by reference to any characteristics whatsoever\".—[ Official Report, House of Lords, 7 July 1980; Vol. 411, c. 956.] Yet it is now proposed that this should be restricted, in so far as a union membership agreement in future cannot be defined by reference to trade union membership. Frankly, I find it difficult to understand the Government's reasoning. Throughout the proceedings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1176.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-28", "file": "debates1980-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d20b9661ccdaff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1183.1", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that the hon. Gentleman is with us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-28", "file": "debates1980-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d20b9661ccdaff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1189.4", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "preceding_text": " which use contractors. Let us suppose that the Trades Union Congress wanted to extend Congress House. Would the TUC be put in a position in which it could not specify that the contractor it called in to do the building extension must use trade union labour? The proposition is nonsensical. There are two other very bad effects of this amendment in practice—and I am concerned only with the practice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1189.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-28", "file": "debates1980-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d20b9661ccdaff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1189.4", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "preceding_text": "at the contractor it called in to do the building extension must use trade union labour? The proposition is nonsensical. There are two other very bad effects of this amendment in practice—and I am concerned only with the practice. [ Interruption. ] The answer to the intervention of the hon. Member for Grantham (Mr. Hogg), who has obviously dined very well—and I envy him because I did not get time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1189.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-28", "file": "debates1980-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d20b9661ccdaff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1189.4", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "preceding_text": " difficulties which have arisen under the present system. If he has an example, I shall be prepared to listen—assuming that he can give it. I understand why the hon. Gentleman remains seated. I repeat that no one has given any evidence to suggest that the present arrangements do not work, and that is what matters. I am concerned about two practical disadvantages which may flow from this amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1189.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-28", "file": "debates1980-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d20b9661ccdaff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1189.4", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "preceding_text": "sten—assuming that he can give it. I understand why the hon. Gentleman remains seated. I repeat that no one has given any evidence to suggest that the present arrangements do not work, and that is what matters. I am concerned about two practical disadvantages which may flow from this amendment—[ Interruption. ] The first is that it will increase the price of contracts put out by local authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1189.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-28", "file": "debates1980-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d20b9661ccdaff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1189.4", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "preceding_text": " which may flow from this amendment—[ Interruption. ] The first is that it will increase the price of contracts put out by local authorities—[ Interruption. ] The reason, quite simply, is that before a contractor takes on a contract he will put into his estimates a factor to protect him against a claim under this clause. If he is a prudent man, he will allow for all possible costs which may arise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1189.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-28", "file": "debates1980-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d20b9661ccdaff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1194.5", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crowther", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crowther", "preceding_text": "uty Speaker, not because the hon. Member for Grantham (Mr. Hogg) rose. I shall be happy to hear his contribution to the debate in due course. I want to get home my point so that there is no doubt about it on the part of the Under-Secretary. My experience of him, with the greatest respect, is that he does not always reply to the points that I put to him in debate. I want him to reply to this point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1194.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-28", "file": "debates1980-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d20b9661ccdaff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1198.0", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Leighton", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Leighton", "preceding_text": "nion would it be unlawful. The amendment is therefore unnecessary in the case of the TASS-FEDC agreement, and disputes about non-membership of a union are unlikely to arise in the area covered by the agreement because the fair list system is well established and the design companies operate post-entry closed shops as a requirement of the agreement. In other words, they will have union labour only.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-28", "file": "debates1980-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d20b9661ccdaff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1209.0", "colnum": "1209", "heading": "Clause 16", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Evans", "preceding_text": "ndustrial unrest which will flow from that. I am talking about the overwhelming majority of men and women who believe in the law of the land, who read clause 16 with these amendments and who ask \"What on earth does all that gibberish mean?\" They will turn to Hansard to discover what Parliament said about it, in Committee where we did not discuss it, on Report, or when considering Lords amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1209.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-28", "file": "debates1980-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d20b9661ccdaff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1219.2", "colnum": "1219", "heading": "Clause 16", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "ind changing the words in subsection (7). Is it something sinister? Is it something of which we should be more aware? I fail to see why this new form of words should be used. I suspect that I was right in the first instance—that secondary picketing, about which the right hon. Gentleman's hon. Friends have taken him to task, will be permitted under subsection (7). Is this a sinister way of driving—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1219.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-28", "file": "debates1980-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8d20b9661ccdaff4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1221.0", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Clause 16", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "the employer to negotiate a settlement of his own, or to say that this is what he is intending to do and that he dissociates himself from what otherwise would be being done on his behalf by the federation of which he is a member, or perhaps by saying that he is going through the processes of coming out of the federation. It is a question of fact. One cannot give a definitive list of circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-28a.1221.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1285.0", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is because of Government policies.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I cannot promise the hon. Member that I shall go, but I am certain that my right hon. and hon. Friends from the Department of Health and Social Security will have heard what he said. I think that it is a tragedy if some of these places have to close—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1286.7", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Lady find time today to ponder the wisdom of her Saatchi and Saatchi posters displaying a few dozen hired hands posing as unemployed, when in present circum- stances there are an impending 2 million unemployed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1286.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1288.7", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. If the hon. Gentleman does that again, I shall invite him to leave the Chamber. It is unfair to continue shouting once I have asked for order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1288.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1290.1", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "ow much higher the figure will go, and for how long. The Prime Minister told us that some short-term increase was inevitable. How long is short-term? There are already over 390,000 long-term unemployed and job vacancies have fallen for 13 successive months. What confidence does the Prime Minister have that if Government policies persist unchanged those who are now being discharged from their jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1301.0", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "ition this afternoon. My task is to explain why I believe that the change of direction which they urge upon us would be fundamentally mistaken. Having listened to the right hon. Gentleman, it seems to me that what he wants is more of everything except financial responsibility. Every one of us on the Government side of the House is as concerned as the right hon. Gentleman about rising unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1301.0", "colnum": "1301", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: When?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "ng up interest rates. In our view, that would be one of the most damaging things that could happen to the private sector and to the prospects for jobs. The outlook for interest rates depends crucially on curbing public spending and borrowing, a course to which the Government are already committed. The Government are determined to bring interest rates down further as soon as it is prudent to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1305.1", "colnum": "1305", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "First, I do not think that my right hon. Friend said that £7,000 million of the £9,000 million public sector borrowing requirement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1308.1", "colnum": "1308", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "r Chesterfield (Mr. Varley) is particularly attached to them. He once managed to negotiate one. The Labour Party wants an ossified economy. Why else does the right hon. Gentleman berate us for suggesting that we need greater mobility? With continuing skill shortages and a much higher ratio of vacancies to unemployed in some parts of the country than others, a greater willingness to move must help.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1313.2", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " We regard it as a duty of the Government to mitigate the economic and social effects of change. We are prepared to help the transition to higher productivity and to more jobs. We are not prepared to buy a few extra jobs now at the expense of higher inflation and higher unemployment in future. Despite existing difficulties, there are many exciting developments going on which are creating new jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1313.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1327.2", "colnum": "1327", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "od of generating additional income. What the right hon. Gentleman did mean was perfectly clear. What he meant was consistent with his knowledge of the consequences when the public sector borrowing requirement is not met by genuine borrowing. He knew that the result would be increased inflation. The very burden of his speech was that inflation reduces unemployment and we should have more inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1327.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1329.1", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Member was not present when I had a little exchange with the hon. Member for Tottenham (Mr. Atkinson)", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1329.3", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "Well, at least that would be a respectable argument.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1329.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1329.7", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "Willing as I am to conduct seminars, this is a debate in which many hon. Members wish to take part, and all of us are under the constraint of time. Therefore, I intend to address myself to the proposition that is being put forward to the House and to the country by the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1329.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1330.6", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The right hon. Gentleman has a right to make his own speech and to be heard in silence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1330.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1330.8", "colnum": "1330", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerard Fitt ()", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerard Fitt ()", "preceding_text": "r, Mr. Deputy Speaker. We have just heard that the right hon. Gentleman has a right to make his own speech. I understand that one of the reasons why he may have been called is that he is a right hon. Gentleman. But there are other speakers from Northern Ireland who may not be called in this debate, and who hold a completely and utterly different point of view from that of the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1330.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1341.1", "colnum": "1341", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "preceding_text": "here we were told that within three months of its start there had been a 100 per cent. turnover of labour because the first people employed were not prepared to work. I was impressed by the youth opportunities scheme. When I returned to my home city, which has 11½ per cent. unemployment, I told my managing director that we must play a bigger part in providing opportunities for young people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1362.0", "colnum": "1362", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Stewart ()", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was delayed effect.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Stewart ()", "preceding_text": "country. Despite all the economic theories which we have heard today, the fact is that the previous Labour Government—and they were not without blame with regard to unemployment—pumped in money to keep unemployment down. In addition, inflation was only a half the figure that it is now. That is a historical fact which transcends all the economic theories which Conservative Members can put forward.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1369.1", "colnum": "1369", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "It may be too much. But he should not denigrate the method of allocating those resources when so much is crucial in Northern Ireland and in other weakened areas of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1370.3", "colnum": "1370", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "cost of energy to industry as part of their organised slump factor which they describe as inevitable. The Prime Minister says that it is inevitable. It is nothing of the kind. It is the deliberate step by step policy of the Government to organise a slump. On the one hand, we have a boom in the City, the like of which has not been seen in post-war years, and, on the other hand, an employment slump.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1370.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1398.3", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot ()", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot ()", "preceding_text": "es them to be applied in the rest of the United Kingdom. The Prime Minister thinks that the right hon. Gentleman's theories should be applied. She was cheering the right hon. Gentleman throughout his speech. She has never had such a strong supporter on this subject. I understand her desire to get supporters, particularly given her pre-ent company. I can see that she is eagerly looking for support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1398.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1398.3", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot ()", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot ()", "preceding_text": "the trouble with that theory has always been that it proves too much. It is the thirteenth stroke of the clock which casts suspicion on all the others. If it is true that what is wrong with our society is what we have been pursuing for 30 years, then the right hon. Member for Down, South is wiping off altogether the only period in our history when we have had something approaching full employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1398.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1398.3", "colnum": "1398", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot ()", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot ()", "preceding_text": "g off altogether the only period in our history when we have had something approaching full employment. [ Interruption. ] I know that there are still a few hon. Members who continue to shake their heads on this matter but they are becoming fewer. I do not believe that there are so many hon. Members on the Government Benches who believe in the Government's policy. Hands up those who really believe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1398.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1405.1", "colnum": "1405", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "t though that is. It is also because of the memories that she revived. My hon. Friends will recall the incident described by my predecessor in Ebbw Vale in his book \"In Place of Fear\". He described a conversation that he had with a miner friend of his from Blaina in the early 1920s. They were discussing emigration. Jim Minton told Nye that he was going to clear off and emigrate to another country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1405.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1410.0", "colnum": "1410", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose market?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "that we must discard. What of the second suggestion, proffered by the Leader of the Opposition and others, that we should intervene to affect the exchange rate? The Leader of the Liberal Party also made that suggestion. The right hon. Member for Down, South (Mr. Powell) referred to the artificially high exchange rate. Who knows? We cannot tell because the exchange rate is determined by the market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1410.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1411.0", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": " 783.] At that time, when he had responsibility for these matters, the right hon. Gentleman recognised the necessity to get inflation down before there was any real prospect of unemployment coming down. The right hon. Member for Leeds, East was even more explicit in rejecting the prescription now offered by his right hon. Friend in a broadcast made on behalf of the Labour Party on 5 December 1975.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1411.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1411.0", "colnum": "1411", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": " us as \"punk monetarists\". What is the position of the Labour Party? The right hon. Gentleman was willing to accept monetarism if he were obliged by responsibility to do so, but he is only too ready to abandon monetarism today when that is convenient. The Labour Party consists not of punk monetarists but of funk monetarists, running away from the obligations which a true monetarist policy imposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1411.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1414.2", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "prepared to accept the absurd document produced by the national executive committee of the Labour Party? We have been working out what would be the cost to the nation of the so-called draft manifesto, produced by the Labour Party. We find that that document contains proposals for nationalisation on a scale so substantial that it will cost £35 billion. Does the Leader of the Opposition accept that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1414.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1414.2", "colnum": "1414", "heading": "HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT (OPPOSITION MOTION)", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "ional executive committee of the Labour Party? We have been working out what would be the cost to the nation of the so-called draft manifesto, produced by the Labour Party. We find that that document contains proposals for nationalisation on a scale so substantial that it will cost £35 billion. Does the Leader of the Opposition accept that? [ Interruption. ] We find that the draft manifesto would—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1414.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-29", "file": "debates1980-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "dacf58a959a66e9d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1464.0", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "INDUSTRIAL TRIBUNALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg ()", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg ()", "preceding_text": "d in the 1974 regulations, introduced by the Labour Government, I do not see how he can bellyache about them in the 1980 regulations. This is a curious instance of the hon. Gentleman's doing a mischief to his constituents. As a matter of general practice, employees do not have any documents to produce on discovery. Employers have many documents to produce on discovery. Understandably, an employee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-29a.1464.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-30", "file": "debates1980-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2dcbb46a5b2ba975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-30a.1492.2", "colnum": "1492", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "preceding_text": "In due course the Government will give their answer to the issues raised at yesterday's meeting of the Select Committee. My responsibility is for land availability. The Labour Government were not very successful in building houses or in providing land. We intend to ensure that when our economy expands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-30a.1492.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-30", "file": "debates1980-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2dcbb46a5b2ba975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-30a.1501.0", "colnum": "1501", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shersby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shersby", "preceding_text": " on a borough such as Hillingdon, which has an international airport within its boundaries, a national duty to house people from all over the world at the expense of the indigenous population of that borough? Is my hon. Friend aware of the amendment in the names of 56 hon. Members to early-day motion No. 786? Will he amend the Act as soon as possible in the interests of the people of this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-30a.1501.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-30", "file": "debates1980-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2dcbb46a5b2ba975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-30a.1520.5", "colnum": "1520", "heading": "BRITISH NATIONALITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "t this was a reasonable change. The proposal about certain citizens of Eire being British subjects is limited. It is confined to people who were British subjects before 1949. The proposal does not affect civic rights, or the right to vote. The right of citizens of Eire to vote was given in the Representation of the People Act 1949, and if there is to be any change that Act will have to be amended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-30a.1520.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-30", "file": "debates1980-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2dcbb46a5b2ba975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-30a.1523.2", "colnum": "1523", "heading": "BRITISH NATIONALITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "How will the White Paper affect someone such as my sister—a genuine sister who was born on the mission field, as I was, and who married a South African, but is now a widow, and who may wish to remarry and return to this country? How would it affect four of her children, two of whom are girls, who were born in Southern Africa, who might wish to marry Commonwealth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-30a.1523.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-30", "file": "debates1980-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2dcbb46a5b2ba975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-30a.1550.0", "colnum": "1550", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL BUSINESSES", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Industry (Mr. David Mitchell)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Industry (Mr. David Mitchell)", "preceding_text": "e basis for business growth. To follow the siren voices that press alternatives would simply restart the engine of inflation. The hon. Gentleman called for a Cabinet Minister to be responsible for small business policy. I have to tell him that we have a Cabinet Minister responsible for small business policy. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Industry has that task and responsibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-30a.1550.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-30", "file": "debates1980-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2dcbb46a5b2ba975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-30a.1568.0", "colnum": "1568", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL BUSINESSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer ()", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer ()", "preceding_text": "roval and criticised them in many respects. We met some of those criticisms and had a far better record than many of them, with their views and attitudes, had any right to expect. If we could turn back the clock, many small business men would say \"Give us back a Labour Government. They did a better job for us than the Tories.\" It is no use the Tories shaking their heads. They know that it is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-30a.1568.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-30", "file": "debates1980-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2dcbb46a5b2ba975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-30a.1580.1", "colnum": "1580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL BUSINESSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "ms. That explains something that happened to me and to some of my constituents a few months ago. I do not intend to use my position at this Dispatch Box to lay out a constituency case, other than to say that the Minister knows that on 26 March I wrote to him about a serious case in my constituency of a small firm that could not get any electricity supply to a new factory unit. I received a letter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-30a.1580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-30", "file": "debates1980-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2dcbb46a5b2ba975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-30a.1581.1", "colnum": "1581", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL BUSINESSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "The Minister of State seemed to intervene from a sedentary position. If he has anything to say, he had better get up and say it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-30a.1581.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-30", "file": "debates1980-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2dcbb46a5b2ba975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-30a.1585.2", "colnum": "1585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SMALL BUSINESSES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"With the leave of the House\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Mitchell", "preceding_text": "We have had an interesting debate covering a wide range of subjects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-30a.1585.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-30", "file": "debates1980-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2dcbb46a5b2ba975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-30a.1606.3", "colnum": "1606", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TEXTILE AND CLOTHING INDUSTRIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "es of procedure. I negotiated the quotas through the Commission. I went to Washington to discuss the matter. As soon as we obtained the quotas the United States applied for compensation of $ 60 million against our industry. The negotiations are not concluded. The United States claim that we must agree to that compensation and impose lower tariffs on other textiles in the European Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-30a.1606.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-30", "file": "debates1980-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "2dcbb46a5b2ba975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-30a.1666.0", "colnum": "1666", "heading": "INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies ()", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies ()", "preceding_text": " of lending money. But we are now approaching a different situation. More and more frequently those banks are facing reserve asset requirements. Margins on lending are getting smaller, and the banks are becoming worried. If one or two banks collapse and one or two countries are unable to repay the money, part of the multinational banking system could collapse. There are many multinational bankers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-30a.1666.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-31", "file": "debates1980-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "498d70ee773f2347", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-31a.1734.0", "colnum": "1734", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I do not think that that would find favour in all parts of the House. This Bill needs to reach the statute book before the recess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-31a.1734.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-31", "file": "debates1980-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "498d70ee773f2347", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-31a.1763.3", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN MOTHER (EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I am doing that directly. Granada has been subject to pressure from the Establishment, about which we are now talking, and as a result the programme will never go out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-31a.1763.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-31", "file": "debates1980-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "498d70ee773f2347", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-31a.1763.3", "colnum": "1763", "heading": "HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN MOTHER (EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I am doing that directly. Granada has been subject to pressure from the Establishment, about which we are now talking, and as a result the programme will never go out. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Good.\"] I was about to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-31a.1763.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-31", "file": "debates1980-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "498d70ee773f2347", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-31a.1811.3", "colnum": "1811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not 'leave!