{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-17", "file": "debates1983-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "141a38baf2177f43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.22.1", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Shooting Incident (Kensington)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. William Whitelaw)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. William Whitelaw)", "preceding_text": "olitan Police, charged with the pursuit and recapture of an escaped suspect, shot and seriously injured Mr. Stephen Waldorf. The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis has already made it clear that this shooting arose from mistaken identity and has expressed his deep regret at what occurred. I am sure that the House will agree with me that this was a most serious, grave and disturbing incident.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.22.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-17", "file": "debates1983-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "141a38baf2177f43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.23.1", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Shooting Incident (Kensington)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "e, be for the Director of Public Prosecutions to examine the report, to get the full report and to decide if and whether legal proceedings should take place. That must be the first task. As for the next and subsequent matters, I shall bear in mind what the right hon. Gentleman said. I have read the regulations to the House, and I believe they cover the point that the right hon. Gentleman has made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.23.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-17", "file": "debates1983-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "141a38baf2177f43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.27.3", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Shooting Incident (Kensington)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful. Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Clark", "preceding_text": "Does the Home Secretary accept that there must be some sympathy for the police in the circumstantial chain of accidents that led up to this dreadful incident? Does he agree that by no stretch of the imagination could the people in that car be termed ordinary members of the public, because at least two of them were tainted with criminality?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.27.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-17", "file": "debates1983-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "141a38baf2177f43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "House of Commons (Demonstration)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. W. Stallard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. W. Stallard", "preceding_text": "d by the police from Central Lobby down the steps to Westminster Hall, where they are now, together with about 100 other young women, surrounded by policemen. I cannot find out how long they will be detained in Westminster Hall and what charges are being levelled against them. Will you use your influence, Mr. Speaker, to persuade the Leader of the House to make a statement about the demonstration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.34.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-17", "file": "debates1983-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "141a38baf2177f43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.34.2", "colnum": "34", "heading": "House of Commons (Demonstration)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.34.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-17", "file": "debates1983-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "141a38baf2177f43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.55.3", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Transport Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "ition Benches is a member of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers (TASS), the Transport Salaried Staffs Association, the National Union of Railwaymen, the Transport and General Workers Union, the National Union of Mineworkers, the National Union of Teachers, the National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers, the National Union of Public Employees, or the Post Office Engineering Union.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.55.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-17", "file": "debates1983-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "141a38baf2177f43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.65.1", "colnum": "65", "heading": "Transport Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Jo Richardson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Jo Richardson", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. May I be assured that the 15 women who are, I understand, to be detained until the rising of the House, will be given a cup of tea and a sandwich?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.65.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-17", "file": "debates1983-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "141a38baf2177f43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.88.1", "colnum": "88", "heading": "Local Government (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "f they can make savings and cut spending in their businesses, why cannot local government play its part in doing the same? It is against that background that we must see the achievement that we have made so far—stopping the spending increasing at a rate that no one can afford. So far from being unduly harsh, I and the Government have literally leant over backwards to make that task less difficult.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.88.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-17", "file": "debates1983-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "141a38baf2177f43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.91.1", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Local Government (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "y. What would be the position in 1983–84 if local authorities simply budgeted for the same amount of expenditure as in 1982–83 but updated the figure to take account of the Secretary of State's figures for inflation? Even on that figure, the result would be a reduction in services in real terms of between 3 and 4 per cent. The right hon. Gentleman mentioned that figure in his speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.91.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-17", "file": "debates1983-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "141a38baf2177f43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.91.1", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Local Government (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": " have to be a reduction in expenditure of 7·8 per cent. in real terms in 1983–84. I am glad to say that the Secretary of State has not a hope of that happening. It would mean the wholesale slashing of essential services in Scotland. The district guidelines for 1983–84 again rather miraculously turn out to be exactly the same as those for 1982–83, down to the last pound.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.91.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-17", "file": "debates1983-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "141a38baf2177f43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.103.1", "colnum": "103", "heading": "Local Government (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "s that the Secretary of State for Scotland and the former Secretary of State for the Environment should consider it a promotion to go to the Ministry of Defence. My hon. Friends will know that no Labour Secretary of State for the Environment or Secretary of State for Scotland would consider it a promotion; they would consider it a demotion. It is an important point. It relates to the way in which—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.103.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-17", "file": "debates1983-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "141a38baf2177f43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.123.0", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Housing (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "o the reasonable level assumed for the purposes of housing support grant, because we believe that the public expenditure resources involved are more urgently needed for capital spending and because we are concerned about the burden on ratepayers. I am glad to say that we are managing to increase the proportion of public expenditure on housing which goes into capital spending rather than subsidies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-17", "file": "debates1983-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "141a38baf2177f43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.123.0", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Housing (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "resources involved are more urgently needed for capital spending and because we are concerned about the burden on ratepayers. I am glad to say that we are managing to increase the proportion of public expenditure on housing which goes into capital spending rather than subsidies. [Interruption.] Let me say that again. The right hon. Member for Craigton has not listened. We are managing to increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-17", "file": "debates1983-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "141a38baf2177f43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.123.0", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Housing (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "second time if he chatters away like a boiling kettle. He really should take a lesson in listening. I shall say it for the third time. I am glad to say that we are managing to increase the proportion of public expenditure on housing which goes into capital spending rather than subsidies. We plan for 74 per cent. of resources to go to capital spending next year as opposed to 71 per cent. this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-17", "file": "debates1983-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "141a38baf2177f43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Housing (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Allan Stewart)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Allan Stewart)", "preceding_text": " late husband held the respect of the entire House for his constituency work and his wide-ranging interests. The hon. Lady has spoken to the House with knowledge and conviction about the problems facing her constituents. I hope that it will not be long before we have the privilege of hearing the hon. Lady speaking again on housing and other matters. We all wish her well in her career in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-17a.138.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-18", "file": "debates1983-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "12f515df33df9ea1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.169.2", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "g from home production because British manufacturing industry is insufficiently competitive either in price or in design and must improve. The demand is there, but British industry is not taking a sufficient part of the home market. On the second part of the question, as the hon. Lady knows, old-age pensions have more than kept pace with inflation and the pensioners received their Christmas bonus.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.169.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-18", "file": "debates1983-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "12f515df33df9ea1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.171.2", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "s morning. Indeed, Mr. Deputy Speaker announced then that he would report the matter to you, Mr. Speaker. If the Franks committee had been set up by the House, there would have been a succession of breach of privilege cases, besides which the cases of the late Sir Gerald Nabarro on car tax, of the leak of the Civil List and of myself in relation to Porton Down would have paled into insignificance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.171.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-18", "file": "debates1983-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "12f515df33df9ea1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.174.3", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "the right hon. Lady referred to that. I wish to quote a paragraph from the report which illustrates why it is necessary to examine the whole report before passing judgment on its conclusions. It is necessary to draw the right conclusions to ensure that the same tragic errors are not committed in future. In the words of the Foreign Secretary who resigned, those errors led to a national humiliation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.174.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-18", "file": "debates1983-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "12f515df33df9ea1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.174.3", "colnum": "174", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": " proper place for the question to have been decided—the difference of opinion between the Foreign Secretary and the Secretary of State for Defence—was either in the Overseas and Defence Committee over which she presides or the Cabinet over which she is supposed to preside? Does she agree, having read the entire report, that it illustrates a collapse of effective Cabinet government in this country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.174.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-18", "file": "debates1983-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "12f515df33df9ea1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.175.0", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Leaking.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "On the first question raised by the right hon. Gentleman, which was raised before I made my statement, about the alleged briefing of the press, the remarks that were made rightly cause deep offence to a very distinguished civil servant who has served both Governments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.175.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-18", "file": "debates1983-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "12f515df33df9ea1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.175.0", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "civil servant has been named, and it is my duty and pleasure to defend him, may I say that there was never an arrangement for my press secretary to brief the press on the contents of the Franks report before its publication. To help the press to digest the report in the short time available to them after publication, my press secretary was prepared to give them a list of numbers of key paragraphs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.175.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-18", "file": "debates1983-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "12f515df33df9ea1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.176.3", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "night, about which I heard, I specifically instructed him not to brief the press either on the paragraphs or in any way. Therefore, he did not brief them on the paragraphs and had no intention at any time of briefing them on the contents, nor did he brief them on the contents. The only people outside the Government who have had the report in advance of publication are the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.176.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-18", "file": "debates1983-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "12f515df33df9ea1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.176.3", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d him not to brief the press either on the paragraphs or in any way. Therefore, he did not brief them on the paragraphs and had no intention at any time of briefing them on the contents, nor did he brief them on the contents. The only people outside the Government who have had the report in advance of publication are the Leader of the Opposition—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"]—former Prime Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.176.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-01-18", "file": "debates1983-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "12f515df33df9ea1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.176.6", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Read on.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " absurd to do otherwise. The right hon. Gentleman pointed out the paragraphs about HMS \"Endurance\" and about the decision to withdraw it. If the report is to be read as a whole, he should also refer to paragraph 44, which states: One consequence of the 1974 Defence Review, which resulted in a phased rundown of overseas commitments outside NATO was a decision to take HMS \"Endurance\" out of service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.176.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-18", "file": "debates1983-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "12f515df33df9ea1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.176.7", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I will indeed read on. I shall read the next sentence and the one after that if need be. There was a decision to take HMS \"Endurance\" out of service. It was not implemented, nor was our decision to take HMS Endurance out of service implemented.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.176.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-18", "file": "debates1983-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "12f515df33df9ea1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.176.7", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s not implemented, nor was our decision to take HMS Endurance out of service implemented. [Interruption.] The fact is that the invasion ocurred while HMS Endurance was on station. The Leader of the Opposition should also direct attention to signals and developments in British policy that are discussed in paragraphs 278 to 281, which refer also to other signals given by governments of both parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.176.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-01-18", "file": "debates1983-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "12f515df33df9ea1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.178.0", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": " not the difference between the right hon. Lady's reading of the facts and the case she quoted from paragraph 44, that the then Defence Secretary in the Labour Government proposed to abandon \"Endurance\" but was overruled? In the case of her own Government, it was the Foreign Secretary who was overruled when the decision to abandon \"Endurance\" was announced. That is all the difference in the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.177.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-01-18", "file": "debates1983-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "12f515df33df9ea1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.178.2", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": "hat the worst of all possible policies—one that might be unsustainable in the long run and certainly undesirable in the short run—was a Fortress Falklands policy? Is not the result of the Government's handling of these matters during the last 12 months that we are presented under the direction of the right hon. Lady with a short-term military victory and a long-term political retreat and dead end?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-18", "file": "debates1983-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "12f515df33df9ea1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.178.3", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " of the period are summed up in paragraph 70. The dilemma for both Governments was that Argentina wanted sovereignty and the Falkland Islanders, whose wishes we regarded as paramount, wanted to stay British. That was the fundamental dilemma which applied to both Governments. In the end Argentina invaded. With due respect to the right hon. Gentleman, we now have no option except Fortress Falklands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.178.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-01-18", "file": "debates1983-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "12f515df33df9ea1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.179.4", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Then why did Carrington resign?", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Eden", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend set aside the Opposition's small-minded questioning and remind the House that the prime act of duplicity was committed by the Argentine junta? Will she confirm that, throughout, Ministers and Government officials made it clear to the Argentine that the wishes of the Falkland Islanders would remain paramount?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.179.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-18", "file": "debates1983-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "12f515df33df9ea1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.179.6", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Does not the Prime Minister recall that in the debate on 8 July, when the Franks committee was set up, some of us predicted that, as she had the power to choose the members of the committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.179.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-18", "file": "debates1983-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "12f515df33df9ea1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.179.6", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "Does not the Prime Minister recall that in the debate on 8 July, when the Franks committee was set up, some of us predicted that, as she had the power to choose the members of the committee—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—and its terms of reference, and as she had the power to manipulate its publication—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.179.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-01-18", "file": "debates1983-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "12f515df33df9ea1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Shocking.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "se the members of the committee—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—and its terms of reference, and as she had the power to manipulate its publication—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]—this would be an establishment cover-up and a whitewash? As the right hon. Lady is one of the few people who has had the privilege of reading the whole report, will she say whether our fears have been confirmed and her hopes realised?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.179.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-01-18", "file": "debates1983-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "12f515df33df9ea1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.180.2", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw!99 The Prime Minister; The terms of reference were debated in this House and I believe, fully approved. I therefore hope that the hon. Gentleman will withdraw his remarks.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "and slur on both Lord Franks and the whole committee. We also agreed on Sir Patrick Nairne as the other independent member of the committee. In addition, we agreed that the Opposition and Government parties should propose two names. They were also discussed. Therefore, the arrangements for the membership of the committee were agreed in full and proper consultation across all parties of this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.180.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-01-18", "file": "debates1983-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "12f515df33df9ea1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.180.3", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Hon. Members", "preceding_text": "Withdraw!99 The Prime Minister; The terms of reference were debated in this House and I believe, fully approved. I therefore hope that the hon. Gentleman will withdraw his remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.180.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-01-18", "file": "debates1983-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "12f515df33df9ea1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.183.0", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tanding Foreign Secretary. Lord Carrington resigned because there were adverse comments, because of the effect of the invasion and because of the very considerable criticism of him at that time. He thought therefore that if there was to be total unity from then onwards, which was absolutely vital, it would be best for him to resign. It was the act of an honourable and very great Foreign Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.182.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-18", "file": "debates1983-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "12f515df33df9ea1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.275.1", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "ct Committee, I regret that the deliberations of that Select Committee should be held back for that reason. The Select Committee's report was seen in Wales as an opportunity to scrutinise an area of policy and to make constructive recommendations for ending the conflict between domestic consumers and the regions outside Wales that take advantage of our water resources. This issue will not go away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-18a.275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-19", "file": "debates1983-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac97ad416aa322e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.341.1", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Privilege", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Ashton", "preceding_text": " were making their services available for hire. Two years later three Members, Mr. Cordle, Reggie Maudling and the hon. Member for Normanton (Mr. Roberts) were found guilty. I was never pardoned. I did not receive an apology in any shape or form. There was no question of an apology. In Britain we have freedom of speech. Mr. Livingstone was exercising his right to free speech. We have a free press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.341.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-19", "file": "debates1983-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac97ad416aa322e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.343.1", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Privilege", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "Who is grovelling? If the hon. Gentleman had done only half as much for the working class movement as I have, and if he knew my record, he would know that I never grovel to anyone, be it Right, Left or Centre, Chief Whip or no Chief Whip—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.343.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-19", "file": "debates1983-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac97ad416aa322e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.355.3", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "e of questions in his speech. I had hardly begun to address the House when he leapt to his feet to ask another question. I shall address myself to his questions in due course. If the right hon. Gentleman is serious in proposing a 30 per cent. devaluation of the pound sterling, that poses the most serious accompanying question. What does he wish to happen to wages alongside that change? His speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.355.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-19", "file": "debates1983-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac97ad416aa322e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.356.1", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows well that during the conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.356.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-19", "file": "debates1983-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac97ad416aa322e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What resolve?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "er unjustified, that the Opposition might conceivably be called upon by the electorate before long to put their inflationary policies into effect. And in the turbulent market conditions last week, the markets took interest rates higher. To have resisted that move could have been interpreted as a weakening of the Government's resolve. We have shown that there was no question of any lack of resolve—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-19", "file": "debates1983-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac97ad416aa322e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "ilding materials, private road haulage, major ports and forestry and timber. The cost is clearly immense—£10 billion, £20 billion, £30 billion. Who knows? We have no idea. The Labour party proposes to take a majority stake in all existing and future North Sea oil fields\". What would be the cost of that? Perhaps another £10 billion. The Labour party wishes to nationalise tenanted agricultural land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-19", "file": "debates1983-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac97ad416aa322e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.365.3", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "I hope the hon. Gentleman will forgive me and spare the House the necessary argumentation but I should be happy to demonstrate that very simple proposition to him later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.365.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-19", "file": "debates1983-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac97ad416aa322e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.373.1", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about employment in Glasgow?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "ld, interest rates have temporarily been coming down. There is mounting concern, to a greater extent elsewhere than in this country, about unemployment. There is deep concern in Germany, and there is a growing appreciation in the United States, even in influential sections of the Administration, that it is not desirable to have anti-inflationery policies, whatever the consequences in other areas.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.373.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-19", "file": "debates1983-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac97ad416aa322e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.398.0", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Rippon", "preceding_text": "d and sounder monetary policies now seem to be in operation. Whether pursued by a Labour or Conservative Government, I have always found extremes of monetary policies, like the case for flexible exchange rates, excessively mechanistic and irrational. It is not always remembered that the Labour Government, when the right hon. Member for Ebbw Vale (Mr. Foot) was Chancellor, pushed up interest rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.398.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-19", "file": "debates1983-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac97ad416aa322e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.417.1", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "There is no agreement between the British Government and the United States Government on these matters. No initiative has been taken by the United States Government that has been rejected by the present Government. I welcome the opportunity to reassure my right hon. and learned Friend on that score.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.417.