{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-01-18", "file": "debates1982-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1679b7ea7351714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-18a.10.8", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Where is he?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman did not listen. I said that, in the interests of the House, I would allow questions to range widely. I now call the hon. Member for Barry (Sir R. Gower) to ask question No. 11.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-18a.10.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-18", "file": "debates1982-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1679b7ea7351714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-18a.24.2", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Invergordon Smelter", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "—to resecure the 15,000 jobs in the smelter and associated industries and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-18a.24.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-01-18", "file": "debates1982-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1679b7ea7351714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-18a.25.3", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Invergordon Smelter", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albert McQuarrie", "preceding_text": " for Glasgow, Craigton (Mr. Millan), all Scottish Members wish to see this smelter restarted and will give every support to any action that is taken to achieve that. Does my right hon. Friend agree that the £20 million retained by, British Aluminium was designed to ensure that at this stage at least the jobs at the other plants, particularly in Falkirk, would be retained, and that the £16 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-18a.25.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-18", "file": "debates1982-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "a1679b7ea7351714", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-18a.89.0", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stan Thorne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stan Thorne", "preceding_text": "e were more able to judge the order of priorities locally than will be the case if the Bill becomes law. Other hon. Members want to speak, so I shall attempt to draw my brief remarks to a conclusion. My right hon. Friend the Member for Ardwick pleased me when he said that if the Bill became law it would be repealed by the next Labour Government. I believe that we will have a good majority in 1984.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-18a.89.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-19", "file": "debates1982-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "2d10c5846e59a13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-19a.152.8", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Les Huckfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Les Huckfield", "preceding_text": "While the Prime Minister is talking to her right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport about concessionary fares, will she also try to find time to interest him in the railway dispute? Will she try to get through to him the fact that pay and productivity issues in this dispute are entirely separate and distinct—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-19a.152.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-19", "file": "debates1982-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "2d10c5846e59a13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-19a.152.8", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Les Huckfield", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Les Huckfield", "preceding_text": " productivity issues in this dispute are entirely separate and distinct— [Interruption.] —as is amply evidenced and documented in the proceedings of the Railway Staffs National Tribunal and the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service? Will the Prime Minister also get the Secretary of State for Transport to appreciate that since it is the British Railways Board that has broken its agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-19a.152.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-19", "file": "debates1982-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "2d10c5846e59a13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-19a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Print it\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, and my hon. Friend will have heard me say many times that we have also to look at the total of expenditure. We have to get the total of expenditure either from taxation or from borrowing That is really the only way to do it, Therefore, we must look at the total—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-19a.154.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-19", "file": "debates1982-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "2d10c5846e59a13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-19a.175.2", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "cularly as regards safety, and which all contribute to the proper and consistent regulation of activities on the United Kingdom continental shelf. The last occasion on which the House debated the proposals now embodied in the Bill was notable for a remarkable speech by the right hon. Member for Bristol, South-East (Mr. Benn) from the Opposition Front Bench. I informed him that I would refer to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-19a.175.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-19", "file": "debates1982-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "2d10c5846e59a13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-19a.175.2", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "ke infantile Leftism, the Opposition's paranoid fear of the multinationals is a form of disease. It requires not so much rebuttal, as treatment. The other argument advanced by the hon. Member for Merthyr Tydfil in his article in The Observer in favour of continued State ownership of BNOC in its present form, was that the first chairman of BNOC, Lord Kearton, was originally opposed to privatisation", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-19a.175.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-19", "file": "debates1982-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "2d10c5846e59a13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-19a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "ted Kingdom sector but we had the knowledge that mathematically it was more likely to happen in our sector than again in the Norwegian sector. We took steps, and with enthusiasm the oil companies helped to create and build the emergency support vessels, one of which has just been built in my constituency. The Government gave the Shell one away to Finland, but our Government were able to make sure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-19a.200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-19", "file": "debates1982-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "2d10c5846e59a13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-19a.213.1", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "gracefully omitted from his speech the fact that we have the Burgoyne report on offshore safety and the whole basis of the argument behind that. During the period that Burgoyne and his colleagues were investigating, the \"Alexander L. Keilland\" incident occurred and. recently, there have been other incidents in the North Sea. Those incidents question certain aspects of the use of semi-submersibles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-19a.213.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-19", "file": "debates1982-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "2d10c5846e59a13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-19a.220.1", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "preceding_text": "ome information about what is going on in that important sector of our economy. I come to the conclusion that I am against the denationalisation of BNOC. I confess that if the Government's plan goes through and it is denationalised, we are dealing with a new situation. I do not for a moment suggest that votes will be forthcoming from the Liberal Bench to renationalise BNOC after the next election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-19a.220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-19", "file": "debates1982-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "2d10c5846e59a13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-19a.222.0", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Eggar", "preceding_text": "The House is always grateful to the hon. Member for Truro (Mr. Penhaligon) for the light relief that he brings to our debates and for his and his party's ability to see all sides of all arguments at all times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-19a.222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-19", "file": "debates1982-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "2d10c5846e59a13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-19a.238.3", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "prices for both domestic and industrial consumers. It will lead to the squandering of vital gas assets by the removal of the distinction between premium and non-premium uses. It will lead to a lack of control over the loss of oil assets and a reduction in the overall control of the nation's oil supplies, and it will lead to the sale of precious national assets at prices far below their real value.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-19a.238.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-19", "file": "debates1982-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "2d10c5846e59a13f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-19a.256.0", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Aluminium Smelter (Invergordon)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Alexander Fletcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Alexander Fletcher)", "preceding_text": "ng to £47 million, which was a great financial embarrassment to the company. We took the best possible legal advice available to Government, as did the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board. The advice that we received—I emphasise this—was that, in view of the terms of the contract, the hydro board had an obligation to the rest of its consumers to pursue the £47 million disputed charges in court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-19a.256.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-20", "file": "debates1982-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "8e64720cf5bb3688", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-20a.268.9", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "That is a completely meaningless statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-20a.268.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-20", "file": "debates1982-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "8e64720cf5bb3688", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-20a.280.3", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Wales (Weather Conditions)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Delwyn Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Delwyn Williams", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that Powys, which has the greatest mileage per head of population in Britain, has received nothing but co-operation from the Welsh Office during the emergency? Is he further aware that none of its emergency services has been curtailed? Will he note the concern—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-20a.280.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-20", "file": "debates1982-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "8e64720cf5bb3688", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-20a.280.3", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Wales (Weather Conditions)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Delwyn Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Delwyn Williams", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that Powys, which has the greatest mileage per head of population in Britain, has received nothing but co-operation from the Welsh Office during the emergency? Is he further aware that none of its emergency services has been curtailed? Will he note the concern— [Interruption.] We would prefer the exclusive rate formula—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-20a.280.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-20", "file": "debates1982-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "8e64720cf5bb3688", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-20a.376.0", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Minister for the Civil Service (Transfer of Functions)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Garrett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Garrett", "preceding_text": "ive Civil Service and a Civil Service capable of anticipating and meeting the challenges of the late twentieth century, have been brought to nothing. However, the issue will not rest there. The pressures and the problems which gave rise to the need for Civil Service reform and the need for a Civil Service Department to drive it through are building up again and I am sure that the measures set out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-20a.376.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-21", "file": "debates1982-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "32d48eddc2c435b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.411.6", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "In the course of her busy day—to coin a phrase—will the Prime Minister reconsider her Government's plan to raise council house rents compulsorily by £2·50 a week, in addition to two previous increases? While it may seem nothing to the eight millionaires in the Cabinet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.411.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-21", "file": "debates1982-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "32d48eddc2c435b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Rape Case (Glasgow)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland (Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland (Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn)", "preceding_text": "e were made before matters developed to the point when it was obviously the wish of hon. Members that a statement should be made in Parliament about the case. If anything that I may have said showed any disrespect to the House, I wish to apologise unreservedly as that was furthest from my intention. I shall now read the statement. With your Lordships' permission, I should like to make a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-21", "file": "debates1982-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "32d48eddc2c435b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.427.2", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Rape Case (Glasgow)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "preceding_text": ", I do not intend to comment on the evidence, for the reasons that I gave at the beginning. It is not proper to do so, and in the circumstances of this case it would certainly risk prejudicing both the complainer, if she continues to complain, and the accused who are presumed to be innocent, whoever they may be. Secondly, I shall not name any person who took the responsibility in the Crown Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.427.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-21", "file": "debates1982-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "32d48eddc2c435b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.430.0", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Rape Case (Glasgow)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then what is the difference?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "preceding_text": "fully the crime of rape has in recent years not been so significant in the criminal figures as previously. Let me say that the Crown Office and Crown counsel take the most serious view of the crime of rape. I prosecuted a crime of rape in the High Court in Glasgow last week and obtained a conviction in a case, I may say, in which the evidence was such that one might not have obtained a conviction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.430.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-21", "file": "debates1982-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "32d48eddc2c435b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.430.4", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Rape Case (Glasgow)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may be particularly trying to mislead the House as to the meaning of my words. What distinguishes sexual offences from offences such as murder, stabbing, theft and the like is that they involve a human relationship and not purely or necessarily purely criminal activity. That is why the crime of rape is so difficult. I have a long experience of it and I can assure hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.430.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-21", "file": "debates1982-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "32d48eddc2c435b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.434.5", "colnum": "434", "heading": "Rape Case (Glasgow)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "I am seeking, Mr. Speaker, to do a favour for every woman in the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.434.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-21", "file": "debates1982-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "32d48eddc2c435b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.436.4", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Aluminium Smelter (Invergordon)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Millan", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Millan", "preceding_text": "aluminium in the UK fell by 22 per cent. between the first and second quarters, and by the last quarter of 1980 was 35 per cent. below the previous year. When the chairman was introducing the interim statement for the six months to the end of June 1981, be referred to the depressed state of the market in the United Kingdom—which, as I have said, is a reflection of the Government's economic policy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.436.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-21", "file": "debates1982-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "32d48eddc2c435b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.447.1", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Aluminium Smelter (Invergordon)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "go into liquidation. Faced with that choice in early December, and considering the effect that the company's liquidation would have on employment elsewhere in Scotland, we concluded—I am as certain today as I was at the time that we were right—that if no means could be found to keep the smelter open we had no alternative but to proceed to a negotiated settlement. That is what happened at the time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-21", "file": "debates1982-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "32d48eddc2c435b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.448.1", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Aluminium Smelter (Invergordon)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "That was a pathetic intervention. It was worse than that. The right hon. Gentleman will not face up to the fact that, if he denies that, he is saying that he would have preferred to risk those other jobs. He knows very well that that is so because that is the choice that I faced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.448.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-21", "file": "debates1982-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "32d48eddc2c435b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Aluminium Smelter (Invergordon)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "No, I am not saying that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-21", "file": "debates1982-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "32d48eddc2c435b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.468.1", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Aluminium Smelter (Invergordon)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "When I say begging, I mean that those people want to return to their jobs. British Aluminium has blatantly thrown them out of those jobs. I hope that my hon. Friend the Minister will tell the House about the six firms that the HIDB has shortlisted as being willing and suitable to take over the smelter. We do not want any more lies or deceit on that issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.468.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-21", "file": "debates1982-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "32d48eddc2c435b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.487.2", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Aluminium Smelter (Invergordon)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Myles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Myles", "preceding_text": "earse them in parrot fashion or to repeat all the arguments that have been advanced. Blame has been apportioned and the Opposition have pointed at the Government Benches. I commend my right hon. and hon. Friends for not sending that blame back when they could have done so. It is only with hindsight that we would now apportion blame to the Government of 1968, who encouraged the project to go ahead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.487.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-21", "file": "debates1982-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "32d48eddc2c435b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.500.0", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Aluminium Smelter (Invergordon)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Alexander Fletcher)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Alexander Fletcher)", "preceding_text": "Therefore, it was well below half that being charged to other industrial consumers in Scotland. The right hon. Gentleman will know that it would have been necessary for the taxpayer to pay at least £16 million a year until the year 2000. That was the content of the discussion that took place with British Aluminium on the forward price. Therefore, the comparison with other smelters is not relevant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.500.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-21", "file": "debates1982-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "32d48eddc2c435b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.520.3", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dental School (New Cross)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "e will need to be considered further with other aspects of our dental strategy, and that dental therapists should in future be trained alongside other dental professionals. The New Cross school has produced well-trained therapists, but in numbers too great for and not sufficiently sensitive to the demand for their services. The school will therefore be closed at the end of its summer term in 1983.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.520.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-21", "file": "debates1982-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "32d48eddc2c435b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.520.3", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dental School (New Cross)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "ss to the surgery facilities at the school, it will be able to manage well, and that should be possible. The great majority of the representations that we have received have expressed the gravest concern about the future of the dental therapist class. If the future of the class were assured I feel that the bulk of the objections to closure of the school would disappear. This future is now assured—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.520.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-21", "file": "debates1982-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "32d48eddc2c435b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.520.3", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Dental School (New Cross)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "ool is part of a positive strategy for the dental therapist class. I cannot let this occasion pass without, like the hon. Member for Greenwich, paying tribute to the management, staff and students of the New Cross school. It is unfortunate that they should have been providing an excellent training at a time when the demand for their students has been flagging. I assure all concerned at the school—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-21a.520.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-22", "file": "debates1982-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "b5e1a3d892306a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-22a.553.1", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Supply of Goods and Services", "cue_speaker": "Dr. M. S. Miller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Did you get it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. M. S. Miller", "preceding_text": "supposed mixture of undercoat and gloss paint that could be applied in one go. I am reminded of my first trip to camp as a boy scout, in a troop that wore the Douglas tartan. I was asked to go into the village and buy a small pot of Douglas tartan paint to paint a shed that we had erected. Clearly, we have not advanced very far since then if people can still be taken in by that type of injunction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-22a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-22", "file": "debates1982-01-22a.xml", "sha256": "b5e1a3d892306a10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-22a.571.1", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Supply of Goods and Services", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "that he supports the Bill, just as he supports consumers on every occasion. I commend the Bill to the House. Almost every hon. Member, on each side of the House, has welcomed it, although not always in an unqualified way. I do not recall anyone from the SDP-Liberal Alliance speaking in favour of consumers, especially as one of them is a former Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-22a.571.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-25", "file": "debates1982-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "580ad0201941cd31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-25a.611.11", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "There is no judicial discretion in private prosecutions. Certain statutory restrictions are usually imposed by the will of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-25a.611.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-25", "file": "debates1982-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "580ad0201941cd31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-25a.624.0", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fuel Bills", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "That is the second perfectly proper interruption on matters of policy relating to the DHSS. My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security will wind up the debate and it may be more appropriate for her to deal with that matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-25a.624.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-25", "file": "debates1982-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "580ad0201941cd31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-25a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. W. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the SDP?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. W. Rooker", "preceding_text": "the equivalent, I imagine, to the Labour Party's NEC, so it must be pretty important—does not want the change, as it made clear in a letter to the former Secretary of State on 2 March 1981, signed by the secretary Mr. Alan Smith. The Tory Party does not want the change, the British Legion does not want it, the Liberals do not want it, the Labour Party does not want it, the teachers do not want it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-25a.705.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-25", "file": "debates1982-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "580ad0201941cd31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-25a.713.3", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Best", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Best", "preceding_text": " my argument that these regulations still enable people to spend money in larger sums when they collect it at four-weekly periods. They are entitled to accumulate that money now on a weekly basis. Opposition Members are saying that people cannot be trusted to take the money in four-weekly amounts. That is grossly insulting to the people who receive it. The only point that I want to stress tonight—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-25a.713.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-25", "file": "debates1982-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "580ad0201941cd31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-25a.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security (Mr. Hugh Rossi)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security (Mr. Hugh Rossi)", "preceding_text": "ant factor is that the system will become far more efficient administratively. We consider that our action strikes a fair balance between the needs of beneficiaries and our duty to keep down administrative costs. I shall spell out how the regulations are being implemented and deal with the publicity monitoring and hardship, to which several hon. Gentlemen referred. Starting from mid-November 1981—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-25a.718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-26", "file": "debates1982-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "71ee4437b31c6e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-26a.743.5", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " exceeded 3 million, is the Prime Minister proud of the fact that she has brought so much despair to so many families in the United Kingdom? Is she proud of the fact that she and the Government have created more havoc in the British economy than the German High Command in the whole of the last war? Is she proud that, to carry out this ill-fated monetarist experiment, she has had to increase taxes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-26a.743.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-26", "file": "debates1982-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "71ee4437b31c6e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-26a.743.5", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "e Minister proud of the fact that she has brought so much despair to so many families in the United Kingdom? Is she proud of the fact that she and the Government have created more havoc in the British economy than the German High Command in the whole of the last war? Is she proud that, to carry out this ill-fated monetarist experiment, she has had to increase taxes? [Interruption.] Is it not time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-26a.743.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-26", "file": "debates1982-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "71ee4437b31c6e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-26a.744.2", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Cannot the right hon. Lady appreciate that when the figures of unemployment reach a total of this nature it is an insult to the unemployed to talk of the encouraging figures presented to the nation, especially when most of her figures are misleading?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-26a.744.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-26", "file": "debates1982-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "71ee4437b31c6e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-26a.744.5", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "vacancy figures in the Department of Employment's press notice. The number of vacancies—the number of jobs now being notified to job centres—is increasing. The stock is greater than a year ago. The fact is that the right hon. Gentleman brought down unemployment temporarily at the cost of reflation, which increased unemployment later. If the right hon. Gentleman is really interested in the figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-26a.744.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-26", "file": "debates1982-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "71ee4437b31c6e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-26a.746.5", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "re was an advisory group on the law of rape, chaired by Dame Rose Heilbron. That was an excellent group. Most of its recommendations were implemented, with the unanimous approval of both sides of the House. Furthermore, building on that, the Criminal Law Revision Committee is now carrying out a comprehensive review of sexual offences, including rape and allied offences, and the penalties for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-26a.746.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-26", "file": "debates1982-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "71ee4437b31c6e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-26a.746.5", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "em. [Interruption.] In October 1980 it published a working paper and invited comments. Those comments are still being received. The committee's intention is to produce a report that places the law on rape in the context of sexual assaults. That refers to the law on rape in England and Wales. The law is different in Scotland. I have thought it wise to attempt to discuss the recent events and cases—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-26a.746.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-26", "file": "debates1982-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "71ee4437b31c6e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-26a.746.5", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nts are still being received. The committee's intention is to produce a report that places the law on rape in the context of sexual assaults. That refers to the law on rape in England and Wales. The law is different in Scotland. I have thought it wise to attempt to discuss the recent events and cases— [Interruption.] —which, although they may not have given cause for concern to Opposition Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-26a.746.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-26", "file": "debates1982-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "71ee4437b31c6e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-26a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Towns Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Steen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Steen", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Member for Newton (Mr. Evans) will take my comments in the spirit intended. I take support from his comments. I make no party political point, but merely comment that there are no Social Democrats or Liberals in the Chamber. I entirely support his drawing attention to that fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-26a.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-26", "file": "debates1982-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "71ee4437b31c6e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-26a.800.1", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Towns Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "ire, East (Mr. Hogg) put the matter in a slightly broader context, relating it to the real problems facing parts of Scotland. The Government will do what they can to help the new towns, but they cannot be totally insulated from economic developments in the country as a whole. The new towns stand to gain perhaps more than any other areas from the upturn in the economy that our policies will secure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-26a.800.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-26", "file": "debates1982-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "71ee4437b31c6e17", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-26a.811.6", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Transport (Finance) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Huckfield", "preceding_text": "ce. I speak in the House as the parliamentary spokesman for the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen. I am sponsored not by that union, but by the Transport and General Workers Union; under an agreement between the two unions I speak on behalf of ASLEF in the House because it does not have a sponsored Member. That understanding is registered in the Register of Members' Interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-26a.811.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-27", "file": "debates1982-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8048fc8f70488f21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.880.6", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wag your tail, bulldog.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend referred—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.880.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-27", "file": "debates1982-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8048fc8f70488f21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.880.6", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "r tail, bulldog.\"] I am grateful for the Opposition's support. My hon. Friend referred to the Bill relating to the control of dogs that has been introduced in another place. Is he aware that under the Bill control rests with the police, who are given additional powers to deal with the matter? Before the Bill reaches this House, will my hon. Friend consider the privatisation of the control of dogs?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.880.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-27", "file": "debates1982-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8048fc8f70488f21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.903.3", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Employment Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about Austria?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I do not speak for the forward policies of other Governments in Europe. I am speaking for what is actually happening in Europe, not for the forward policies of other Governments. Whatever their policies are, they all face extremely rapid rises in unemployment. The sole exception at present, perhaps, is Japan, which has done extremely well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.903.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-27", "file": "debates1982-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8048fc8f70488f21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.903.5", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Employment Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way to the hon. Gentleman. I have already given way sufficiently. We had other long-lasting and deep-seated problems which some of our major competitors did not fully share.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.903.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-27", "file": "debates1982-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8048fc8f70488f21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Employment Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman may choose to use different figures, but those are the figures published by the Central Statistical Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-27", "file": "debates1982-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8048fc8f70488f21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Employment Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "No doubt. Everyone would like double everything—double wages, double jobs, double all. That is the SDP programme.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-27", "file": "debates1982-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8048fc8f70488f21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Employment Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"And the trade unions\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "sters seeking places speaks for its success. At the latest count, about 240, 000 people were benefiting from the scheme. In all, more than 1 million young people have benefited. It is right that the House should congratulate the Manpower Services Commission, the employers, the voluntary services, education departments, the local authorities and all the others who have helped to operate the scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-27", "file": "debates1982-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8048fc8f70488f21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Employment Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: That has already happened.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "bour's \"Plan for Expansion\", to which the Opposition amendment refers, unlimited spending out of limited resources is a recipe for economic disaster, not recovery. There are no short cuts. Our industry and commerce must provide the goods and services that the customer wants at a price that he can afford. If not, someone else will. Jobs will be created in Germany and Japan and lost here in Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-27", "file": "debates1982-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8048fc8f70488f21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.908.1", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Employment Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "are. Pay is far from being the sole cause of inflation, but excessive labour costs feeding through into prices are a major cause of job losses. Cleaning up the mess of the winter of discontent—honouring the Labour Party's commitments to the Clegg commission—left a rate of wage settlements approaching 20 per cent. in 1980. By the end of the 1980–81 pay round, it was down to about 9 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.908.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-27", "file": "debates1982-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8048fc8f70488f21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.915.5", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Employment Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "n show he said that before the end of the Government's term of office unemployment would begin to fall and people would flock back to support the Conservative Party. That is not the Common Market's view, which is that: when the next General Election is due—3, 600, 000 people will be out of work in Britain\". But, according to the same statisticians, it will be falling in West Germany and in France.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.915.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-27", "file": "debates1982-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8048fc8f70488f21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.964.1", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Employment Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "e subsequent outflow of money for investment abroad instead of in Britain is a disgrace. That money could have helped industry in the form of research and development and investment at a time when it is greatly needed. As the Secretary of State knows, more than £5 billion has left the country since the abolition of exchange controls. We regard that outflow of money as a factor of major importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-27", "file": "debates1982-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8048fc8f70488f21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.967.0", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Employment Situation", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Mr. Patrick Jenkin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Industry (Mr. Patrick Jenkin)", "preceding_text": " whether, as a result, industry will become more competitive and find more customers. Both the right hon. Member for Salford, West and his right hon. Friend completely ignored the fact that in the disastrous period at the end of their last period of Government the effect of the overspill from Clegg and the post-dated cheques was felt and this country lost about 50 per cent. of its competitiveness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.967.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-27", "file": "debates1982-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8048fc8f70488f21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.969.0", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Employment Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ts, 18 months ago, were running 25 per cent. higher than a year earlier—a far faster rise than in any other major industrial country. This relates to internal unit labour costs and is nothing to do with the exchange rate. In the first quarter of 1981 the figure fell to 16 per cent., in the second quarter to 8 per cent. and by the third quarter it was only 5 per cent. The latest figure is now only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.969.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-27", "file": "debates1982-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8048fc8f70488f21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.970.7", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Employment Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are on the Conservative Benches.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "and to help with investment schemes. In addition, £55 million has been allocated to the microelectronics support scheme to help the industry develop its products. Schemes in other countries were mentioned, but there was a notable forgetfulness about mentioning schemes in this country. There are schemes to support the development of fibre optics, of robot machine tools and integrated robot systems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.970.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-27", "file": "debates1982-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8048fc8f70488f21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.970.7", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Employment Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "There are schemes to support the development of fibre optics, of robot machine tools and integrated robot systems—[HON. MEMBERS: \"They are on the Conservative Benches.\"] Opposition Members may have their joke, but these matters are important. We have renewed, for four years, the manufacturing advisory service. My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has designated 1982 Information Technology Year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.970.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-27", "file": "debates1982-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "8048fc8f70488f21", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.971.3", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Employment Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Member for Crosby is one of them, although she used not to be—who will argue that there is an easier way. The right hon. Lady called for a £5 billion to £6 billion public expenditure reflation. I remind her that her former right hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) at the Labour Party conference in 1976 stated: We used to think that you could just spend your way\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-27a.971.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-28", "file": "debates1982-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d835501f782e94f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-28a.1008.6", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "BALLOT FOR NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR MONDAY 15 FEBRUARY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The procedure is quite unbiased. Hon. Members must live in hope.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-28a.1008.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-28", "file": "debates1982-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d835501f782e94f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-28a.1018.5", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Lady is hiding.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "1·82. The figures that we heard yesterday lacked all plausibility and conviction—I fear not for the first time. I do not believe that the figures and calculations are fully understood. Not for the first time the Cabinet wets are being taken for a ride by the Treasury. The same applies to the oh so moderate wets outside the Cabinet in all parts of the House. The right hon. Member for Crosby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-28a.1018.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-28", "file": "debates1982-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d835501f782e94f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-28a.1020.1", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "n to commit myself to a specific total of what I believe— [Interruption.] No amount of jeering will make me do so. It is too silly for words. I was taking that as an illustrative figure. That is the point. Of course I would borrow it. I have said that again and again. In a recession it makes sense to borrow. If hon. Members do not understand that fact, I am afraid that they have not lived through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-28a.1020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-28", "file": "debates1982-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d835501f782e94f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-28a.1031.0", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You raised it\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "It has been my experience that the Floor of the House of Commons is not the best place to try to resolve an industrial dispute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-28a.1031.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-28", "file": "debates1982-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d835501f782e94f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-28a.1034.5", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "fear that they will not be re-elected—from the Government point of view the policy has been a triumphant success. Unfortunately, it has been ruinous for the country and its prospects, as my right hon. Friend the Shadow Chancellor made clear. How do we achieve a return to full employment? That is what people listening to the debate want to know. They are not interested in merely rhetorical attacks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-28a.1034.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-01-28", "file": "debates1982-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "d835501f782e94f8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-28a.1034.5", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "m the Prince of Wales to the pensioners, we would be a salaried nation in which everyone was entirely regulated by legislation. But no one who knows anything about the industrial process believes that one can abstract the business of wage negotiation from the business of production. That is why the Chancellor's statement about ASLEF was so singularly stupid. ASLEF represents highly skilled drivers", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-01-28a.1034.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-01", "file": "debates1982-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "5197a940c0a94871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-01a.10.1", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disbeneficial?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "e that people making investment decisions do so on the basis of whether that decision will be profitable, and not purely on the basis of whether Britain is a member of the EEC? Given that we have a massive deficit in trade in manufactures with the European Common Market, is it not possible that in some areas, at least, our present arrangements with the EEC are disbeneficial to potential investors?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-01a.10.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-01", "file": "debates1982-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "5197a940c0a94871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-01a.40.0", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nuclear Power Programme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "modifications that have to be made to conform to the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate's specifications. These costs would make it so expensive as to reduce their advantage for us. Thirdly, we are a smallish country. With Magnox stations and AGR stations in operation and the fast breeder and fusion under consideration it would be wrong to introduce a new system. I venture to predict that the PWR—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-01a.40.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-01", "file": "debates1982-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "5197a940c0a94871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-01a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nuclear Power Programme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson Smith", "preceding_text": "ose who have to make the decisions in the next few years. That must be done unless hon. Members have specific criticisms. Too often debates on nuclear power in other countries have sadly deteriorated through the use of public demonstrations, and inaccurate, emotional and superficial assertions and have destroyed the quality of authoritative advice, based on the most careful and dedicated research.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-01a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-01", "file": "debates1982-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "5197a940c0a94871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-01a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nuclear Power Programme", "cue_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mahon", "preceding_text": "At least two members of my party have been present during the debate. Certainly I have been here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-01a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-01", "file": "debates1982-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "5197a940c0a94871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-01a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nuclear Power Programme", "cue_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mahon", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mahon", "preceding_text": "At least two members of my party have been present during the debate. Certainly I have been here—[ Interruption .] I have been in the House all this time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-01a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-01", "file": "debates1982-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "5197a940c0a94871", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-01a.97.4", "colnum": "97", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nuclear Power Programme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "The House will not want me to belabour the point, but those of us concerned with Government and responsibility are always more interested in what hon. Members say and do in office than in what they say when they do not have the responsibility of power. The words of the hon. Member for Newton (Mr. Evans) were extremely appropriate in that regard and I took them seriously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-01a.97.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-02", "file": "debates1982-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "90f47ce3f29ddefb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-02a.123.9", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Answer\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Has the right hon. Gentleman been listening to what I have said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-02a.123.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-02", "file": "debates1982-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "90f47ce3f29ddefb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-02a.229.0", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Towns Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": " the finished product and then reinvested in further development. Although I dislike the whole system, I realise that, if it is to be operated at all, it is useful for reinvestment to be made directly in the new towns so that to that extent we see some benefits. Perhaps the Minister will briefly answer one or two questions on this. First, will the pace of asset-stripping in Scotland be maintained?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-02a.229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-02", "file": "debates1982-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "90f47ce3f29ddefb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-02a.246.0", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Towns Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steen This", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steen This", "preceding_text": "a slightly longer debate on a matter which causes concern, especially as 80 per cent. of the populations live in new towns and urban areas. The Bill will have enormous ramifications. It will increase the amount of public funds to the new towns, not by £1 million or £100 million, but by £1 billion. That is an extraordinarily large sum. It amounts to £500 million now and £500 million a little later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-02a.246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-03", "file": "debates1982-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3efad463644f7886", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-03a.292.9", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"El Salvador\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's attack on the Government for supporting vile, oppressive regimes throughout the world deserves no comment from me. The hon. Gentleman knows that it is nonsense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-03a.292.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-03", "file": "debates1982-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3efad463644f7886", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-03a.307.5", "colnum": "307", "heading": "European Community Budget 1982", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Nelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anthony Nelson", "preceding_text": "Will not my right hon. Friend agree that at least in principle an important guideline for the Government should be the views of the European Parliament which, after all, is a directly elected body?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-03a.307.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-03", "file": "debates1982-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3efad463644f7886", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-03a.338.2", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "preceding_text": "I have tried to suggest that that may be so, but the council cannot simply say, regardless of the locality or the provisions of the schedule, that it will not have any sex shops.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-03a.338.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-03", "file": "debates1982-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3efad463644f7886", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-03a.397.2", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyell", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend may well be right. The fact that the Stock Exchange seems to operate successfully at the moment without these immunities is not necessarily an argument that such immunities would not be desirable for the Stock Exchange, or beneficial for Lloyd's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-03a.397.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-03", "file": "debates1982-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "3efad463644f7886", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-03a.398.0", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyell", "preceding_text": "ing out. We are all anxious for effective self-regulation. I believe that the sums involved are so large, and so complex are the matters upon which the Committee will have to exercise its discretion, and so likely is it that there will be litigation, from people working in the market in Britain or overseas, that I genuinely believe that they will be inhibited if they are not given some protection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-03a.398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-04", "file": "debates1982-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1730ff12d6fe672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-04a.526.0", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "preceding_text": "As the real answer is that no progress has been made in Brussels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-04a.526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-04", "file": "debates1982-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1730ff12d6fe672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-04a.540.3", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "When a Select Committee is involved, I see only what is published in the press—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-04a.540.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-04", "file": "debates1982-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1730ff12d6fe672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-04a.540.3", "colnum": "540", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "When a Select Committee is involved, I see only what is published in the press— [ Interruption ] —until the report has been published and laid before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-04a.540.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-04", "file": "debates1982-02-04a.xml", "sha256": "1730ff12d6fe672e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-04a.548.1", "colnum": "548", "heading": "pensions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "will welcome that and agree that it was a significant advance for them. However, that was not the only advance made on that occasion. For the future, we passed pensions legislation which, after a funding period of 20 years, will provide, for a person who retires, a pension linked to earnings and an old age free from penury. That is a great and lasting monument to our late colleague Brian O'Malley.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-04a.548.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-05", "file": "debates1982-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "92d0eb5700abe3c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-05a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Planning Inquiries (Attendance of Public) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Derek Walker-Smith", "preceding_text": "Yes, a quarter of a century. Since my hon. Friend the Member for Grantham (Mr. Hogg) seems to wish to delve into the past, may I parenthetically observe that when I was a Treasury Minister we ran the Treasury on three Ministers. I have lost count of how many there are now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-05a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-05", "file": "debates1982-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "92d0eb5700abe3c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-05a.686.2", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Death Grant (Increase) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernie Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernie Ross", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. The Bill is only a general statement of intent. It was not my intention, nor that of the right hon. and hon. Members who support the Bill, to include the detailed and necessary amendments that will be required if the death grant is fully to reflect the aspirations of all those——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-05a.686.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-05", "file": "debates1982-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "92d0eb5700abe3c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-05a.694.1", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Death Grant (Increase) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": " from the probate registry and from banks and insurance companies about the level of estates, and the working of the existing scheme to help recipients of supplementary benefit when they are responsible for meeting funeral costs. We have also examined the detailed working of the present scheme. On average, every death grant claim involves an administrative cost of £13 for a maximum payment of £30.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-05a.694.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-05", "file": "debates1982-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "92d0eb5700abe3c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-05a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Death Grant (Increase) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "at authority from the Opposition Front Bench, has recognised, as should all hon. Members, the complexity of this issue. It is not a matter for Committee stage of a Private Member's Bill. I would have been happier if the hon. Member for Dundee, West had confined his Bill to more narrow terms. For example, it is an iniquitous omission that stillborn children are excluded from the present provisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-05a.700.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-05", "file": "debates1982-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "92d0eb5700abe3c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-05a.700.3", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Death Grant (Increase) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "ee with my hon. Friend. I had already mentioned one of the anomalies about stillborn children, and my hon. Friend has just brought another anomaly to light. If the Bill had been confined to that narrow point, the inquiry that the Government are now undertaking into these matters might well have coincided with the hon. Member's Bill, and the Government might have been able to move amendments to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-05a.700.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-05", "file": "debates1982-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "92d0eb5700abe3c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-05a.700.7", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Death Grant (Increase) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "On a purely technical point as the right hon. Member for Norwich, North (Mr. Ennals)—who is an experienced Member of the House and a former Secretary of State for Social Services—will know, the point would not be covered by the long title of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-05a.700.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-05", "file": "debates1982-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "92d0eb5700abe3c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-05a.700.7", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Death Grant (Increase) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "ber for Perry Barr that there are many issues on which we take a personal interest, and one of them is child benefit. If I, as the Member for Watford, were faced with the choices mentioned to the House just now by the Minister for Social Security, and were given £190 million to spend, I am not ashamed to say that I would prefer to see that money devoted to child benefit rather than to death grant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-05a.700.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-05", "file": "debates1982-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "92d0eb5700abe3c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-05a.701.2", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Death Grant (Increase) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Garel-Jones", "preceding_text": "Conservative Back Benchers do not enjoy the luxury of being able to support any expenditure whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-05a.701.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-05", "file": "debates1982-02-05a.xml", "sha256": "92d0eb5700abe3c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-05a.710.0", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Laker Airways", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "s—was heard to declare, when talking about trade unions, and, in particular, workers, \"Turn the screw until it bleeds, Maggie, and then turn it again\"? The Prime Minister has now shown that competitiveness, monetarism and market forces have not been able to work under the greatest architect of monetarism that Britain has ever had, in the name of the Prime Minister. Is it not a fact that while the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-05a.710.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-08", "file": "debates1982-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "93409dc34ffc251c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.722.6", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that that is not good enough? Will he call for an immediate investigation into the furtive decision by Mobil Oil, aided and abetted by the British Transport Docks Board, to locate in the Solent a 900 ft liquefied petroleum gas vessel? Is he aware that the Solent is to yachting what Lords is to cricket, and that hundreds of thousands of people like to think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.722.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-08", "file": "debates1982-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "93409dc34ffc251c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.737.3", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Norman Tebbit)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Norman Tebbit)", "preceding_text": " from a speech made by the right hon. Member for Bristol, South-East (Mr. Benn) at Red Lion Square Holborn, on 19 April 1969. I hope that we will hear no more of the line that there is no role for the law in industrial relations. Having established the common ground, on which I still stand, but from which the right hon. Gentleman and his friends have fled, I wish to come to the detail of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.737.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-08", "file": "debates1982-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "93409dc34ffc251c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "The Solicitor-General was sent to defend the Government's view that the 1980 Act had put matters right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-08", "file": "debates1982-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "93409dc34ffc251c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.741.1", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Claptrap\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "e union control over who works for an employer and who does not work for him. At the worst, it means that an employer is forced to abdicate the right to decide whom he employs and even how many people he employs. The closed shop need not, but too often does, reinforce restrictive practices and inefficient working methods. It damages competitiveness, and therefore in the long run it destroys jobs.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.741.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-08", "file": "debates1982-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "93409dc34ffc251c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.742.2", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "For a start, the hon. Gentleman might look at parts of the engineering industry, where he might just possibly find the odd case or two. I have mentioned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.742.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-08", "file": "debates1982-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "93409dc34ffc251c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may not like the lump, but, properly managed, it is a very effective institution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-08", "file": "debates1982-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "93409dc34ffc251c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "institutions should be permanently licensed to apply the funds they possess to do wrong to others and by that wrong inflict upon them damage … and yet not be liable to make redress out of those funds would be a state of things opposed to the very idea of law and order and justice\". That was Sidney Webb, a member of the Royal Commission which produced that report. He did not dissent from it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-08", "file": "debates1982-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "93409dc34ffc251c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.745.1", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "with 5,000 members or fewer to £10,000 and for those with up to 25,000 members to £50,000. These limits are set out in clause 13. Clause 14 makes it clear that union provident funds and also political funds which are not used to finance industrial action are not at risk. Let me point out that if a trade union wants to be sure that its funds remain untouched all it has to do is keep within the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-08", "file": "debates1982-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "93409dc34ffc251c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.745.1", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "ative in British politics. Now its Members must decide whether to continue as Social Democrats the marsupial relationship with the trade union establishment that they enjoyed as Socialists. They must decide whether to disentagle themselves from their history of subservience to vested interest. They must decide whether they wish to return to being financed or controlled by the trade union movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-08", "file": "debates1982-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "93409dc34ffc251c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.754.2", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady sat in the Cabinet Room when we approved the Act which gave trade unions certain rights provided that they exercised them responsibly. She is now voting to get rid of the legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.754.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-08", "file": "debates1982-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "93409dc34ffc251c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.754.3", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Rodgers", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Rodgers", "preceding_text": "Were I and my colleagues to be judged by the company that we keep, we would much prefer to be in the Lobby tonight with the right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Varley), despite the rather rough remarks that he made towards the end of his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.754.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-08", "file": "debates1982-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "93409dc34ffc251c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.754.3", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Gentleman should know\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Rodgers", "preceding_text": "Were I and my colleagues to be judged by the company that we keep, we would much prefer to be in the Lobby tonight with the right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Varley), despite the rather rough remarks that he made towards the end of his speech. [ Interruption ] However, I see that we have already flowed over into the old-style cat and dog fight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.754.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-08", "file": "debates1982-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "93409dc34ffc251c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.755.3", "colnum": "755", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": " attack on the trade unions. No one who heard the right hon. Gentleman—I agree that he made an ugly speech, because he is an ugly man—could come to any other conclusion. As a Bill concerned with industrial relations, this is a flimsy measure. That is why my right hon. and hon. Friends and I have placed on the Order Paper, by way of Instructions, proposals on how the Bill might cover a larger area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.755.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-08", "file": "debates1982-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "93409dc34ffc251c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.757.0", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "I have long taken the view, which I have expressed before now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.757.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-08", "file": "debates1982-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "93409dc34ffc251c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.757.5", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rodgers", "preceding_text": "I am a recent convert to legislation of this type.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.757.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-08", "file": "debates1982-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "93409dc34ffc251c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.762.2", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "ll more heavily on the small union than on the large union. To give one example, if the Transport and General Workers' Union, with 1,886,000 members and an annual income of £28.5 million—this sad little union that the right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Varley) was so worried about—were to suffer the maximum fine, that would still represent under 1 per cent. of its annual income in one action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.762.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-08", "file": "debates1982-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "93409dc34ffc251c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.799.1", "colnum": "799", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that point later. I suggest that the hon. Gentleman should consult the British shipping industry as it has provided a two-page document endorsing the closed shop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.799.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-08", "file": "debates1982-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "93409dc34ffc251c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.809.3", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "If my right hon. Friend will forgive me, I am trying to make his case for him. When in despair the workers tried to keep the factory intact, there was a re-run of the raid on Entebbe, with helicopters, a battalion of bailiffs and a small army of supporting police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.809.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-08", "file": "debates1982-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "93409dc34ffc251c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.811.1", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "The Select Committee on Employment received evidence from the TUC that the Secretary of State had used that remark.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.811.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-08", "file": "debates1982-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "93409dc34ffc251c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.811.6", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "If I were a shade in error, of course I apologise for that. The TUC published a document about the Government's proposals in which it said that the closed shop proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.811.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-08", "file": "debates1982-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "93409dc34ffc251c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.812.6", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "It is a growth industry in the United States and the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-08a.812.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-09", "file": "debates1982-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "b426d45afaef97e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-09a.844.6", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Finsberg", "preceding_text": "I seem to remember \"CHC News\" being critical of more than one Government. My wife was a member of a community health council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-09a.844.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-09", "file": "debates1982-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "b426d45afaef97e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-09a.856.4", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "overnment. We took over from the Labour Government a procurement programme of£2.9 billion. This year the figure is£5.5 billion, so we are really doing our stuff on defence procurement and honouring our election pledges. On my hon. Friend's last point, we recognised the advantages to programme managers of introducing some form of end-year flexibility in respect of capital or equivalent expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-09a.856.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-09", "file": "debates1982-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "b426d45afaef97e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-09a.856.4", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ear the figure is£5.5 billion, so we are really doing our stuff on defence procurement and honouring our election pledges. On my hon. Friend's last point, we recognised the advantages to programme managers of introducing some form of end-year flexibility in respect of capital or equivalent expenditure—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long\"]—and my right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary is looking at this again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-09a.856.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-09", "file": "debates1982-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "b426d45afaef97e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-09a.905.4", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "preceding_text": "hange of address, renewal or loss of licence—one cannot produce the licence, how will the policeman react at the point of offence? Secondly, I was interested in a reply from my hon. and learned Friend the Under-Secretary when I recently queried the efficiency of Swansea. He gave me some hope when he said in his reply that the Department of Transport was looking at new computer systems for Swansea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-09a.905.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-10", "file": "debates1982-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "1c5c816184cc1c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-10a.974.10", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Questions To Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I think that I have a point of order and that you will rule, Mr. Speaker, that it is. If Mr. Speaker or the Chairman of Ways and Means allows an hon. Member or a Minister to make a statement, must it not be in order? Mr. Speaker cannot be wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-10a.974.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-10", "file": "debates1982-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "1c5c816184cc1c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-10a.986.0", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Millan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Millan", "preceding_text": " power to the Secretary of State to do that, one of the great arguments for the power was that all the good authorities—good according to the Secretary of State—would not have to worry because they would not be punished in any way. However, a £27 million penalty for 1981–82 is being imposed on every local authority in Scotland whether or not it has met the Government's so—called guidelines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-10a.986.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-10", "file": "debates1982-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "1c5c816184cc1c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-10a.986.0", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Millan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Millan", "preceding_text": "retary of State—would not have to worry because they would not be punished in any way. However, a £27 million penalty for 1981–82 is being imposed on every local authority in Scotland whether or not it has met the Government's so—called guidelines. [ Interruption. ] The £27 million will be imposed as a general penalty on local authorities in Scotland, despite the Secretary of State's boast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-10a.986.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-10", "file": "debates1982-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "1c5c816184cc1c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-10a.988.0", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "I noticed that when the right hon. Gentleman said that the £27 million was being inflicted on local authorities whether or not they abided by the Government guidelines, the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-10a.988.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-10", "file": "debates1982-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "1c5c816184cc1c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-10a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "I was coming to the effect of the guidelines in the current year. The Secretary of State told us that they were realistic—but they were so realistic that 59 out of 65 local authorities in Scotland budgeted well in excess of them. Admittedly the other six had a refund made to them, so they will not suffer the penalty. The refund is of £700,000 out of a penalty of £27 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-10a.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-10", "file": "debates1982-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "1c5c816184cc1c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-10a.1004.7", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "fferent disciplines. Change must bring that upon us. However, there is substantial evidence to show that that does not happen, and there are many instances of imbalances between manning levels and local needs. I was fortunate to attend and address a conference held by local authority directors of personnel. There was some considerable interest. The directors understood what I was trying to get at.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-10a.1004.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-10", "file": "debates1982-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "1c5c816184cc1c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-10a.1006.1", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": " restrictions on authorities there are being eased. In England and Wales there will be no super clawback, and the circumstances in which local authorities can be penalised for overspending are being eased. The Tory Government are being doubly harsh on Scotland. That is not altogether surprising, because Scotland did not vote for a Tory Government. It may be the Tories' way of paying Scotland back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-10a.1006.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-10", "file": "debates1982-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "1c5c816184cc1c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-10a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "have to make fewer cuts to meet the guidelines compared with other local authorities. The basic case of local authorities would have more substance and would carry more weight if those authorities could say that, over the last three years, their overall current expenditure in real terms had reduced. It has not, however. It has been increased in real terms. Their staffing has gone up in real terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-10a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-10", "file": "debates1982-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "1c5c816184cc1c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-10a.1034.1", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "on that basis. That was taking account of the existing private stock, the existing developments by housing associations, and the rest. The idea was that housing plan allocations should be based on need. If eventually it was decided that there was not enough money to pay every local authority what it wanted, in those unfortunate circumstances, although it did not happen under the Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-10a.1034.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-10", "file": "debates1982-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "1c5c816184cc1c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-10a.1050.5", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Perth and East Perthshire (Mr. Walker) should have a good talk with the representatives who visited the House today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-10a.1050.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-10", "file": "debates1982-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "1c5c816184cc1c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-10a.1069.5", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "So successful was the district council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-10a.1069.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-10", "file": "debates1982-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "1c5c816184cc1c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-10a.1069.7", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I have no doubt that there are only very few at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-10a.1069.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-10", "file": "debates1982-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "1c5c816184cc1c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-10a.1069.7", "colnum": "1069", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "I have no doubt that there are only very few at the moment. [ Interruption .] I have not suggested otherwise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-10a.1069.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-10", "file": "debates1982-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "1c5c816184cc1c45", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-10a.1070.3", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "ent in Scotland, which is £7·67, that puts the matter properly' in perspective. It is not open to Opposition Members simply to pooh-pooh these figures and say that they do not believe them. They have been calculated on exactly the criteria which successive Governments have applied. They are the gross earnings not of all employees but of full-time manual workers in Scotland aged 21 and over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-10a.1070.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-11", "file": "debates1982-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "2f7892c30583286d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-11a.1105.7", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "The answer to the last question is \"No\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-11a.1105.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-11", "file": "debates1982-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "2f7892c30583286d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-11a.1108.12", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Does not the right hon. Lady think that the best course is for the House to wish success to the court of inquiry that is now examining the matter? Has the right hon. Lady had the chance today to consider, or indeed reconsider, the answer that she gave to the House a week ago on the question of El Salvador—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-11a.1108.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-11", "file": "debates1982-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "2f7892c30583286d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-11a.1111.1", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The negotiations on the Nissan project are continuing. Unfortunately, I have as yet no statement to make about the negotiations. I hope that they will conclude successfully from the viewpoint of this country. With regard to British industry, the Department of Industry is embarking on what I hope will he a successful policy of having an exhibition called: \"Can you make it?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-11a.1111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-11", "file": "debates1982-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "2f7892c30583286d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-11a.1113.3", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Questions to Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wake up\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "It was not a Minister who was doing it. There is a very long history to this practice. We all know that there is no chance whatever of totally stopping it and that in certain circumstances it is perfectly appropriate, but may I remind you, Mr. Speaker, that the House appointed a Committee on this matter in 1972? The present Home Secretary—the present Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-11a.1113.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-11", "file": "debates1982-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "2f7892c30583286d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-11a.1142.1", "colnum": "1142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Overseas Development", "cue_speaker": "Dame Judith Hart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Judith Hart", "preceding_text": "lves. I could spend half an hour on his second point concerning the EEC. I was in Brussels about two weeks ago on that subject and I should be happy to talk to him about it in the corridor but I shall not allow myself to be interrupted. I have no doubt that entry to the EEC has diminished the British effort to help the poorer developing countries, and getting out of it will enable us to do better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-11a.1142.