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "s a stronger role for the Parliament, which would perhaps eventually overcome the stress on national differences that finds full expression in the Council and place an emphasis, instead, on political decisions. It is worth reflecting on the fact that those who allocate blame to the Community for our position to the point of arguing that we leave the Community—there are some sitting in the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-31a.1811.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-31", "file": "debates1980-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "498d70ee773f2347", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-31a.1841.3", "colnum": "1841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Not London?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "line Whip. I think that very strong-arm action was taken with the payroll vote yesterday. I have no doubt about that whatever. I am accused, looked upon, and besmirched by the hardened Europeans as an anti-European. In fact, that is not the case at all. I am a passionate European. At the age of 10 I lived in one of the capitals of Europe. I went to two different schools of different nationalities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-31a.1841.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-31", "file": "debates1980-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "498d70ee773f2347", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-31a.1845.1", "colnum": "1845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend would have said \"It will\" last year. Two years ago, she would have said \"It will\". If she had been here 10 years ago and if there had been a CAP 10 years ago, she would have said \"It will\". However, it has not changed and it is not going to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-31a.1845.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-07-31", "file": "debates1980-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "498d70ee773f2347", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-31a.1849.0", "colnum": "1849", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leighton", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leighton", "preceding_text": "gian figure for 1970 was 6½ per cent. above the national average. By 1978 it was 33.7 per cent. above the national average. Let us consider what happened to the United Kingdom. In 1970 our figure was 11 per cent. below the Community average. By 1978 it was 25 per cent. below the national average. Therefore, we have been doing extremely badly. There has been absolutely no convergence at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-07-31a.1849.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-08-04", "file": "debates1980-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "bc43847e0845eeae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-04a.23.6", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is possible that the hon. Gentleman's eyelid moved. We are anxious to make progress with questions. To accuse anyone of humbug is not our normal custom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-04a.23.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-08-04", "file": "debates1980-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "bc43847e0845eeae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-04a.24.7", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The hon. Member winked.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thompson", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that we in West Yorkshire are sick of our jobs being drained away to the coal areas of Rotherham, and to the steel areas, where they are subsequently wasted? We should welcome a more even-handed attitude.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-04a.24.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-04", "file": "debates1980-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "bc43847e0845eeae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-04a.80.3", "colnum": "80", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "preceding_text": "uotas are exceeded, having come down from 8 per cent. in 1978 to 6 per cent. in 1979– 80, to 4 per cent. in 1981– 82 and to 2 per cent. in 1983. Duty at those levels is charged on all EFTA imports into Europe, excluding the United Kingdom. These quotas are reviewed each year. It was thought that Her Majesty's Government might negotiate a framework for these quotas from now until 1984", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-04a.80.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-04", "file": "debates1980-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "bc43847e0845eeae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-04a.116.0", "colnum": "116", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "ign Secretary is at this moment travelling in South America. It is utterly disgraceful that when such a visit was contemplated the Government should have proceeded not merely to restore diplomatic relations but to restart the sale of arms to Chile. We regard that as an offence against the rights and reputation of this country. The Government have a shoddy and shameful record over Chile altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-04a.116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-04", "file": "debates1980-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "bc43847e0845eeae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-04a.121.1", "colnum": "121", "heading": "ADJOURNMENT (SUMMER)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ts and claims. They will be told that they will have to fight it out with such strength as they possess. The Government apparently think that it is right to maintain comparability studies for doctors, dentists, the Armed Services and the police but not for those who are covered by the Clegg Commission. That is a piece of gross unfairness. It could be described as a piece of gross class prejudice.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-04a.121.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-04", "file": "debates1980-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "bc43847e0845eeae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-04a.235.0", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHOOL MEALS", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Neil Macfarlane)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Neil Macfarlane)", "preceding_text": "t priority they decide to give to expenditure on school meals. There is no doubt that many authorities have made their decisions already; others will decide over the next months precisely what they want to do. I come to the question of Dorset, which was mentioned several times, because one or two exaggerations were made. Perhaps hon. Members opposite do not understand fully what has happened here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-04a.235.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-04", "file": "debates1980-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "bc43847e0845eeae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-04a.238.5", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SCHOOL MEALS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macfarlane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macfarlane", "preceding_text": "It is all very well the hon. Gentleman suggesting that I should come on, but many points were raised to which I should respond—although no doubt we can continue this matter at Question Time later today. Many hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-04a.238.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-04", "file": "debates1980-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "bc43847e0845eeae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-04a.292.0", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LONDON (GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Graham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Scandalous\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Graham", "preceding_text": " It certainly led to many authorities, including the GLC, stopping Council mortgages for those who wished to buy their houses. The GLC's house building record is also interesting. In 1973, it built 4,363 houses. By 1976 the number had risen to 7,342. In 1978 it declined to 3,136. In 1979 it had gone down to 1,336, and now in 1980 the miserable estimate is that 400 houses will be built by the GLC.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-04a.292.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-04", "file": "debates1980-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "bc43847e0845eeae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-04a.428.3", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAPER AND BOARD INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "I shall not pursue that suggestion. My hon. Friends can go to the Library and read it. In addition, they should read the edition of Hansard dated 28 July 1977. You have referred, Mr. Weatherill, to the possibility of putting this matter to the vote as soon as I finish speaking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-04a.428.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-04", "file": "debates1980-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "bc43847e0845eeae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-04a.450.7", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAPER AND BOARD INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "I shall give way in a moment. I am concerned about the effect of not voting for the clause. That is why I have spoken, because I am anxious to persuade my hon. Friends—contrary to the view enunciated by my hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham, West—that it would be unwise to vote against clause 1.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-04a.450.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-04", "file": "debates1980-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "bc43847e0845eeae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-04a.457.3", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAPER AND BOARD INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "The Chairman", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman", "preceding_text": "Order. The debate has nothing to do with the policies of the Government. It has to do only with whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-04a.457.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-04", "file": "debates1980-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "bc43847e0845eeae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-04a.477.0", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAPER AND BOARD INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " the ruling of 16 November 1979 related to 8 pm. What we have to ask ourselves is why Mr. Speaker said 8 pm. It was, as he explained in his remarks to the House, because he wanted the Minister who was to reply to the Adjournment debate to have sufficient time to answer the debate. That is fair. He made that point. I shall not read it. I do not want to take up the time of the Committee by doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-04a.477.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-04", "file": "debates1980-08-04a.xml", "sha256": "bc43847e0845eeae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-04a.480.0", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Orders of the Day — PAPER AND BOARD INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "I rise to speak on the Question, That clause 2 stand part of the Bill. The Chair indicated earlier, Mr. Godman Irvine, that we would be able to have a substantially wider debate on this clause than was possible on clause 1.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-04a.480.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.525.2", "colnum": "525", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER:", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "efore. I am not saying that there is not a right to do that. I accept that there is a right to do that. But the right hon. Gentleman must accept the natural consequences of his actions. If the Opposition choose to use those procedures they will end up with an overcrowded timetable, which is not desirable in the interests of the House. The right hon. Gentleman has had his say and I have had my say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.525.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.531.2", "colnum": "531", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "d at 2.32 because there was no voice heard against the Government's proposal. On reading the Votes and Proceedings and the press—the information has been given conveniently to the press—I find that the House adjourned at nine minutes to 3 o'clock. Nineteen minutes elapsed between 2.32 and nine minutes to 3 o'clock. I have never known—I have not been here very long but I have been here long enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.531.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.532.0", "colnum": "532", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is one of the most senior hon. Members. He has been here for a very long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.532.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.538.7", "colnum": "538", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am now dealing with applications under Standing Order No. 9—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.538.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.538.9", "colnum": "538", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member is always very helpful and I know that he wants to be helpful now, but he must realise that I must now move to applications under Standing Order No. 9.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.538.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.539.8", "colnum": "539", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "hing at all. How can Back Benchers exercise their democratic rights if the Leader of the House will not hear us and you, Mr. Speaker, will not take points of order and we are not allowed to make suggestions? Will you accept manuscript amendments, Mr. Speaker? If not, I shall walk out. I shall ask you to suspend me because there is no point in my being here if I am not allowed my democratic rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.539.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.539.8", "colnum": "539", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "House will not hear us and you, Mr. Speaker, will not take points of order and we are not allowed to make suggestions? Will you accept manuscript amendments, Mr. Speaker? If not, I shall walk out. I shall ask you to suspend me because there is no point in my being here if I am not allowed my democratic rights. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".] I ask you in a sincere manner because I think it is right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.539.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.540.5", "colnum": "540", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "We want to ask questions, too.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Will you answer my question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.540.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.544.2", "colnum": "544", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I think that the will of the House is that we should move on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.544.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.632.7", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL [ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Heddle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Heddle", "preceding_text": "contribution that I made to a BBC 2 television programme last night. I should like to place in the official record the fact that the right hon. Gentleman did not give me notice that he would raise this matter. On a point of personal clarification, I should like to say that in that programme I was replying to what I considered to be an outrageous misrepresentation of the interpretation of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.632.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL [ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "We have already discussed this and I am putting the Question now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.657.13", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL [ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "lly adapted for occupation by persons of pensionable age; and ( b ) that it is the practice of the landlord to let it only for occupation by such persons. As my right hon. Friend made clear earlier today, the Government have agreed to accept the intention of the amendment passed in the other place and to exclude from the right to buy those dwellings that are designed or adapted for elderly people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.657.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL [ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "preceding_text": " to act within the law of the land. That is laid down, and it is quite clear what it will be. Nevertheless, the sort of questions that are being raised enable the Secretary of State to look at the practice of the local authority. If it is the view of the Secretary of State, looking at that practice in the context of a specific house, that it has been the practice to let that house for the elderly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.680.1", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL [ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Only\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "If it is the view of the Secretary of State that it is the practice of the authority to let the house for the elderly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.680.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL [ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "property because it is an old person's dwelling within the Act. I trust that the right hon. Gentleman is giving an assurance that will meet the views of my hon. Friends and those of Liberal Members—namely, that where a local authority comes to him not wishing to sell, having been served with a notice to sell, the Secretary of State will not wilfully set aside the wish of the authority not to sell—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.687.14", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Orders of the Day — HOUSING BILL [ALLOTTED DAY]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have now to designate any amendments involving privilege. The amendments in question are Nos. 165, 166, 168, 184, 198, 203 to 206, 208 and 210. These designated amendments must now be put to the House. I understand that the Minister proposes to move, That this House doth agree with all those amendments. Is the House willing for me to put the Questions on these amendments en bloc?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.687.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EASTBOURNE HARBOUR BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "No. I shall not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EASTBOURNE HARBOUR BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": " petty-minded Labour MPs who are opposing this Bill obviously appear to be doing so purely from spite and envy, as no public money is involved. If this Bill is approved, it will be marvellous for Eastbourne and the residents of the town. We await August 8th and the vote with renewed hope, knowing you are fighting to get the Bill through. There is one other letter I would like to read to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EASTBOURNE HARBOUR BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "ney is involved. If this Bill is approved, it will be marvellous for Eastbourne and the residents of the town. We await August 8th and the vote with renewed hope, knowing you are fighting to get the Bill through. There is one other letter I would like to read to the House—[Hon. Members: \"More.\"] My hon. Friends must not tempt me. I am no longer a frequent contributor to the business in this House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.695.1", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EASTBOURNE HARBOUR BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he? \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "ffice should write in these terms in support of this free enterprise movement. I have not exhausted the advantages of this Bill. My constituency has long been an attraction for former Members of this House. The noble lords Lord Shaw-cross and Lord George-Brown, dearly beloved by the opponents of this Bill, have come to live in my constituency. The Leader of the Opposition, who is not in his place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.695.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.698.0", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EASTBOURNE HARBOUR BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": " be happy to have a meeting. That does not seem to me to be undue delay in any sense, and I think that it is wrong that the promoters, having written to myself and my hon. Friends seeking a meeting, should at the same time have arranged to place this motion on the Order Paper. Therefore, it is not a strange exercise at all. It is an exercise in trying to obtain some element of democratic scrutiny—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.698.0", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EASTBOURNE HARBOUR BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "rs of the early morning rather less successfully than others. We are all keen to exercise that scrutiny which the hon. Member for Eastbourne would apparently deny to us. I should like to go into some detail on the statement on behalf of the promoters in support of the Third Reading of the Bill. It was circulated following the blocking motion that was put down by myself and five of my hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.702.0", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EASTBOURNE HARBOUR BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has emphasised a point that I made earlier. There are so many Conservative Members in the House because this is a pay-roll vote. The Prime Minister's bag carrier is promoting the Bill. Those who are not on the pay-roll are, on the whole, those who would like to be on it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.702.3", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EASTBOURNE HARBOUR BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "preceding_text": "There is a certain amount of impatience in the air. It is important to get the record straight. Although the previous hon. Member for Brighton, Kemptown promoted that Bill, a very much larger number of Labour Members—led by the former Labour Member for Birmingham. Northfield—strongly opposed it. The former Labour Member for Brighton, Kemptown—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.702.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.702.4", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EASTBOURNE HARBOUR BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "t the time, but I understood that that was the position. It demonstrates that the House would be in great danger if, as the hon. Member for Eastbourne suggested, we were to tremble at the knees and fail to exercise any scrutiny of such measures every time the names of the Duke of Devonshire and the Eastbourne Harbour Bill [ Lords ] are mentioned. That was the tenor of the hon. Gentleman's remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.702.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.702.4", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EASTBOURNE HARBOUR BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "e Minister, with \"oohs\" and \"ahs\" in support of the hon. Member for Eastbourne, and who desperately hope that she will notice, must accept that the previous Bill is not the best star on the horizon. This kind of project seems very low on our scale of priorities in this country. For example, manufacturing industry in many areas could do with an injection of private capital and it is not getting it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.702.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EASTBOURNE HARBOUR BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"The hon. Member for Stockport, North (Mr. Bennett) is asleep.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "ations as the Company may from time to time appoint. I am not sure what the word \"appoint\" means. Does it mean that the company would have the power to make regulations? If that is so, it is a serious extension of the powers that Parliament normally grants on thankfully, relatively rare occasions to private organisations. We should guard such provisions jealously. The House goes to the trouble of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.709.4", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EASTBOURNE HARBOUR BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "That is not the case. Under their articles of association companies cannot produce rules and conditions that are binding on other people in such a fashion as that provided in the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.709.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.709.4", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EASTBOURNE HARBOUR BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "vers section 24. Clause 19 makes clear—beyond peradventure, I should have thought—that it has criminal penalties attached to it for breach of the byelaws which the company can produce as it thinks fit. I should have thought that it was quite clear that almost no company was able to do that—only a specialised company, which is why we are debating this issue tonight, why we are giving it this power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.709.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.712.1", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EASTBOURNE HARBOUR BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": " Government say that they want to save local authority expenditure. I should like to summarise my conclusions on the Bill. First, we have every right to raise issues on Third Reading, although that was brought into question by the comments made by the hon. Member for Eastbourne, as the record will show. Subsequent to his remarks, Tory Members have been trying to ridicule every serious examination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.712.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.715.1", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EASTBOURNE HARBOUR BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "preceding_text": "I reject immediately the charge that hon. Members on this side are not interested in pleasure. One of the greatest pleasures I have had is to have a front seat at this show, with the massed ranks of reaction gathered to show proper deference to the Cavendish family and their lords and masters, the Duke of Devonshire and his—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.715.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.719.5", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EASTBOURNE HARBOUR BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": " make his contribution to the debate—and I am sure that he will—he will be able to elaborate further. I wanted to move towards the marina and scrabble up on the quay before I got myself out of order again—something which, as you know, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I never have any wish to do. I was impressed by the care that the hon. Member for Eastbourne devoted to his speech. It was beautifully delivered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.719.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.723.4", "colnum": "723", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EASTBOURNE HARBOUR BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is perfectly legitimate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "f he is such an altruistic chap and wants nothing more than the wellbeing of the people of England—to concentrate on areas where housing and investment are needed. Hon. Members may ask why he should not develop a marina in Eastbourne. I say that he is doing so, not because he is altruistic, but because he thinks that he will make a lot of money out of a growing tourist industry in the South Coast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.723.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.725.0", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EASTBOURNE HARBOUR BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "The noble Lord makes an interesting point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.725.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.725.0", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EASTBOURNE HARBOUR BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Price", "preceding_text": "nstituency being turned into second homes and holiday houses, which will be the result of that Bill. If there is a housing shortage in his constituency it will be due to the fact that his Government have refused to provide money for housing and instead have produced a ludicrous Housing Bill which will take desperately-needed houses from Weymouth and other places and turn them into secondary homes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.725.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EASTBOURNE HARBOUR BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"The miners.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rathbone", "preceding_text": "n. Friend the Member for Eastbourne will reassure me that the lighting at the end of each of the sea walls, which is touched on in clause 16, will be better than that which is provided at Brighton. I believe that the new facilities of and around the harbour will be of immense benefit to the community: workers, retired people and visitors. Visitors are immensely important all along the South Coast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.735.0", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EASTBOURNE HARBOUR BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "ck at 6 o'clock when the debate is supposed to terminate. I was one of four Members, the other three being the hon. Member for Holland with Boston (Mr. Body), my hon. Friend the Member for Wood Green (Mr. Race) and another hon. Member whose constituency I cannot remember, who took part in the proceedings on the Felixstowe Dock and Railway Bill. The reason why I raise the matter during this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.735.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.735.0", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EASTBOURNE HARBOUR BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "eedings on that Bill we enjoyed a considerable amount of evidence from a barrister representing the company in that case—and representing a company which hired the services of an hon. Member in this House. In putting his case, the barrister informed us about the details of the Bill and about the effect on Felixstowe of the introduction of the Bill. The people of Felixstowe had the right to object.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.735.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.736.2", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EASTBOURNE HARBOUR BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. W. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. W. Rooker", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. You have not been in the Chair all night, and no hon. Member would expect you to be, but I have been present in the Chamber most of the night, except for a 20-minute break that I allowed myself. The conduct of Conservative Members, who have been in a majority of 10 to one over Labour Members, has been thoroughly disgraceful during the night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.736.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EASTBOURNE HARBOUR BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh! What a disgrace.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "I wonder whether I can give the hon. Member an opportunity to deny the rumour—which I am sure is completely untrue—that perhaps his interest in Sussex stems from the fact that his sister was head girl of Roedean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.737.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-06", "file": "debates1980-08-06a.xml", "sha256": "8fc5c47dc7fe0d4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.737.2", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — EASTBOURNE HARBOUR BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Deputy head girl.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "That information is marginally incorrect. She was not head girl.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-06a.737.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-08-07", "file": "debates1980-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "9c0ef7619dd28bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-07a.766.3", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ORAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Rubbish.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that even the majority in Northern Ireland have probably more in common with Southern Ireland than with mainland Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-07a.766.