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-19", "file": "debates1983-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac97ad416aa322e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "ur policy has been to give primacy to reducing inflation. Only by reducing inflation can we have sustainable growth and a real and lasting reduction in unemployment. The right hon. Member for Stepney and Poplar (Mr. Shore) was, to put it extremely mildly, grossly unfair to my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister in quoting from her speech, because he tried to present her as heartless and uncaring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-19", "file": "debates1983-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac97ad416aa322e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "ight hon. Gentleman hung much of his speech on the heartlessness aspect, about which we have heard much. However, the right hon. Gentleman did not quote the statement of my right hon. Friend—I am reading from the same speech, not too far away from the passage relied upon by the right hon. Gentleman—that I cannot conceal that of all the difficulties that I face unemployment concerns me most of all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-19", "file": "debates1983-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac97ad416aa322e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is your fault.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "ess and lack of care about a Government who have followed sound financial policies and who have, within those policies, so ordered their priorities and expenditure as to introduce a massive youth training scheme, a job release scheme, job splitting and the young workers' scheme. Even within sound fiscal policies, primacy is given to assisting those who are unemployed through no fault of their own.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-19", "file": "debates1983-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac97ad416aa322e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.419.1", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "It is not possible or desirable for Governments to bring down the exchange rate to increase competitiveness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.419.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-19", "file": "debates1983-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac97ad416aa322e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.420.0", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "There are costs and benefits from every major change in policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.420.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-19", "file": "debates1983-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ac97ad416aa322e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "to the Welsh Consultative Council last October: However they are viewed, targets are not cash limits for individual authorities and in no way reduce the right of an individual local authority to spend at the level it thinks appropriate\". When looking at Mid-Glamorgan, we must ask—this applies to other authorities—whether it is a profligate authority or whether its budget proposals are appropriate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-19a.439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-20", "file": "debates1983-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "2857adb2b5861525", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-20a.470.5", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Answer\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "of prime timber produced in the area of Stoneyburn, Fauldhouse or Longridge in West Lothian compared with a cubic foot in the saline soils of the Roaring Forties of West Falkland? What are the assessments of the transport costs for taking the timber from the southern hemisphere to the northern hemisphere? In 80 years' time when the trees mature, who is likely to be the owner of that afforestation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-20a.470.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-20", "file": "debates1983-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "2857adb2b5861525", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-20a.477.8", "colnum": "477", "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 is aware that world steel capacity is greatly in excess of world steel demand.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-20a.477.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-20", "file": "debates1983-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "2857adb2b5861525", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-20a.523.0", "colnum": "523", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fergus Montgomery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fifty minutes\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fergus Montgomery", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for having been called in this debate. I shall make a short speech. We have just had a long and interminable speech from the right hon. Member for Manchester, Ardwick (Mr. Kaufman)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-20a.523.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-20", "file": "debates1983-01-20a.xml", "sha256": "2857adb2b5861525", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-20a.574.0", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Places of Religious Worship (Rating)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Giles Shaw)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Giles Shaw)", "preceding_text": "ted to their particular law. My hon. Friend has asked me a more pertinent and difficult question. He has asked that consideration of the consequences of the case be fully assessed before local authorities can take actions which they might seek to take in the light of the judgment which has been made. It is not for me or for the Government to determine what local authorities may wish or seek to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-20a.574.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-21", "file": "debates1983-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9644d6e3d2ebeb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-21a.623.1", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Copyright (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "bring. Indeed, the House is deeply indebted to my hon. Friend the Member for Gravesend, who pointed out that for the relatively modest investment of £40,000 someone could earn £600,000 in one year alone. That is a very conservative estimate. It is an attractive rate of return for anyone. If British Airways obtained that sort of return on its investment, I would be privatising it even more quickly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-21a.623.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-21", "file": "debates1983-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9644d6e3d2ebeb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-21a.626.2", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Copyright (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Golding", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Golding", "preceding_text": "ll, which is another important Bill. I hope that its sponsors get a hearing. Before us now is the Copyright (Amendment) Bill. Perhaps it is fortunate for the House that we shall not reach the Social Democratic party's Bill on trade union reform because the other Bills have so much more to recommend them. I thought that the Minister was an entirely appropriate choice to speak from the Dispatch Box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-21a.626.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-21", "file": "debates1983-01-21a.xml", "sha256": "e9644d6e3d2ebeb4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-21a.635.1", "colnum": "635", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Lead-Free Petrol Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brinton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More jobs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brinton", "preceding_text": " lead in petrol. They are reducing the maximum lead content from 0.4g per litre to 0.15g per litre—a 62 per cent. reduction—by the end of 1985, the date by which the hon. Member for Fife, Central wishes to see no lead in petrol. If we follow the hon. Gentleman's course, he will put many of his brother workers out of work because the British motor car industry would have to be extensively retooled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-21a.635.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-24", "file": "debates1983-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "574a1d660302bd79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-24a.676.3", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "this broad programme—was cut in real terms by the Labour Government every year from 1976 onwards. The fall was stopped in this Government's first year and reversed sharply in 1981–82, when cash investment spending rose by more than 18 per cent. In the current year, 1982–83, another 18 per cent. increase has been authorised. The construction industry is showing real signs of recovery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-24a.676.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-24", "file": "debates1983-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "574a1d660302bd79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-24a.682.1", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "4,000 redundancies, and in 1980 there were 36,000. In 1981 the figure was 40,000, while in 1982 it was 30,000, and more redundancies were announced in the new year in steel and shipbuilding. We have had redundancies in all the staple industries of the north—heavy engineering, shipbuilding, steel, chemicals and construction. That is what the Conservative Government have done to the northern region.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-24a.682.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-24", "file": "debates1983-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "574a1d660302bd79", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-24a.705.1", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is a management problem.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "overmanning did exist and that it was essential that it should be tackled. The same has been said by many ex-employees of firms that have gone out of business. One need only examine the level of overmanning in industries such as the British Steel Corporation and British Leyland prior to 1979, and compare it with international competition, to realise that it must have been a factor in unemployment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-24a.705.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-25", "file": "debates1983-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "e19859ff66e48f5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-25a.776.2", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shelton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shelton", "preceding_text": "I understand my hon. Friend's point. However, the Government have done something about it. We have set up a review group—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-25a.776.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-25", "file": "debates1983-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "e19859ff66e48f5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-25a.776.4", "colnum": "776", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shelton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shelton", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman would not expect us to reach decisions without consultation, especially when we have not received—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-25a.776.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-25", "file": "debates1983-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "e19859ff66e48f5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-25a.784.6", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that freedom, democracy and the rule of law have never been cheap and that one of the things we enjoy in the House is the right to table questions to Ministers? The hon. Member for West Lothian (Mr. Dalyell) has placed more than 300 questions to Ministers on Falklands matters at a cost to the public purse of more than £12,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-25a.784.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-25", "file": "debates1983-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "e19859ff66e48f5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-25a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "icit threat to any of our ships which might enter those waters. As Franks also concludes, the situation in February 1982 did not justify a similar, small naval deployment, but I would like to put another argument. To have sent two or three frigates at that time, without air cover, knowing as we did the strength and efficiency of the Argentine air force would have put men and ships in great danger—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-25a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-25", "file": "debates1983-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "e19859ff66e48f5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-25a.810.1", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "gh case to deploy a naval force to the south Atlantic before the talks in February 1982. That judgment was right. The crucial moment when the position changed was when the Argentine negotiator, the Argentine deputy Foreign Minister in New York, was disowned, a unilateral communiqué was put out in Buenos Aires and our ambassador there drew attention to the press interpretation of the report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-25a.810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-25", "file": "debates1983-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "e19859ff66e48f5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-25a.812.1", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "My predecessor took the decision not to announce it. It was the right decision and I maintained it through 1977 on the ground that it would provoke the negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-25a.812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-25", "file": "debates1983-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "e19859ff66e48f5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-25a.815.1", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister must speak for herself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-25a.815.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-25", "file": "debates1983-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "e19859ff66e48f5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-25a.815.1", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about sovereignty?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "y are 1,800 people. There are parish councils in Britain with a larger population. We respect the views of parish councillors, we take them into account, but Parliament has not yet given up its responsibilities to parish councils and others, although the Prime Minister dictates to metropolitan county and borough councils. She has not the slightest hesitation in overriding the views of the Cabinet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-25a.815.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-25", "file": "debates1983-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "e19859ff66e48f5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-25a.820.1", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "nal and qualified assertion of our right have been, in the context of Northern Ireland, a long, wearing and terrible war. That has been the consequence of the world being informed, as we informed the world over the Falkland Islands, that we would be glad enough to be rid of an embarrassment if only arrangements could be made to secure the consent upon which we had made the transaction conditional.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-25a.820.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-25", "file": "debates1983-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "e19859ff66e48f5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-25a.824.0", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "30-year rule allows. If ever there was a case for a freedom of information Act, it is that the information available to Parliament and the public in the Franks report gives us a real insight into the strengths and weaknesses of government as it operates in such circumstances. I know much more now about what happened in relation to the Falkland Islands when I was in Cabinet than I did at that time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-25a.824.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-25", "file": "debates1983-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "e19859ff66e48f5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-25a.824.0", "colnum": "824", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": " did not know the position. They were told it by Lord Carrington two and a half years before. That military option was first ignored, then improvised, and then executed in a way that was costly in British lives and to the families who were bereaved. I did not like the way in which the right hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Peyton) spoke as if the sacrifice of life somehow raised the morale of a nation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-25a.824.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-25", "file": "debates1983-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "e19859ff66e48f5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-25a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "I am glad to hear the right hon. Gentleman's remarks. If I did him an injustice, I apologise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-25a.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-25", "file": "debates1983-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "e19859ff66e48f5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-25a.839.0", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "the whole, the Minister said it was a great relief to the Cabinet that by the time the British settlement offer was made, the Argentinians were in no mood to talk. The question that arises throughout is how serious and sincere were the Government in their efforts to avoid having to regain the Falkland Islands by force? From a very early stage, the Prime Minister and the hon. Member for Eastbourne—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-25a.839.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-25", "file": "debates1983-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "e19859ff66e48f5e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-25a.839.0", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "ther explanation of 5 March exists. Before hon. Members laugh again at the important role that I ascribe to the hon. Member for Eastbourne, may I say that I was one of the few hon. Members to take the trouble to visit the Prime Minister and went on 21 April at her invitation. She said, very courteously, that she would see the awkward squad right away. Who was there? The hon. Member for Eastbourne—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-25a.839.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-01-26", "file": "debates1983-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "ece1a6d37d4d5ce1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.900.2", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Council of Fisheries Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "There is no doubt that fishing is an area in which it is vital to have a common agreement throughout European waters if growth, as opposed to decline, is to be the future of fishing. I believe the agreements reached yesterday are good for Europe and good for Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-26", "file": "debates1983-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "ece1a6d37d4d5ce1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.900.3", "colnum": "900", "heading": "Council of Fisheries Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "ishermen's organisations, as I think the Minister will agree, is very different. Does the Minister agree with the response of Willie Hay, of the Scottish fishermen's organisation, who said that if there had been a superb agreement it would have meant a 200-mile limit and as much fish as we can catch but that, in the context of the disaster that could have befallen us, the agreement is not too bad?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.900.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-01-26", "file": "debates1983-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "ece1a6d37d4d5ce1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.901.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Council of Fisheries Ministers", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "From the sea. [Laughter.]", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": " provide a further considerable area of preferential access\"? The right hon. Gentleman states that no concessions have been made in the agreement. In that case, what have the Danes got out of the agreement that now enables them to agree to it? I wish to refer to the apparent concessions that have been made on the 20,000 tonnes of mackerel and the 2,000 tonnes of cod. Where is this cod coming from?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.900.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-26", "file": "debates1983-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "ece1a6d37d4d5ce1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.901.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Council of Fisheries Ministers", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "preceding_text": "From the sea.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-26", "file": "debates1983-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "ece1a6d37d4d5ce1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.901.1", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Council of Fisheries Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sour grapes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "inister, just a little—indeed, it is not even a little—of our own money back? Finally, why did the right hon. Gentleman, of all people, end by saying: I believe the agreements reached yesterday are good for Europe and good for Britain\"? As the fisheries Minister for Britain, I should have thought that he would put the priorities for Britain rather higher than the requirements of Europe as a whole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.901.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-26", "file": "debates1983-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "ece1a6d37d4d5ce1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.922.1", "colnum": "922", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "ed with the approval of the Prime Minister, and responsible to the Prime Minister for his JIC duties. He has combined this work with his other Foreign Office responsibilities. The system has worked well in practice, but I fully support the view that the time has now come for the JIC to be chaired by an official working full-time in the Cabinet Office without the distraction of departmental duties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.922.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-26", "file": "debates1983-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "ece1a6d37d4d5ce1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.928.4", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "No, with respect to the right hon. Gentleman, I should like to deal with another point. I have given way a great deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.928.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-26", "file": "debates1983-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "ece1a6d37d4d5ce1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.940.1", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Callaghan", "preceding_text": "I take the hon. Gentleman's point. It really is a small matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.940.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-26", "file": "debates1983-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "ece1a6d37d4d5ce1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.945.0", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Nott", "preceding_text": "in the round Franks is right. There is no evidence in his report that an act of unprovoked aggression would have been prevented had we acted differently at the time. I understand that the right hon. Member for Cardiff, South-East is distressd, after all that he has said over many months, that the Franks report has vindicated the Government, and made the right hon. Gentleman look rather ridiculous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.945.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-26", "file": "debates1983-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "ece1a6d37d4d5ce1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.945.0", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Nott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Nott", "preceding_text": "s clearly that no evidence was produced to show that the deployment was known to the Argentines. Had the right hon. Gentleman been a Minister when he made those repeated claims to the House about the 1977 deployment, he would have been accused of misleading the House and he would have been charged by the House to justify his claim. He still has not done so. I said in the difficult Saturday debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.945.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-26", "file": "debates1983-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "ece1a6d37d4d5ce1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.948.1", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Nott", "preceding_text": "wth. The naval staff recommended to me, as it had recommended to my predecessors, the scrapping of Endurance. It was either Endurance or another frigate, because the cost of running a frigate—a major defence asset—was approximately the same as the cost of running Endurance. Speaking purely from a narrow defence interest, it made no sense at all to retain a ship that had no real defence capability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.948.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-26", "file": "debates1983-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "ece1a6d37d4d5ce1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.949.1", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Nott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Nott", "preceding_text": "I am merely saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.949.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-26", "file": "debates1983-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "ece1a6d37d4d5ce1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.970.0", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "splayed the attitude of mind that made Lord Carrington shy away from presenting the issues to the Cabinet. It is one thing to be confronted with a ministerial colleague who is high-handed and aloof, but when there are two such Cabinet personalities—the right hon. Member for St. Ives and the Prime Minister—one can see why they would have been too much for the diplomatic niceties of Lord Carrington.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-26", "file": "debates1983-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "ece1a6d37d4d5ce1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.975.0", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Holland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Holland", "preceding_text": "surances have we received that that would not recur if there were a crisis in Europe? Let me take one scenario, although there are others. Instead of the Hungarian crisis in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the recent Polish crisis, what if there were a combination of all three? We might know that the Warsaw pact forces were mobilised to deal not with a foreign threat but with internal repression.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.975.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-26", "file": "debates1983-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "ece1a6d37d4d5ce1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.978.2", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gavin Strang", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gavin Strang", "preceding_text": "t I received from the Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The reasons given by the Government in that tawdry document, the report of the negotiations, for not accepting those terms are wholly inadequate when we see that the alternative was to press ahead with the military action which was at best a dangerous exercise and which involved the loss of many lives and was bound to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.978.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-26", "file": "debates1983-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "ece1a6d37d4d5ce1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.982.1", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "t—unlike their predecessors—no longer wished to protect the islands. One of those signals was the defence review with its slashing of the Navy, including the projected sale of Invincible. Yesterday the Prime Minister quoted the 1981 paper from the chiefs of staff. She said that it concluded that to deter a full scale invasion, a large balanced force would be required\"— that is the important point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.982.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-26", "file": "debates1983-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "ece1a6d37d4d5ce1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.987.1", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "casions, and it is that to which the hon. Gentleman is referring. Again, using hindsight selectively, that has been portrayed as another clear warning of imminent invasion. It was not so. An Argentine Government source was quoted as saying that parallel plans had been formulated in case the proposed meetings did not produce sufficient progress towards a solution —again a reference to negotiations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.987.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-26", "file": "debates1983-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "ece1a6d37d4d5ce1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.988.1", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No. The fact was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.988.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-26", "file": "debates1983-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "ece1a6d37d4d5ce1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.988.3", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ing to deter without that you will have to send a full aircraft carrier force and that might not be enough when you get there. Therefore you need a very much larger task force.\" That, eventually, is what we had to send. I said yesterday that to make effective contingency plans we should have had to send 104 ships and 26,000 men, but I doubt whether Opposition Members would ever have accepted that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.988.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-26", "file": "debates1983-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "ece1a6d37d4d5ce1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.989.0", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I want to say a word about the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.989.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-26", "file": "debates1983-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "ece1a6d37d4d5ce1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.989.0", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Falkland Islands (Franks Report)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I want to say a word about the future. [Interruption.] That is totally and absolutely untrue, and I must ask the hon. Member to withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.989.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-26", "file": "debates1983-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "ece1a6d37d4d5ce1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.997.1", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating and Valuation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Caravans.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ernal plant and machinery is so severe and potentially damaging in its effects that it merits separate and decisive treatment, as proposed by the order. I would not accept either that it would have been appropriate to complicate matters by seeking to deal with a variety of other anomalies in the valuation system on which representations have been and are being received by a number of hon. Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.997.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-26", "file": "debates1983-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "ece1a6d37d4d5ce1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.998.3", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating and Valuation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I am coming to Central region. Without compensating savings elsewhere in their budgets, present estimates suggests an increase of 0·75p in the average rate of about 122p for authorities other than Orkney, Shetland, Central and Falkirk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.998.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-26", "file": "debates1983-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "ece1a6d37d4d5ce1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.1005.5", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating and Valuation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "r Stirling, Falkirk and Grangemouth, that kind of figure does not suggest a need for the kind of heat and lack of light displayed from the Opposition Front Bench. The resources element in the rate support grant achieves a considerable spreading of the load throughout Scotland as a whole. I do not wish to detain the House. It is possible that other hon. Members will produce more rational arguments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.1005.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-26", "file": "debates1983-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "ece1a6d37d4d5ce1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.1007.2", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating and Valuation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Hogg", "preceding_text": "y local people and that puts wages into the local economy. It pays £170,000 in rates to the two local authorities, which makes it important to the local community and the local council. I can understand its case and I can support it in principle, but when it comes down to how the Government have decided to handle this, I am afraid that I must come out against the order, along with my hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.1007.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-26", "file": "debates1983-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "ece1a6d37d4d5ce1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.1009.0", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating and Valuation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Albert McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Albert McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "hose areas and in all Scottish local authorities if the Secretary of State decides to reimburse the affected authorities by means of an increase in the rate support grant resources element. That will naturally reduce the overall sum that will be available to other local authorities, and can lead only to a general increase in rates in many areas that do not receive an additional rate support grant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-26a.1009.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-27", "file": "debates1983-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f75ccf870f04ed60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-27a.1039.0", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"1982\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "I remind the right hon. Gentleman that the growth in output in the United Kingdom since the spring of 1981—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-27a.1039.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-27", "file": "debates1983-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f75ccf870f04ed60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-27a.1042.9", "colnum": "1042", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "I was just trying to think who was the hon. Member for Aberdeen, South.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-27a.1042.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-27", "file": "debates1983-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f75ccf870f04ed60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-27a.1050.10", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "onouncements in the Budget. That has been so under all Governments. He equally knows that, as under this Government, so under his Government, the numbers of children of the unemployed on social security benefit increased, and increased substantially. The answer is not so much what we can do on social security, where our record is that social security benefits have in fact kept pace with inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-27a.1050.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-27", "file": "debates1983-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f75ccf870f04ed60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-27a.1053.1", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I accept that if one lends money for one purpose it releases money for another purpose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-27a.1053.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-27", "file": "debates1983-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f75ccf870f04ed60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-27a.1127.0", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Drugs (Promotion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Morris", "preceding_text": "me say that the only reason that the NHS employs the private sector for laundering, catering, cleaning or any other work, is that the private sector does it better than the public sector. If the hon. Gentleman does not believe that he will presumably be making complaints to the Comptroller and Auditor General or the district auditor—whoever is relevant—and will have evidence to prove the contrary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-27a.1127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-27", "file": "debates1983-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "f75ccf870f04ed60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-27a.1127.0", "colnum": "1127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Drugs (Promotion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Morris", "preceding_text": "ompanies. The figure that we should be dealing with for 1982 is the manufacturers' selling price of £1,200 million. As the hon. Gentleman has said, drugs make up around 10 per cent. of NHS costs. It so happens that earlier this evening, before I knew that the debate would take place, I was reading an interesting article in the journal of the Office of Health Economics about a survey that was done—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-27a.1127.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-28", "file": "debates1983-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "c5d3c97ca1754201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-28a.1149.6", "colnum": "1149", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "the nationalised industries—not all—that the Bill will impair their commercial autonomy and independence, and that their management will be interfered with. No doubt those fears are deeply felt, but they are not grounded in any reality. If they were, is it conceivable that the Bill would have received, as it has done, the enthusiastic support of Mr. Walter Goldsmith and the Institute of Directors?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-28a.1149.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-28", "file": "debates1983-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "c5d3c97ca1754201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-28a.1175.1", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Chelmsford.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peyton", "preceding_text": "y remark. He said that the chairmen of nationalised industries should take comfort from the fact that the Public Accounts Committee is not the only Select Committee of the House, but that there are some 14 others. I do not believe that equal misery is a cordial that the chairmen of nationalised industries will find helpful. I am sorry to see that my right hon. Friend the Member for Saffron Walden—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-28a.1175.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-28", "file": "debates1983-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "c5d3c97ca1754201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-28a.1180.2", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "There is no question but that the Bill would mean a substantial increase of staff. It does not indicate how extensive that will be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-28a.1180.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-28", "file": "debates1983-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "c5d3c97ca1754201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-28a.1187.1", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "There is a difference between a situation in which the Government are buying things and in which the House, through the Comptroller and Auditor General, is scrutinising how they are going about their activities and the operation of a commercial concern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-28a.1187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-28", "file": "debates1983-01-28a.xml", "sha256": "c5d3c97ca1754201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-28a.1205.1", "colnum": "1205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Parliamentary Control of Expenditure (Reform) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Budgen", "preceding_text": " Public Accounts Committee. I am bound to say that I did not think that the quasi-judicial role of the Public Accounts Committee was as good as the proper judicial role exercised by the courts. I do not think that the House of Commons is at its best when it is exercising a quasi-judicial role. Lest that should be thought to be just the view of a Tory obscurantist, perhaps I might invite the court—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-28a.1205.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-31", "file": "debates1983-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "164e03d29b715da9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-31a.15.2", "colnum": "15", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "This is the second time this afternoon that the right hon. Member for Lanarkshire, North (Mr. Smith) has raised this matter. Can he not welcome the excellent announcement that has been made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-31a.15.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-31", "file": "debates1983-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "164e03d29b715da9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-31a.25.1", "colnum": "25", "heading": "School Leavers (Supplementary Benefit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mike Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mike Thomas", "preceding_text": "ect—this is a new issue—if they can afford to withstand that financial pressure, they will be kept out of the unemployment statistics until September as they will not claim benefit. It is another unemployment figures fiddle. I am seeking leave to move the Adjournment of the House so that the Government can make a statement tommorrow to the effect that they intend to put this grave injustice right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-31a.25.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-31", "file": "debates1983-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "164e03d29b715da9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-31a.26.5", "colnum": "26", "heading": "School Leavers (Supplementary Benefit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I should like to draw your attention, Mr. Speaker, to the fact that the subject has been before the House and that on at least one occassion many members of the Social Democratic party were not present because their average attendance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-31a.26.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-01-31", "file": "debates1983-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "164e03d29b715da9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-31a.38.0", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "for a 12-mile limit has gone out of the window. The Prime Minister strongly hammered one crucial point when she visited Aberdeen during the general election—it is known as the Chatham syndrome in politics. Why did she say that she was a friend of the fishermen? When she was in Aberdeen on 26 April 1979 she said: Fishermen will find a true and determined friend in the next Conservative Government\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-31a.37.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-31", "file": "debates1983-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "164e03d29b715da9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-31a.39.7", "colnum": "39", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "I wish to move on—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-31a.39.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-31", "file": "debates1983-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "164e03d29b715da9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-31a.44.3", "colnum": "44", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "tress two aspects. The first is training. I hope that the Minister will be more generous in this respect than he was in fostering the marketing of fish. Perhaps he will be as generous as he is to the Argentines, because that would help us all. This Government have been willing to lash out large sums of money to a country with which a few weeks ago they said they were not prepared to discuss peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-31a.44.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-31", "file": "debates1983-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "164e03d29b715da9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-31a.46.3", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "e were given no opportunity to give our advice before it was arrived at and we now have an opportunity to do so. I shall be calling upon my right hon. and hon. Friends to show their attitude towards this thoroughly bad deal. That reminds me that the Minister complained that only 120 people voted \"No\" to his policy. But that also meant that 70,000 fishermen did not even bother to endorse it at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-31a.46.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-31", "file": "debates1983-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "164e03d29b715da9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-31a.48.1", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Townend", "preceding_text": "e fishermen will be paid, because some of them are desperate for that money. It is true to say that there are few things which do not lead to some good. I am delighted to tell the House that as a result of that company going into liquidation the fishermen have formed themselves into a co-operative called the Bridlington Fishermen's Selling Company; they should be congratulated on their initiative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-31a.48.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-31", "file": "debates1983-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "164e03d29b715da9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-31a.63.2", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Sir Michael Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Michael Shaw", "preceding_text": "s. I hope that they will, as they have done in the past, by keeping in touch with the industry. What a mockery to say that the fishermen had grown so tired of going to Brussels that they signed the agreement out of sheer weariness. Perhaps that was the trouble when the Minister in the Labour Government failed to go to Berlin. He may have been a little weary. Our Ministers certainly were not weary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-31a.63.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-01-31", "file": "debates1983-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "164e03d29b715da9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-31a.101.5", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Common Fisheries Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchanan-Smith", "preceding_text": "ions. The hon. Member for Renfrewshire, West mentioned the status of the quota proposals. It has been suggested that they have been based on article 43 of the treaty. It is true that that article allows for majority voting, at least in theory. Nevertheless, it is the view of the Council of Ministers that article 43 is subject to the Luxembourg compromise. That view has been explored several times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-01-31a.101.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-01", "file": "debates1983-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "7e67e46511d6e2f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-01a.137.3", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ogden", "preceding_text": "de available to the fund and at what price was it made available to the non-commissioned ranks? There is a great deal of information to the effect that that fund was grossly overcharging non-commissioned troops stationed there for airmail letters, beer and cigarettes, in some cases more than 250 per cent. above local charges. Will the hon. Gentleman now issue proper guidelines for the composition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-01a.137.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-01", "file": "debates1983-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "7e67e46511d6e2f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-01a.139.4", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What a drip\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mates", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that some water workers in my constituency came to see me on Saturday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-01a.139.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-01", "file": "debates1983-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "7e67e46511d6e2f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-01a.144.0", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Water Industry (Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "nothing to help? Will the right hon. Gentleman now ask the employers to respond immediately to the trade unions request for negotiations? The right hon. Gentleman said on television on Sunday: We back the judgment of the independent mediator\". Will he therefore give a categorical assurance that the employers are free to negotiate on the whole of the mediator's report? Should not the prime concern—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-01a.144.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-01", "file": "debates1983-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "7e67e46511d6e2f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-01a.145.2", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Water Industry (Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": " with what the Secretary of State has told the House. Mr. Hill did not know that the meeting was taking place. It is most peculiar that the only people available were those who agreed politically with the Secretary of State. It is also interesting that information has come to us that there was resistance by the employers to the replacement of Mr. Len Hill. We certainly agree that Mr. Hill carries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-01a.145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-01", "file": "debates1983-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "7e67e46511d6e2f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-01a.145.2", "colnum": "145", "heading": "Water Industry (Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": " Mr. Hill did not know that the meeting was taking place. It is most peculiar that the only people available were those who agreed politically with the Secretary of State. It is also interesting that information has come to us that there was resistance by the employers to the replacement of Mr. Len Hill. We certainly agree that Mr. Hill carries—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] No, I shall not withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-01a.145.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-01", "file": "debates1983-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "7e67e46511d6e2f2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-01a.152.5", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Liverpool, Wavertree (Circulation of Leaflet)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Election expenses\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "preceding_text": " view to put to others. I do not seek to interfere in the work of the hon. Member for Liverpool, Wavertree (Mr. Steen) while the Wavertree constituency exists. I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is capable of discharging his duties in that respect. It is made clear in the leaflet that the largest component part of the new Mossley Hill constituency is my own Edge Hill costituency. That is the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-01a.152.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-02", "file": "debates1983-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b67786b1767f7a8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-02a.293.8", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "ng of hospital development takes a long time. Advanced works are under way for the new West Lothian district general hospital at Livingston and there are contracts for the first phase of work at the Western general hospital. A number of relatively smaller projects keep going on. If we get to the hon. Gentleman's question on the Order Paper, I shall state what development there has been in Falkirk.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-02a.293.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-02", "file": "debates1983-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b67786b1767f7a8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-02a.302.6", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Prime Minister's Question Time", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": " or a letter into your office stating his ideas and suggestions? In the past, Speakers have not been so prompt in dealing with ideas and suggestions such as you have mentioned. Does that preclude hon. Members from going to your office even today and handing in a note or letter? Several hon. Members have come to me with ideas and suggestions and I have said, \"Drop a note into Mr. Speaker's Office\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-02a.302.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-02", "file": "debates1983-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b67786b1767f7a8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-02a.303.3", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Prime Minister's Question Time", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I understand that the hon. Gentleman has expressed an opinion that is the feeling of a great number of hon. Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-02a.303.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-02", "file": "debates1983-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b67786b1767f7a8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-02a.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Education in Prisons", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Order\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "other criminals—to the criminal sub-culture. If we fail to do that, we have failed altogether. Prison strengthens those bonds. If shut up with other criminals, the prisoner talks and thinks crime and becomes more attached to crime. Let me tell the House briefly by example about the writer of one of the letters that I have mentioned. A witness in the Strangers Gallery today will confirm what I say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-02a.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-02", "file": "debates1983-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b67786b1767f7a8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-02a.311.3", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Youth Training Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "for youngsters. Between April and Christmas last year more than 300,000 school leavers took part in the programme and the target of providing a place for all last year's school leavers has been substantially met. That is a massive achievement and I congratulate the Manpower Services Commission and all others who contributed to it. Of course, no Government can simply provide young people with jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-02a.311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-02", "file": "debates1983-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b67786b1767f7a8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-02a.311.3", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Youth Training Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "who contributed to it. Of course, no Government can simply provide young people with jobs— [Interruption.] Only employers can do that. Governments can get in the way and Governments can create inflation, which puts the products of our industry and commerce out of the market, allows imported goods to be substituted and loses our export markets. Equally, the Government can help to control inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-02a.311.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-02", "file": "debates1983-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b67786b1767f7a8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-02a.312.5", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Youth Training Scheme", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I do not mind advertising a good advertising agency. It is Saatchi and Saatchi.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-02a.312.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-02", "file": "debates1983-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b67786b1767f7a8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-02a.352.1", "colnum": "352", "heading": "Trade", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "ee years. That is why, to enable them to adjust to competition from low-cost suppliers and not inconsistent with the general principles that have influenced our trade policies, we have supported the European Commission in its prolonged negotiations for a tough multi-fibre arrangement—tougher, I must remind the House, than the MFA which preceded it and which was negotiated by the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-02a.352.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-02", "file": "debates1983-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b67786b1767f7a8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-02a.374.1", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Trade", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winterton", "preceding_text": "ugh (Mr. Dorrell) and others may argue that all contracts and tenders must be advertisd, because this country is a member of the European Community; but that applies only if the cost of the contract is estimated at more than £25,000. Why do we not break down the contracts—as the French and most European Community countries do—so that they are below £25,000? In that way, our industry would benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-02a.374.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-02", "file": "debates1983-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b67786b1767f7a8b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-02a.375.4", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Trade", "cue_speaker": "8.51 pm\r\nMr. Doug Hoyle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "8.51 pm\r\nMr. Doug Hoyle", "preceding_text": ". Many hon. Members on both sides of the House agree with him. I am sorry that more SDP Members are not present, because they bear the heaviest responsibility for taking Britain into the EC and the consequent destruction of British industry. I see that the hon. Member for Stockport, South (Mr. McNally), an SDP Member, is nodding his head. If he agrees with me he will try to convert his colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-02a.375.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-03", "file": "debates1983-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1114eebb607dfa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-03a.409.5", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "n any civilised society, there is inevitably coming and going. It is therefore unrealistic to talk about an end to all immigration. However, since 1979 there has been a steady and pronounced drop in the number of people achieving settlement in this country. There is no reason to believe that that decline will not continue. I appreciate full well that that is what my hon. Friends hope will happen.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-03a.409.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-03", "file": "debates1983-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1114eebb607dfa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-03a.414.0", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "What has gone wrong since then, as the right hon. Gentleman would know if he looked around him, is that there has been a very deep world recession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-03a.414.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-03", "file": "debates1983-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1114eebb607dfa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-03a.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Lady is not prepared to intervene at once to get the order for British shipyards, will she cease to go around the country talking about buying British?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-03a.414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-03", "file": "debates1983-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1114eebb607dfa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-03a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Detained Persons(Parliamentary Questions)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Arthur Lewis", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I am sorry that I have not had an opportunity to give you adequate notice of the point that I wish to raise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-03a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-03", "file": "debates1983-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1114eebb607dfa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-03a.434.1", "colnum": "434", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Booth", "preceding_text": "n 15 May. However, what a Front Bench Opposition spokesman believes does not constitute an authoritative position. Therefore, I call on the Secretary of State to do what only he can do and to set at rest the fears that have been stirred up in that town. I call on him to state categorically, either now or when he makes his speech, that no British Rail workshops will close as a result of the report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-03a.434.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-03", "file": "debates1983-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1114eebb607dfa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-03a.467.7", "colnum": "467", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": "e paragraph is too long for me to quote in full, but it will require transitional costs, which could be substantial. The report urges the Government to help to meet those costs and thus calls for more investment in order to maintain the network at broadly its present size. That is the conclusion, although one would not think so judging from the distorted extracts that Labour Members have given us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-03a.467.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-03", "file": "debates1983-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1114eebb607dfa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-03a.470.0", "colnum": "470", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Johnson", "preceding_text": "To digress for a moment, Mr. Speaker, I understand that you were elected to your present office seven years ago, on 3 February. I am sure that the whole House will wish me to congratulate you.