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-12", "file": "debates1982-02-12a.xml", "sha256": "abab88f0c6f13461", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-12a.1237.3", "colnum": "1237", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Cinematograph Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "nment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill accordingly provides for automatic exemption for premises licensed under the 1909 Act. The question that obviously arises is whether there is any need to refer to cinemas in that Bill. We shall be considering that question in the light of the progress that we hope will be made with my hon. Friend's Bill. I shall conclude what I fear has been too long a speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-12a.1237.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-15", "file": "debates1982-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "78029aba988fd48b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-15a.24.2", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Crawshaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Crawshaw", "preceding_text": "be in Government the Conservatives would pursue at least one policy with which I could agree, that of giving priority to the defence of this country. Sadly, however, although the Conservatives make all the right noises when in Opposition, when in Government they use every possible excuse to do exactly what they did in the 1930s and—I say this deliberately—in many cases help to betray this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-15a.24.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-16", "file": "debates1982-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "081de8639a7759e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-16a.140.11", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "nd also that in November we had strikes in British Leyland and Ford, which cut production in that month. This point is much more important: in December we had this extreme spell of cold weather which not only cuts overtime working but also cuts deliveries from the factories to the shops and automatically production stops. He went on to say: I think that the trend over, say, the rest of this year\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-16a.140.11"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-16", "file": "debates1982-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "081de8639a7759e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-16a.143.8", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If there are abuses, we shall of course look into the matter. I do not know the truth or otherwise of what is contained in the early-day motion, but I assume that it is true, because it has been put down —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-16a.143.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-16", "file": "debates1982-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "081de8639a7759e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-16a.149.1", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Maritime Safety", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "ittle more attention in the House than does oil and its effect on our beaches. The circumstances of the lifeboat tragedy demand that a public inquiry be held and an investigation made into related matters. For example, why did a certificated engineer join the \"Union Star\" on her maiden voyage and leave halfway through the voyage, to be replaced by a man less competent to deal with engine problems?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-16a.149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-16", "file": "debates1982-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "081de8639a7759e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-16a.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the correct answer?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "l finance is necessarily uncertain. There are special reasons for using constant prices in constructing the expenditure targets for 1982–83 … This was done so the impact on the target policy could be contained within achievable limits. Book tokens are offered for the first three correct explanations opened. As Ministers will not publish the calculations that they have certainly made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-16a.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-16", "file": "debates1982-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "081de8639a7759e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-16a.182.1", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyell", "preceding_text": "r into his pocket to pay his rate bills than do others in other parts of the country, militates against the amount of grant that we receive; since it is assumed that because our rateable values are high we who live in those houses are rich. That is not necessarily a correct assumption. 1 am not taking any brickbats from the Opposition, and I am glad to hear that they are quiet when I mention that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-16a.182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-16", "file": "debates1982-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "081de8639a7759e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-16a.200.0", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "ore, I return to the subject. I welcome the grant-related expenditure assessment as a more flexible and selective system, on the whole, than the old method of calculating the rate support grant. I cannot see how anyone can argue for a blind block grant that is not open to scrutiny in detail as against the much more open system, which has a much greater moral force on the areas to which it relates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-16a.200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-16", "file": "debates1982-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "081de8639a7759e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-16a.203.3", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "job. There is further proof of what I say. The GLC has had to levy that higher rate because among other things it has established at least 50 jobs costing about £25, 000 each, many of them totally unnecessary and non-statutory. In addition, each of those 50 people probably has a personal assistant, a secretary, a telephone, office space, all the paper that is pushed around, a typewriter and so on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-16a.203.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-16", "file": "debates1982-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "081de8639a7759e3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-16a.228.3", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the debate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "s like an extremely painful performance, but apparently they did so because she was threatening not to chair the Labour Party's local government conference. There was then a risk that it would be chaired by the hon. Member for Sheffield, Brightside (Miss Maynard). Not only did it involve the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook, but his mum Enid, the lord mayor of Sheffield, who might have walked out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-16a.228.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-22", "file": "debates1982-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "d2fdf8732f2ca4c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-22a.576.6", "colnum": "576", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. The figures show that the increase in exports currently taking place is one of the most encouraging phenomena that we have seen for a long time. We are on the verge of an export-led boom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-22a.576.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-22", "file": "debates1982-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "d2fdf8732f2ca4c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-22a.579.1", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not enough\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "My Department already spends over £2.5 billion on supporting industry. Some £600 million of that is spent on regional policy and over £200 million is aid to industry under the Science and Technology Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-22a.579.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-22", "file": "debates1982-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "d2fdf8732f2ca4c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-22a.602.2", "colnum": "602", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "preceding_text": "Is it not an abuse of Standing Order No. 9 when the Opposition have time available to debate the matter, which many of us would like to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-22a.602.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-22", "file": "debates1982-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "d2fdf8732f2ca4c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-22a.609.0", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Arts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": " that phrase purposely—is not just investing in the quality of life, important though that is, but it is investing in Britain's prosperity. What is so absurd about Government stinginess in this area is that we are talking about peanuts in money terms. The entire arts scene in this country could be transformed at a fraction of the cost of a Trident missile or at the cost of three miles of motorway—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-22a.609.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-22", "file": "debates1982-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "d2fdf8732f2ca4c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-22a.652.1", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEPARATION OF FUNCTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": "ase for assuming that divestment would not be carried through in its fullest form, or that the Secretary of State would ever implement any further legislation. When the hon. Gentleman described the Lloyd's Committee as \"broker-dominated\", it betrayed a total misunderstanding of Lloyd's. I must express something that perhaps hon. Members do not associate with me, and that is an element of humility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-22a.652.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-22", "file": "debates1982-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "d2fdf8732f2ca4c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-22a.652.1", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SEPARATION OF FUNCTIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": "at perhaps hon. Members do not associate with me, and that is an element of humility. [HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".] Very few people in Lloyd's would claim to be omniscient about that great community. There are very few people who know it all, and I know very little. I have been involved as a Lloyd's broker for many years, but there are Lloyd's brokers and Lloyd's brokers. I do not know an enormous amount—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-22a.652.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-23", "file": "debates1982-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "7e0c31bfafe32126", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-23a.745.6", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Lady aware that he was not pushed out, but resigned? Will she also confirm that she agrees with the Minister of State, Treasury—on an entirely different matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-23a.745.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-24", "file": "debates1982-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "292ddc4aa640c90c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-24a.889.4", "colnum": "889", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Travel Concessions (London) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald W. Brown", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Sixty-five\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald W. Brown", "preceding_text": "ut neither the GLC nor the LBA Conservatives wanted it. When the political atennae of the Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security, the hon. Member for Hampstead, got going, he realised that by December 1969–70 there would be elections. Therefore, he produced a scheme—and it was a very good scheme—that entitled people who were 85 years of age and infirm to travel concessions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-24a.889.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-24", "file": "debates1982-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "292ddc4aa640c90c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-24a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Travel Concessions (London) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "ncement. They will suffer because night buses and late bus and tube services will be the first to be cut. It will be no use the Secretary of State and his right hon. and hon. Friends bemoaning the increase in violence in London late at night if they have been party to taking away the public transport system on which so many people rely. One result will be an increase in attacks of a racist nature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-24a.917.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-24", "file": "debates1982-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "292ddc4aa640c90c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-24a.931.1", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Travel Concessions (London) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Untrue.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "preceding_text": ", to promote inefficiency in the form of overmanning and unnecessary services under a policy that is manifestly unfair to ratepayers.\"—[ Official Report , 18 December 1981; Vol.15, c. 556.] Comments such as those are ill-informed, incorrect and fatuous. Does the Secretary of State not recognise that every other capital city in the advanced world subsidises its transport system far more than we do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-24a.931.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-24", "file": "debates1982-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "292ddc4aa640c90c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-24a.931.1", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Travel Concessions (London) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is the source?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "preceding_text": "s which waste oil, whereas public transport—or `mass transit' in contemporary terms—is an… efficient user of coal or nuclear generated electricity… Options to improve public transport include:—price incentives to get people back into the buses (the South Yorkshire experiment in the United Kingdom has proven notable). Encouragement of cycle-ways … restrictions on urban parking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-24a.931.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-24", "file": "debates1982-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "292ddc4aa640c90c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-24a.931.1", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Travel Concessions (London) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "preceding_text": "laces on the GLC a commitment to abide by business principles. As a consequence of carrying out the instructions implicitly within the Law Lords' judgment—as a consequence of that and nothing else, which should be made absolutely clear—there will be an immediate doubling of fares. I do not want to bore the House with great figures, as my hon. Friend the Member for Newham, South did this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-24a.931.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-24", "file": "debates1982-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "292ddc4aa640c90c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-24a.952.0", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Departments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "rected it after several years, we are now putting things right in Northern Ireland. Most hon. Members would probably be unemployed if we did not spend so much time reversing the things that those before us—or even ourselves, in earlier years—so confidently but now apparently mistakenly did. We are now all happily agreed that we were mistaken about having a separate Department of the Civil Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-24a.952.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-25", "file": "debates1982-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f2b669311e790d86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-25a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is easy in retrospect�ž[Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"]—to make a judgment about the price. The offer price of 142p was decided over two weeks ago. It was chosen on the firm advice of professional City advisers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-25a.981.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-25", "file": "debates1982-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f2b669311e790d86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-25a.1008.3", "colnum": "1008", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member should be patient, because I shall come to that. Had he paid more attention to what goes on in the House, he would have known that in the past month we have had a series of debates on unemployment and economic measures, in which my right hon. Friends have spelt out the details of the alternative economic policies that we believe the Government should follow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-25a.1008.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-25", "file": "debates1982-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f2b669311e790d86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-25a.1035.0", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leo Abse", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leo Abse", "preceding_text": " aggression, while remaining silent about the terrible events taking place in Central America as a result of the follies of Reagan. If the Government and their Welsh Back Benchers believe that they are assisting this country by tying themselves to the American chariot, I am thankful that we are hearing the saner voices of more humble men in the more humble assemblies in the Welsh county councils.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-25a.1035.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-02-25", "file": "debates1982-02-25a.xml", "sha256": "f2b669311e790d86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-25a.1067.0", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Wales(Mr.Michael Roberts)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Wales(Mr.Michael Roberts)", "preceding_text": "ed in manufacturing units owned or controlled by foreign companies. I can give one personal illustration of this. A few months ago I opened an extension of the 3M factory at Gorseinon in the constituency of the hon. Member for Gower (Dr. Davies). It was made clear that that extension would never have been built had it not been for the fact that we were in the EEC and that was a part of its market.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-02-25a.1067.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-03", "file": "debates1982-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ac953d827cfc9678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-03a.259.9", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Of course there are.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "There are no sporting relationships between ourselves and the Soviet Union at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-03a.259.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-03", "file": "debates1982-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ac953d827cfc9678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-03a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So is the EEC.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitney", "preceding_text": "ion and many other organisations in El Salvador are pleading with the world to support the elections, and when the neighbouring democratic States of Costa Rica and Honduras also support the elections, it is depressing in the extreme that Socialist International, and therefore the Labour Party, allied with the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party, should be hostile to democratic elections?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-03a.261.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-03", "file": "debates1982-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ac953d827cfc9678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-03a.261.1", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitney", "preceding_text": "d to support the elections, and when the neighbouring democratic States of Costa Rica and Honduras also support the elections, it is depressing in the extreme that Socialist International, and therefore the Labour Party, allied with the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party, should be hostile to democratic elections? [HON. MEMBERS: \"So is the EEC.\"] Does he further agree that human rights—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-03a.261.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-03", "file": "debates1982-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "ac953d827cfc9678", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-03a.275.0", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Reserve Forces and Adventure Training Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "preceding_text": "erstand from the leaks in the press. Indeed, it is a very small scheme, involving 7,000 young people for two or three weeks. We have had a Reserve Forces statement about a programme that is not very revolutionary and not very large. It is surprising to note that the statement has been made by the Secretary of State for Defence and not by one of his junior Ministers. Presumably the reason for that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-03a.275.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-10", "file": "debates1982-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f6aadd44e39ab434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-10a.884.16", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "I have given a detailed set of figures. I have explained the income tax position. I made it clear when we debated the matter earlier in the year that national insurance contributions needed to be increased to finance higher benefit payments. Even taking account of the higher contributions, the right hon. Gentleman gives a misleading account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-10a.884.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-10", "file": "debates1982-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f6aadd44e39ab434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-10a.885.2", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": " 2 per cent., yet the right hon. Gentleman now undertakes to provide a 5 per cent. growth rate. The prospects for employment offered by the right hon. Gentleman are equally ambitious and equally incredible. Every time Governments have tried to deal with the upward trend of unemployment by spending more and borrowing more, as the right hon. Gentleman advocates, the result has been higher inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-10a.885.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-10", "file": "debates1982-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f6aadd44e39ab434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-10a.886.3", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He said 'Vote Labour' .\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": " so on. It is all very coyly expressed, but it is all there. Then we have a dash of commitment on all sides to industrial plannning to ensure that each major company plays its part in the national plan for recovery. It is the same mixture of direction and control as before. As the right hon. Member for Down, South (Mr. Powell) has noted in a recent critique of the right hon. Gentleman's proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-10a.886.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-10", "file": "debates1982-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f6aadd44e39ab434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-10a.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "nce than that. The whole Western world—not only Britain—had full employment without any undue inflationary pressures for three decades up to the great upheaval of the mid-1970s. Germany had less than 1 per cent. unemployment. Therefore, to say that we cannot have full employment and contain inflation without reverting to a kind of siege economy is to talk through one's hat. May I put a last point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-10a.888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-10", "file": "debates1982-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f6aadd44e39ab434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-10a.928.0", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin F. Cook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin F. Cook", "preceding_text": "er used to illustrate his party political broadcast yesterday. He will use those charts to show how successful he has been in reducing the burden of taxation from the high level to which he hoisted it in the first place, as he did with inflation last night. The Chief Secretary got himself into a lot of trouble in. trying to estimate what had happened to personal taxation as a result of the Budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-10a.928.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-10", "file": "debates1982-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "f6aadd44e39ab434", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-10a.935.0", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Nicholas Ridley)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Nicholas Ridley)", "preceding_text": "ate rise or fall in years to come? The greatest question of all is how many children they have. If they have a large number of children, clearly the tax burden will be lighter than if they do not, because of the effect of child benefit. There is also the period of time over which comparisons are made. I agree that there are some families where the tax burden in percentage terms might be greater. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-10a.935.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-11", "file": "debates1982-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1491a09f5c47f11e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.955.0", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "ational insurance contributions. If the hon. Member for Edinburgh, Central (Mr. Cook) reads the sixth table he will find that on 26 April, as income tax changes come into effect some three weeks after the national insurance changes, the income tax reductions will be greater than the extra national insurance contributions. There will be a net gain for married men on earnings of up to £170 per week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.955.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-11", "file": "debates1982-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1491a09f5c47f11e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.965.2", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ea that the sale should take place when oil prices are falling generally. If the right hon. Lady is so confident that the matter is being dealt with properly by the Secretary of State for Energy—who was not so skilful in dealing with Amersham International—and if she is so confident that there is nothing wrong, does she believe that it was wise for the Secretary of State to sack Mr. Clive Jenkins—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.965.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-11", "file": "debates1982-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1491a09f5c47f11e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.965.6", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandelson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandelson", "preceding_text": "In view of the chaotic conditions now reigning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.965.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-11", "file": "debates1982-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1491a09f5c47f11e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.966.3", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is the duty of all our citizens to uphold the police—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.966.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-11", "file": "debates1982-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1491a09f5c47f11e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.966.3", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is the duty of all our citizens to uphold the police—[HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh.\"] It is the duty of all our citizens to uphold the police in the pursuit of their duty of upholding the law. I believe that the public interest requires that all those who are engaged in crime should be detected, arrested, prosecuted and convicted and that this applies whatever—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.966.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-11", "file": "debates1982-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1491a09f5c47f11e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.977.1", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Trident Missile Programme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It breaks the spirit\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "ented when it was introduced. It is not true to say that this escalates the arms race. If there is an escalation of the arms race, it comes from the Soviet Union, which is introducing one new SS20 every week. This is no more than a modernisation of our existing force, which we have retained for 30 years. It does not break the letter of the non-profileration treaty. That is an inaccurate statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-11", "file": "debates1982-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1491a09f5c47f11e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.980.1", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Trident Missile Programme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": " can all swap the results of polls with each other, but the polls I take into account are the recent polls in The Observer and The Guardian which showed that 67 per cent. of the British people are in favour of Britain retaining her nuclear deterrent and that within that a majority of Labour Party supporters who were questioned were also in favour of this country retaining an independent deterrent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.980.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-11", "file": "debates1982-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1491a09f5c47f11e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.991.9", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is correct when he says that we are uprating the scale rate of supplementary benefit and then adding the cost of housing. As housing costs have increased by an above average amount the increase that has gone to supplementary benefit has been above average. However, the fact is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.991.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-11", "file": "debates1982-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1491a09f5c47f11e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.995.1", "colnum": "995", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the cost?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": " leading member is Mr. Idris Pearce, and there is a further member, Mr. Paul Draper, also from the private sector. Both of them are leading members of their professions. We should not underestimate the contribution that can be made to the National Health Service from sources apart from tax. One of the examples is the income from the private practices. In 1979–80 this brought in £36 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.995.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-11", "file": "debates1982-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1491a09f5c47f11e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.1009.0", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "e award of the disability allowance to be extended, and the right hon. Gentleman has my support in that, but I qualify that statement. Before we can look for many more of the advances that we would all wish for, the first and most important matter is to create the necessary wealth to provide for those in need. I fully support the broad strategy of the Budget, as I supported it in previous Budgets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.1009.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-11", "file": "debates1982-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1491a09f5c47f11e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.1009.0", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "ively in many instances. That shows clearly that he was caring and listening. I also congratulate my right hon. and learned Friend on the way in which he set out his proposals. In politics, presentation is often as important as policy. No longer can the Opposition claim that the present Government are not caring. I believe that they have been a caring Government ever since the day we were elected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.1009.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-11", "file": "debates1982-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1491a09f5c47f11e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.1009.0", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": " Dundee, East (Mr. Wilson) suggested that the Scottish Conservatives were opposed to spending money on updating the nuclear deterrent. I have met none—and I am the Scottish spokesman on defence for the party. There are many measures in the Budget to help the disabled, the elderly, single-parent families and the unemployed. I welcome the measure to remove 1·2 million from the income tax net—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.1009.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-11", "file": "debates1982-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1491a09f5c47f11e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.1015.3", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Horam", "preceding_text": "nd the Social Democratic Party. A gulf of difference exists between what we are proposing in the scale of measures, what the Government are proposing, and the approach of the Labour Party, which wants everything plus the kitchen sink. It represents a gulf between common sense and cost-effectiveness. It is lunacy and inflation-prone on one side and means total inaction over employment on the other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.1015.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-11", "file": "debates1982-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1491a09f5c47f11e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Jeremy Bray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Jeremy Bray", "preceding_text": "ad on the errors in the economic policy of the last Labour Government. If there are advances in the way in which policy is made, we shall not avoid great uncertainty, frustrations and disappointments, but we shall be in a far better position to see what is going on. There is one problem that I do not see my way through at all. I cannot understand the baffling increase in exports over the past year", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-11", "file": "debates1982-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1491a09f5c47f11e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.1028.2", "colnum": "1028", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chris Patten", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Or Chris\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chris Patten", "preceding_text": "ith the problem to which the hon. Member for Motherwell and Wishaw (Dr. Bray) referred. The right hon. Gentleman's technique is to call the problem something else. Given that he has certain ambitions in the Labour movement and that no one is allowed to use the words \"pay policy\", he calls it a national economic assessment. He should call it something friendlier or chummier, such as Robin or Nigel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.1028.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-11", "file": "debates1982-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1491a09f5c47f11e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.1052.8", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "h only 12 per cent. in 1978–79. The person on average income, if he were now paying the same proportion as he was under Labour, would have a £6 per week smaller tax bill than he has today even after the Budget. The very rich, however, have done extremely well. Cabinet Ministers have found that their take-home pay has increased by £35 per week as a result of changes in taxation for the rich.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.1052.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-11", "file": "debates1982-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1491a09f5c47f11e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.1054.0", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Jock Bruce-Gardyne)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Jock Bruce-Gardyne)", "preceding_text": "lly dominated in the early stages by discussion of the social security uprating announced by the Secretary of State the day before. Today has been no exception. Hon. Members on both sides of the House have ranged wider, as it is appropriate that they should. In general it is fair to say that hon. Members on this side of the House have given my right hon. and learned Friend's Budget a warm welcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.1054.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-11", "file": "debates1982-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1491a09f5c47f11e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": " full account of inflation in this year's Budget. But we have reluctantly concluded that we could not also provide the duty deferment sought by the trade, which would involve a once-and-for-all loss to the Exchequer of some £200 million and a continuing interest cost of the order of £25–30 million at current rates of interest. I now want to talk about bingo duty in the light of the review .", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-11", "file": "debates1982-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "1491a09f5c47f11e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "g the course of our review. There is one further matter to which I must allude, which is Budget resolution 21, providing for some changes in the operation of the Excise duties regulator. Hon. Members with long memories will recall that I have never been a dedicated enthusiast of fine tuning, but since we have the regulator it seems sensible that it should be available for use in a convenient form.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-11a.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-12", "file": "debates1982-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "00df6be2b599d372", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-12a.1073.5", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Young Persons", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shelton", "preceding_text": " although it destroys areas of employment, notably that of the unskilled. That is why it is vital that we should train youngsters and that they should leave school with some vocational experience. I repeat that past Governments have failed to do that. However, at least this Government are doing something about it. The Labour Government talked a lot about it but did nothing. We are doing something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-12a.1073.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-12", "file": "debates1982-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "00df6be2b599d372", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-12a.1090.0", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Young Persons", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom McNally", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom McNally", "preceding_text": "h about. However, the Government should not complain about \"black papers\", given the damage that certain black papers did. The paper is worthy of deep thought by Ministers. It displays the hard work done by the hon. Member for Bedwellty. Indeed, the paper is so well thought out that his membership of the national executive has been called into question! I hope that it will be considered seriously.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-12a.1090.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-15", "file": "debates1982-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "156d5ab6fe9d346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-15a.8.9", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend recognise the fact that almost 56 per cent. of the people of Britain now own their own houses, which is a great step towards a property-owing democracy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-15a.8.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-15", "file": "debates1982-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "156d5ab6fe9d346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-15a.8.9", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend recognise the fact that almost 56 per cent. of the people of Britain now own their own houses, which is a great step towards a property-owing democracy? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] I compliment my hon. Friend on the efforts of the Welsh people to that end, but will he now confirm completion dates for those properties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-15a.8.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-15", "file": "debates1982-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "156d5ab6fe9d346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-15a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "rices. In a moment, I shall be referring to some other points that affect the work forces in these and other industries. While on the subject of the nationalised industries, I should like to make one other point. Our critics sometimes accuse us of failing to use North Sea oil revenues for the long-tern benefit of Britain, preferring to fritter them away on unemployment benefit and social security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-15a.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-15", "file": "debates1982-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "156d5ab6fe9d346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-15a.36.0", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"From selling abroad.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "ument that I ever published as leader of the Conservative Party looked forward to the time when we should become a high-wage, high-productivity economy, instead of a low-wage economy, to which effect all the pressures have been exerted in recent years. But neither the Chancellor of the Exchequer nor the Secretary of State for Industry has given any indication as to where the demand will come from.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-15a.36.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-15", "file": "debates1982-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "156d5ab6fe9d346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-15a.65.5", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to say that on co-determination my right hon. and hon. Friends totally share the views of the right hon. Gentleman and always have. Many issues suggest that industrial relations are at the cote of what has gone wrong with the British economy and that they need to be dealt with other than by straightforward antagonistic legislation. That is a view that we share and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-15a.65.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-15", "file": "debates1982-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "156d5ab6fe9d346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-15a.82.1", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "o a student who has wriiten to me. It states: If the assessed parental contribution scale had been in line with assumptions on movements in the earnings index, public expenditure on student awards at the level set for 1982–83 would have been about £10 million higher. We are talking about a lot of money. There is a great deal of good will in the universities for the Government at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-15a.82.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-15", "file": "debates1982-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "156d5ab6fe9d346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-15a.100.0", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More jobs\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "ed. Suppose that in my Budget Statement I had announced an intention to raise the PSBR by £5·5 billion, or whatever figure the right hon. Gentleman likes to prescribe. Does he honestly believe that those interest rates would have come down in that way? What does he think would have been the \"natural and probable consequence\" of the kind of reflationary package that he commends to the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-15a.100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-15", "file": "debates1982-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "156d5ab6fe9d346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-15a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows well that the use of assumption is hallowed by the practice of previous Governments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-15a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-15", "file": "debates1982-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "156d5ab6fe9d346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-15a.162.2", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parry", "preceding_text": "Many members of the Irish community in the United Kingdom feel that the Act is a recruiting sergeant for the IRA. There is a very strong feeling in that regard. I accept the hon. Member's point, but I am trying to emphasise that the Irish community in the United Kingdom feel very strongly about the continuance of the order. They feel that it is anti-Catholic in its operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-15a.162.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-15", "file": "debates1982-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "156d5ab6fe9d346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-15a.164.0", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Lyons", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Lyons", "preceding_text": "ustice as we understand them. Therefore, we applaud the decision to carry out a review. As the Home Secretary has promised a review, what should we do? Clearly, we do not want to do anything that will prejudge it or damage the House's right to deal sensibly with any report or recommendations. Therefore, it would not be appropriate to oppose the order. If the Social Democratic Party had understood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-15a.164.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-15", "file": "debates1982-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "156d5ab6fe9d346d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-15a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "he Act but a monitoring exercise. It is clear that it will not concern itself with the fundamental issue whether the Act should remain on the statute book. I may be wrong and misjudging the situation, but one of the causes—perhaps the main one—for the sharp decline in detentions and arrests under the Act during the past year was the very nature of the debate that took place in the House last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-15a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-16", "file": "debates1982-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "07fea50400168c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-16a.198.1", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister recognise that in areas in which community policing has been tried it has proved to be a far more effective way of bringing down the crime rate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-16a.198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-16", "file": "debates1982-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "07fea50400168c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-16a.249.0", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities (Budget)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "preceding_text": "—it is extremely odd that we should be subjected to this procedure. I say that in no criticism of the civil servants who came before us. They obviously acted perfectly properly both in the Treasury and in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. They had consulted their lawyers and they told us so. Those lawyers had consulted the Law Officers and the Crown; and the civil servants told us that as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-16a.249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-16", "file": "debates1982-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "07fea50400168c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-16a.284.0", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Amersham International", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "he years. At the same time, the Government are repaying them for services rendered. It would be interesting to know how many of those who have joined in the rake-off hold Conservative Party cards. However, the Minister will not give us that information tonight. In my beautiful county, we still hear the story that Robin Hood robbed the rich to feed the poor. In this case, it is the other way round.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-16a.284.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-16", "file": "debates1982-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "07fea50400168c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-16a.285.2", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Amersham International", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. John Moore)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. John Moore)", "preceding_text": "e control. I make no apology for the fact that I have philosophical attitudes in politics. The Government wish to do so not in a spirit of malice or destructiveness towards the industries concerned but in a spirit which would give them freedom from public sector constraints which has left them paralysed, as the hon. Member for Merthyr Tydfil would see if he raised his eyes and had a little vision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-16a.285.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-16", "file": "debates1982-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "07fea50400168c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-16a.286.3", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Amersham International", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "d of the company concerned, the Government took powers under the Atomic Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act to enable the sale of up to 100 per cent. of the shares in Amersham International to take place. The Government believed that Amersham had no sensible role to play in the public sector. Although it was—and is—a successful company, it was not a natural candidate for continued State control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-16a.286.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-16", "file": "debates1982-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "07fea50400168c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-16a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Amersham International", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "part of the reason for the sterility of the debate that Opposition hon. Members are still trapped in a static, unchanging society. I remind Labour Members of their own actions when in Government. It is worth reminding the whole House that the Labour Administration of 1970 planned legislation to allow the formation of Amersham into a Companies Act company and to permit the sale of a minority stake.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-16a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-16", "file": "debates1982-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "07fea50400168c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-16a.287.1", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Amersham International", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "d only in maximising the proceeds to the Exchequer, regardless of the company's long-term interests. Those are concerns which the Government have been at pains to explain that they share. The first consideration in the Government's mind was to allow the company the full, independent freedom of the private sector; to offer it and its employees the chance to prosper by virtue of their own decisions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-16a.287.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-16", "file": "debates1982-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "07fea50400168c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-16a.293.2", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Amersham International", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "ose hon. Gentlemen who were privileged to be present at our debate, that the comments of the experienced hon. Member for Coventry, North-West are worth reading. Indeed, public statements by hon. Members opposite may have served to encourage the present price level. But I wonder whether hon. Members opposite have paused to consider the salient facts about this issue? We were selling all the equity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-16a.293.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-16", "file": "debates1982-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "07fea50400168c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-16a.293.2", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Amersham International", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "ssfully underwritten and subscribed. That answers the specific question of the hon. Member for West Lothian. It was higher than some parties to that decision felt was wise. It was also regarded at the time of the offer as relatively high by informed commentators. I shall give illustrations of what was said by informed commentators at the time of the pricing. The Investors Chronicle of 12 February—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-16a.293.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-16", "file": "debates1982-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "07fea50400168c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-16a.295.1", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Amersham International", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "y. Look what happened to British Aerospace shares. They were issued in February 1981 at 150p. They opened at 170p and rose gradually to the very high price of 251p. Then they fell back to 176p, only 26p above the offer price. British Aerospace issue was, of course, offered for sale under this Administration. As my hon. Friend the Member for Selly Oak said in a speech that I enjoyed in every sense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-16a.295.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-16", "file": "debates1982-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "07fea50400168c9e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-16a.327.1", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "fers to the economic progress report of February 1981, and I will come to that in a moment. However, it builds upon figures which, it transpires, are drawn not from the Treasury but from an article in The Times . I take exception to the way that the statistics in this research note are presented as coming from the Treasury. To put it gently, that is a very slack way of presenting those statistics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-16a.327.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-17", "file": "debates1982-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "623c388016eb263e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.368.5", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "Local authorities are perfectly free to do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.368.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-17", "file": "debates1982-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "623c388016eb263e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.368.5", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "Local authorities are perfectly free to do that. [Interruption.] The right hon. Member for Craigton and the hon. Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Maxton) must face the fact that the provisions in the rate support grant settlements allow for the highest ever pupil-teacher ratios.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.368.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-17", "file": "debates1982-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "623c388016eb263e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "hools that are provided for in the rate support grant have improved by 0·1 per cent. in each case from 1981–82 to 1982–83. Pupil-teacher ratios will be held steady at that level until 1984–85. Therefore, the lower figures shown for 1980–81 and 1981–82 represent the actual level of staffing and not the staffing levels provided for in the rate support grant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-17", "file": "debates1982-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "623c388016eb263e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "gures shown for 1980–81 and 1981–82 represent the actual level of staffing and not the staffing levels provided for in the rate support grant. [Interruption.] I think that I have dealt satisfactorily with that point. The debate covers higher education generally. I cannot speak for the chorus line on the Opposition Back Benches, but those members will get their chance to speak later.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-17", "file": "debates1982-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "623c388016eb263e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.369.5", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "I probably have the best record for giving way. In the space of about six minutes I have given way three times, and I shall not give way again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.369.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-17", "file": "debates1982-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "623c388016eb263e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.369.5", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": " way to them. I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Fife, East (Mr. Henderson) for pointing out that I have succeeded not only in waking up the Opposition—itself quite a feat—and drawing some Opposition Members to the Chamber—which is an unusual pleasure—but in rousing the Opposition to make enough noise to attract the hon. Member for Bedwellty back into the Chamber. That is very welcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.369.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-17", "file": "debates1982-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "623c388016eb263e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.370.3", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "It is not for me to put words into the mouths of university principals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.370.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-17", "file": "debates1982-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "623c388016eb263e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "They are cash figures. All figures shown are cash. It is cash figures that the rest of the country has to work on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-17", "file": "debates1982-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "623c388016eb263e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.378.5", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "I must press on. The right hon. Gentleman is pushing the patience of the House a bit far. I have already spoken for far too long, because of constant interruptions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.378.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-17", "file": "debates1982-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "623c388016eb263e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.381.4", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "Why \"Oh!\"? It is perfectly right to argue these things again. If we are not arguing them again, what is the purpose of the debate? We could send a postcard to the House saying \"Yes\" or \"No\". The purpose of the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.381.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-17", "file": "debates1982-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "623c388016eb263e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.381.4", "colnum": "381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "the debate, I thought, was to try to convince the Government to change their mind. That is what I am suggesting. I turn now to student grants. I benefited by the revolution at the end of the last war. I would not have benefited had it not been for the Bevin scheme of 1944. That scheme brought to universities many working class children who would otherwise never have dreamed of going to university.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.381.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-17", "file": "debates1982-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "623c388016eb263e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.388.3", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Lord James Douglas-Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I misunderstood the hon. Gentleman. I thought that he was referring to a college in Edinburgh. If he is referring to St. Andrew's university—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.388.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-17", "file": "debates1982-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "623c388016eb263e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.389.1", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": " Secretary of State for Education and Science, said at a fringe meeting during the 1981 Labour Party conference that a Labour Government would not restore spending in higher education to its pre-cut level. He said that such a proposal was \"against all reason\". If that is so, why is the Labour Party not saying where it stands on the cuts? It is up to the Labour Party to explain what it has in mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.389.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-17", "file": "debates1982-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "623c388016eb263e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.423.2", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Overseas Visitors (Health Service Charges)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "preceding_text": "explanation of the Government's case. Therefore, I shall deal later with something completely new. The Opposition are wholly out of step with public opinion on this matter. From time to time, we all say that our views are supported by public opinion but I have heard no such claim in the two Opposition speeches so far. I believe that the public entirely support the Government's view on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.423.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-17", "file": "debates1982-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "623c388016eb263e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.423.2", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Overseas Visitors (Health Service Charges)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Was she black?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "preceding_text": "ad a fairly large family, she received a letter from a Cambridge doctor saying that he was retiring and that her card would be transferred to another doctor. I suppose that that old boy had been drawing his basic fee on my wife's name for 20 years. I do not resent that, but I wonder how many hundreds, thousands or even hundreds of thousands of duplications of health cards there are in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.423.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-17", "file": "debates1982-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "623c388016eb263e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.423.2", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Overseas Visitors (Health Service Charges)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Page", "preceding_text": "ding the institution of an international medical credit card\". It may surprise some Labour Members to know that I was chairman of the Social and Health Committee at the time it was published, but it may not surprise them to know that our activities were often more social than they were healthy. That recommendation was introduced by Mr. Cordle, our colleague and former Member for Bournemouth, East.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.423.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-17", "file": "debates1982-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "623c388016eb263e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Overseas Visitors (Health Service Charges)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman does not fail to recognise that the people concerned realised that they were out to \"con\" the British taxpayer. They themselves recognised that fact, as my correspondence suggests. If they recognised that, surely that is clear evidence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-17", "file": "debates1982-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "623c388016eb263e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.430.4", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Overseas Visitors (Health Service Charges)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "I cannot go on giving way. Other hon. Members want to speak and they may get a chance if hon. Members stop intervening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.430.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-17", "file": "debates1982-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "623c388016eb263e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.430.4", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Overseas Visitors (Health Service Charges)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "I cannot go on giving way. Other hon. Members want to speak and they may get a chance if hon. Members stop intervening. [Interruption.] I am sorry to confuse right hon. and hon. Members opposite with the facts. They may not like them, but people throughout the country are recognising what is happening.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.430.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-17", "file": "debates1982-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "623c388016eb263e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.436.2", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Overseas Visitors (Health Service Charges)", "cue_speaker": "Sir William van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "e details. I am concerned about this because insurers are at work on policies, and in the student world there is an intelligent operation run by Endsleigh Insurance which will be known to several hon. Members. I have made careful inquiries and I believe that the company can—I truncate an elaborate matter—produce a group policy to cover this year, for £75 outside London, and £100 for inside London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.436.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-17", "file": "debates1982-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "623c388016eb263e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.453.2", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Voluntary-aided and Controlled Schools", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Butcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Butcher", "preceding_text": "In these sensitive days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-17a.453.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-18", "file": "debates1982-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "12bec6f9afb5074a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-18a.476.10", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": " shown to her by thousands of people when her son was feared lost in the desert? Will she now respond by showing similar compassion to the millions of sons and daughters who are out of work and lost in the jungle of her economic policy? Will she respond? Will she stop these crocodile tears and the hypocrisy of pretending to care for the unemployed while pushing another 300, 000 people out of work?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-18a.476.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-18", "file": "debates1982-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "12bec6f9afb5074a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-18a.478.3", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I take it that the right hon. Gentleman approves a zero option and will urge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-18a.478.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-18", "file": "debates1982-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "12bec6f9afb5074a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-18a.478.6", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Carlisle", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that the remarks made yesterday by the right hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan), when he linked the rise in crime to the rise in unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-18a.478.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-18", "file": "debates1982-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "12bec6f9afb5074a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-18a.480.0", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-18a.480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-18", "file": "debates1982-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "12bec6f9afb5074a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-18a.480.2", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his last comment, which is obviously correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-18a.480.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-18", "file": "debates1982-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "12bec6f9afb5074a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-18a.480.2", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his last comment, which is obviously correct. [Interruption.] No, I have not got the number of murders. May I just make this one point?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-18a.480.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-18", "file": "debates1982-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "12bec6f9afb5074a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-18a.480.2", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his last comment, which is obviously correct. [Interruption.] No, I have not got the number of murders. May I just make this one point? [Interruption.] No, I am sorry, I cannot reinforce what I said about the number of murders. I was thinking, in fact, about something else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-18a.480.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-18", "file": "debates1982-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "12bec6f9afb5074a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-18a.493.0", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Council of Agriculture Ministers (Meeting)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "First, I am glad to say that during the Government's period of office nurses' incomes have risen very much more than those of farmers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-18a.493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-18", "file": "debates1982-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "12bec6f9afb5074a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-18a.517.5", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security and Housing Benefits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And by you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": ". On that occasion my right hon. and noble Friend Baroness Young made absolutely clear in column 1190 that no assurances could be given concerning the making good of the 5 per cent. abatement when the benefits were brought into tax. I am extremely sorry that the Government are not responding to the request made by my right hon. and hon. Friends and by Opposition Members to restore the 5 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-18a.517.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-18", "file": "debates1982-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "12bec6f9afb5074a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-18a.518.0", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security and Housing Benefits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "ister of State himself. I believe that this reflects the attitude of mind of the Front Bench and many Conservative Members towards the unemployed. I exonerate the hon. Member for Beeston (Mr. Lester) and I congratulate those who have tabled new clause 13. I hope that every one of them, except the hon. and learned Member for Grantham who says that his greatest loyalty is not to what he believes in—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-18a.518.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-18", "file": "debates1982-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "12bec6f9afb5074a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-18a.532.0", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security and Housing Benefits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": " It is not treated as part of taxable income. Consequently, while we must still consider all the relevant factors at the time when each benefit comes into tax—and they may not all come into tax at the same time; I shall say something about that in a moment—I can give a particular, special assurance with regard to invalidity benefit. When it comes into tax, subject to the availability of resources—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-18a.532.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-18", "file": "debates1982-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "12bec6f9afb5074a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-18a.543.0", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security and Housing Benefits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "f you soften it a bit, it will be all right on the night.\" As with most ministerial statements, the nearer one gets to the realisation of the promise, the further it retreats. We are now told, first, that the amendment is exactly the same as was proposed in Committee, which it manifestly is not, and, secondly, that, if the amendment were adopted, it would be a terrible onus to put on the employer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-18a.543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-18", "file": "debates1982-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "12bec6f9afb5074a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-18a.547.0", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security and Housing Benefits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) has spoken with great feeling. That is understandable and one respects his feelings on this matter, but I think that he has got it slightly wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-18a.547.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-18", "file": "debates1982-03-18a.xml", "sha256": "12bec6f9afb5074a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-18a.588.2", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security and Housing Benefits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way. I am free to express my view when the Question is put. However, in Committee, we thought that we had made such a convincing case that we would carry the Opposition with us. Indeed, we did so. However, I fear that my lone voice tonight will be unable to carry the official Opposition with me in such great numbers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-18a.588.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-22", "file": "debates1982-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "fb88c2299cf70dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-22a.718.0", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mental Health (Amendment) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Miss Janet Fookes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More tablets.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Janet Fookes", "preceding_text": "sion we seek to have one definitive document. After all, one of the chief merits of the Ten Commandments is that they are simple, clear and comprehensive. How much less attractive and vigorous would they be if they had not been complete in one piece and Moses had sought to go up the mountain a second time to bring down the Ten Commandments (Amendment) Act and the two had to be read in conjunction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-22a.718.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-22", "file": "debates1982-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "fb88c2299cf70dbf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-22a.765.5", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mental Health (Amendment) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman, but I shall not be able to give much more information when I do, because I am not resisting in principle the suggestion that there should be legal aid before the tribunals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-22a.765.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-23", "file": "debates1982-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "d9f08bb473344527", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-23a.784.6", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "preceding_text": "If we buy Trident from the United States there is no reason why we should be in hock to that country's foreign policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-23a.784.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-23", "file": "debates1982-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "d9f08bb473344527", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-23a.785.6", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Lamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Lamond", "preceding_text": "Will the Government's propaganda effort include the statement in the Government's White Paper that there is no evidence of any sort to show that the Warsaw Pact has aggressive intentions towards Western Europe?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-23a.785.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-23", "file": "debates1982-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "d9f08bb473344527", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-23a.792.4", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The fall in today's unemployment figures below 3 million was welcome, but on the whole the figures for Scotland were better than those for many of the other regions. That is extremely good news for Scotland. Last week we had an extra order for Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-23a.792.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-23", "file": "debates1982-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "d9f08bb473344527", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-23a.793.0", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I recognise that the right hon. Lady would prefer the news to be good, but she has had to admit that in terms of taxation, law and order and the continuing increase in unemployment, her Administration has broken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-23a.793.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-23", "file": "debates1982-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "d9f08bb473344527", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-23a.851.9", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security and Housing Benefits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "The whole question of appeals is an important area. It is particularly disappointing that there are no Conservative Back Benchers in the House at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-23a.851.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-24", "file": "debates1982-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f833bceb6bba5176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-24a.934.2", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Foreign Affairs Council (Meeting)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "They are linked in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-24a.934.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-24", "file": "debates1982-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f833bceb6bba5176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-24a.974.0", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "ays failed to recognise that it is not in the interests of the consumer to damage the producer's potentiality. We have obtained the advantage and that is shown in all the figures that I have given. The views that have been expressed are almost—but I hasten to add, not quite—in line with those expressed by the Labour Party in its remarkable document, which was published by the safeguards committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-24a.974.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-24", "file": "debates1982-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f833bceb6bba5176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-24a.979.3", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "I am in favour of precisely what the Conservative manifesto says—a freezing of CAP prices for products in structural surplus. That is what we are arguing for.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-24a.979.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-24", "file": "debates1982-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f833bceb6bba5176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-24a.981.6", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have said that for years.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": " it costs to produce them here. It will also allow the industry to make a positive contribution to our overall Socialist objectives. Those are the views of the Labour Party. We oppose this Common Market agricultural policy as it stands and the proposals made by the Commission. The proposals must be opposed. We want to see a firm stand by the Government on the budget and the Commission's proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-24a.981.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-24", "file": "debates1982-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f833bceb6bba5176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-24a.996.0", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Howells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geraint Howells", "preceding_text": "de for the profit and enjoyment of all in both town and country. In so doing, they display a total ignorance of the subject, which is frightening when one considers that they aspire to rule the country. Their attitude greatly saddens me. On second thoughts, however, perhaps I should not be unduly worried about the future as there is an alliance now making inroads into the British political system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-24a.996.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-24", "file": "debates1982-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f833bceb6bba5176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-24a.1016.1", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "on. Friend knows, I also keep a few animals and to an extent I know how the price mechanism works. The present system is devastating and wrong. The Conservative Party should reassert its traditional role of being the party of the United Kingdom. Those who have read today's edition of The Standard will have noticed that there has been an increase in sexual permissiveness among London's young women.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-24a.1016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-24", "file": "debates1982-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f833bceb6bba5176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-24a.1030.0", "colnum": "1030", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"They are all in favour of it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "try. We stressed the need to relate the interests of the farmer and the consumer in our amendment. We are told that unless we support high prices we are not supporting the farmer. I hope that they will not go so far as to say that we are not supporting the consumer. However, it is not even true. The sad truth about the common agricultural policy in relation to the farmer is that it has not worked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-24a.1030.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-24", "file": "debates1982-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f833bceb6bba5176", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-24a.1057.2", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Industrial Relations)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sandelson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sandelson", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to you for your interpretation, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I was saying that it will now be for industrial tribunals to determine the extent of the indemnity, and that may in practice prove to be an unsatisfactory procedure. This article extends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-24a.1057.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-25", "file": "debates1982-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "62006d243ad87d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-25a.1081.1", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Robert Bradford (Apprehension of Murderers)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "Trying, perhaps, to defuse a difficult situation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-25a.1081.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-03-25", "file": "debates1982-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "62006d243ad87d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-25a.1081.4", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Robert Bradford (Apprehension of Murderers)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "He did not say that.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State note that the people of Northern Ireland will be alarmed by his statement today at the Dispatch Box that he was not aware of the serious threat to the life of the late Rev. Robert Bradford?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-25a.1081.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-25", "file": "debates1982-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "62006d243ad87d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-25a.1097.0", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Vale of Belvoir", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "international concern? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that as a result of his statement today further delays are inevitable? It will take the National Coal Board another year to put together a fresh application. Will he give some assurances about the future time scale for a new inquiry and for a decision? Will that decision give the green light that is needed? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-25a.1097.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-25", "file": "debates1982-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "62006d243ad87d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-25a.1108.4", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Law and Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Winchester.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I who must accept what the hon. Gentleman says; it is the Prime Minister. I have always accepted it. I have been advocating the relationship between the two factors for some time. But I was going on to say, and I shall say it in a moment, something directly related to the hon. Gentleman's second question. First, and I think that preventing the House hearing the wisdom of the hon. Member for Luton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-25a.1108.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-25", "file": "debates1982-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "62006d243ad87d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-25a.1136.0", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Law and Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": "day—that putting people into prison does not help; it does not rehabilitate or reform them, nor does it reduce the level of crime. If that is so, why is the right hon. Gentleman suggesting that the building of extra prison places will in some peculiar way deal with the problem? Some of the Home Secretary's hon. Friends have resorted to more populist causes, such as whipping and capital punishment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-25a.1136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-25", "file": "debates1982-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "62006d243ad87d2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-25a.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Law and Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "preceding_text": "antly and inconsiderately. There is concern about the Home Secretary's attitude to the report of the Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure. That report was intended to be a balanced package. If the right hon. Gentleman takes only the parts of that package which operate in one direction, and totally ignores the rest, he must not be surprised if he finds that that is strongly resented and resisted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-25a.1168.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-29", "file": "debates1982-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "22318943c9b1d129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-29a.3.7", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "If the former editor of The Times thought that he was being constructively dismissed he was under no obligation to resign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-29a.3.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-29", "file": "debates1982-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "22318943c9b1d129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-29a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "United Kingdom Trident Programme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has asked the same question twice.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-29a.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-29", "file": "debates1982-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "22318943c9b1d129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-29a.31.3", "colnum": "31", "heading": "United Kingdom Trident Programme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"And everything else.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "d not identify the point. If the world is to recognise that the British Government are as serious about disarmament as the British people would like them to be, it is not enough for the Prime Minister to say, as she did at Harrogate: Of course I would like to see nuclear disarmament. She should be at the session right at the beginning. The Opposition amendment mentions the nonproliferation treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-29a.31.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-29", "file": "debates1982-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "22318943c9b1d129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-29a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "United Kingdom Trident Programme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "t to be a personal advertisement for his point of view, but that is the impression that I received. I am sure that that was a coincidence and that the producer had no intention of giving that impression. It was not a good programme because it was a mine of misinformation. I hope and believe that, as the debate in the country continues, it will gain progressively from public awareness of the facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-29a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-29", "file": "debates1982-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "22318943c9b1d129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-29a.59.0", "colnum": "59", "heading": "United Kingdom Trident Programme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What is the percentage in Russia?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": "and only 23 per cent. for it. Only today, the results of an even more striking poll, this time of American public opinion, has been issued. I thought that the rest of America was behind Reagan's back telling him that he must go ahead. That is not the case. According to Time magazine, which published today's poll, 71 per cent. of the American people are against Reagan's nuclear rearmament policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-29a.59.