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-07", "file": "debates1980-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "9c0ef7619dd28bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-07a.780.4", "colnum": "780", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"That is the Liberal Party conference.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "It will not be the non-event of the year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-07a.780.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-08-07", "file": "debates1980-08-07a.xml", "sha256": "9c0ef7619dd28bc6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-07a.882.3", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — COMMON FISHERIES POLICY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "been much comment in the fishing press and elsewhere, is No. 8958/80. It puts forward figures and percentages for the possible quota allocations to the different countries within the Community. When my right hon. Friend made a statement after the last Fisheries Council meeting, he stressed that the figures were merely illustrative of the criteria. They are not formal proposals from the Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-08-07a.882.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-27", "file": "debates1980-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "66a06442c869e93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-27a.8.9", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Question\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "In a long second, Mr. Speaker. One would deprecate any Government interference with a body that has produced such wealth for our country from international sources. I hope that my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-27a.8.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-27", "file": "debates1980-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "66a06442c869e93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-27a.22.2", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "y, all the trading arrangements that at present apply to textiles were negotiated by the right hon. Gentleman himself and his predecessor. They were not negotiated by me but by the then Labour Government. I am working within the trade framework which I inherited from the Labour Government. I could use some other word rather than \"successor\". I cannot give any guarantee that there will be an MFA 3—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-27a.22.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-10-27", "file": "debates1980-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "66a06442c869e93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-27a.42.0", "colnum": "42", "heading": "PRISON OFFICERS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Why?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": "rison reform. Such action would result in something for which the Prison Officers' Association has asked for a long time. The need for overtime would be reduced. The Prison Officers' Association constantly says that its members have to work too many hours in overtime. We must consider such steps during the next few days. We shall examine the Bill and do what we can to help. This Bill is important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-27a.41.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-27", "file": "debates1980-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "66a06442c869e93d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-27a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "PRISON OFFICERS (DISPUTE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "ould have changed that situation. I much regret it but I must emphasise that from my own contact with the Prison Officers' Associaion I know that that is a fact of life. I turn to what the hon. Member says about arbitration. I must point out that, as the right hon. Member for Leeds, South (Mr. Rees) said, the May committee examined all these claims and it recommended that some of them be accepted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-27a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-28", "file": "debates1980-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "9543a708cc1b8c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-28a.187.4", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "The Government remain committed to a 3 per cent. increase—this year, next year and the year after. As the right hon. Gentleman said, we cannot be certain, because we do not know whether we will overspend or underspend, but that is the aim, and we are committed to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-28a.187.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-28", "file": "debates1980-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "9543a708cc1b8c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-28a.219.2", "colnum": "219", "heading": "IMPRISONMENT (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "The purpose of the debate is to do just that. I will, of course, do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-28a.219.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-28", "file": "debates1980-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "9543a708cc1b8c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-28a.227.0", "colnum": "227", "heading": "IMPRISONMENT (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "mporary nature of the legislation. During the winter of discontent, as it has come to be called, I had to stand at the Government Dispatch Box dealing with the permanent emergency legislation that is on the statute book. Some people reminded me this morning that during that period I was not treated as generously during those four or five difficult weeks as we have sought to be in the past 24 hours", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-28a.227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-28", "file": "debates1980-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "9543a708cc1b8c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-28a.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "IMPRISONMENT (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Poland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": " the class on whose behalf Conservative Members operate. The exploited class consists of those, whether they are draughtsmen, prison officers, labourers, coal miners or whatever, who have only their labour power, which they sell to the other class in the process of production, distribution and exchange. I hope that in due course the right hon. Gentleman will pay tribute for that lucid explanation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-28a.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-28", "file": "debates1980-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "9543a708cc1b8c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-28a.324.3", "colnum": "324", "heading": "IMPRISONMENT (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": " matter raised by the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Budgen). I do not ask for a reply tonight. The first time that the emergency provisions Act introduced by Roy Jenkins was brought back to the House, we went through it line by line in Committee because we did not have the chance the first time round. I do not ask for a commitment now because I think that we have done rather well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-28a.324.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-28", "file": "debates1980-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "9543a708cc1b8c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-28a.345.1", "colnum": "345", "heading": "IMPRISONMENT (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) (MONEY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You mean yourself\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "me Office which can be moved around from section of expenditure to section of expenditure. Here is an opportunity, by the Home Secretary's own admission. There is money within the Home Office which can be reallocated We do not think that some of that allocation is wise or sensible. Indeed, we regard it as a cruel deception on the nation at large. When I say \"we\", I mean the Labour Party at large.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-28a.345.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-28", "file": "debates1980-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "9543a708cc1b8c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-28a.368.2", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": "ate and justifiable questions that have been put to him. The Minister is muttering. He is telling me that he does not have the information. That is clear to all of us. But it is also clear that he has a responsibility to come to the House with the information. It is the Minister who is asking for the powers, not us. If he wants the House to give him the powers, he must show how they will be used.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-28a.368.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-28", "file": "debates1980-10-28a.xml", "sha256": "9543a708cc1b8c02", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-28a.410.1", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "t there is some sort of Euro norm and that we, for instance, are an inferior race in relation to the treatment of minorities and that we may be dictated to and advised by, for instance, the Germans upon the treatment of minorities. That inevitably flows from our having signed the convention. I repeat what I said when some of my hon. Friends wished to take the matter of our immigration regulations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-28a.410.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-29", "file": "debates1980-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c1e878e0dfa80df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-29a.500.1", "colnum": "500", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "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": "cting, temporary leadership of the Labour Party will be available. On present form the occupant of that position seems likely to have about as much authority as the doorkeeper of Congress House, and as much job security as the chairman of Westward Television. The right hon. Gentleman has some qualifications for the job. Like his immediate predecessor, he is the owner of an ample mansion in Sussex—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-29a.500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-29", "file": "debates1980-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c1e878e0dfa80df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-29a.500.3", "colnum": "500", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": " home or abroad. There is common ground also in our concern about individuals and communities that suffer from those problems. If we are together to improve the prospect, it is of the utmost importance not to overlook two matters. First, the problems are in no way unique to Britain. Secondly, responsibility for these conditions cannot be laid exclusively at the door of Governments of either party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-29a.500.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-29", "file": "debates1980-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c1e878e0dfa80df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-29a.511.0", "colnum": "511", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "d at the Conservative Party conference. She said that she would not change her policy, and I believe that the whole House must take that seriously. I do not believe that hers is an economic strategy; I believe that it is a political strategy to break the power of organised labour, to permit the reconstruction of a society in which employees are reduced to the sort of serfdom that is now appearing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-29a.511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-29", "file": "debates1980-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c1e878e0dfa80df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-29a.511.0", "colnum": "511", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "resent Prime Minister to the present Secretary of State for Employment or to the Home Secretary, it would not help. If the right hon. Member for Sidcup (Mr. Heath) were brought back into the Government—as many of his party wish he were—to introduce his experience, it would not help. If the Liberal Party were brought into a Lib-Conservative alliance, it would not help. I go further and say that if—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-29a.511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-29", "file": "debates1980-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c1e878e0dfa80df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-29a.577.4", "colnum": "577", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about inflation?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "bined—because we now have North Sea oil to allow us to ride out an expansion of the economy—with a massive reduction in interest rates. If the Government say that the market controls interest rates, the answer is that the Government must control them. If necessary, they must use the printing press to bring interest rates down. It is the only way to bring interest rates down to the necessary level.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-29a.577.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-29", "file": "debates1980-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c1e878e0dfa80df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-29a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Burning.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "uch as that of the hon. Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton), that the only people in the country who did not really know what was going on were those in the Cabinet—or perhaps I should be more generous and say halt those in the Cabinet. I gather that the Prime Minister is not so much impressed by these events because she insists that the policy will not he changed. The lady is not for turning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-29a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-29", "file": "debates1980-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c1e878e0dfa80df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-29a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "thers. Where is the Secretary of State for Scotland? He must know what is going on, so we count him on that side. What about the Secretary of State for Wales? Which side is he on? Maybe they do not count him. Where is the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food? We have always counted on him. The Minister of Agriculture—I am very friendly with him; he has my old driver, and that is my trouble—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-29a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-29", "file": "debates1980-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c1e878e0dfa80df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-29a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": " The Minister of Agriculture—I am very friendly with him; he has my old driver, and that is my trouble—[ Interruption .] I shall soon get one back. The Minister of Agriculture takes the same precaution as his right hon. Friend the Member for Sidcup (Mr. Heath): he does not turn up at these debates. He finds it easier to vote for them if he does not have to listen to them. The right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-29a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-29", "file": "debates1980-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c1e878e0dfa80df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-29a.616.0", "colnum": "616", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When will you get the money?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "s been increasing by 2,000 a week and that in the month of September alone it was increasing by 5,000 a week. All these measures remain open until March 1981. We have been considering the future of the special measures. I saw the MSC the week before last. I took note of its comments, and I am discussing its proposals with my colleagues. I hope to announce the results of the annual review shortly.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-29a.616.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-29", "file": "debates1980-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c1e878e0dfa80df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-29a.616.0", "colnum": "616", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "trying to help the voluntary organisations to use voluntary labour where it is available and wishes to help. The hon. Member for Colne Valley asked about apprenticeships. Last year the Government aided 21,000 apprenticeship schemes. This year we are financing 25,000 young apprentices. However, during the next few weeks I hope to bring forward further proposals—not necessarily involving more money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-29a.616.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-29", "file": "debates1980-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c1e878e0dfa80df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-29a.616.0", "colnum": "616", "heading": "UNEMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "sion, as we will, we do not slide back into the same old methods that are the cause of our present problems. A combination of greater productivity and buying the better British goods that we produce can transform our position. I hope that a sufficient number of hon. Members will support British Leyland in the future and not find it necessary to drive around in foreign cars or to buy foreign goods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-29a.616.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-29", "file": "debates1980-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "1c1e878e0dfa80df", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-29a.642.0", "colnum": "642", "heading": "INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS (ASSISTED PLACES)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is absolutely correct. Brevity is not only the soul of wit but clearly the soul of Liberalism. The hon. Member has just saved me the need to make my next point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-29a.642.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-30", "file": "debates1980-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "38e7b76db8283847", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-30a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "May I assure the Leader of the House that there is great anxiety on the Opposition Benches to debate defence, particularly in view of the splendid demonstration last Sunday, which was a reflection of the wave of concern throughout the country at the warmongering attitude of the Government?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-30a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-30", "file": "debates1980-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "38e7b76db8283847", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-30a.709.0", "colnum": "709", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (FISHERIES MINISTERS' MEETING)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "l be used. It was agreed by the Community that we would do everything in our power to reach agreement by 1 January. The United Kingdom stands firmly behind the objective of trying to achieve agreement by 1 January. For the British fishing industry there is nothing more essential than obtaining an agreement. The longer we go before reaching an agreement, the weaker our negotiating position becomes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-30a.709.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-30", "file": "debates1980-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "38e7b76db8283847", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-30a.719.3", "colnum": "719", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "AN. HON. MEMBER: \"Like you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "fore us. I reflect, by comparison with that choice, that the American people are being offered in the presidential election there an embarras de richesse . I congratulate the Shadow Leader of the House on his witty and brilliant speech yesterday, but I do not know that it will do him much good. People are suspicious of witticisms. They associate them with Oscar Wilde and other undesirable persons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-30a.719.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-30", "file": "debates1980-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "38e7b76db8283847", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-30a.753.1", "colnum": "753", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "s the trouble of deciding whether or not a proposal is inherently practical. It is a method to which we sometimes resort when faced with something which, if throughly examined, would be found to be contradictory, to say \"Let us have an experiment, let us try it\". That method has been adopted in more serious contexts than that of the constitution and procedure of Standing Committees of this House.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-30a.753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-30", "file": "debates1980-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "38e7b76db8283847", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-30a.753.1", "colnum": "753", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": " of examining legislation to force a Minister to debate a specific amendment on a specific line. I do not think that is diminished by the fact that in Standing Committee, for reasons which are well understood, one half of the Committee tends to be mute and the other to be vocal. The mute part of the Committee is not necessarily ineffective because it is mute. For one thing, it hears the arguments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-30a.753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-30", "file": "debates1980-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "38e7b76db8283847", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-30a.774.1", "colnum": "774", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "s a big difference between the parliamentarian when he is on a Standing Committee and when he is on a Select Committee. When one serves on a Standing Committee one is reflecting this Chamber upstairs. Every hon. Member has his party allegiance and wears his party clothes. He is conscious of the party Whips and if he wishes to argue on a particular point it takes courage to go against party policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-30a.774.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-30", "file": "debates1980-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "38e7b76db8283847", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-30a.824.0", "colnum": "824", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "fell like a pebble in a tar barrel and was never heard of again. When we were first taking evidence in the Procedure Committee in 1976, I put the idea to the witnesses who came before us and was amazed to find that it was looked upon very favourably, and the bandwagon for this ran. Now, to my great surprise, we have the proposal before us, and there has been a very favourable response to the idea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-30a.824.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-30", "file": "debates1980-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "38e7b76db8283847", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-30a.829.4", "colnum": "829", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Yes, I was. I have been in the House throughout except for three-quarters of an hour, when I went out for—I shall not go into that. In that very brief absence, a very full note was taken of what was said. I note the wish expressed in the proposed amendment by the Members who have supported it. The occasions when oral statements are required are very rare.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-30a.829.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-10-30", "file": "debates1980-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "38e7b76db8283847", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-30a.829.4", "colnum": "829", "heading": "HOUSE OF COMMONS (PROCEDURE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The House can.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "N. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Yes. But when such occasions occur, oral statements are generally made. I believe that the amendment is unnecessarily restrictive. With regard to the different circumstances from the circumstances envisiged by this amendment, I have made it clear to the various Ministers concerned that in general one would wish statements to be made orally. But I cannot force Ministers to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-10-30a.829.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-03", "file": "debates1980-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "2c8748074ffae712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-03a.943.3", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — North Sea Oil Production (Safety)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister answer the question that I put to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-03a.943.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-03", "file": "debates1980-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "2c8748074ffae712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-03a.959.6", "colnum": "959", "heading": "SOUTH KOREA (DEATH SENTENCE ON POLITICIAN)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "l procedure, it is extremely important that the views of both sides of the House should be communicated to the South Korean Government. Will the Lord Privy Seal make clear that it is not only the sentence but the whole court martial proceedings that appals us, the flimsiness of the case against the Mr. Kim and, most profoundly, the lurch backwards of South Korea to military and authoritarian rule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-03a.959.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-03", "file": "debates1980-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "2c8748074ffae712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-03a.976.1", "colnum": "976", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MILK AND PIG PRODUCTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "preceding_text": "us. Where does that money go? A large amount is spent on subsidising exports to the Soviet Union and elsewhere at ridiculous knockdown prices, a net transfer of resources from the Community to third countries, subsidising the consumption of milk by livestock, and the cost of storage. That is not a sensible or efficient way of helping small producers, whether in the United Kingdom, France or Italy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-03a.976.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-03", "file": "debates1980-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "2c8748074ffae712", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-03a.977.1", "colnum": "977", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (MILK AND PIG PRODUCTION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Strang", "preceding_text": "The subsidisation of skimmed milk for pigs was authorised by the previous Labour Government. But perhaps I am not making myself clear. I am not complaining about that. I am complaining about the nonsense of the surplus. I am not asking about the measures that were taken to cope with it. I am making the point that the starting point for any discussion in relation to the CAP—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-03a.977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-04", "file": "debates1980-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "32a75aa6c1dc4d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-04a.1169.0", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (PRODUCT LIABILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": " my right hon. Friend for not being here when she opened the debate with what I understand was a first-class speech. I had a constituency engagement, and this debate came on at short notice. I apologise profusely. I am also rather sorry that so few hon. Members from the Opposition are present for a very important debate. I find it hard to understand why they are not here in more force this evening", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-04a.1169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-04", "file": "debates1980-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "32a75aa6c1dc4d54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-04a.1199.1", "colnum": "1199", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (PRODUCT LIABILITY)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Gentleman for his gracious remarks. I have noted his concern about my being got at. I have also noted that he is far more defiant in opposition than in Government. He expressed his defiance of his right hon. and learned Friend the previous Solicitor-General", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-04a.1199.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-05", "file": "debates1980-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "3a0306430d10048c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-05a.1280.5", "colnum": "1280", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "I apologise for the first omission, but the hon. Gentleman has got his supplementary in. Generally—and I shall look at the position in South Yorkshire—there is no problem about training facilities. The training facilities are there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-05a.1280.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-05", "file": "debates1980-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "3a0306430d10048c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-05a.1286.0", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "Because the number is so very small.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-05a.1286.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-05", "file": "debates1980-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "3a0306430d10048c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-05a.1286.2", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "It is not for me to decide the cleaning arrangements for each Government Department. It is up to each Department to make its own arrangements in the most economical way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-05a.1286.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-05", "file": "debates1980-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "3a0306430d10048c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-05a.1326.2", "colnum": "1326", "heading": "TENANTS' RIGHTS, ETC. (SCOTLAND) AMENDMENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Canavan (West Stirling-shire)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Canavan (West Stirling-shire)", "preceding_text": "ially categorised as homeless. But despite that expansion, and what appears to have been a consensus about public sector housing in the past, we are now in danger of seeing the clock being turned back. For the first time in the history of public sector housing we shall see a reduction in public sector housing stock, and that reduction will have resulted from the policies of the Conservative Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-05a.1326.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-05", "file": "debates1980-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "3a0306430d10048c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-05a.1332.0", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "TENANTS' RIGHTS, ETC. (SCOTLAND) AMENDMENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin J. O'Neill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin J. O'Neill", "preceding_text": "bly will not be a million miles away from those of the Minister. I missed the Minister's honeyed words. He invariably sugared the unpleasant pill that we had to swallow in Committee in the 1,750 columns of Hansard for which he was largely responsible in the sense that he was probably the only person on the Government Benches who spoke at length in defence of the wretched piece of main legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-05a.1332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-05", "file": "debates1980-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "3a0306430d10048c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-05a.1336.2", "colnum": "1336", "heading": "TENANTS' RIGHTS, ETC. (SCOTLAND) AMENDMENT BILL [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"The worst.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "—to ensure that council houses are not sold until the electorate can exercise their right and rid this country of one of the worst Governments it has had since the 1930s.