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-03a.470.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-03", "file": "debates1983-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "1114eebb607dfa8a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-03a.504.5", "colnum": "504", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eyre", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eyre", "preceding_text": "d no closure proposals are before us. The options in the report are merely illuminatory— [Interruption.] —and their purpose is to stimulate debate. I wish to deal with fares. It has been alleged that there will be a 40 per cent. rise in fares for commuters. That is nonsense. Nowhere in the report is it suggested. There are no recommendations on fares in the report. The committee stated that fares—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-03a.504.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-07", "file": "debates1983-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6a9309805c3d811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-07a.679.1", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — West Midlands (Unemployment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "Out of consideration to my hon. Friends, I shall not pursue that argument—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-07a.679.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-07", "file": "debates1983-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6a9309805c3d811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-07a.679.3", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Orders of the Day — West Midlands (Unemployment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": " will let me deal first with the Secretary of State's intervention. I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for allowing me to put the record straight. He really should not have intervened. Production at Jaguar is now about half the number of cars that it was producing when I left. It inherited the model that I left with it. Its profitability is in real terms barely half what it was when I left—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-07a.679.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-07", "file": "debates1983-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6a9309805c3d811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-07a.691.3", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — West Midlands (Unemployment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for that question, although I had hoped that the debate would not lead to party bickering. The initiative for which I was asked to speak could not be successful. One reason for that was the size of the rates bill for that factory in Solihull", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-07a.691.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-07", "file": "debates1983-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6a9309805c3d811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-07a.694.3", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — West Midlands (Unemployment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": " here that the problems that I outlined earlier were not of this Government's making, but had developed under successive Governments. As the hon. Member for Cannock (Mr. Roberts) said, unemployment did rot start in 1979. It has been rising steadily under successive Governments. It is worth while remembering that under the Labour Government, unemployment doubled. What is new is the world recession—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-07a.694.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-07", "file": "debates1983-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6a9309805c3d811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-07a.694.3", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Orders of the Day — West Midlands (Unemployment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": " Members shaking their heads or seeking to deny the facts. They do not like the truth, but tonight they will have to listen to it. Recent trade union legislation will do much to restore a proper balance in industry—a balance that has become grossly distorted in favour of organised labour, again to the detriment of industry. The Government promised help to small firms, and that help has been given—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-07a.694.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-07", "file": "debates1983-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "d6a9309805c3d811", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-07a.714.1", "colnum": "714", "heading": "Orders of the Day — West Midlands (Unemployment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "that was quite untrue. In so far as he went in for facts, the hon. Gentleman's major case concerned Lucas and the fact that for several years Halfords had sold goods that were manufactured abroad. He then said that those goods had been manufactured in countries that had strong armies and police forces but not much else. The hon. Gentleman then cited the countries, and they were France and Germany—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-07a.714.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-08", "file": "debates1983-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "533d6d84f48ca9c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.867.7", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I fully share the hon. Gentleman's comments about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.867.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-08", "file": "debates1983-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "533d6d84f48ca9c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.873.6", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lofthouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lofthouse", "preceding_text": " Lady aware that if that is the case— [Interrruption.] Some Tory Members may think it funny, but the miners do not—many responsible sections of the mining industry will feel that this appointment is based on political dogma and that Mr. MacGregor will be given a licence to butcher the manpower of the mining industry as he has done with that of the steel industry? If this is the case, is she aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.873.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-08", "file": "debates1983-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "533d6d84f48ca9c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.874.2", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Steel\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "On the right hon. Lady's latter answer, we shall be happy to have a debate on that subject as soon as the Government are prepared to arrange it. On her first answer, is the right hon. Lady really trying to tell the House and the country that Mr. Ian MacGregor's rule over the coal industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.874.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-08", "file": "debates1983-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "533d6d84f48ca9c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.875.6", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Still do\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend has already replied to the CND in his letter and has pointed out that the CND has gone back on absolutely everything that used to be Labour party policy—that we all supported NATO—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.875.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-08", "file": "debates1983-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "533d6d84f48ca9c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.876.7", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I understand that new immigration rules will be tabled shortly. The Government have to consider fairness to all sides—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.876.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-08", "file": "debates1983-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "533d6d84f48ca9c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.894.5", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Prefabricated Houses", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is what you are doing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "As I have said to other hon. Members, it is not possible today to approach this piecemeal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.894.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-08", "file": "debates1983-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "533d6d84f48ca9c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.895.0", "colnum": "895", "heading": "Prefabricated Houses", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanley", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Member is saying that his local authority wants to use housing receipts for non-housing purposes, that is a judgment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.895.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-08", "file": "debates1983-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "533d6d84f48ca9c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.898.10", "colnum": "898", "heading": "London Councils (Use of Funds)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "The justification is that the evidence is only now available—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.898.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-08", "file": "debates1983-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "533d6d84f48ca9c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.898.12", "colnum": "898", "heading": "London Councils (Use of Funds)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "The meeting was of a confessedly party political character—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.898.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-08", "file": "debates1983-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "533d6d84f48ca9c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.899.5", "colnum": "899", "heading": "London Councils (Use of Funds)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Labour Members do not want to hear this because they do not want the facts to be known. Officers of London borough councils were present at the meeting, and so were representatives of the Labour party, as such. So were two Labour Members of Parliament. They undertook to give their co-operation in this endeavour. That is an abuse of public funds and public offices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.899.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-08", "file": "debates1983-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "533d6d84f48ca9c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.899.7", "colnum": "899", "heading": "London Councils (Use of Funds)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "a group that contained one Labour councillor, one officer of the council of known party affiliation, namely Labour, and if the committee that was to run the newspaper had, under its constitution, to include only one political representative who must be a representative of the local government committee of the three Labour parties of Islington, would not that position justify a debate in the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.899.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-08", "file": "debates1983-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "533d6d84f48ca9c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.899.7", "colnum": "899", "heading": "London Councils (Use of Funds)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "rty affiliation, namely Labour, and if the committee that was to run the newspaper had, under its constitution, to include only one political representative who must be a representative of the local government committee of the three Labour parties of Islington, would not that position justify a debate in the House? [ Interruption. ] Even the noise that has been taking place during my presentation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.899.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-08", "file": "debates1983-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "533d6d84f48ca9c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.900.7", "colnum": "900", "heading": "London Councils (Use of Funds)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allaun", "preceding_text": "I think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.900.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-08", "file": "debates1983-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "533d6d84f48ca9c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.930.2", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mobile Homes Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heddle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heddle", "preceding_text": "it to the attention of the House because I have this week received a letter from one of my constituents, Mr. V. S. Keen of 19, Biddulph Park, Ironstone Road, Chase Terrace, Nr. Lichfield. It is dated 3 February. With the indulgence of the House, I shall read it: Dear Mr. Heddle, I have been allocated an appointment to see you at your surgery at Lichfield on 11th February 1983 and have been asked\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.930.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-08", "file": "debates1983-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "533d6d84f48ca9c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.970.0", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Maternity Provision", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mr. Tony Newton)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mr. Tony Newton)", "preceding_text": " entitlement to maternity pay from the employer arises if the woman has worked for the firm for at least two years. It is calculated at 90 per cent. of weekly earnings, less the standard maternity allowance, and is paid for the first six weeks of absence after the eleventh week before the baby is due. The Department of Employment reimburses the employer with a payment from the maternity pay fund.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.970.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-08", "file": "debates1983-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "533d6d84f48ca9c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.978.1", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unemployment (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "re all important innovatiors that the Government have introduced during past three and a half years. Certainly in education, there is no basis whatever for the hon. Gentleman or any of his hon. Friends to suggest that somehow the Government have either broken their promises or, by their policy on public expenditure, done anything other than help education in Scotland to a very considerable extent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-08", "file": "debates1983-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "533d6d84f48ca9c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.978.1", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unemployment (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": " or any of his hon. Friends to suggest that somehow the Government have either broken their promises or, by their policy on public expenditure, done anything other than help education in Scotland to a very considerable extent. [Interruption.] That is something that, as a former educationist, the hon. Member for Cathcart cannot possibly ignore, whatever he may choose to say in public in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.978.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-08", "file": "debates1983-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "533d6d84f48ca9c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.978.3", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unemployment (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "ake no complaint about that, but Labour Members must accept that it is not entirely the attractiveness of Scotland, or even the Scottish working population, that encourages inward investment; it is the fact that investors in Scotland have the potential of the largest single common market in the world. Despite Labour Members' tears and complaints about unemployment, their policies are diabolically—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.978.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-08", "file": "debates1983-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "533d6d84f48ca9c4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.978.3", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Unemployment (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "est single common market in the world. Despite Labour Members' tears and complaints about unemployment, their policies are diabolically— [Interruption.] —diametrically opposed—they are also diabolical—to the remedies that are essential for the reinvigoration and regeneration of the Scottish economy. The hon. Member for Cathcart mentioned some of the closures, and they are matters of great sadness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-08a.978.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.997.9", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Russell Fairgrieve", "preceding_text": "In the interests of this and other Community policies, may I give added weight to the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Chichester (Mr. Nelson)? Will my right hon. Friend ask his colleagues in the Treasury to consider an early, rather than a later, joining of the EMS?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.997.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1016.2", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Unemployment (East Midlands)", "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": "the Under-Secretary of State will try to cover them at the end of the debate. The hon. Gentleman referred to the OECD and quoted an article about the international economic environment that appeared, I believe, in the leader columns of The Guardian. It is clearly relevant, and I am pleased that the hon. Gentleman bothered to pick it out. We are in an extremely difficult world economic environment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1016.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1016.2", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Unemployment (East Midlands)", "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": "If economic ingredients such as solid sound finance, sensible trade unions and good industrial relations could solve a country's problems, they would have solved Germany's. Instead, unemployment in West Germany has increased more than in Britain in the period covered by the motion. Since May 1979, unemployment in West Germany has increased by 144 per cent. compared with 138 per cent. in Britain's.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1016.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1018.2", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Unemployment (East Midlands)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "It doubled from 1 per cent. to 2·2 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1018.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1018.2", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Unemployment (East Midlands)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "It doubled from 1 per cent. to 2·2 per cent.—[ Interruption. ] Opposition Members laugh because unemployment doubles. If it doubled from one coal miner or one engineering employee to two such people, would not the hon. Member for Ashfield complain? Of course he would—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1018.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1018.2", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Unemployment (East Midlands)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "tories, too. Expansions are taking place, new projects are being set up and new jobs are being created to replace those that halve been lost—although obviously not as fast as we would wish. There is the promise of long-term job creation in the Corby area. The way that it has come to grips with being a one-industry town is a success story. A project to build a Wonder World park will provide eisure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1018.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1018.2", "colnum": "1018", "heading": "Unemployment (East Midlands)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": " build a Wonder World park will provide eisure—[ Interruption. ] Opposition Members are laughing at a project that will create employment. They should keep quiet. Any project—even if it has a silly label—that will produce jobs in the locality is important. It will provide leisure and educational facilities for a wide area. It is scheduled to start in 1983 and could eventually employ 3,000 workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1018.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1037.2", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Unemployment (East Midlands)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Farr", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Farr", "preceding_text": "lands. In June 1982, the latest figures that I could obtain, the number was 1,409,000—a decrease of 8 per cent. over a three-year period. To retain 92 people out of 100 at work in the east midlands during the middle of a world recession has been a formidable achievement which would have been beyond a Labour Government. Gross domestic product shows that by no means is all lost in the east midlands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1037.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1045.0", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "Unemployment (East Midlands)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Industry (Mr. John MacGregor)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Industry (Mr. John MacGregor)", "preceding_text": " is not an east midlands but a national figure. The increase in unit costs in Britain between 1975 and 1980 was 89 per cent. compared with 37 per cent. in the United States of America, 17 per cent. in West Germany and 0 per cent. in Japan. The number of jobs and firms lost can be attributed far more to that than to anything else, including the world recession. There cannot be any doubt about that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1045.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1046.1", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Unemployment (East Midlands)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "t be possible for them to achieve that by their policies—and the result would be that by 1986 inflation would stand at 18 per cent. That would be the biggest possible recipe for more job losses and there would be a balance of payments deficit of £25 billion. That is said in the Labour party's programme. That is no way to create permanent jobs and it is certainly not what the CBI or industry wants—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1046.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1055.0", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Unemployment (Northern Region)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Employment (Mr. Michael Alison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Employment (Mr. Michael Alison)", "preceding_text": "This is the second of two Opposition motions on the Order Paper on unemployment in the different regions. I am bound to say that, of the two, the motion on the northern region is particularly fatuous. That is the only word that I can apply to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1055.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1055.0", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Unemployment (Northern Region)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Employment (Mr. Michael Alison)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Employment (Mr. Michael Alison)", "preceding_text": "t has been largely created by the iniquity of the Conservative Government, who took office less than four years ago, is so ludicrous and patently false that any impartial observer would think that a party which can debate in those terms is not worth listening to or following. I observe, Mr. Deputy Speaker, that you come from the north and that you will have great difficulty in remaining impartial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1055.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Unemployment (Northern Region)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alison", "preceding_text": "I was about to finish my speech at that point, but I shall go on to answer the hon. Gentleman. One example is that Fisher Price of Peterlee is expected to create about 400 jobs by 1984 as a result of a multi-million pound investment that has already taken place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1066.1", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Unemployment (Northern Region)", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Elliott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Elliott", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman says \"It is our debate\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1086.2", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Unemployment (Northern Region)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I realise that the hon. Gentleman is disappointed that he has not been able to speak in this debate, and that applies to a number of hon. Members on both sides.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1086.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1086.3", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Unemployment (Northern Region)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Lewis", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. According to the motion on the Order Paper, we have been discussing the northern region. A visitor in the Strangers Gallery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1086.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1087.2", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Unemployment (Northern Region)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "e of other Government expenditure which comes to the northern region through local government and in other ways. That is not only significant but it is per capita much higher than that for most other regions. That demonstrates that there is positive discrimination, but it also shows that, under this and the Labour Government, throwing taxpayers' money at the problem is not by any means the answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1087.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1094.5", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Education (Assisted Places)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "I have put my left hand in my pocket which is even more dangerous, but I have now removed it.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1094.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1095.5", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Education (Assisted Places)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "I shall give way when I have finished this. I know that the hon. Gentleman does not want to hear about the children who are going on this scheme, but he will have to listen if he stays in the Chamber. One example is Mark, a West Indian boy from Lichfield who gained an assisted place in 1981. His single parent mother is a shop assistant and does not have to pay anything towards his fees.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1095.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1097.3", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Education (Assisted Places)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "It is very interesting to get into a philosophical argument at this time of night. As I said that I have argued this matter for a long time, I am prepared to answer the hon. Gentleman now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1097.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1097.9", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Education (Assisted Places)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1097.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1098.3", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Education (Assisted Places)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I commiserate with you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, having to deal with ignoramuses on the Government Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1098.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1098.6", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Education (Assisted Places)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Name one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "tonight, properly decided to meet that concern by giving authorities the power of veto over transfers from maintained schools to assisted places at sixth form level. We all know that a few authorities—because, like hon. Opposition Members, they dislike the scheme in principle—have used the veto for purposes other than those for which it was intended. That was why we set up the monitoring exercise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1098.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1100.2", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Education (Assisted Places)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "The extraordinary remarks of Opposition Members show a terribly inflexible attitude towards education. If they had any experience—I say this with respect—they would know that all pupils must be free to change their options. Sometimes they change them within a year of taking an A-level examination.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1100.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1105.5", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Education (Assisted Places)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. The hon. Lady may be exercising, and that may be of benefit to her, but she will not intervene until I say so, and that is not yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1105.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1105.5", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Education (Assisted Places)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "system. The Secretary of State is said to be intellectually attracted by that system. That alone would be good enough reason for the rejection of the voucher system. I know his other intellectual attractions, which include the idea of managing the economy by creating millions more unemployed. So intellectual attractions must spawn some suspicion and reluctance in the minds of any sane human being.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1105.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1105.5", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "Education (Assisted Places)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ystem. That alone would be good enough reason for the rejection of the voucher system. I know his other intellectual attractions, which include the idea of managing the economy by creating millions more unemployed. So intellectual attractions must spawn some suspicion and reluctance in the minds of any sane human being. [ Interruption. ] The Under-Secretary is also in favour of the voucher system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1105.