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-29", "file": "debates1982-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "22318943c9b1d129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-29a.81.0", "colnum": "81", "heading": "United Kingdom Trident Programme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Johnson Smith", "preceding_text": "s certain. In no way shall we be able to reduce our costs and make more effective our use of resources unless, with nuclear weapons, as with others, we formulate European defence needs. That is why I hope that the NATO powers will respond to the call by the President of France. Western European Union may not be the ideal institution in which we can solve these problems of defence policy in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-29a.81.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-29", "file": "debates1982-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "22318943c9b1d129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-29a.86.0", "colnum": "86", "heading": "United Kingdom Trident Programme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "latitudinous way when they say they will vote for Trident? They will be voting for a system that will increase the capacity of each submarine from 48 missiles to 272. A recently published book entitled \"As Lambs to the Slaughter\" by Dr. Paul Rogers, Dr. Malcolm Dando and Dr. Peter Van Den Dungen, who work at Bradford university peace studies department, states that the D5 missile has 17 warheads.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-29a.86.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-29", "file": "debates1982-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "22318943c9b1d129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-29a.86.0", "colnum": "86", "heading": "United Kingdom Trident Programme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "ms of spending, and aggregating them for purposes of comparison according to the NATO definition of defence expenditure.\"—[ Official Report, 7 July 1980; Vol. 988, c. 54.] In other words, the Government are indulging in guesswork. The Government are building up a nuclear deterrent with more firepower than all the firepower used in the 1939–45 war and multiplying it on the basis of guesses.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-29a.86.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-29", "file": "debates1982-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "22318943c9b1d129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-29a.89.1", "colnum": "89", "heading": "United Kingdom Trident Programme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "I have no doubt that it has been and will continue to be asked in Moscow. The notion that there are no peaceful forces in the Soviet Union is inaccurate. I have met a Soviet peace delegation which came to the House and interviewed hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-29a.89.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-29", "file": "debates1982-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "22318943c9b1d129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-29a.95.5", "colnum": "95", "heading": "United Kingdom Trident Programme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "We have said that we would cancel the Trident programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-29a.95.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-29", "file": "debates1982-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "22318943c9b1d129", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-29a.104.2", "colnum": "104", "heading": "United Kingdom Trident Programme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pattie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pattie", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way. The right hon. Gentleman has had his opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-29a.104.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-30", "file": "debates1982-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "64dd6726648f3112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-30a.158.17", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr John Grant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr John Grant", "preceding_text": "nued failure by the Prime Minister to accept the link between rising crime in London and the inner cities and the Government's economic policies, but that on the other hand we also deplore the kind of remarks that were made yesterday by Mr. Ken Livingstone, when he attacked the new Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis before that gentleman has even got his feet under the desk at Scotland Yard?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-30a.158.17"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-30", "file": "debates1982-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "64dd6726648f3112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-30a.159.5", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Foot", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS:\"Disgraceful\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Foot", "preceding_text": "t a few minutes before he began to answer these questions the Secretary of State for Employment acknowledged that unemployment was soon likely again to be over 3 million and that a major contributory factor would be the number of young people coming on the register? What effects does the right hon. Gentleman believe that that fact will have this summer in Toxteth, Brixton and in many other places?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-30a.159.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-30", "file": "debates1982-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "64dd6726648f3112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-30a.161.6", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "laining of racial harassment, where racial murders have been committed, will he look into this and see why the police—who are now larger in numbers than they have ever been, with a better organisation and with every facility—cannot answer a Member of Parliament's letter, or do not want to, whereas the Prime Minister can? Will he have a word with me? If he will not I shall cause a disturbance here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-30a.161.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-30", "file": "debates1982-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "64dd6726648f3112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-30a.161.6", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "they have ever been, with a better organisation and with every facility—cannot answer a Member of Parliament's letter, or do not want to, whereas the Prime Minister can? Will he have a word with me? If he will not I shall cause a disturbance here— [Interruption.] —to draw attention to the fact that the ratepayers, who pay those police, cannot get proper treatment. It is no good the Home Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-30a.161.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-30", "file": "debates1982-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "64dd6726648f3112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-30a.172.2", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Death Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I hope that we shall have quick questions and answers. I shall allow questions to run until half past four—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-30a.172.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-30", "file": "debates1982-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "64dd6726648f3112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-30a.176.5", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Death Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr Mike Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Mike Thomas", "preceding_text": "nt spinning out the business of the House today? Is he further aware that neither of the old parties has anything to be proud of in this matter? While we generally support the approach that the hon. Gentleman is taking in focusing help on those who need it most and while we reject the knee-jerk over-reaction of the Labour Party to his consultation proposals, there are two things that he should do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-30a.176.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-30", "file": "debates1982-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "64dd6726648f3112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-30a.205.0", "colnum": "205", "heading": "NEW MEMBER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mike Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mike Thomas", "preceding_text": "pect that there is not much more logic behind them. I share the Minister's view that it is hypocritical in the extreme for the Labour Party to come to the House and say that it would wish to abolish all such charges. We know perfectly well that that is the Labour Party promising in Opposition what it did not carry out in Government and what it would not carry out if it were in Government tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-30a.205.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-30", "file": "debates1982-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "64dd6726648f3112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-30a.252.3", "colnum": "252", "heading": "NEW MEMBER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Albert Costain", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Albert Costain", "preceding_text": "nary contractors. That is all they ask for. We are simply asking the Opposition to realise that such direct labour organisations cannot be competitive. It is said that they should continue, but that is nonsense. Anybody who has had experience in the building industry knows that people generally employed by direct labour organisations have been in, but could not keep, jobs in the building industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-30a.252.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-30", "file": "debates1982-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "64dd6726648f3112", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-30a.258.4", "colnum": "258", "heading": "NEW MEMBER", "cue_speaker": "Miss Joan Maynard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Maynard", "preceding_text": "ieves that at times such as this scarce money should be paid to retain skilled employees and tradesmen who know their work and can respond to the needs of the tenants and the people of the city. The Government wish to add to the ever-increasing legion of office staff at the town hall. I believe that a Socialist housing policy and a policy for land and the building industry are inextricably linked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-30a.258.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-31", "file": "debates1982-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e1f7fd4ca881b0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-31a.306.0", "colnum": "306", "heading": "European Council Meeting", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Some?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": " right hon. Lady said about the mandate and discussions on the budget which were, of course, briefly referred to in the communiqué. The right hon. Lady referred to her capacity for stubbornness in these matters. We all recognise that she has that capacity. As long as she is stubborn in defence of the legitimate interests of the British people, she will have some support from the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-31a.306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-31", "file": "debates1982-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e1f7fd4ca881b0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-31a.306.0", "colnum": "306", "heading": "European Council Meeting", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "ore were offered at the end of the economic summit than what was offered at the end of the meeting that the right hon. Lady has attended over the past few days. Nothing concrete or expansive has been proposed. Nothing of that nature appears in the communiqué. It does not appear that any solution comparable to the needs of the situation has been proposed by the Government in the discussions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-31a.306.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-31", "file": "debates1982-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e1f7fd4ca881b0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-31a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "European Council Meeting", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Yes, I have mentioned Afghanistan on many occasions. With regard to El Salvador, I am glad to see that the right hon. Lady says in her communiqué that she has joined others in Europe in welcoming any new initiative. That is a considerable advance on what was said by the Government in our debate a few weeks ago. We urged the Government that they should accept and act upon the new initiative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-31a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-31", "file": "debates1982-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e1f7fd4ca881b0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-31a.310.9", "colnum": "310", "heading": "European Council Meeting", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "ion at the European Council on the hard warning fact that, so far as the micro-electronic industry is concerned, Europe has 30 per cent. of the market and 15 per cent. of the production? If that continues—it will continue unless there is substantial Government and Community intervention—it is a severe warning sign that Europe as a whole will not be a major economic power by the end of the century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-31a.310.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-31", "file": "debates1982-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e1f7fd4ca881b0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-31a.312.8", "colnum": "312", "heading": "European Council Meeting", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is with oil.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We are in balance with Europe taking manufactures and export of commodities into account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-31a.312.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-31", "file": "debates1982-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e1f7fd4ca881b0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-31a.321.2", "colnum": "321", "heading": "European Court of Justice (Compliance with Judgments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ficient. When I say that I shall not call a Division, that is a point on which I could change my mind before the end of my speech if I find my own arguments sufficiently persuasive and if what I said at the beginning were to create a problem. Perhaps, on second thoughts, I would be prepared to call a Division at the end of my speech if I find my argument persuasive enough, unless I change my mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-31a.321.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-31", "file": "debates1982-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e1f7fd4ca881b0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-31a.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Dawn raids.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "ursuant to paragraph (A) of this Article 71, shall give written notice to the Board that he believes that there are such grounds, specifying them. There is then set out action that the special shareholder can take. What are the reasonable grounds? Why has the Secretary of State put in the words \"reasonable grounds\"? I read constantly in the newspapers of early morning coups, secret board meetings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-31a.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-31", "file": "debates1982-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e1f7fd4ca881b0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-31a.333.3", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "rticles of association, and an important proposition, which had not been cleared by the Stock Exchange council. This is not the first time that the hon. Gentleman has suggested that this is a terrible proposal. He will recall that, although the power is slightly different, in Amersham International Ltd. there is a special share which has special powers. I was not aware that that put off investors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-31a.333.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-31", "file": "debates1982-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e1f7fd4ca881b0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-31a.388.0", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mahon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It does. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mahon", "preceding_text": "I am not aware that the guillotine descends at 10 o'clock.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-31a.388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-03-31", "file": "debates1982-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "e1f7fd4ca881b0dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-31a.388.1", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "hat would be a recipe for delay and procrastination. There ar two concepts in the amendment—that, if it wishes, the BGC should come forward with alternative proposals for safety and that there sould be arbitration on disagreements. Those are already in the Bill as drafted, but the amendment seeks to submerge the common carrier under a welter of superfluous bureaucracy. Our intention is to operate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-03-31a.388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-01", "file": "debates1982-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "50cfd554af439d9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-01a.449.6", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "Throughout our deliberations the right hon. Gentleman has been extremely understanding. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has many important duties to perform—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-01a.449.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-01", "file": "debates1982-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "50cfd554af439d9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-01a.453.5", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "d that the Bill is misconceived in respect of BNOC. It is wrong to split the corporation into production and trading arms. An integrated company is necessary, and that view is supported by many people in the industry. Although I do not want it done at all, it would have been better to have retained an integrated industry and privatised generally rather than to have split it up in the way proposed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-01a.453.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-01", "file": "debates1982-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "50cfd554af439d9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-01a.453.5", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "gth with such companies. We shall also return to the role of Government directors, which we discussed yesterday, because I do not believe that any Government have got the role right. Just as nationalisation in the 1940s was not the end of that story, neither is privatisation in the 1980s the end of this story. One reason is that the alternative economic strategy that the Opposition are developing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-01a.453.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-01", "file": "debates1982-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "50cfd554af439d9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-01a.476.0", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "sions the Minister used the word \"misconceived\". He seemed to be suggesting that we had misunderstood the Bill. That is not the case. We shall stop telling the truth about the Bill if the Government and their supporters will stop telling lies about our policies. The Bill is a doctrinaire measure. This is no basis for the economic well-being of the country. It is a doctrinaire measure and will not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-01a.476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-01", "file": "debates1982-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "50cfd554af439d9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-01a.476.0", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "had misunderstood the Bill. That is not the case. We shall stop telling the truth about the Bill if the Government and their supporters will stop telling lies about our policies. The Bill is a doctrinaire measure. This is no basis for the economic well-being of the country. It is a doctrinaire measure and will not— [Interruption] —add one barrel of oil or one cubic metre of gas from the North sea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-01a.476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-01", "file": "debates1982-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "50cfd554af439d9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-01a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "ely from the coincidence of weather factors. We all recognise BGC's difficulties with cash limits. However, if the Government have set clear cash limits, it is up to BGC to stick to them. It is unreasonable for it to try to avoid them. I hope that the Government will carefully examine the whole issue and the way in which the accounts have been altered and changed. I wish to make one further point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-01a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-01", "file": "debates1982-04-01a.xml", "sha256": "50cfd554af439d9c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-01a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "tion.] I shall develop the point quickly, if Opposition Members will allow me to do so. All hon. Members believe that Parliament should control the purse strings. Together with many other hon. Members, I strongly feel that the Comptroller and Auditor General should have powers to examine, if necessary—and if Select Committees consider it appropriate—the audited accounts of nationalised industries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-01a.479.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-04-02", "file": "debates1982-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "5fb6f58fc13848fb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-02a.618.28", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-02a.618.27"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-03", "file": "debates1982-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "7d0088780df79774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.633.2", "colnum": "633", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "knowledged. At 8.45 am all communications ceased. I shall refer to that again in a moment. By late afternoon yesterday it became clear that an Argentine invasion had taken place and that the lawful British Government of the islands had been usurped. I am sure that the whole House will join me in condemning totally this unprovoked aggression by the Government of Argentina against British territory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.633.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-03", "file": "debates1982-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "7d0088780df79774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.633.2", "colnum": "633", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "formation which led us to believe that a large number of Argentine ships, including an aircraft carrier, destroyers, landing craft, troop carriers and submarines, were heading for Port Stanley. I contacted President Reagan that evening and asked him to intervene with the Argentine President directly. We promised, in the meantime, to take no action to escalate the dispute for fear of precipitating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.633.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-03", "file": "debates1982-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "7d0088780df79774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.633.2", "colnum": "633", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "destroyers, landing craft, troop carriers and submarines, were heading for Port Stanley. I contacted President Reagan that evening and asked him to intervene with the Argentine President directly. We promised, in the meantime, to take no action to escalate the dispute for fear of precipitating— [Interruption] —the very event that our efforts were directed to avoid. May I remind Opposition Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.633.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-03", "file": "debates1982-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "7d0088780df79774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.636.3", "colnum": "636", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We are talking about the sovereignty of British territory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.636.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-03", "file": "debates1982-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "7d0088780df79774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.636.3", "colnum": "636", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "message will ask the base commander to surrender. Before indicating some of the measures that the Government have taken in response to the Argentine invasion, I should like to make three points. First, even if ships had been instructed to sail the day that the Argentines landed on South Georgia to clear the whaling station, the ships could not possibly have got to Port Stanley before the invasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.636.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-03", "file": "debates1982-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "7d0088780df79774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e hope that our continuing diplomatic efforts, helped by our many friends, will meet with success. The Foreign Ministers of the European Community member States yesterday condemned the intervention and urged withdrawal. The NATO Council called on both sides to refrain from force and continue diplomacy. The United Nations Security Council met again yesterday and will continue its discussions today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-03", "file": "debates1982-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "7d0088780df79774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.642.2", "colnum": "642", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "preceding_text": "ars ago, surely taught us that not every ally is staunch when the call comes. We have one duty only, which we owe to ourselves—the duty to rescue our people and to uphold our rights. Let that be the unanimous and clear resolve of the House this day. Let us hear no more about logistics—how difficult it is to travel long distances. I do not remember the Duke of Wellington whining about Tones Vedras.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.642.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-03", "file": "debates1982-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "7d0088780df79774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.644.2", "colnum": "644", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nigel Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nigel Fisher", "preceding_text": "forces in possession and confining our retaliation to a battle at sea. But then what? We could not keep our warships in the area indefinitely, with no base from which to supply them. The truth is that we have been pre-empted, as we were in Norway by the Germans in 1940, and that led to the fall of Mr. Chamberlain's Governmment. Of course, I do not suggest that the same situation should apply today", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.644.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-03", "file": "debates1982-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "7d0088780df79774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.644.2", "colnum": "644", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nigel Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nigel Fisher", "preceding_text": "vents and, as soon as security considerations permit, to a clear indication from Ministers as to what action is now proposed. As a first step, all available sanctions against the Argentine should, of course, be taken. For example, I understand that the people of the Argentine are great football enthusiasts. The very least we should do is to ensure the exclusion of the Argentine from the World Cup.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.644.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-03", "file": "debates1982-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "7d0088780df79774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.649.0", "colnum": "649", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Rowlands", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Rowlands", "preceding_text": "How can we read the mind of the enemy?\" I shall make a disclosure. As well as trying to read the mind of the enemy, we have been reading its telegrams for many years. I am sure that many sources are available to the Government, and I do not understand how they failed to anticipate some of the dangers that suddenly loomed on the horizen. I shall pose a difficult question for the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.649.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-03", "file": "debates1982-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "7d0088780df79774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.651.0", "colnum": "651", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"If my hon. Friend believes that, he will believe anything.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "ides asking them to refrain from hostility at a time when the invasion had apparently already taken place or was under way. I should also like to know why we attach so much importance to a telephone call made by the President of the United States. I should like to be assured that the President of the United States will stand four square with Britain, in a way that his predecessor did not in 1956.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-03", "file": "debates1982-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "7d0088780df79774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.651.0", "colnum": "651", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"And in Hong Kong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "d her colleagues must look again at the defence strategy and capability of this country. If we are incapable of deterring and preventing a jumped-up junta of barbarous men from inflicting an appalling regime on British subjects, we must surely question the whole strategy that has been explained to the House in recent months. I should think that there will be some anxious people in Gibraltar today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-03", "file": "debates1982-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "7d0088780df79774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.651.0", "colnum": "651", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "n. Friend the Member for Ashford (Mr. Speed) for his courage and prescience. I hope that what he has said will be heeded more than it has been recently. However, it is not too late to restore the credibility of the Government. It is desperate that we should do so. People said to me last night and this morning, \"We thought, above all, that we could sleep safely while your Government were in power.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.651.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-03", "file": "debates1982-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "7d0088780df79774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Whitney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For the Foreign Office.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raymond Whitney", "preceding_text": "I should like to offer a few words which I know will not be popular in the House, but they are based on three years' work in Argentina, trying to avoid the eventuality that now confronts us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-03", "file": "debates1982-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "7d0088780df79774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.653.3", "colnum": "653", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitney", "preceding_text": "rd to avoid. Recriminations about what might have happened over the past months are not profitable today in this fevered climate. We must consider carefully what action we should take. I should like to offer a few considerations, which I hope very much the Government will bear in mind as the fleet steams towards the South Atlantic. The reputation of this Government is based on courage and realism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.653.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-03", "file": "debates1982-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "7d0088780df79774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.661.4", "colnum": "661", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the leader of the nation——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.661.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-03", "file": "debates1982-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "7d0088780df79774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.664.0", "colnum": "664", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. John Nott)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. John Nott)", "preceding_text": "ender. By that, I meant without a fight. What else would anyone have answered at such a press conference? The other major criticism that has been echoed on both sides of the House is that we should have reacted earlier with the despatch, either covertly or overtly, of some surface ships. There are two questions on that issue. First, should we have despatched earlier than we did a Naval task force?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-03", "file": "debates1982-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "7d0088780df79774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.664.0", "colnum": "664", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. John Nott)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. John Nott)", "preceding_text": "ue. First, should we have despatched earlier than we did a Naval task force? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"] Secondly, should we have deployed covertly some frigates, as the right hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan) did in 1977? With the wisdom of hindsight, the despatch of a large surface task force sufficient to deter or destroy the Argentine navy might have given pause to the Argentines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.664.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-03", "file": "debates1982-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "7d0088780df79774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.665.1", "colnum": "665", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "I have only a few minutes in which to answer this debate. The Prime Minister said in opening this debate that we were throughout seeking a peaceful solution to this dispute, and such an act, at a moment when we might have been going to the United Nations, would have seemed highly provocative and would probably—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.665.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-03", "file": "debates1982-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "7d0088780df79774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.666.5", "colnum": "666", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "oposal, because there seems to be a difference of view between the then Prime Minister and the then Foreign Secretary about the events in 1977. The right hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East said that this force in 1977 became known and that a diplomatic solution followed, whereas the right hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dr. Owen) said yesterday on the radio that it was done in total secrecy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.666.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-03", "file": "debates1982-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "7d0088780df79774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.666.5", "colnum": "666", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "ign Secretary about the events in 1977. The right hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East said that this force in 1977 became known and that a diplomatic solution followed, whereas the right hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dr. Owen) said yesterday on the radio that it was done in total secrecy— [Interruption] —but he added that it gave him confidence in his negotiations, whatever that might mean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.666.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-03", "file": "debates1982-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "7d0088780df79774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.666.7", "colnum": "666", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "Presumably to deter, the presence of the force must have been known. If so, to have sent it, then it would have had precisely the same objections to a peaceful solution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.666.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-03", "file": "debates1982-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "7d0088780df79774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.666.11", "colnum": "666", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "t and the preparations have been in progress for several weeks. We were not unprepared. I must make it clear to my right hon. Friend the Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Mr. Amery) that the carrier, HMS \"Illustrious\" is now undergoing sea trials. She will be joining the carrier HMS \"Ark Royal\" and we shall retain an out-of-area capability during the 1980s and 1990s to deal with this sort of problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.666.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-03", "file": "debates1982-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "7d0088780df79774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.667.1", "colnum": "667", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": ", but they are certainly not insoluble because of the professionalism, the preparedness and the quality of our defences, which for our nation's size are unique in the free world. I do not believe the claim that the new Labour Party, with its well-known and well-advertised anti-defence bias and lack of commitment to defence spending, would have done any better. The Government will accept criticism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.667.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-04-03", "file": "debates1982-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "7d0088780df79774", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.668.0", "colnum": "668", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Go.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "cause of the professionalism, the preparedness and the quality of our defences, which for our nation's size are unique in the free world. I do not believe the claim that the new Labour Party, with its well-known and well-advertised anti-defence bias and lack of commitment to defence spending, would have done any better. The Government will accept criticism—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign\".] But I believe——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-03a.667.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-06", "file": "debates1982-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2ccce005e27849fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-06a.809.12", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "ing to official figures, there are now nearly 9 million people living in poverty—about one in seven of the entire population—mainly because of the huge increase in the number of long-term unemployed created by the Government? Is the Minister aware that, while the Government have made the rich richer, they have reintroduced means-tested poverty on a massive scale as in the 1930s? Is he not ashamed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-06a.809.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-06", "file": "debates1982-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2ccce005e27849fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-06a.824.3", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There are two points that need to be made. I told the House on Saturday that even if action had been taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-06a.824.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-06", "file": "debates1982-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2ccce005e27849fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-06a.824.3", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " Gentleman's question, I think that he will find a certain amount of confusion in the reports. I therefore stand by what I told the right hon. Gentleman on Saturday—that the first time we had precise information was on Wednesday. If the right hon. Gentleman looks at his copy of The Times he will see that there is a phrase to the effect that they knew there were ships but did not know their intent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-06a.824.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-06", "file": "debates1982-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2ccce005e27849fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-06a.825.0", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. Members:\"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have tried to help the right hon. Gentleman. I think that, if he looks at the report on the front page of The Times he will find that it says that there were ships in the area but their intent was not known.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-06a.825.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-06", "file": "debates1982-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2ccce005e27849fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-06a.825.0", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ge of The Times he will find that it says that there were ships in the area but their intent was not known. [Hon. Members:\"Oh\".] That is what I understand The Times to say. We knew there were problems and of course we were dealing with them on South Georgia. The precise time that we had information that it was an invasion fleet and that it was on its way was Wednesday evening. We took action then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-06a.825.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-06", "file": "debates1982-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2ccce005e27849fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-06a.825.3", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have given the accurate information—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-06a.825.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-06", "file": "debates1982-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2ccce005e27849fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-06a.825.7", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As I have been trying to indicate, there were problems, as the right hon. Gentleman knew, on South Georgia. The problems there were that if HMS \"Endurance\" proceeded to take off the 10 Argentines who had landed at Leith and who refused to leave although they did not have proper immigration papers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-06a.825.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-06", "file": "debates1982-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2ccce005e27849fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-06a.840.1", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "I shall have a word to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-06a.840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-06", "file": "debates1982-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2ccce005e27849fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-06a.846.4", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "I must proceed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-06a.846.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-06", "file": "debates1982-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2ccce005e27849fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-06a.846.4", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "I must proceed. [Interruption.] I shall deal with a second matter on the supply side of the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-06a.846.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-06", "file": "debates1982-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2ccce005e27849fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-06a.858.1", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "preceding_text": "That does not help at all. I am not talking about interest, any more than the Government talk about interest when they issue a prospectus for an index-linked gilt. I am talking about index-linked capital payment at the end of the life of the bond. That, without any doubt, is treated by the Revenue—correctly, as the law now stands—as a capital item which the company is not allowed to deduct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-06a.858.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-06", "file": "debates1982-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2ccce005e27849fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-06a.874.0", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman draws our attention to the scheme for young people. Will he address himself to the problems of business people in his previous constituency of Workington?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-06a.874.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-06", "file": "debates1982-04-06a.xml", "sha256": "2ccce005e27849fe", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-06a.923.0", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill (Committal)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "an last year because a greater proportion of it is beneficial to a small number of people. Of the 10 clauses—clauses 65 to 74—in the capital gains section we are being allowed to debate only one clause in Committee. I believe that every one of those clauses should be debated on the Floor of the House so that the British people can be quite clear about the unmistakeable objective of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-06a.923.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-07", "file": "debates1982-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd0b73ad9e1392f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.966.5", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I wish to put it to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.966.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-07", "file": "debates1982-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd0b73ad9e1392f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.972.5", "colnum": "972", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And anger.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I feel a little squeamish. This is not a game of tennis. We are engaged on a most serious operation. This afternoon, I wish to look ahead, but before doing so I wish to have a retrospective look. If the right hon. Member for Yeovil is correct, as he was, in saying that there has been shame, sorrow and humiliation, and if, as he half suggested, we have to swallow that shame, sorrow and humiliation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.972.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-07", "file": "debates1982-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd0b73ad9e1392f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.976.0", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "ry attaches some importance told me yesterday that in his view—it is sometimes instructive to listen to the views of our friends outside the House—the loss of Lord Carrington from the Government was more serious to the Government than the loss of the Falkland Islands. That is a measure of the standing that he enjoyed in many parts of the world. Lord Carrington performed one last important service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.976.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-07", "file": "debates1982-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd0b73ad9e1392f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.985.2", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "ion was that the Labour Party could not support sending the task force, because it would endanger the people of the Falklands, whose safety and security should be Britain's first concern. On Saturday a rumour was going round the House that the right hon. Gentleman was at last accepting that he was a member of the former Labour Government. I sometimes wish that he would show some signs of doing so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.985.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-07", "file": "debates1982-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd0b73ad9e1392f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.985.2", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "vate. I find it hard to understand why the right hon. Gentleman has to rush into making public statements on every conceivable occasion. The right hon. Gentleman must start facing a few more responsibilities. He has been allowed by the House to escape those responsibilities for too long. The country has the right to ask that he should justify his position a great deal more than he has in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.985.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-07", "file": "debates1982-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd0b73ad9e1392f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.990.0", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "the initiative against the battle fleet. So this may well be the last occasion on which Parliament meets to discuss the matter before our troops are fired on. That is why I underline what my right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey) said: Parliament must not go away for Easter while this situation develops. We must at least be available to meet and keep the situation under control.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.990.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-07", "file": "debates1982-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd0b73ad9e1392f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " orders have been given to the fleet? No one expects the operational orders to be revealed, but the Secretary of State for Defence was asked a lot of question on television on Sunday by Brian Walden. One was: Do you exclude an attack upon the mainland of Argentina? The Secretary of State for Defence said—I speak from memory, but the sense of what I recall is correct—\"We do not exclude any option.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-07", "file": "debates1982-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd0b73ad9e1392f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "lden. One was: Do you exclude an attack upon the mainland of Argentina? The Secretary of State for Defence said—I speak from memory, but the sense of what I recall is correct—\"We do not exclude any option.\" [Interruption.] That was what was coming out of the television interrogation—that we are sending a battle fleet to the Falklands with instructions that it may fire upon the mainland to restore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-07", "file": "debates1982-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd0b73ad9e1392f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "tate for Defence said—I speak from memory, but the sense of what I recall is correct—\"We do not exclude any option.\" [Interruption.] That was what was coming out of the television interrogation—that we are sending a battle fleet to the Falklands with instructions that it may fire upon the mainland to restore— [Interruption.] That is what it is about—instructions that it may fire upon the mainland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-07", "file": "debates1982-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd0b73ad9e1392f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "eapons to be sunk, that would be a major question too. The prime Minister must tell the House the nature of the weaponry that is carried in the task force. Given the lack of clarity about the objectives, about the nature of the orders and about the weaponry, the Prime Minister cannot seek unity for the task force as she conceives it. My right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, East made that clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-07", "file": "debates1982-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd0b73ad9e1392f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.992.3", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "he invasion, the Americans had withdrawn their support. It was Mr. Harold Macmillan who had to tap the then Prime Minister on the shoulder and tell him that the game was up. I tell the Prime Minister that President Reagan will not only be neutral; he will be bitterly hostile to any act of war against the Argentine, because American power rests on the rotten military dictatorships of Latin America.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.992.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-07", "file": "debates1982-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd0b73ad9e1392f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.994.0", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way because I am talking common sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-07", "file": "debates1982-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd0b73ad9e1392f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.994.0", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way because I am talking common sense. [Interruption.] No, I shall not refer to the right hon. Member for Plymouth Devonport (Dr. Owen), who thinks he launched a battle fleet in an exercise that came off. He spoke as though he had launched a battle fleet and everyone capitulated, and that if only the Prime Minister were as clever as himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-07", "file": "debates1982-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd0b73ad9e1392f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.994.0", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "common sense. [Interruption.] No, I shall not refer to the right hon. Member for Plymouth Devonport (Dr. Owen), who thinks he launched a battle fleet in an exercise that came off. He spoke as though he had launched a battle fleet and everyone capitulated, and that if only the Prime Minister were as clever as himself— [Interruption.] The right hon. Gentleman lives in his own dream world of history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-07", "file": "debates1982-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd0b73ad9e1392f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.994.0", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "t mean seeking a local administration that will protect the islanders from the tyranny of their new, occupying proconsul. Alternatively, there must be resettlement, but do not threaten them with landing craft. Their little wooden houses would quickly be destroyed by either the invader or our assault troops. Secondly, a United Nations peace-keeping force must be established in the Falkland Islands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-07", "file": "debates1982-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd0b73ad9e1392f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.997.0", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a bit late.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Cunningham", "preceding_text": " knows that you may do it. If you are a good diplomat you get him to believe that you will be able to do more than you actually can. The British have no quality of that nature. The French do. But at least, you do not allow your enemy to think that you will not do something that in the event you actually do. Let us learn the lesson for the conduct of our diplomacy elsewhere and, indeed in general.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.997.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-07", "file": "debates1982-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd0b73ad9e1392f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.999.1", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Yes, that is what I call diplomacy. That is what is most likely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.999.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-07", "file": "debates1982-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd0b73ad9e1392f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.1016.1", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speed", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speed", "preceding_text": "iated with it. However, it is important. The operation in the Falkland Islands—particularly if there is a blockade—will not be solved in weeks. It will take much longer than that. In fairness to our NATO force levels and capabilities, we should use the standby squadron for the purpose for which it is designed. The whole question of our maritime defence policy must be back in the melting pot again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.1016.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-07", "file": "debates1982-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd0b73ad9e1392f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.1020.1", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooley", "preceding_text": "on. Members about a United Nations peacekeeping force, United Nations trusteeship, United Nations mediation, or United States mediation, if necessary. Those are the methods that we should pursue. The dispatch of a major naval armada with all the unforeseeable consequences that arise from it will not promote the interests of the Falkland Islanders, nor will it promote the interests of this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.1020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-07", "file": "debates1982-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd0b73ad9e1392f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Ennals", "preceding_text": " junta to use the islanders in any way that suits their own immoral interests. Even if that does not happen, if we tell the Argentines that unless they withdraw we shall launch an invasion of the Falkland Islands and throw them off by battle, how many Falkland Islanders will be left at the end of that kind of battle? I do not speak as a pacifist. I was storming up the beaches of Normandy on D-Day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-07", "file": "debates1982-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd0b73ad9e1392f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.1036.0", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Will the Foreign Secretary answer the question that I put to the right hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dr. Owen), who did not answer it, as to how long he thinks we can sustain a force in the Antarctic? It is one thing to put a force into the Antarctic; it is quite another matter to get it out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.1036.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-07", "file": "debates1982-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd0b73ad9e1392f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.1044.2", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. John Nott)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. John Nott)", "preceding_text": "aged an Argentine corvette and destroyed a large Argentine helicopter. I should like to add one small point, which is indicative of the spirit of the Royal Marines. Major Norman, who commanded the incoming Royal Marine detachment on the Falklands, and his men will be forming up at Poole after a short break over Easter, and will then be prepared and ready to return to their duties in the Falklands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.1044.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-07", "file": "debates1982-04-07a.xml", "sha256": "fd0b73ad9e1392f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.1044.2", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. John Nott)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. John Nott)", "preceding_text": "tant. The advice of the Chiefs of Staff will be tendered directly to my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and we will select the right military option as the situation demands and as it develops. I recognise that simply saying that there is a range of options does not say much, but I am sure that the House understands that it would be wrong to divulge what is in our minds for the coming period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-07a.1044.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-08", "file": "debates1982-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "9184bcb6fe1a5859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-08a.1073.8", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "Yes. As I said in the broadcast yesterday, how the cost is met will depend on its scale. If it proves not to be substantial, no problems will arise. If it proves to be substantial, it will have to be met in a non-inflationary way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-08a.1073.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-08", "file": "debates1982-04-08a.xml", "sha256": "9184bcb6fe1a5859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-08a.1077.7", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "I agree entirely with my hon. Friend, and I welcomed what he said at the conclusion of his question. Any attempt to whoop up envious onslaughts on the higher paid could generate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-08a.1077.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-14", "file": "debates1982-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "6375d6a95813f98b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-14a.1161.1", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Dame Judith Hart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Judith Hart", "preceding_text": "I take the hon. Gentleman's point, but certainly in the eyes of the people in Gibraltar with whom I am in contact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-14a.1161.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-14", "file": "debates1982-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "6375d6a95813f98b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-14a.1186.4", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "e has written, has clearly not reached its usual standards of artistic performance, but it is method and understanding and not supermen that we require. There are no supermen, but what we do need, and need now, are men who are aware of the immense significance in today's context of military affairs, of electronic technology and its effects on the character of intelligence and the course of events.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-14a.1186.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-14", "file": "debates1982-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "6375d6a95813f98b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-14a.1196.0", "colnum": "1196", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have attacked\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "preceding_text": " the Union Jack—the Union Jack alone—flies over what would be left of public buildings in the Falklands. If there is fighting, there will be casualties—British casualties and, indeed, Welsh casualties—on both sides. Some casualties may be unavoidable from the very presence of the task force in those waters. Of course, if the Argentines attack, we must defend ourselves, and that risk is a real one—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-14a.1196.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-19", "file": "debates1982-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f44c007403586e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-19a.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "ay I repeat a question that was put to the Prime Minister in the first emergency debate, to which she replied that we had many friends? Who are these friends in South America? Are not South Americans, Right, Left and Centre, right across the political spectrum—even among those who have suffered from Right-wing Governments—against us on this issue? Are we not antagonising the entire Hispanic world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-19a.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-19", "file": "debates1982-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "f44c007403586e88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-19a.26.4", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "I cannot comment on those allegations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-19a.26.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-20", "file": "debates1982-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "03e54f88b985f7d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-20a.132.2", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Employment Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "preceding_text": "the Government will exist a year from now—that 24 million lost working days will be equalled. Therefore, the last thing we shall have is measured debate. The second point made by the right hon. Gentleman is clear and fair. Governments want their legislation. The Labour Government next year will want their legislation and will look to the right hon. Gentleman for full support in getting it through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-20a.132.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-20", "file": "debates1982-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "03e54f88b985f7d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-20a.139.0", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Employment Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Smith", "preceding_text": "the procedure of the House has long since passed. I agree with much of what the right hon. Member for Daventry (Mr. Prentice) said. There is a need for a little bit of order in our procedure, especially in the Committee stages of Bills. When I intervened, the Minister tried to say that I was following some SDP line as reported in The Times this morning. He should get the order of priority correct.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-20a.139.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-20", "file": "debates1982-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "03e54f88b985f7d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-20a.141.1", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Employment Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The House was not prepared to go along with the guillotine motion. Because the Government knew that they could not succeed with a guillotine motion, they abandoned the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-20a.141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-20", "file": "debates1982-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "03e54f88b985f7d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-20a.141.3", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Employment Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I am not sure whether the hon. Gentleman said that he had voted six times or 154 times against the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-20a.141.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-20", "file": "debates1982-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "03e54f88b985f7d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-20a.141.3", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Employment Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "man said that he had voted six times or 154 times against the Government. [Interruption.] However, the Labour Government were defeated only once on a vote of no confidence. Therefore, the hon. Member for Bolsover voted against his Government only when he was sure that they would not be defeated, or when he was sure that defeat would not result in them having to go to the country for a new mandate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-20a.141.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-20", "file": "debates1982-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "03e54f88b985f7d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-20a.142.0", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Employment Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "is as much concerned with individual liberty as with trade unionism. I am concerned about individual liberty. The closed shop is obnoxious and anything I can do to help cripple it is worth doing. No one—not even the Liberal Party Council or anyone else—will change my view on the closed shop. I shall continue to support the Bill. I think I can claim in modesty that I have supported it in Committee.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-20a.142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-20", "file": "debates1982-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "03e54f88b985f7d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-20a.142.0", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Employment Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "e in any doubt, my right hon. Friend I he Member for Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles (Mr. Steel) could tell them. In regard to the motion before the House, since it is not a Bill that I would have been moving and since I vote for the Bill simply on merit, full stop, it is no part of my job to assist it procedurally through the House. In any case I do not like guillotine motions. Therefore, normally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-20a.142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-20", "file": "debates1982-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "03e54f88b985f7d3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-20a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Employment Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": " that the Bill would drive a wedge between employers and trades unions. This is not so. What is resented by the Opposition, I am afraid, is that we have exposed the fact that all too often it is the trades unions which have driven wedges between employers and employees, and between worker and worker. Think how often recently we have seen strike-thirsty union leaders rejected by shop floor workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-20a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-21", "file": "debates1982-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "c51f46839b29b335", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-21a.249.0", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that local authorities were capable of achieving such an objective if they felt it necessary. The hon. Gentleman has a working knowledge of the problems. He will understand that the idea of getting children with picks and shovels to take over from the bulldozers is not compatible with achieving the best value for money in terms of public expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-21a.249.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-21", "file": "debates1982-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "c51f46839b29b335", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-21a.266.4", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "What exactly did Ministers say to Sir Ralph Verney and his colleagues on the Nature Conservancy Council about Walland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-21a.266.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-21", "file": "debates1982-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "c51f46839b29b335", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-21a.266.7", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macfarlane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macfarlane", "preceding_text": "t could be afforded unless additional resources were made available to it. We concurred with that judgment. We did not consider that an additional allocation of funds was justified. The council accordingly informed the owner that it could not maintain objection to the proposed drainage works. I would also point out that in that area in Romney the RSPB—the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-21a.266.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-21", "file": "debates1982-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "c51f46839b29b335", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-21a.268.0", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I believe that I can help my hon. Friend with some information.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-21a.268.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-21", "file": "debates1982-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "c51f46839b29b335", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-21a.324.0", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "There was some increase in public sector wages until a couple of years ago. I accept that between 1970 and 1979–80, it is largely true that public sector wages moved ahead of private sector wages, although that has more recently been reversed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-21a.324.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-21", "file": "debates1982-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "c51f46839b29b335", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-21a.337.4", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "preceding_text": " they set out to do. The share of Government spending as a proportion of gross domestic product has risen from 41 per cent. to 45 per cent. I understand from the White Paper that the revised figure is 44½ per cent. The Chief Secretary said today that if the Government managed to keep to their plans it is likely that by the end of this Parliament it will have come down to 41 per cent. again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-21a.337.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-21", "file": "debates1982-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "c51f46839b29b335", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-21a.356.0", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. Barney Hayhoe)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What strategy?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. Barney Hayhoe)", "preceding_text": "on. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne became very excited at the prospects for defence spending. It is not possible at this stage to assess the total cost of the Falkland Islands operation. However, as the Government have made clear in the House and elsewhere, while there is no cash ceiling on the cost of the operation, it will be met in ways that are consistent with the Government's economic strategy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-21a.356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-21", "file": "debates1982-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "c51f46839b29b335", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-21a.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Miller", "preceding_text": "applies to castings and forgings from Spain. There are problems in other markets upon which I must not spend too much time. We need a competition policy to ensure that there is free and fair competition and to give our industries an equal chance to compete with other suppliers. I am sorry if I was provoked into prolonging my remarks by the doom and misery peddled by the hon. Member for Whitehaven.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-21a.377.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-22", "file": "debates1982-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e87bce913825859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-22a.419.4", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Wilson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Wilson", "preceding_text": " that if the Government engage in hostilities before the processes of negotiation have been fully and adequately carried out, a lot of the support that she has received in the House, and at home and abroad, will disappear like snow off the dike on a hot spring day? Will she, therefore, in pursuit of negotiations for a peaceful settlement, consider the transfer of sovereignty to the United Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-22a.419.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-22", "file": "debates1982-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e87bce913825859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-22a.430.0", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Schools Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "e Examinations Council? Who else will be on it? For what qualities will he be looking? Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that the Government's record of appointment and dismissal of people heading supposedly independent bodies is not good, as the recent memory of the dismissal of Mr. Glyn England from the Central Electricity Generating Board reminds us? May I further ask the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-22a.430.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-22", "file": "debates1982-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e87bce913825859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-22a.467.1", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman refers to a rainbow Government with pride.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-22a.467.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-22", "file": "debates1982-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e87bce913825859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-22a.502.2", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the wider issues?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "The amendment relates to the 25 per cent. lower rate band which the Opposition suggest should be restored. It has proved to be a peg for the hon. Members for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Maxton) and Blackburn (Mr. Straw) to debate wider issues. I would rather debate the peg—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-22a.502.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-22", "file": "debates1982-04-22a.xml", "sha256": "2e87bce913825859", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-22a.508.1", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "The Financial Secretary has even got the original question wrong. The original question was by what percentage the basic rate of income tax could be reduced if the top rate was raised to its 1979 level. One has to assume that if the top rate is raised the other rates are raised with it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-22a.508.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-23", "file": "debates1982-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "34c208f9d30a4aa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-23a.565.2", "colnum": "565", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "e GLC rate burden. However, it would be wrong for me to conceal the fact that the latest increases in London Transport fares, which were introduced on 21 March, are almost intolerable, especially for those who must commute to work from the outlying parts of London to the City and the West End by underground. I shall give some examples of what is involved. A constituent who lives in Northwood Hill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-23a.565.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-23", "file": "debates1982-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "34c208f9d30a4aa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-23a.566.5", "colnum": "566", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "veness of his reasoning and of his logic was to say that by reducing fares London Transport had increased productivity. I believe productivity to be the ratio between revenue and labour costs. The right hon. Gentleman himself said that the staffing had remained the same. The remuneration most certainly has not increased, which means that the wage bill has stayed the same. But the income went down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-23a.566.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-23", "file": "debates1982-04-23a.xml", "sha256": "34c208f9d30a4aa6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-23a.574.1", "colnum": "574", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stallard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stallard", "preceding_text": "I do not want to judge the constituents of the hon. Member for Hornchurch (Mr. Squire). My constituents are politically aware and alert. They do understand. If the people who voted for the hon. Gentleman are of such a low calibre, it is not for me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-23a.574.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-26", "file": "debates1982-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "906724dcd7fe57f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-26a.611.0", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "m shortly. If not, Mr. Haig can, of course, communicate with the Argentine Government in other ways. The right hon. Gentleman mentioned the United Nations. It is, of course, the United Nations Security Council resolution that we want implemented. I do not think that there is any disposition in New York to involve the United Nations further while the negotiations with Mr. Haig are still continuing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-26a.611.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-27", "file": "debates1982-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "ef248325c63979c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-27a.709.9", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "I cannot give any assurances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-27a.709.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-27", "file": "debates1982-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "ef248325c63979c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-27a.710.3", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": " hon. Friend put the matter in straightforward perspective? Is not any suggestion of any similarity in the relationship between the Government of the People's Republic of China and this Government over Hong Kong and that facing Britain and Argentina over the Falkland Islands utterly ridiculous? Will my hon. Friend confirm that we enjoy an excellent relationship with the People's Republic of China—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-27a.710.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-27", "file": "debates1982-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "ef248325c63979c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-27a.712.5", "colnum": "712", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that reply. Does he agree that the primary use of an active Royal Air Force airfield is for flying?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-27a.712.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-27", "file": "debates1982-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "ef248325c63979c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-27a.720.5", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I think that our ambassador's reply is likely to have been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-27a.720.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-04-27", "file": "debates1982-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "ef248325c63979c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-27a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I totally disagree with the right hon. Gentleman. If we were to refuse to take any further military action during this negotiation he would put many of our soldiers and sailors in jeopardy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-27a.721.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-04-27", "file": "debates1982-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "ef248325c63979c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-27a.721.4", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I stand by the terms of the United Nations resolution and of the United Nations charter. Until the terms of that resolution are complied with and the Argentine forces withdraw we shall continue to exercise our rights under article 51. My reply to the Secretary-General is to urge him, as well as the right hon. Gentleman, to address his remarks to the junta in the Argentine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-27a.721.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-27", "file": "debates1982-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "ef248325c63979c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-27a.724.2", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. In view of the time, most exceptionally I intend to call the Leader of the Liberal Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-27a.724.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-27", "file": "debates1982-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "ef248325c63979c2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-27a.727.0", "colnum": "727", "heading": "British Shipbuilders (Financial Support)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ation of a maritime strategy for Britain. As a shipping and shipbuilding nation of major consequence, we have no maritime strategy. Will the hon. Gentleman make clear his reference to £460 million of defence orders for the corporation last year? Is not the overwhelming proportion of that money for armaments which are not built by the corporation? If so, will he make it clear to the House? Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-27a.727.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-04-28", "file": "debates1982-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "26de16cdb11748bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-28a.834.6", "colnum": "834", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is totally wrong on that. He should know that we are not concerned with authorities that are over the guidelines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-28a.834.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-28", "file": "debates1982-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "26de16cdb11748bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-28a.862.3", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Devolution)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Concannon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Concannon", "preceding_text": "That is certainly not the intention of the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-28a.862.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-28", "file": "debates1982-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "26de16cdb11748bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-28a.880.5", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Devolution)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "face those facts honestly. We have made representations to him and we shall continue to do so. However, I welcome the first part. I should not like any hon. Members to think that we oppose it, the Assembly, the monitoring committees or the influence that elected representatives can have in those areas. In those areas useful work can be done. Some people think that we never talk in Northern Ireland", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-28a.880.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-28", "file": "debates1982-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "26de16cdb11748bf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-28a.885.0", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Devolution)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "preceding_text": "out it in the House? The speech of the hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Mr. Beith) must cause concern to those of us who sat up long nights to persuade our own Front Bench—successfully, I am glad to say—to fight against the devolution proposals for Scotland and Wales. Devolution will raise its head again. My right hon. Friend is giving a serious impetus to what could be a dangerous development.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-28a.885.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-29", "file": "debates1982-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "90648ecc667cf252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-29a.969.6", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Race", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Race", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister tell the House how many British and Argentine soldiers, and how many Falklanders, she is prepared to see killed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-29a.969.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-29", "file": "debates1982-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "90648ecc667cf252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-29a.985.0", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "today is the final answer. I hope that she will look at what has been proposed as one possibility for assisting the position. Proposals for some form of United Nations trusteeship for the Falkland Islands have been discussed in many quarters. I recognise that there are difficulties. There might be difficulties both from our point of view and also from the point of view of the Argentine Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-29a.985.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-29", "file": "debates1982-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "90648ecc667cf252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-29a.988.0", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": " strongly—in some respects, more strongly—opposed to such regimes as Conservative Members. I do not know whether the right hon. Member for Hertfordshire, South (Mr. Parkinson), who attends some of the special war Cabinets of the right hon. Lady, will speak on these matters. A few weeks or months ago he was toasting the regime in the Argentine. Certainly I have never been guilty of any such thing —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-29a.988.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-04-29", "file": "debates1982-04-29a.xml", "sha256": "90648ecc667cf252", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-29a.999.1", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"And by the right hon. Gentleman\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": " leaseback. That proposition was rejected by the Falkland Islanders, and many hon. Members did not like it, as has always been the case. The fact remains, however, that the Government were ready to discuss it. I am not asking them to commit themselves on it, but it would be unrealistic for any Conservative Member, or indeed for any Labour Member, given the decisions taken by the Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-04-29a.999.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-04", "file": "debates1982-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5449d5311327ab54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-04a.20.0", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "ted Nations to provide his good offices. The Foreign Secretary will be aware that the Argentine Foreign Minister, at a meeting last Friday, invited the Secretary-General to give his good offices. He will know that the Secretary-General is able to do so if we, as the other party to the dispute, ask him to do so. Has the Foreign Secretary asked Mr. Costa Mendez to take over the role of intermediary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-04a.20.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-04", "file": "debates1982-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5449d5311327ab54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-04a.25.6", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "In so far as we are engaged in military operations, we are doing so in self-defence under the United Nations charter. The way that we have done it is by declaring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-04a.25.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-04", "file": "debates1982-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5449d5311327ab54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-04a.26.3", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "Has the Foreign Secretary's attention been drawn to the fact that in The Sunday Times a public opinion poll showed that six out of 10 people in Britain were not prepared to see one Service man's life or a Falkland islander's life put at risk and that such a majority in Britain will not be rejoicing with the Prime Minister at the loss of life when the ship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-04a.26.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-04", "file": "debates1982-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5449d5311327ab54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-04a.31.0", "colnum": "31", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many hours?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "the Government. It operates within a political framework. Nevertheless, in exercising minimum force it must bear in mind the overriding need not to endanger itself—our own men and our own ships. We believe that the action took place just outside—about 35 miles—the total exclusion zone. However, as I said in my statement, the cruiser and the escorting destroyers were only hours' steaming time away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-04a.31.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-04", "file": "debates1982-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5449d5311327ab54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-04a.38.1", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Personal Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Douglas-Mann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Douglas-Mann", "preceding_text": "ention to resign from the House and to contest a by-election. This is not the occasion to discuss the reasons for my decision to leave the party to which I belonged for over 30 years. However, I should like briefly to place on record the reasons why I have felt it right to seek the endorsement of my constituents for my decision. I do not wish the action that I am taking to establish any precedent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-04a.38.