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-05a.1336.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-06", "file": "debates1980-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "f79104e1bd41ee76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-06a.1441.3", "colnum": "1441", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir G. Howe", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on his success thus far and express the hope that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-06a.1441.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-06", "file": "debates1980-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "f79104e1bd41ee76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-06a.1449.4", "colnum": "1449", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I shall say absolutely nothing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-06a.1449.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-06", "file": "debates1980-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "f79104e1bd41ee76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-06a.1464.1", "colnum": "1464", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — MIGRATION OF LABOUR", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Eden", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Eden", "preceding_text": "While there is still widespread support for the Government's economic policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-06a.1464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-06", "file": "debates1980-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "f79104e1bd41ee76", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-06a.1540.2", "colnum": "1540", "heading": "OFFSHORE SAFETY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "an harmonisation group, which consists of officials of countries bordering the North Sea. The committee is committed to the harmonisation of regulations on the continental shelf on matters of safety and pollution. That point was also raised by the right hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland. I suspect that the House is anxious to move on to other business, so I do not propose to detain hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-06a.1540.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-10", "file": "debates1980-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "956ac47701845aef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-10a.19.1", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "I have never been a great observer and follower of any specific, extreme economic theory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-10a.19.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-10", "file": "debates1980-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "956ac47701845aef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-10a.36.2", "colnum": "36", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION, WORKINGTON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "rnment spokesman to put a clear point of view? The Home Secretary said today that there was no 6 per cent. limit, and that the bargainers negotiating an agreement with the firemen could fix what figure they liked so long as it was within the global amount set by the cash limit. Therefore, the Government are now under an obligation to clarify their position, in that if the Home Secretary is saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-10a.36.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-10", "file": "debates1980-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "956ac47701845aef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-10a.36.3", "colnum": "36", "heading": "BRITISH STEEL CORPORATION, WORKINGTON", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I have got the hon. Gentleman's point. I have received no request concerning a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-10a.36.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-11", "file": "debates1980-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "2535cfe10ce4aaa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-11a.176.2", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. There is a quantifiable result, which we are measuring by rather more sophisticated measures than we have used in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-11a.176.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-11", "file": "debates1980-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "2535cfe10ce4aaa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-11a.176.4", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "Because the House will want—I think that the hon. Member was confirming this—a figure to be attached to the quantifiable savings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-11a.176.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-11", "file": "debates1980-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "2535cfe10ce4aaa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-11a.182.0", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Rubbish\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. The activities of the Strathclyde council in this respect were just as much a piece of cheap political propaganda—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-11a.182.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-11", "file": "debates1980-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "2535cfe10ce4aaa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-11a.375.0", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT, PLANNING AND LAND (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "I accept that. May I again point out that as a result of the deletion", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-11a.375.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-11", "file": "debates1980-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "2535cfe10ce4aaa9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-11a.375.2", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — LOCAL GOVERNMENT, PLANNING AND LAND (No. 2) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "hon. Members: \"Rubbish\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "d. With his usual perspicacity he has put his finger on the important point. My hon. Friend has made a better point in a few brief words than I could have made in more words. I hone that the Minister will not try to cover up the Government's defeat, or the humiliation that the Secretary of State has had to suffer once again as a result of his arrogant arrogation of powers that he does not possess.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-11a.375.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-12", "file": "debates1980-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a6b30116cc51fb4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-12a.458.1", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "I suppose that the Minister feels that it would be too damning for the Government's policy to make an estimate. My hon. Friend the Member for Salford, East (Mr. Allaun) referred to the increase in the number of families waiting for local authority housing. It is almost 1¼ million. About 8,000 of those are in Wolverhampton, which represents an increase of 1,500—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-12a.458.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-12", "file": "debates1980-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a6b30116cc51fb4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-12a.458.3", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "What response is the Minister making to the AMA's estimate of the shortage of houses in the next five years?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-12a.458.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-12", "file": "debates1980-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a6b30116cc51fb4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-12a.492.1", "colnum": "492", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS (NON-DISCRIMINATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "cil, I wait for the day when he will apologise for his remarks regarding Walsall council. The borough undoubtedly faces many housing and environmental problems. Unfortunately, the hon. Gentleman uses his time in this House to bring in a sham Bill—a Bill without any need or justification. It would have been far better if he had tried to present the problems that we face in the borough. For example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-12a.492.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-12", "file": "debates1980-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a6b30116cc51fb4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-12a.493.2", "colnum": "493", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS (NON-DISCRIMINATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He cannot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills (Mr. Shepherd) has a valid point. The hon. Member for Walsall, North (Mr. Winnick) must confine himself to answering—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-12a.493.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-12", "file": "debates1980-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a6b30116cc51fb4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-12a.493.3", "colnum": "493", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS (NON-DISCRIMINATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "What I am saying, Mr. Speaker, basically, is that there is no such discrimination as argued by the hon. Member, but there is discrimination by the present Government against the borough as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-12a.493.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-12", "file": "debates1980-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a6b30116cc51fb4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-12a.493.5", "colnum": "493", "heading": "LOCAL GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS (NON-DISCRIMINATION)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "One of the reasons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-12a.493.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-12", "file": "debates1980-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "a6b30116cc51fb4c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-12a.526.0", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION PARTIES (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Townend", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Townend", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman be good enough to explain why the Labour Party, over the last two decades, has seemed to be incapable of persuading the ordinary Labour voter to subscribe sufficient money to finance the Labour Party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-12a.526.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.603.7", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "Is not the whole position now complicated because the Government are taking a stupid attitude in relation to the firemen's pay? Is it not time that the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.603.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.616.3", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Woodall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Woodall", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister accept that Labour Members appreciate her sympathy extended to my right hon. Friend because he has his foot and ankle in pot? Will she, in return, accept our sympathy because her Government appear to be going to pot—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.616.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"The firemen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I can best illustrate it by an example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.618.0", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "she and her Government, having considered the matter afresh—as I trust they did at the Cabinet this morning—would come to the House and try to rescue the arbitration system in this country instead of inflicting such grave injury upon it. Is she aware that, at the time of the last election, Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg, who is a member of her Government, and who also happens to be my Member of Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.618.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.620.3", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER (ENGAGEMENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Too long\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "er point of order, Mr. Speaker, may I ask you for a little guidance about the length of Prime Minister's Question Time? We now have Members on the Conservative Benches who are to a slight degree less part-time than they used to be. As a result, there is somewhat greater pressure on Question Time. Many of us who have been in the House—I speak personally now, and I have been here for 15 or 16 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.620.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.624.1", "colnum": "624", "heading": "BRITISH SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "preceding_text": "It is always agreeable to watch the process of education working its way through the minds of the Secretary of State for Industry and the Minister. That, at least, is something of a \"Silkin\" lining—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.624.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.639.1", "colnum": "639", "heading": "BRITISH SHIPBUILDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "r. My own view is that that is not likely to be the case in the immediate future, but it remains to be seen. The capital programme will continue at more or less the present level. The hon. Gentleman asked how productivity can be improved if British Shipbuilders do not have orders. The fact is that it does have orders at present, and it has continuity. It is necessary, of course, that it continues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.639.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.702.0", "colnum": "702", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT (PICKETING AND CLOSED SHOP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are all waiting to speak.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "preceding_text": " basis for further conflict. We can do without that. Had the Secretary of State tried to achieve some agreement between the CBI and the TUC, had he been able, through ACAS, to process that agreement, there would have been a great deal of support for these codes from both sides of the House. Only one speaker tonight, apart from the Secretary of State, has had anything to say in favour of the codes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.705.0", "colnum": "705", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT (PICKETING AND CLOSED SHOP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Madel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Madel", "preceding_text": "if it so wishes, to call a strike or other industrial action. The same applies to other trade unions. I should like the code to state that disciplinary action should not be taken or threatened by a union against a member if the rules and procedures of that union have not been carried out. People may argue that it is incumbent on trade unions constantly to look at their rules. It most certainly is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.705.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.741.4", "colnum": "741", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT (PICKETING AND CLOSED SHOP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker", "preceding_text": " occasion and the present. Under the 1975 Act we delegated the responsibility for preparing the codes, subject to endorsement by Parliament, to the independent body, ACAS, the council of which is made up not of lawyers or Members of Parliament but of those who are engaged, day in and day out, in the practical realities of industrial relations. Furthermore, we provided that the codes could be used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.741.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.741.4", "colnum": "741", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT (PICKETING AND CLOSED SHOP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker", "preceding_text": "n to these matters, because their ignorance is one of the contributory factors to the difficulties that the country endures. They come reeling into the House from the Smoking Room every time we have a major debate, sending whisky and brandy fumes across the Floor of the House, only in order to form a claque. They are the equivalent of the Spion Kop lads at Liverpool, the hooligans on the terraces—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.741.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.741.4", "colnum": "741", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT (PICKETING AND CLOSED SHOP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker", "preceding_text": "tal point concerns from where the Secretary of State derives his authority for such a dogmatic and categorical assertion. It will probably be read by many as a declaration that there should be no new pre-entry closed shops. The Secretary of State has no authority for that. I wish to make one further point. You will notice, Mr. Speaker, that I am casting aside many of the pieces of paper before me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.741.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.752.3", "colnum": "752", "heading": "EMPLOYMENT (PICKETING AND CLOSED SHOP)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "It is not a major difference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.752.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.763.4", "colnum": "763", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": " a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I wish to raise what is by any standards a scandalous denial of the rights of this House. Earlier this evening, the Secretary of State for the Environment published a written answer to a question which amounted to an announcement that council house tenants in the United Kingdom are soon to endure a rent increase of from £2.50 to £3 a week—an increase of 30 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.763.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.763.4", "colnum": "763", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": " the announcement—an announcement that he was clearly prepared to make, since a written document has been published for more than 24 hours. I therefore ask you, Mr. Speaker, what opportunity the Opposition have to defend not only council tenants but normal democratic procedures. In what way can we postpone prorogation in order that this disgraceful conduct by the Secretary of State can be debated?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.763.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.764.1", "colnum": "764", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Before I take any further points of order, let me say that I shall reply to the right hon. Gentleman, but at present we are waiting for Black-Rod—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.764.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.764.2", "colnum": "764", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Speaker. It may be for the convenience of the House if I explain that up to now consultative processes were not involved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.764.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.764.2", "colnum": "764", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Speaker. It may be for the convenience of the House if I explain that up to now consultative processes were not involved—[ Interruption ]—in fixing or deciding the level—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.764.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.764.2", "colnum": "764", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "preceding_text": "ruption ]—in fixing or arriving at a decision about the level of council house rents. It was the practice of my predecessors to announce their views—when they had taken the decision finally—to the House, and there was then no way in which the views of other people could be collected before the decision was taken. Under the Housing Act 1980, we have provided for the first time that there should be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.764.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.764.2", "colnum": "764", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "preceding_text": "efore the decision was taken. Under the Housing Act 1980, we have provided for the first time that there should be—[ Laughter. ] I should have thought that Opposition Members would welcome consultation, not laugh at it. The Government have provided for a period of consultation before the decisions are taken and announced to the House. What I have done today is to start the process of consultation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.764.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.765.0", "colnum": "765", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "For the statement that the Secretary of State has just made to contain any shred of truth it must mean that there is still a prospect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.765.0", "colnum": "765", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "For the statement that the Secretary of State has just made to contain any shred of truth it must mean that there is still a prospect—[ Interruption ]—that council house rents will not increase by £2.50 or £3 a week. Nobody in the House believes that to be true and nobody in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.765.3", "colnum": "765", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Black Rod.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.765.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.765.3", "colnum": "765", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Go back.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Black Rod. [ Interruption. ] Black Rod.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.765.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.765.3", "colnum": "765", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Black Rod. [ Interruption. ] Black Rod. [HON. MEMBERS:\"Go back.\"] Order. I appeal to hon. Members to make way for Black Rod.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.765.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.765.3", "colnum": "765", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Black Rod. [ Interruption. ] Black Rod. [HON. MEMBERS:\"Go back.\"] Order. I appeal to hon. Members to make way for Black Rod. [HON. MEMBERS:\"No\".] Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.765.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.765.3", "colnum": "765", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Black Rod. [ Interruption. ] Black Rod. [HON. MEMBERS:\"Go back.\"] Order. I appeal to hon. Members to make way for Black Rod. [HON. MEMBERS:\"No\".] Order. [HON. MEMBERS:\"Name them.\"] I have no desire at this stage of the Session to name anyone. I believe that our normal traditions and courtesies should be observed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.765.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.765.3", "colnum": "765", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Black Rod. [ Interruption. ] Black Rod. [HON. MEMBERS:\"Go back.\"] Order. I appeal to hon. Members to make way for Black Rod. [HON. MEMBERS:\"No\".] Order. [HON. MEMBERS:\"Name them.\"] I have no desire at this stage of the Session to name anyone. I believe that our normal traditions and courtesies should be observed. [ Interruption. ] I ask hon. Members to make way for Black Rod.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.765.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.765.7", "colnum": "765", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I make one further appeal to hon. Members to make way for Black Rod.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.765.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.765.8", "colnum": "765", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "It would be helpful to the whole House if we could escape from the difficulty in which we are placed, but the Opposition feel that the rights of the House of Commons have been grossly interfered with by the behaviour of the Secretary of State for the Environment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.765.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.767.4", "colnum": "767", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That was a year ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "sley), the Opposition spokesman on this matter, questioned that position. I was absent from my place for a few minutes during earlier exchanges because I wanted to check the facts. I have been able to obtain from the Library of the House a copy of the written answer that I gave on 16 November 1979, in which I made it quite clear that I was anticipating a rent increase of about £1·50 a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.767.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.768.0", "colnum": "768", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "e, under the Housing Act 1980, I have recently been presenting to the House a series of consultative documents which are necessary to implement the 1980 Act. There has been a series of such documents. Two of them were made available in the Library, again complying with precedent, as a result of a written answer today. Therefore, I believe that I have totally fulfilled the precedent in this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.767.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.768.2", "colnum": "768", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": " making arrangements for their budgets for the financial year 1981–82. If we do not proceed with the consultation processes that I have set in train today, there will be uncertainty in the planning of local authorities' budgets. That will not be helpful to local authorities in their budgeting process. Therefore, my advice to the House is that we should proceed with the consultative process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.768.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.768.2", "colnum": "768", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "geting process. Therefore, my advice to the House is that we should proceed with the consultative process. [HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Only one conceivable factor would make me wish to change that advice, and that is your authority, Mr. Speaker. I believe that that is now at stake. I am prepared to begin the consultative process in the new Parliament and, therefore, to withdraw the consultative document.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.768.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.769.0", "colnum": "769", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman concluded his remarks with the statement for which we had asked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.769.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.769.0", "colnum": "769", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "is. As I said, I am glad that the right hon. Gentleman concluded his remarks with the statement for which we asked precisely for the reason that we asked for it, because it relieves the House of the difficulties in which it was placed. Therefore, what my right hon Friend the Member for Birmingham, Sparkbrook (Mr. Hattersley) asked for originally has now been accepted by the Government. I must say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.769.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.769.4", "colnum": "769", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Before Black Rod enters the Chamber, I want to tell the House that I believe that we endanger our parliamentary institutions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.769.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-13", "file": "debates1980-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "84c7f205b7fa0d80", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.769.6", "colnum": "769", "heading": "COUNCIL HOUSES (RENTS)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I believe that Black Rod has been delayed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-13a.769.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-20", "file": "debates1980-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "17032fe38afde1c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.7.2", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "d Friend the Member for South Fylde (Mr. Gardner), who then represented Billericay. That was the first of his many speeches that have delighted and impressed the House. In those days, the mover and seconder followed the conventions, just as we shall today. They were not unduly contentious. They willingly made mention of the constituencies from which they came. Most welcome of all, they were brief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.7.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-20", "file": "debates1980-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "17032fe38afde1c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.15.1", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about your 5 per cent. pay policy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "t again carefully. I may have missed it. Perhaps this is it: \"Further measures will be taken by any shabby or surreptitious means available such as last-minute answers to written questions to introduce pay policies to be described by some other name.\" The 6 per cent. pay policy, introduced by the right hon. Lady and the Government by such means, is, above all, a vicious attack on low-paid workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.15.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-11-20", "file": "debates1980-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "17032fe38afde1c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.16.0", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "f the right hon. Lady coming to Wales to speak on that occasion. I doubt whether we shall see her in the near future. I know that Conservative Members do not like to hear these reports from The Times, but they have to hear them. Another report has the headlines British publishers turn to foreign firms as costs soar. Eyebrows raised as Shorter Oxford Dictionary is printed abroad for the first time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.15.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-20", "file": "debates1980-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "17032fe38afde1c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.18.0", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": " that is, until he became a member of the 1974 Labour Government. That Government rightly retained Britain's independent nuclear deterrent, and the champion of the unilateral disarmers managed to swallow his principles. No one can or should deny the right hon. Gentleman's antagonism to Britain's membership of the European Community. He was remorseless in his efforts to prevent our joining the Six.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.18.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-20", "file": "debates1980-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "17032fe38afde1c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.18.0", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Queen's Speech?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "ice. Once again, they are ignoring the facts. They know that our future is inextricably involved with the fate of our neighbours in Europe, with that of our partners in America and with that of our friends elsewhere. They know, but not many will say so. As a result, their attitude on three fundamental issues—on Europe, on defence and on international trade — is negative and profoundly destructive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.18.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-20", "file": "debates1980-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "17032fe38afde1c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.23.1", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " caused by the underlying weakness of our industrial economy and the fact that we have just not been sufficiently competitive. The average level of unemployment was only 300,000 in the first post-war Conservative Government; it was almost 500,000 during the Labour Government of 1964–70, almost 750,000 during the last Conservative Government, and 1.2 million under the last Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.23.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-20", "file": "debates1980-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "17032fe38afde1c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.23.2", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "preceding_text": "I welcome the Prime Minister's—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.23.