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1111.0", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Education (Assisted Places)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Rumbold", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Angela Rumbold", "preceding_text": " a neighbouring local authority about the exchange of 16-year-olds across boundaries. My hon. Friend, kindly and rightly, agreed that parental choice and the child's choice should be paramount. No Opposition Member would wish young people not to have the opportunity to make the right choices for themselves, backed up by their parents, to go to whichever authority will provide sixth form education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1112.0", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Education (Assisted Places)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "tive Members to weep crocodile tears about poor children when the Government have introduced massive and horrific education cuts that mean that our children must use dog-eared books, that two children must use one book, and that there is not enough money in the maintained sector to buy equipment. All the education journals say that there is a lack of music teaching, and peripatetic music teachers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-09", "file": "debates1983-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "1cb9db7e4c58cfb6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1119.4", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "South Africa (Sporting Links)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "s apparently done in the name of the Gleneagles agreement. Such action has already been considered despicable and condemned by citizens of his own country and has led to anger and puzzlement among sportsmen throughout the world. Only today I had a telephone call from Mr. Geoffrey Boycott, of Yorkshire and England fame, asking whether he would now be able even to enter Australia, let alone to play—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-09a.1119.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-10", "file": "debates1983-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "08e666d6a4e33d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-10a.1152.5", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Does the Leader of the House agree that the role of the Export Credits Guarantee Department is to guarantee money that in some circumstances cannot otherwise be obtained? Does he accept that there is a very serious problem with the ECGD and that some would argue, as indeed some press speculation has suggested, that the whole apparatus is bust?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-10a.1152.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-10", "file": "debates1983-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "08e666d6a4e33d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-10a.1154.2", "colnum": "1154", "heading": "Water Industry (Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Tom King)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Tom King)", "preceding_text": "rried out (in this instance with the help of the mediator) have failed to produce an agreement. I consider that the sentence is absolutely clear. In the circumstances of such a disagreement either party would have the right to seek arbitration and the other would have the obligation to respond. Last night ACAS was formally told by the trade union side that it was not willing to accept arbitration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-10a.1154.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-10", "file": "debates1983-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "08e666d6a4e33d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-10a.1155.0", "colnum": "1155", "heading": "Water Industry (Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "e House that the Government are not involved in the refusal by the employers? Why did not the Secretary of State tell the House that the unions stated last night that if an inquiry had been allowed to proceed the dispute could have been over by the weekend? Why did he not tell the House that the unions involved in the dispute have an honourable record of accepting the recommendations of inquiries—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-10a.1155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-10", "file": "debates1983-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "08e666d6a4e33d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-10a.1181.3", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "uld remain for a period of two years—that is looking after themselves. There then appears a very interesting phrase: Members favoured a radical approach to their tasks. I am not sure what that means, but when one turns the page one sees that the sort of tasks that are considered are land disposal, privatisation of the Welsh health technical services organisation, privatisation of laundry services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-10a.1181.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-10", "file": "debates1983-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "08e666d6a4e33d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-10a.1181.3", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "ves. There then appears a very interesting phrase: Members favoured a radical approach to their tasks. I am not sure what that means, but when one turns the page one sees that the sort of tasks that are considered are land disposal, privatisation of the Welsh health technical services organisation, privatisation of laundry services— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—privatisation of cleaning services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-10a.1181.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-10", "file": "debates1983-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "08e666d6a4e33d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-10a.1181.3", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "ical approach to their tasks. I am not sure what that means, but when one turns the page one sees that the sort of tasks that are considered are land disposal, privatisation of the Welsh health technical services organisation, privatisation of laundry services— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—privatisation of cleaning services—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]—and the privatisation of catering services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-10a.1181.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-10", "file": "debates1983-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "08e666d6a4e33d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-10a.1182.2", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which chairmen?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Edwards", "preceding_text": "I should like to put the right hon. Gentleman quickly out of his misery. This is one of a number of groups appointed by the chairmen to report back to the chairmen and then to submit their reports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-10a.1182.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-10", "file": "debates1983-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "08e666d6a4e33d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-10a.1184.5", "colnum": "1184", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Sir Raymond Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Raymond Gower", "preceding_text": " communications seem to demand a high ranking. Many of us were no doubt encouraged by what my right hon. Friend said about the M4 and the north Wales coastal expressway. As soon as those projects are nearing completion, I hope that further consideration will be given to speeding up the northward extension of the Cardiff to Abercynon road. My right hon. Friend announced some slight extension today—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-10a.1184.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-10", "file": "debates1983-02-10a.xml", "sha256": "08e666d6a4e33d52", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-10a.1195.3", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hooson", "preceding_text": "astrous figures that the French can give us. The hon. Gentleman accompanied me on a visit of the Select Committee on Welsh Affairs when we discussed some of the French regional employment problems. At times, the pull of jobs is in one direction, but undoubtedly we have been net gainers from the European connection. The fact that the world recession appears to be bottoming out has had a good effect", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-10a.1195.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-11", "file": "debates1983-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "57863b62002762a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-11a.1246.0", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disablement (Prohibition of Unjustifiable Discrimination)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Ashley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Ashley", "preceding_text": "ice. I have never heard his voice. I am sure that it is a lovely Scottish lilting voice. Yet the hon. Lady condemns the right hon. Gentleman for using that lovely voice to discriminate against deaf people. She seemed to condemn him for shaking his head. She said that the right hon. Gentleman had no right to shake his head in the Chamber. I wonder whether a more fatuous statement has ever been made", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-11a.1246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-11", "file": "debates1983-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "57863b62002762a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-11a.1257.1", "colnum": "1257", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disablement (Prohibition of Unjustifiable Discrimination)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Keith Wickenden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Keith Wickenden", "preceding_text": "e to a vote, my absence will perhaps relieve me of something of a dilemma. I looked forward to reacting the Bill when it became available because, as many hon. Members know, I have a particular interest in that have a disabled child, as do many other hon. Members. I find that nearly all of those who take an interest in the problems of the disabled do so because of their own personal circumstances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-11a.1257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-11", "file": "debates1983-02-11a.xml", "sha256": "57863b62002762a3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-11a.1274.3", "colnum": "1274", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Disablement (Prohibition of Unjustifiable Discrimination)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The Government's attitude.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is tight. He asked to see me and we met just after the Christmas recess. The right hon. Gentleman showed me the draft of the Bill, which provided for a new commission. He asked for my advice. I knew the attitude of the House to the creation of such a commission.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-11a.1274.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-13", "file": "debates1983-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "d12a2cf3b13617e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-13a.81.2", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Nottinghamshire County Council Bill [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which people?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harman", "preceding_text": "To its credit, the NUM is extremely well organised and confident, knows how to deal with the police and is sure of its rights. However, there have been cases where people, who are less well-organised and do not know about demonstrations, have tried to take banners and have been told by the police—quite beyond their powers — that they are not allowed to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-13a.81.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-13", "file": "debates1983-02-13a.xml", "sha256": "d12a2cf3b13617e6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-13a.99.1", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Nottinghamshire County Council Bill [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "preceding_text": "n ground? it is reasonable to allow photographs or those purporting to take photographs for trade or business to do that unless—this point should be added to the Bill to strengthen it—people say that they want to be photographed. Many of us who visit recreation grounds do not want to be photographed. We go there for recreation, not to be plagued by photographers with monkeys or cardboard cut-outs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-13a.99.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-14", "file": "debates1983-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "cb8cb2fd996a7ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-14a.2.2", "colnum": "2", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "This question is about industrial investment, not about public sector investment. I am bound to tell the hon. Gentleman, however, that the absolute precondition for restoring the prosperity of this country has been the fall in inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-14a.2.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-14", "file": "debates1983-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "cb8cb2fd996a7ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-14a.12.0", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the whole country will join me in congratulating my hon. Friend on that progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-14a.12.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-14", "file": "debates1983-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "cb8cb2fd996a7ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-14a.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Water Industry (Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "I shall repeat the words that I have spoken with great care today. The unions are willing to go to an inquiry without conditions. They have given assurances committing themselves to the resolution of the dispute by that process. Those assurances have been given by all the unions concerned and represent their committed view—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-14a.27.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-14", "file": "debates1983-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "cb8cb2fd996a7ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-14a.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Water Industry (Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "r which I believe will be of great assistance. The Secretary of State must tell the House that the National Water Council will be similarly forthcoming. If he does not, he and it will carry a heavy responsibility. If he does, and seeks to match the efforts of others, important progress could be made. I hope that what I have said today will help to lead to a speedy settlement of this vexed dispute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-14a.27.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-14", "file": "debates1983-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "cb8cb2fd996a7ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-14a.41.2", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Water Industry (Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hogg", "preceding_text": "I am not surprised by what the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) has said. He hoped, no doubt, to divert me from giving the figures that I shall now quote. [Interruption.] He obviously hoped that, as a result of his intemperate intervention, I should not embarrass his hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-14a.41.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-14", "file": "debates1983-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "cb8cb2fd996a7ba3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-14a.56.0", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Water Industry (Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": " the Government said that, they turned the unions' doubt into certainty. That was the beginning of the whole story. That certainty was reinforced when the Water Bill was published in October, by the proposed abolition of the National Water Council, and the total absence of comment on the National Joint Industrial Council machinery. It was in that setting that we came to the famous day in November.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-14a.56.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-15", "file": "debates1983-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6404f97fcad92349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-15a.156.11", "colnum": "156", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "n Northern Ireland, and bearing in mind also the case of Mrs. Nicholson, the widow, whose husband was awarded the VC during the Battle of Britain, does my right hon. Friend agree that the time has come for the conscience of this country to be roused and for us to treat the war widows of world war 1 and world war 2 more generously and that the coming Budget should provide a start in that direction?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-15a.156.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-15", "file": "debates1983-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6404f97fcad92349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-15a.186.9", "colnum": "186", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander W. Lyon", "preceding_text": "This is absolutely crucial, because the ECOs in the subcontinent will follow the debate and the Home Secretary's statement closely. Will the Home Secretary repudiate the suggestion that the fact that the husband goes to live with the wife is so different from Indian custom that it must mean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-15a.186.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-15", "file": "debates1983-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6404f97fcad92349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-15a.197.0", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Fox", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marcus Fox", "preceding_text": "party committed to stricter immigration control. I have no desire to go once more into the same Lobby with Members from the Labour, Liberal SDP and other parties who are committed to easing immigration, rather than restricting it. Therefore, I thought it desirable to find a solution to the problem. It is true that we could have maintained our position. However, there are not enough of us to rebel—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-15a.197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-15", "file": "debates1983-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6404f97fcad92349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-15a.216.2", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "preceding_text": "hrough. To quote the hon. Member for Basildon (Mr. Proctor) in The Guardian today, The modern techniques of the parliamentary thumb-screw are many and varied—a whisky here, a trip to the Far East there, the friendly chat, the unfriendly chat, appeals to party loyalty—these are the stock in trade of the politicians. That refers to what has been happening in the Conservative party over recent weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-15a.216.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-15", "file": "debates1983-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6404f97fcad92349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-15a.216.2", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "preceding_text": " chat, appeals to party loyalty—these are the stock in trade of the politicians. That refers to what has been happening in the Conservative party over recent weeks. [Interruption.] If the hon. Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Budgen) objects to these things, why does he not address his criticism to his hon. Friend the Member for Basildon who made these points? I am entitled to quote them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-15a.216.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-15", "file": "debates1983-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6404f97fcad92349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-15a.238.1", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "ry has already answered the question that he put earlier in the negative. The hon. Member for Luton, West has attended these debates frequently over the past three months, and he will have heard my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook answer that question on at least two occasions. The answer is unequivocally yes. When I spoke in the debate on 15 December, I gave the unequivocal answer yes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-15a.238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-15", "file": "debates1983-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6404f97fcad92349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-15a.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": " I hope that plenty of people in the country will remember in the next election campaign that the Labour party is now pledged to do away with these rules and to go back to the pre-1980 position, to relax the rules for entry. I hope that plenty of people will remember during the course of the election campaign that the Labour party is now pledged to relax the rules as far as families are concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-15a.244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-15", "file": "debates1983-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6404f97fcad92349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-15a.245.2", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Immigration", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marshall", "preceding_text": "That is exactly what our commitment means. Is the hon. and learned Gentleman saying that the Conservative party will try to play the racial card again next time round—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-15a.245.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-15", "file": "debates1983-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6404f97fcad92349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-15a.251.5", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "shment of advisory posts and the opening of special units. Otherwise there is little change in the provision for special educational needs\". That is the present situation. It is very poor. It is a shabby deal for these young people, who have been getting a shabby deal for far too long. It is worth remembering that spending on education next year is to be cut by 5 per cent. compared with this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-15a.251.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-15", "file": "debates1983-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "6404f97fcad92349", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-15a.253.1", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "If the former teacher had read the HMI report he would have learnt that one of the products of falling rolls and the attempts by local authorities to adjust to those falling rolls—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-15a.253.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-16", "file": "debates1983-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "589aa5e6033f2725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.276.2", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "There are precedents for the employment of consultants whose partners are committee members, and I shall let the hon. Gentleman have details—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.276.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-16", "file": "debates1983-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "589aa5e6033f2725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.305.1", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Telecommunications Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "That is an important equation on which, frankly, the whole basis of the Bill stands. It needs some examination. It is not given to all of us, poor lay minds that we have, to be able to tackle it on the spur of the moment, unlike the Minister, who is known locally as the Isaac Newton of St. Marylebone. For the rest of us, it takes time, energy and some discussion. Indeed, there was some discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.305.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-16", "file": "debates1983-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "589aa5e6033f2725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.351.0", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Housing and Building Control Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "preceding_text": "I was a little concerned for the Leader of the House when he rose a moment ago, in case he read out the notes that he had made for the first timetable motion today. It is not quite true that this Government only occasionally introduce guillotine motions. For the record, I think that I am right to say that this is the third guillotine motion in one month. That is quite a record —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.351.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-16", "file": "debates1983-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "589aa5e6033f2725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.351.0", "colnum": "351", "heading": "Housing and Building Control Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "preceding_text": " is that all Governments introduce timetable motions. They have to do so. It is well known. The real question is whether the timetable motion is being introduced for the right Bill at the right time, and not whether 100 timetable motions should be introduced in one day. However, that might tax the Leader of the House a bit too much. It is the appropriateness of the motion that we must argue about—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.351.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-16", "file": "debates1983-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "589aa5e6033f2725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.363.0", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Housing and Building Control Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Cartwright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A positive abstention?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Cartwright", "preceding_text": "ll for Conservative Members to make interesting speeches, with which I agree, about the need to change things, but all the time that they or Opposition Members continue to suffer the tyranny of the Whips—whether or not they trap their fingers in doors—and continue to vote for or against timetable motions, the procedure will continue. A positive abstention will draw attention to the need to change—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.363.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-16", "file": "debates1983-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "589aa5e6033f2725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Housing and Building Control Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "e the hon. Member for Woolwich, East (Mr. Cartwright), we shall not be positively abstaining tonight. That was the explanation given by the hon. Member for Woolwich, East for not voting in either Division Lobby. I wish to refer to some of the comments that have been made about timetable motions. As an Opposition Member, I am not keen on the idea of agreeing to a timetable following Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.370.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-16", "file": "debates1983-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "589aa5e6033f2725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.396.4", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Best", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Best", "preceding_text": "It is no good Opposition Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.396.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-16", "file": "debates1983-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "589aa5e6033f2725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.400.1", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I wonder whether it would help the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.400.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-02-16", "file": "debates1983-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "589aa5e6033f2725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Morris", "preceding_text": "Act 1972. That may relate to 1 January 1983. That parent Act sets out the matter in exactly the same way. That is the difficulty that we have. I should be very grateful, now that the hon. and learned Gentleman has nailed his colours to the mast about 1 April 1983, if he will tell us what will happen if he is wrong. What if the date is 1 January 1983? Do not those regulations then come into effect?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.401.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-16", "file": "debates1983-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "589aa5e6033f2725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.401.4", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that we have exhausted points of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.401.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-02-16", "file": "debates1983-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "589aa5e6033f2725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.403.0", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am taking no more points of order on this subject.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.402.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-16", "file": "debates1983-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "589aa5e6033f2725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "preceding_text": "oint of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. This is purely a matter for the Chair. Since you made your ruling, there has been considerable controversy. There are some unanswered questions. The Home Secretary has said that he did not know about the points that have been raised. I accept what he says 100 per cent., unreservedly. In the light of this, is it not sensible that we adjourn for a short time while—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-16", "file": "debates1983-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "589aa5e6033f2725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.406.11", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "The Minister is in the process of explaining. I should point out that we are already on the order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.406.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-16", "file": "debates1983-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "589aa5e6033f2725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.406.12", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Rowlands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Rowlands", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker: On what basis did the Minister rise to his feet? We understood that he rose on a point of order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.406.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-16", "file": "debates1983-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "589aa5e6033f2725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I called the Minister to move the order some 15 minutes ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-16", "file": "debates1983-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "589aa5e6033f2725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I called the Minister to move the order some 15 minutes ago— [Interruption.] Since then, other points of orders have arisen. The Minister is now in the process of moving the order and of giving his explanation. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-16", "file": "debates1983-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "589aa5e6033f2725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.407.2", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "As I was saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.407.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-16", "file": "debates1983-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "589aa5e6033f2725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.407.4", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is unusual for a Welsh debate to see such behaviour. The House is anxious to hear the Minister's explanation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.407.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-16", "file": "debates1983-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "589aa5e6033f2725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.407.7", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "Article 2 of the order substitutes the constituencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.407.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-16", "file": "debates1983-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "589aa5e6033f2725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.407.10", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We must have proper debate in the Chamber. I judge that the right hon. and learned Gentleman wishes to hear what the Minister has to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.407.