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-04", "file": "debates1982-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5449d5311327ab54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-04a.71.4", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Planning (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "o taking away further rights from them. In the first instance the Minister could perhaps send a circular to local authorities saying that that is not the way to proceed. If the practice continues, further action could be taken. New clause 6 relates to the problem of rural housing and the sale of council houses in rural authorities. The hon. Member for Argyll (Mr. MacKay) is now on the Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-04a.71.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-04", "file": "debates1982-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5449d5311327ab54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-04a.77.1", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Planning (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They are all in Aberdeen.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "nt who does not have an existing right to buy\". That is causing all kinds of difficulties in the allocation of local authority housing. I return to the specific point about special purpose housing. As I understand it, at present, unless a house is on an exclusion list—my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar) earlier gave figures for the number of houses that had been excluded—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-04a.77.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-04", "file": "debates1982-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5449d5311327ab54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-04a.91.4", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Planning (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Here comes the answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, it has been well publicised that the powers are ultimately—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-04a.91.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-04", "file": "debates1982-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5449d5311327ab54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-04a.99.8", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Planning (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "re I was so rudely interrupted by a sacked Minister and another incompetent Minister with responsibility for sport, the Minister's record of giving financial support to sport in Scotland is no better than his failure rate in giving financial support to Scottish education and industry. His deplorable record on Hampden Park, which was a project on which the regional council and the district council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-04a.99.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-04", "file": "debates1982-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5449d5311327ab54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-04a.110.6", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Planning (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "ve to a certain section of the House. Minorities have rights as well as those who, I believe, constitute the majority. If it will help, I shall convey to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence the opinions expressed in the hope that he might be able to come to the House for what I am sure will be understood to be a brief holding statement, since the main statement must take place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-04a.110.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-04", "file": "debates1982-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5449d5311327ab54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-04a.110.7", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Planning (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Stewart", "preceding_text": "With new clause 3 we are considering Government amendments Nos. 90 to 92. These amendments bear on the operation of the option that is now to be available to councillors to choose between the receipt of financial loss allowance and attendance allowance for the performance of an approved duty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-04a.110.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-04", "file": "debates1982-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5449d5311327ab54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-04a.121.1", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "preceding_text": "One cannot help feeling that the Leader of the Opposition is the prize hypocrite on this occasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-04a.121.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-04", "file": "debates1982-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5449d5311327ab54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-04a.121.9", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "I gladly withdraw the precise word, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I must say to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Defence that it is quite impossible for this House to conduct a debate across the Dispatch Box point by point in a conflict like this. Therefore, the remark of the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-04a.121.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-04", "file": "debates1982-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "5449d5311327ab54", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-04a.125.2", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Planning (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. George Younger)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. George Younger)", "preceding_text": "I appreciate what the right hon. Gentleman has said and that it is difficult for the House to get down to normal business at a time like this. However, I do not see that any purpose is served by—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-04a.125.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-05", "file": "debates1982-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a25648f51083111f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-05a.155.5", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "raised yesterday? I think that the right hon. Gentleman will concede that the Argentines knew the position of our task force yesterday and that, therefore, its position on Sunday when the attack on the Argentine cruiser took place no longer needs to be concealed from the House or the world. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will find it possible to give us a better idea of the distance between—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-05a.155.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-05", "file": "debates1982-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a25648f51083111f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-05a.156.0", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not sure?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "nd have probably died defending principles that the right hon. Gentleman said that he thought were supported by the House. I much appreciate those words. We have no knowledge of any naval battle going on in the Atlantic at present. I am aware that there have been reports from American sources that one is taking place. I cannot be sure, but we have no reports and I did check on that quite recently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-05a.156.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-05", "file": "debates1982-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a25648f51083111f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-05a.157.0", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "ble after information about casualties has been received from the task force. I entirely agree with my hon. Friend that the procedures are very important and where possible should be done by personal contact. It would be much appreciated by the Royal Navy and, of course, by the next of kin if those who are involved in this tragic event could be given some privacy by the media in the next few days.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-05a.157.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-05", "file": "debates1982-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "a25648f51083111f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-05a.192.6", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "arty research department. I am well acquainted with the type of speech that he made. I have had to write similar speeches myself in the past. It was the sort of speech where one tries to justify anything and everything one's party has ever done. It is debating stuff for women's advisory committees, although not the more intelligent women's advisory committees. I should like to excise that remark.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-05a.192.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-06", "file": "debates1982-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "4c4cb991cf69c3a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-06a.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Questions to Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. In view of the elliptical reply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-06a.283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-06", "file": "debates1982-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "4c4cb991cf69c3a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-06a.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Questions to Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. In view of the elliptical reply— [Interruption] —given yesterday by the Foreign Secretary to the hon. Member for Havant and Waterloo (Mr. Lloyd)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-06a.283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-06", "file": "debates1982-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "4c4cb991cf69c3a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-06a.283.3", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Questions to Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "It is a point of order in the sense that my hon. Friend the Member for Tooting (Mr. Cox)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-06a.283.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-06", "file": "debates1982-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "4c4cb991cf69c3a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-06a.285.0", "colnum": "285", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ctory way of dealing with it. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will consider that question. As for his reply about Civil Service pay, the right hon. Gentleman has apparently convicted himself out of his own mouth. He is resorting to the subterranean methods that I hinted at. I am sorry that so early in his new life he should have resorted to the tricks that were perpetrated by his predecessor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-06a.285.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-06", "file": "debates1982-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "4c4cb991cf69c3a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-06a.287.10", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": " factor in the Government's thinking and not just convened to discuss the issue when military or diplomatic events elsewhere make it convenient? Is he also aware that in the past few days, as a result of the tragic loss of life, a growing number of people of all political persuasions are anxious about the growing escalation and bloodshed, would like to see an immediate and unconditional ceasefire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-06a.287.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-06", "file": "debates1982-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "4c4cb991cf69c3a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-06a.300.3", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": " assumptions\". We have to assume, for example, that interest rates would fall from 11 per cent. in 1982 to 8 per cent. in 1986, despite the extra borrowing and increased inflation. Commenting on those wildly unrealistic assumptions, Mr. Huhne states: It is not hard to see why Mr. Shore added his mystery ingredient. If an incomes policy is the mystery ingredient we are entitled to be told about it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-06a.300.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-06", "file": "debates1982-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "4c4cb991cf69c3a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-06a.300.5", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "Whenever Labour Members do not like what is said, they shout from a sedentary position in the belief that that is an effective answer to the argument. We are being criticised for our policies and the central feature of the Opposition's alternative is hidden from us. Two words they dare not speak is the heading that The Guardian gives a leading article on the subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-06a.300.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-06", "file": "debates1982-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "4c4cb991cf69c3a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-06a.301.6", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "Opposition Members have attempted to intervene, apparently on bogus points of order, only to silence me. At least the Shadow Chancellor issued a statement in which he attempted to rebut the charges that have been made. A leader in The Guardian says that the statement makes \"sad reading\" and that, if anything, the assumptions made were favourable to Mr. Shore's position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-06a.301.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-06", "file": "debates1982-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "4c4cb991cf69c3a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-06a.302.1", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "As a result of that recipe, the Labour Government achieved 27 per cent. inflation and 30 per cent. wage increases, steadily rising unemployment and then a rescue operation by the IMF.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-06a.302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-06", "file": "debates1982-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "4c4cb991cf69c3a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-06a.302.8", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Ogmore (Mr. Powell) says that I am treating the House with contempt. I am only treating the Opposition's arguments with contempt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-06a.302.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-06", "file": "debates1982-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "4c4cb991cf69c3a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-06a.302.12", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman advocates a marvellous new intellectual argument. Just because he is not satisfied with what I am saying I am deemed to be out of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-06a.302.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-06", "file": "debates1982-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "4c4cb991cf69c3a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-06a.303.3", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "for distortions and special influences, inflation is already in single figures. It is encouraging that interest rates have so far stood up so well to the Falklands crisis. The evidence is that output is gradually rising. If that is so, we are doing better than the OECD, which has just reduced its 1982 gross forecast for the whole area to zero. There has been a substantial upturn in house building.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-06a.303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-06", "file": "debates1982-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "4c4cb991cf69c3a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-06a.305.16", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alec Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Longer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alec Jones", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State read a list of all the new factories that have come to Wales. If the list were longer, I should be more pleased. But hon. Members on either side could read an equally long list of closures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-06a.305.16"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-06", "file": "debates1982-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "4c4cb991cf69c3a4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-06a.350.2", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "I shall not respond to that intervention. I am making the point that hon. Members who have had Service men in their constituencies killed on active service must be aware that the failure of this House to pursue correct policies has led to the deaths of those Service men.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-06a.350.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-11", "file": "debates1982-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "5b18d4b997e75a65", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-11a.717.2", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Town and Country Planning", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": " on which the Minister has had to stand in as a surrogate for the Scottish Office and I hope that he has been reasonably briefed. I see the hon. Member for Renfrewshire, East (Mr. Stewart) lurking by his side; it may well be that he can fill any gaps. On a general and preliminary point, I have seldom seen a Government measure which has received such a frosty reception from Government Back-Benchers", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-11a.717.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-12", "file": "debates1982-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "66d1d076187652b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-12a.750.4", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "n debates on the Falklands crisis. Such debates affect the constituents of all hon. Members and yet, because of custom, Privy Councillors are invariably called first. They make their speeches, walk out and do not return until the closing speeches. The same regulars take part. May I ask the Chair to bear in mind that in such national debates Mr. Smith, Mr. Black and Mr. Brown are entitled to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-12a.750.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-12", "file": "debates1982-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "66d1d076187652b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-12a.753.6", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Council of Agriculture Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that Social Democrats share the concern expressed by the leader of the Liberal Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-12a.753.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-12", "file": "debates1982-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "66d1d076187652b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-12a.838.3", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It does\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pitt", "preceding_text": "e new clause but both of them are completely wide of the mark. It is not the intention of this new clause, as the sponsors see it, to release excessively violent criminals, rapists or terrorists—those who merit sentences of 20 to 30 years because they are violent criminals attacking society. They should not be released until they have expiated their crimes. That is what the new clause does not do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-12a.838.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-12", "file": "debates1982-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "66d1d076187652b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-12a.871.5", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyell", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. It is getting late—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-12a.871.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-12", "file": "debates1982-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "66d1d076187652b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-12a.898.8", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "inistration of justice in Scotland do not like legislation for Scotland being packed into what are principally English Bills. If we have legislation which applies only to Scotland and if we have Scottish Standing Committees to deal with it, it is wrong that it should be squeezed in as a codicil to a basically English Bill. Many of my colleagues who are unable to be here this morning agree with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-12a.898.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-12", "file": "debates1982-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "66d1d076187652b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-12a.917.8", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "The comments that I made about the provisions that were introduced earlier by the Under-Secretary of State apply a fortiori to these amendments. The Minister said that one of the provisions with which we are dealing dates back to the nineteenth century. Clearly the Government have had sufficient time to introduce a Scottish Bill to deal with what is purely Scottish legislation and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-12a.917.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-13", "file": "debates1982-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b13e12cccbe0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-13a.942.6", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ee to the proposal that I made earlier this week, that if there is a settlement, and we all hope that there will be, the terms will have to put to the House. That is obviously right. However, if there is a non-settlement—if no agreement is reached in the next few days—will the right hon. Lady undertake to look afresh at the proposition that the House should have the chance to examine the position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-13a.942.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-13", "file": "debates1982-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b13e12cccbe0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-13a.952.2", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "In an attempt at fairness, I propose to call only those Back Benchers who are on the list of those who were unable to catch my eye during the previous four debates. That does not apply to Privy Councillors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-13a.952.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-13", "file": "debates1982-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b13e12cccbe0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-13a.957.1", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "al from the Falkland Islands, once agreed, should be carried out within a fixed number of days. Negotiations about the long-term future of the islands will, of necessity, take a matter of months. It follows from this—as I said in this House many days ago, on 21 April, and again in more detail on 7 May—that some interim arrangements will be necessary on the Islands. That was my hon. Friend's point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-13a.957.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-13", "file": "debates1982-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b13e12cccbe0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-13a.964.0", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "ponent is sensible enough to take it. I do not propose to suggest to the Foreign Secretary what that way out is. That is for him to decide in the whole balance of the negotiations. But I am sure that he will not forget for one moment that to avoid open warfare and to achieve the withdrawal of the forces from the Falkland Islands, there must be some way out for those who by their error of judgment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-13a.964.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-13", "file": "debates1982-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b13e12cccbe0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-13a.969.0", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "reflect on them and debates were held on them after they had been concluded and published in the form of papers. There was never any suggestion then that the House of Commons as a whole should be regularly involved in the discussions. That is why I very much welcomed the Prime Minister's response to the suggestion that there should be talks with the party leaders. I believe that that is desirable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-13a.969.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-13", "file": "debates1982-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b13e12cccbe0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-13a.970.4", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "e diplomatic initiatives and on the military situation. In my view it is not right for the right hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey) to come to the House and ask about the position of ships or the exact stage of negotiations. It would be helpful for the conduct of these debates in the future if the official Opposition aw. fled themselves of the opportunity that the Prime Minister has offered.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-13a.970.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-13", "file": "debates1982-05-13a.xml", "sha256": "6a7b13e12cccbe0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-13a.979.3", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Dame Judith Hart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Judith Hart", "preceding_text": "t our people on the Falkland Islands. We are also concerned about the people in Argentina. I wish to make two detailed points. I gave notice to the Home Secretary today that I would raise one of those points in the House if I was called to speak. Nobel peace prize winner Perez Esquivel is either in Paris or Brussels today, having so far been refused a visa to come to Britain. He is a peace person.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-13a.979.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-17", "file": "debates1982-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "620073034ad16cf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-17a.111.1", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Planning (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman tables a question to the appropriate Minister, he might get an answer. I gave the figure for manufacturing industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-17a.111.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-17", "file": "debates1982-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "620073034ad16cf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-17a.111.2", "colnum": "111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Planning (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Maxton) started the fashion of quoting Shakespeare. The only comment that I can make about his speech is that it was full of sound and fury, signifying nothing because there spoke the representative of a party which, in the local elections nine days ago, ended up by controlling three out of 12 regions, if one includes the three island authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-17a.111.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-17", "file": "debates1982-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "620073034ad16cf4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-17a.112.1", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Planning (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Only?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": " safe suggestion. He continued: However, I should be astonished if the overall increase in rates in 1982–83 is not over 20 per cent. or 25 per cent. I stand by that figure.\"—[ Official Report, 10 February 1982; Vol. 17, c. 992.] Very impressive. The right hon. Gentleman made his forecast, but how can he stand by it? What was the figure? The average increase in Scotland was only 15 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-17a.112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-18", "file": "debates1982-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "643391b57c3f266b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-18a.182.10", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": " Inspectorate said, to a serious threat to the maintenance of standards and desirable improvements in secondary schools.\"? Will the Minister tell his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State that it was not the reluctance of the Labour Government that led to the failure to produce Her Majesty's Inspectorate report, but the fact that the chief inspector was not sufficiently worried until last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-18a.182.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-18", "file": "debates1982-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "643391b57c3f266b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-18a.188.6", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Craigen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craigen", "preceding_text": "As those of us in this country know what a determined lady the Prime Minister can be, has she considered at any time the possibility of a face-to-face meeting with the Argentine leader—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-18a.188.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-18", "file": "debates1982-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "643391b57c3f266b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-18a.188.11", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "They are as free as I am to express their views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-18a.188.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-18", "file": "debates1982-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "643391b57c3f266b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-18a.193.8", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Ministerial Statements (Reporting)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "Further to an earlier point of order, Mr. Speaker. I want to pursue not the specific point made by my hon. Friend the Member for West Lothian (Mr. Dalyell) but the more general principle of what happens when a Member is misquoted in the press or on the radio.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-18a.193.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-18", "file": "debates1982-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "643391b57c3f266b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-18a.193.8", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Ministerial Statements (Reporting)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "nough, Mr. Speaker, on a previous occasion when I raised a point of order, following a point of order by my hon. Friend the Member for West Lothian, to answer my detailed point in some detail. It was a reasonable extension of the matter that we were then discussing. When it came to be dealt with by the new breed of political commentators, some of the termites who sit upstairs in the Press Gallery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-18a.193.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-18", "file": "debates1982-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "643391b57c3f266b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-18a.194.3", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Ministerial Statements (Reporting)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"…laughed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "The matter to which I am referring reflects on you, Mr. Speaker, and as usual I am leaping to your defence. As I was trying to say when some of my colleagues inadvertently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-18a.194.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-18", "file": "debates1982-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "643391b57c3f266b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-18a.194.3", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Ministerial Statements (Reporting)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "The matter to which I am referring reflects on you, Mr. Speaker, and as usual I am leaping to your defence. As I was trying to say when some of my colleagues inadvertently—[HON. MEMBERS: \"…laughed.\"]—I raised with you a point of order which you answered in some detail. When it came to be discussed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-18a.194.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-18", "file": "debates1982-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "643391b57c3f266b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-18a.200.0", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Norman Tebbit)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Norman Tebbit)", "preceding_text": "I should like to make the position of Professor Gennard clear. First, the implication in The Observer article that the Government are suppressing the research is nonsense. I deny it categorically, as the professor has already done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-18a.200.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-18", "file": "debates1982-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "643391b57c3f266b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-18a.209.3", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that in a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-18a.209.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-18", "file": "debates1982-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "643391b57c3f266b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-18a.251.0", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": " union leaders because they would be forced to discipline their members. They might be forced to expel them, which could lead to dissension and disruption in the union, and to splintering and break-away groups. Such problems cannot be new to Ministers. I know that they have not bothered to read the Gennard report on the closed shop, despite the fact that the Bill is concerned with the closed shop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-18a.251.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-18", "file": "debates1982-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "643391b57c3f266b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-18a.270.0", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "h., I believe, must authorise every strike action—would try to establish that strikes were unofficial to ensure that no compensation would be due from the union in the event of action. I hope that the Minister will tell us more about that. I return to the point raised by the hon. Member for Chester-le-Street (Mr. Radice). The Conservative trade unionists, of whom I have the honour to be president—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-18a.270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-18", "file": "debates1982-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "643391b57c3f266b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-18a.283.5", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "fourth in a city in which it normally comes second. It came fourth, because its old friends, now called the Social Democrats, pinched some of the votes. Trade unions must also be subject to laws to protect individuals, employees and employers from irresponsible and damaging action by bad trade union practices. That is why the measure is so important. There has been a demand for changes in the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-18a.283.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-18", "file": "debates1982-05-18a.xml", "sha256": "643391b57c3f266b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-18a.289.1", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Tebbit", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady is still a little muddled. She is including in this matter such Acts as the 1980 Act, which did not affect trade union immunities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-18a.289.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-19", "file": "debates1982-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "dd25f38873c19091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Agriculture Council", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Peter Walker)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Peter Walker)", "preceding_text": ". If by the time of the completion of our meeting there was no agreement upon the budget measures we would retain our general reserve. Together with Denmark and Greece we strongly protested when the Presidency, encouraged by the Commission, announced that for the first time since 1966 the principle of obtaining unanimity where a very important national interest had been invoked was to be violated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-19", "file": "debates1982-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "dd25f38873c19091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Agriculture Council", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Peter Walker)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Peter Walker)", "preceding_text": "n and the budget negotiations and that this link had been recognised by all member States in their agreement that the three chapters of the 30 May mandate should proceed in parallel. I placed it on record that I considered that the conduct of the Presidency of the Commission and the member States which had joined in this procedure had created a very sad and damaging day in the Community's history—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-19", "file": "debates1982-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "dd25f38873c19091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.354.0", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Agriculture Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "e to pay for the privilege of paying high taxes to bring about high prices? This is the first time in recorded history when what we have lost on the swings we are also losing on the roundabouts. Does the right hon. Gentleman still intend to resist on the budget? What is the right solution? All that we are told is that the Government are considering the position seriously. May I suggest a solution?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-19", "file": "debates1982-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "dd25f38873c19091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.354.0", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Agriculture Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "e budget. Any money thus saved could be used for a proper national policy for the British agriculturist and the British consumer alike. That is the right solution. Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman will use the opportunity to direct British agriculture away from the distortions that the CAP has produced. If that should require legislation, we would assist. There are two other matters of importance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-19", "file": "debates1982-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "dd25f38873c19091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.354.0", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Agriculture Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "Britain in this situation. A majority of Conservative Members of the European Parliament voted to go along with majority votes in the Council. Sir Henry Plumb, the leader of the Conservative group, was one of the only two MEPs to vote a month ago not for a 10·2 per cent. increase, but for a 14 per cent. increase. The other was Mrs. Ewing of the SNP. Further, the President of the Commission—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-19", "file": "debates1982-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "dd25f38873c19091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.355.2", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Agriculture Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "raging the Council of Ministers to come to their decision? I ask again, who rules—the Commission or the Ministers? I said that there were deeper implications. One is that yesterday's events pose a major question about our continued membership of the Common Market. The Minister may recall that in his own White Paper, produced by the right hon. Member for Sidcup (Mr. Heath) in 1971, we were assured—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.355.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-19", "file": "debates1982-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "dd25f38873c19091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.355.4", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Agriculture Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "The White Paper on which we entered the Common Market—the conditions were referred to by the Minister yesterday—made it clear that there would be no question of any erosion of essential national sovereignty because it is established that decisions should be unanimous. The White Paper produced by a Labour Government in 1975—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.355.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-19", "file": "debates1982-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "dd25f38873c19091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.355.4", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Agriculture Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "ed to by the Minister yesterday—made it clear that there would be no question of any erosion of essential national sovereignty because it is established that decisions should be unanimous. The White Paper produced by a Labour Government in 1975— [Interruption.] —asserted: each member state is in a position to block agreement unless interests to which it attaches importance are met. In other words—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.355.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-19", "file": "debates1982-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "dd25f38873c19091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.357.0", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Agriculture Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman and the Government accept that, in considering urgently the implications of what happened yesterday, it is certainly my view that the Luxembourg compromise must apply either to everybody or to nobody? There can be no question, as some other countries have suggested, that the Luxembourg compromise remains intact after what happened yesterday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-19", "file": "debates1982-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "dd25f38873c19091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.357.0", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Agriculture Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "ere can be no question, as some other countries have suggested, that the Luxembourg compromise remains intact after what happened yesterday. [Interruption.] Will the right hon. Gentleman also bear in mind that, far from being a crowning achievement of the Community, the Luxembourg compromise—the right of veto—has in many ways been responsible for the loss of momentum and stultification since 1966?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-19", "file": "debates1982-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "dd25f38873c19091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.357.3", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Agriculture Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Speaker. I made a declaration of interest, in accordance with the rules of the House, that, subject to tax, I have received certain severence payments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-19", "file": "debates1982-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "dd25f38873c19091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.357.3", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Agriculture Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Speaker. I made a declaration of interest, in accordance with the rules of the House, that, subject to tax, I have received certain severence payments— [Interruption.] —certain annual payments. If hon. Members cannot accept that people can have a view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-19", "file": "debates1982-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "dd25f38873c19091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.357.3", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Agriculture Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Further to the point of order, Mr. Speaker. I made a declaration of interest, in accordance with the rules of the House, that, subject to tax, I have received certain severence payments— [Interruption.] —certain annual payments. If hon. Members cannot accept that people can have a view— [Interruption.] —and put it forward in the interests of this country in these circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-19", "file": "debates1982-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "dd25f38873c19091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.357.3", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Agriculture Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "e a declaration of interest, in accordance with the rules of the House, that, subject to tax, I have received certain severence payments— [Interruption.] —certain annual payments. If hon. Members cannot accept that people can have a view— [Interruption.] —and put it forward in the interests of this country in these circumstances— [Interruption.] —this House has become a very much worse place than—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-19", "file": "debates1982-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "dd25f38873c19091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.395.2", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker", "preceding_text": "I shall take note of the interruptions and assume that I am entitled to injury time. What is more, if the hon. Member for Mid-Sussex (Mr. Renton) had contained himself for a minute he would have found that I wanted to refer to the events of last night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.395.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-19", "file": "debates1982-05-19a.xml", "sha256": "dd25f38873c19091", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.419.2", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": "deed, many aspects of the Bill may exacerbate, rather than reduce, that trend. The second major disappointment was that the Bill did not address itself to the crisis of overcrowding in the prison system and the appalling conditions in most of our local remand prisons. The Home Secretary has attested to that situation and has conceded that it is incompatible with minimum standards of human decency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-19a.419.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-20", "file": "debates1982-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9d60f2489f2a32e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.460.2", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "I admire the way that the Home Secretary can rally support in his party despite the collapse of law and order in the country under this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.460.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-20", "file": "debates1982-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9d60f2489f2a32e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.460.3", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I am amazed at the hon. Gentleman. He supported a Government who did so much to undermine the strength of, and support for, the police service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.460.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-20", "file": "debates1982-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9d60f2489f2a32e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.460.3", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I am amazed at the hon. Gentleman. He supported a Government who did so much to undermine the strength of, and support for, the police service—[ Interruption. ] The hon. Gentleman has had his say. I could shout louder than him, if need be, but I shall not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.460.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-20", "file": "debates1982-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9d60f2489f2a32e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.467.3", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the call for a ceasefire in the Falkland Islands is gathering strength nationally and internationally? Will she therefore tell us how many more lives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.467.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-05-20", "file": "debates1982-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9d60f2489f2a32e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.469.10", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rippon", "preceding_text": "The draft said in paragraph 88—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.469.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-20", "file": "debates1982-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9d60f2489f2a32e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "arious resolutions of the General Assembly, from some of which the United Kingdom dissented on the grounds that they favoured Argentine sovereignty. And if the period provided for the completion of the negotiation expired, the junta demanded that the General Assembly should determine the lines to which final agreement should conform. It was manifestly impossible for Britain to accept such demands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-20", "file": "debates1982-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9d60f2489f2a32e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.483.0", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leo Abse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leo Abse", "preceding_text": "Since, at the end of the day, every rational man and woman knows that we cannot sustain indefinitely the sovereignty of those rocks 8,000 miles away, why is the Prime Minister showing such extraordinary impatience?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.483.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-20", "file": "debates1982-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9d60f2489f2a32e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "tter, but we on the Opposition Benches attach the greatest importance to upholding the United Nations charter and organisation. The crisis has proved that if we did not have the United Nations Charter we would have to invent one, if we did not have the United Nations Organisation we would have to invent one, if we did not have a Secretary-General who could assist in these matters we would have to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-20", "file": "debates1982-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9d60f2489f2a32e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "ing military action—whatever it may be—I am sure that it is the desire of everyone in the House that the action should be as swift and successful as possible. We said that at the time of the recovery of South Georgia. I repeat it because I believe that it is important that it should be said. The right hon. Lady sometimes refers to \"our boys\", as if they are her boys. They are not exactly her boys.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.484.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-20", "file": "debates1982-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9d60f2489f2a32e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.486.1", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "of the case in this document is a matter of value for the present and for the future. If the Government could secure a settlement on the basis that they have proposed, we in the Opposition would be gratified as, I am sure, would the country and the world. In my view, they are fair proposals, and it is right that they should have been presented in theme terms. However, I also say to the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-20", "file": "debates1982-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9d60f2489f2a32e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.486.1", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Seven\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "nditions about the eventual discussions that were to take place. I do not say that what Argentina proposes on those two items is adequate in any sense, but to say that it is a total rejection on those grounds does not seem to be an accurate account of the state of affairs. However, the right hon. Lady—here I come to the most important aspect of her speech—said that we have had dozens of proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.486.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-20", "file": "debates1982-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9d60f2489f2a32e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.488.1", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ime Minister or anybody else. The Secretary-General may be listened to in many parts of the world on this subject, and we shall need the support of many countries. I believe that it was a great mistake for the right hon. Lady to say—although I do not suppose it will govern her conduct in future negotiations—that all the proposals that she and her Government had made in the past were now withdrawn.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.488.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-20", "file": "debates1982-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9d60f2489f2a32e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.491.5", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "prepared to face a situation in which we have a military garrison in the Falkland Islands for the next 10 or 20 years, which is within range of Argentine land-based aircraft? Is that what we are being asked to do? We know that at the end of the day there must be negotiations. It must be said now before lives are lost that this country is prepared to negotiate. We are not pursuing a colonial claim.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.491.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-20", "file": "debates1982-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9d60f2489f2a32e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.495.0", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ertainly sees it that way, and that is why support for the Government abroad is eroding. The Government's document states that Argentina has been playing for time. Of course it has. But who put the clock in its armoury? The task force gave it the clock as a weapon. It is impossible to leave the task force hanging about. Therefore, once the task force was dispatched, time was given to Buenos Aires—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.495.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-20", "file": "debates1982-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9d60f2489f2a32e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.512.3", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "ll that sort of rubbish, Britain goes to war over the Falklands. And for what? For the retention of an outcrop of rocks in the waters of the South Atlantic? For a colonial vestige and perhaps for the reinstitution of the Company's right to run the islands? What worries me is that the prime purpose I believe is to prove what a man the Prime Minister is. That is what the person in the street thinks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.512.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-20", "file": "debates1982-05-20a.xml", "sha256": "9d60f2489f2a32e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.545.1", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": " Mr. Haig and President Belaunde. The Government should have published the full text of the Argentine reply with this document, because there is clearly disagreement between the Secretary-General and the Government on how some of the Argentine replies should be interpreted. The House urgently needs the publication of the Secretary-General's aide-memoire and the reply which I gather the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-20a.545.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-24", "file": "debates1982-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "1e041971ca6cf1ee", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-24a.679.2", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Warders?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stott", "preceding_text": "day in central London at about one-third of a million. The present enforcement system is unable to cope with such a rate of illegal parking. 5.30 pm In spite of increased wages and improved conditions of service for wardens, their strength stands at a little over 1,300. Current regulations make it impossible for warders adequately to carry out their responsibilities with regard to illegal parking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-24a.679.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-25", "file": "debates1982-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "a188a1b19597f2bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-25a.791.0", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Because, like me, my right hon. Friend has made about five different speeches. I wish to know precisely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-25a.791.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-25", "file": "debates1982-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "a188a1b19597f2bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-25a.791.9", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "I wish to ask the Prime Minister a question on the distressing but necessary subject of compensation for the dependants of those who have been killed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-25a.791.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-25", "file": "debates1982-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "a188a1b19597f2bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-25a.791.11", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "Can the right hon. Lady, with her authority as Prime Minister, advise those members of the public who naturally wish to contribute something—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-25a.791.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-25", "file": "debates1982-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "a188a1b19597f2bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-25a.792.8", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "—may we now have a cessation of hostilities?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-25a.792.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-25", "file": "debates1982-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "a188a1b19597f2bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-25a.892.0", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Adjournment (Spring)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Would it not clear the air and be better from every point of view if the Government came clean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-25a.892.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-25", "file": "debates1982-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "a188a1b19597f2bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-25a.892.1", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Adjournment (Spring)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I have listened to the hon. Gentleman and I heard the exchanges at Question Time today. I have said that I shall draw the Foreign Secretary's attention to the hon. Gentleman's speech. The matter might reasonably rest there. Therefore, I commend the motion, as amended, in the hope—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-25a.892.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-26", "file": "debates1982-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "b954a54876af23f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-26a.947.1", "colnum": "947", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the budget?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "discuss all types of associations and statuses, but it should not be done on the basis of our being second-rate members of the Common Market. That would not be acceptable to the British people. In the negotiations, I hope that the Government will not get inveigled into discussions of that type. I hope that we shall say to President Mitterrand and his colleagues that that is not the way to proceed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-26a.947.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-26", "file": "debates1982-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "b954a54876af23f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-26a.950.11", "colnum": "950", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " right. Perhaps I can offer some advice to my right hon. Friends on how one should tackle these problems. First, we shall never achieve a budget solution on the basis that what we put in, we must get out. No other member of the Community will agree to that doctrine, because one cannot organise any community, be it in a village or a club, on the basis that everyone puts in exactly what he gets out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-26a.950.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-26", "file": "debates1982-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "b954a54876af23f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-26a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only because of oil.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "osal and that France would have agriculture development. That was the clear basis on which the Community was formed. We went into the Community on the clear basis that, as our agriculture industry was smaller, we would seek benefits in the industrial sector. We have had those benefits already to the extent that I have outlined. We now have a trade surplus with the Community of £750 million a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-26a.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-26", "file": "debates1982-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "b954a54876af23f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-26a.959.0", "colnum": "959", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"We do not want one at all.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "hat is bound to be taken note of in a Community as relatively disparate as the Community that we have today and will have for many years to come. But on more minor issues we must have a more effective decision-making process and we must, above all, have it in the interests of this country. Why is that? To use the veto on everything is a recipe for a static Community. Do we want a static Community?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-26a.959.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-26", "file": "debates1982-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "b954a54876af23f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-26a.959.0", "colnum": "959", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "that? To use the veto on everything is a recipe for a static Community. Do we want a static Community? [HON MEMBERS: \"We do not want one at all.\"] There are those who want to get out of the Community at all costs, never mind what happens to 60 per cent. of British exports and the jobs that go with them, never mind what happens to inward investment, never mind what happens to our political support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-26a.959.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-26", "file": "debates1982-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "b954a54876af23f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-26a.986.1", "colnum": "986", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "hon. Member for Sidcup (Mr. Heath) said, we have enormous oil resources which give us immediately an advantage in taking a lead in forming an effective energy policy. Why were we difficult over allowing Norwegian gas to go through the United Kingdom? Why have we abandoned our domestic wave energy programme and allowed the Japanese to step in? It is an obvious area for action in Community research.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-26a.986.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-26", "file": "debates1982-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "b954a54876af23f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-26a.1004.3", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": " made to put together a legal case on that basis. Our legal advice is that the 1980 agreement gave Britain the absolute right to receive the minimum refunds specified in that agreement, and that there is, therefore, in our interpretation of the law, no obligation on Britain to repay anything. Therefore, there is a difference of interpretation here which it was not practicable to resolve this week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-26a.1004.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-26", "file": "debates1982-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "b954a54876af23f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-26a.1021.4", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Highlands and Islands Shipping Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Member for Aberdeenshire, East (Mr. McQuarrie) would not be ashamed of imbibing some of the produce of his own constituency from time to time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-26a.1021.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-26", "file": "debates1982-05-26a.xml", "sha256": "b954a54876af23f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-26a.1021.4", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Highlands and Islands Shipping Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Member for Aberdeenshire, East (Mr. McQuarrie) would not be ashamed of imbibing some of the produce of his own constituency from time to time. [Interruption.] I know that barley is grown in his constituency, and I suspect that there are distilleries there as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-26a.1021.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-27", "file": "debates1982-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "88489127c9ca64f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-27a.1048.8", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister try to disregard such hotheads", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-27a.1048.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-27", "file": "debates1982-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "88489127c9ca64f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-27a.1061.3", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "National Health Service (Industrial Action)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They have not done it.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "I repeat what I said to the hon. Lady about the regional chairmen. I met them last week, and the views that she expresses were not put to me at that meeting. The hon. Lady is capable of checking for herself the agreed point that was put to me. I should have thought that the increase in staff was a matter for some congratulation for the Government who have been able to increase by 47,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-27a.1061.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-27", "file": "debates1982-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "88489127c9ca64f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-27a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that I did not rise immediately, but I thought that other hon. Members had done so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-27a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-27", "file": "debates1982-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "88489127c9ca64f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-27a.1103.2", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Cranborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Cranborne", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend's interruption enables me to clear up a point over which I was perhaps confusing the House. I would not dream of implying that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State would think of introducing a guillotine for a considerable time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-27a.1103.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-27", "file": "debates1982-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "88489127c9ca64f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-27a.1108.0", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Body", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Body", "preceding_text": "my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State. I am disappointed that he has not enlarged upon the reasons for the motion. I am moved now to be suspicious about every clause and every word in the Bill. Those suspicions were aroused initially when I heard that the proposals in the White Paper and the Bill were approved by—of all Cabinet Committees—the Overseas and Defence Committee. That says it all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-27a.1108.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-27", "file": "debates1982-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "88489127c9ca64f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-27a.1130.3", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "lauses, I must be careful or I shall be ruled out of order by the Chairman of Ways and Means, because we are not discussing the merits of individual clauses. All that we are discussing is where they should be taken, if they are selected, in Committee. New clause 4 seems to be causing the most concern. However I do not know whether the Chairman of Ways and Means will select new clause 4 for debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-27a.1130.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-27", "file": "debates1982-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "88489127c9ca64f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-27a.1139.3", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are making progress.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "n a point of order, Mr. Weatherill. It would be normal at this stage in proceedings on any ordinary occasion when the official Opposition is functioning as an Opposition for the right hon. Gentleman leading for the Opposition to put the time honoured question—especially since we have the presence of the Patronage Secretary and the Leader of the House—and inquire about the Government's intentions.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-27a.1139.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-05-27", "file": "debates1982-05-27a.xml", "sha256": "88489127c9ca64f3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-27a.1140.0", "colnum": "1140", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "No, that was not what was in my mind. These two amendments do not raise fundamental issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-05-27a.1140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-08", "file": "debates1982-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "898ee89ab7418fdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-08a.17.3", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "That is not a good example for the right hon. Lady to choose. Some hon. Members believe that the British Government should not have used the veto in those circumstances—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-08a.17.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-08", "file": "debates1982-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "898ee89ab7418fdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-08a.17.3", "colnum": "17", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "l. Nine countries voted that way and several abstained. What will the right hon. Lady do about it next? This may be the best way of preventing further bloodshed. It may well be that the best way of securing an Argentine withdrawal, which we are all in favour of and which is governed by Security Council resolution 502, would be through the United Nations. We were very close to getting an agreement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-08a.17.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-08", "file": "debates1982-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "898ee89ab7418fdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-08a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Economic Summit (Versailles)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Truisms\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Among the many points that the right hon. Gentleman made he said that the Versailles statement was platitudinous. Some of it may be, but platitudes are platitudes because they are true, and it is not a bad idea to be on the side of truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-08a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-08", "file": "debates1982-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "898ee89ab7418fdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-08a.39.1", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": ", Mr. Weatherill. May I suggest that when it is expected that there will be substantial changes to the Bill, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State should announce them as soon as he knows they are likely to occur? The charm of the Bill lies in its imprecision. It can be supported by those who, like the hon. Member for Walsall, North (Mr. Winnick), hope to witness a united Ireland by consent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-08a.39.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-08", "file": "debates1982-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "898ee89ab7418fdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-08a.50.2", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Will it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "I bow to your advice at once, Mr. Armstrong, and I shall not seek to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Orpington (Mr. Stanbrook); nor shall I say a word more about the Labour Party, because it can speak for itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-08a.50.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-08", "file": "debates1982-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "898ee89ab7418fdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-08a.69.1", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Dean. If my hon. Friend the Minister replies to the debate now, he will not have heard the observations of at least three or four hon. Members, to put it at its lowest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-08a.69.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-08", "file": "debates1982-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "898ee89ab7418fdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-08a.71.3", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I do not wish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-08a.71.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-08", "file": "debates1982-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "898ee89ab7418fdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-08a.110.1", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes James", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rhodes James", "preceding_text": "As the Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister dealing with the Falkland Islands, I was involved. However, the point is that Northern Ireland is very near to and is part of the United Kingdom. My hon. Friend makes speeches denouncing a perfectly reasonable proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-08a.110.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-08", "file": "debates1982-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "898ee89ab7418fdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-08a.113.1", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "t to work together once again. I see no threat to the United Kingdom greater than that of continuing decline in the economy of Northern Ireland, which will drive its young people away and promote the feeling that, for all its political genius, the United Kingdom Parliament has not found any solution. I ask right hon. and hon. Members to devote at least a little of their time to that consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-08a.113.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-08", "file": "debates1982-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "898ee89ab7418fdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-08a.152.2", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "I strongly support the motion, mainly because of the health of the Ministers concerned. It appears that the supporters of the Bill in the Chamber in the early hours of the morning consist mostly of what is sometimes known as the payroll vote. It certainly includes Ministers from Departments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-08a.152.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-08", "file": "debates1982-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "898ee89ab7418fdf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-08a.154.8", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Cranborne", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Cranborne", "preceding_text": "otor racing will recall that, in an attempt to circumnavigate a track as narrow as the scope of the motion, the contestants failed to complete more than seven laps. As a result, the race had to be started again. All commentators, as far as I was able to ascertain, came to the conclusion that that was a most unsatisfactory precedent. As a result, I am glad to say, the race was won by an Englishman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-08a.154.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-09", "file": "debates1982-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "91fdeb0bf54ce699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.198.3", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clinton Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clinton Davis", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister agree that in that so-called not unhelpful country the chronicle of repression, the attack upon human rights, torture, abduction and killings continue unabated? Will he take this opportunity to refute any suggestion that there will be any military tie-up or co-operation between Britain and that bloody country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-09", "file": "debates1982-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "91fdeb0bf54ce699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "That touches on a point about which I tried to ask the hon. Member for Antrim, North (Rev. Ian Paisley) yesterday, but I did not get a reply. Does the right hon. Gentleman, with his experience of Northern Ireland, know the answer? We are told by the Government that the Bill has the support of a majority of interests and organistions, both political and quasi-political, in Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-09", "file": "debates1982-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "91fdeb0bf54ce699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.246.0", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Concannon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Concannon", "preceding_text": "This is the first time during the progress of the Bill that I have asked my party for a Whip. It is rather stupid to say that there has been collusion between myself and the Secretary of State over the amendments. If there had, I would not have put my party on a Whip.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-09", "file": "debates1982-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "91fdeb0bf54ce699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. I, too, am concerned about the absence of Opposition Members when we are discussing a matter of such importance to the House of Commons, to the country and to this unitary Parliament. I find it disturbing that so few hon. Members are prepared to be here—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-09", "file": "debates1982-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "91fdeb0bf54ce699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not in the Chamber yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "Friend for that intervention. I, too, am concerned about the absence of Opposition Members when we are discussing a matter of such importance to the House of Commons, to the country and to this unitary Parliament. I find it disturbing that so few hon. Members are prepared to be here— [Interruption.] I am delighted, however, to espy the hon. Member for Berwick and East Lothian (Mr. Home Robertson).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-09", "file": "debates1982-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "91fdeb0bf54ce699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.280.1", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "I well remember what my motives were.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-09", "file": "debates1982-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "91fdeb0bf54ce699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.280.1", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": " between the Scotland and Wales Acts and their implementation. One feels a retrospective shudder—I think that such a phrase was once coined by Nietzsche—and one feels that one has narrowly escaped a past danger when one contemplates the fact that but for the outcome of those referendums, those monstrous structures might have been at their deadly work of breaking up the Union of the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.280.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-09", "file": "debates1982-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "91fdeb0bf54ce699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.298.0", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "There was a slim majority in favour in Scotland. It was about 31 per cent. against 30 per cent. The majority of Scottish Members were in favour of devolution. The hon. Member may wish to consider that, because the majority of Scottish Members and the Scottish electorate were in favour of the Scotland Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-09", "file": "debates1982-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "91fdeb0bf54ce699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.321.2", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "hat in his discussion of the way in which the amendments had been grouped. All of us thought that if there had been any injustice at any stage during our discussion of clause 1, it would be remedied by our ability to contribute to the clause stand part debate. There is a difficulty here. None of us wishes to put down a motion critical of the Chair, but it seems that we are in a difficult position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.321.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-09", "file": "debates1982-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "91fdeb0bf54ce699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.322.3", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gorst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gorst", "preceding_text": "riends, who will have to listen to the Opposition's arguments and to give impressive replies. However, no doubt they will do that. Last night the House did not sit particularly late. We concluded our debates as early as 6 am. That is tolerable on a Tuesday, because it is the beginning of the week. However, towards the end of the week many of my right hon. and hon. Friends begin to feel the strain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-09", "file": "debates1982-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "91fdeb0bf54ce699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.323.0", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": " for about 11 hours. That must be bad for the Committee and for our powers of concentration, and damaging to the other business of Government. Yesterday, in a similar context, I said that such late sittings must have some effect on the ability of Ministers to work properly in their offices. Tonight, the normal standard of decorum observed by members of the Parliamentary Conservative Party slipped—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.323.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-09", "file": "debates1982-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "91fdeb0bf54ce699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.323.0", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "hon. Member of raising a bogus point of order. Such conduct is quite unbecoming for a Conservative Member and we are not used to it. Even more importantly, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State said not 15 minutes ago that he had run out of thoughts. Obviously, that is the result of over-concentration on the same subject for too long. It is time to draw stumps, and to retire to the pavilion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.323.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-09", "file": "debates1982-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "91fdeb0bf54ce699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "day and give it the attention and consideration that it merits. I was a little concerned earlier about the attitude of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State. He was becoming extremely worked up. He is not known for that sort of temperament and it can only be because he put in so many hours yesterday that he reacted so sharply to the reasonable points being made from the Conservative Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-09", "file": "debates1982-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "91fdeb0bf54ce699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "The fact that at a quarter to two in the morning of Thursday of this week I am unable, practised as I am, to make my point to you, Mr. Weatherill, is some indication that our ability to think clearly and to express ourselves adequately is somewhat blurred and blunted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-09", "file": "debates1982-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "91fdeb0bf54ce699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.326.3", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": " might otherwise have been, to the great assistance of the Committee and the inspiration of my hon. Friends. That is the first point. Surely, in a matter of such importance, what we are about to discuss is so much dependent upon a sensible consideration of what we have just discussed that it is necessary for us to take time to consider the matter more fully. The second point is that our judgments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-09", "file": "debates1982-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "91fdeb0bf54ce699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.327.2", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": " messengers, the policemen and representatives of the press. Everyone is involved in this. If the choice is to shut up and go home or to let this measure go through without proper care, which would be a negation of democracy and of the reason why we are here, I suggest that we do the former and return to the matter refreshed. For three very important reasons—and I underline the importance of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.327.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-09", "file": "debates1982-06-09a.xml", "sha256": "91fdeb0bf54ce699", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the Committee is grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his observations and his attendance. I do not mean that insincerely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-09a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-10", "file": "debates1982-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "2ba7b5f9bd9048b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-10a.397.3", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "Why is it necessary, when parliamentary time is so limited, for the Government to stir up trouble on its Back Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-10a.397.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-10", "file": "debates1982-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "2ba7b5f9bd9048b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-10a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service Pay", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "aim that will cost another £700 million. I agree with the hon. Lady that it would not be right simply to leave it at that. I am sure that the House will share my desire to do everything possible to try to bring this dispute to an end, but this must be done within the resources available. Because of our desire to make progress, and also because of the key role of nurses in maintaining patient care—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-10a.419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-10", "file": "debates1982-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "2ba7b5f9bd9048b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-10a.424.0", "colnum": "424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service Pay", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, there has not.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "I entirely accept that they all have to be paid, but two aspects must be borne in mind. First, a number of the jobs, especially among the cleaners, contractors and some but not all of the porters, could well be dealt with by subcontract so that the burden would not fall so directly. Secondly, where there is a dramatic increase in certain of those aspects as there has been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-10a.424.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-10", "file": "debates1982-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "2ba7b5f9bd9048b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-10a.428.4", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service Pay", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. R. Rees-Davies", "preceding_text": "Mr. Brown) read out its brief, not the GMWU' s brief. It would be perfectly good policy to leave the brief in the Library, so that other hon. Members can read it. It is well drafted, but it unfortunately misses the point. It fails to understand the background and why so many NUPE workers and others are not relatively highly paid. I shall paint the picture so that those concerned can understand it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-10a.428.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-10", "file": "debates1982-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "2ba7b5f9bd9048b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-10a.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service Pay", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "I shall be extremely brief.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-10a.439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-10", "file": "debates1982-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "2ba7b5f9bd9048b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-10a.451.3", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Transport (Liverpool Street) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald W. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald W. Brown", "preceding_text": "e Bill on behalf of the London Transport Executive. The Bill relates to work that is to be carried out by British Rail in redeveloping the Liverpool Street site, which is in my constituency. The hon. Member for City of London and Westminster (Mr. Brooke) is not in a position to move the Bill on behalf of the LTE and I have agreed to do so for him. It will assist the House if I go through the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-10a.451.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-10", "file": "debates1982-06-10a.xml", "sha256": "2ba7b5f9bd9048b7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-10a.496.0", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Members of Parliament (Salaries, Allowances and Travel Facilities)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "t the right hon. Gentleman mentioned. It was clearly said that there was an anomaly if hon. Members could collect a car allowance and pop their children into the back of the car but could not benefit in the same way if travelling by rail. My right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Openshaw (Mr. Morris) mentioned this matter on a previous occasion, because representations had been made to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-10a.496.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-11", "file": "debates1982-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "8d0d1b4f7cc5e2ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-11a.562.2", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Merchant Shipping (Liner Conferences) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "e arcane facts about who had signed and why the Bulgarians had objected to certain parts of the code. Indeed, that remains something of a mystery to me. Nevertheless Romania and Czechoslovakia entered interesting reservations along a rather capitalist line. They seemed to say that there should be a great deal of competition for the liner conferences. I am all for that and am glad of their support.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-11a.562.