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-20", "file": "debates1980-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "17032fe38afde1c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.24.10", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about unemployment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ing review of public expenditure. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will be pleased if my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer makes a statement on Monday, which I am sure he will seek permission to do. There has been vastly increased spending on public sector pay, we are massively overspending on the nationalised industries and we are spending more on social security.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.24.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-20", "file": "debates1980-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "17032fe38afde1c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.28.1", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Lady aware, as the person who ended political status, that her words are right and that they should be heard throughout the world?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.28.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-20", "file": "debates1980-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "17032fe38afde1c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.28.2", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ir members are acknowledging that pay increases have to be earned. Exports have done well despite the pound's strength. The balance of trade is good. The number of strikes has fallen dramatically. We are the only major industrial nation self-sufficient in energy. Rising revenues from North Sea oil will give us the opportunity to promote real growth in the economy. We have got inflation right down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.28.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-20", "file": "debates1980-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "17032fe38afde1c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.28.2", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e the pound's strength. The balance of trade is good. The number of strikes has fallen dramatically. We are the only major industrial nation self-sufficient in energy. Rising revenues from North Sea oil will give us the opportunity to promote real growth in the economy. We have got inflation right down. [ Interruption. ] We have got inflation down from its previous heights, and we intend to go on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.28.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-20", "file": "debates1980-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "17032fe38afde1c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.28.2", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ntend to go on. [ Interruption. ] In the last six months it has been right down. I agree that on the annual basis it is not yet right down. When we have got inflation, on the annual basis, right down, when we have achieved better productivity, when we have realistic pay settlements, we shall see a real revival in our country's fortunes. Nations overseas are applauding our new strength and resolve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.28.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-20", "file": "debates1980-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "17032fe38afde1c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.28.3", "colnum": "28", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "e that I should like to contest and to which I shall return in the main body of my remarks. Increasingly, when people in politics, journalism and industry try to talk to the Prime Minister about other policies that might be more productively pursued, they find that it is like making an important telephone call, only to find that when they get through there is an answering machine at the other end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.28.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-20", "file": "debates1980-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "17032fe38afde1c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.59.0", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": " is self-sufficient in oil and has the prospect of breaking out of the straitjacket of a balance of payments constraint that has stopped every attempt at expansion that has been made since the war, be plunged into the deepest depression that we have had since the war? Why are we, with all those prospects, in the worst situation of all industrial countries? The answer lies with Government policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.59.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-20", "file": "debates1980-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "17032fe38afde1c9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGuire", "preceding_text": "at, there is nothing I can do to disabuse him. In general, according to this report, the men in Northern Ireland have not been convicted in the same way as people are convicted in the rest of the United Kingdom. Because we differ, we have a duty to ensure that there is no suspicion of anything other than fair play according to the rules that we lay down. This report says that that is not the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-20a.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-24", "file": "debates1980-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "e7c3cc6fb10dd12b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-24a.213.5", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Economic Policy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the firemen?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "The Armed Services are one of the groups for which the House has long recognised the existence of special arrangements in the review of their pay. They will have to be considered in the context of the policy as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-24a.213.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-24", "file": "debates1980-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "e7c3cc6fb10dd12b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-24a.229.0", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Will the right hon. Gentleman say what he has to say?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "preceding_text": " The Community's voice in world economic negotiations is already powerful. States throughout the world seek to strengthen their political and economic relations with it. Greece becomes a part of it in a few weeks. Two more States are negotiating to join and have our support. Three years ago, at the Labour Party conference, the Leader of the Opposition had this to say on the subject of enlargement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-24a.229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-24", "file": "debates1980-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "e7c3cc6fb10dd12b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-24a.282.0", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Foreign Affairs and Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "preceding_text": "t is easy for the do-gooders among us to say to the Government \"Give them all more money\", by which they mean that we should impose greater taxation on our own people so that aid can be sent out to the Third world. That is usually the worst sort of aid. People are wanted to help the Third world—good, educated, energetic and devoted people, preferably young, who can show the way to the new nations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-24a.282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-25", "file": "debates1980-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "cde07bee80c07c8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-25a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Education and Science", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that he did not sound terribly unbiased when he was answering the question of the hon. Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton)?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-25a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-25", "file": "debates1980-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "cde07bee80c07c8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-25a.312.3", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Education and Science", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Baker", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. and Learned Friend agree that the inspectors' report on ILEA is a damning indictment of the quality of secondary education available in inner London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-25a.312.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-25", "file": "debates1980-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "cde07bee80c07c8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-25a.322.3", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "at they can in the circumstances. It is clear that if the Government were now to lift the moratorium on those authorities that are currently underspending—that is, frankly, what we would like to do—there would be a substantial risk of exceeding the cash limit. We are not prepared to take that risk. There is no option, therefore, but to continue the standstill on new commitments for the time being.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-25a.322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-25", "file": "debates1980-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "cde07bee80c07c8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-25a.328.10", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hypocrites.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ed precedent. I wish to qualify that statement in one material way. I followed the precedent established by the Labour Government in 1976–77 and in 1977–78. What I should perhaps have told the House is that in 1978–79 and in 1979–80 the Labour Government issued their rent guidelines to local authorities without an announcement to Parliament at all, so far as I can find.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-25a.328.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-25", "file": "debates1980-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "cde07bee80c07c8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-25a.334.0", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": " about a month's time the county authorities will be advantaged at the expense of the towns. However, it is clear that not all Conservative authorities will be so advantaged. The Secretary of State's record indicates that he is as ministerially incompetent as he is politically prejudiced. We now have the advantage of knowing some of the ways in which the rate support grant will work out next year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-25a.334.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-25", "file": "debates1980-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "cde07bee80c07c8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-25a.351.0", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald W. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald W. Brown", "preceding_text": "I agree with the hon. Member for Hornchurch (Mr. Squire) only on what he said about dishonesty. His speech showed a lack of knowledge, or he was being dishonest. He knows that the shorthold proposition was deliberately brought in to take the place of council housing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-25a.351.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-25", "file": "debates1980-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "cde07bee80c07c8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-25a.364.1", "colnum": "364", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing", "cue_speaker": "Sir Albert Costain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Albert Costain", "preceding_text": "ord. Do Labour Members realise that a number of landlords are trade union pension funds? When my company used to build flats for letting, the trustees of certain pension funds owned by trade unions said that they would prefer us to build offices. So we built offices, when houses were needed. Many hundreds of thousands of people are homeless today because we continue to bring politics into housing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-25a.364.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-25", "file": "debates1980-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "cde07bee80c07c8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-25a.394.0", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Gummer", "preceding_text": "oes not bring it on to the market. We must face this issue not as a party political issue but as a humanitarian one. I cannot go on telling young couples \"You cannot have a home\" when I know that places are available for them which are not let because of the false arguments of the Marxist-oriented Opposition Front Bench spokesmen. Once again, I ask that they give this matter serious consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-25a.394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-25", "file": "debates1980-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "cde07bee80c07c8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-25a.394.0", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Selwyn Gummer", "preceding_text": " am opposed to shorthold, it is contrary to my beliefs, but because I believe that it will help the homeless I will go against my own party view in order to help them.\" I do not mind how the right hon. Gentleman says it. He can cover it up as much as he likes. But I ask him to accept the plea of those of us who represent people in the countryside to do something about it, because it matters to us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-25a.394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-25", "file": "debates1980-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "cde07bee80c07c8d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-25a.405.7", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I understood the Minister to be raising a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-25a.405.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-26", "file": "debates1980-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "99fa43fd5b889d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-26a.426.1", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairgrieve", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairgrieve", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his helpful intervention. I believe that this is a matter of the utmost importance. May I make another brief quotation? I think that this is important—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-26a.426.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-26", "file": "debates1980-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "99fa43fd5b889d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-26a.445.0", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. James Prior)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. James Prior)", "preceding_text": "er when in Government was to slap on industry a surcharge of 2 per cent., which presumably they thought would have some effect on their borrowing requirement, otherwise why did they do it? Here they are today trying to argue in their amendment that the Chancellor's measures announced on Monday were designed to create more unemployment. What did they do in 1978, when unemployment was still rising?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-26a.445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-26", "file": "debates1980-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "99fa43fd5b889d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-26a.447.5", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. There must surely be some sort of remedy in your hands if a Minister of the Crown comes to this House and clearly attempts to cheat—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-26a.447.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-26", "file": "debates1980-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "99fa43fd5b889d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-26a.511.0", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": " under this Government. The Government have rejected all these ideas out of hand. We all know that what this country needs above all else, and what every citizen passionately wishes for, is the recovery of the strength and effectiveness of our manufacturing industry. We have a number of historical handicaps. We have a history of industrial decline which it will be difficult to arrest. But we have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-26a.511.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-26", "file": "debates1980-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "99fa43fd5b889d7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-26a.519.3", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "I know rather more about St. Ives than the right hon. Gentleman knows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-26a.519.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.566.3", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "called \"£572 million\"? Will the right hon. Lady say whether those precise figures were before the Cabinet when it drew up the package and whether it was able to compare those increases in revenue with the possible cuts or non-cuts? Did she and the Cabinet also agree at the same time that those figures should be left out of the presentation of the package to the House? Will she also tell the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.566.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.566.4", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "A full statement was made in accordance with precedent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.566.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.566.4", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "A full statement was made in accordance with precedent—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"]—by means of a full written answer on Tuesday, and it gave the full details. The only change to which my right hon. and learned Friend referred was an increase in the percentage contribution applying to employees. That was the only change. Absolute levels of contribution go up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.566.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.566.4", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "on go up—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] I begin to wonder whether the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition understands the question that he has asked. The Bill was passed when the right hon. Gentleman was Secretary of State for Employment, and written answers were made when he was Secretary of State for Employment and when he was Leader of the House. The absolute contribution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.566.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.566.4", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "eman was Secretary of State for Employment, and written answers were made when he was Secretary of State for Employment and when he was Leader of the House. The absolute contribution—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] I prefer to give a full answer in my own way. The absolute levels of contribution go up every year for three reasons. First, earnings increase and somebody earning £70 last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.566.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.567.3", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman asked me about specific figures for employers' contributions. The employer's contribution—the percentage—did not change. The right hon. Gentleman's Government changed the percentage of the employer's contribution, and they sometimes did so by means of a written answer. We have not done that. The increase in the employer's contribution arises either as a result of increases in earnings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.567.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.567.3", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman's Government changed the percentage of the employer's contribution, and they sometimes did so by means of a written answer. We have not done that. The increase in the employer's contribution arises either as a result of increases in earnings—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"] I am trying to give the figures. If right hon. and hon. Members do not want them, I shall not give them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.567.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.573.0", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman recognised, the Falkland Islands could not be described as exactly central. I cannot raise the matter with the Minister of State, but I will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.573.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Let him tell us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ut the 'broad level' of the increase. One thing is certain, and that is that the House of Commons did not know about the increase, because it was not told. It appears that the Cabinet did not know. Perhaps the Prime Minister did not know. The only question left to ask is whether the Chancellor knew. If the Chancellor knew, why on earth did he not tell the House, the Cabinet and the Prime Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.588.3", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Not in that sense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.588.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.590.3", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "Of course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.590.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.591.3", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "Opposition Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.591.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.591.7", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "All those who follow these matters were able to see what was happening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.591.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.592.4", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": " employers' national insurance contribution rate by 1¼ per cent., as against ¾ per cent. for the employee. On no occasion did the Labour Government act to abate or modify the burden falling on the employer. On occasion after occasion, they acted to increase that burden. The right hon. Gentleman is the last person who has any right whatsoever to criticise the steps that we have taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.592.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.593.5", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No. Barber.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. If I heard the remark correctly, it seems that the House is difficult to please. When Black Rod wants to come, hon. Members do not want him.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.593.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "It was not on the question of unemployment. Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.603.1", "colnum": "603", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "e is a fallacious argument. It is not the efficient who can cope with that. The efficient, as we see from our great firms, have a very small margin for improvement in a given period of time. Therefore, when they are faced with that rate of increase in such a short time they are in the utmost difficulties, as we now see. It would have been right to ensure that sterling did not rise as fast as that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.603.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.636.0", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Thank God for that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "preceding_text": "ustries would react in the same way as the private sector. Perhaps they thought that faced with cash limits and cuts in the rate support grant they would resist wage increases and cut down manning levels. The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to make local government officials and nationalised industry chairmen in the image of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.636.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.648.3", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Parry", "preceding_text": "Mr. Robert Parry (Liverpool, Scotland Exchange) rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.648.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.648.4", "colnum": "648", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parry", "preceding_text": "Never mind \"Hear, hear\". Are Conservative Members aware that it is stated in a written answer that in my constituency there are nearly 20,000 unemployed in an electorate of 34,000? That is nearly 60 per cent. unemployment. There will be a massive demonstration in Liverpool—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.648.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.649.6", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "er in the debate—I think, echoing the Prime Minister — that people abroad are saying how wonderful the Government are. Not many people in this country are saying it. All they can see at the moment are the desperate tatters of a policy put forward in the hope that people will believe that there is no alternative to it. But there is an alternative policy. First, we need to have more public spending.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.649.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.649.6", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": " is private industry that is suffering when public expenditure is cut in this way. The CBI is learning a little but not very much. It has got as far as saying that there should be no cuts in capital expenditure. It is nearly there; it still has a little to learn. When it learns that we have to build schools but that if we build schools we must not sack the teachers, it will have learnt the lesson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.649.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.649.6", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Gracious Speech\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "ng base from coming into this country. That is the policy of the Labour Party. That is the policy that we shall take to the country when the time comes. But meanwhile we say this to the right hon. Lady and to her Government. The Gracious Speech which you are putting before this country and before this House is a fake and a disaster, as is your policy and your philosophy. Once again, this country —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.649.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.652.0", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Leader of the House of Commons and Minister for the Arts (Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Leader of the House of Commons and Minister for the Arts (Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas)", "preceding_text": "I pay tribute to him for his moral courage and steadfastness in the face of totally unjustified attacks. We Chancellors must stand together. It is a day on which we have heard three remarkable speeches: that of the right hon. Member for Down, South (Mr. Powell), that of the right hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) and that of my right hon. Friend the Member for Sidcup (Mr. Heath).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.652.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.653.3", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "The system of Select Committees, which have been such a resounding success—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.653.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.653.3", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "eech. It would have fed only a very small dog. I remind him that, unlikely as it may seem, he is now part of the constitution. As Leader of the Opposition, he is paid a salary to produce a constructive alternative to the present Government. I do not think that that money is being earned. Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman, like so many of his colleagues on the Front Bench, is too busy writing books.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.653.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.654.1", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "rkbrook (Mr. Hattersley) — the so-called \"gang of one\"—is so obsessed with his vendetta against my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment, which has achieved almost Sicilian proportions, that he has missed one of the most significant social revolutions of our age, which is that for the first time in the history of this country every citizen has the right to buy his own house.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.654.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.654.4", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas,", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas,", "preceding_text": "At a stroke, we have bridged the wide—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.654.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.654.7", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. We have had enough misleading of the House already during this Session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.654.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.655.1", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "We have had enough misleading of the House in our debates on the Queen's Speech. The Leader of the House said that every citizen has the right to buy his own home. That is patently not true. Private tenants do not have such a right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.655.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.655.3", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Equally —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.655.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.655.3", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Equally — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] Equally important is the pledge that was given —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.655.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.655.4", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is misleading the House.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Equally — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] Equally important is the pledge that was given — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] Even fewer tenants will be allowed to buy their own homes if the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook ever returns to power, because he has pledged that councils will be empowered to buy back at confiscatory prices houses that have been sold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.655.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.655.6", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Apologise.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Well—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.655.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.655.6", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All private tenants.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Well—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Apologise.\"] I will not apologise, but if it will get me a little peace and quiet I will say that the hon. Member for Keighley (Mr. Cryer) is right. There are some private tenants who do not have the right to buy their own houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.655.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.655.10", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What is the age of the Leader of the House?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "t was the end of his candidature. Anyhow, the bride has gone on to the church and I am left with the bridesmaid, the right hon. Member for Deptford, standing in as shadow Leader of the House, which is a rather tenuous position for a man of his ability and ambition. I wish him well. At the age of 57 he is one of the bright young hopefuls of the gerontocracy that occupies the Opposition Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.655.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.656.3", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "That is an absurd intervention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.656.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.656.3", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "can recognise the fact that we face long-term structural problems of unemployment in this country. While we will take our share of responsibility for the present unemployment figures, we will not accept the accusation, heard again and again from the Opposition, first by the right hon. Member for Bristol, South-East (Mr. Benn), that we are deliberately increasing unemployment as a matter of policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.656.