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-16", "file": "debates1983-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "589aa5e6033f2725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.407.17", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Morris", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Morris", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Let it be put on the record that the Home Secretary, from a sedentary position, said \"Kick him out\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.407.17"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-16", "file": "debates1983-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "589aa5e6033f2725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.408.1", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "If the House wishes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.408.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-16", "file": "debates1983-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "589aa5e6033f2725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.408.5", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "If the House wishes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.408.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-16", "file": "debates1983-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "589aa5e6033f2725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.408.8", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "Article 2 provides—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.408.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-16", "file": "debates1983-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "589aa5e6033f2725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.408.21", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "At 11 minutes past six o'clock", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.408.21"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-16", "file": "debates1983-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "589aa5e6033f2725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.409.17", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mayhew", "preceding_text": "The House will thank them for the speedy and meticulous conduct—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.409.17"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-16", "file": "debates1983-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "589aa5e6033f2725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.414.4", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I realise that it has become the practice, under this Government, for Ministers to gabble through ministerial briefs, but it is difficult for those of us who are interested in Welsh affairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.414.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-16", "file": "debates1983-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "589aa5e6033f2725", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Seal Products (Community Imports)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "e Minister has assured the RSPCA and other bodies that she is concerned about those poor little mammals, but at the end of the day she is prepared to do nothing. It is sad that the British Government should be the only Government in Europe to hold up the regulation. It will cause great disappointment to millions of British people. It is a pity that the debate is taking place at this time of night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-16a.430.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-17", "file": "debates1983-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "c5102ecd8f0b03f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-17a.465.7", "colnum": "465", "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 is aware of the unemployment figure. He is also aware that unemployment is very much higher than it used to be in other countries, that it is a world problem—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-17a.465.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-17", "file": "debates1983-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "c5102ecd8f0b03f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-17a.467.2", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that there is a great new wave of concern in Scotland [Interruption.] —over the Secretary of State's words about the future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-17a.467.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-17", "file": "debates1983-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "c5102ecd8f0b03f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-17a.467.4", "colnum": "467", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that there is a great new wave of concern in Scotland over the words of the Secretary of State about the future of the Ravenscale—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-17a.467.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-17", "file": "debates1983-02-17a.xml", "sha256": "c5102ecd8f0b03f0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-17a.493.2", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "It could have that effect. As the law stands, the joint finance moneys that I have described and that we keep increasing cannot lawfully be expended for educational or housing purposes. The hon. Gentleman will know as well as any of us that often we make provision for disabled children in the community—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-17a.493.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-21", "file": "debates1983-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ca75097911a259ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-21a.683.0", "colnum": "683", "heading": "European Community Budget", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": " out? Thirdly, what sort of Europe do we want to see? Let me say—for we are moving into a period when we shall have much public debate about our relationship with Europe—why it is that we shall not accept the treaty. It is not a nationalist response. Indeed, the treaty of Rome is as hostile to the interests of working people in Germany, Italy and France as it is to those of our own working people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-21a.683.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-21", "file": "debates1983-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ca75097911a259ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-21a.702.0", "colnum": "702", "heading": "European Community Budget", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "preceding_text": "ations and hundreds of international agencies look at matters issue by issue to see whether some sort of arrangement can be made. Of course, the nation state cannot do it on its own, but, unless there are nation states, they cannot co-operate with one another. Those who support the EC in terms of the hon. Gentleman's logic want to do away with Britain as a nation state, as with France and Germany—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-21a.702.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-21", "file": "debates1983-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ca75097911a259ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-21a.722.1", "colnum": "722", "heading": "European Community Budget", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cryer", "preceding_text": "ot apply to Labour Members. We do not take a narrow nationalistic view of the Common Market. We do not accept that a minority of western European nations represents the world. The EC is a tariff club. It is a Common Market with a tariff, a barrier. Those who look inwards are the EC supporters. We want to have trading, cultural and international relations with the whole of the nations of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-21a.722.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-21", "file": "debates1983-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "ca75097911a259ce", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-21a.738.0", "colnum": "738", "heading": "European Community Budget", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ut of the European Community. The TUC is also against our continued membership and is arguing that we should withdraw. How should we seek to achieve our objective? As my hon. Friend the Member for Warrington (Mr. Hoyle) said, we shall do it in an orderly way, by proper negotiations, and not by threats or high-handed action. When we have a Labour Government, we shall immediately begin negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-21a.738.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-22", "file": "debates1983-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac7711417b51dd27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-22a.786.11", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir keith Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "I cannot corroborate or deny discussions with individual authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-22a.786.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-22", "file": "debates1983-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac7711417b51dd27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-22a.810.3", "colnum": "810", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "h have often been described in the House, it is bound to take time to achieve the recovery of the west midlands and the car industry—only now are the new models coming on stream—and the reconstruction of the industrial base of the region. I have just come from a Financial Times conference on automated manufacturing, at which I have been speaking. A senior American industrialist spoke there of the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-22a.810.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-22", "file": "debates1983-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac7711417b51dd27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-22a.813.3", "colnum": "813", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "sures, what industry wants and what the west midlands needs is success with the Government's long-term economic strategy. Only in that way will we get real competitiveness back into the United Kingdom economy. The fact that the annual inflation rate is now down to 4·9 per cent.—the lowest level for 13 years—must be good news, because it is a critical factor in restoring our competitiveness—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-22a.813.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-22", "file": "debates1983-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac7711417b51dd27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-22a.818.0", "colnum": "818", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Percy Grieve", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Percy Grieve", "preceding_text": "the road to prosperity. I refer to Michael Edwardes, who achieved a great deal for Leyland. As a result, Leyland now has a viable future. I speak as an hon. Member in whose constituency an important part of Leyland is located. If it succeeds, in due course the industries that cater for the motor industry will also succeed. I accept that spare parts are at the moment being brought from abroad. Why?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-22a.818.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-22", "file": "debates1983-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac7711417b51dd27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-22a.830.2", "colnum": "830", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "ent industry that decline in the West Midlands was inevitable, that Labour was as much to blame as the Conservative Government, and that, of course the world recession was the overriding reason behind the whole disastrous collapse. Well those are convenient excuses for what has been happening, but did any of those Conservative Members with west midland seats, who are soon to be an extinct species—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-22a.830.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-22", "file": "debates1983-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac7711417b51dd27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-22a.836.0", "colnum": "836", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Other Conservatives\"'", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "n generated on the Opposition Benches this afternoon—as Shakespeare said, \"signifying nothing\"—that this Government are responsible for unemployment in the west midlands. When they say that to people in their constituencies, the answer will come: \"Wait a moment, if the Conservatives are responsible for unemployment in the west midlands, who is responsible for it in America or Australia or Canada?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-22a.836.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-22", "file": "debates1983-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac7711417b51dd27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-22a.836.0", "colnum": "836", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "oment, if the Conservatives are responsible for unemployment in the west midlands, who is responsible for it in America or Australia or Canada?\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"Other Conservatives\"'] Not in Canada. In France—a mere stone's throw away, and no doubt a Socialist paradise—Mr. Mitterrand has engineered exactly the same unemployment. There are other countries, too, such as Italy. There is also Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-22a.836.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-22", "file": "debates1983-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac7711417b51dd27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-22a.837.1", "colnum": "837", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "the hon. Member for West Bromwich, West (Miss Boothroyd) talk about the CBI and regional help, but surely the CBI, in common with other business groupings in the west midlands, is not asking for assisted area status. The CBI told me that, and I have no doubt that it has told Labour Members the same thing. The CBI says clearly—how I agree with it—that jobs can only be created by private enterprise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-22a.837.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-22", "file": "debates1983-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac7711417b51dd27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-22a.847.0", "colnum": "847", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "preceding_text": "s. All my hon. Friends representing the west midlands are in favour of the cheaper public transport policies of the West Midlands county council. We are also much in favour of the public consultation exercise that the county council has carried out in respect of those policies. I have received 500 leaflets back from people in West Bromwich saying that they want better and cheaper public transport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-22a.847.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-22", "file": "debates1983-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac7711417b51dd27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-22a.850.2", "colnum": "850", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Selwyn Gummer)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Selwyn Gummer)", "preceding_text": "ressions that make the position not just worse, but alter its terms. The right hon. Member for Birmingham, Small Heath (Mr. Howell) should have been a little more careful about the figures he used. He managed to give the impression that 80 per cent. or 90 per cent. of the young people in his constituency were unemployed. He was including all those who were still at school and in further education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-22a.850.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-22", "file": "debates1983-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac7711417b51dd27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-22a.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": " forward by the Opposition against the Government's policy for the regeneration of British industry is the worst mixture imaginable. The ingredients are simple. The first—import controls—would result in massive retaliation and hit the west midlands worse than any other part of the country. The second—to remove Britain from the EC—would result in the largest disinvestment in our history. The third—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-22a.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-22", "file": "debates1983-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac7711417b51dd27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-22a.872.0", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Unemployment (Yorkshire and Humberside)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Wall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Wall", "preceding_text": " do something relevant about redundancy pay for fishermen, which has been the subject of previous debates. When I toured my constituency in the long summer recess, I found the farmers in very good heart. I found most of the industries in good heart, in spite of what the right hon. Gentleman has been saying. I noticed on the Tape today that the income of farmers increased by 45 per cent. last year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-22a.872.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-22", "file": "debates1983-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac7711417b51dd27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-22a.891.1", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Unemployment (Yorkshire and Humberside)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Industry (Mr. John MacGregor)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about jobs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Industry (Mr. John MacGregor)", "preceding_text": "rcontrolled. It comes ill from Opposition Members to weep crocodile tears about industrial costs when these authorities, of a similar political alignment to themselves, are imposing this kind of increased burden on companies. I hope that as a result of the constant pressures that we put on them they will now see sense and introduce far more realistic budgets and rate increases in the coming years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-22a.891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-22", "file": "debates1983-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "ac7711417b51dd27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-22a.891.1", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Unemployment (Yorkshire and Humberside)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Industry (Mr. John MacGregor)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Industry (Mr. John MacGregor)", "preceding_text": "dgets and rate increases in the coming years. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What about jobs?\"] Hon. Members talk about jobs, but they must know that local authorities must achieve a balance between trying to help industries and small businesses in their area, which I support, and imposing heavy rate increases or failing to engage in good housekeeping to such as extent that they drive jobs away from their areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-22a.891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-23", "file": "debates1983-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4b76d0c3325b5f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-23a.935.1", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Water Industry (Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Tom King)", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"And the unions\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Tom King)", "preceding_text": "also recognise the fact that after a four and a half weeks strike over 99 per cent. of users continue to receive their water supplies. The water authorities and companies deserve every credit for this substantial achievement in keeping their systems running. The exceptional efforts of their staffs have maintained this essential service and safeguarded public health, and I pay full tribute to them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-23a.935.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-23", "file": "debates1983-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4b76d0c3325b5f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-23a.936.0", "colnum": "936", "heading": "Water Industry (Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "lace, last November? Can the right hon. Gentleman say how long it will take for the water system to gel: back to normal, when those having to use standpipes will regain their domestic supply, and when those now boiling water will no longer have to do so? What will be the cost of putting right the damage to the system? In the debate last week, when I pressed for the inquiry that in fact took place—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-23a.936.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-23", "file": "debates1983-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4b76d0c3325b5f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-23a.946.3", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Foreign Affairs Council (General)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Can a \"slightly faster rhythm\" be given to putting on the agenda the fraud and fudging that is now associated with end user certificates in the arms trade? In particular, should not Ministers discuss the alleged sale of Exocets to the Sudan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-23a.946.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-23", "file": "debates1983-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4b76d0c3325b5f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-23a.973.1", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Shipbuilders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": " new section 4A(1), to be organised in the most efficient manner\". Any commercial organisation that is concerned about its financial results must keep that under frequent review. The new clause is also concerned with the decentralisation of management and of operational centres. I am also in favour of decentralisation to profit centres. British Shipbuilders is organised in a decentralised fashion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-23a.973.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-23", "file": "debates1983-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4b76d0c3325b5f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-23a.974.1", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Shipbuilders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "That is more a criticism of nationalisation than of the organisation and structure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-23a.974.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-23", "file": "debates1983-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4b76d0c3325b5f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-23a.981.1", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Shipbuilders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hill", "preceding_text": "I am not suggesting that. If, however, the hon. Gentleman waits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-23a.981.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-23", "file": "debates1983-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4b76d0c3325b5f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-23a.1021.4", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Shipbuilders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "That is a rather shocking statement from the hon. Gentleman. It would be wrong to say that there has been a chorus of protest about the Bill from Labour Members.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-23a.1021.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-23", "file": "debates1983-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "4b76d0c3325b5f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-23a.1021.4", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Shipbuilders Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fletcher", "preceding_text": "sh industry are able to undertake and participate in. That is the main reason for the Bill. If one takes a serious view of the industry today, one must agree that it needs that flexibility in order to survive. It is in a fight for survival in a world market that is experiencing one of the worst recessions in 50 years. I regret that I do not have time to answer all the points that have been raised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-23a.1021.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-24", "file": "debates1983-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f4cf5247ecf876d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-24a.1050.7", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Of course I did not condemn the strike, because the strikers have a right to justice under this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-24a.1050.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-24", "file": "debates1983-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f4cf5247ecf876d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-24a.1051.2", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Does—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-24a.1051.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-24", "file": "debates1983-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f4cf5247ecf876d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-24a.1051.9", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Weetch", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Weetch", "preceding_text": "In view of the nauseating publicity, especially in the tabloid newspapers, about the private life of the Royal family, and, indeed, about others, does the Prime Minister agree that it is high time that we had a Right to Privacy Act—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-24a.1051.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-24", "file": "debates1983-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f4cf5247ecf876d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-24a.1053.0", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The answer to the hon. Gentleman is no, Sir. The Falklands war was fought with an excellent Navy and was won gloriously. It is a blot on the whole of the Western world that we stood by and allowed the invasion of Hungary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-24a.1053.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-24", "file": "debates1983-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f4cf5247ecf876d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-24a.1059.2", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Cover-up\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "Because I have to judge the many demands that are made on Government time and the priorities that have to be attached to them. The Opposition have to do likewise with the time that they have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-24a.1059.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-24", "file": "debates1983-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f4cf5247ecf876d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-24a.1067.0", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Heritage Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "ion in the Bill—the main one being the establishment of boards of trustees. Other issues to be considered do not need specific provision in the Bill. For example, I announced last August that the Government propose to proceed with the theatre museum, and I hope work will begin this spring. I also announced last August that we hope that the museum of childhood at Bethnal Green will remain in being.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-24a.1067.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-02-24", "file": "debates1983-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "f4cf5247ecf876d4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-24a.1139.1", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Aerospace", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"You are doing well\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": " not have the cheque book that the hon. Gentleman demands. The taxpayers have the cheque book, and their representatives in Government will be responsible for the timing of the orders. I, like the hon. Gentleman, would be impressed if decisions were taken quickly on some of these matters, and I am sure that he would not expect me to hazard a decision tonight that is rightfully theirs. May I go on?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-02-24a.1139.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-01", "file": "debates1983-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "34542f4e575d0c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-01a.137.0", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Scotland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Corrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Corrie", "preceding_text": "I oppose the Bill. The hon. Member for Berwick and East Lothian (Mr. Home Robertson) chided me for being a supporter of devolution, but I oppose the Bill. I remind the hon. Gentleman that on Second Reading of the original Scotland Bill, I voted for the principle of devolution. On Third Reading I voted against the Bill. I have no conscience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-01a.137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-01", "file": "debates1983-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "34542f4e575d0c8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-01a.154.1", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Parliamentary Boundary Commissions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Morrison", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It is so well represented.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Morrison", "preceding_text": "72. I checked these figures with the district councils concerned and I hope that they are correct, but I cannot guarantee it because there seems to be a little uncertainty. I add that it is proposed that the Devizes constituency in 1983, but after redistribution, should have over 84,000 electors. After seven years' work, the Devizes constituency will be bigger than it has ever been in its history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-01a.154.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-02", "file": "debates1983-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "387758b7279e78b3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-02a.236.6", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "Surely my hon. Friend will appreciate that if he allows the housing associations to retain a voluntary approach to the purchase of houses that will handicap those who wish to purchase their houses under the Tenants' Rights, Etc. (Scotland) Act 1980, which applies also to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-02a.236.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-03", "file": "debates1983-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "561c1468dc207289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-03a.372.0", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lofthouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lofthouse", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister recollect my question to her on 8 February, when I informed her of the reaction of the mining industry to the rumoured appointment of Mr. Ian MacGregor? Is the Government's announcement during the past two hours, directly after the decision of the national executive of the National Union of Mineworkers, that great democratic union—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-03a.372.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-03", "file": "debates1983-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "561c1468dc207289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-03a.374.2", "colnum": "374", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I believe that the Government have acted with great wisdom throughout.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-03a.374.