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-14", "file": "debates1982-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "601cd6bcf0e5a9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-14a.654.3", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Industrial Training", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "training boards, but it was the boards which set the framework. I should like to draw the Minister's attention to one of the training boards that is continuing—the construction industry training board. The Federation of Master Builders is most anxious to join that training board, as it bears in mind the number of employees it has in the industry. I was present at its conference not many weeks ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-14a.654.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-14", "file": "debates1982-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "601cd6bcf0e5a9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-14a.685.0", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Industrial Training", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Fox", "preceding_text": "I have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-14a.685.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-14", "file": "debates1982-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "601cd6bcf0e5a9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-14a.692.1", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Industrial Training", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "e who takes on the job of chairman of a board does so because he believes in what the board is doing. He also has a broad obligation on behalf of his staff, whom he knows are working well and to the best of their ability, to achieve the purposes laid down by statute. I should have been amazed if in those circumstances 23 of the 24 ITB chairmen had not written such a letter to my right hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-14a.692.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-14", "file": "debates1982-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "601cd6bcf0e5a9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-14a.700.3", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": ", which is what we have all desired. There will be widespread, genuine rejoicing—to use the word that the right hon. Lady once used—at the prospect of the end of the bloodshed. If the news is confirmed, as I trust it will be, there will be great congratulations from the House tomorrow to the British forces who have conducted themselves in such a manner and, if I may say so, to the right hon. Lady.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-14a.700.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-14", "file": "debates1982-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "601cd6bcf0e5a9e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-14a.701.0", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I call the right hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dr. Owen).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-14a.701.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-15", "file": "debates1982-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "37c5e2e1eca8a08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.715.7", "colnum": "715", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "If it were index-linked, no doubt the contributions relating to it would also have to be index-linked.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.715.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-15", "file": "debates1982-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "37c5e2e1eca8a08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.728.2", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.728.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-15", "file": "debates1982-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "37c5e2e1eca8a08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.728.4", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for your protection. As British military abilities have once again rescued British politicians from their failures, will the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.728.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-15", "file": "debates1982-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "37c5e2e1eca8a08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.731.0", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "e are bound to do so under the resolutions that we have signed. I therefore hope that the Prime Minister will now give an absolute assurance that we shall be prepared to consult other nations according to our commitments under the United Nations charter to ensure that we provide for future arrangements. I hope that we shall not exclude the possibility of the trusteeship that was discussed earlier.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-15", "file": "debates1982-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "37c5e2e1eca8a08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.735.2", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question\".", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "and of freedom. I wish to remind the Prime Minister that at Question Time a few weeks ago I asked whether she abided by two principles—first, the right to defend sovereign British territory and, secondly, the upholding of the wishes of those who live in that territory. I congratulate her on the fact that in this instance she has been guided by those two principles, but I remind her that yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.735.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-15", "file": "debates1982-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "37c5e2e1eca8a08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.809.0", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "preceding_text": "ch tonight and I have no doubt that he will arrive at four score years with just as much vitality as we see tonight. We shall continue to enjoy the ferocity of his logic, enlightened as it is by those shafts of humour. We had a charming one tonight about Bosworth and Bosworth Field that collectors of Powellisms treasure just as much as collectors of \"RAB\"-isms. I must not stray from the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.809.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-15", "file": "debates1982-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "37c5e2e1eca8a08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.816.2", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Molyneaux", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Molyneaux", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that a mere intervention would fill the bill. I would say at this interim stage—I know my hon. Friend the Member for Londonderry (Mr. Ross) is eager to contribute—that our position has been fully explained by my right hon. Friend the Member for Down, South (Mr. Powell), who said clearly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.816.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-15", "file": "debates1982-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "37c5e2e1eca8a08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.845.2", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "oughout the night, as we have done during the past two weeks. That is a good enough reason for us to adjourn and proceed with the debate another time. My main ground for requesting that we adjourn is to ensure that we devote proper time to an important constitutional matter. With some legislation it is possible for hon. Members to be present without having their minds fully engaged in the subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.845.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-15", "file": "debates1982-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "37c5e2e1eca8a08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.845.2", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "the debate another time. My main ground for requesting that we adjourn is to ensure that we devote proper time to an important constitutional matter. With some legislation it is possible for hon. Members to be present without having their minds fully engaged in the subject. [Interruption.] If my hon. Friend the Member for Grantham (Mr. Hogg) will allow me, as I was saying, there are some subjects—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.845.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-15", "file": "debates1982-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "37c5e2e1eca8a08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.845.2", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "ntal rights of a part of the population of the United Kingdom which deserves the highest consideration and study. I put it in that way because I was, to my regret, one of the Members who, 10 years ago, voted for the legislation which suspended Stormont, the devolved Government of Northern Ireland of those days. In those days I knew very little about Northern Ireland and I was one of those Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.845.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-15", "file": "debates1982-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "37c5e2e1eca8a08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.845.2", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "nsideration and study. I put it in that way because I was, to my regret, one of the Members who, 10 years ago, voted for the legislation which suspended Stormont, the devolved Government of Northern Ireland of those days. In those days I knew very little about Northern Ireland and I was one of those Members— [Interruption.] I wonder whether it is possible for a Back Bencher to name an hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.845.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-15", "file": "debates1982-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "37c5e2e1eca8a08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": " is to follow the merits of the case and to vote accordingly. Unfortunately, that process attracts the support of perhaps only a score of Members on the Conservative Benches. I do not give up hope that the other Members who troop through the Lobbies without listening to the arguments and without realising what they are doing would perhaps change their views if they really considered the arguments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-15", "file": "debates1982-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "37c5e2e1eca8a08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.854.1", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": " it will be asked \"What did he do? What good did he do? What great piece of legislation enshrines his memory after so many hours of work, such brilliant and passionate oratory in the House?\" There will be no legislation, but those who speak after him will be able to answer \"He stopped an awful lot of harm being done. It was he who demolished so many specious arguments; it was he who filibustered\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.854.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-15", "file": "debates1982-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "37c5e2e1eca8a08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.870.1", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Cranborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Cranborne", "preceding_text": "—indeed, and untrustworthy ground ashore. That would correspond to the untrustworthy ground of devolved government. We will face not the successful military outcome that we saw in the Falkland Islands but rather the attempt by my right hon. Friend at a landing, the success of which is not assured and, indeed, is virtually guaranteed not to take place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.870.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-15", "file": "debates1982-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "37c5e2e1eca8a08f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.899.2", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Farr", "preceding_text": "onsidering the letter from the right hon. Member for Down South (Mr. Powell). I have no doubt that the Chairman has excellent reasons for coming to his decision. The group of amendments includes Nos. 129 and 130 relating to the RUC. Will an hon. Member who catches your eye be in order if he discusses and raises items contained in Judge Bennett's report on the RUC, which came out in 1978–79?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-15a.899.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-16", "file": "debates1982-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "ff29dbf201d5aa0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-16a.962.0", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "bour Party's point of view. His eyes were simply and solely upon the Assembly and he said that, in order that it should have a useful function, it was essential for its Members to be given some power. He did not examine the whole concept and see that such powers can be given only at the expense of this place. Presumably, he underrates the difficulties of the West Lothian question which will arise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-16a.962.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-16", "file": "debates1982-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "ff29dbf201d5aa0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-16a.998.3", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I have not confused the hon. Gentleman. The hon. Gentleman came here confused, remained confused, and no doubt will go out confused. He will be less confused if he reads in Hansard the debates and exchanges that he has missed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-16a.998.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-16", "file": "debates1982-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "ff29dbf201d5aa0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-16a.998.3", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "ot confused the hon. Gentleman. The hon. Gentleman came here confused, remained confused, and no doubt will go out confused. He will be less confused if he reads in Hansard the debates and exchanges that he has missed. [Interruption.] I do not believe that the worst is likely, because the worst can be very bad. I expect human nature to take its normal course and that will rob my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-16a.998.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-16", "file": "debates1982-06-16a.xml", "sha256": "ff29dbf201d5aa0f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-16a.1037.2", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": " have been a Government spokesman or to have had some training in Government. However, all Back-Bench Members have a view as to those of their colleagues who are capable of holding office. I know, as a humble Back-Bench Member, that my hon. Friend the Minister has had the necessary training to be considered by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister for the position that he has the honour to hold—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-16a.1037.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-17", "file": "debates1982-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "22c13de106760b3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-17a.1078.6", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is experienced in such matters. He knows very well that the White Paper projections are not projections of unemployment, they are forecasts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-17a.1078.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-17", "file": "debates1982-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "22c13de106760b3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-17a.1078.6", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wakeham", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is experienced in such matters. He knows very well that the White Paper projections are not projections of unemployment, they are forecasts. [Interruption.] They are working assumptions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-17a.1078.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-06-17", "file": "debates1982-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "22c13de106760b3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-17a.1082.8", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "er to my question to the right hon. Lady on Tuesday, is she aware that a strike took place yesterday of 26,000 Welsh miners who were protesting against the Government's miserable and mean offer of 4 per cent. to the National Health Service workers? Will the Prime Minister now put pressure on her Minister at least to offer them a fair and reasonable amount? Surely she has enough blood on her hands?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-17a.1082.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-17", "file": "debates1982-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "22c13de106760b3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-17a.1094.2", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Agriculture and Fisheries (Ministerial Meetings)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mark Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mark Hughes", "preceding_text": "I am sure that you, Mr. Speaker, the Minister, and the House will sympathise with my hon. Friend the Member for Renfrewshire, West (Mr. Buchan), who cannot be present this afternoon as his wife has been taken ill. I am sure that we all recognise that he means no disrespect to the House and that we all wish his wife a speedy recovery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-17a.1094.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-17", "file": "debates1982-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "22c13de106760b3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-17a.1095.0", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Agriculture and Fisheries (Ministerial Meetings)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why does not the right hon. Gentleman tell us?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "On the last part of the hon. Gentleman's question, it is clear that he has no idea what is in the proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-17a.1095.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-17", "file": "debates1982-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "22c13de106760b3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-17a.1095.0", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Agriculture and Fisheries (Ministerial Meetings)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "On the last part of the hon. Gentleman's question, it is clear that he has no idea what is in the proposals. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why does not the right hon. Gentleman tell us?\"] I can only repeat the assurance that I have always given to the House that no agreement will be reached which does not have the agreement of our industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-17a.1095.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-17", "file": "debates1982-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "22c13de106760b3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-17a.1097.0", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Agriculture and Fisheries (Ministerial Meetings)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I note the right hon. Gentleman's insulting remarks about the leaders of the Scottish fishing industry. Industry leaders will confirm that I have sought their advice and that I have not endeavoured to persuade them to pursue any attitude or policy towards quotas or access.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-17a.1097.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-17", "file": "debates1982-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "22c13de106760b3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-17a.1111.0", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heifer", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heifer", "preceding_text": " and I listened carefully to what the Minister said. It is our view that if the proposals were adopted, even in the modified form now before us—they are somewhat different from those contained in the original text by Herr Genscher and Senor Colombo—they would further weaken the powers of the this House and, therefore, the sovereignty of our country and exacerbate the problems that we already face.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-17a.1111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-17", "file": "debates1982-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "22c13de106760b3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-17a.1118.3", "colnum": "1118", "heading": "European Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "he Opposition Benches do not want that to happen. The same is true of some Conservative Members. They want Europe to work worse to buttress the arguments for Britain coming out. That is certainly true of some Opposition Members. That is neither a constructive nor a responsible attitude. I do not think that we will come out, but some hon. Members never wanted to go in and would like us to come out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-17a.1118.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-17", "file": "debates1982-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "22c13de106760b3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-17a.1153.1", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "hat he said that would appear to be so. However, I know that other hon. Gentlemen, particularly on the Opposition Benches, in the months ahead will seek to make all sorts of accusations about the hon. Member for Erith and Crayford making blanket condemnations. So let me put on record precisely what I am saying. It is incumbent on the GLC, and particularly on the hon. Member for St. Pancras, North—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-17a.1153.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-17", "file": "debates1982-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "22c13de106760b3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-17a.1155.2", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"He is nodding off.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "payers of all kinds of documents designed not so much to inform Londoners as to propagate the party views of those now in control of the GLC. No doubt, as I develop the main threads of my argument, certain hon. Members will prattle on that the GLC, after all, has a mandate to do all these diabolical things. I see the hon. Member for Edmonton (Mr. Graham) on the Labour Front Bench nodding his head.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-17a.1155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-17", "file": "debates1982-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "22c13de106760b3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-17a.1160.5", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": " in this article, amounting to £45,000. It seems to many people in London that what the GLC is doing in this case is finding a job for one of its pals. In my view, the Greater London Council would make a greater contribution to London's unemployment problems and to the encouragement of industry in London if it dropped some of Is outrageous schemes and reduced the rates on Londoners and businesses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-17a.1160.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-17", "file": "debates1982-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "22c13de106760b3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-17a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "e Minister will be in breach of the undertaking that he gave me. I am becoming used to such things happening to me, but what is more serious is that he gave a commitment to the House. How can he justify walking away from that commitment? It seems that the sum of £91 million was arrived at because the Minister agreed and conspired with the GLC to make it impossible to do the work that is necessary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-17a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-17", "file": "debates1982-06-17a.xml", "sha256": "22c13de106760b3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-17a.1172.1", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "inister has defrauded me and the House. He promised that the money would be spent—it would have been the minimum amount—and now it will not be spent. It is no good the Minister smiling about this. This is a serious matter. The Minister gave me an undertaking following the one given by his predecessor. He introduced an order to enable the transfer to take place. It is outrageous that he should now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-17a.1172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-21", "file": "debates1982-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "fda767c01deef6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-21a.6.6", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, with his dexterity with figures and statistics, no doubt endeavours—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-21a.6.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-21", "file": "debates1982-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "fda767c01deef6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-21a.14.1", "colnum": "14", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "Government's duty to look after this country's interests, but they must do so within the framework that various Governments have considered appropriate and helpful to embrace other countries' activities. My hon. Friend referred to sanctions by the other countries of the European Community. I am sure that the House will recognise the remarkable solidarity that has been shown throughout this period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-21a.14.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-21", "file": "debates1982-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "fda767c01deef6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-21a.60.2", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "preceding_text": " agreements and obligations entered into during the past year. The Bedford-St. Pancras line is in a similar position to that outlined by my hon. Friend the Member for Nuneaton (Mr. Huckfield). To listen to Conservative Members one would imagine that the future prosperity of the railway industry depends on the 60 guards at present employed on that line signing on the dole. That was the implication.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-21a.60.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-21", "file": "debates1982-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "fda767c01deef6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-21a.75.3", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unemployment (Young Persons)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "I knew that I should have had more sense than to give way to the hon. Gentleman. We always learn from our mistakes. That cheap ploy is not worth replying to. I shall not take up that issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-21a.75.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-21", "file": "debates1982-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "fda767c01deef6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-21a.77.0", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unemployment (Young Persons)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Employment (Mr. Michael Alison)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Employment (Mr. Michael Alison)", "preceding_text": ", that it is the Government's economic and industrial policies that have produced the present levels of unemployment. The reverse is the case. It is, above all, the past misdeeds of the last Labour Government that have produced the present levels of unemployment. It is they who opened up the gusher of unemployment, and it is to us that the much more difficult task of shutting it off has been left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-21a.77.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-21", "file": "debates1982-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "fda767c01deef6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-21a.83.1", "colnum": "83", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unemployment (Young Persons)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"We have now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": "Britain's industrial and technological needs. My criticism is that the Government did not act quickly enough and adopt the suggestion for a multi-faceted approach to a four-year traineeship as proposed by the MSC in 1980 and repeated in 1981. It is not good enough simply to blame the Labour Government, because the Conservatives have not replaced the traditinal apprenticeships with anything better.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-21a.83.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-21", "file": "debates1982-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "fda767c01deef6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-21a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unemployment (Young Persons)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": " were four time s as likely to be unemployed as young people generally. The graphs in the House of Lords report show at every stage an almost direct correlation between rising youth unemployment and rising crime figures for young people. Given those facts, how can the party of law and order, which it claims to be, treat youth unemployment quite as complacently as it has done so far in this debate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-21a.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-21", "file": "debates1982-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "fda767c01deef6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-21a.85.1", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unemployment (Young Persons)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ivor Richard.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Williams", "preceding_text": ", but the Minister's remarks appeared to be singularly complacent, whatever the Secretary of State's earlier announcement may have been. The view that I have expressed is supported by people a long way from our shores who do not have the same unemployment problems as ours. They are neither SDP nor Labour supporters. The European Commission said in its report to the Council of Employment Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-21a.85.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-21", "file": "debates1982-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "fda767c01deef6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-21a.95.0", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unemployment (Young Persons)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "stries have done their job from way back, and continue to do it, but private industry has failed the nation in its approach to training for youth. There are a number of reasons for what has happened. In private industry, profits can be creamed off to fill a few people's pockets. The result is no investment in the industry itself and, at the same time, no investment in a proper training programme.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-21a.95.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-21", "file": "debates1982-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "fda767c01deef6e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-21a.95.0", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unemployment (Young Persons)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "hope, too, that it will give the youth of this country exactly what they want, in the interests of the nation. However, what about the youngsters who are waiting for that programme to start? The right hon. Member for Crosby was correct when she spoke of law and order. The Conservative Party is the party of law and order—the \"hang 'em and bash 'em brigade.\" However, if we look at the court figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-21a.95.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-22", "file": "debates1982-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "408f644f9a829994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-22a.140.5", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "I am glad that the hon. Gentleman is reading the HMI report. One can make quotations on both sides. I actually said to his hon. Friend that cuts have nothing to do with the increase in mixed age teaching.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-22a.140.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-22", "file": "debates1982-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "408f644f9a829994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-22a.151.5", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "on the news yesterday? I am glad that the House will have the opportunity to discuss the matter. May I ask the right hon. Lady whether she has had a chance to study the extremely serious unemployment figures that are published today? They are the most serious domestic news for the nation. Is it not a fact that these seasonally adjusted figures show that we are back to the worst trend of last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-22a.151.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-22", "file": "debates1982-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "408f644f9a829994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-22a.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ve to calculate any benefits that are due. If the right hon. Gentleman looks at the figures he will find that economic activity is above the levels of last spring. Industrial and manufacturing output is up 2 per cent. from spring 1981 and the prospect is for resumed and continued recovery. This is supported by almost all independent assessment. The cyclical indicators have, for a while, suggested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-22a.152.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-06-22", "file": "debates1982-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "408f644f9a829994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-22a.154.4", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Does the right hon. Gentleman deny that it was a Labour Government who signed the contracts for the sale of those destroyers? Does he?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-22a.154.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-22", "file": "debates1982-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "408f644f9a829994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-22a.183.4", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": ", South said should be dealt with by any joint studies. The second was a demarcation of the international frontier between the two countries. The Republic has persistently refused to do that. The third was the removal of citizenship privileges enjoyed in the United Kingdom by citizens of the Irish Republic. Those were three of the items on the agenda which the hon. Gentleman did not dare to quote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-22a.183.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-22", "file": "debates1982-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "408f644f9a829994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-22a.184.2", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down\".", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "ar that any motion or amendment moved by a member of the Government can be voted upon. Will the Government give the House an opportunity to vote on amendments tabled by Northern Ireland hon. Members? If there is to be only limited discussion on the amendments, surely an opportunity should be given for the House to vote on them. I hope that the Secretary of State will give the House that assurance.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-22a.184.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-22", "file": "debates1982-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "408f644f9a829994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-22a.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerard Fitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerard Fitt", "preceding_text": " motions distasteful. However, I find even more distasteful the people who are creating such opposition to the Bill. I should like to reinforce what has been said by my right hon. Friend the Member for Mansfield and others. There seems to be an undercurrent among Conservative Members, who are concerned not so much about the Bill as with their animosity and hostility towards the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-22a.194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-22", "file": "debates1982-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "408f644f9a829994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-22a.199.2", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Northern Ireland Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": " it will not do anything for the security and stability of the Province or the employment and prosperity of its people. It will be more likely to give the impression that conditions are not such as to attract investment and foreign capital. Sunningdale was mentioned by the hon. Member for Belfast, West (Mr. Fitt). It was after Sunningdale that violence markedly increased. Why do we hurry the Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-22a.199.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-22", "file": "debates1982-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "408f644f9a829994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-22a.235.3", "colnum": "235", "heading": "The Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "troyed by the Nazis. I do not need to be told by any Zionist in the lobby or outside that to criticise the recent conduct of the Israeli Government in the Lebanon is anti-Israeli and weakens the position of Israel, because I do not accept that. Dissenting voices must be raised and dissenting views must be clearly expressed. It is an understatement to say that there has been tremendous provocation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-22a.235.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-22", "file": "debates1982-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "408f644f9a829994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-22a.248.2", "colnum": "248", "heading": "The Middle East", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "n refugee camps, hospitals, schools, and in other places where they have ensured that unfortunate civilians are held before them as shields. They do so in the hope that people such as the hon. Gentleman will make precisely the point that he has. If we wish to make any contribution towards a civilised debate, it is necessary to recognise another side of the issue that neither Front Bench spokesman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-22a.248.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-23", "file": "debates1982-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e67f1658096ec9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-23a.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "National Health Service (Pay)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Top salaries?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": " that was not so and that they rejected the substance of the offers. Let us have no more of such nonsense. The fact is that at no stage did the unions mention any other figure than 12 per cent., which is totally unrealistic. We have made a fair offer. It means an average increase of at least 6 per cent. It is on a par with the offers that were made to civil servants, teachers and the Armed Forces.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-23a.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-23", "file": "debates1982-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "e67f1658096ec9dc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-23a.344.0", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "t of the continued existence of the talking shop, long after its defeat is evident to all concerned, when it is seen that it cannot develop into the structure that the Government wish. The hon. Gentleman would no doubt prefer, as he has claimed on many occasions, that a Sunningdale power-sharing type of structure that has long since been rejected by the people of Northern Ireland, should develop.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-23a.344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-24", "file": "debates1982-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "3daaffa84f24cabd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-24a.431.7", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That was in relation to \"Endurance\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-24a.431.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-24", "file": "debates1982-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "3daaffa84f24cabd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-24a.431.7", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That was in relation to \"Endurance\"—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".] As the right hon. Gentleman knows, I am willing and anxious to have every single bit of evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-24a.431.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-24", "file": "debates1982-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "3daaffa84f24cabd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-24a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "United States (Prime Minister's Visit)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "etween Britain and Argentina, if this would help. My talks with Mr. Kittani, the President of the General Assembly, were devoted mainly to the special session and Middle East matters. I was particularly glad to be in New York during the last week of Sir Anthony Parsons' term of service as our representative at the United Nations. His contribution and abilities have been widely and rightly praised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-24a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-24", "file": "debates1982-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "3daaffa84f24cabd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-24a.436.0", "colnum": "436", "heading": "United States (Prime Minister's Visit)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the Government will be judged, not by cheap jibes about whether they are ready to fire shots, but by whether they so conduct themselves that no shots need to be fired? The tone of the Prime Minister's speech in New York was such that it sounded more as if she wanted to beat ploughshares into arms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-24a.436.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-24", "file": "debates1982-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "3daaffa84f24cabd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-24a.449.7", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Royal Birth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No thanks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I hope that the country, the House and the world will note that on this auspicious occasion fewer than 40 Conservative Members are present, and fewer than 20 Labour Members are present, I am glad to say. That is a measure of the great loyalty expressed by the Prime Minister. I thought that the House might like to hear a few abrasively constructive comments on the motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-24a.449.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-24", "file": "debates1982-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "3daaffa84f24cabd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-24a.449.7", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Royal Birth", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Ask your wife.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "e House might like to hear a few abrasively constructive comments on the motion. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No thanks.\"] The Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition have expressed their congratulations. When there is cosy collusion between the two Front Benches it makes me feel a little queasy. It is amazing how corrupting our language can be when we speak of the institution of monarchy in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-24a.449.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-25", "file": "debates1982-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "ddb1e6827058807d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-25a.564.0", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rail Disputes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Anderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Anderson", "preceding_text": "Conservative Members allege that there is something political about the strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-25a.564.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-25", "file": "debates1982-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "ddb1e6827058807d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-25a.569.3", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rail Disputes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Best", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Best", "preceding_text": " a ballot. If he is so confident that a ballot of the NUR membership will support the executive, let him have the courage to advocate it. I look forward to his stating that in a moment. I suspect that the hon. Gentleman will not advocate such a ballot, because he knows in his heart that the membership would not support the executive. The newspapers are full of examples of investigative journalism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-25a.569.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-28", "file": "debates1982-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "f44278c849eab15c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-28a.596.5", "colnum": "596", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "May I correct a statement that 1 made a little earlier, Mr. Speaker? I am informed that the Royal Assent to the Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Bill was signified a few minutes ago in the other place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-28a.596.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-28", "file": "debates1982-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "f44278c849eab15c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-28a.614.0", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Assisted Areas (Review)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "preceding_text": "While the cosmetic tinkering will be welcomed by my right hon. Friend the Member for Orkney and Shetland (Mr. Grimond) and my hon. Friend the Member for Rochdale (Mr. Smith)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-28a.614.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-28", "file": "debates1982-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "f44278c849eab15c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-28a.615.2", "colnum": "615", "heading": "Assisted Areas (Review)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Les Huckfield", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Is it Nuneaton or Wigan?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Les Huckfield", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that my constituents in Nuneaton—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-28a.615.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-28", "file": "debates1982-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "f44278c849eab15c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-28a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Assisted Areas (Review)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "The level of unemployment in the Edinburgh travel-to-work area, at 11·1 per cent., is lower than the national average, so it would have been a bizarre decision to extend assisted area status to it. I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is aware that in the recession, which has affected the whole nation, the deterioration in Scotland has been less serious than that in the country as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-28a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-28", "file": "debates1982-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "f44278c849eab15c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-28a.637.5", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Names?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "That may be so, but, with great respect—I hear dissent to the hon. Gentleman's view from Opposition Back Benches—it is not a view that I hold. My right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Ardwick (Mr. Kaufman) reminds me that had that been the case many distinguished Members of the House, none of whom I am prepared to name, might either have not sat here or might be residing in other places.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-28a.637.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-28", "file": "debates1982-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "f44278c849eab15c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-28a.637.5", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"How would they get there?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "y—indeed, relative to their earnings, huge sums of money—on making genuine visits to their relatives in this country. They come for weddings in particular, for religious festivals or simply for family reunions. I am glad that the hon. Member for Preston, North agrees with me. Some of the hardened and more cynical Members of the House would not spend £50 going to their cousin's wedding in Reading.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-28a.637.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-28", "file": "debates1982-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "f44278c849eab15c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-28a.684.0", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "r. and Mrs. Khan must leave together. Meanwhile, the Department of Health and Social Security is denying her the right to its assistance. The Home Office is saying that Mrs. Khan is a liar for not telling it something she did not know, and the DHSS is conniving by trying to starve her out of the country. That is what happens to someone who is defeated by the oppressive administration of the rules.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-28a.684.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-28", "file": "debates1982-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "f44278c849eab15c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-28a.707.2", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Special Development Order (Vauxhall Cross)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "preceding_text": "ing for. Last November, he said: The idea of the SDO looks to be in line with the Minister's view that the local councils and the people they serve are a nuisance to be avoided at any cost. Development briefs have been drawn up by ourselves and the borough involved. It seems absurd and undemocratic that we shall not be the ones to decide if any proposal fits the briefs. The man's name is Ed Gouge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-28a.707.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-29", "file": "debates1982-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "802371ea09aaa271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-29a.741.4", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stoddart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stoddart", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that many of my constituents who work at RAF Kemble believe that there is a continuing need, in the light of the Falklands dispute, to keep the station open—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-29a.741.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-29", "file": "debates1982-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "802371ea09aaa271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-29a.752.2", "colnum": "752", "heading": "May Day Bank Holiday (Amendment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Four years\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "hon. Gentleman omitted to mention also, in continuation of that idea, St. David's Day, St. Patrick's Day and St. Andrew's Day. I am sure that if he sought to bring in a Bill to add those celebrations to May Day, there would be no objection on the Opposition Benches. However, that is obviously not his intention. The hon. Gentleman's intention is to sweep away a long history of tradition in Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-29a.752.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-29", "file": "debates1982-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "802371ea09aaa271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-29a.761.0", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "h. I have spoken to members of his party in Northern Ireland and I have spoken at public meetings of Unionists in Northern Ireland, and I shall continue to do so. The right hon. Gentleman knows why the Labour Party does not organise in Northern Ireland. It is because we have always held the underlying view within the Labour Party that Northern Ireland is not an integral part of the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-29a.761.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-29", "file": "debates1982-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "802371ea09aaa271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-29a.762.4", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "r the same factories and the same developers and trying to undercut each other with different tax rates, and so on. There is a strong case for a coherent and growing economy for the whole of Ireland that benefits Northern Ireland and the Republic. Ultimately, I see no reason—indeed, I encourage it—why security should not be discussed by members of the Assembly with representatives of the Republic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-29a.762.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-29", "file": "debates1982-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "802371ea09aaa271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-29a.775.0", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Cranborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Cranborne", "preceding_text": "The remarks that I intended to make in the debate on new clause 1 have been somewhat undermined by the revelations of the right hon. Member for Down, South (Mr. Powell). I was going to oppose new clause 1 as strenuously as I could.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-29a.775.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-29", "file": "debates1982-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "802371ea09aaa271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-29a.842.0", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Benyon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Benyon", "preceding_text": "er. It is no good looking for orthodox democratic solutions on the Westminster model. Instead, we must look at those other countries and communities in which the problem of division occurs. We must consider Belgium, Cyprus before the Turkish invasion, Lebanon before the Palestinian intervention, the Sudan and so on. Where the divisions have been healed, it has been achieved by special arrangements", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-29a.842.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-29", "file": "debates1982-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "802371ea09aaa271", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-29a.842.0", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. W. Benyon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. W. Benyon", "preceding_text": "gium, Cyprus before the Turkish invasion, Lebanon before the Palestinian intervention, the Sudan and so on. Where the divisions have been healed, it has been achieved by special arrangements [Interruption.] The divisions in Lebanon were healed before the Palestinian intervention. There was a gentlemen's agreement that one community should have certain offices, while the other community had others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-29a.842.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-30", "file": "debates1982-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "f53fad12caf11a42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-30a.876.4", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Grimond", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that that excellent man the hon. Member for Central Ayrshire (Mr. Lambie)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-30a.876.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-30", "file": "debates1982-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "f53fad12caf11a42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-30a.879.2", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "Part of free collective bargaining is job security, holidays and pensions. All of this has to be computed when one is working out wages, particularly at a time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-30a.879.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-30", "file": "debates1982-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "f53fad12caf11a42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-30a.884.9", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The record speaks for itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-30a.884.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-30", "file": "debates1982-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "f53fad12caf11a42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-30a.939.2", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "preceding_text": " pleased that they have come round to consulting the bodies that are laid down in the clause about the chairman, deputy chairman and other members of the commission. I still think that the proof of this stodgy pudding will be in the eating. I notice that the words \"Conservative Party\" do not appear among the bodies that are to be consulted before the chairman of the audit commission is appointed.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-30a.939.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-30", "file": "debates1982-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "f53fad12caf11a42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-30a.945.4", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1978", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Concannon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Concannon", "preceding_text": "1, the report says of such powers: Though there are times when they are necessary for the preservation of human life, they can, if prolonged, damage the fabric of the community, and they do not provide lasting solutions. The Opposition hope that the forthcoming inquiry will adopt its brief in the spirit of the Gardiner report. My copy of the Labour Party policy document is becoming quite battered—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-30a.945.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-30", "file": "debates1982-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "f53fad12caf11a42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-30a.964.5", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1978", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNair-Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNair-Wilson", "preceding_text": "If the Dublin Government seek the peaceful unity of North and South, or if the Cypriots in Greek Cyprus seek to have a unity once again with the Turkish part of Cyprus, I cannot see how that is either against the law or beyond the wishes of the people on either side of a border. If they seek that aspiration, as I suggest they do—I do not think that the right hon. Gentleman will contradict me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-30a.964.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-06-30", "file": "debates1982-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "f53fad12caf11a42", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-30a.994.2", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1978", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "hon. Friend's announcement about the terms of reference and the form of the review. The right hon. Member for Mansfield will not be disappointed on either count when my right hon. Friend makes his announcement in the not too distant future. Some emergency legislation is likely to remain necessary. That may be a starting point of the review. I equally expect that the terms of reference will provide", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-06-30a.994.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-01", "file": "debates1982-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "dfd1bca5acc7a710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-01a.1035.8", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ace being used at present. On commercial grounds, it could have closed down with the loss of all the jobs, but, because it realised the effect that that would have on the area, about 350 jobs were kept in Thornbury. There are occasions when, unless one invests abroad, all possibility of export is lost. Therefore, it is better to consider investing abroad. It also has an effect upon our earnings. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-01a.1035.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-01", "file": "debates1982-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "dfd1bca5acc7a710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-01a.1035.8", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "y of export is lost. Therefore, it is better to consider investing abroad. It also has an effect upon our earnings. — [Interruption.] I am trying to give the hon. Gentleman a thorough reply to his courteous question. All the services of the Manpower Services Commission are, as I have told the hon. Gentleman, at the area's disposal for the purpose of relieving unemployment. In the end, we must try—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-01a.1035.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-01", "file": "debates1982-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "dfd1bca5acc7a710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-01a.1038.6", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "stitute an inquiry that predates the recent incidence, there are five former Prime Ministers alive who have an equal right to take part in the decision about an inquiry. Indeed, they have just as equal a right as the leaders of the Opposition parties. By what constitutional right does my right hon. Friend presume to institute an inquiry into the policies and management of previous Administrations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-01a.1038.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-01", "file": "debates1982-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "dfd1bca5acc7a710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-01a.1039.2", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "previous Prime Minister, as a matter of courtesy, whatever the constitutional position, if he would agree that the appropriate Cabinet minutes and committees can be looked at. At present the rule is that they can be looked at only by those who were involved. They have a right to look at anything in which they personally were involved. I shall, of course, therefore consult previous Prime Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-01a.1039.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-01", "file": "debates1982-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "dfd1bca5acc7a710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-01a.1041.1", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, I shall make a statement about the meeting of the European Council which I attended in Brussels on 28 and 29 June with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. That meeting of the European Council was dominated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-01a.1041.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-01", "file": "debates1982-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "dfd1bca5acc7a710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-01a.1051.0", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "right hon. Gentleman has said. On the right hon. Gentleman's request for a general economic debate, I am sure that he will realise that we are now approaching that time in a Parliament when in a sense the Opposition have proportionately more time at their disposal than is available to the Government. There will be the opportunities that are provided by Report and Third Reading of the Finance Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-01a.1051.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-01", "file": "debates1982-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "dfd1bca5acc7a710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-01a.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "atforms to naval weapons, but I made it clear that our force structure must be one that we can afford to sustain with modern weapons and equipment and with proper war stocks. That is less glamorous than maximising the number of large and costly platforms in our armoury but it is far and away the best way of spending money for real security value. I hope that I have not made a controversial speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-01a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-01", "file": "debates1982-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "dfd1bca5acc7a710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-01a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "It was not wrong to enter into such obligations, but if the hon. Gentleman had listened to me he would not have thought that I wanted to withdraw troops from West Germany. I sought to find a more equitable balance, and that is a different matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-01a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-01", "file": "debates1982-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "dfd1bca5acc7a710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-01a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "ptember 1981 prices. On reflection, he might care to re-examine that figure. After all, the pound is not worth as much as it was in September 1981. The figure usually quoted for Trident is about £10 billion. That is probably the right figure. As we always have this argument, I shall put the matter quickly, and if I may, slowly, to the Secretary of State so that he has a chance to disagree with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-01a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-01", "file": "debates1982-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "dfd1bca5acc7a710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-01a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "sually quoted for Trident is about £10 billion. That is probably the right figure. As we always have this argument, I shall put the matter quickly, and if I may, slowly, to the Secretary of State so that he has a chance to disagree with me. [Interruption.] I shall go through the arguments statistic by statistic. The right hon. Gentleman needs to be told slowly, because he always gets things wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-01a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-01", "file": "debates1982-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "dfd1bca5acc7a710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-01a.1077.7", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Clark", "preceding_text": "o policy and detail of the way in which we defend ourselves. In the last 20 or 30 years we have been dealing in unrealities, secondhand information and surmise. At last we now have the immediate recollection and lessons of one of the most successful campaigns, one would say the only successful campaign, that has been fought by a member of the Western Alliance since the end of the Second World War.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-01a.1077.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-01", "file": "debates1982-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "dfd1bca5acc7a710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-01a.1116.0", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Miss Janet Fookes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Janet Fookes", "preceding_text": "epressing experience. He seemed incapable of making a clear statement about his party's policy, apart from saying that he had no confidence in my right hon. Friend. I felt like saying at the time that the feeling is amply reciprocated by Conservative Members about the right hon. Gentleman. I would not trust him and his colleagues to launch a rubber duck in a bath, let alone to launch a task force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-01a.1116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-01", "file": "debates1982-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "dfd1bca5acc7a710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-01a.1122.3", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "preceding_text": "Hon. Members seem to be having great difficulty in listening to complete sentences. The complete sentence reads: Labour will reduce defence expenditure to the average proportion of gross domestic product spent by other European NATO countries, bearing in mind the need to avoid widespread and precipitate redundancies for whom no alternative work is being provided\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-01a.1122.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-07-01", "file": "debates1982-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "dfd1bca5acc7a710", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-01a.1125.1", "colnum": "1125", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "There was no Air Force then.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Clark", "preceding_text": "With regard to the percentage of the defence budget allocated to the Royal Navy, my hon. Friend may be interested to know that in the five years preceding the outbreak of the First World War, before we were involved in any Continental entanglements, the Royal Navy never received less than 75 per cent. of the defence budget.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-01a.1125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-02", "file": "debates1982-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "50257a7c684d578e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-02a.1152.0", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A Liberal.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Anderson", "preceding_text": "nto the business of sex shops and will continue to do so. I was amused, as many hon. Members may have been, to see the letter from Conegate Ltd. One knows the reputation of at least one of its directors. The antecedents of a director of Ann Summers are known. In a desperate search for respectability Conegate Ltd. tells its retailers that it has as chairman of its board a member of the other place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-02a.1152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-05", "file": "debates1982-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f67f58ee9feef98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-05a.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "GEC-Hitachi (Jobs)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ioan Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ioan Evans", "preceding_text": "u will have heard at Question Time, Mr. Speaker, we in Wales have been expecting the Datsun Nissan project to come to the Principality. That would have meant an increase of 3,000 or more jobs. In the past month, with the threatened reduction at GEC-Hitachi, with the announced closure of Panteg steelworks and with the reduction of 1,200 jobs at BP in Barry and Baglan Bay, Wales has lost 3,000 jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-05a.22.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-05", "file": "debates1982-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f67f58ee9feef98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-05a.27.3", "colnum": "27", "heading": "British Rail (Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Foster", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that British Rail recently lost a freight order to carry British steel because it did not have sufficient wagons?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-05a.27.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-05", "file": "debates1982-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f67f58ee9feef98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-05a.49.0", "colnum": "49", "heading": "British Rail (Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is making a very strong case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-05a.49.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-05", "file": "debates1982-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f67f58ee9feef98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-05a.80.2", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyell", "preceding_text": "I said that the scheme had been put into effect by the Right. The party of the solid and sensible Right has implemented what others have only talked about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-05a.80.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-05", "file": "debates1982-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f67f58ee9feef98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-05a.80.2", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyell", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyell", "preceding_text": "uding school leavers. In July 1981 there were 2,850,000 unemployed, including school leavers. That figure, is somewhat lower than the figure for 1982. Nevertheless, at that time 1·16 million young people aged 24 or under were without a job and spent an average of 12 weeks without employment. That shows that even when the number of unemployed falls as a result of our sound economic policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-05a.80.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-05", "file": "debates1982-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f67f58ee9feef98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-05a.113.0", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Duchy of Cornwall Management Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "ides that a Government can seek the Second Reading of a Bill in a Committee by putting an order in front of the House that can be opposed only by 20 Members standing in their place. That is a legitimate exercise, except that the Government used that ploy on Friday 28 May, the day when the House was rising for the Whitsun Recess, and there were not 20 hon. Members to be found anywhere in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-05a.113.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-05", "file": "debates1982-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f67f58ee9feef98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-05a.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Duchy of Cornwall Management Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "The last parliamentary inquiry into these matters was undertaken by the Civil List Select Committee in the Session 1971–72. I was a member of that Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-05a.114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-05", "file": "debates1982-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f67f58ee9feef98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-05a.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Duchy of Cornwall Management Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "The last parliamentary inquiry into these matters was undertaken by the Civil List Select Committee in the Session 1971–72. I was a member of that Committee—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—although my membership was opposed by he who now is Lord Boyd-Carpenter. He thought it improper for a person such as me to be on a Committee like that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-05a.114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-05", "file": "debates1982-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "0f67f58ee9feef98", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-05a.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Duchy of Cornwall Management Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "y the Civil List Select Committee in the Session 1971–72. I was a member of that Committee—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—although my membership was opposed by he who now is Lord Boyd-Carpenter. He thought it improper for a person such as me to be on a Committee like that. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] However, his view was over-ruled by the House, and I duly took my place on that Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-05a.114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-06", "file": "debates1982-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "2c219b7b91f69d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.135.7", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows only too well, a sad loss of competitiveness was registered as a result—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.135.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-06", "file": "debates1982-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "2c219b7b91f69d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.136.3", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "on of policies similar to those advocated by the Labour Party and the SDP. Fortunately, that Government have now seen some of the difficulties and their policies are converging with ours. As to long-term unemployment, I hope that the hon. Member will use all his influence with his friends to persuade them to support the scheme being discussed within the MSC for expansion of help for about 100,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.136.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-06", "file": "debates1982-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "2c219b7b91f69d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.139.6", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for that encouraging reply. Does he agree that the weekend speech by my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer in which he referred to the Conservative manifesto commitment to abolish wages councils, will be warmly welcomed by both unemployed people and trade union members alike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.139.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-06", "file": "debates1982-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "2c219b7b91f69d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.143.6", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "In turn, the question might be put to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.143.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-06", "file": "debates1982-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "2c219b7b91f69d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.143.6", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "In turn, the question might be put to the hon. Gentleman— [Interruption.] The House will notice that I did not ask a question of the hon. Gentleman. I said that, in turn, the question might be put to the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.143.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-06", "file": "debates1982-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "2c219b7b91f69d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.143.6", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "he question might be put to the hon. Gentleman— [Interruption.] The House will notice that I did not ask a question of the hon. Gentleman. I said that, in turn, the question might be put to the hon. Gentleman— [Interruption] —whether he took the view that the increased unemployment in his constituency while he was a Minister in the last Government was his responsibility. The fact of the matter is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.143.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-06", "file": "debates1982-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "2c219b7b91f69d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "preceding_text": "Might I welcome the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.146.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-06", "file": "debates1982-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "2c219b7b91f69d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.146.11", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "On the Falkland Islands inquiry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.146.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-06", "file": "debates1982-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "2c219b7b91f69d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.148.2", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I understand that this was the wish of both the Leader of the House and the Prime Minister and that it meets the wishes of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.148.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-06", "file": "debates1982-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "2c219b7b91f69d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.169.1", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More money on defence.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "at made them vulnerable because not many of them were designed for the role they were asked to perform. That is the lesson to be learnt from the Falklands. The lesson to be learnt—I am glad that I take the Secretary of State with me—is that in future our ships and the men sailing in them must be adequately protected for whatever role they are asked to perform in an uncertain and a dangerous world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-06", "file": "debates1982-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "2c219b7b91f69d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.169.1", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where will the money come from?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "n in the Eastern Atlantic. We believe that if a war broke out in Central Europe it is more likely to be a war of attrition, not of blitzkrieg, and the strength and efficiency of naval forces in the Atlantic would again become crucial. That means that Britain must have a modern and well-protected surface fleet as well as an efficient submarine fleet, with proper dockyard facilities to support them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-06", "file": "debates1982-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "2c219b7b91f69d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "t of our contribution to NATO? My hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Sutton (Mr. Clark) and The Times have asked whether we have got the balance right and whether we should take a bit out of BAOR and give a little more to the Navy and the maritime air force. They have a point if we are in absolutely rigid financial constraints. I brush aside the argument that we are naturally a maritime country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-06", "file": "debates1982-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "2c219b7b91f69d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.227.1", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "That may well be so, but it is still a first-strike weapon in terms of its ability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-06", "file": "debates1982-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "2c219b7b91f69d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.230.2", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I know that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.230.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-06", "file": "debates1982-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "2c219b7b91f69d8f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.230.4", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Defence", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Defence Procurement (Mr. Geoffrey Pattie)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Defence Procurement (Mr. Geoffrey Pattie)", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, Central (Mr. McNamara) may well feel that he has crossed the line in some of his concluding remarks when he reads them tomorrow. It is hardly surprising that many participants in the debate have concentrated on the Falklands campaign rather than on the contents of the defence White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-06a.230.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-07", "file": "debates1982-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "92f49b80fa75a365", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-07a.288.0", "colnum": "288", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That is another question altogether, different from the one that we are dealing with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-07a.288.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-07", "file": "debates1982-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "92f49b80fa75a365", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-07a.289.5", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "There is not a common foreign policy. We retain our sovereignty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-07a.289.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-07", "file": "debates1982-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "92f49b80fa75a365", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-07a.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Water Industry (Reorganisation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "ation. The right hon. Gentleman made an unfortunate reference. As to economies, perhaps the right hon. Gentleman is not used to dealing with people who are modest and anxious not to make any claims before they can be demonstrated. Being a modest person, I simply said that there will be economies, and significant ones. I am not prepared to state now what their scale will be, because it will depend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-07a.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-07", "file": "debates1982-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "92f49b80fa75a365", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-07a.400.0", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — International Fund for Agricultural Development", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank McElhone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank McElhone", "preceding_text": "t they are accurate. Is this paltry sum due to the fact that part of the PESC allocations to the Minister's Department are being transferred to the Foreign Office or Ministry of Defence budgets? I hope that the Minister will give a firm and positive answer because I should hate to believe that the starving poor of the Third world must pay for the Prime Minister's adventure in the Falkland Islands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-07a.400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-08", "file": "debates1982-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6e90da0c577c344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-08a.447.4", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. In view of the wholly unsatisfactory nature of that reply, I give notice that I intend to raise this matter on the Adjournment at the earliest possible opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-08a.447.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-08", "file": "debates1982-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6e90da0c577c344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-08a.473.5", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Falkland Islands Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": ", in an incident such as this, it is right that the advice, suggestions and propositions about a course of action that a civil servant may have suggested should be examined. I do not refer to civil servants in any one Department, although I noticed that the Prime Minister was diffident about clearing the Foreign Office a little earlier. I hope that she will be a little more generous as we proceed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-08a.473.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-08", "file": "debates1982-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6e90da0c577c344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-08a.476.5", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Falkland Islands Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "I fully accept w hat the hon. Gentleman says. I only wish that greater attention had been paid to the disgraceful state of affairs in Argentina at that time. The hon. Member for Essex, South-East (Sir B. Braine) must also be more careful, because he was one of those who opposed an inquiry into Suez. I welcome his conversion. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-08a.476.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-08", "file": "debates1982-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6e90da0c577c344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-08a.480.1", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Falkland Islands Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": " Islands to the Argentines, subject to a leaseback arrangement. What signals were those? What was the junta supposed to conclude from such actions? To what extent did the Prime Minister endorse the offer of a transfer of sovereignty to Argentina with a leaseback arrangement, or did the hon. Gentleman make the suggestion on his own account when he was discussing the matter with his opposite number?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-08a.480.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-08", "file": "debates1982-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6e90da0c577c344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-08a.482.4", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Falkland Islands Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that the Prime Minister will learn much from the inquiry, but I hope that she will. We need a new Government if we are to develop a better manner of conducting our affairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-08a.482.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-08", "file": "debates1982-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6e90da0c577c344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-08a.484.0", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Falkland Islands Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "was that for four years he prevented a Foreign Office official from getting that highly coveted job nearly 30 years ago. I do not think that that amounts to a disqualification. Lord Franks is admirably qualified, not least by being a member of the Liberal Party, having taken the Liberal Whip in another place for a number of years. I turn to the politicians, because Lord Franks is not a politician.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-08a.484.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-08", "file": "debates1982-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "a6e90da0c577c344", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-08a.487.1", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Falkland Islands Review", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "may well be changed in the future, as the 50-year rule was changed. On the whole, we are moving towards rather more open government, not least in the Cabinet of the right hon. Lady. Rarely have we heard more from within an Administration about what went on in the Cabinet, about what Ministers think about each other and what the right hon. Lady thinks about Ministers individually from time to time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-08a.487.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-12", "file": "debates1982-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2a79e4d2d629f0da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-12a.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Graham", "preceding_text": "Gentleman's speech is correct. The hon. Member for Lichfield and Tamworth does not dispute what I have said. He said that companies received no services whatever in exchange for their rates. However, most businesses—certainly those in my constituency—are very grateful for the services that they receive. They may complain about the cost, but services are provided in the form of education and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-12a.752.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-12", "file": "debates1982-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "2a79e4d2d629f0da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-12a.804.0", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "he quarterly licence will help clubs, such as tennis clubs, which are open for only part of the year. It will also help clubs that eke out a living and can find the cash only for quarterly licences. However, it will not save the working men's clubs, which are open all year, and must now find licence fees, of between £300 and £750. Nor will it help firms, such as AFM Leisure Ltd in my constituency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-12a.804.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-13", "file": "debates1982-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "b7b881e13e909e8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-13a.846.3", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "There is no neat answer to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-13a.846.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-13", "file": "debates1982-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "b7b881e13e909e8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-13a.851.7", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady has apparently been misinformed on this most important subject. If she is in favour of achieving a settlement on reasonable terms, does she not agree that reasonable terms were offered by the British Railways Board on 25 June, that it was a pity they were not accepted then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-13a.851.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-13", "file": "debates1982-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "b7b881e13e909e8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-13a.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David. Crouch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was Churchill.