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.656.3", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "erefore, at some future time may be called to be in charge of the defence of this country, to be a unilateral disarmer. That casts doubt upon the whole of this country's policy. So we come to the end of this debate, with the Opposition having put forward no constructive policies. What has emerged is that there is a clear-cut alternative, between a Government with all their faults and limitations —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.656.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.657.1", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.657.3", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": " Gentleman is not a totally objective witness. My second is that, having been attacked from one side by my right hon. Friend the Member for Sidcup and from the other by the right hon. Member for Down, South, I conclude that we are probably getting it about right, against an Opposition who, on every major issue, whether public ownership, incomes policy, taxation, monetarism or membership of Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.657.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-11-27", "file": "debates1980-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "b9ccc5534ef17c5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.681.0", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Imprisonment (Temporary Provisions)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hawkins", "preceding_text": "ing a disciplined force and not going on strike. Nevertheless, I cannot see that fresh arbitration, on top of the May report—which any normal person reading it would consider was arbitration—would be helpful. I sincerely hope that my hon. and learned Friend will be able to convince the prison officers that they can do without a prison strike and that they will not want arbitration, and so I hope —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-11-27a.681.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-01", "file": "debates1980-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4b27c1433a7900f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-01a.27.3", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "I was using the word \"gambling\" in particular in connection with the argument by my hon. Friend the Member for Rutland and Stamford (Mr. Lewis) for huge funds to be put into the NEB—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-01a.27.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-01", "file": "debates1980-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4b27c1433a7900f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-01a.67.0", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael McNair-Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael McNair-Wilson", "preceding_text": " corporate plan, and £65 million for De Lorean in Northern Ireland. Is it not just conceivable that the new Jaguar XJ40 will find itself selling in competition with one of the derivatives of Mr. De Lorean's DMC12 cars? That cannot make any sense either. We are now beginning to duplicate our nationalised industries—two car companies, two aerospace companies, two shipbuilding companies, all of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-01a.67.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-01", "file": "debates1980-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "4b27c1433a7900f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-01a.91.3", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "I am not suggesting that the hon. Gentleman is wrong from his point of view in his analysis, but what is interesting is his hankering for the past. It is a hankering that was echoed in a series of speeches by Government supporters —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-01a.91.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-02", "file": "debates1980-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "2a83cbb2e86908b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-02a.124.12", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — European Community (Heads of Government Meeting)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Wilson", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman consult the Prime Minister, when she returns from her present visit, about the consequences of selling out on the fishing industry if no reasonable agreement over exclusive limits is achieved?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-02a.124.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-02", "file": "debates1980-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "2a83cbb2e86908b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-02a.126.2", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Southall", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "It affects the general attitude of the nation and Southall to morality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-02a.126.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-02", "file": "debates1980-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "2a83cbb2e86908b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-02a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Telecommunications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "to produce the finance that is necessary for us to take advantage of our own inventions. That is what I fear will happen as a consequence of the Bill. There is one consolation in the right hon. Gentleman's speech — only one. Whether he means it or not and whether he changes his mind or not, he is talking about a transitional period of three years. In three years we shall have a Labour Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-02a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-02", "file": "debates1980-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "2a83cbb2e86908b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-02a.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Telecommunications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Stott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Stott", "preceding_text": "itish manufacturers cannot make it. Such niceties will go by the board when British Telecommunications finds itself competing primarily with foreign firms. Big business in the: United States and Japan is watching what we are doing today with great interest. I have no doubt that some of its representatives will even be listening to me now. They are gearing themselves up to an assault or our market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-02a.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-02", "file": "debates1980-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "2a83cbb2e86908b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-02a.174.1", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Telecommunications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": " ready for take-off. At the centre of it all is BT. I say to Opposition Members that if the Bill is passed in the form in which it has been drafted, there is nothing for members of the Post Office Engineering Union to fear. If they pursue their objectives within their legitimate role in the network, they can share in the additional wealth which should be created by the massive increase in traffic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-02a.174.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-02", "file": "debates1980-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "2a83cbb2e86908b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-02a.202.3", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Telecommunications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has not been here long. When he comes into the Chamber occasionally, he does not understand what is going on. The Labour Party's attitude to cash limits and the PSBR when in Government was different from the attitude now being displayed.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-02a.202.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-02", "file": "debates1980-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "2a83cbb2e86908b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-02a.202.3", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Telecommunications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": "owers. Let us consider the unique formula that the Government have devised for skimming off the cream. Many of us thought that the Minister of Transport was doing well when he came along with his formula for British Coachways. That is a good example of what will happen to the Post Office. One only has to consider what the Minister of Transport is doing to the National Bus Company and British Rail—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-02a.202.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-02", "file": "debates1980-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "2a83cbb2e86908b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-02a.209.1", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Telecommunications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "It is possible for assumptions to be made, but if one arrived at the figures that the hon. Gentleman suggested it would imply a virtual suspension of the monopoly across the country, with widespread local services, high penetration by the private sector and substantial inter-city links. That is the advice that I have, but—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-02a.209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-02", "file": "debates1980-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "2a83cbb2e86908b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-02a.222.1", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Drugs and Appliances Charges)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dean", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dean", "preceding_text": "right, and I am delighted that the Government have been able to make that exception for the National Health Service. It is right because demand continues to increase. We all know from our constituency correspondence that there are still many people awaiting operations and anxiously awaiting treatment of various sorts. These regulations make a modest contribution towards reducing the waiting lists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-02a.222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-02", "file": "debates1980-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "2a83cbb2e86908b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-02a.223.0", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Drugs and Appliances Charges)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Ennals", "preceding_text": "ription charges three times—first to 40p, then to 70p and then to £1, an increase of 500 per cent. —in the last 18 months. The hon. Gentleman said that the Government do not want to increase the charges, but they are certainly prepared to do things that they do not want to do. They are also prepared to do things that during the election campaign the Prime Minister suggested that they would not do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-02a.223.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-02", "file": "debates1980-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "2a83cbb2e86908b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-02a.229.0", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service (Drugs and Appliances Charges)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Health (Dr. Gerard Vaughan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Health (Dr. Gerard Vaughan)", "preceding_text": "g an important subject and I have followed the debate closely. The right hon. Members for Lewisham, East (Mr. Moyle) and Norwich, North (Mr. Ennals) sounded like replays of rather tired and much overplayed records. When in Opposition, Labour right hon. and hon. Members always say that prescriptions will be reduced or abolished. However, in Government they always do the opposite. That is on record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-02a.229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-03", "file": "debates1980-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "8c2bfe4a5c37b361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-03a.265.0", "colnum": "265", "heading": "European Council (Luxembourg Meeting)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "very pleased that there is unanimity in the House on this vitally important matter. With regard to the Middle East, the supply of arms is usually dealt with by each country and is usually dealt with when any application for the supply of arms comes before the Government, and we deal with them on an individual basis. We do not discuss those matters with other countries. We deal with them ourselves.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-03a.265.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-03", "file": "debates1980-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "8c2bfe4a5c37b361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-03a.267.0", "colnum": "267", "heading": "European Council (Luxembourg Meeting)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "With regard to the Middle East and arms control, I notice that the right hon. Gentleman puts forward solutions which he never practised while he was a member of the Labour Government. As he knows full well, in discussions of arms for the Middle East, the appropriate forum would not be Europe, where there are comparatively few people who supply arms or are in a position to supply arms —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-03a.267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-03", "file": "debates1980-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "8c2bfe4a5c37b361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-03a.301.2", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Assembly Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "I regret to say that I disagree entirely with the hon. Gentleman. I am not going to belabour the argument, but his comparison is invalid and improper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-03a.301.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-03", "file": "debates1980-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "8c2bfe4a5c37b361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-03a.321.4", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Assembly Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is mistaken on a point of fact. In Northern Ireland the party results of elections based on proportional representation are virtually the same as those based on direct voting because of the layout of the respective colours of the population.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-03a.321.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-03", "file": "debates1980-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "8c2bfe4a5c37b361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-03a.344.3", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Assembly Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": " as they say—unprovable, but interesting, are they not? It is very important that the whole business of electoral redistribution should not be sucked into the political arena. I have advanced the defence of 1969 on respectable grounds. The situation now, whereby a Minister of State at the Home Office chooses the Conservative political conference to give assurances of that nature at the very least—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-03a.344.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-03", "file": "debates1980-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "8c2bfe4a5c37b361", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-03a.348.1", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Assembly Elections Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "I shall answer both those questions, but first I want to confirm my understanding of what the right hon. Gentleman said, which is that he concedes that it would be quite wrong for the next general election to be fought on the present boundaries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-03a.348.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-04", "file": "debates1980-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1cec3f9dec6345a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-04a.422.4", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — National Economic Development Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "What lessons do the members of the NEDC draw from the Japanese, who, in recent years and in the same trading world as us, have had such a consistently better economic and industrial performance? Will my right hon. Friend tell me, as president of the Conservative trade unionists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-04a.422.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-04", "file": "debates1980-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1cec3f9dec6345a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-04a.422.7", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — National Economic Development Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It was from one of the CBI pamphlets that many of us realised that Japanese pay and productivity had kept absolutely hand in hand and that with ours there had been an enormous gap between the two.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-04a.422.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-04", "file": "debates1980-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1cec3f9dec6345a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-04a.430.6", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "You must wait and see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-04a.430.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-04", "file": "debates1980-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1cec3f9dec6345a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-04a.431.1", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "The contents of the Bill have been widely discussed over a long time. In many ways it is a consolidating Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-04a.431.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-04", "file": "debates1980-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1cec3f9dec6345a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-04a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Engineering Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"About $2?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "articular moment. It would be totally irresponsible for anyone to do that. If the hon. Gentleman does not know that, he has been in the House for a long time without learning one of the most important things. The hon. Gentleman asked a much more important question. He asked what ought to be the proper exchange rate. I would say that sterling is about 30 per cent.—perhaps 40 per cent.—over-valued.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-04a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-04", "file": "debates1980-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1cec3f9dec6345a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-04a.444.0", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Engineering Industry", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "t the most important of all—the primacy of the customer. There was a reference to that in the right hon. Gentleman's speech. He acknowledged, even if only by quoting from the Government amendment, the importance of competitiveness. He went on to comment on how he sees competitiveness. However, I waited in vain for any reference to the part that Luddism, restrictive trade practices and overmanning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-04a.444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-04", "file": "debates1980-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1cec3f9dec6345a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-04a.444.0", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Engineering Industry", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": " reduction in the value of the pound — which is that they involve massive extra public spending. That certainly applies in two cases, and probably in all three. The right hon. Gentleman did not for a moment explain where that massive extra public spending would come from. Would it come from compensating cuts in public spending elsewhere? I doubt whether it would. Would it come from extra taxation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-04a.444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-04", "file": "debates1980-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1cec3f9dec6345a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-04a.446.3", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Engineering Industry", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "fective than the words that I am using today. I regret that I cannot accept the argument that the right hon. Gentleman's remedies would meet the need. The right hon. Gentleman ventured a judgment that the value of the pound should be lower, but he knows perfectly well that the value of the pound is fixed by the decisions of scores of millions of people across the world who make judgments each day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-04a.446.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-04", "file": "debates1980-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1cec3f9dec6345a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-04a.447.4", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Engineering Industry", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "I do not contradict the hon. Gentleman. About two-fifths of the loss of competitiveness during the past two years has been due to the movement of the currency, but the other 50 to 60 per cent. has been due to huge pay settlements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-04a.447.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-04", "file": "debates1980-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1cec3f9dec6345a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-04a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Engineering Industry", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "estment decisions. It reduces profit. It reduces the capacity to keep the resources to invest. On every ground, I maintain that many unions—not all unions—are the main agency for the destruction and the abortion of jobs. One of the reasons why our productivity has been low is that we have nationalised so much of our industry and the nationalised industries have been seen as havens of job security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-04a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-04", "file": "debates1980-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1cec3f9dec6345a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-04a.454.9", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Engineering Industry", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "Unemployment is high, above all, because of attacks on competitiveness by the trade unions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-04a.454.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-04", "file": "debates1980-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1cec3f9dec6345a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-04a.490.2", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Engineering Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "out the House, including the half dozen hon. Members who have been on the Government Benches during this most important debate, that no one as yet has challenged the statement that manufacturing is vital to the economy. No one has suggested that we could be a service economy and could do away with manufacturing. Nor has anyone challenged the fact that the deterioration of the manufacturing sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-04a.490.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-04", "file": "debates1980-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1cec3f9dec6345a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-04a.496.1", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Engineering Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "ng is not strong. It is not nearly as strong as it was even 10 years ago. As I said, the ills of the engineering and many other industries in this country go back a very long way. This Government have been in office for only 18 months. I fail to see how they can have caused the great ills of the engineering industry. Their policies are fundamentally realistic, although it is a pretty grim reality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-04a.496.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-04", "file": "debates1980-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "1cec3f9dec6345a2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-04a.505.4", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Engineering Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": " independent analyses of the engineering industry, he will see that the solutions to these problems are complex—much more complex than the rather offensive diagnosis that he made. I say that because I feel that many of my right hon. and hon. Friends were offended by his diagnosis today. There were 1930s overtones in what he said—not just 1930s British overtones, but 1930s German overtones as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-04a.505.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-08", "file": "debates1980-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a663f0897e5e8e89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-08a.625.4", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ear under legislation passed when the Labour Government were in power. I find it inconceivable that either the right hon. Member for Leeds, East or the right hon. Member for Salford, West could ever have imagined that, somehow, what my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer meant in his statement was that the absolute level of employers' contributions would remain unchanged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-08a.625.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-08", "file": "debates1980-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a663f0897e5e8e89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-08a.629.1", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "vary the rate of supplement by up to 2 per cent. in either direction in a future tax year. Perhaps I may end this part of my speech by saying—here I come to the point raised by the right hon. Member for Norwich, North—that even after the reduction of £529 million made by clause 2 in the amount of the supplement, it will still be about 9 per cent. higher in real terms than it was in 1975–76.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-08a.629.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-08", "file": "debates1980-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a663f0897e5e8e89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-08a.670.0", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is biased\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "ave to act as advisers to people seeking help. We often ask whether they are receiving mobility or attendance allowances, and they say that they have not been advised that they are legally entitled to such benefits. The DHSS staff should advise people of their legal entitlements rather than harass the unemployed. A recent article in Labour Weekly was headed: Putting frighteners on the unemployed\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-08a.670.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-08", "file": "debates1980-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a663f0897e5e8e89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-08a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Brandon Rhys Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Brandon Rhys Williams", "preceding_text": "becoming an increasingly rickety sham. It started off on a basis of humbug when the original prospectus was launched by Lloyd George. We were told that it would be financed on the basis of 9d for 4d. Anybody can see that there was something fundamentally wrong from the beginning in such a system. It plainly was an advertising stunt and was not intended to be a convincing and actually sound scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-08a.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-08", "file": "debates1980-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a663f0897e5e8e89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-08a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I do not deny that. If the Opposition are now saying that they repudiate the upper earnings limit arrangement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-08a.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-08", "file": "debates1980-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a663f0897e5e8e89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-08a.706.1", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "rom a sedentary position at 10 minutes to 10 o'clock. There will be future occasions on which to debate the matter. There is to be a new Shadow spokesman. We know that there will be a conscious retreat by the Opposition from consensus politics. If the pension arrangements patiently negotiated over the years are to be torn up as part of a new partisanship, at least we are getting an early warning —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-08a.706.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-08", "file": "debates1980-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a663f0897e5e8e89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-08a.725.4", "colnum": "725", "heading": "European Community (Whale Products)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": "The House needs to be clear about the matter that the Minister is dealing with. He tells us in one breath that it is not a ban but a limitation and in the next breath he says that eventually there will be no more whaling.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-08a.725.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-08", "file": "debates1980-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a663f0897e5e8e89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-08a.725.6", "colnum": "725", "heading": "European Community (Whale Products)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, especially for allowing me to intervene twice. The Government told the House that we asked for a ban on whaling. There is no dispute about that. We accept the Government's honest intentions and that they failed to achieve them, but the Under-Secretary has also said that any individual State can go further than the proposed regulation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-08a.725.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-08", "file": "debates1980-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "a663f0897e5e8e89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-08a.756.0", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Employment Protection", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker", "preceding_text": "bject of discretionary powers vested in the Secretary of State. It is not being increased this year despite the increases in earnings and the retail price index. It is within the discretion of the Secretary of State. If he thought it proper to do so he could come before the House with an order. We should welcome that. However, it is not before the House and it would be wrong for me to refer to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-08a.756.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-09", "file": "debates1980-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "e17e0bfa22048296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.781.11", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister (Engagements)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No. Those discussions were part of a series of bilateral discussions with our Community partners, which are regularly undertaken with Germany, France, Italy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.781.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-09", "file": "debates1980-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "e17e0bfa22048296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.782.3", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister (Engagements)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "These are matters that are to be explored. No decision has been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.782.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-09", "file": "debates1980-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "e17e0bfa22048296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.782.5", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister (Engagements)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Did the hon. Gentleman apply the word \"hypocrisy\" to an individual?