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-03", "file": "debates1983-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "561c1468dc207289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-03a.391.1", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy (Price Proposals)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "t subsidies. The Minister shakes his head. If he has a third solution, I hope he will say so. Clearly there is no third solution. So the surplus is either destroyed or exported at a subsidised price. There are only two things that one can do with surplus production: either destroy it or export it—or, of course, one keeps it in store. What else can one do with a surplus of which one cannot dispose?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-03a.391.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-03", "file": "debates1983-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "561c1468dc207289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-03a.436.4", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": " representations would have been put to the commission. I looked at what they were thinking about for the Tayside region in the knowledge that there would be no crossing of regional boundaries and that there would not be more than 71 seats in Scotland. I decided that I could not, in connection with what was happening in my constituency, put forward a case which would stand up to close examination—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-03a.436.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-03", "file": "debates1983-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "561c1468dc207289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-03a.450.4", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The House of Lords\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "ans that whatever happens to me, I shall lose the majority of the people whom I now represent. I have heard that there are some whispers and rumours among the Tory establishment of west Stirlingshire to the extent, I believe, that some of them colloquially refer to this mad scheme as the Dennis Canavan job release scheme. I may yet disappoint them all by returning here in some other reincarnation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-03a.450.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-03", "file": "debates1983-03-03a.xml", "sha256": "561c1468dc207289", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-03a.460.0", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Allan Stewart)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Allan Stewart)", "preceding_text": "s being made in smoke-filled rooms full of party professionals. Several hon. Members referred to the change in the commission's original intention of having 71 seats for Scotland to having 72. That was explained fully by the hon. Member for Kelvingrove. I confirm to my hon. Friends the Members for Edinburgh, South and for Aberdeenshire, East (Mr. McQuarrie) and to the hon. Member for Dundee, East—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-03a.460.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-07", "file": "debates1983-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3748fe0e1141bca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-07a.555.2", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "en not to use their capital receipts on new capital expenditure and have large amounts of money in hand. I can perhaps assist the House by giving a little news on the bright side, which is that there has been a substantial increase in housing starts over the 1981 figure in both the public and private sector, amounting to 33·7 per cent. overall, taking the public and private sector together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-07a.555.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-07", "file": "debates1983-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3748fe0e1141bca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-07a.574.2", "colnum": "574", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1976", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": ", the Bill was announced on the Monday afternoon, the Second Reading was on Tuesday afternoon and we enacted it, through a long sitting, so that it completed all its stages by Wednesday morning. It was, therefore, a rushed job. In the circumstances, we were lucky that it was not a botched job. It was lucky because of sensible contingency planning that had been carried out by Home Office officials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-07a.574.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-07", "file": "debates1983-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3748fe0e1141bca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-07a.588.3", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1976", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or vice versa.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "is one element of the problem. I consider it to be fundamentally wrong that—if I may put it this way without being provocative—while Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom, citizens living in one part of the country should be removed to another part of the country—Northern Ireland—without the authority of the courts, but by the authority of a Minister. We do not see the process in reverse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-07a.588.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-07", "file": "debates1983-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3748fe0e1141bca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-07a.602.4", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 1976", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "formation is obtained as a result of the powers no one can say that it has not been useful and is not necessary. In hundreds of cases such information has been helpful and several people have been charged. No one is charged in this country unless the case against him is, in the opinion of an independent legal adviser, likely to be proved to a jury or to a court beyond the balance of probabilities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-07a.602.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-07", "file": "debates1983-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3748fe0e1141bca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-07a.650.0", "colnum": "650", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Fishing Boats Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": " this House, and fishermen. I shall not repeat the allegations by name against hon. Members, because I see no reason why I should give currency to defamatory statements. However, Major-General Gribbon presumed to state that one hon. Member—who tonight has assured me that it is untrue—would support amendments to wreck the Bill which Major-General Gribbon had the effontery to invite me to introduce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-07a.650.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-07", "file": "debates1983-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3748fe0e1141bca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-07a.659.0", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Fishing Boats Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Trawlers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Renfrewshire, West (Mr. Buchan) referred to the speed with which the Bill is being pushed through the House. To my knowledge there are no other immediate problems in the fishing industry that require to be brought forward at this time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-07a.659.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-07", "file": "debates1983-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "3748fe0e1141bca9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-07a.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "British Fishing Boats Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "ience of justices of the peace and their appointment. I mean no disrespect when I say that there are trade unionists and public servants in NALGO and similar bodies who are justices of the peace but who have no experience of search powers. I hesitate to allow the phrase or a justice of the peace to be inserted in the Bill without more positive proof that justices of the peace who might be farmers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-07a.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-08", "file": "debates1983-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "5337c19f687bbbc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-08a.689.9", "colnum": "689", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "An HON. MEMBER: \"Real jobs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": " an ace of carrying through that Christmas undertaking. The hon. Gentleman's attitude is mean and carping. As for the youngsters who will be going on the youth training scheme in September of this year, if the YOP scheme is an example, the YTS should do better in our economic circumstances. More than half the youngsters will be accommodated in either jobs or further training as they leave the YTS—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-08a.689.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-08", "file": "debates1983-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "5337c19f687bbbc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-08a.691.9", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "The Government have no intention of interfering in wage negotiations. However, I have a responsibility to draw the attention of those concerned to the consequences of what they are doing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-08a.691.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-08", "file": "debates1983-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "5337c19f687bbbc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-08a.703.1", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why ask?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Lady aware that the answer to the question, which she said she could not give, is £9 billion a year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-08a.703.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-08", "file": "debates1983-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "5337c19f687bbbc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-08a.773.4", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "osing some control by requiring ministerial consent. But until the Bill was introduced it was not possible to generate electricity for use as a main business on any basis—neither nuclear nor non-nuclear. Because that inhibition is removed by the Bill, it opens the door to the possibility of the building of a private sector nuclear power station for the generation of electricity as a main business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-08a.773.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-08", "file": "debates1983-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "5337c19f687bbbc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-08a.777.1", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister now read those parts of the Second Reading debate when I suggested that it would be possible to amend clauses 1, 2, and 3—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-08a.777.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-08", "file": "debates1983-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "5337c19f687bbbc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-08a.793.0", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Energy Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish\".", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "preceding_text": "s that it is an exaggeration for the Secretary of State to claim that it does all that he says it does, even though there is a suggestion that his right hon. and hon. Friends do not believe that it goes far enough. The Committee stage was not entirely agreeable, but it provided a great deal of information. The point that there is no substantial development in private generation in the near future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-08a.793.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-08", "file": "debates1983-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "5337c19f687bbbc9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-08a.809.3", "colnum": "809", "heading": "Financial Assistance to Opposition Parties", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "preceding_text": "he minority parties will sit on those Benches for ever, but for the Labour and Conservative parties that may be a better way to proceed. Therefore, I tabled a small amendment suggesting that the increases should not come into effect until 1 January 1984, which will probably be after the next general election. My right hon. Friend said that there were two qualifications in the original legislation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-08a.809.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-10", "file": "debates1983-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "a270588dd945a70b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-10a.949.0", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady will find that her memory is at fault. She will also find that under no previous Government has the destruction of jobs been on anything like the scale that has occurred under this Government. Can she give any comparable figure at all? How many of those 2 million extra jobs lost were in Darlington?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-10a.949.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-10", "file": "debates1983-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "a270588dd945a70b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-10a.949.6", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stoddart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stoddart", "preceding_text": "Has the right hon. Lady considered this morning what The Guardian today described as a stinging rebuff to her by the European assembly in deciding to confirm that it will go ahead with an investigation of affairs in Northern Ireland? Does she realise the implication for the future of what this mischievous and insolent assembly is doing? For example, when Spain comes into the Common Market—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-10a.949.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-10", "file": "debates1983-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "a270588dd945a70b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-10a.950.4", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is not a phrase that I have ever used. May I add to what the hon. Gentleman stated by saying that in the four pension upratings since this Government took office the pension has increased—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-10a.950.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-10", "file": "debates1983-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "a270588dd945a70b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-10a.994.0", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "170 people in the Monsanto factory at Coleraine lost their jobs. They are a minute drop in the vast bucketful of unemployed in Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom as a whole. Those job losses are in addition to the already large number of unemployed in that area. We must wonder whether the man-made fibre industry in Northern Ireland will exist in a few years. The factory was going like a bomb—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-10a.994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-10", "file": "debates1983-03-10a.xml", "sha256": "a270588dd945a70b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-10a.998.0", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "t angry. I must leave aside the failure of the Housing Executive to solve the problems, for such failures will persist until we have proper responsible local government in control of housing in Northern Ireland. The councils should be prepared to take responsibility for ensuring that the work is done and the people living in their houses are properly cared for. I do not wish to speak for too long—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-10a.998.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-11", "file": "debates1983-03-11a.xml", "sha256": "a4118de8e3548800", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-11a.1102.1", "colnum": "1102", "heading": "Health and Safety at Work", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "h were then answered in a particular way. It is not always easy to bring all the answers together. Sometimes there are anomalies. I hope it will not be thought that we should lessen the protection that we give in agriculture merely because we have not finished the process of dealing with the wider range of protection that there needs to be. I shall deal quickly with the question of Crown immunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-11a.1102.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-14", "file": "debates1983-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "99eda691bcdf4b5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-14a.7.9", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "In response to my hon. Friend's request—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-14a.7.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-14", "file": "debates1983-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "99eda691bcdf4b5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-14a.21.10", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Parliamentary Stationery and Printing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "preceding_text": "dent for much to come. I wish to make one point for the record. The Standing Orders of the House provide that three days should be allotted to debate Estimates. I have no doubt that it would be the wish of the Liaison Committee and the House that if only half a day is taken, as it will be on this occasion, the second half of the day should be carried over, so that two and a half days would remain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-14a.21.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-15", "file": "debates1983-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "244c974f3eea5e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-15a.126.7", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I believe that the hon. Gentleman is referring to redundancies announced yesterday, to which I understand reference was made in the House yesterday. The redundancies announced are a direct result of the end of the boom in the United States oil exploration industry. BSC's decision means that the numbers now will be back to where they were at pre-boom levels just before 1981.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-15a.126.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-15", "file": "debates1983-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "244c974f3eea5e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-15a.131.3", "colnum": "131", "heading": "Budget Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. One well-known journalist, on the front page of The Standard today, said: At Westminster, MPs were speculating whether Sir Geoffrey could have many surprises left with the Treasury already leaking the general shape of the tax package. I submit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-15a.131.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-15", "file": "debates1983-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "244c974f3eea5e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-15a.158.4", "colnum": "158", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "increase—if we accept his figure—was a tremendous advance. We shall examine with the utmost care how he is proposing to deal with pensions, how he is proposing to change from the present system and the percentage inflation figure to be applied. Even so, pensions do not come within miles of the form and rates of advantage to pensioners that were provided by the Labour Government. During the period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-15a.158.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-15", "file": "debates1983-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "244c974f3eea5e3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-15a.158.4", "colnum": "158", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "e years ago many people would not have been in tax throughout the period and taxation would have been considerably lighter, and in that case many more people would have been in employment. That brings us back to the major reason why we say that the Budget, the Cabinet and the Government are utterly incapable of dealing with our problems. I quote again what Sir Alec Cairncross said on this subject—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-15a.158.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-17", "file": "debates1983-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "27799bd5965f8b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-17a.345.6", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "great help to the construction industry and all manufacturers who wish to hold stocks. My right hon. and learned Friend the Chief Secretary dealt with the hon. Gentleman's point on pensions yesterday, giving quotations from the Labour Government to the effect that the historic method is the fairest method that there is. We do not know what the historic or actual increase in RPI will be on 17 June—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-17a.345.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-17", "file": "debates1983-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "27799bd5965f8b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-17a.345.6", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "thod is the fairest method that there is. We do not know what the historic or actual increase in RPI will be on 17 June— [Interruption.] We do not know what the historic increase in the RPI will be when it is published on 17 June. That is the latest figure that we can take. Whatever it is, that will be given to the pensioners and in the following year likewise. So they will get an actual increase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-17a.345.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-17", "file": "debates1983-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "27799bd5965f8b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-17a.375.0", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Ennals", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Ennals", "preceding_text": " claw back but to change the rules of the game was taken at the last minute, either at the Cabinet meeting that morning or by the Chancellor the previous evening. It must have been taken within 24 hours before the Budget speech because, as my right hon. Friend the Member for Stepney and Poplar revealed from the documents that had already been published, the Chancellor had intended to claw it back.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-17a.375.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-17", "file": "debates1983-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "27799bd5965f8b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-17a.380.0", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Critchley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Critchley", "preceding_text": "cknowledge, can be something of a disadvantage in our great party. II is the equivalent in party terms of being young, black and unemployed. I have no economic beliefs and therefore I can have no invisible means of support, which means that I am unlikely to be asked to become a member of the Prime Minister's fifth brigade—that Chicago-trained corps of economic stormtroopers. I have other failings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-17a.380.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-17", "file": "debates1983-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "27799bd5965f8b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-17a.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There is one.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "preceding_text": ". Pensioners have experienced 12 per cent. more inflation than other households since 1974. I have no way of checking that figure, but I suspect that there is some truth in the allegation that those who live solely on the state pension experience an increase in the cost of living beyond that of the average. One wonders whether we should produce a pensioners index and promise to tie pensions to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-17a.401.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-17", "file": "debates1983-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "27799bd5965f8b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-17a.418.0", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "in May. When pensioners get it in November, inflation will be 6 per cent., if not higher. It is mean to use back-door methods to cheat the pensioners of what they are clearly entitled to, at the same time, in the same Budget, handing out £20 a week extra to Mr. Ian MacGregor and the likes of him—and, incidentally, let me say to the Chancellor, to himself and to other Members of the shadow Cabinet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-17a.418.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-17", "file": "debates1983-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "27799bd5965f8b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-17a.428.1", "colnum": "428", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "at all those must be free to the private contractor. They must also have direct subsidies for office space and telephones and on top of that they are exempted from VAT. Just to make sure that the authorities come up with the correct result—after all, this is the fourth time that the Secretary of State has tried to bully people into taking these measures—the authorities must take the lowest tender.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-17a.428.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-17", "file": "debates1983-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "27799bd5965f8b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-17a.430.1", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "If I thought that the hon. Gentleman could read, I would send him a letter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-17a.430.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-17", "file": "debates1983-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "27799bd5965f8b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-17a.431.7", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "I am concerned that it should be made very clear—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-17a.431.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-17", "file": "debates1983-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "27799bd5965f8b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-17a.432.3", "colnum": "432", "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": "n that charities make. However, the right hon. Gentleman should be aware from his period in government that the problem about arranging for the repayment of VAT to charities is that there are a- mass of charities, some which would benefit disproportionately to their public support. In many cases the charities' objectives would not command universal support. All Governments have faced that problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-17a.432.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-17", "file": "debates1983-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "27799bd5965f8b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-17a.432.3", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "e change from forecast to historic assessment of benefits uprating having a certain air of circularity about it in view of what happened in 1976. Opposition Members have made great play of the claim that the date chosen for this year's planned historic assessment—May—promises to be a month of low inflation. It simply represents the last month compatible with achieving uprating on time in November—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-17a.432.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-17", "file": "debates1983-03-17a.xml", "sha256": "27799bd5965f8b03", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-17a.436.9", "colnum": "436", "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": "he impression sometimes that a good many eminent authorities, and even perhaps some hon. Members look on free ports as a sort of cross between a status symbol and Shangri-La, a place of hash and dancing girls and cut-price videos, where the Humphrey Bogarts of the 1990s will come together to do business from the corners of the globe—places in whose reflective glory adjoining civic heads will bask.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-17a.436.9"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-21", "file": "debates1983-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ff29a8aff579c89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-21a.545.0", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Teaching Quality", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "I contradict each of the hon. Lady's assumptions. We have nothing like the lowest proportion of post-compulsory students in training in the western world. In fact, I should enjoy sending the hon. Lady a statement—or perhaps she will table a question that I can answer—pointing out that our proportions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-21a.545.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-21", "file": "debates1983-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ff29a8aff579c89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-21a.556.9", "colnum": "556", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "sidering a proposal from the Institute of Marketing to help to establish an advisory service on marketing to small and medium-sized firms. Making management more aware of the opportunities may represent a small, although a growing, part of my Department's budget, but the Department must become more people-oriented, because people create prosperity. That is why I am giving the scheme high priority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-21a.556.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-21", "file": "debates1983-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ff29a8aff579c89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-21a.558.0", "colnum": "558", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Gladstone retired.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": "hat was nonsense. When I look at the Government's policies on economic affairs, on jobs and on cutting taxes, the circumstances are the same. Whatever the Government touch goes wrong and whatever promises they made three or four years ago they have not carried out. In retrospect, since last I was involved, I detect that the mystery or romance of the Budget has been taken away. Gone is the secrecy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-21a.558.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-21", "file": "debates1983-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ff29a8aff579c89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-21a.559.1", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What about national service?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "wo sides of the House on unemployment and the policy to deal with it. I am again reminded of the 1920s and the 1930s. The first Budget that was designed to use all the manpower and womanpower in this country was that of 1941. It was completely unlike all previous Budgets since the Lloyd George Budgets of the first world war. To enable us to win a war, we had to use all the manpower in the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-21a.559.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-21", "file": "debates1983-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ff29a8aff579c89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-21a.578.2", "colnum": "578", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "preceding_text": "ften talk about \"Government money\", which gives the impression that if the Government do nothing they are niggardly or mean. It is not the Government's money; it is the taxpayers' money. President Mitterrand tried throwing money at the problem, and look at France now. The French did precisely what the right hon. Member for Stepney and Poplar (Mr. Shore) is suggesting. Where has it got the French?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-21a.578.