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David. Crouch", "preceding_text": "principles do not allow the disadvantaged to suffer the effects of economic realism and recession. We have always talked of a safety net to protect the disadvantaged from the workings of the economics system. I do not know who invented the phrase \"safety net\". I have used it often when talking to my constituents. Perhaps it was my right hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, North-East (Sir K. Joseph).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-13a.885.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-13", "file": "debates1982-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "b7b881e13e909e8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-13a.905.0", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. Barney Hayhoe)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Treasury (Mr. Barney Hayhoe)", "preceding_text": "er what should be their gross rates in the light of economic and other circumstances prevailing at the time that each of them comes into tax.\"—[ Official Report, Standing Committee B, 29 April 1980; c. 393.] I readily and willingly acknowledge that some of my hon. Friends, as they have said clearly in debate today, genuinely and sincerely believed that when unemployment benefit came into taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-13a.905.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-13", "file": "debates1982-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "b7b881e13e909e8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-13a.924.0", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "ax. His psychological problem is that he cannot get over admiring any group of people who successfully evade the payment of tax. That is his dilemma. However he may try to shrug it off or wish it were otherwise, he now has a responsibility to safeguard the revenue. Instead of doing that, in the clause he is undermining the scheme introduced by the Labour Government because of his spite towards it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-13a.924.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-13", "file": "debates1982-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "b7b881e13e909e8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-13a.924.0", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": " answered me. If the hon. Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Mr. Beaumont-Dark) does not like the answer, he should ensure that he is not represented by Ministers who show the contempt that the Financial Secretary offered us in his answer. I moved the amendment seriously and I expected the Minister to take it seriously. Both sides of the construction industry requested us to put down the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-13a.924.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-13", "file": "debates1982-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "b7b881e13e909e8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-13a.969.3", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "Where is the right hon. Member for Greenock and Port Glasgow (Dr. Mabon), the former Energy Minister, tonight? I am sure that he would accept the argument of Shell and Esso. I know enough about the oil companies to know that one thing one does not do is trust them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-13a.969.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-13", "file": "debates1982-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "b7b881e13e909e8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-13a.970.3", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ted Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "ot at the North Sea exploration production level, ICI is trying to persuade Members of Parliament that it is disadvantaged. It says that because it must buy naphtha for its production of petrochemicals at 33p per the therefore faces a bill of £500 million. It argues that, because of that Bill, it will lose £500 million worth of investment and 9,000 jobs. A couple of simple questions must be asked.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-13a.970.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-13", "file": "debates1982-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "b7b881e13e909e8e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-13a.971.0", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "I shall detain the House for only a couple of minutes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-13a.971.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-14", "file": "debates1982-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a4cd69cbb070c56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-14a.1024.4", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "If we can get back to the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-14a.1024.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-14", "file": "debates1982-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a4cd69cbb070c56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-14a.1039.3", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "British Rail (Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Ross", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"It has.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Ross", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that the Liberal Party thinks that his attitude, and that of his Government, to public transport, and the railways in particular, needs to be greatly enlightened? It would help enormously if investment could be promised now for genuine productivity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-14a.1039.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-14", "file": "debates1982-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a4cd69cbb070c56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-14a.1062.6", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " object, the second is to remove obstacles in the way of industry's greater success. Much has been done. We have abolished pay, price, dividend and exchange controls. The burden of United Kingdom Corporation tax now compares favourably with other countries. With the improvements introduced by this Government, we have a system of capital allowances and stock relief among the most generous anywhere.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-14a.1062.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-07-14", "file": "debates1982-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a4cd69cbb070c56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-14a.1064.1", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGuire", "preceding_text": "On the question of assistance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-14a.1064.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-14", "file": "debates1982-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "1a4cd69cbb070c56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-14a.1107.0", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"At any price?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "on, which states: Business failures in Yorkshire hit record level. That is now, and it is not in cloud-cuckoo-land. In view of that evidence, we do not need just a mild reflation or, as the chairman of the CBI was saying, to embrace Keynesianism. Let us reflate our economy. We can talk about regional policies, but most people want a modest start to a reflation of business activity at every level.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-14a.1107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-15", "file": "debates1982-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cc85e7974f50cc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-15a.1159.3", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": " that Britain should play an important part in international discussions of that type. The summit of the Seven at Versailles addressed itself to that point. As a result of it, discussions are now taking place on those international matters. They follow up a suggestion that I made in a speech to the IMF last year. Perhaps I might respond to the right hon. Gentleman's question by asking him another—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-15a.1159.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-15", "file": "debates1982-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cc85e7974f50cc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-15a.1160.3", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "It is not possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-15a.1160.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-15", "file": "debates1982-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cc85e7974f50cc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-15a.1164.9", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "I thank my right hon. Friend for that typically forthcoming and helpful reply. For the past 143 years, Rugby has been a prosperous railway centre. That prosperity is now threatened by the present ASLEF dispute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-15a.1164.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-15", "file": "debates1982-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cc85e7974f50cc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-15a.1166.1", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Lady—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-15a.1166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-15", "file": "debates1982-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cc85e7974f50cc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-15a.1170.2", "colnum": "1170", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I note what the right hon. Gentleman says. I was observing that the House last week debated a Liberal Supply day motion on unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-15a.1170.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-15", "file": "debates1982-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cc85e7974f50cc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-15a.1175.6", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, yes?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "Obviously, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Energy is most anxious to deal with the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-15a.1175.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-15", "file": "debates1982-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cc85e7974f50cc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-15a.1179.6", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "cidentally, the Prime Minister in her famous speech in a fishing port in an election year said that we must have a control system which enables us to police our own waters. One of the aspects of the majority vote is the policing system. If there is one thing that is common in all the representations from the fishing industry, it is the inadequacy of the policing methods and the faulty inspections—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-15a.1179.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-15", "file": "debates1982-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cc85e7974f50cc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-15a.1201.0", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Johnson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Johnson", "preceding_text": " industry is going hand in hand with him. I belong to a deep sea port, and I listen to my constituents, such as Tom Boyd. I do not know where the Minister gets his idea that they think that he is doing a good job or that he has done a good job for my city of Hull. I deny that he has. Earlier, we were told that the Queen—I beg her pardon. We were told that the inmate of No. 10 had been to Aberdeen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-15a.1201.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-15", "file": "debates1982-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "cc85e7974f50cc5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-15a.1230.3", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Council (Money) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "tituents why he is opposed to spending £163,000 on improving Holloway school, which, even if it is not in his constituency, takes a substantial number of pupils from the area that he represents. Perhaps he will be in favour of having internal lavatories at Duncombe junior mixed school. That will benefit the children of his constituents. It is intended that that school should benefit from the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-15a.1230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-16", "file": "debates1982-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "73a7ee3672fd1608", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-16a.1329.1", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Robinson", "preceding_text": "The Appropriation (No. 2) Account—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-16a.1329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-19", "file": "debates1982-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "5c71f3f4113b2aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-19a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Telecommunications Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley Orme", "preceding_text": "em? What protection will be given to the pension rights of employees? What proposals will the Government make to protect both pensions and employment? How will the Government price the sale of the shares? What criteria can those shares be matched against? What guarantee will there be that there will not be a further Amersham International scandal? Why does the Minister not free, if he talks about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-19a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-19", "file": "debates1982-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "5c71f3f4113b2aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-19a.25.0", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Telecommunications Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Under the Government's policy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ch this proposal will be in the interests of customers. This is one of the few industries which now has strong growth potential both in the network provision and in the provision of equipment and services to attach to the network. The criticism has been made by the board, by the unions and by a Select Committee of the House that British Telecommunications has had to constrain its investment plans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-19a.25.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-19", "file": "debates1982-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "5c71f3f4113b2aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-19a.27.3", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Telecommunications Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " mesh of Government control that has surrounded the industry ever since its foundation. I assure the right hon. Gentleman that the Bill will safeguard existing pension rights of British Telecom employees. There will be no welshing on that obligation. As the right hon. Gentleman knows, British Telecom is carrying the whole of the pre-1969 pension contribution obligations and that is a matter which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-19a.27.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-19", "file": "debates1982-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "5c71f3f4113b2aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-19a.53.0", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " a splendid weapon, but there was not much urgency before. Then there was the Sea Eagle, which apparently is far superior to the Exocet. Nothing much was done about that, either. But immediately after hostilities ended, the Secretary of State appeared on television standing in front of a Sea Eagle saying what a splendid weapon it was. Why was not it a splendid weapon before the Falklands campaign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-19a.53.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-19", "file": "debates1982-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "5c71f3f4113b2aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-19a.59.0", "colnum": "59", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "preceding_text": "hey can and might be changed. In the Falklands campaign it took about 18,000 men in ships to land 9,000 troops. There were nearly 100 ships involved, including 1 million deadweight tanker tonnes. Also involved were the QE2 and the \"Canberra\", the only large passenger ships that were available. We must not forget how valuable the ships of the hydrographic fleet were which took part in the exercise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-19a.59.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-19", "file": "debates1982-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "5c71f3f4113b2aea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-19a.110.3", "colnum": "110", "heading": "Orders of the Day — The Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pattie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pattie", "preceding_text": " defence expenditure. Any Government which has to take account of public opinion, must be engaged frequently in exercises of resource allocation. Where defence is concerned, such allocations must take into account external considerations, that is treaty obligations and alliance commitments as well as domestic considerations which relate in essence to the perceived nature of the threat. On page 16—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-19a.110.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-20", "file": "debates1982-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "dcc3d9bbb3273d04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.198.0", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman disadvantage or enhance the process of stability, unity and cohesion in our society by encouraging or discouraging—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.198.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-20", "file": "debates1982-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "dcc3d9bbb3273d04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.207.3", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "m small classes, because they send their children to schools that have a much lower pupil-teacher ratio than that found in the ordinary schools to which our children go? Is it not also a fact that the education cuts are now so horrific that teachers in every staff room in our ordinary schools are fearful that they will be made redundant, and that the cuts are so deep that our children's education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.207.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-20", "file": "debates1982-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "dcc3d9bbb3273d04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.207.4", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. As the hon. Gentleman knows, there will be a fall of approximately 1 million in pupil numbers and, therefore, there must be a similar and proportionate fall in the number of teachers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.207.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-20", "file": "debates1982-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "dcc3d9bbb3273d04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.207.9", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Provided that we keep inflation coming down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.207.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-20", "file": "debates1982-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "dcc3d9bbb3273d04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.208.2", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that that will come into the service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.208.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-20", "file": "debates1982-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "dcc3d9bbb3273d04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.214.11", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister able—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.214.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-07-20", "file": "debates1982-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "dcc3d9bbb3273d04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.220.2", "colnum": "220", "heading": "Bomb Incidents", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Rubbish\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "iend give an absolute assurance that it cannot and will not succeed? Will he also redouble the Government's efforts to improve co-operation with the Irish Republic in their effort to combat the IRA, and will he state clearly to the country that those hon. Members who either voted against or refused to support the Prevention of Terrorism Act have given aid and comfort to the enemies of this nation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.220.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-20", "file": "debates1982-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "dcc3d9bbb3273d04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.234.3", "colnum": "234", "heading": "National Health Service (Pay Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "ations have been cancelled since the beginning of the dispute and 1,800 outpatient appointments have been delayed. Two hundred and fifty beds have been closed as the result of the unions' behaviour. The waiting lists are getting longer. Among those needlessly kept waiting are cancer patients, heart patients and patients waiting for orthopaedic operations. What is the major cause of that suffering?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-20", "file": "debates1982-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "dcc3d9bbb3273d04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.243.0", "colnum": "243", "heading": "National Health Service (Pay Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Benyon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Benyon", "preceding_text": " same public purse. During the past few months university teachers, firemen and nurses have sought more money and there is a steady train of people demanding more and more money. I wonder whether they understand where the money would come from if we were to be forthcoming in every case. However, all hon. Members are sympathetic to the cause of the nurses and of those who work in the health sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.243.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-20", "file": "debates1982-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "dcc3d9bbb3273d04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.258.3", "colnum": "258", "heading": "National Health Service (Pay Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "preceding_text": "That is the big difference between the Secretary of State and me. Briefly, and simply, I ask that the intrinsic decency of the Health Service workers be recognised. The general condemnation that most strikes receive does not apply to this one. My hon. Friends—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.258.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-20", "file": "debates1982-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "dcc3d9bbb3273d04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.264.1", "colnum": "264", "heading": "National Health Service (Pay Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "However, until they respond and show some interest in better long-term arrangements, I shall not be rid of the suspicion that there are some people, although by no means all—I exempt the Royal College of Nursing, the Royal College of Midwives and parts of COHSE—in this strange coalition of unions running the present industrial action who do not want better long term arrangements for their members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-20", "file": "debates1982-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "dcc3d9bbb3273d04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.304.0", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Industrial Training", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Peter Morrison)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Peter Morrison)", "preceding_text": "t is taking the argument too far to suggest that the Government are irrationally opposed to the continuation of the boards and irrationally biased against them. We are keeping seven of the 23 boards with over half the number of employees at present covered by statutory boards. This is either because employers want them or because they cannot at this stage envisage successful voluntary arrangements", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.304.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-20", "file": "debates1982-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "dcc3d9bbb3273d04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.311.5", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "has the opportunity to see if it remains a reasonable forecast, and whether the draft order will, as intended, serve to maintain the value of the benefits covered by it. At the time of the last uprating the annual rate of inflation was running at 12 per cent. By June, it had fallen to 9·2 per cent., and with the success of the Government's anti-inflation strategy further falls are expected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.311.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-20", "file": "debates1982-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "dcc3d9bbb3273d04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.312.0", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brynmor John", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brynmor John", "preceding_text": "I am truly grateful to the Minister for his lack of provocation. However, if there was a miracle and the Government discovered that they had overestimated for the rate of inflation, would they claw back from benefits the percentage that they alleged had been overpaid, just as they did last time, or would they maintain them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-20", "file": "debates1982-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "dcc3d9bbb3273d04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.312.1", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": ". As he knows, we considered the matter carefully when we legislated. We legislated for an overshoot on a one year basis only, although it was within our power to enable ourselves to claw back for successive years. However, we chose not to do so. Therefore, if we decide to claw back we shall have to come to the House with fresh legislation. If we had to do that, we should do so with a heavy heart.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.312.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-20", "file": "debates1982-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "dcc3d9bbb3273d04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.342.2", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "Evidently not, from the evidence tonight. In conclusion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.342.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-20", "file": "debates1982-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "dcc3d9bbb3273d04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.355.2", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Rate Support Grant Reduction (Stirling District)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "te the hon. Member for Garscadden. In tourism, rates for hotels and shops form a substantial part of the expenditure incurred by big employers. The hon. Member for Stirling, Falkirk and Grangemouth said that Stirling district was a low-spending authority. I shall compare expendiure in Stirling district council with the average figure for district councils, and then with Perth and Kinross district.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.355.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-20", "file": "debates1982-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "dcc3d9bbb3273d04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.356.2", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Rate Support Grant Reduction (Stirling District)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman when I have given the figures, because they are all related and I may lose my thread if I stop now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.356.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-20", "file": "debates1982-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "dcc3d9bbb3273d04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.358.4", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Rate Support Grant Reduction (Stirling District)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All of them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": " services would the Minister cut? Would he cut the children's library facilities in rural areas? Would he make the amateur football teams pay higher fees to play on a Saturday afternoon? Would he call for further decreases in the rate fund contribution to the housing revenue account, which would inevitably lead to higher rents? Which of those options does he wish to impose on the district council?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-20a.358.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-21", "file": "debates1982-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "52c4f5d958a341d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-21a.407.9", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Buckingham Palace (Security)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Member for Islington, Central (Mr. Grant) come back to his place? Very well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-21a.407.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-21", "file": "debates1982-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "52c4f5d958a341d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-21a.421.3", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I think that I have repeated what the Prime Minister has said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-21a.421.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-21", "file": "debates1982-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "52c4f5d958a341d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-21a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should listen with care before he intervenes. I did not say that jobs would be lost. I said that they would be put at risk. I believe that is a fair statement. Moreover, I referred to thousands of jobs, not to hundreds of thousands. I do not believe that the figure can be quantified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-21a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-21", "file": "debates1982-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "52c4f5d958a341d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-21a.467.0", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "the last 17 years to the point where turnover is now £3 million or 30 per cent. of whisky sales to the Argentine. That should be remembered by the Government, particularly when the Scottish people speak out against the action of the Irish Government and how member States behaved or did not behave. Scotch whisky is in world-wide competition with Irish whiskey, and that fact should not be forgotten—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-21a.467.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-22", "file": "debates1982-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "83ba879b3a0dab61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-22a.519.1", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister take account of the fact that on any given day the truancy level in schools is less than 20 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-22a.519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-22", "file": "debates1982-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "83ba879b3a0dab61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-22a.530.2", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, I am always prepared to exercise penitence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-22a.530.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-22", "file": "debates1982-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "83ba879b3a0dab61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-22a.531.1", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "In view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-22a.531.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-22", "file": "debates1982-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "83ba879b3a0dab61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-22a.531.2", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The right hon. Gentleman is entitled to be heard.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-22a.531.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-22", "file": "debates1982-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "83ba879b3a0dab61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-22a.558.1", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Radioactive Waste", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "I do not want to interrupt my remarks to deal with my hon. Friend's intervention. As usual, he is on the ball. With this Government the Opposition must ask the necessary questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-22a.558.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-22", "file": "debates1982-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "83ba879b3a0dab61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-22a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "rier capacity is retained and developed as a distinct and separate thing from any other future aircraft requirements. I hope that the Minister and the Government will not leave the country, in another three of four years, bewildered by the lack of a decision on future combat aircraft. It is essential that fast progress is made. In the few moments left in the short speech that I have tried to make—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-22a.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-22", "file": "debates1982-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "83ba879b3a0dab61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-22a.630.5", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Seat Belts", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "ensible approach for a circumstance that occasionally arises. In regulation 5 (k) we have proposed a limited exemption for motor mechanics. On occasions we appreciate that mechanics may need to carry out adjustments or diagnoses as front seat passengers. Wearing a seat belt could prevent that, as the work might involve lying on the floor of the car, under the dashboard, as the car is driven along.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-22a.630.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-22", "file": "debates1982-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "83ba879b3a0dab61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-22a.634.1", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Seat Belts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "estions about them. It is extraordinary that regulations should come into operation on the twenty-third Monday after they are made. We are told that that is suitable because the police believe that the first working day of a week is the best day to commence regulations, but why commence them on 13 December 1982? Why not introduce the regulations on 1 January 1983? That would be clearer for people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-22a.634.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-22", "file": "debates1982-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "83ba879b3a0dab61", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-22a.639.0", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Seat Belts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "e opportunity for error was too great. However, having read the regulations, I now see that it is not compulsory. According to regulation 6 (b) the classes of vehicle mentioned in regulation 4 include a vehicle which is equipped with anchorage points and seat belts\". If someone removes the seat belt, the regulation no longer applies. The vehicle is no longer equipped with seat belts and therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-22a.639.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-23", "file": "debates1982-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "ad0602ec812c05fa", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-23a.716.4", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Orders of the Day — European Communities Budget", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman asked about the Commission, but perhaps not; it is not an important distinction. If the Commission proposed such a levy, it could get it accepted only with the unanimous agreement of the Council. I believe that the Luxembourg compromise would hold and that it would not be possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-23a.716.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-26", "file": "debates1982-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd182e6d20fc1f3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-26a.733.8", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that it is not the time to give guarantees when one is considering policy options—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-26a.733.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-26", "file": "debates1982-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd182e6d20fc1f3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-26a.764.2", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Housing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "It would not find it administratively possible to do so. However, if that were to happen, we would react swiftly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-26a.764.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-26", "file": "debates1982-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd182e6d20fc1f3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-26a.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Housing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "entleman objects to any discretion at all which leads to variations between the local schemes, it would probably lie between us as a matter of political judgment whether the Government should attempt to lay down every last dot and comma for local authorities, or whether they should leave a degree of discretion to councils and councillors to decide what they would like to do in local circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-26a.790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-26", "file": "debates1982-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd182e6d20fc1f3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-26a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Housing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "will not have received benefit by that time and, by definition, will not have received a housing addition. If the hon. Gentleman is asking me whether they will receive less benefit than the same school leavers this year, the answer is \"Yes.\" However, that is not at all the same as cutting the benefit currently enjoyed by somebody who has already left school and who is receiving a housing addition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-26a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-26", "file": "debates1982-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd182e6d20fc1f3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-26a.825.1", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Legal Aid Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "arliament with a wife in a part-time job and two children, the Member of Parliament earning the normal salary and the wife earning £2,500. That is a not insubstantial joint income. The contribution is assessed at £22 a week. Those who criticise that must remember that someone must pay. The choice lies between Joe Soap the taxpayer and the person who finds himself in those difficulties. The public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-26a.825.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-26", "file": "debates1982-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "fd182e6d20fc1f3d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-26a.878.2", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Assembly", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. D. Concannon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. D. Concannon", "preceding_text": "ntry or to take their seats in the Assembly. There is a need for clarification. There is confusion on the issue. It is vital that the Secretary of State spells out in detail the position of those caught under the Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975. I am sure that the Secretary of State, as well as my right hon. and hon. Friends, would wish the election to be as smooth as possible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-26a.878.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-27", "file": "debates1982-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6b414b75ca16accd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.935.5", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "orning themselves with the Union Jack as though it belonged to them and to them alone. When it comes to fighting unemployment, however, the standard that the Prime Minister runs up is the white flag. Three years ago, she told the nation: there is nothing inevitable about rising unemployment\". Five days ago, she told the 1922 Committee that she intends to do nothing whatever to reduce unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.935.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-27", "file": "debates1982-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6b414b75ca16accd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.942.4", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"8·2 per cent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "ving that the conditions outside this country have nothing to do with the problems that we face. The truth is that the conditions we face are more urgent than they are abroad, but the problems are certainly not ours alone. The unemployment rate in Canada is now 10 per cent. The unemployment rate in the country to which the right hon. Member for Chesterfield referred—France—is 10·8 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.942.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-27", "file": "debates1982-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6b414b75ca16accd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.943.1", "colnum": "943", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "Over the past two years competitiveness has been improving significantly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.943.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-27", "file": "debates1982-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6b414b75ca16accd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.944.0", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "There are two causes for the loss of competitiveness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-27", "file": "debates1982-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6b414b75ca16accd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.945.0", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "The figures that I have show that in France the seasonally adjusted level of unemployment has been rising during the past 12 months.1", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.945.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-27", "file": "debates1982-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6b414b75ca16accd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.949.2", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "o work people now unemployed. But if, for example, the grant amounted to £500 and 100,000 jobs were split, the gross cost would be of the order of £55 million over the life of the scheme. Since there would be savings from benefits that would otherwise be paid, the scheme should have no net cost in terms of total public expenditure. I hope that the House will support these imaginative new measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.949.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-07-27", "file": "debates1982-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6b414b75ca16accd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.951.0", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Resign\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": " be ignored. They are creating, and have created, conditions for falls in interest rates. They will lead to further progress on inflation and on output. To give up our policies, as the right hon. Member for Chesterfield has urged, would be to give up the real chance that we now have for a lasting, improved economy and for a sustained reduction in unemployment. I commend the amendment to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.950.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-27", "file": "debates1982-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6b414b75ca16accd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.951.1", "colnum": "951", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Chancellor is not listening.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joel Barnett", "preceding_text": "the Chancellor's policies on unemployment have been his actions in frittering away the benefits of North Sea oil. Of all the Government's terrible deeds, this is probably the worst. The benefits have been frittered away on maintaining levels of consumption that the country could not afford, given the fall in GDP seen in the past three years. I put this question to the Prime Minster some time ago.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.951.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-27", "file": "debates1982-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6b414b75ca16accd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.968.0", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "preceding_text": "ng up small factories underneath railway arches. That is what the enterprise zones are made up of. They have buckets for lavatories, because there is no regard for planning agreements. They have irresponsible attitudes. They have the worst possible working conditions. Such businesses say \"To hell with responsibility\", and set themselves up with a bucket, a hammer and a pencil, and that is the lot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.968.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-27", "file": "debates1982-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6b414b75ca16accd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.968.0", "colnum": "968", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "preceding_text": "l the characteristics of Petticoat Lane are spreading across the economy. Any visitor to London will confirm that London is the biggest rip-off in the Western world. We have the biggest black economy in the Western world. We have the biggest retail margins in the Western world. We now have the most unequal society in the Western world. All of that is due to the policies pursued by the Government.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.968.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-27", "file": "debates1982-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6b414b75ca16accd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.974.0", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Horam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Horam", "preceding_text": "lining again. Indeed, the forecast may be for a further decline next year. Bankruptcies are mounting all the time. Small companies in particular are going to the wall and, however much rooting powder may be used to create new shoots, companies are dying faster than they can be created. Among small companies the number of bankruptcies is greater than the number of newly created firms. That is true.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.974.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-27", "file": "debates1982-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6b414b75ca16accd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.1004.3", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": " their competitors over the months ahead. Whatever the statistics say, and however we count the toll of the jobless who are actively seeking work, the House agrees that that represents a tragic waste of resources, skills and talents and a personal tragedy for the great mass of the unemployed and their families. Those of us who are old enough to have even childhood memories of pre-war unemployment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.1004.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-27", "file": "debates1982-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6b414b75ca16accd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.1004.3", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "st mouths are those of Members who are too young to remember that. Those who can remember pre-war unemployment know that there is a vast difference between the degree of hardship and distress then and now. However, none of us would wish the return to full employment to be delayed a day longer than need be. In the meantime, to deal with the problems of the unemployed, we have devised and developed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.1004.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-27", "file": "debates1982-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6b414b75ca16accd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.1006.6", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker Is it not a tradition that the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.1006.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-27", "file": "debates1982-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6b414b75ca16accd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.1006.10", "colnum": "1006", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": " House. He was unable to be present today. He made a major policy statement in last Sunday's News of the World. He wrote: The SDP's unique contribution is that we have the determination and the realistic non-dogmatic policies Britain needs to turn the tide of unemployment. Eagerly, my eye continued down the page. Alas, that was the end of the policy statement. I therefore searched earlier columns.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.1006.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-27", "file": "debates1982-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6b414b75ca16accd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.1007.14", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "It is difficult to make oneself heard— [Interruption.] There seems to be a somewhat unnatural—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.1007.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-27", "file": "debates1982-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6b414b75ca16accd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.1022.4", "colnum": "1022", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "e Government and the Electoral Reform Society to assess the extent to which fully representative assemblies are achieved. The evaluation will consider, in time for future elections, whether we have adopted the most appropriate arrangements. The order sets out the arrangements for the first election. If it does not produce the results that we anticipate or desire, it will be reviewed in due course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.1022.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-27", "file": "debates1982-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "6b414b75ca16accd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.1027.2", "colnum": "1027", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "of view between him and the Minister? That would be a serious matter. As the Minister pointed out, the responsible professional body has made a recommendation and he has—as we would expect from one who is an electoral reformer at heart—wisely and sagely accepted its recommendation. However, it is clearly and openly disputed by the Under-Secretary of State for Scotland. We should know the position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-27a.1027.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-28", "file": "debates1982-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bdf1521f92be8ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-28a.1059.3", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Questions to Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "ry of State said that he was not involved, but several people are involved. The former Solicitor-General for Scotland, for one, is involved, and I am also involved. The matters arising from the report require such discussion. Is there any way in which you, Mr. Speaker, or the Leader of the House, could take steps to ensure that the Scottish Grand Committee is recalled when the report is published—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-28a.1059.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-28", "file": "debates1982-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bdf1521f92be8ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-28a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "Local Government Expenditure (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Hamilton", "preceding_text": "ntleman resist stating that the rate poundage is a contributory factor to unemployment in Scotland? Is he aware that Strathclyde regional council and my district council of Motherwell made it clear that if the further guidelines are imposed it will mean cuts in services? Old folk will suffer, education will suffer drastically, and many children who now go to school barefoot will continue to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-28a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-28", "file": "debates1982-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bdf1521f92be8ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-28a.1100.0", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civic Government (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": " go some way towards giving that protection. Subsection (3) (b) of the new clause tabled by the hon. Member for Garscadden refers to a dog tag, or identification mark. In new clause 6 I have asked that the House should consider that the identification mark should be indelibly marked on the inside thigh as this area is lacking in pigmentation and would be suitable without causing pain to the dog. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-28a.1100.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-07-28", "file": "debates1982-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "8bdf1521f92be8ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-28a.1178.1", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civic Government (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Before I call the next hon. Member, I note the comment of the hon. Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar). It is a rather strange grouping. Would it be for the convenience of the House if we took the amendments separately?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-28a.1178.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-29", "file": "debates1982-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "94a2d0fe136be565", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-29a.1216.7", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Concannon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Concannon", "preceding_text": "That is right, Mr. Speaker, but comments from a sedentary position put one off, especially when it is the end of term. I am perturbed by the worsening relationship—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-29a.1216.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-29", "file": "debates1982-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "94a2d0fe136be565", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-29a.1224.2", "colnum": "1224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "Can my hon. Friend tell the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-29a.1224.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-29", "file": "debates1982-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "94a2d0fe136be565", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-29a.1226.1", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I said, \"on matters affecting Northern Ireland\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-29a.1226.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-29", "file": "debates1982-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "94a2d0fe136be565", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-29a.1228.6", "colnum": "1228", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman voices a fundamental fallacy. He thinks that a Government can control the demand for the volume of goods and services bought from British industry. No Government can possibly do that. A Government can only control—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-29a.1228.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-29", "file": "debates1982-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "94a2d0fe136be565", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-29a.1238.1", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "Sir Peter Thorne", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": " well looked after—but Colonel Thorne treated each Member of the House alike. If one went to him and he could not do something immediately, he would go out of his way to do it. Often he failed because of the non-co-operation of the Establishment, and especially of hon. Members. He innovated the excellent precept of reserving car park spaces for disabled persons, but many hon. Members ignored that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-29a.1238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-29", "file": "debates1982-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "94a2d0fe136be565", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-29a.1239.1", "colnum": "1239", "heading": "Sir Peter Thorne", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "I accept that I am not a \"Yes\" man. I will have a go at anyone, as I probably have at Colonel Thorne, but there are no hard feelings on my part and I know that there are none on his. As an hon. Member who will also retire one day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-29a.1239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-29", "file": "debates1982-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "94a2d0fe136be565", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-29a.1375.2", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Department of Energy (Privatisation Policy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunliffe", "preceding_text": "res in a publicly owned industry are disposed of by the Government they shall lay before Parliament all the commercial calculations on which the judgments regarding price, method of disposal and timing of sales are based, and for connected purposes. No one can deny that the Government were subject to acute embarrassment. They will have the stigma of Amersham International for ever on their record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-29a.1375.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-29", "file": "debates1982-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "94a2d0fe136be565", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-29a.1375.2", "colnum": "1375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Department of Energy (Privatisation Policy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunliffe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunliffe", "preceding_text": " Member for Newham, North-East (Mr. Leighton) rightly made great play of the fact that North Sea oil is the greatest jewel in the country's crown. It will continue to be if we conserve it and use it wisely. The Minister must acknowledge that we are still foolishly supplying oil which we shall need in 20 years' time to power stations, although we have 300 years of coal reserves in our coal fields.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-29a.1375.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-07-29", "file": "debates1982-07-29a.xml", "sha256": "94a2d0fe136be565", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-29a.1381.0", "colnum": "1381", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Department of Energy (Privatisation Policy)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. John Moore)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. John Moore)", "preceding_text": "cking or from public surveys, of the attitude of the public to the nationalised industries. I take no pleasure from that. The reality is that I do not have consumers coming to my surgeries to complain about the nature of Sainsbury's or the choice and service they have in the purchase of food products in the United Kingdom. Nor do they complain about the service they receive from Marks and Spencer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-07-29a.1381.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-18", "file": "debates1982-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "87d554d5bb1256c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-18a.20.1", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "airs of the Arts Council and the demands for far more money to be put at its disposal, will the right hon. Gentleman bear in mind that the council is a somewhat remote and nebulous body and that even most people interested in the arts have no idea who serves on it? Will he think seriously about introducing an element of democracy into the membership of the council and allow groups such as the TUC—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-18a.20.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-18", "file": "debates1982-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "87d554d5bb1256c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-18a.50.0", "colnum": "50", "heading": "New Clause 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": " not unsympathetic to the proposal, which has much to recommend it. I ask the Committee to allow us time to consider the precise form that the provision should take. First, there are drafting problems … Some points of practice also remain to be considered.\"—[ Official Report, Special Standing Committee , 13 May 1982; c. 285.] My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary has given our considered view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-18a.50.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-18", "file": "debates1982-10-18a.xml", "sha256": "87d554d5bb1256c1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-18a.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "NEW SCHEDULE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Morris", "preceding_text": " handicapped people, writes: Paragraph 3, sub-paragraph 5 (d) of the new schedule appears to me as being deliberately designed to put as many obstacles as possible in the patient's path to the polling box. We all know that many voluntary patients cannot remember their last residence, nor are they in a position to give an an address where they would be resident if they were not a voluntary patient.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-18a.180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-19", "file": "debates1982-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "82601d741819a294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-19a.224.6", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Answer the question\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman will have seen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-19a.224.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-19", "file": "debates1982-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "82601d741819a294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-19a.225.0", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": " no sense seeking to be critical of the rights of the individual to free speech on any issue, may I ask my right hon. Friend whether she agrees that it is a sad day for the Church of England when a group of supposedly eminent—but certainly unrepresentative—clerics seek to undermine the defence of the United Kingdom in so far as they are prepared to shelter under the United States nuclear umbrella—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-19a.225.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-19", "file": "debates1982-10-19a.xml", "sha256": "82601d741819a294", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-19a.265.1", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Administration of Justice Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That is irrelevant.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "ether it was right or wrong—was to give the papers to an individual not because he wanted to write a report, either for the law reports or the daily press, but because he wanted to use them to write a book about prisons. I am speaking elliptically rather than filling in the details, but this was not a case of a reporter wishing to see the documents to write a report in the newspapers the next day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-19a.265.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-20", "file": "debates1982-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "e532b1aa9060a5ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.348.3", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "I have recently returned from Namibia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.348.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-20", "file": "debates1982-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "e532b1aa9060a5ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.351.2", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "nion for what is happening in Poland. Will he tell the United States that this type of economic pressure on the Soviet Union will have absolutely no impact whatever on what happens in Poland and that he is not prepared to trade a deal on the pipeline issue in return for sanctions against the Soviet Union in other spheres that have no economic or political justification? May I put a third question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.351.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-20", "file": "debates1982-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "e532b1aa9060a5ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.357.1", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "Up to a point I certainly agree with the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.357.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-20", "file": "debates1982-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "e532b1aa9060a5ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.367.1", "colnum": "367", "heading": "British Telecommunications", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Golding", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Golding", "preceding_text": "sed by the Government's proposal for taking telecommunications out of the public service, and the press report that this is to be undertaken as a matter of urgency by the Government. Today sees the biggest strike ever in telecommunications. I know from the Post Office Engineering Union headquarters, where I am an assistant secretary, that the response to the POEU strike call has been overwhelming.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.367.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-10-20", "file": "debates1982-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "e532b1aa9060a5ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.371.6", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Emphysema (Compensation)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "The last thing that I wished to do was to offend any Labour Members. Accordingly, to the extent that my remark was inaccurate, I withdraw it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.371.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-20", "file": "debates1982-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "e532b1aa9060a5ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.372.1", "colnum": "372", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "preceding_text": ". That is the only way in which we shall be judged. The Secretary of State not only knows that, but intends to put it into operation. Perhaps he does not intend to do so too openly before the next election, but he will certainly do so in a quiet way by the imposition of charges for hospital services—which he has already introduced under the guise of charges for overseas visitors—by the imposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-20", "file": "debates1982-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "e532b1aa9060a5ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.372.1", "colnum": "372", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "d only make individual recommendations to its unions. I hope that today the right hon. Gentleman will make it clear that he does not intend to suggest that the chairman of the health services committee or the secretary gave commitments which he knows very well they could not have given in any circumstances. We have recently had the famous offer of a rearrangement of funds for the two-year period.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.372.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-20", "file": "debates1982-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "e532b1aa9060a5ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.386.1", "colnum": "386", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": "reated with such contempt by the unions when it provides no extra cash for 1982–83, commits the unions to accept 4 per cent. next year and, most significantly, puts off until April 1984 the introduction of any long-term formula for dealing with NHS pay. This offer is the latest display of incompetence by the Secretary of State. I know that he must be sick of hearing me call him incompetent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-20", "file": "debates1982-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "e532b1aa9060a5ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.386.1", "colnum": "386", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pendry", "preceding_text": "or 1982–83, commits the unions to accept 4 per cent. next year and, most significantly, puts off until April 1984 the introduction of any long-term formula for dealing with NHS pay. This offer is the latest display of incompetence by the Secretary of State. I know that he must be sick of hearing me call him incompetent. [Interruption.] I am sure that in other situations he is not a bad lad.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.386.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-20", "file": "debates1982-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "e532b1aa9060a5ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.389.0", "colnum": "389", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "e. I must also comment on the fact that outpatients attending for appointments have been subjected to abuse and fear. An elderly constituent told me that when he went to the hospital for his outpatient appointment he was too afraid to go inside because of the demeanour and attitude of the pickets and their remarks to him. That cannot be supported by anyone, and there are scores of cases on record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.389.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-20", "file": "debates1982-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "e532b1aa9060a5ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.392.3", "colnum": "392", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "r private calls and hospital stamps for private letters, and so on. Those matters should be examined, although I do not suppose that the Opposition would like it. Those Labour Members who talk about the Conservative Government destroying the Health Service are saying, in effect, \"I have made up my mind, do not confuse me with the facts\", for all the facts show the truth to be exactly the opposite.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.392.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-20", "file": "debates1982-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "e532b1aa9060a5ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.401.2", "colnum": "401", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I shall certainly not withdraw. I asked the Minister whether that letter has been sent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.401.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-20", "file": "debates1982-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "e532b1aa9060a5ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.404.2", "colnum": "404", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mike Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mike Thomas", "preceding_text": " life and death services was Sid Weighell who spoke about the TUC's pay restraint policy on 8 September. He warned: If you carry this resolution you will destroy at a stroke the possibility of winning the next election. Our people will not believe that you are capable of governing. I believe that the Labour Party is now not capable of governing. One of the critical signs is its unthinking support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.404.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-20", "file": "debates1982-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "e532b1aa9060a5ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.412.4", "colnum": "412", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "iticised for not doing the very things that we are doing. There appears to be a war between the Opposition and ourselves about the private sector—yet 4 million people take advantage of it, which takes away a great deal of pressure from the NHS. Trade union members in their thousands are pleased to take private beds. Many Opposition Members and their families have been pleased to take private beds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.412.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-20", "file": "debates1982-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "e532b1aa9060a5ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.412.4", "colnum": "412", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "he Opposition and ourselves about the private sector—yet 4 million people take advantage of it, which takes away a great deal of pressure from the NHS. Trade union members in their thousands are pleased to take private beds. Many Opposition Members and their families have been pleased to take private beds—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"] I have a reputation for naming names, but I shall not do so now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.412.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-20", "file": "debates1982-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "e532b1aa9060a5ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.413.1", "colnum": "413", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "hole of the Isle of Ely get no help during the past few years? All I can say is that the hon. Gentleman does not know his constituency very well. I shall be brief, because many right hon. and hon. Members wish to speak. We are proud of the National Health Service, which was initiated in 1947, following the Beveridge report. If we had been in power then, I am sure that we should have introduced it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.413.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-20", "file": "debates1982-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "e532b1aa9060a5ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.414.0", "colnum": "414", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Laurie Pavitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Laurie Pavitt", "preceding_text": "I shall not waste time on the speech of the hon. Member for Huddersfield, West (Mr. Dickens}—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.414.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-20", "file": "debates1982-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "e532b1aa9060a5ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.431.2", "colnum": "431", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "ractice was not spelt out by the Secretary of State. I have used the Government's figures. In the Government's first two-and-a-half years—which is as far as the figures go—182 hospitals were completely closed. A further 345 hospitals were partly closed, had wards or departments closed or their uses changed. Therefore, up to a year ago, no fewer than 7,500 hospital beds were lost or redistributed.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.431.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-20", "file": "debates1982-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "e532b1aa9060a5ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.435.1", "colnum": "435", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "ted as a special case only in the sense that they have been treated worse than the average in the public sector and far worse than in the private sector. That is how the Government are paying the debt which the Secretary of State told us this afternoon was a substantial one. That record is a disgrace to the Government, but to the Secretary of State above all. I put it to him that he should resign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.435.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-20", "file": "debates1982-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "e532b1aa9060a5ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.446.3", "colnum": "446", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "able. They support trade unions that will not talk to the Government and that will not even consult the Health Services Whitley council negotiating machinery. They not only support silence and non-movement, but say that the trade unions are entitled to continue days of action against patients until they reach their chosen conclusion. That is an objective statement of the position of the two sides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.446.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-20", "file": "debates1982-10-20a.xml", "sha256": "e532b1aa9060a5ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.446.3", "colnum": "446", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "leaners—were underpaid. Some, quite rightly, receive a reasonable rate of pay. However, if staff are not paid enough, their pay is not far behind the going rate. The Government are making a preferential offer to the nurses—an offer of which the TUC disapproves. But, when judging the offer, hon. Members should remember that nurses are paid roughly the equivalent of those in the teaching profession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-20a.446.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-21", "file": "debates1982-10-21a.xml", "sha256": "b9dfe298e913b7f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-21a.587.1", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Criminal Justice Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "hose whom he attacked. 8.45 pm It is well settled that the Court of Appeal will not interfere in the exercise of the discretion of the trial judge unless he has gone wrong in principle or unless there was no material to enable him properly to exercise such discretion. Therefore, it is by no means a dead letter. In many cases the prosecution counsel would not even consider an application to put it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-21a.587.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-22", "file": "debates1982-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "ffc683384f4a9886", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-22a.653.1", "colnum": "653", "heading": "Pensions (Scott Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "ember for Sidcup (Mr. Heath) who was primarily responsible for introducing the scheme. That might have added spice to the pleasure that the Prime Minister gained from turning civil servants into whipping boys. The Prime Minister played a destructive and misleading role in the public debate prior to the publication of the Scott report. The Prime Minister's hatred of the Civil Service is well known.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-22a.653.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-25", "file": "debates1982-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "ca78d6fb8ad15a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-25a.718.2", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What was the result?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "Having fought the Northfield constituency myself in 1974—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-25a.718.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-25", "file": "debates1982-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "ca78d6fb8ad15a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-25a.728.5", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "o. The hon. Gentleman knows a great deal about these matters. He knows that in the United States, as a result of the consent decree, the Bell Telephone Corporation was forced to hive of F its local networks into separate companies. As a result, the separate companies, which were subsidised by the main network, will have to increase their charges. I am not proposing any comparable hiving off here.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-25a.728.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-25", "file": "debates1982-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "ca78d6fb8ad15a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-25a.735.1", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Employment Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Norman Tebbit)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Norman Tebbit)", "preceding_text": "any such Motion shall be put forthwith. (6) If the proceedings are interrupted by a motion for the Adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 9 (Adjournment on specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration) a period equal to the duration of the proceedings on the Motion shall be added to the period at the end of which the proceedings are to be brought to a conclusion.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-25a.735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-25", "file": "debates1982-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "ca78d6fb8ad15a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-25a.763.1", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is losing sight of the fact that, apart from the duty to put something in the company report, there is nothing mandatory about the clause. There is nothing in the clause to require the company to consult—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-25a.763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-25", "file": "debates1982-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "ca78d6fb8ad15a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-25a.824.0", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Employment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Maxton) for putting his point briefly. The answer is that we could attract those companies to Scot and because we made it plain that we would bring in this amendment to correct Scottish law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-25a.824.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-25", "file": "debates1982-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "ca78d6fb8ad15a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-25a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Homosexual Offences)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh\"!", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "y to the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights.\" I regret the fact that the Secretary of State and the Minister of State were not prepared to listen to the strong representations made to them by many deputations. Each person in Northern Ireland has a right to his own conviction and some people there believe that homosexuality is not only a defiance of human law but a defiance of divine law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-25a.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-25", "file": "debates1982-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "ca78d6fb8ad15a70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-25a.842.5", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Homosexual Offences)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": " of a Private Member, that would have been an intolerable breach of the custom of the House, but that is not what we are confronted with tonight. Tonight the Government are acting under compulsion. It is true that they had some variety of compliance with that compulsion, but they have decided to comply with it by applying to Northern Ireland exactly the same law as holds good in England and Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-25a.842.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-26", "file": "debates1982-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "af9a41a4eb9eace7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-26a.878.4", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "That comes into the general review that I have already mentioned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-26a.878.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-26", "file": "debates1982-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "af9a41a4eb9eace7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-26a.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Have a review\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I shall not promise a working party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-26a.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-26", "file": "debates1982-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "af9a41a4eb9eace7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-26a.884.3", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that a further survey would be justified.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-26a.884.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-26", "file": "debates1982-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "af9a41a4eb9eace7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-26a.884.8", "colnum": "884", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "The operation of these regulations is an area of policy that is kept under constant review.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-26a.884.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-26", "file": "debates1982-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "af9a41a4eb9eace7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-26a.892.4", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Statutory Instruments (Debate)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the House has made his statement. I shall briefly say, in answer to the point of order of which I had notice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-26a.892.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-26", "file": "debates1982-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "af9a41a4eb9eace7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-26a.893.1", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Concessionary Television Licences for Old Age Pensioners", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen McKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen McKay", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to provide for concessionary television licences for old age pensioners. The Wireless Telegraphy (Broadcast Licence Charges and Exemption) Regulations 1970, as extended—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-26a.893.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-26", "file": "debates1982-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "af9a41a4eb9eace7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-26a.896.8", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Concessionary Television Licences for Old Age Pensioners", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": "Tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-26a.896.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-10-26", "file": "debates1982-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "af9a41a4eb9eace7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-26a.905.7", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Bernard Weatherill)", "preceding_text": "If that is so—I must take it as being so as the hon. Gentleman has raised the matter—the only solution is to have the Division again. Is that the wish of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-26a.905.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-26", "file": "debates1982-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "af9a41a4eb9eace7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-26a.934.2", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "enting and detecting crime. The amendment provides that a police station in Scotland may not be specified by a motorist in England or Wales for getting a fixed penalty notice. It has been suggested that that would be a disadvantage to Scottish motorists travelling in England and Wales who are not carrying their driving licences, as they will be deprived of the benefits of the fixed penalty system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-26a.934.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-26", "file": "debates1982-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "af9a41a4eb9eace7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-26a.939.1", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Home Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "It is rather strange to hear two Scottish lawyers in succession referring to the benefits of simplicity. My hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar) implied that a Scottish legal document might be more easily understood than its English counterpart. In my experience, Scottish legal documents tend to be in Latin, whereas English legal documents are at least in English.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-26a.939.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-26", "file": "debates1982-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "af9a41a4eb9eace7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-26a.941.1", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "l in the way that he would like. In Scotland the motorist would walk away from the police station without his fixed penalty notice and he would have to have another served on him. That could lead to additional difficulties which no hon. Member would want. The hon. Member for Aberdeen, North also asked me about costs. Costs can be ordered in English courts, as I am sure they can in Scottish courts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-26a.941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-26", "file": "debates1982-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "af9a41a4eb9eace7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-26a.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Gas Corporation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Moore", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should appreciate that within the Department I am responsible for the activities of the British Gas Corporation.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-26a.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-26", "file": "debates1982-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "af9a41a4eb9eace7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-26a.993.5", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Gas Corporation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a fair point, which adds to my ammunition. I shall leave Amersham International and the Public Accounts Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-26a.993.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-27", "file": "debates1982-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "76b69c516c1f29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-27a.1023.1", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I remind the House that questions and answers have been getting intolerably long, which means that we have reached far fewer questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-27a.1023.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-27", "file": "debates1982-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "76b69c516c1f29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-27a.1044.0", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Foreign Affairs Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Heifer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Heifer", "preceding_text": "ll Herr Kohl that the British Government would be pressing less urgently for a long-term solution? We are told that the 25 May agreement is being kept. That agreement stated categorically that a decision would be made before the end of November 1982 on a solution for 1983 and later. Has that now been abandoned? Perhaps I may make one or two further comments on the right hon. Gentleman's statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-27a.1044.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-27", "file": "debates1982-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "76b69c516c1f29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-27a.1050.6", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Foreign Affairs Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "The trade figures are reasonably satisfactory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-27a.1050.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-27", "file": "debates1982-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "76b69c516c1f29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-27a.1052.0", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Fisheries Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS :\"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "able of recorded time, come up with £15 million of aid to the industry? Why now, when the industry has been crying out for aid all this year? Is not the real reason that the Government want to say to the House that the fishermen's organisations have supported the deal? He said that those organisations asked the Government to accept the deal. That was done with a pistol to the organisations' heads.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-27a.1052.