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.782.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-09", "file": "debates1980-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "e17e0bfa22048296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.783.7", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister (Engagements)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Gardner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Gardner", "preceding_text": "May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the constructive character of the bilateral talks that were held in Dublin yesterday?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.783.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-09", "file": "debates1980-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "e17e0bfa22048296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.812.3", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": ". Therefore, I want to deal with that region. The picture that is usually given by the Secretary of State is that there were huge rate increases in. the Lothian region in 1980–81 because of an irresponsible Labour authority and that everybody else behaved admirably and impeccably. He has not complained about all the other local authorities in Scotland. Indeed, he goes out of his way to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.812.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-09", "file": "debates1980-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "e17e0bfa22048296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.816.2", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Milan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Milan", "preceding_text": " unrealistic. There will be a reduction in the rate of the grant from the present 68½ per cent. that has been announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and there are to be cash limits which assume a 6 per cent. wage and salary increase for 1981–82. The Secretary of State never makes any forecasts about rate increases. He is frightened to do that because he knows what the figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.816.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-09", "file": "debates1980-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "e17e0bfa22048296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.831.0", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John MacKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John MacKay", "preceding_text": "I begin with part I of the Bill, which is concerned with the general problem of the rating system. I give a warm welcome —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.831.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-09", "file": "debates1980-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "e17e0bfa22048296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.835.1", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "a they should take a test case. They all put their hands in their pockets and got their lawyer. I am happy to say that he was the gentleman who pulled more facts out of the assessor than the assessor had ever willingly let go. Those people got a reduction in their assessment. Therefore, the money that they spent on legal fees was well worth it. I come now, taking them together, to parts II and IV.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.835.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-09", "file": "debates1980-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "e17e0bfa22048296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.837.4", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "horities. The Government must accept some responsibility for it. Some Conservative Members need enlightenment on Labour Party politics. I wish that they would come to us and discuss them instead of getting their information from the Sunday Post, the Sunday Mail or wherever. There are many new, active, almost revolutionary councillors in Scotland. Being revolutionary has nothing to do with Marxism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.837.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-09", "file": "debates1980-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "e17e0bfa22048296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.843.4", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "rovision of factory units because Lothian region has not been allowed to finance highways and sewers. There is also the provision of a social work centre at one of the growth areas within Lothian region at Livingston. Livingston now has over 10,000 households. It has no social work centre. Therefore, Lothian region applied last spring for permission to construct a social work centre at Livingston.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.843.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-09", "file": "debates1980-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "e17e0bfa22048296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.863.2", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "s of the ratepayers. If local authorities continually resist the overtures of the Government to impose a realistic rate, we must give serious consideration to a total reform of the dometic rate to bring it under the control of the Government. That would be a more satisfactory position for the electors. I am delighted to note that the Bill abolishes the Scottish River Pollution Advisory Committee.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.863.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-09", "file": "debates1980-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "e17e0bfa22048296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.863.2", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "uld be a more satisfactory position for the electors. I am delighted to note that the Bill abolishes the Scottish River Pollution Advisory Committee.— [Interruption.] The sections applying to the appointment, constitution and function of that body under the Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) (Scotland) Act 1951 will cease to have effect. I am sorry that the Bill does not propose to abolish that Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.863.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-09", "file": "debates1980-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "e17e0bfa22048296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.863.2", "colnum": "863", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "s the Scottish River Pollution Advisory Committee.— [Interruption.] The sections applying to the appointment, constitution and function of that body under the Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) (Scotland) Act 1951 will cease to have effect. I am sorry that the Bill does not propose to abolish that Act— [Interruption.] The Act has been used illegally for many years by river bailiffs to hound farmers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.863.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-09", "file": "debates1980-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "e17e0bfa22048296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.864.1", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "ation is necessary, because the existing section of the Act is satisfactory. It provides a safeguard for the ratepayer. Far too many local authorities are charging extortionate rates for burials in an effort to make more use of cremations. The curb on the authorities' powers through requiring them to seek the approval of a sheriff for any proposed increase in the charges should re main in the Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-09", "file": "debates1980-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "e17e0bfa22048296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.864.1", "colnum": "864", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": " two doctors should certify a death before cremation takes place, but I can see no reason why the family doctor, who is already paid by the National Health Service, or the doctor in the hospital who initially certified a person as de id should be paid an additional fee for signing the death certificate, especially as the cost of both of these certificates has to be met by the deceased's relatives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.864.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-09", "file": "debates1980-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "e17e0bfa22048296", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was a Tory council\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": " the mad gesticulations of the hon. Member for Edinburgh, South. My hon. Friend the Member for Dundee, West (Mr. Ross) was too modest in his defence of his city's district council, which, let it be said, in the last round of rate increases cut its rate by 14 per cent. It was surrounded by Tory district councils that increased their rate and a Tory regional council that increased it by 18 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-09a.875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-10", "file": "debates1980-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "fa18a2d621ae27ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-10a.937.4", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Dublin Talks)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I intend to call one very senior Member of the House.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-10a.937.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-10", "file": "debates1980-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "fa18a2d621ae27ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-10a.937.5", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Dublin Talks)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "he changed circumstances, the Chair has ruled that the matter would then be in order. My point of order is this: if, during the debate that the democratic Dail is to have but this democratic Parliament cannot have, something is said or revealed there which would then alter the procedure and alter your decision, would you give further consideration to a new approach, in view of the new information?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-10a.937.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-10", "file": "debates1980-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "fa18a2d621ae27ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-10a.967.0", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerard Fitt", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Particularly by the Labour Party.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerard Fitt", "preceding_text": "lternatively, we can interpose our objections in what are called \"national debates\", but, although it is not said aloud, hon. Members from Scotland, England and Wales look askance at any intrusion by a Northern Ireland Member into such debates. As the attendance in the House tonight reveals—I saw it this afternoon—there is an exodus from the Chamber when the subject of Northern Ireland is debated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-10a.967.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-10", "file": "debates1980-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "fa18a2d621ae27ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-10a.1039.0", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. W. Stallard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. W. Stallard", "preceding_text": "nment have a duty to protect all their citizens. In the words of Canon Baker, If charity to the few can protect the many from indiscriminate tragedies of community conflict, then a balanced moral judgment will show that charity. I recommend that the Secretary of State has another think about this matter. I have written to him and to the Prime Minister suggesting that they ought to think seriously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-10a.1039.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-10", "file": "debates1980-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "fa18a2d621ae27ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-10a.1043.0", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Humphrey Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Humphrey Atkins", "preceding_text": "t exactly what that entailed in relation to the demands that they are making. That is where we stand. I would not want the hon. Gentleman or the House to be under the impression that we are interested in finding a mediator to move between us and the prisoners to see whether we can come to an arrangement. We shall not do that. It is essential to make certain that everybody understands our position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-10a.1043.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-10", "file": "debates1980-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "fa18a2d621ae27ff", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-10a.1043.0", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Humphrey Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Humphrey Atkins", "preceding_text": "e may be uncertain about its meaning. He asked me to say a little about it. I am glad to do so. One purpose of the meeting was to see how to develop the unique relationship between our two countries that the two Heads of Government had mentioned when they last met in May. They decided that the right course was to set up a series of joint studies to see how the relationship could best be developed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-10a.1043.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-12-11", "file": "debates1980-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "36acb7b180a26e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1059.6", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that he is the only person in the House who believes that answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1059.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-11", "file": "debates1980-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "36acb7b180a26e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1059.10", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get up\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend will no doubt answer the question himself if he has the opportunity to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1059.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-11", "file": "debates1980-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "36acb7b180a26e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1067.1", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "May I plead once again with the Prime Minister to give her report to the House of Commons on her discussions in Dublin so that hon. Members on all sides will be able to question her? Will she take into account before she replies the full debate that is taking place in the Dail? We ask her to return to the subject next week. May I refer to her answer on the steel industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1067.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-11", "file": "debates1980-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "36acb7b180a26e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1068.0", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "On the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1068.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-11", "file": "debates1980-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "36acb7b180a26e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1070.2", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend find time today to warn the country of the attempts by the British Communist Party to increase its influence in the Labour Party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1070.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-11", "file": "debates1980-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "36acb7b180a26e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1070.5", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I have said on previous occasions that I always allow extra latitude to the Leader of the Opposition. It is a matter for his judgment and for mine —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1070.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-11", "file": "debates1980-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "36acb7b180a26e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1071.4", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "l crisis in the railways, which is a matter of major importance for the country's economy as a whole? With regard to the steel industry, which we were discussing a few minutes ago, we do not believe that the Government's response to what I have said and to what has been said generally in any way meets the position. We believe that it is essential for the House to have a debate on the matter first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1071.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-11", "file": "debates1980-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "36acb7b180a26e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1071.4", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " any way meets the position. We believe that it is essential for the House to have a debate on the matter first. [Interruption.] In that case, we shall on Tuesday table for discussion the question of the Government's direct responsibility for the difficulties of the steel industry, which carries it very much further. When the Home Secretary intervenes from his reclining position to tell me how to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1071.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-11", "file": "debates1980-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "36acb7b180a26e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1078.2", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "I am sure that that would give satisfaction to some—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1078.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-12-11", "file": "debates1980-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "36acb7b180a26e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1078.4", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "e more than apparent recently, particularly today, by setting aside a quarter of an hour at a quarter to two every Friday so that the geriatric vandal and elderly windbag the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Foot) can question the Prime Minister to his heart's content, thereby allowing other right hon. and hon. Members the opportunity to question my right hon. Friend on Tuesdays and Thursdays?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1078.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-11", "file": "debates1980-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "36acb7b180a26e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1078.5", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "Never mind about withdrawal at this stage. I do not know whether it is better to be an elderly or a juvenile windbag.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1078.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-11", "file": "debates1980-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "36acb7b180a26e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1081.2", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": " Gentleman at least ensure that the report of the debate in the Dail on the Dublin meeting is placed in the Library, so that we may see the kind of debate that ensues there, even if it does not take place here? Secondly, may we have, early in the new year, a debate on defence, on the decision on the cruise and Trident missiles—a decision that is deeply opposed by many hon. Members on these Benches", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1081.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-11", "file": "debates1980-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "36acb7b180a26e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1084.5", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. W. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. W. Rooker", "preceding_text": "ing because they did not reach the printer in time, or whether there is a separate sheet? I am not the only hon. Member to notice that not one amendment has been tabled by a Conservative Member. I just wonder whether they tabled them too late or whether, like my hon. Friend the Member for Stockport, North (Mr. Bennett), they were waiting for the notes on clauses. This is an astonishing situation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1084.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-11", "file": "debates1980-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "36acb7b180a26e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1085.0", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"He has not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "that point of order, Mr. Weatherill. This is the first social security measure either in the previous Parliament or in this one whose Committee stage has been taken on the the Floor of the House. Previously members of the Committee have been known, and the Department has provided addressed copies to them. If the Secretary of State has slipped in 30 copies to the Vote Office without telling anyone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1085.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-11", "file": "debates1980-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "36acb7b180a26e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1117.3", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "The doors are not closed, Mr. Godman Irvine. This is a debating Chamber, and I should have hoped that both doors could be closed before we commenced the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-11", "file": "debates1980-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "36acb7b180a26e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1128.0", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Race", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Race", "preceding_text": "That is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-11", "file": "debates1980-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "36acb7b180a26e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1134.4", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "I am illustrating this in passing, by way of example. This is the usual way of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1134.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-11", "file": "debates1980-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "36acb7b180a26e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1134.4", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Who was that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "me. The heading is: Biffen's hint of U-turn startles the Right. That refers to the Chief Secretary—the right hon. Member for Oswestry (Mr. Biffen). This article by Ian Aitken, the political editor, was challenged at Question Time today. The Chief Secretary said that he had the advantage of being at the meeting where this claim was made. On the other hand, so did the person who spoke to Ian Aitken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1134.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-11", "file": "debates1980-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "36acb7b180a26e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1138.4", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "to some extent by a tax on the windfall profits of the banks. He is at liberty to modify that and to make his peace with his Front Bench. Undoubtedly he is a man of ability, but he should not put himself too much out on a limb, because there will be a Government reshuffle shortly and I have my eye on him for consideration. Of course, I am very influential with the Leader of the Conservative Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1138.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-11", "file": "debates1980-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "36acb7b180a26e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1175.3", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "I beg to move amendment No. 10, in page 1, line 16, leave out subsection (3). I suggest that the size of -be Conservative side of the Committee will reach 100 before we disappear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1175.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-11", "file": "debates1980-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "36acb7b180a26e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the widows who are paying only 2 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-11", "file": "debates1980-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "36acb7b180a26e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1178.3", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "It is not my job to give answers from the Dispatch Box. That is the job of Ministers. I want to ask the Minister a few questions. If she can answer them, we can reach a speedy conclusion to this debate. This is a quite narrow subject by any definition. The increase is from 2 per cent. to 2·75 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1178.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-11", "file": "debates1980-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "36acb7b180a26e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1178.3", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": " depend on the earnings between the upper and lower income limits. If the hon. and learned Member for Thanet, West (Mr. Rees-Davies) had been present earlier, he would probably have been able to work out examples for himself. For the purposes of this debate, however, it does not matter. The fact is that the rate is being changed for the first time in five years. It has been 2 per cent. since 1975.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1178.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-11", "file": "debates1980-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "36acb7b180a26e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1234.21", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A week.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "t are less than the lower earnings limit. In other words, we want there to be a national insurance threshold in the same way as there is a tax threshold. We admit that we do not know how much the new clause would cost. We suspect that it would be a substantial amount, but we have had no time effectively to cost it, because of the way in which the Bill is being bounced through the House of Commons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1234.21"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-11", "file": "debates1980-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "36acb7b180a26e04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1240.0", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Social Security (Contributions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "ne would basically pay for the other. But we could not do the costing in the time that the Government made available to the Committee. Because it is not possible for the Opposition to put on record their support for a proposal such as that in the new clause 2 as the other side of the equation, I have to advise my hon. Friends that we would be putting our heads in a noose, and that we would regret.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-11a.1240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-12", "file": "debates1980-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a277e48ce67baab5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-12a.1266.0", "colnum": "1266", "heading": "International Development (Brandt Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Wainwright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"More\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Wainwright", "preceding_text": "l and is continually looking at the country's navel instead of having a broader view that is appropriate to a country that is so dependent on the rest of the world. In launching this debate—I hope there will be others—we are responding to a mood in the country. The sales of the Brandt report are remarkable and represent a great achievement. I am told that the current figure is about 68,000 copies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-12a.1266.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-12", "file": "debates1980-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a277e48ce67baab5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-12a.1276.1", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "International Development (Brandt Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "ealthy economies can help the weak and the poor. The Minister and his colleagues say that we must build up our own economy and fight inflation, getting ourselves healthy, virile and fit. Then we shall be better able to help poorer countries. All Conservative Members make the same parrot cry—we must get inflation down. Must the toiling masses of the Third world wait until we get our house in order?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-12a.1276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-12", "file": "debates1980-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "a277e48ce67baab5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-12a.1283.1", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "International Development (Brandt Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler", "preceding_text": "age 5, paragraph 9, they stress the importance for the future of developing countries, of restoring growth to the world economy. The Western industrial countries, including the United Kingdom, must be the main motors of this growth. Having reached that judgment, it was profoundly depressing that the Vienna summit on 23 June then said that the first priority was the adjustment to the prices of oil.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-12a.1283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-15", "file": "debates1980-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "558d529f86be72d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-15a.29.2", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Housing", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Oonagh McDonald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Oonagh McDonald", "preceding_text": " Kaufman)? Furthermore, when will the right hon. Gentleman stop juggling with figures and begin to show some sort of human concern for the young couples who are forced to live apart in their parents' council houses and for many others on the waiting lists who must look to the public sector for housing since they will not be eligible for mortgages and cannot turn to the private sector in any sense?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-15a.29.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-15", "file": "debates1980-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "558d529f86be72d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-15a.29.2", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Housing", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Oonagh McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Oonagh McDonald", "preceding_text": "nd begin to show some sort of human concern for the young couples who are forced to live apart in their parents' council houses and for many others on the waiting lists who must look to the public sector for housing since they will not be eligible for mortgages and cannot turn to the private sector in any sense? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] When will the right hon. Gentleman show such human concern?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-15a.29.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-15", "file": "debates1980-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "558d529f86be72d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-15a.29.5", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Housing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "—I am only too happy to provide—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-15a.29.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-15", "file": "debates1980-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "558d529f86be72d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-15a.29.7", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Housing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Oh, yes. I shall read them to the House and I shall go right through this year and next year in the same money values—1980 survey prices. The House will then be able to see, for local authority gross housing capital expenditure, what has happened since 1975–76 right the way through to next year. Starting with that year, I shall read the figures: £4·297 billion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-15a.29.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-15", "file": "debates1980-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "558d529f86be72d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-15a.