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-27", "file": "debates1982-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "76b69c516c1f29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-27a.1057.2", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Fisheries Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "Opposition Members have constantly pressed me to say whether, if the leaders of the fishing industry had rejected an agreement, I would also have rejected it. I always undertook to say \"Yes\" to that. When I called in the leaders of the industry yesterday to discuss the final terms that were available I told them that it was up to them to decide whether to accept them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-27a.1057.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-27", "file": "debates1982-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "76b69c516c1f29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-27a.1057.5", "colnum": "1057", "heading": "Fisheries Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albert McQuarrie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albert McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "Despite what the hon. Member for Renfrewshire, West (Mr. Buchan) said, can my right hon. Friend tell the House whether Mr. Willie Hay, the president of the Scottish Fishermen's Federation, a Member of the British Empire—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-27a.1057.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-27", "file": "debates1982-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "76b69c516c1f29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-27a.1059.8", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Fisheries Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman has such a short memory. I remind the House that there was a debate in July when the proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-27a.1059.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-27", "file": "debates1982-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "76b69c516c1f29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-27a.1066.5", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Britoil", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "Amersham was a successful issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-27a.1066.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-27", "file": "debates1982-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "76b69c516c1f29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-27a.1067.2", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Britoil", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-27a.1067.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-27", "file": "debates1982-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "76b69c516c1f29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-27a.1071.10", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Council House Rents", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The hon. Gentleman was pursuing the same matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-27a.1071.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-27", "file": "debates1982-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "76b69c516c1f29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-27a.1090.0", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Education, Scotland (School and Placing Information)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "continue the debate after the interruption for private business. The regulations cover some serious matters, with which the Minister needs to deal. The hon. Gentleman said earlier that he would be here until 11.30 pm to deal with the points raised, and I said that I would be happy to be here with him. If we had a Scottish Assembly we could properly discuss the serious matter of Scottish education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-27a.1090.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-10-27", "file": "debates1982-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "76b69c516c1f29d9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-27a.1131.6", "colnum": "1131", "heading": "Education, Scotland (School and Placing Information)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "gh to make up their own minds, the right to opt for a particular course or subject. But throughout Committee the Minister voted against any meaningful freedom of choice for parents or pupils. That is why these regulations are a waste of Government paper and public expenditure. I can honestly say that hardly any of my constituents see this as an education priority in the Central region of Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-10-27a.1131.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-03", "file": "debates1982-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dd9446be8f4e3f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-03a.11.0", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "ption.] I hope that hon. Members will contain themselves for a moment because I have a special reason for wishing to underline the necessity for a fresh approach to the Health Service. I hope that the right hon. Lady will acknowledge that I am extremely fair in doing so. Even though it takes a second or so, I wish to quote to the House what she said at Brighton on this extremely important subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-03a.11.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-03", "file": "debates1982-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dd9446be8f4e3f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-03a.17.0", "colnum": "17", "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": "m that unemployment is a scar on our national life. I would agree with him that the tragedy of unemployment deserves the most serious and sustained response. But it is not enough to delve deeply into the surface of things, as the right hon. Gentleman has a habit of doing. We owe it to the unemployed to make the most rigorous assault on tackling the causes and not just the symptoms of unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-03a.17.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-03", "file": "debates1982-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dd9446be8f4e3f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-03a.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " debased currency by printing money; and control nearly everything in an attempt to hide from economic reality. The right hon. Gentleman mentioned several other matters, with some of which I shall try to deal later in my speech, but first, in spite of what he said, I want to set Britain's problems in the context of some of the harsh truths of the world economic scene which he tried to brush aside.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-03a.18.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-03", "file": "debates1982-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dd9446be8f4e3f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-03a.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " at Bretton Woods. Inflation, and the oil price increases, ravaged the economies of Europe and North America. Growth in the major OECD countries, which in the late 1960s and early 1970s averaged 5 per cent. a year, has now fallen to nil. The recession has spared few industries and no country. Unemployment has been rising in other countries, too. Recession has hit some of them later than it hit us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-03a.18.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-03", "file": "debates1982-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dd9446be8f4e3f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-03a.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "1960s and early 1970s averaged 5 per cent. a year, has now fallen to nil. The recession has spared few industries and no country. Unemployment has been rising in other countries, too. Recession has hit some of them later than it hit us. [Interruption.] I know that Labour members do not want to listen to facts. They wish to fashion their policies without them. But they are going to listen to facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-03a.18.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-03", "file": "debates1982-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dd9446be8f4e3f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-03a.18.2", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Leader of the Opposition had a good hearing.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-03a.18.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-03", "file": "debates1982-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dd9446be8f4e3f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-03a.18.2", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Leader of the Opposition had a good hearing.— [Interruption.] Order. It is no use hon. Members howling when there is an argument with which they disagree.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-03a.18.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-03", "file": "debates1982-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dd9446be8f4e3f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-03a.21.3", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "converts to realism. Those who, only a few months ago, were bandying tens of billions as the minimum scale of reflation required have been sobering up recently. Even the right hon. Member for Stepney and Poplar (Mr. Shore) seems to have been a little less astronomical in his demands—or perhaps a little less explicit. The Social Democrats used to call for £7 billion—or was it £8 billion?—reflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-03a.21.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-03", "file": "debates1982-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dd9446be8f4e3f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-03a.21.3", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "t wash any more. The electorate is profoundly sceptical of the big spenders. The easy fix finds few takers. In the trade unions, the membership have adjusted to an era of low inflation rather more quickly than some of their leaders. Time and again, the secret ballot shows that a fair and reasonable offer is likely to receive a fair and reasonable response. High and accelerating rates of inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-03a.21.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-03", "file": "debates1982-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dd9446be8f4e3f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-03a.21.3", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "F as a supplicant. Moreover, he gave the nurses and the Health Service a far worse deal than they are getting now. Time and again, the secret ballot shows that a fair and reasonable offer is likely to receive a fair and reasonable response. High and accelerating rates of inflation were to blame for much industrial unrest and led to so many of the unreasonable pay settlements of the past 10 years.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-03a.21.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-03", "file": "debates1982-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dd9446be8f4e3f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-03a.65.0", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Major", "preceding_text": "I could be as flattering about the hon. Member for Stockport, South (Mr. McNally) who made a very contentious speech. Subsequently he fled the Chamber, together with the admiring gallery from the Liberal-SDP Benches who joined him simply for the lengthy duration of his speech. I regret that the hon. Gentleman's interest in democracy apparently does not extend to listening to alternative arguments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-03a.65.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-03", "file": "debates1982-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dd9446be8f4e3f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-03a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Major", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Major", "preceding_text": "least as great as an artificial injection of spending power through capital schemes. Secondly, it will substantially diminish the problems of the \"Why work?\" syndrome, of which we have heard a certain amount this afternoon. Thirdly, I believe that on its own merits it is just to reduce taxes at the lower end of the scale, and it is certainly what the Government have always sought and wished to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-03a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-03", "file": "debates1982-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dd9446be8f4e3f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-03a.85.0", "colnum": "85", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Parry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Parry", "preceding_text": "ould not intervene in the commercial judgment of a company. The Iron Lady, as she is now called, has been wallowing for the past two or three months in the blood of those who have been killed and wounded in the Falklands. She has been making jingoistic noises. She has been shedding crocodile tears. I know, having met the right hon. Lady, that she is cold and callous and has no compassion whatever.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-03a.85.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-03", "file": "debates1982-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "6dd9446be8f4e3f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-03a.89.2", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Murphy", "preceding_text": "he steps proposed for further denationalisation are, therefore, to be welcomed. Many other major democratic countries are now following policies which are almost identical to those carried out by this Government. The fact remains that despite the economic difficulties, no coherent alternatives to the Government's economic strategy has been presented by industry, unions, or other political parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-03a.89.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-04", "file": "debates1982-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "561e46f2f252065e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-04a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "olicy which the industry in this country accepts as preferable to continuing uncertainty and turmoil. These successes give us confidence to push ahead with efforts to develop the Community in other ways. The fundamental principles of the common agricultural policy are sound but it is wasteful in practice. The Commission knows this and accepts the need for change. We shall continue to press for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-04a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-04", "file": "debates1982-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "561e46f2f252065e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-04a.140.0", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "preceding_text": "I do not, for one moment, dissent from what the right hon. Gentleman has just said, but will he not admit that the policy that the Labour Party clamours for of greater protection against imports, particularly those from the Third world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-04a.140.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-04", "file": "debates1982-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "561e46f2f252065e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-04a.177.0", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Such as?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Russell Johnston", "preceding_text": "d by adopting consistent policies that can be understood in Eastern and Western Europe. That does not mean that I am suggesting that we close our eyes to the ethical issues. The West can never approve of the Soviet system of repression. The courageous men and women in the East who dissent from the nature of the regime that governs them deserve all the practical encouragement that we can give them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-04a.177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-05", "file": "debates1982-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "791b510f92e51df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-05a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Urban Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "hin the next four months. Perhaps the Secretary of State will say how this is to be achieved. There is no doubt that it will be helpful to the president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Mr. Owen Luder, who is reported in the press as saying: We say it is just not possible to get the billion pounds spent in time. If we do, there will be some damn silly decisions taken to get it spent\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-05a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-05", "file": "debates1982-11-05a.xml", "sha256": "791b510f92e51df2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-05a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Urban Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "ditional capital expenditure allocations for 1982–83 where these are necessary to facilitate new capital investment which could not otherwise be achieved this year. Authorities are invited to submit bids as soon as possible. We want from the Secretary of State an explanation of how the words in his Department's letter to local authorities can be reconciled with what the Prime Minister said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-05a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-08", "file": "debates1982-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "a068cc3437885ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-08a.336.4", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare State", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "he lowest paid workers in Britain. Having built up morale, there is a need for the proper financing of the service. As I understand it, next year there will be a cut of more than £142 million in the Health Service. The right hon. Gentleman has boasted several times of real growth, but he has not achieved the levels of real growth that were achieved in the last three years of the Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-08a.336.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-08", "file": "debates1982-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "a068cc3437885ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-08a.370.7", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare State", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "The word \"garbage\" does not disprove what I am saying. The hon. Member knows as well as I do that that practice goes on. That is an example of vested interests.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-08a.370.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-08", "file": "debates1982-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "a068cc3437885ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-08a.388.0", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare State", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "g about a deduction of £27 million from the regional health authorities. In April, the Government reduced the national insurance surcharge to private industry but said that no one in the nationalised industries, and certainly not the NHS, could possibly benefit from it. Although the NHS had to continue, it got a drop in the amount that it was paid. In fact, £58 million was taken out of its budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-08a.388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-08", "file": "debates1982-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "a068cc3437885ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-08a.390.1", "colnum": "390", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Welfare State", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "services have been hacked to pieces by the Government. Local authorities could not plan ahead. They were told that they were overspending. Then, in the next breath, they were told that they would be penalised for underspending. When the Prime Minister had the effrontery to berate those for whom she has caused the greatest difficulty for not spending more on capital costs, my breath was taken away—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-08a.390.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-08", "file": "debates1982-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "a068cc3437885ce5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-08a.406.0", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Palace School, Ely", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "e that we shall take action especially for this school, which we will not do for other special schools, to the detriment of those special schools. We are prepared to help where we can. The tradition of the Liberal Party was never to put all responsibility on the Government, but clearly the present Liberal Party has forgotten that. The local authorities, not the Government, send the children there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-08a.406.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-09", "file": "debates1982-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "64aec0781519c617", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-09a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "I am delighted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-09a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-09", "file": "debates1982-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "64aec0781519c617", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-09a.422.2", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Lady aware that her reply shows that great injury has been done to child benefit by this Government? There cannot be any dispute about that. Can the right hon. Lady explain why she thinks the pension is too high?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-09a.422.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-09", "file": "debates1982-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "64aec0781519c617", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-09a.423.0", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I shall repeat my remarks, because the right hon. Gentleman clearly did not hear. This year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-09a.423.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-09", "file": "debates1982-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "64aec0781519c617", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-09a.423.6", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCrindle", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCrindle", "preceding_text": "To put it more simply—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-09a.423.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-09", "file": "debates1982-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "64aec0781519c617", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-09a.433.1", "colnum": "433", "heading": "National Health Service (Pay Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is calling for the resignation of the wrong person.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-09a.433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-09", "file": "debates1982-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "64aec0781519c617", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-09a.504.8", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Public Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric G. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric G. Varley", "preceding_text": "sed the 1 million mark. Today, the number of workers jobless for more than a year is almost as great as the total number of unemployed when the Prime Minister took office. A year ago, 22 per cent. of those on the dole had been out of work for more than a year. Today that proportion has risen to 32 per cent. Wherever one looks in industry, one sees that the Government's policies have cast a blight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-09a.504.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-09", "file": "debates1982-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "64aec0781519c617", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-09a.507.3", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Public Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-09a.507.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-09", "file": "debates1982-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "64aec0781519c617", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-09a.510.0", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Public Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Norman Tebbit)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Norman Tebbit)", "preceding_text": "m The Standard newspaper. I admit that he read it quite well, but from then on his speech went downhill. As a one-time Minister now in opposition, it was certainly cheeky of him to go on about the delicate subject of redundancies in high places—a fate that he seems to have suffered. I, too, have read the papers recently. Only yesterday the Labour Party's house magazine, the Morning Star, declared—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-09a.510.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-09", "file": "debates1982-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "64aec0781519c617", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-09a.510.0", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Public Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Norman Tebbit)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Not true .\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Norman Tebbit)", "preceding_text": "l extension of nationalisation. The amendment in the name of the official Opposition refers to what seems to be one of the three policies on renationalisation compensation held by the Labour Party. There is the Labour Party policy reached at the Labour Party conference in 1982, that compensation should be given only on the basis of proven need. Then there is the policy enunciated in the amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-09a.510.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-11-09", "file": "debates1982-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "64aec0781519c617", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-09a.515.2", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Public Enterprise", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about unemployment?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "t time the retail price index increased by 260 per cent. The nationalised industries were by far the worst performers in the country. The only reaction by the right hon. Member for Chesterfield and his friends is to demand the nationalisation of more industries and to prevent the liberation of nationalised industries into the private sector. That does not say much for clause four and its devotees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-09a.515.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-10", "file": "debates1982-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "499aa3ea6c8450d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-10a.547.2", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Britoil", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": "rt-paid shares. That will be risky if the share value rises quickly in the first week. We shall wait and see. The statement is incomplete. We must discuss the matter again, in Government time, having seen the prospectus. There is no point in hypothetical questions. Everyone else knows what is in the prospectus, but we do not. We shall discuss profits, overseas investments and window dressing soon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-10a.547.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-10", "file": "debates1982-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "499aa3ea6c8450d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-10a.548.0", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Britoil", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What will they be?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman said that a year ago I estimated that the proceeds would be £1 billion. There is no truth in his suggestion. He can find no such assertion on the record. When asked a year ago, I said that the sum would be substantial but that it was impossible to say what it would be. The right hon. Gentleman said that the proceeds would be less than £½ billion. Again, he is wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-10a.548.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-10", "file": "debates1982-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "499aa3ea6c8450d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-10a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Britoil", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How much is that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "n our belief that it is right to underwrite the issue, for two reasons. The first is that it is essential to complete the privatisation. The second is that the knowledge that the issue is underwritten assists in obtaining a better price for the taxpayer, about whom the right hon. Gentleman purports to be concerned. The total commission for underwriters and sub-underwriters is 1·55 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-10a.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-10", "file": "debates1982-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "499aa3ea6c8450d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-10a.571.1", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unemployment and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "tor employers will save £1 billion this year and about £1½ billion in 1983–84. The right hon. Gentleman sought to reduce the figure by pointing to the effect, taking place at the same time as the consequences of my announcement, of the increase in contributions that results from the cut in the contracting-out rebate announced in March. However, that formed no part of my announcement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-10a.571.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-10", "file": "debates1982-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "499aa3ea6c8450d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-10a.578.2", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unemployment and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "For many years, I have had an interest in Britain pursuing a policy that serves British interests in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-10a.578.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-10", "file": "debates1982-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "499aa3ea6c8450d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-10a.578.2", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unemployment and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "e and that a one-year comparison—in view of what happened in the previous two years—is profoundly misleading. It did not suit the Prime Minister's book to mention Austria, although she did not confine herself to large countries and mentioned at least two small countries. Austria has a good Social Democratic Government and happens to be one of the few countries to have more or less full employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-10a.578.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-10", "file": "debates1982-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "499aa3ea6c8450d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-10a.578.2", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unemployment and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "a, although she did not confine herself to large countries and mentioned at least two small countries. Austria has a good Social Democratic Government and happens to be one of the few countries to have more or less full employment. [Interruption.] It has substantial State ownership, but it does not change the frontiers every four years and does not waste its energy in such futile frontier battles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-10a.578.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-10", "file": "debates1982-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "499aa3ea6c8450d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-10a.578.2", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unemployment and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "ned at least two small countries. Austria has a good Social Democratic Government and happens to be one of the few countries to have more or less full employment. [Interruption.] It has substantial State ownership, but it does not change the frontiers every four years and does not waste its energy in such futile frontier battles. [Interruption.] I do not believe in ridiculous shuttlecock policies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-10a.578.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-10", "file": "debates1982-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "499aa3ea6c8450d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-10a.579.3", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unemployment and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Not everything has been nationalised. Many of the early nationalisation measures were right. They have remained part of the social fabric. I favour measures of that type.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-10a.579.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-10", "file": "debates1982-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "499aa3ea6c8450d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-10a.580.6", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unemployment and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman is not being consistent.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": " out upon inquiry that she got the figure from examining a table in one of our documents that specifically stated illustrative budgetary measures over two to three years. She added the total and proceeded to present it to the House. That is equivalent to saying that the Chancellor, who, I believe, has borrowed about £40 billion during his Chancellorship, is running a deficit of £40 billion a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-10a.580.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-10", "file": "debates1982-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "499aa3ea6c8450d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-10a.624.0", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unemployment and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin (Deptford)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin (Deptford)", "preceding_text": "s of America: We have now passed the worst and with continued unity of effort shall rapidly recover\". President Hoover said those words a couple of months after the great crash of 1929. What has really happened? We have seen the ruin of public utilities and the public sector. The right hon. Member for Sidcup (Mr. Heath) talked about the 1930s. He spoke partially correctly about low interest rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-10a.624.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-10", "file": "debates1982-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "499aa3ea6c8450d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-10a.624.0", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unemployment and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin (Deptford)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin (Deptford)", "preceding_text": "tal projects,\" but it is not as simple as that. My right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Ardwick (Mr. Kaufman) pointed that out when he made an especially successful attack on the Prime Minister. She did not answer, presumably because she did not have the answer at the time. My right hon. Friend said that current expenditure is incurred at the same time as capital expenditure. He was right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-10a.624.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-10", "file": "debates1982-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "499aa3ea6c8450d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-10a.624.0", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unemployment and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin (Deptford)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why\"?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin (Deptford)", "preceding_text": "ding workers were third in the wages table, but they have gone down to nineteenth. The unions accepted the loss of many jobs in order to make the industry efficient. Does anyone believe that if the industry is sold, the co-operation, hard work and self-sacrifice of the unions will still be available? Will they not regard the self-sacrifice as having been in vain, which of course it will have been?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-10a.624.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-10", "file": "debates1982-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "499aa3ea6c8450d0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-10a.628.0", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unemployment and the Economy", "cue_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "preceding_text": " remains spontaneous, because it is not contained within a rigid formula, but allows a greater number of voices and, I hope, a wider range of opinion. It is customary on these occasions for the Leader of the House to say a few words about business arrangements. That is quite proper because the national debate is mirrored in the Chamber and cannot helpfully proceed without the voice of the Commons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-10a.628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-11", "file": "debates1982-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "fafab75827edc180", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.655.5", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman said that ours was a shocking Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.655.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-11", "file": "debates1982-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "fafab75827edc180", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.676.2", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Security", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that quite a number of us feel that she should not be too tender about positive vetting in national security? Is she aware that it is more than a coincidence that the majority of traitors in this country since the war have been loners, perverts or drunkards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.676.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-11", "file": "debates1982-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "fafab75827edc180", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.676.2", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Security", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that quite a number of us feel that she should not be too tender about positive vetting in national security? Is she aware that it is more than a coincidence that the majority of traitors in this country since the war have been loners, perverts or drunkards— [Interruption] —and that there is something gravely wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.676.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-11", "file": "debates1982-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "fafab75827edc180", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.689.0", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Monday. However, the House has told me that I must take into account the several factors set out in the order and give no reasons for my decision. This is not an easy matter on which to rule. In my own mind, I am clear in saying that I cannot rule that the right hon. Gentleman's submission falls within the provisions of the Standing Order and therefore I cannot submit his application to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.689.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-11", "file": "debates1982-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "fafab75827edc180", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.691.3", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Prayer Cards and Speeches", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I turn your attention to another convention of the House? Some hon. Members take it upon themselves to have the right to speak at prolonged length, thus excluding others from their right to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.691.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-11", "file": "debates1982-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "fafab75827edc180", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.695.4", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "The right for men was established in the 1971 Act. That is the position and I believe that it should remain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.695.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-11", "file": "debates1982-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "fafab75827edc180", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.700.1", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I shall give figures as I go through the proposals. The figures will certainly not be as large as the sum that the hon. Gentleman gives to the Society of St. George and other organisations of which he is a member. The regulations discriminate against women and between the sexes. No one on the Opposition Benches, suggests that we do not need immigration regulations,.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.700.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-11-11", "file": "debates1982-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "fafab75827edc180", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.701.4", "colnum": "701", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "iminatory between the sexes but is intended to be discriminatory between the sexes. It was intentionally, some people might say cynically, discriminatory between the sexes. I refer Conservative Members to the speech made by the then shadow Home Secretary in Leicester on 7 April 1978 when he said that, the abode of the husband in marriage should normally be viewed as the natural place of residence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.701.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-11", "file": "debates1982-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "fafab75827edc180", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.706.0", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Because you are wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "mmigration policy and race relations.\"—[ Official Report, 4 December 1979; Vol. 975, c. 254, 368, 372.] That sentence is worth repeating. My right hon. Friend said that to pull to pieces the package that was evolved in 1979–80 would be damaging to immigration policy and race relations. He was absolutely right. Why is the Conservative Party now being asked to stand on its head on this issue?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.706.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-11", "file": "debates1982-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "fafab75827edc180", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.708.3", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "w by distinguishing between people on grounds of race. As for equality between the sexes, the proposed rules will still apply different standards to men and women. There will be no conditions upon the admission of foreign wives. They will not have to prove that they have met their husbands before. That condition applies only to foreign husbands. Inequalities of that nature will therefore continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.708.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-11", "file": "debates1982-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "fafab75827edc180", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.708.5", "colnum": "708", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are signatories to the convention.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "nkind of some of my hon. Friends to link the European Economic Community with a quite different European institution which pretends to know more about human rights than we do. On this occasion, it is not the EEC that is intervening in British domestic law but an entirely different institution. If we take that institution as seriously as we have done so far and as the Opposition wish us to take it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.708.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-11", "file": "debates1982-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "fafab75827edc180", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.713.3", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Sir Charles Fletcher-Cooke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Charles Fletcher-Cooke", "preceding_text": "In that case, my fears and sorrow about it are augmented, not diminished", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.713.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-11", "file": "debates1982-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "fafab75827edc180", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "preceding_text": "The matter has been before the court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-11", "file": "debates1982-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "fafab75827edc180", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.735.1", "colnum": "735", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman certainly said that in reply to our questions at the time, but he has given a rather different impression today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.735.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-11", "file": "debates1982-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "fafab75827edc180", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.744.0", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "et back into the country. It may not have its birth certificate or parents' passport with it. Those hon. Members who have tried to seek temporary admission for someone during the weekend will know that it is difficult. It is no good saying that the parents should sort things out in advance. It takes about four months for the Home Office to send a postcard acknowledging a letter that has been sent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-11", "file": "debates1982-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "fafab75827edc180", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.761.3", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. I made it clear at the start that I should listen to the views, hear what the House and the other place had to say, and consider what rules to bring before the House. The right hon. Gentleman knows that I made that clear. If he does not understand it, he is even more stupid than I thought he was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-11a.761.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-12", "file": "debates1982-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "e1f74580a78b848c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-12a.827.1", "colnum": "827", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "p that important issue I shall willingly give way to him—or perhaps his party has not fully re-thought its policy on the matter. If so, we shall be happy to assist it to clarify its views—as, no doubt, will the Liberal-Social Democratic alliance. As I understand it, the Labour Party proposes that the United Kingdom should withdraw from our fastest growing export market. That is factually accurate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-12a.827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-15", "file": "debates1982-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "5fe836a6ebf7b092", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-15a.9.12", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "On no account will I withdraw any statement that I have made to the effect that the right hon. Gentleman is responsible for the Britoil issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-15a.9.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-15", "file": "debates1982-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "5fe836a6ebf7b092", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-15a.11.0", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is a past master at distorting facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-15a.11.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-15", "file": "debates1982-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "5fe836a6ebf7b092", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-15a.21.0", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Department of the Environment (Expenditure)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "If the statement were genuine, it would mark a notable U-turn by the Secretary of State. Why is it that whenever the Secretary of State comes to the House with carefully selected statistics, right hon. and hon. Members know instinctively that he is trying to deceive the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-15a.21.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-16", "file": "debates1982-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3c856a96bf2772ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-16a.140.2", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. In view of the unsatisfactory nature of that reply involving a lie—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-16a.140.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-16", "file": "debates1982-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3c856a96bf2772ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-16a.144.3", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Lady take the opportunity to state that she will not go ahead with the legislation? In the five years of the Labour Government the value of the pension was increased by over 20 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-16a.144.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-16", "file": "debates1982-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3c856a96bf2772ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-16a.144.4", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No. What we also have to consider is—[Horn. MEMBERS: \"Answer\"] I answered directly. I said \"No\". If only hon. Members would listen instead of shouting. I also have to consider—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-16a.144.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-16", "file": "debates1982-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3c856a96bf2772ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-16a.155.2", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "It is extremely flattering to know that in 30 minutes the Minister's only stated justification for abolishing the NWC is my past speeches. What other justification is there for abolishing the NWC, which is now the most important body in the country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-16a.155.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-16", "file": "debates1982-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3c856a96bf2772ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-16a.175.3", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no, it is not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ple piece of equipment. Progress is being made. I hope that the Government will ensure that the industry more quickly establishes a just and equitable basis to charge for water and sewerage services. Incidentally, it is nonsense to say that water can be charged for but it is difficult to make sewerage charges. The amount of water that goes into a house and that which comes out is exactly the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-16a.175.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-16", "file": "debates1982-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3c856a96bf2772ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-16a.212.2", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Dickens", "preceding_text": "There is an old Chinese proverb, on the lines of \"If men and women spoke on those subjects on which they were qualified to speak, the world would be filled with a profound and dignified silence.\" There is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-16a.212.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-16", "file": "debates1982-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3c856a96bf2772ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-16a.224.1", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Water Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "ifferent system of consultation with interested consumers and those most affected and, above all, a common commitment to achieve their particular roles. The Bill is before the House to help to achieve that, and the consultative committee structure will shortly follow. My hon. Friend the Member for Loughborough (Mr. Dorrell), in an extremely effective speech—I regret that I did not hear most of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-16a.224.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-16", "file": "debates1982-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3c856a96bf2772ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-16a.239.3", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Public Passenger Vehicles", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Mills", "preceding_text": "I accept that, but I am sure that the hon. Gentleman was referring to ASLEF as well as to the NUR, and the combined action of the two has had a devastating effect on the future of the railways in the South-West. I am sure that my hon. Friend the Member for Tiverton (Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop), whose area is involved, would have liked to be present at this debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-16a.239.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-16", "file": "debates1982-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "3c856a96bf2772ec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-16a.239.5", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Public Passenger Vehicles", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Mills", "preceding_text": "very well for Labour Members to condemn the proposal, but what did they do? I have a long memory and I remember many years of Socialist rule. The problem was just as bad then. My hon. Friend the Minister has made a worthy effort in supporting Devon county council in this way, and it is certainly worth trying to get the experiment under way. My only criticism is that the wrong area has been chosen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-16a.239.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-17", "file": "debates1982-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "62d7eb5faff079e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-17a.326.3", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Shipbuilders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colvin", "preceding_text": "er nail in the coffin of nationalisation. Nationalisation has not served this country or this industry well. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science once said that when the State owns, no one owns, and when no one owns, no one cares. We are then in trouble, because if no one cares, no one works. No one works anywhere as hard as they would in a free enterprise company—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-17a.326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-17", "file": "debates1982-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "62d7eb5faff079e0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-17a.358.1", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Shipbuilders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "I do not have time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-17a.358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-18", "file": "debates1982-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "cd0c2e71c21236be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-18a.411.5", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. The Labour Government's record in increasing food prices was disgraceful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-18a.411.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-18", "file": "debates1982-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "cd0c2e71c21236be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-18a.411.5", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. The Labour Government's record in increasing food prices was disgraceful. [Interruption.] Our record has been much better. The average annual rate of increases in food prices under the Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-18a.411.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-18", "file": "debates1982-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "cd0c2e71c21236be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-18a.413.0", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister find time today to do what I did this morning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-18a.413.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-18", "file": "debates1982-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "cd0c2e71c21236be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-18a.427.1", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Unemployment Statistics", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "ake his pick from a number of statistics, none of which can ever in human life be perfect. It is a great advantage that about 100,000 and more people who are actually at work are no longer to be recorded as being out of work. I am sure that that is good. The hon. Gentleman referred to those who are not qualified for benefit but who may be seeking work. It depends on how hard they are seeking work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-18a.427.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-18", "file": "debates1982-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "cd0c2e71c21236be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-18a.500.1", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Food Production", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "re was a 7·5 or 7·6 per cent. increase in productivity despite a loss of 60,000 jobs of farm workers. In the seven years after entry—I am talking about 1980—there has been a smaller increase in productivity and a loss of 65,000 jobs of farm workers. Over 15 years, 120,000 farm workers have lost their jobs. A major contributor to those losses was the form of support that was employed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-18a.500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-22", "file": "debates1982-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "f9a1bb558fe8e6cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.579.2", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions —", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitehead", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitehead", "preceding_text": "I wish to return to two matters on which I have not received a satisfactory reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.579.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-22", "file": "debates1982-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "f9a1bb558fe8e6cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.589.2", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Steel", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "changes that the corporation wished to make, whether the changes involved reduction in capacity, as long as it is not a question of a major closure of one of the five main integrated plants. The right hon. Gentleman asked me about imports. The meeting on Thursday produced valuable proposals and suggestions from the Commission as to how the Community's regime to control imports can be strengthened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.589.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-22", "file": "debates1982-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "f9a1bb558fe8e6cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.595.3", "colnum": "595", "heading": "Steel", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are giving an assurance\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "es. The Commission's proposed reduction is not as large as that but is between 30 million and 35 million tonnes. If we are forced to reach a conclusion that involves the closure of one of the five major integrated plants, that will not be because of Commission rules but because it will be the only way to restore the British Steel Corporation and to give it any hope of viability in the medium term.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.595.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-22", "file": "debates1982-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "f9a1bb558fe8e6cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.627.0", "colnum": "627", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hannam", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hannam", "preceding_text": "of the invalid care allowance to non-relatives. I hope that married women will soon become eligible for that allowance, because they often give up their jobs and outside activities to look after their sick husbands. I again refute the Opposition's attempt to imply that in some way under this Government the disabled are slipping backwards. More home helps and meals on wheels are now being provided—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.627.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-22", "file": "debates1982-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "f9a1bb558fe8e6cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.642.1", "colnum": "642", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brynmor John", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brynmor John", "preceding_text": "t. In continuing it, the Government have transferred an abatement into a surcharge on the unemployed. It is a type of forced loan by which the victims of the Government's industrial blitz loan 5 per cent. of their insurance back to those who have caused the damage. The second reason was that which the Minister of State used. No one reads an unconvincing brief with the solemnity that he can muster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.642.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-22", "file": "debates1982-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "f9a1bb558fe8e6cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.643.6", "colnum": "643", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman merely prolongs my contribution and reduces the time available for his.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.643.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-22", "file": "debates1982-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "f9a1bb558fe8e6cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.649.7", "colnum": "649", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "If my hon. Friend will allow me, I shall try to answer the point that he has made. On the principle of the 5 per cent. abatement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.649.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-22", "file": "debates1982-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "f9a1bb558fe8e6cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.650.4", "colnum": "650", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": " they and the House will recognise that the words used by my hon. Friend the Minister of State, Treasury, and my hon. and learned Friend the Minister of State at my Department, still stand. As my hon. Friend the Minister of State, Treasury said on the last occasion that we debated this, the abatement will be made good. The matter is not only under review, but at the right time it will be restored—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.650.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-22", "file": "debates1982-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "f9a1bb558fe8e6cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.650.4", "colnum": "650", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "nister of State at my Department, still stand. As my hon. Friend the Minister of State, Treasury said on the last occasion that we debated this, the abatement will be made good. The matter is not only under review, but at the right time it will be restored—[HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"] In other words, the argument is not one of principle. The case for restoration is accepted. It is a question of timing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.650.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-22", "file": "debates1982-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "f9a1bb558fe8e6cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.666.2", "colnum": "666", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "coming. I admire those Conservative Members who have been honest and spoken from the heart about restoration of the 5 per cent. abatement. Many of them rebelled last time, but they seem to have thrown in the towel. That is clear from their contributions today. I do not think that any Conservative Members understand unemployment. They do not have a clue. There are too many silver spoons over there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.666.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-22", "file": "debates1982-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "f9a1bb558fe8e6cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.669.2", "colnum": "669", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "r that they are serious—he has no voluntary intention of restoring this abatement—is to vote with the Opposition. In July, we voted with Conservative Members who tabled the amendment, even though it would have been easy to table our own amendment and to seek the glory—[ Interruption. ] The hon. Member for Beeston (Mr. Lester) who moved the amendment in July got much publicity and favour out of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.669.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-22", "file": "debates1982-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "f9a1bb558fe8e6cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.669.2", "colnum": "669", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "though it would have been easy to table our own amendment and to seek the glory—[ Interruption. ] The hon. Member for Beeston (Mr. Lester) who moved the amendment in July got much publicity and favour out of it—[ Interruption. ] I shall not talk to the Secretary of State who is totally irredeemable, as his speech showed. He is barely capable of understanding the most fundamental of these problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.669.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-22", "file": "debates1982-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "f9a1bb558fe8e6cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.671.0", "colnum": "671", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mr. Tony Newton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mr. Tony Newton)", "preceding_text": "rd for the motion being on the Order Paper. We all know that they have nothing to do with principle but everything to do with politcal calculation. I make no great protest about that, any more than my hon. Friend the Member for Bath did. It is part and parcel of the way we too often operate in the House. All that I object to is having political calculation dressed up as if it were a moral crusade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.671.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-22", "file": "debates1982-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "f9a1bb558fe8e6cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.686.10", "colnum": "686", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "The use of resources was one factor, the commitment of the institution and the providing body to teacher training—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.686.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-22", "file": "debates1982-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "f9a1bb558fe8e6cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.687.1", "colnum": "687", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "Consultations have been taking place for months with officials about what the college would do for the development of primary education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.687.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-22", "file": "debates1982-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "f9a1bb558fe8e6cf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.688.1", "colnum": "688", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "The teachers in those schools come from a wide range of institutions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-22a.688.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-23", "file": "debates1982-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "534abae2941319ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-23a.705.9", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that there is an unfilled vacancy, and that is the leadership of the free world at a particularly perilous moment? Is she further aware that, as the senior leader in the West—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-23a.705.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-23", "file": "debates1982-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "534abae2941319ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-23a.733.3", "colnum": "733", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Building Control Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Taylor", "preceding_text": "g for them by ensuring that they will get more for the increased rent that he is forcing them to pay? If councils are making a profit out of their tenants, as many are, there is surely a case for ensuring that tenants receive the benefit of that profit in better services. Why do not the Government extend the tenants' charter? They took over the Labour tenants' charter and put it into the 1980 Act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-23a.733.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-23", "file": "debates1982-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "534abae2941319ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-23a.751.5", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Building Control Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about private landlords?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "rchase a long lease of up to 125 years, dependent only on the length of time that the landlord's lease still has to run, and subject only to the landlord's leasehold interest being not less than 22 years in the case of houses and 50 years in the case of flats. I am pleased that clause 5 renders void any attempt by unscrupulous local authority landlords to charge for the giving of the right to buy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-23a.751.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-23", "file": "debates1982-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "534abae2941319ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-23a.794.3", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Building Control Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "ng association movement are opposed to giving the right to buy to the tenants of charitable housing associations. We have heard nothing from Labour Members about the position of tenants themselves. We have heard any number of arguments from those who represent the housing associations as landlords. To redress that balance, I should like to cite one letter that I have received in the last few days—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-23a.794.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-23", "file": "debates1982-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "534abae2941319ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-23a.794.6", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Building Control Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "y gave up their right to buy. The Bill will make that practice illegal, as the House has been informed. Those forms of obstruction and browbeating are an unacceptable way to treat individual citizens who are simply exercising the legal rights that have been given to them by Parliament. Some authorities have treated their tenants unacceptably. I received a letter from a council tenant in Sheffield.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-23a.794.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-24", "file": "debates1982-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "b2f2328d747a9bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-24a.838.1", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"At the moment?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "There is no question of negotiations of that sort taking place at the moment, as I made absolutely clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-24a.838.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-24", "file": "debates1982-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "b2f2328d747a9bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-24a.854.2", "colnum": "854", "heading": "Foreign Affairs Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "igher, but what about steel coming from the Common Market countries into Britian? What about the increases of imports to Britain of steel from the EEC? Nothing was said in the statement about that. We are entitled to know precisely what is happening. No details were given about the aid programme, yet it is one of the most important questions before us. The electoral system which is being proposed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-24a.854.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-24", "file": "debates1982-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "b2f2328d747a9bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-24a.870.3", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What did he say?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "e this relatively modest measure by argument in the proper constitutional way that they are associating themselves with extra-parliamentary activities and threats which, if carried out, would be both wholly irresponsible and probably unlawful. I refer to the statement made earlier by the hon. Member for Midlothian. I very much hope that he will today think better of his initial knee-jerk reaction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-24a.870.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-24", "file": "debates1982-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "b2f2328d747a9bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-24a.871.2", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "een done marginally—the matter must be examined fairly. It is a different thing to say that there should be a private supplier on the grid. Any idea that there will be a rush of entrepreneurs wishing to build power stations is moonshine. I read only recently that two power stations belonging to the London Transport executive are to be shut down because it is cheaper to take supplies from the grid—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-24a.871.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-24", "file": "debates1982-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "b2f2328d747a9bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-24a.875.1", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "For the past 50 years, going back to the Weir report and all the others since, our way of doing it has been the best.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-24a.875.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-24", "file": "debates1982-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "b2f2328d747a9bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-24a.925.1", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "rnment have said that this is a timely and important Bill, so we are entitled to ask the Under-Secretary of State, \"Why the hurry in introducing the Bill?\" The Opposition will come to the conclusion that the Government's eyes are probably focused on a possible early general election and that they want the decks cleared of legislation to give them the so-called political advantage in that election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-24a.925.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-24", "file": "debates1982-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "b2f2328d747a9bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-24a.940.7", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": " rely on what appears on the tape. I read out an item that appeared on the tape, which has been widely reported in the press. I had no knowledge that the story that appeared on the tape or the reports that appeared in the press were in any sense controversial. However, if the hon. Gentleman says that the Press Association report is wrong, I shall accept entirely what he says. It is the first time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-24a.940.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-24", "file": "debates1982-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "b2f2328d747a9bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-24a.941.5", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Hors. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I sought to explain, Mr. Speaker, but it was difficult against the barrage of what hon. Members were saying. The unchallenged story was on the tapes and I used it in good faith. If the hon. Gentleman says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-24a.941.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-24", "file": "debates1982-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "b2f2328d747a9bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-24a.941.13", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I have made it as clear as I can, Mr. Speaker, that I have acted in good faith on press reports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-24a.941.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-24", "file": "debates1982-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "b2f2328d747a9bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-24a.941.13", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I have made it as clear as I can, Mr. Speaker, that I have acted in good faith on press reports—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] If the hon. Gentleman says that he was inaccurately reported, I entirely accept that. In that case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-24a.941.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-24", "file": "debates1982-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "b2f2328d747a9bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-24a.942.2", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I have no wish to perpetuate this exchange. If the hon. Gentleman says that there was a misrepresentation and a slur in that story, I unreservedly accept that. I regret very much that this was not challenged before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-24a.942.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-24", "file": "debates1982-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "b2f2328d747a9bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-24a.942.11", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. There is no point in continuing to listen to points which are not points of order, but points of indignation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-24a.942.11"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-24", "file": "debates1982-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "b2f2328d747a9bdc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-24a.948.0", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Timothy Raison)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Timothy Raison)", "preceding_text": "ing used to hearing the right hon. Member for Sparkbrook expressing his regret at the things that were done by the Labour Government when he was apparently busy doing I know not what at the Foreign Office. He must face the fact that the fees were increased on this scale by the Government of whom he was a member. It is no use blaming the right hon. Member for Glasgow, Hillhead (Mr. Jenkins) either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-24a.948.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-25", "file": "debates1982-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "3a658b20a2866a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-25a.996.4", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prior", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the rather lukewarm support that my hon. Friend has given to the Assembly. I shall speak to the Assembly next Tuesday, with its permission, and I had better keep my remarks until then—.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-25a.996.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-25", "file": "debates1982-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "3a658b20a2866a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-25a.1009.1", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " half of what the Carter Administration envisaged. With regard to the relative numbers of inter-continental ballistic missiles, the United States has 1,052 and the Soviet Union 1,398. If we take total strategic systems, including submarine-launched ballistic missiles, the United States has 1,958 and the Soviet Union, 2,704. I wish that the right hon. Gentleman was as concerned for our defence as —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-25a.1009.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-25", "file": "debates1982-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "3a658b20a2866a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-25a.1009.2", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "mes to the House and says nothing about it. Is it not a fact that President Carter's proposals about these missiles were very different from those that President Reagan has now authorised? Is it not the fact also that many spokesmen for President Carter and his party in the United States have condemned President Reagan's proposal? Is it not the case that, as I have said, the New York Times agrees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-25a.1009.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-25", "file": "debates1982-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "3a658b20a2866a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-25a.1010.0", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows that we fully support multilateral disarmament. We totally criticise the Soviet Union's deployment of SS20s on a colossal scale. I have never heard the right hon. Gentleman criticise that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-25a.1010.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-25", "file": "debates1982-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "3a658b20a2866a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-25a.1010.0", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows that we fully support multilateral disarmament. We totally criticise the Soviet Union's deployment of SS20s on a colossal scale. I have never heard the right hon. Gentleman criticise that. [Interruption.] We totally criticise the Soviet Union's possession of a stockpile—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-25a.1010.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-25", "file": "debates1982-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "3a658b20a2866a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-25a.1054.1", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Heavy Lorries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " The public will bear the extra costs of road construction and maintenance in the absence of a revision of taxation. We shall wait and wait for new bypasses. Some of them, will not be built until the turn of the century. We shall probably wait for efficient sprayguards, quieter lorries and better enforcement. On this issue, we on this Bench—such as we are—say that we are on the side of the public—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-25a.1054.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-25", "file": "debates1982-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "3a658b20a2866a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-25a.1096.3", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Heavy Lorries", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "ve done in this respect. My hon. Friend the Member for Bedford (Mr. Skeet) asks about his schemes. I have looked carefully at what he wants. He told me firmly that he is not prepared to put up with the lorries going through the centre of his town. I assure him that the plans for Bedfordshire are taking up much of my time at present. I say to my hon. Friend the Member for Harwich (Sir J. Ridsdale)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-25a.1096.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-25", "file": "debates1982-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "3a658b20a2866a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-25a.1096.3", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Heavy Lorries", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "res that could be introduced quickly on that road, and I hope to have further discussions with Kent on the matter. [Interruption.] My hon. Friend the Member for Devizes (Mr. Morrison) spoke of local road investment, [Interruption.] Virtually the whole bid from the county council for capital expenditure has been accepted this year, and I am confident that Wiltshire will get similar support in 1983.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-25a.1096.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-26", "file": "debates1982-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "2352232a74092738", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-26a.1128.0", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Small Businesses", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "preceding_text": "t for small businesses scope is limited. It is sad that the Green Paper \"Alternatives to Domestic Rates\", to which we have had no formal response, was on domestic rates and did not tackle the more difficult and fundamental problem of the high cost of industrial and business rates. I hope that my hon. Friend will relate that point to his right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-26a.1128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-29", "file": "debates1982-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "64a7f5cdd9357a08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-29a.20.1", "colnum": "20", "heading": "GATT (Ministerial Meeting)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Trade (Mr. Peter Rees)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Trade (Mr. Peter Rees)", "preceding_text": " and was attended by more than 80 signatories which account for more than 90 per cent. of world trade. The purpose of the meeting was not to revise or amend the general agreement but to reaffirm support for existing obligations and to seek agreement on the examination of certain important issues that might form the basis of future negotiations. After five and a half days and nights of negotiation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-29a.20.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-29", "file": "debates1982-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "64a7f5cdd9357a08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-29a.45.1", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Telecommunications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "possibility of 45,000 redundancies. The pensions position has still not been clarified by the Secretary of State. The right hon. Gentleman may make an order so that the existing pension scheme is carried over to the new company. But what happens after that? What about the future? What about the pre-1969 deficit? The Secretary of State has been very categorical today. We want to see that spelt out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-29a.45.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-29", "file": "debates1982-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "64a7f5cdd9357a08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-29a.52.2", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Telecommunications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Page", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may be happy with the manpower cost, but I am not. That was not a very good example to quote. I used that analogy to demonstrate the unsatisfactory basis of the Opposition's case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-29a.52.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-29", "file": "debates1982-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "64a7f5cdd9357a08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-29a.91.5", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Telecommunications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "aging BT. We want BT to maintain a national network and to be responsible to customers, whether they are the multimillion pound organisations in the City which want electronic exchanges or ordinary people in small towns or rural villages who simply want a telephone. A telephone in the home should not be dependent upon a person's ability to pay large and increasingly outrageous sums for connection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-29a.91.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-29", "file": "debates1982-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "64a7f5cdd9357a08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-29a.95.0", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Telecommunications Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Industry and Information Technology (Mr. Kenneth Baker)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It will be.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Industry and Information Technology (Mr. Kenneth Baker)", "preceding_text": "Tonight we have begun what will clearly be a long process of debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-29a.95.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-29", "file": "debates1982-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "64a7f5cdd9357a08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-29a.95.0", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Telecommunications Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Industry and Information Technology (Mr. Kenneth Baker)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Industry and Information Technology (Mr. Kenneth Baker)", "preceding_text": "Tonight we have begun what will clearly be a long process of debate. [HON. MEMBERS: \"It will be.\"] I note what Opposition Members say, but I found the suggestion of the Social Democratic Party spokesman, the hon. Member for Islington, Central (Mr. Grant), that there should be an agreed timetable for the Bill very attractive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-29a.95.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-30", "file": "debates1982-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b4e3165231af8ba8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-30a.123.8", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Is it really the Secretary of State's intention to introduce a Bill to clawback £180 million, which is just one-tenth of the cost of the Falklands war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-30a.123.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-11-30", "file": "debates1982-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b4e3165231af8ba8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-30a.134.7", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is his name?", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As that candidate has had the support of our No. 1 politician in Scotland, the excellent Secretary of State for Scotland, I am sure that he is very pleased. I am sure that there is no better candidate than the young man who is standing for the Conservative Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-30a.134.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-30", "file": "debates1982-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b4e3165231af8ba8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-30a.134.8", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "If my right hon. Friend is able to visit Glasgow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-30a.134.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-30", "file": "debates1982-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b4e3165231af8ba8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-30a.137.6", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wellbeloved", "preceding_text": "In the national interest, will the Prime Minister defer calling a general election before the Bermondsey by-election to allow the Leader of the Opposition to show that his word is his bond and that he stands by the firm pledge that he gave to Parliament and the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-30a.137.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-11-30", "file": "debates1982-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b4e3165231af8ba8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-30a.139.3", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Fisheries Council", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": " that has only four weeks to know its fate is a disgrace. It not only makes a mockery of our proceedings but is an insult to the industry that has been asking questions for the past few months. This morning I spent two hours with the representatives of the fishermen, who posed dozens of questions that the Minister should have answered today but has not. We are not told whether it is on the agenda—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-30a.139.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-30", "file": "debates1982-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b4e3165231af8ba8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-30a.161.2", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "s not the view of the many commentators who have remarked on clause 17. The general view of clause 17 is that it virtually allows arrest for any offence. The example that has been quoted in some learned journals and some serious newspapers is that if a youth drops a cigarette packet and when told that he has offended against the litter laws refuses to give his name and address, he can be arrested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-30a.161.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-30", "file": "debates1982-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b4e3165231af8ba8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-30a.162.1", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "e to the police, is that a just cause for his arrest? There are two reasons why I think that it is not. The first is that arrest in itself is a punishment, and it is intolerable that people should be arrested for comparatively trivial matters. One would expect a law-abiding citizen to provide his name and address when requested, but it is wholly intolerable that his refusal might result in arrest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-30a.162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-30", "file": "debates1982-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b4e3165231af8ba8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-30a.217.1", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "papers often enough, demanding hanging and flogging, people will believe that they are doing something about law and order. However, since 1979 they have been failing to do that in all too many areas of our country. These days, the bobby on the beat is almost a threatened species. Our police system is largely regarded as being top heavy with technicians, specialists and policemen who sit at desks—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-30a.217.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-30", "file": "debates1982-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b4e3165231af8ba8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-30a.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "the experience since 1979. The Tory election manifesto in 1979 promised to restore respect for the rule of law and to give the right priorities to the fight against crime. That should be set against the manifest failure of the Conservative Party in office. Even sicker was the claim in the same manifesto that both in Government and Opposition the Labour Party had somehow undermined the rule of law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-30a.218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-11-30", "file": "debates1982-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "b4e3165231af8ba8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-30a.219.0", "colnum": "219", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Patrick Mayhew)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Patrick Mayhew)", "preceding_text": "gements. If those matters are, to use the language again of the Royal Commission, the concern of every citizen, surely the Bill at least merits the detailed scrutiny of Parliament, where every citizen is represented. It is a thousand pities that the Opposition will vote tonight to deny the Bill that. So will the Liberal Party, as we were told by the hon. Member for Croydon, North-West (Mr. Pitt).—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-11-30a.219.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-01", "file": "debates1982-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "f087a288cb8b022b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-01a.343.0", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Steel", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hal Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hal Miller", "preceding_text": " sick and tired of being lectured on the need to compete when the Government are responsible for so many of the conditions of competition. That is why I have tried to be positive, helpful and supportive to the Government by outlining the essential need for a competition policy. There should be freedom of competition inside the country, which means no more discrimination against the West Midlands.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-01a.343.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-01", "file": "debates1982-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "f087a288cb8b022b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-01a.354.0", "colnum": "354", "heading": "Steel", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Page", "preceding_text": "ring that period, the private sector was operating and sheltering under that umbrella of prices provided by the BSC. However, in 1979 Mr. MacGregor arrived to do a most difficult job at probably the worst time that could have been chosen. Losses were running at about £10 million a week. I pay tribute to the wonderful work that Mr. MacGregor has done and to the difficult decisions that he has made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-01a.354.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-02", "file": "debates1982-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "1ddee997a0c065e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-02a.392.0", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman has made a common mistake. The unemployment figures are out today, and unfortunately the underlying trend is upwards. However, there is a deep world recession, which is affecting other countries in Europe and, of course, our industrial competitors further afield. The hon. Gentleman implied that we need not take any notice of quality and productivity. Of course we must want quality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-02a.392.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-02", "file": "debates1982-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "1ddee997a0c065e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-02a.394.3", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The number of people on supplementary benefit has gone up as the threshold for supplementary benefit has risen over the years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-02a.394.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-02", "file": "debates1982-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "1ddee997a0c065e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-02a.394.3", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The number of people on supplementary benefit has gone up as the threshold for supplementary benefit has risen over the years. [Interruption.] Of course it has. The number of people on supplementary benefit went up under Labour Governments as well. The number has increased from the early years as the level of poverty has been redefined by successive Governments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-02a.394.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-02", "file": "debates1982-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "1ddee997a0c065e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-02a.394.3", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "een redefined by successive Governments— [Interruption.] —and therefore more people have qualified for supplementary benefit. Having been a Parliamentary Secretary at the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance for many years, I am very well aware of that. Added to that, there is the extra burden on those who are unemployed. The way to get unemployment down is to get industry more competitive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-02a.394.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-02", "file": "debates1982-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "1ddee997a0c065e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-02a.414.5", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Broadcasting (Cable Systems)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I said \"no mandatory separation\", and that is what I believe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-02a.414.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-02", "file": "debates1982-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "1ddee997a0c065e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-02a.414.5", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Broadcasting (Cable Systems)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That is a circular argument.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I said \"no mandatory separation\", and that is what I believe—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] Simply because I believe it to be the correct decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-02a.414.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-02", "file": "debates1982-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "1ddee997a0c065e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-02a.415.2", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Broadcasting (Cable Systems)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wednesday?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": " will have. It is important that we should not decide now exactly what we want the authority to do. As always, I stand to be corrected by the right hon. Gentleman, but on this occasion I think that I am right. As I indicated earlier, it is not the Government's intention in this debate to take the Hunt recommendations in detail and give a decision or even a view on each. That stage will come later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-02a.415.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-02", "file": "debates1982-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "1ddee997a0c065e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-02a.419.0", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Broadcasting (Cable Systems)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "nment's intention. That is the only possible interpretation of the manner in which the Hunt committee behaved and the nature of its report. I must say, with great respect to the three distinguished gentlemen who produced the document, that they so circumscribed their investigation that what they produced in the end was the most intellectually inadequate document of this sort that I have ever read—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-02a.419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-02", "file": "debates1982-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "1ddee997a0c065e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-02a.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Broadcasting (Cable Systems)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": " and the broadcasts will not be available in areas where cable does not exist. The choice that the hon. Member for Gravesend is advocating is a denial of choice for some who already enjoy it. Our fear is that if we are to have this patchy laying of cable in area by area, with no attempt at network, and our wish for a national common carrier run by British Telecom is the way to obtain the national—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-02a.422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-03", "file": "debates1982-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c1cf489f82d0f84d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-03a.520.0", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Thorne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Thorne", "preceding_text": "chool leavers. However, there is no doubt that a number, either through lack of motivation or choice, are quite happy with the alternatives offered in unemployment and social security benefits. All hon. Members must know people in their constituency who find that, with a young family, they are better off out of work than in as a result of the various allowances and entitlements that are available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-03a.520.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-12-03", "file": "debates1982-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c1cf489f82d0f84d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-03a.554.0", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "rose ——", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": " society in which the lunatics were shut up in psychiatric asylums. I do not wish to suggest that in any way, and I wholly dissociate my hon. Friend from such a suggestion. However, the first step that the British people must take to get back on the road to recovery is to clear the lunatics out of the Treasury and give the British people the opportunity of the Labour Party's alternative programme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-03a.553.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-03", "file": "debates1982-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "c1cf489f82d0f84d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-03a.557.1", "colnum": "557", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Watson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Watson", "preceding_text": " the first to say that Fridays were traditionally reserved for Private Members' motions. For me, speaking to an empty Chamber is not a unique experience. Some hon. Members have the ability to empty the Tea Room and fill the Chamber with people who want to hear what they have to say. I seem to have the reverse effect. Normally, when I speak people decide that the time has come to have a cup of tea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-03a.557.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-06", "file": "debates1982-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f4efc72768583e86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-06a.666.1", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "stribution between regions. Central London, central Manchester and central Liverpool have falling populations and quite good levels of resources going to their hospitals while the populations of Essex and Medway in the South-East are increasing. One can compare Liverpool, which has a declining population but is somewhat over-resourced in RAWP terms, with Warrington, a poverty-stricken town nearby—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-06a.666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-06", "file": "debates1982-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f4efc72768583e86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-06a.666.1", "colnum": "666", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " the problem of premature babies. Of course we are trying to tackle that problem. I was accused of having said that the problem is worse in the North. I said that in answer to the inevitable London-based lobby that exists on all these subjects, because some of the London-based specialists in hospitals are nearer to the television studios and it costs less for the Fleet Street cameras to get there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-06a.666.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-06", "file": "debates1982-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f4efc72768583e86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-06a.669.1", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The North-West does not contain Mersey for Health Service purposes. The hon. Lady and I exchange figures frequently. It may be perverse, but there is a Merseyside regional health authority, which is Liverpool, and there is a North-West regional health authority, which is Manchester and its environs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-06a.669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-06", "file": "debates1982-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "f4efc72768583e86", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-06a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "There is no particularly sacrosanct figure for either commodity. After all, 50 litres of beer is a pretty handsome allowance for anybody. If I met the right hon. Gentleman on the quayside at Dover and he was bringing in 50 litres of beer, I would be mildly surprised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-06a.686.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-12-07", "file": "debates1982-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "bb527a2c1fcd164a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-07a.709.5", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Livingstone.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "May I ask the right hon. Lady about the steel industry?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-07a.709.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-12-07", "file": "debates1982-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "bb527a2c1fcd164a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-07a.716.1", "colnum": "716", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh, no.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-07a.716.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-07", "file": "debates1982-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "bb527a2c1fcd164a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-07a.716.3", "colnum": "716", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "hing industry and obtained its agreement to the package. If we go along the right hon. Gentleman's course, we shall risk unpacking that package, which will damage both the British and the Community fishing industries. The right hon. Gentleman advocates a debate when we have only a few days before the time when, unless we reach agreement, in theory other countries could fish right up to our shores—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-07a.716.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-07", "file": "debates1982-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "bb527a2c1fcd164a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-07a.724.3", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Bombing Incident (Ballykelly)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "On behalf of my colleagues, I join in the condemnation of this appalling massacre. We appreciate the effort that the Secretary of State has made to be with us this afternoon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-07a.724.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-07", "file": "debates1982-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "bb527a2c1fcd164a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-07a.724.5", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Bombing Incident (Ballykelly)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "When will the Government understand that policies that are seen or believed to aim at the same political objectives as the terrorists have are themselves supportive of terrorism?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-07a.724.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-12-07", "file": "debates1982-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "bb527a2c1fcd164a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-07a.728.8", "colnum": "728", "heading": "Bombing Incident (Ballykelly)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "I withdraw my previous remarks and I apologise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-07a.728.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-07", "file": "debates1982-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "bb527a2c1fcd164a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-07a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Electricity (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " but to use oil products. The chemical industry also requires oil products for such commodities as natural gas for feedstock purposes. We do not make anything like the proper use of coal. What is more, it is available in some quantity. It should be used to produce aviation fuel. We should be looking at the possibilities of using coal for transport fuel and chemical feedstock much more than we are.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-07a.757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-08", "file": "debates1982-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "00827ad282ec4d16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-08a.841.2", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Giles Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Giles Shaw", "preceding_text": "Land registers currently contain details of over 100,000 acres of unused and underused public land. At 1 July, 61,000 acres, or 64 per cent. of the total at that time, were owned by local authorities and 24,000 acres by nationalised industries and statutory undertakers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-08a.841.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-08", "file": "debates1982-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "00827ad282ec4d16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-08a.861.4", "colnum": "861", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the Tories?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "preceding_text": "voted for her not because they wanted at least 3· million unemployed, and not because they wanted cuts in the National Health Service nor in State education. They voted for the right hon. Lady because she, too, was a woman. They believed that because of her sex she would advance the cause of women's equality. How wrong they were. It was the biggest political error since Neville Chamberlain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-08a.861.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-08", "file": "debates1982-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "00827ad282ec4d16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-08a.867.4", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Lestor", "preceding_text": " low paid. Will the Minister explain those points? From experience I know what the Minister's response will be. I hear her saying that all those matters must wait until the economy is healthy and competitive. It will mean that under this Government there is no hope for women because there is no hope for the economy. Nothing has been done for women, only to women since the Government came to power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-08a.867.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-08", "file": "debates1982-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "00827ad282ec4d16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-08a.868.2", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Fenner", "preceding_text": "r the individual depends crucially on an expanding base of national wealth. Since the end of 1980 our manufacturing productivity has increased, with output per head rising 13 per cent. The Opposition joked about the fact that I speak from this Dispatch Box about animal welfare; I also speak about food and food prices. They are out of touch if they believe that prices have nothing to do with women.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-08a.868.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-08", "file": "debates1982-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "00827ad282ec4d16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-08a.879.1", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about fathers?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": "I did not hear that speech, so I shall refrain from commenting on what my right hon. Friend may have said, except to say that I believe that women with young children have a primary duty to be at home to look after their children.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-08a.879.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-08", "file": "debates1982-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "00827ad282ec4d16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-08a.883.0", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Dame Judith Hart", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Judith Hart", "preceding_text": " was not more successful in pushing forward matters such as part-time workers. The right hon. Lady cannot have it both ways. She cannot, as an SDP Member, say that the previous Labour Government failed to do certain things when she was the only female member of the Cabinet. I do not recall her speeches at the national executive of the Labour Party, in Government or in opposition, on those matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-08a.883.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-08", "file": "debates1982-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "00827ad282ec4d16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-08a.900.0", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is taking a superficial view of unemployment. I have been unemployed. Will the hon. Gentleman say that he, too, has had experience of unemployment? I shall give the House an example from my personal experience of how to combat unemployment. For years Hong Kong has been a textile area. It is now suffering severely from the recession.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-08a.900.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-08", "file": "debates1982-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "00827ad282ec4d16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-08a.900.0", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Carry on, Dan\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "preceding_text": "he hon. Gentleman is taking a superficial view of unemployment. I have been unemployed. Will the hon. Gentleman say that he, too, has had experience of unemployment? I shall give the House an example from my personal experience of how to combat unemployment. For years Hong Kong has been a textile area. It is now suffering severely from the recession. [Interruption.] What is wrong with saying that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-08a.900.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-08", "file": "debates1982-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "00827ad282ec4d16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-08a.934.5", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "present recession. The key figures, which I relate to the earlier CBI figures that I quoted, are the comparative increases in manufacturing industries' unit labour costs over the years immediately preceding the last big OPEC oil price rise which led to the recession. Over the five years 1975 to 1980, roughly the period of the previous Labour Government, British unit labour costs virtually doubled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-08a.934.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-08", "file": "debates1982-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "00827ad282ec4d16", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-08a.934.5", "colnum": "934", "heading": "Orders of the Day — OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": ". They will continue to go down in money if not in real terms as the years stretch ahead, thanks to our conquest of inflation. Under the Labour Party's new economic programme based on the new economic assessment it will be exactly the reverse curve. Earnings will increase gigantically. The hon. Member for Wood Green (Mr. Race) will not back an incomes policy; most of his colleagues agree with him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-08a.934.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-09", "file": "debates1982-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3ed6d09b03d8dec1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-09a.966.1", "colnum": "966", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "The latest CBI survey reflects the fact, which we have all pointed out and about which there is no mystery, that economic conditions and prospects have been disappointing in the past year. There is no question about that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-09a.966.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-09", "file": "debates1982-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3ed6d09b03d8dec1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-09a.973.1", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "d the wisdom of the approach that he suggested at that time. However, in the aftermath of the hideous events at Ballykelly, I can also understand that no one, including the Home Secretary, could be sure that lives might not be at risk if the visit went ahead. I fully understand, therefore, the reasons why the Home Secretary made the recommendation. That is also the case that I put most forcefully—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-09a.973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-09", "file": "debates1982-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3ed6d09b03d8dec1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-09a.973.1", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "y, I can also understand that no one, including the Home Secretary, could be sure that lives might not be at risk if the visit went ahead. I fully understand, therefore, the reasons why the Home Secretary made the recommendation. That is also the case that I put most forcefully— [Interruption.] . If the House will permit me half a minute, I will come to the question—and directly to Mr. Livingstone", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-09a.973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-09", "file": "debates1982-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3ed6d09b03d8dec1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-09a.973.1", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ation called off, particularly after the events that had occurred at Ballykelly. I believe that that was the right approach from the point of view of the whole I wish to put to the right hon. Lady this question. I understand the reasons why the Home Secretary has acted in the way that he has done today, but considerable anomalies are left. There are now different laws applying to different people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-09a.973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-09", "file": "debates1982-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3ed6d09b03d8dec1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-09a.974.2", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "The anomaly is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-09a.974.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-09", "file": "debates1982-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3ed6d09b03d8dec1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-09a.974.5", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "The anomaly is that under this legislation some people are free to walk about in Belfast but not in London. Surely that is an anomaly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-09a.974.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-09", "file": "debates1982-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3ed6d09b03d8dec1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-09a.1018.0", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "me conclusion, unsatisfactory though it was to my constituent? If that happens, what will my constituent do? He will write to me. He is not likely to mention the fact that he has pursued the case through the Member of the Assembly, unless the Member happens to be one of my hon. Friends, who, obeying the convention of the House, would have passed the case to me, as they do invariably and I to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-09a.1018.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-09", "file": "debates1982-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3ed6d09b03d8dec1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-09a.1040.6", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCusker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCusker", "preceding_text": "ommittee. We have discussed it inside out. The Northern Ireland Economic Council became involved and commissioned reports. The Northern Ireland Gas Employers Board raised a great deal of money and commissioned high-powered reports. We considered and analysed those. We ripped them apart. We considered all the alternatives. We did everything but take the matter on to the streets of Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-09a.1040.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-09", "file": "debates1982-12-09a.xml", "sha256": "3ed6d09b03d8dec1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-09a.1071.1", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": " listened to many right hon. and hon. Members, including my right hon. Friends, who have had responsibility for Northern Ireland. For a time, I tried to do my best for Harland and Wolff, Shorts and various other enterprises. I have concluded, like many people, that there is no policy that hon. Members can decide in this House for Northern Ireland. The problem is that we should not be there at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-09a.1071.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-10", "file": "debates1982-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "be824916c7e75a2a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-10a.1110.4", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Northern Ireland", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Inadvertently?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend allow me to intervene once more as I inadvertently started this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-10a.1110.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-13", "file": "debates1982-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "b33e1e7f0515df64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-13a.10.6", "colnum": "10", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "Does that answer mean that we are not to have the 50 per cent. concession before the completion of the review for which the Minister promised to press the industries last week during questions on energy? Is he aware of the typical case of a constituent of mine, Mrs. Rees in Merthyr—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-13a.10.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-13", "file": "debates1982-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "b33e1e7f0515df64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-13a.13.9", "colnum": "13", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "It clearly shows, as has been said from both sides of the House many times, that if we are to achieve more markets for coal or any other fuel we have to be concerned about price competitiveness and security of supply. A key ingredient—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-13a.13.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-13", "file": "debates1982-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "b33e1e7f0515df64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-13a.33.1", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Tenants' Rights", "cue_speaker": "Sir Albert Costain", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Albert Costain", "preceding_text": "It did not want to do so, but its hand was forced because it could not afford to build without the prospect of selling. The hon. Member for Warrington talked about high-rise buildings. Does he realise that no private property company would have dreamt of engaging in high-rise building? These developments were introduced only when local authorities decided to take over the building of flats to let—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-13a.33.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-13", "file": "debates1982-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "b33e1e7f0515df64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-13a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Tenants' Rights", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "uestions\". No doubt this advice will temper the certainty with which Labour Members announce their conclusion to the matter. If one takes account of the various forms of assistance for housing, costs coming from the public purse, inclusive of supplementary benefit, the figure for the average tenant household is about £485 per annum, and that for the average owner-occupier household £205 per annum—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-13a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-14", "file": "debates1982-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba568019301c55e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. The Secretary of State for Defence said clearly that in his opinion the British peace movement and the CND were part-funded by the Soviet Union. As many Labour Members, including the Leader of the Opposition, are members of CND and active participants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-14", "file": "debates1982-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba568019301c55e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.114.3", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "order to put our point of view. Therefore, Mr. Speaker, I hope that you will rule that such issues, expressed in the way that the Secretary of State did, are completely out of order and should be withdrawn. I hope that both he and the Prime Minister will make a categoric statement to the House to the effect that in no way do they imply that Labour Members are receiving money from the Soviet Union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.114.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-14", "file": "debates1982-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba568019301c55e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.117.3", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister accept that the courageous women—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-14", "file": "debates1982-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba568019301c55e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.117.7", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Miss Richardson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Richardson", "preceding_text": "Does not the Minister realise that he does not help his case when he is patronising and condescending—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.117.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-14", "file": "debates1982-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba568019301c55e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.118.2", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "preceding_text": "The Minister of State was quoted in The Guardian today as having said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.118.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-14", "file": "debates1982-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba568019301c55e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.118.4", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "As I was saying, the Minister of State was quoted in The Guardian as saying that the women of Greenham Common were undermining Britain's ability to negotiate with the Soviet Union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.118.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-14", "file": "debates1982-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba568019301c55e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.118.12", "colnum": "118", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blaker", "preceding_text": "The Novosti press, assiduously followed by the Labour Party, in its party political broadcast—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.118.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-14", "file": "debates1982-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba568019301c55e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.120.4", "colnum": "120", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that when Mr. Basnett says that the unions will threaten insurrection and civil disobedience if the Government do not do what the TUC wants, he does not speak for trade union members as a whole?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.120.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-14", "file": "debates1982-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba568019301c55e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.122.4", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The hope for constituents everywhere is that we can become more competitive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.122.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-14", "file": "debates1982-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba568019301c55e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.124.7", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I took the view that I did today because no judge was named. I do not know who it was.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.124.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-14", "file": "debates1982-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba568019301c55e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.124.7", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I took the view that I did today because no judge was named. I do not know who it was. [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman may be satisfied that he has outlined what is normally the correct position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.124.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-14", "file": "debates1982-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba568019301c55e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.124.13", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. There is no need to wait until tomorrow. The hon. Member for Lewisham, West (Mr. Price) drew my attention to a breach of our rules, which I said had taken place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.124.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-14", "file": "debates1982-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba568019301c55e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.124.13", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. There is no need to wait until tomorrow. The hon. Member for Lewisham, West (Mr. Price) drew my attention to a breach of our rules, which I said had taken place— [Interruption.] Order. The responsibility is mine. I allowed the question and therefore—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.124.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-14", "file": "debates1982-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba568019301c55e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.135.3", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, I did not understand who was becoming bogged down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.135.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-14", "file": "debates1982-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba568019301c55e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.137.5", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why was the hon. Gentleman sacked?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nott", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree with my hon. Friend that we must be able to update those systems. We already have a substantial modernisation programme for the items that my hon. Friend mentioned, but he is right in saying that, as far as possible, we must be able to replace such items in ships in the running fleet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.137.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-14", "file": "debates1982-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba568019301c55e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": " and I seek your clarification on one matter. I do not seek to dispute your decision, which I believe is the right one, but it seems to me that the right hon. Gentleman rather abused the tradition of the House through the length of his speech. I repeat that I heard every word that the right hon. Gentleman said, and it seemed to me that he advanced the arguments and did not merely ask for a debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-14", "file": "debates1982-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba568019301c55e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.201.1", "colnum": "201", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "Time asking what she will do to restore jobs in their constituencies. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has done more to restore and preserve jobs in the private sector than anything the Labour Party would do if it came to power. The majority of Labour local authorities care little about private businesses and private employment. They tax and squeeze to pay their own swollen staff bills.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.201.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-14", "file": "debates1982-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba568019301c55e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.202.2", "colnum": "202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Oakes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Oakes", "preceding_text": "ember for Reading, North (Mr. Durant), whose authority has been fined £500,000, did a great disservice to the average councillor. Perhaps when he was a councillor he was the only one to raise such issues. However, hon. Members on both sides of the House know that that is not so in most local authorities, whether Labour or Conservative controlled. Estimates are scrupulously examined by councillors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.202.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-14", "file": "debates1982-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba568019301c55e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.224.3", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Sue him in public.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": " to £625 million. He now says that £30 million will be deducted from that sum. That is what he is saying and that is what the Minister of State has said. That is why we have every right to demand a withdrawal from the right hon. Gentleman. I have the honour of being able to say that I withdrew when it was right to do so. The right hon. Gentleman will not have that honour and we note his behaviour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.224.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-14", "file": "debates1982-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba568019301c55e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.227.0", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "I shall be very brief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-14", "file": "debates1982-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba568019301c55e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.231.0", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "e who would not have considered it worth their while to join if they had not seen a future in the British National Oil Corporation. The hon. Gentleman need not, therefore, worry too much about the trading arm. If BNOC has problems with its trading activity, what would the Opposition like the Government to do? Would they prefer that we should simply leave BNOC? After all, it is 100 per cent. owned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.231.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-14", "file": "debates1982-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba568019301c55e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.235.4", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I do not know why the right hon. Gentleman makes so much of that. I suppose it is because his case on the order is so palpably weak. His case is nugatory. As I said on 10 November, the debenture was £88 million. That is in Hansard. It is a fact. There was also a £30 million transfer from the national oil account to BNOC which I deducted because I tried to be helpful to the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.235.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-14", "file": "debates1982-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ba568019301c55e9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.235.4", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "s a fact. There was also a £30 million transfer from the national oil account to BNOC which I deducted because I tried to be helpful to the Opposition— [Interruption.] I felt that I had bent over backwards for the Opposition. When I checked the figures I found that there was no reason to deduct that sum since it is a transfer from one part of the public sector to another part of the public sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-14a.235.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.270.0", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to hear the hon. Gentleman repeating the nonsense uttered by his hon. Friend the Member for South Ayrshire (Mr. Foulkes). I must inform both hon. Gentlemen that in 1981, 193 death certificates gave hypothermia as the primary or secondary cause of death among those aged 65 or over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.272.9", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is still wet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The difference between dampness and condensation is essentially that condensation is internal.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.272.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.274.0", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "oint about the position of Glasgow in relation to the share allocation. Nevertheless, its expenditure allocation this year is about £316 million, and it feels that it is about £6 million short. I am sure that by good housekeeping a saving of £6 million can be achieved within that total, especially if the position of other boards which have been historically underfunded can be improved as a result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.274.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Criticism of Judges (Mr. Speaker's Ruling)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "preceding_text": " accepted your ruling in the opposite sense yesterday. However, will you confirm that although your ruling that the word \"incomprehensible\", which is a strong word in relation to a judge, does not stray into the territory that might be considered as reflecting on a judge's motives or ability to carry out his job, nevertheless it is undesirable for planted questions and prepared answers to be made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.286.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.324.2", "colnum": "324", "heading": "NATO Council (Ministerial Meeting)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where does the right hon. Gentleman stand?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": " difficult period of negotiations. It is hard to quibble with any point of substance in the speech made by the right hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey). That speech could have been made in a different Parliament by Helmut Schmidt. It was an excellent Social Democratic speech. I feel like the man in the Bateman cartoon who reminds the right hon. Gentleman of the existence of the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.324.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.324.3", "colnum": "324", "heading": "NATO Council (Ministerial Meeting)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Get on with it.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": "t hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey). That speech could have been made in a different Parliament by Helmut Schmidt. It was an excellent Social Democratic speech. I feel like the man in the Bateman cartoon who reminds the right hon. Gentleman of the existence of the Labour Party. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where does the right hon. Gentleman stand?\"] Hon. Members need not worry. They know where I stand.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.324.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "NATO Council (Ministerial Meeting)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "has apologised for the fact that he has had to leave the House, but he will be answerable on that question, along with his predecessor. Compared to the American Congress, which has recently had the right to vote against the MX missile, what an impotent Chamber we are. The Attlee Government built the bomb without telling the House of Commons. People realise that the very holding of nuclear weapons—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.332.2", "colnum": "332", "heading": "NATO Council (Ministerial Meeting)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "It is an appeasement of the Russians. The peace movement is doing exactly what the Labour Party attempted to do in 1936, 1937 and 1938, when it took every step to try to stop any form of rearmament in Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.332.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.332.2", "colnum": "332", "heading": "NATO Council (Ministerial Meeting)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Emery", "preceding_text": "er about the SS20, as long as that was in a serious context. He has made a most important statement, which we needed to have on the record. The right hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey) suggested that the Alliance was weak. Does he really believe that the Alliance will be strengthened if some in his party—this is a point that the right hon. Gentleman neglected—advocate unilateral disarmament?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.332.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.333.0", "colnum": "333", "heading": "NATO Council (Ministerial Meeting)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jo Richardson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jo Richardson", "preceding_text": " the debate epitomises the fact that the Government are at odds with almost everyone in Britain on nuclear disarmament, and particularly cruise missiles. They are at odds with 144 local authorities on nuclear-free zones. On Saturday morning I attended a moving GLC ceremony at which a flag that can still be seen flying from the flagpole was raised showing that London is proudly a nuclear-free zone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.333.0", "colnum": "333", "heading": "NATO Council (Ministerial Meeting)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jo Richardson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jo Richardson", "preceding_text": "would turn up at the demonstration or, if people did so, the majority would be those who came to show their feelings and to dissociate themselves from the Government's view. Feeling is running extremely high all over Europe and in Britain. The courageous and moving demonstration by more than 30,000 women on Sunday and Monday surpassed the expectations of the Greenham Common women who organised it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.333.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.338.6", "colnum": "338", "heading": "NATO Council (Ministerial Meeting)", "cue_speaker": "6.56 pm\r\nMr. Norman Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No SS20s\".", "preceding_speaker": "6.56 pm\r\nMr. Norman Atkinson", "preceding_text": " That is not the Labour Party's position, and will not be Labour Party policy as presented to the electorate at the next general election. It is not the basis of our policy, because implicit in that is an acceptance of cruise bases in this country, which the Labour Party has clearly denounced by saying that we shall fight the next general election on no cruise bases in Britain, and no Pershing II.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.338.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.338.6", "colnum": "338", "heading": "NATO Council (Ministerial Meeting)", "cue_speaker": "6.56 pm\r\nMr. Norman Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "6.56 pm\r\nMr. Norman Atkinson", "preceding_text": "s no longer present, because I should have liked to tell him that our electoral policy is not to go for a halfway house between the zero option and no cruise. The Labour Party is clearly saying \"No cruise from now on\". That is the very basis of the unilateral argument. I therefore appeal to my right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition to make a clear statement on where the Labour Party stands", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.338.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.341.0", "colnum": "341", "heading": "NATO Council (Ministerial Meeting)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Major", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Major", "preceding_text": "de that much more difficult. I recently came across an old Russian proverb to which I hope the Leader of the Opposition will direct his attention. It is: Make yourself a sheep and a wolf will come along by and by. It might. We should remember that. Some hon. Members and others—members of the CND regard it as an article of faith—claim that they want Britain to give a lead by disarming unilaterally.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.341.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.349.0", "colnum": "349", "heading": "NATO Council (Ministerial Meeting)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.348.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.355.6", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hooray!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": ": The rights of all British citizens legally settled here are equal before the law whatever their race, colour or creed. And their opportunities ought to be equal too. Nevertheless, for largely demagogic reasons, the Conservative Party put the narrower and specific pledge in the manifesto. The Home Secretary cannot disclaim responsibility for that. He was already deputy leader of the Labour Party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.355.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.355.6", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "arrowed it, so that it did not, in effect, apply to white women of British stock. He tried to escape from the difficulty of sexual discrimination by running head on into that of racial discrimination. So much for the wider Conservative commitment to the equality of all British citizens legally settled here. Next the Government began to run into trouble with the European Commission of Human Rights.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.355.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.355.6", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "ion. So much for the wider Conservative commitment to the equality of all British citizens legally settled here. Next the Government began to run into trouble with the European Commission of Human Rights. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"] I shall be happy to deal with that institution in a moment. The evidence given to the Select Committee on Home Affairs in 1979–80 by Lord Scarman among others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.355.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.358.4", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.358.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.358.5", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. William Whitelaw)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. William Whitelaw)", "preceding_text": "Normally, I should not wish to cross swords with one of my predecessors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.358.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.358.5", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. William Whitelaw)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. William Whitelaw)", "preceding_text": "t hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East (Mr. Callaghan), who imposed stricter controls. In 1974 the matter came before the right hon. Member for Glasgow, Hillhead (Mr. Jenkins). In between, of course, it is fair to say that my noble Friend Lord Carr lost some immigration rules. There is nothing new in that. He was defeated and had to produce new rules. Then we had the right hon. Member for Hillhead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.358.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I think that if the record were examined, it would show exactly what the right hon. Gentleman did. If he asks me why I have not resigned as deputy leader of the Conservative Party, I can tell him quite simply that it is because I happen to have the utmost admiration for my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "e examined, it would show exactly what the right hon. Gentleman did. If he asks me why I have not resigned as deputy leader of the Conservative Party, I can tell him quite simply that it is because I happen to have the utmost admiration for my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister. [Interruption.] My record of support for my party through thick and thin over many years is there for everyone to see.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "nt numbers of children are born in the United Kingdom to parents who are here only temporarily or unlawfully. The Act, and the corresponding rules, will prevent such children from gaining automatically by their birth a permanent right to live in Britain, which, in due course, they could pass on to their children. This change will prevent a potentially large immigration commitment from building up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why bother?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "inishing effect of a \"born here\" requirement. Already, of the Asian girls in the United Kingdom now aged between 10 and 15, about half will be British citizens by birth. For Asian girls under 10 the proportion is about three-quarters. So the effect of distinguishing between British citizen women born here and those not born here is bound to diminish. It will become very small indeed in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.365.0", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "If there is a good reason for the husband to stay there is discretion within the rules. I do not believe that if a husband has abandoned his family altogether and does not wish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.370.1", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I do not think that an intervention from the hon. Gentleman would be enormously rewarding.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.370.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.377.0", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. K. Harvey Proctor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. K. Harvey Proctor", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Birmingham, Handsworth (Miss Wright) criticised some of the safeguards in the revised immigration rules. I share some of those criticisms and shall come to them in due course. I congratulate the hon. Member for Leicester, South (Mr. Marshall) on his appointment to the Opposition Front Bench. I believe that he will reply to the debate tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.377.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.384.1", "colnum": "384", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyon", "preceding_text": "between the two. The Home Secretary has conceded the case of the citizen wife, but not that of the settled wife, so even if the Government succeeded in getting the rules through the House they would have to come back to make the concession in relation to settled wives. The Government might just as well face the situation now. About a dozen Conservative Members would like to be minor Enoch Powells—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.384.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.385.0", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who said that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "rst, they say that the rules are insufficiently tough. Then they say that the rules are unenforceable and that they will take us back to the pre-1979 position, representing a departure from the Conservative Party manifesto of 1979. In every respect, those arguments—however eloquently argued—are wrong. The first assertion—that the rules, if approved, will take us back to the 1979 position—is wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.385.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.394.2", "colnum": "394", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Dubs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Dubs", "preceding_text": " why not two years?\", and he produced no other evidence. Above all, the onus of proof is the sinister aspect of these regulations. It will affect all women who wish to marry a man from abroad and have him live here. To subject a marriage to the kind of scrutiny envisaged in the immigration rules will put that marriage under intolerable pressure. Marriages are difficult enough at the best of times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.394.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "ranged at the age of 16, is not that too young? If we pass the rules, all those young girls, some of whom might be willing, and some of whom will not be willing, will be subject to that great and disturbing pressure at a tender age. It is not fair that we should put them in this position. Those are my words. Those are the points that I wish to make, but other better and greater people than myself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.406.2", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "up racist fears and to insinuate and suggest to the British public that if they elected a Conservative Government there would be a stop to all kinds of immigration. Indeed, they were egged on in that regard by their lickspittle, the Daily Mail, which, on 13 February 1978 published a front page story saying: Immigration: Major Mail poll reveals rising support for the Tories. Maggies's got it right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.406.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.408.5", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "some humanity into them to allow women who are settled here to marry men of their choice—a basic and fundamental right—they are so cowardly as to back off from doing so, under pressure from the Right-wing, and bring forward wholly unacceptable regulations. I hope that all Conservative Members who object to the way in which their Right-wing colleagues are behaving will join us in the Lobby tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.408.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.415.2", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "ot been mentioned during the debate is paragraph 17 of the statement, which deals with visitors. That paragraph is complained about in many parts of the world and I received many complaints about it when I visited India on several occasions. The paragraph states: A passenger seeking entry as a visitor, including one coming to stay with relatives or friends, is to be admitted only if he satisfies\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.415.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "n the rules have been changed, which could double the figure. There probably will be a large number of dependants who will be anxious to come in and join their sons, sons-in-law, and so on. That matter must be taken into account. It seems remarkable that a Conservative Government who have stood by virtually every other manifesto commitment, and passed legislation in the House with the approval of—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.428.0", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Timothy Raison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Timothy Raison)", "preceding_text": "hey were born here or not. That is the crucial point in the debate. We have created a British citizenship for those people and the women who hold it must all be in the same position. There are those who believe that the woman who wishes to marry should invariably live where the man lives. I thank my hon. Friend the Member for Northampton, North (Mr. Marlow) for his genuinely kind remarks about me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.428.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.430.0", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "What I believe I said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.430.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.438.5", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Bernard Weatherill)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Bernard Weatherill)", "preceding_text": "Point of order, Mr. Roy Jenkins.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.438.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-15", "file": "debates1982-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "62c8393b413cdce6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.439.2", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "her House, section 3(2) of the Immigration Act requires the Secretary of State to make such changes or further changes in the rules as appear to him to be required in the circumstances. The House having disapproved tonight the rules laid on 6 December, I shall make further changes in accordance with the subsection as soon as possible. In so doing, I shall endeavour to meet the wishes of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-15a.439.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-16", "file": "debates1982-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8e79856f75279ba9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-16a.467.6", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "preceding_text": "Does the Home Secretary agree that the Home Office's supposed decision to introduce a Data Protection Bill, which seems to be a little time in giving birth, changes the whole situation? How can the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-16a.467.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-16", "file": "debates1982-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8e79856f75279ba9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-16a.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "preceding_text": "I want to say quite definitely—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-16a.472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-16", "file": "debates1982-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8e79856f75279ba9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-16a.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "preceding_text": "I want to say quite definitely— [Interruption.] Hon. Members might give me a chance to speak. I have had meetings in that area with the Home Secretary about the economy and the discussions have always been constructive. As a result, I am complaining, or asking the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-16a.472.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-12-16", "file": "debates1982-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8e79856f75279ba9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-16a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dan Jones", "preceding_text": "ys been constructive. As a result, I am complaining, or asking the Minister—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Well, Conservative Members are really sticking to a minor point, are they not? I ask the Minister to use his undoubted influence in the Cabinet and to make representations to ensure that we guard our aspirations, just as those countries guard theirs. Will the right hon. Gentleman do that much?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-16a.472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-16", "file": "debates1982-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8e79856f75279ba9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-16a.473.2", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman really is a tiger for punishment. I have given him one go, and I am going to give him another.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-16a.473.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-16", "file": "debates1982-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8e79856f75279ba9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-16a.475.0", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "e hon. and learned Gentleman aware that the Select Committee on Education, Science and Arts recently inspected educational facilities in prisons and witnessed the conditions there? Does he agree that they are an affront to human dignity and not conducive to good order in prisons? Does he agree also that it would be good experience for all hon. Members to witness three men in a cell for long hours?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-16a.475.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-16", "file": "debates1982-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8e79856f75279ba9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-16a.475.0", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": " be arising out of defeat among Conservative Members. Does the Minister agree that it would be good for all of us to understand the gross indignity of, for example, the slopping-out process and men being kept in cells for long hours? Is he aware that judges are sentencing shoplifters to longer sentences than those who have committed rape? Does he agree that the whole system needs to be overhauled?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-16a.475.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1982-12-16", "file": "debates1982-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8e79856f75279ba9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-16a.478.5", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Santa Clausback.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speller", "preceding_text": "In view of the concern expressed by many pensioners following comments from the Opposition, will my right hon. Friend confirm that, far from pensions being clawed back in years to come, pensioners will be better off in the coming year and that there will be no clawback of the kind suggested by the Opposition?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-16a.478.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-16", "file": "debates1982-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8e79856f75279ba9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-16a.507.1", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Fair Wages Resolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": ". In few of those countries are wages lower than in Britain. Lest Opposition Members feel no sympathy with the views of Western capitalist countries, let me remind them that the entire Eastern bloc has failed to ratify the convention, though to be fair that has not of itself led to workers' paradises in those countries. There is one area of genuine difference between the Government and Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-16a.507.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-16", "file": "debates1982-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8e79856f75279ba9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-16a.509.0", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Fair Wages Resolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Folkestone and Hythe\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold Walker", "preceding_text": "nt by their denunciation of the convention. In denouncing that convention, the Secretary of State seems to have chosen to ignore another. What does the ILO mean by consultation? It is set out in convention 144 and by the tripartite committee of experts who elaborated on convention 144. It imposes an obligation on member Governments to carry out effective consultations. The hon. Member for Torquay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-16a.509.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-16", "file": "debates1982-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8e79856f75279ba9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-16a.564.1", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Fair Wages Resolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why change it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "ed the veritable modesty of our motion's implications, becomes even clearer. Workers employed on Government contracts are only a relatively small proportion of the work force. The Government have acted and will continue to act responsibly in placing contracts. There will be no relaxation of the standards with which Government contractors are expected to comply. I remind the House that in practice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-16a.564.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-16", "file": "debates1982-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8e79856f75279ba9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-16a.568.2", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Fair Wages Resolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, I have little time left.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-16a.568.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-16", "file": "debates1982-12-16a.xml", "sha256": "8e79856f75279ba9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-16a.568.2", "colnum": "568", "heading": "Fair Wages Resolution", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "omplains that we have not properly consulted it. If it had wanted more, it could have asked for that. We wrote to the TUC in March on another ILO matter—a draft White Paper on the Government attitude towards the ILO conventions and recommendations adopted by the ILO conference in 1981. Owing to a misunderstanding the TUC thought that it was not being consulted properly and it asked for a meeting.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-16a.568.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-17", "file": "debates1982-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "6dfa35e52ade756e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-17a.604.1", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Family Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Best", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Best", "preceding_text": "s not made at an earlier time by a former Government, but I hope that the practice will be adhered to stringently by this Government. A £10 bonus is not a great deal of money. I sought recently to find out how much it would cost in a full year to give a £10 bonus to single-parent families. I have not yet had an answer and I make no criticism of the Government as I asked the question only recently—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-17a.604.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-20", "file": "debates1982-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "206970ea55fb2ace", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-20a.651.8", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Coleman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Coleman", "preceding_text": "more than 70 per cent. of the loss of steel making capacity? When the right hon. Gentleman meets the chairman of the British Steel Corporation, will he point those facts out to him as evidence of the way in which the British steel industry, particularly in Wales, has been haemorrhaging away? Are the reports that appeared over the weekend about investment in the steel plant at Port Talbot accurate?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-20a.651.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-20", "file": "debates1982-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "206970ea55fb2ace", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-20a.674.1", "colnum": "674", "heading": "British Steel Corporation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is deluding himself if he believes that Britain is alone in facing a crisis in steel.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-20a.674.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-20", "file": "debates1982-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "206970ea55fb2ace", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-20a.682.5", "colnum": "682", "heading": "British Steel Corporation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "as therefore for the Government, as the owner of the business, to consider whether it would be appropriate to take such a step in the trough of the recession and when market prospects are so uncertain and when we have cut so much more than all the other European countries. It was in these circumstances that I suggested to Mr. MacGregor that it might be wiser to stretch it out over a little longer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-20a.682.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-20", "file": "debates1982-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "206970ea55fb2ace", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-20a.717.3", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Adjournment (Christmas)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh D. Brown", "preceding_text": "I hope to keep within the guidelines on time to which you have drawn our attention, Mr. Deputy Speaker. The subject that I wish to raise is the current dispute about manning levels in the Department of Health and Social Security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-20a.717.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-20", "file": "debates1982-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "206970ea55fb2ace", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-20a.724.0", "colnum": "724", "heading": "Adjournment (Christmas)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bob Cryer", "preceding_text": "her words, the Government invoke an agreement to buy tobacco as part of the authorisation to the American Government to use nuclear weapons on our soil. I emphasise my support, and that of my hon. Friends, for the courageous women of Greenham Common who have established the vanguard of opposition to the installation of cruise missiles in the United Kingdom. They stand for a majority of our people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-20a.724.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-21", "file": "debates1982-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "498818a1b2279e1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-21a.813.4", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows that the policies of massive spending that were pursued by the Labour Government, of which he was a member, increased unemployment. They doubled unemployment and doubled prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-21a.813.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-21", "file": "debates1982-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "498818a1b2279e1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-21a.813.5", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "In view of the sadly high unemployment figures, if a firm or part of a firm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-21a.813.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-21", "file": "debates1982-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "498818a1b2279e1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-21a.821.2", "colnum": "821", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "could plunge us all into a nuclear Armageddon? Will she and her party stop accusing the anti-nuclear struggle in Britain of sympathising purely with the Soviet Union? Will she admit that we are trying to remove the first stone from the great nuclear archway, not in order to get the Americans or the West to disarm unilaterally, but to set an example and to bring the two together in order to disarm—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-21a.821.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-21", "file": "debates1982-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "498818a1b2279e1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-21a.828.4", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Finance Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Will the Chancellor of the Exchequer accept that I believe that he has handled this nasty hiccup very well?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-21a.828.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-21", "file": "debates1982-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "498818a1b2279e1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-21a.833.2", "colnum": "833", "heading": "Finance Council", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And by some of your hon. Friends.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "My European counterparts are aware that the view articulated by the hon. Gentleman about membership of the Community is held in some parts of the Labour Party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-21a.833.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-21", "file": "debates1982-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "498818a1b2279e1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-21a.852.2", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Falklands Campaign", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about honour?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "preceding_text": "cretary and his fellow Ministers. Memories fade. White Papers too often are designed to see that memories fade, but it is worth recalling that the Secretary of State for Defence was so demoralised that he offered his resignation on 3 April, not because he thought that he was right, but because he knew that he bore responsibility for what had happened and that others should now take over his place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-21a.852.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-21", "file": "debates1982-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "498818a1b2279e1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-21a.857.5", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Falklands Campaign", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "gress about the Pershing II. Congress has withdrawn the grant because the dashed thing has not yet been constructed. Where it has been constructed, it has failed test after test. There are other more important points. If we come into negotiation with the Soviet Union on these matters, Trident will undoubtedly be part of the negotiations. With Trident we are moving upstream and up military market.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-21a.857.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-21", "file": "debates1982-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "498818a1b2279e1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-21a.868.7", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Falklands Campaign", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "and for the families whose sons were killed or maimed in an enterprise that cannot achieve its prime purpose. I shall go further and say what I know will not be popular among Conservative Members. I deeply feel, as do others, that the Government used the sacrifices of the dead and wounded to boost the political standing of the Conservative Party in general, and of the Prime Minister in particular.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-21a.868.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-21", "file": "debates1982-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "498818a1b2279e1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-21a.879.0", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Falklands Campaign", "cue_speaker": "Dame Judith Hart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dame Judith Hart", "preceding_text": "d out the possibility of later meaningful negotiations, because of the climate in the Antarctic and the distance. When the task force reached the Ascension Islands I asked for a pause for peace, because people were ready to negotiate. We were apparently ready, as was Mr. Haig, the United Nations, the Peruvians, and everyone else, to have negotiations to avert a war. I believe now that I was naive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-21a.879.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-22", "file": "debates1982-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "874a66997b6b5435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-22a.932.6", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "If he expects the Soviet Union to ignore our forces, why is he planning to spend £10,000 million on them with the aim of influencing Soviet policy? Finally, may I tell him that the Opposition are sick and tired of the bargain basement Boadicea barging in yet again with an off-the-cuff dismissal of Mr. Adropov's proposals when she admitted yesterday that she had not even read the atm? Will he last—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-22a.932.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-22", "file": "debates1982-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "874a66997b6b5435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-22a.962.7", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Anderson Strathclyde and Charter Consolidated (Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "It is perfectly proper in this kind of situation for any Secretary of State to delegate authority within his Department. For the right hon. and learned Gentleman, with his experience of these matters, to suggest that a category of decisions cannot be delegated is a total misreading of the law. As far as I am aware, the Law Officers were not consulted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-22a.962.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-22", "file": "debates1982-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "874a66997b6b5435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-22a.962.7", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Anderson Strathclyde and Charter Consolidated (Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "e delegated is a total misreading of the law. As far as I am aware, the Law Officers were not consulted—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".] If I am wrong, I shall write to the right hon. and learned Gentleman. In this situation I do not believe that the Secretary of State for Scotland, warm though my regard is for his abilities, would have been the proper person to whom this decision should have been delegated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-22a.962.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-22", "file": "debates1982-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "874a66997b6b5435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-22a.965.1", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Conduct of Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "preceding_text": " through inadvertence—I do not accuse him of lying—the Minister of Trade may not have been entirely aware that in this Parliament the Cabinet considered the very issue involved in a general sense. The Expenditure Committee in the last Parliament and the Treasury and Civil Service Committee in this Parliament have both suggested that we should adopt United States law. If I may digress for a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-22a.965.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-22", "file": "debates1982-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "874a66997b6b5435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-22a.978.1", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Shackleton Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "b-division at this stage. Sub-division itself is not necessarily easy, as the quality of the land varies. Whereas it may be easy to find someone who would be happy to take on the best one-third of a large estate, that still leaves the problem of who will take on the worst two-thirds. The reason for not trying an experiment of that type is that one can see in advance that it is unlikely to succeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-22a.978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-22", "file": "debates1982-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "874a66997b6b5435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-22a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Shackleton Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "I am sorry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-22a.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-22", "file": "debates1982-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "874a66997b6b5435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-22a.1004.1", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Shackleton Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Viggers", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Viggers", "preceding_text": "acilities for personnel in the Falkland Islands. Until now they have worked seven days a week, and flat out, in a remarkable way. No praise is too great for all the Service personnel we met in the islands. But of course no one can work seven days a week indefinitely. The military commissioner has now reduced the working week to six and a half days. There are some facilities for rest and recreation", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-22a.1004.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-22", "file": "debates1982-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "874a66997b6b5435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-22a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Shackleton Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "e of land reform was raised by many hon. Members. It was refreshing to hear a farmer talk about farming. My hon. Friend the Member for Dumfries (Sir H. Monro) obviously knew what he was talking about. He has been to the islands and he carried more conviction simply because he had more first-hand knowledge than is available from either the Shackleton report or from the speeches that we heard today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-22a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-22", "file": "debates1982-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "874a66997b6b5435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-22a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Shackleton Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "d with Sir Rex Hunt in Port Stanley and, therefore, one would think that he was in a good position to report accurately upon what happens. But, unfortunately, the article from which the hon. Gentleman and others quoted was written before the meeting of the Legislative Council on 16 December that endorsed the proposed gradual approach to land transfer that is embodied in the Government's decisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-22a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-22", "file": "debates1982-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "874a66997b6b5435", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-22a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Shackleton Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": " away are doing their utmost to make it impossible for the Falkland Islanders to succeed. Had this been a football field, many own goals would have been scored by some of the bitter and twisted speeches from the Opposition. The Falkland Islanders will not recognise that as a spirit embodied in themselves or represented by the Service men in their midst, who show what we feel about their prospects.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-22a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1982-12-23", "file": "debates1982-12-23a.xml", "sha256": "d02cae676aa7f79b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-23a.1064.8", "colnum": "1064", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e-range nuclear forces and substantial reductions in conventional weapons was put forward in a well-known speech by President Reagan. It was an excellent package of disarmament proposals on a multilateral basis. Is the right hon. Gentleman for the zero option, or is he prepared to have a monopoly of those intermediate-range weapons on the Soviet side and none on ours? He must answer that question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1982-12-23a.1064.8"}