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Scotland (Government Policies)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "n a household accustomed to an income from a husband and a wife at work when the wife loses her income. However, there is a great difference between the situation in the 1930s, when every single figure in the dole queue meant a whole family in grinding poverty, and today, when a housewife finds herself out of work and the average income might be reduced from about £200 a week to about £120 a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-15a.46.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-15", "file": "debates1980-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "558d529f86be72d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-15a.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Scotland (Government Policies)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": " and correspondingly in Scotland, about 100,000 of those on the unemployment register are people such as bank managers who have retired early and are drawing benefits of various sorts until they reach the age of 65. It is ludicrous to pretend that retired bank managers are in a parallel position to the unemployed in the 1930s. I believe that it is a most extraordinary system that we allow 100,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-15a.46.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-15", "file": "debates1980-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "558d529f86be72d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-15a.60.1", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Scotland (Government Policies)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "Getting out of the recession and being able to provide work for our people. It is vital that we give work to our people, and we shall do that only when we begin to climb out of the recession. We are in this recession as much as the rest of the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-15a.60.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-15", "file": "debates1980-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "558d529f86be72d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-15a.77.0", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Scotland (Government Policies)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Alexander Fletcher)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Alexander Fletcher)", "preceding_text": "Obviously the undertaker did not realise that there had been an election and was calling for a Labour Minister. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of Slate, who is in Brussels, would wish to be associated with our congratulations to the hon. Member for Edinburgh, East (Mr. Strang) on introducing the motion, which is welcomed by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-15a.77.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-15", "file": "debates1980-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "558d529f86be72d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-15a.113.3", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prisons", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "re with a very wide distribution of police stations with cells and it is, therefore, not possible, within the confines of a dispute such as this, to make comprehensive provision in the way that the hon. Gentleman would wish. I have no doubt that the hon. Gentleman will make his point to the Prison Officers' Association and explain to them one of the consequences of the action that they have taken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-15a.113.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-16", "file": "debates1980-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5e741dec034c4d60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-16a.130.6", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Social Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "We received a great many representations from both employers' and employees' organisations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-16a.130.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-16", "file": "debates1980-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5e741dec034c4d60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-16a.139.8", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Social Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister today give time to the consideration that, although I was approached—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-16a.139.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-16", "file": "debates1980-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5e741dec034c4d60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-16a.146.2", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "This is a black day for local government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-16a.146.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-16", "file": "debates1980-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5e741dec034c4d60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-16a.155.2", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I shall be very pleased to do that. They are Southwark, Haringey, Swansea, Newham, Manchester, Doncaster, Wandsworth and Merthyr Tydfil. Those were the original authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-16a.155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-16", "file": "debates1980-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5e741dec034c4d60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-16a.155.2", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I shall be very pleased to do that. They are Southwark, Haringey, Swansea, Newham, Manchester, Doncaster, Wandsworth and Merthyr Tydfil. Those were the original authorities—[ Interruption. ] May I give the answer to the question in my own way? Those were the authorities that were allowed out under the waiver about conforming to the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-16a.155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-16", "file": "debates1980-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5e741dec034c4d60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-16a.175.1", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Steel Industry", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": " true that Mr. MacGregor has said yearningly that it would be nice if British Steel did not have to pay so much in interest rates. The Government announced at the beginning of the year that there would be—we hoped, at a time when the BSC would not be making a loss—a capital reconstruction. There is likely to be a Bill before the House in due course which will propose such a capital reconstruction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-16a.175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-16", "file": "debates1980-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5e741dec034c4d60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-16a.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Steel Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "preceding_text": "t could continue. There has been some investment in Normanby Park in recent years, but it is the smallest of the integrated works left in this country. For how long can we justify the retention of that steelworks when its retention may continue excess capacity to the extent that it jeopardises the security of modern works, such as Llanwern, Port Talbot and the Anchor steelworks in my constituency?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-16a.190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-16", "file": "debates1980-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "5e741dec034c4d60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-16a.220.1", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Steel Industry", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the dispute?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "for steel. We are in no doubt that that measure is essential if our steel industry is to make the necessary improvements. The most up-to-date figures that I have were produced by the British Independent Steel Producers Association. It says that British steel production in 1980 amounted to about 9 million tonnes in the first 10 months and will be less than 11 million tonnes for the year as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-16a.220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-17", "file": "debates1980-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "0090a283bda48b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.281.4", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Environment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to my hon. Friend. I realise that by introducing for the first time factors which all right hon. and hon. Members can understand, I am making a readjustment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.281.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-17", "file": "debates1980-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "0090a283bda48b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.297.2", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "As another English Member, may I ask the Minister whether he agrees that Scotland is in great difficulties over unemployment, deprivation and so on? We talk of cuts and restrictions, but will he bear in mind that on the very day that he makes his announcement the Prime Minister has stated that she is appointing a professor at £50,000 a year—£1,000 a week—to advise her on monetarism?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.297.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-17", "file": "debates1980-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "0090a283bda48b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.305.0", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Adjournment (Christmas)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "veloped in the second generation. It has been going for only about 15 years. I could no doubt have produced figures for older towns that would have made the percentages even worse. I think that the House will agree that they are frightening enough. I have given what I believe to be reasons why the House should not adjourn for as long a period as the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster has stated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.305.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-17", "file": "debates1980-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "0090a283bda48b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.317.2", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Adjournment (Christmas)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "I said it for the hon. Gentleman, who is always so kind. At least, he says things with a smile, whereas to listen to Opposition Members today one would honestly believe that the present Government were a load of crooks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.317.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-17", "file": "debates1980-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "0090a283bda48b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.317.2", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Adjournment (Christmas)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "lation and curbing public expenditure that was indulged in by them at the behest of the IMF—which was not supported by all Opposition Members by any means—was not liked, but they supported it. Now, we have the same policy but more genuinely carried out and more strongly and more determinedly carried out than they ever managed. Now, Opposition Members are running like rabbits from their own policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.317.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-17", "file": "debates1980-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "0090a283bda48b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.317.2", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Adjournment (Christmas)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fell", "preceding_text": "ly carried out than they ever managed. Now, Opposition Members are running like rabbits from their own policy—[ Interruption .]Someone suggests \"rats\", but I would not be so unkind. They are pursued by their own nightmares of the sort of trouble they were creating and getting into when they ran out on their own policy. I promised you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that I would speak for only a short moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.317.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-17", "file": "debates1980-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "0090a283bda48b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.332.5", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Adjournment (Christmas)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "f wishing to return home. Active encouragement and help should be given to all immigrants who wish to return to their homelands. If we allow immigration to continue on anything like the present scale, this island and its people will become unrecognisable. If we continue diluting our national stock, we shall become a different people. The very name of England and all that it stands for will vanish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.332.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-17", "file": "debates1980-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "0090a283bda48b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.344.1", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Adjournment (Christmas)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Victor Goodhew", "preceding_text": "to the Ministry of Defence. If I am in financial difficulties and find that I have a home that is too expensive, I can move downmarket—and I shall move downmarket and I am trying to do so. If I wish also to cut down, then I can go out less to eat in restaurants which are expensive and eat at home instead. When I have done that, I shall also, if necessary, cut down on the drink that I have at home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.344.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-17", "file": "debates1980-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "0090a283bda48b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.345.0", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Adjournment (Christmas)", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Leader of the House of Commons and Minister for the Arts (Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas)", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Leader of the House of Commons and Minister for the Arts (Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas)", "preceding_text": "onomic system that really can do nothing to help those in need? The problem is not that we are making too much social provision but that we have an economy which cannot support the social provision that we need. That is the right way to face the problem, and until we get a more flourishing economy we cannot have the social improvements and carry out the social measures that we seek. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.345.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-17", "file": "debates1980-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "0090a283bda48b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Paper and Board Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "I was foolish to give way to the hon. Gentleman. I should have left him to make his own speech in his own time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-17", "file": "debates1980-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "0090a283bda48b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.381.1", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Paper and Board Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": " it is very important. I also say to my hon. Friend that at a time when Her Majesty's Government are looking for wage restraint without imposing wage restraint, people in the paper-making industry are some of the most modestly paid in the industrial scene. These are not rich men. They are not, like public lavatory caretakers, getting vast overtime payments for cleansing in the middle of the night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.381.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-17", "file": "debates1980-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "0090a283bda48b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Paper and Board Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "hat is very much concerned with the high proportion of its costs related to energy. It is energy-intensive, and in this industry worries over rising energy costs are compounded by the fact that the industry's main competitors are in North America and Scandinavia, where energy prices are cheaper. Some of this is due to natural advantage in coal and hydro-electricity which we cannot expect to match.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-17", "file": "debates1980-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "0090a283bda48b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.397.3", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Paper and Board Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has not been here throughout the debate. His hon. Friends have been here and have raised many serious points. There are other hon. Members who want to participate in the next debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.397.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-17", "file": "debates1980-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "0090a283bda48b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.397.3", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Paper and Board Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "d many serious points. There are other hon. Members who want to participate in the next debate. [ Interruption .]In fairness to them, the hon. Gentleman, who has only just come into the Chamber, should not preempt the discussion to which hon. Members have asked me to reply. The Government's policy is based on the economic pricing of energy, a principle that has been accepted by the summit nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.397.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-17", "file": "debates1980-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "0090a283bda48b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.397.3", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Paper and Board Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "o participate in the next debate. [ Interruption .]In fairness to them, the hon. Gentleman, who has only just come into the Chamber, should not preempt the discussion to which hon. Members have asked me to reply. The Government's policy is based on the economic pricing of energy, a principle that has been accepted by the summit nations—[ Interruption ] —and by the European Community member States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.397.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-17", "file": "debates1980-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "0090a283bda48b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.398.0", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Paper and Board Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "That means relating energy prices to the longer-term costs of production and the market conditions prevailing in the country concerned. I know that British industry—not just the paper and board industry—is concerned about the difference in energy prices from country to country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-17", "file": "debates1980-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "0090a283bda48b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.398.2", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Paper and Board Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "The Government are anxious to establish the true competitive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.398.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-17", "file": "debates1980-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "0090a283bda48b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.398.4", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Paper and Board Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "The Government are anxious to establish the true competitive position of our energy-intensive industries and welcome the CBI's study and other comparative asessments, which are being examined carefully.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.398.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-17", "file": "debates1980-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "0090a283bda48b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.420.0", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Greater London (Government Assistance)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the situation is quite as bad as the hon. Gentleman describes. It is certainly one of the top six.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-17", "file": "debates1980-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "0090a283bda48b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.430.2", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Greater London (Government Assistance)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question. 'Yes' or `No'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to start an excursus on the Ministry of Defence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.430.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-17", "file": "debates1980-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "0090a283bda48b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.430.2", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Greater London (Government Assistance)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS \"Millions and millions\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": "ence. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question. 'Yes' or `No'?\"] I shall try to answer the question truthfully—my hon. Friend the Member for Putney (Mr. Mellor) was attacked for trying to answer truthfully—even if it does not mean a glib \"Yes\" or \"No\" response. The Government's approach to defence expenditure is correct in principle. I do not suggest that there is not extravagance in matters of detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.430.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-17", "file": "debates1980-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "0090a283bda48b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.448.7", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Greater London (Government Assistance)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "I do not think that hon. Members can intervene on an intervention, and I shall not give way. I am grateful to my hon. Friend for providing the name of a firm", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.448.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-17", "file": "debates1980-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "0090a283bda48b84", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.518.5", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Colleges of Education (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "There is no fudging in the fact that significant savings will accrue with the arrangements that we have proposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-17a.518.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-18", "file": "debates1980-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "931ba5faf627466c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.538.13", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "Will the Home Secretary accept that responsibility for these matters should rest with this House, with an annual report debatable in the House, rather than depend upon investigative journalism or any of the other ways in which it is brought to public attention? Does he accept that secret reports by a Tory judge are less than satisfactory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.538.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-18", "file": "debates1980-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "931ba5faf627466c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.543.4", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "preceding_text": "Does the Home Secretary agree that we would not need additional places in our prisons if some of those now in them were no longer there?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.543.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1980-12-18", "file": "debates1980-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "931ba5faf627466c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.547.6", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.547.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-18", "file": "debates1980-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "931ba5faf627466c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.554.2", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "As usual, the hon. Gentleman is not totally accurate. That prayer was written not by St. Francis but by an Anglican divine of the last century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.554.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-18", "file": "debates1980-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "931ba5faf627466c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.571.5", "colnum": "571", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Forty-five.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": "e have so often had in the past from the Foreign Office, vague generalisations and propaganda about the Common Market. I remind the Lord Privy Seal that it is not just Labour Members who will be seeking realistic and objective answers from him over the next few months. I gather that there is a new group in existence called the Conservative European Reform Group, which I believe is about 40 strong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.571.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-18", "file": "debates1980-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "931ba5faf627466c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.574.1", "colnum": "574", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"We can use the veto.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " is, the objective regarding the budget arrangements— all member States undertake to do their best to ensure that Community decisions are taken expeditiously and in particular\"— these are the important words— that decisions on agricultural price fixing are taken in time for the next marketing season. That effectively takes away our veto to stop any price increases at the next price-fixing session.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.574.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-18", "file": "debates1980-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "931ba5faf627466c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.577.0", "colnum": "577", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Sir Ian Gilmour)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal (Sir Ian Gilmour)", "preceding_text": "e debate. The right hon. Gentleman's speech was remarkable for what it left out I cannot say much for what it left in. The right hon. Gentleman ignored the fact that he was a member of a Government who were a member of the EEC for five years. When the right hon. Gentleman was appointed, I was marginally optimistic that the level of debate on this matter from the Opposition Benches would be raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.577.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-18", "file": "debates1980-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "931ba5faf627466c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.578.3", "colnum": "578", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "preceding_text": "That paper was not realistic. Are we, as some members of the Labour Party said not long ago, to become the fifty-first State of the United States—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.578.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-18", "file": "debates1980-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "931ba5faf627466c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.578.3", "colnum": "578", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "preceding_text": ", as some members of the Labour Party said not long ago, to become the fifty-first State of the United States—[ Interruption .] I am quoting members of the Labour Party, not members of my own party—or are we to become a neutral island cut off from the world and having no influence over events? Where are they going to find the cushion of an \"alternative Europe\" to fall back on after our withdrawal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.578.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-18", "file": "debates1980-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "931ba5faf627466c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.579.5", "colnum": "579", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "preceding_text": " and we have brought our partners to accept that these arrangements need fundamental review to avoid a recurrence of unacceptable situations for any member State. That is no mean achievement. I will now remind the right hon. Gentleman of the figures. Under Labour, we paid a steadily mounting net contribution to the Community budget—£368 million in 1977,£804 million in 1978 and£947 million in 1979.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.579.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-18", "file": "debates1980-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "931ba5faf627466c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.583.5", "colnum": "583", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "preceding_text": "se figures will probably be given at the end of the debate by my hon. Friend the Minister of State. My hon. Friend will know that last year's deterioration in the export-import ratio was not as severe with the EEC as it was with Japan, the United States of America or the world as a whole. That is important. We have done better in our trade with the EEC than in our trade with the rest of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.583.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-18", "file": "debates1980-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "931ba5faf627466c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.605.0", "colnum": "605", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": " of the points that he made will inevitably be caught up with what I say. First, the passion that he clearly evinced is by no means confined to the proponents of the nation State. Those of us who believe that the way forward is to move towards supranational arrangements equally have a passion, a belief and a fervour in this matter. The hon. Gentleman should not in any way feel that this is not so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-18", "file": "debates1980-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "931ba5faf627466c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.605.0", "colnum": "605", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "pers. The hon. Member for Faversham (Mr. Moate) is shaking his head—which he does for a lot of the time during these debates. It is a fact that a significant number of Conservative Members, headed up by the hon. Member for Northampton, North and the hon. Member for Southend, East (Mr. Taylor), now basically reject the whole premise of the debate, which is the development of the European Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.605.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-18", "file": "debates1980-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "931ba5faf627466c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.606.3", "colnum": "606", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "Patriotism, nationalism—it is the same sort of thing. Because of nationalism, in the end the hon. Gentleman is happier to support, in this country, for example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.606.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1980-12-18", "file": "debates1980-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "931ba5faf627466c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.640.0", "colnum": "640", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Mr. Douglas Hurd)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Mr. Douglas Hurd)", "preceding_text": "ough for Britain, and in the second half he listed protectionism as one of its sins. I agree that it is not sensible to get bogged down in statistical pingpong, as he described it. One can do that. I hope that the House will accept that I have material on food and on the trade figures which, to me, and, I think, to the House, is sufficient answer to the points that have been made on those matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1980-12-18a.640.0"}