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-21", "file": "debates1983-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ff29a8aff579c89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-21a.590.1", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Myles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Myles", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for the chance to make a brief speech on a narrow constituency point. Unemployment in the Scotch whisky industry is at record levels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-21a.590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-21", "file": "debates1983-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ff29a8aff579c89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-21a.617.1", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "d development. I notice that innovation in about three quarters of British firms takes only 1 per cent. of the value of their turnover. In other words, the amount of money spent in Britain on developing new products—which must form the basis of our recovery—has become minuscule in relation to the need. The third factor on which the Secretary of State relied for recovery was the fall in oil prices—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-21a.617.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-21", "file": "debates1983-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ff29a8aff579c89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-21a.620.2", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "r society. The poor are already more highly taxed in Britain than anywhere else in Europe. Last week, in a speech of unctuous complacency, the Prime Minister said: The Government cannot please everyone, but you can be fair to everyone. Were the Government fair to everyone in the Budget? A business man on £45,000 a year will be £120 better off but an unemployed family will be £15 a week worse off.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-21a.620.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-21", "file": "debates1983-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ff29a8aff579c89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-21a.621.0", "colnum": "621", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Where is the Prime Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "ave reminded the House of the international setting of our considerations. I have read and noted the many contributions made by hon. Members on both sides of the House on previous days. I listened to the speeches made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Sidcup and the right hon. Member for Hillhead. All that has been very much in my mind during the past 48 hours, which I have spent in Brussels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-21a.621.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-21", "file": "debates1983-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "5ff29a8aff579c89", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-21a.624.2", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name dropper\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I have had the chance of discussing this with Mr. Feldstein and Mr. Volcker in the last week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-21a.624.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-22", "file": "debates1983-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "20ab23be320eeb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.719.0", "colnum": "719", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "uld be withdrawn. He should remember that the Bill, which is being debated properly in Committee, is intended, on the basis of the report of the Royal Commission on criminal procedure, to enable the police to bring criminals to justice more effectively. I should have thought that the whole House would want just that. The question is whether the safeguards of individual liberties are satisfactory.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.719.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-22", "file": "debates1983-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "20ab23be320eeb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.736.1", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 9TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "sh Rail was £1,100 million—in fact, slightly over at £1,114 million. In the four years 1979–83, it has been £1,600 million, a considerably larger sum. If the right hon. Gentleman asks for those amounts to be expressed in constant money, I shall do so. It is certainly correct that, in constant money terms, the figure of £1,600 million represents a lower sum than the figure of £1,100 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.736.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-22", "file": "debates1983-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "20ab23be320eeb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.765.2", "colnum": "765", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 9TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eyre", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eyre", "preceding_text": "mber of wagons that BREL has built in recent years. In 1981, it built nearly 2,000. In 1982, the figure was just under 1,000. This year it is expected to be below 100. For the next few years, British Rail envisages a need for only about 150 new wagons a year, depending on the amount of additional traffic it can win. Yet, at Shildon alone, British Rail has the capacity to build 1,500 wagons a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.765.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-03-22", "file": "debates1983-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "20ab23be320eeb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.773.2", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Anderson Strathclyde", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Milan", "preceding_text": "hat point to him. Unfortunately, he is not going to take part in the debate. Hon. Members will wonder why. He is hiding behind the Minister for Trade, who will open the debate, and then he will hide behind one of his Under-Secretaries, who will reply. Is the Secretary of State in favour of the Government's decision? Does he support the decision that the Minister for Trade has taken on this matter?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-22", "file": "debates1983-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "20ab23be320eeb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.778.0", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Anderson Strathclyde", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Trade (Mr. Peter Rees)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Trade (Mr. Peter Rees)", "preceding_text": "We have heard a highly charged speech from the right hon. Member for Glasgow, Craigton (Mr. Millan).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.778.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-22", "file": "debates1983-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "20ab23be320eeb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Anderson Strathclyde", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I had no intentions either way, as I shall develop shortly. If the right hon. and learned Member for Warley, West (Mr. Archer), who has an acute and well-framed legal mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-22", "file": "debates1983-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "20ab23be320eeb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.780.1", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Anderson Strathclyde", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I had no intentions either way, as I shall develop shortly. If the right hon. and learned Member for Warley, West (Mr. Archer), who has an acute and well-framed legal mind— [Interruption.] I did not realise that hon. Gentlemen grudged my paying a tribute to a member of my profession who has occupied a distinguished place in Government as a Law Officer. I shall leave him to argue that out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.780.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-22", "file": "debates1983-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "20ab23be320eeb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.782.3", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Anderson Strathclyde", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "fect, they are suggesting that I should take away the right of Anderson Strathclyde's shareholders to decide whether they will accept Charter Consolidated's bid. Strong evidence would be needed before I should take away that right. If the action that I took is approved by the House, it would still be open to Anderson Strathclyde's board to persuade its shareholders that the bid should be rejected.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.782.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-22", "file": "debates1983-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "20ab23be320eeb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.785.5", "colnum": "785", "heading": "Anderson Strathclyde", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I am telling the House what the position was. If the right hon. Gentleman does not accept it, no doubt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.785.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-22", "file": "debates1983-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "20ab23be320eeb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Anderson Strathclyde", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "No, I must press on. The House might be interested to know the movement of share prices of Charter Consolidated at various relevant points. That will set the rather cheap sneers in their true context.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-22", "file": "debates1983-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "20ab23be320eeb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.789.2", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Anderson Strathclyde", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He should be here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": " as he could. To suggest tonight that the commission's reports must be accepted at all costs is a strange statement from someone who once held the honourable position of Secretary of State for Scotland. Another demonstration of the purpose of tonight's debate is the savage pursuit of the Secretary of State. Opposition Members love to pursue individuals, especially when they are not here to answer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.789.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-22", "file": "debates1983-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "20ab23be320eeb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.790.3", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Anderson Strathclyde", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "e, the benefit of the doubt should be given to the status quo. My hon. and learned Friend the Minister raised the \"not proven\" point, but the effect of the not proven verdict in Scotland is to maintain the status quo, because a person is innocent until he is proved guilty. The doubts on this occasion should have resulted in that answer. It is not for the House or myself to make a judgment on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.790.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-22", "file": "debates1983-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "20ab23be320eeb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Anderson Strathclyde", "cue_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "preceding_text": "ause of the division of time in the House of Commons that at the eleventh hour, unless we amend it, or at five minutes to the twelth hour, we are asked to vote on a subject which the House of Commons cannot determine. Such is the impotence of the House of Commons because of the inadequacies of the Opposition in relation to this matter. We should have been debating this months ago, and not tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-22", "file": "debates1983-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "20ab23be320eeb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Anderson Strathclyde", "cue_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "preceding_text": "s that at the eleventh hour, unless we amend it, or at five minutes to the twelth hour, we are asked to vote on a subject which the House of Commons cannot determine. Such is the impotence of the House of Commons because of the inadequacies of the Opposition in relation to this matter. We should have been debating this months ago, and not tonight. [Interruption.] We do not determine these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-22", "file": "debates1983-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "20ab23be320eeb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.792.1", "colnum": "792", "heading": "Anderson Strathclyde", "cue_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. J. Dickson Mabon", "preceding_text": "e of Commons cannot determine. Such is the impotence of the House of Commons because of the inadequacies of the Opposition in relation to this matter. We should have been debating this months ago, and not tonight. [Interruption.] We do not determine these matters. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] These matters are determined by the 44 Labour Members from Scotland rather than the 12 Members of my party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.792.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-22", "file": "debates1983-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "20ab23be320eeb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.793.1", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Anderson Strathclyde", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mabon", "preceding_text": "That is not true because at least four of us have been here. That is a larger number, proportionately, than the 12 of the 44 Labour Members who are present.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.793.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-22", "file": "debates1983-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "20ab23be320eeb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Anderson Strathclyde", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Bray", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Bray", "preceding_text": "In that case there was nothing in the statement as it went from the Minister of State's office to the press office with any reference to the Secretary of State's interest. Will the Minister of State now acknowledge that it was not made clear why his right hon. and noble Friend distanced himself from the decision?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-22", "file": "debates1983-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "20ab23be320eeb74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.800.2", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Anderson Strathclyde", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Henderson", "preceding_text": " in the constituency of the hon. Member for Fife, Central (Mr. Hamilton). Indeed, some of my constituents work there. In that submission the councils pointed out that two thirds of the redundancies in Fife in the past three or four years have been in branch factories, while the more locally based companies, such as Anderson Strathclyde in Glenrothes, have had a much more stable employment pattern—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-22a.800.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-23", "file": "debates1983-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "c472985d580c7304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-23a.845.5", "colnum": "845", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. In one more effort to help the House, I make an appeal for supplementary questions and answers to be briefer than they have been lately, otherwise we shall not get through the Order Paper —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-23a.845.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-23", "file": "debates1983-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "c472985d580c7304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-23a.862.5", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "Those are two different issues. As far as I know, as a point of principle, the hon. Gentleman never raised the subject of the rebate when his party was in power —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-23a.862.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-23", "file": "debates1983-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "c472985d580c7304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-23a.868.4", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Economic Initiative)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. E. P. Duffy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. E. P. Duffy", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State said that he was all for economic cooperation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-23a.868.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-23", "file": "debates1983-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "c472985d580c7304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-23a.906.0", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Building Control Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Freeson", "preceding_text": "Buckingham (Mr. Benyon) because I cannot fault any of his words, other than when he was drawn into a rather lighthearted exchange about the different merits of the Labour and Conservative parties in their treatment of charitable organisations. I accept the spirit in which he made his point. When I was a Minister I introduced the Housing Act 1974, which, with the support of both sides of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-23a.906.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-23", "file": "debates1983-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "c472985d580c7304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-23a.906.0", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Building Control Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Freeson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reginald Freeson", "preceding_text": "earted exchange about the different merits of the Labour and Conservative parties in their treatment of charitable organisations. I accept the spirit in which he made his point. When I was a Minister I introduced the Housing Act 1974, which, with the support of both sides of the House— [Interruption.] I trust that the Minister will take this argument seriously, and not turn it into a clowning act.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-23a.906.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-23", "file": "debates1983-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "c472985d580c7304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-23a.906.2", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Building Control Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "I regret that I gave way to such an offensive intervention. I am making a serious point of dispute and argument not only in the House, but among all the charitable organisations in Britain. Conservative Members should not be brass-necked about the matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-23a.906.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-23", "file": "debates1983-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "c472985d580c7304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-23a.909.2", "colnum": "909", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Building Control Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freeson", "preceding_text": "le associations—it could be any other charitable organisation—are being offered central or local government support or, indeed, any financial support, it is unprincipled if, subsequently, conditions are attached to the receipt of the grant. We are not discussing the Leasehold Reform Act. That is a false analogy. I read the proceedings from Committee and I do not accept that that is a fair analogy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-23a.909.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-23", "file": "debates1983-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "c472985d580c7304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-23a.987.0", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Building Control Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ronald W. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ronald W. Brown", "preceding_text": "There were not so many hon. Members in the Chamber when we were discussing the Bill on Report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-23a.987.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-23", "file": "debates1983-03-23a.xml", "sha256": "c472985d580c7304", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-23a.987.3", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Building Control Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ociations, it is right for Crown estate tenants. He did not find time to answer me. Why is the right to buy not available for everyone? My third question, which I did not put to him because I did not have time, is: does the Minister believe that the building regulations covered in part III will apply to scaffolding around buildings? Many local authorities use scaffolding which is now falling down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-23a.987.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-24", "file": "debates1983-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f2472ed50441bfec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-24a.1005.0", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce-Gardyne", "preceding_text": "The part of the hon. Gentleman's question relating to Argentina's recent acquisition of frigates is not a matter for the Treasury—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-24a.1005.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-24", "file": "debates1983-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f2472ed50441bfec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-24a.1005.8", "colnum": "1005", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eggar", "preceding_text": "If Argentina were to default, would that not mean that British banks would have to write off considerable loans?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-24a.1005.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-24", "file": "debates1983-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f2472ed50441bfec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-24a.1013.2", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that her reply, notwithstanding her good wishes, will be deeply disappointing to the villagers of Pratt's Bottom? Is she aware that they seek an early opportunity to express to her their appreciation of the benefits of the Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-24a.1013.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-24", "file": "debates1983-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f2472ed50441bfec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-24a.1014.2", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ferent. We supported the loans from the IMF to Argentina on certain stringent conditions. There are two commercial loans to which different conditions apply. We supported the loans for two reasons. First, in the absence of either an IMF loan or commercial loans there was a possibility that Argentina would default. If it did so, it would have far more money to spend on arms than if it met the debt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-24a.1014.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-24", "file": "debates1983-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f2472ed50441bfec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-24a.1014.4", "colnum": "1014", "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 has still not taken note of my first point. The alternative was that Argentina may default.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-24a.1014.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-24", "file": "debates1983-03-24a.xml", "sha256": "f2472ed50441bfec", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-24a.1019.3", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Especially a Tory.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": "When are we to debate the suggested amendments to the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975? Has the right hon. Gentleman seen the amendment on the Order Paper suggesting the disqualification of the chairman or chief executive of any television programme contractor? I ask this question because some of us think that even one day is too long for a Member of Parliament of any party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-24a.1019.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-25", "file": "debates1983-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "44396a80b7a6a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-25a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Welfare State", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Hamilton", "preceding_text": "rnment. In the vanguard of this march back to the 19th century is the Prime Minister. She has said publicly that she yearns for a return to what she calls Victorian values and virtues. Presumably she yearns for a return to the days when we sent infant children up chimneys and down coal mines, when old people were put into workhouses because they could not stand on their own feet. The consequences—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-25a.1186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-25", "file": "debates1983-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "44396a80b7a6a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-25a.1192.1", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Welfare State", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I shall send the Minister a copy of the article in The Guardian.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-25a.1192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-25", "file": "debates1983-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "44396a80b7a6a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-25a.1192.1", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Welfare State", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "I shall send the Minister a copy of the article in The Guardian. [Interruption.] If the hon. and learned Gentleman has a case to argue against that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-25a.1192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-25", "file": "debates1983-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "44396a80b7a6a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-25a.1194.0", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Welfare State", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Clarke", "preceding_text": "I shall deal with that point now. The Calderdale authority is considering how best to use £2 million of capital investment. The hon. Gentleman might be interested to know that the private contractor that it has considered is actually a co-op in the locality, not one of my private profiteering friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-25a.1194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-25", "file": "debates1983-03-25a.xml", "sha256": "44396a80b7a6a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-25a.1245.1", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Welfare State", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The Chief Secretary made a speech in Bakewell which was interpreted in that way and that was followed by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister at the party conference reaffirming that the NHS, to use her words, was \"safe in her hands\". The CPRS document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-25a.1245.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-28", "file": "debates1983-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "e9052c0b6c07ecdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-28a.67.1", "colnum": "67", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Telecommunications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Comrades?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "That must be applauded, because it means that BT recognises that importing goods means exporting labour and, thus, increased unemployment. Privatisation is likely to have precisely that effect. I know that some of my comrades wish to take part in the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-28a.67.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-28", "file": "debates1983-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "e9052c0b6c07ecdb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-28a.144.2", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Urban Development", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"That is not true. Mr. Mellish himself informed me of that.— [Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": " there is a demand for low-cost housing in the inner city. I remind hon. Members that the corporation started from scratch, and yet by October 1982, 400 of the 601 houses and flats that had been built had been sold at prices ranging from £20,000 to £31,500. Significantly and interestingly, a large proportion of those houses went to those who were on the waiting lists of the boroughs in the areas.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-28a.144.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-29", "file": "debates1983-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "01077ae5f71875e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-29a.165.0", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will be fully aware that all these matters are the subject of discussion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-29a.165.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-29", "file": "debates1983-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "01077ae5f71875e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-29a.165.4", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "Yes. The words for which I search say that the Labour party wishes to see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-29a.165.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-29", "file": "debates1983-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "01077ae5f71875e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-29a.165.5", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. That is too long an answer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-29a.165.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-29", "file": "debates1983-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "01077ae5f71875e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-29a.175.6", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pattie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pattie", "preceding_text": "That is not relevant to the non-proliferation treaty.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-29a.175.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-29", "file": "debates1983-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "01077ae5f71875e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-29a.178.1", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Jobs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend. It was a great step forward to put microcomputers in every secondary school and then in every primary school so that our young people are skilled at an early age and thinking in terms of the type of jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-29a.178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-29", "file": "debates1983-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "01077ae5f71875e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-29a.178.6", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "It is not simply a question of research. Has the right hon. Lady taken into account the statement of the former president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-29a.178.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-29", "file": "debates1983-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "01077ae5f71875e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-29a.178.7", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am not unaware of scientific matters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-29a.178.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-29", "file": "debates1983-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "01077ae5f71875e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-29a.180.2", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"That is what the Government do.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes. It is totally and utterly wrong that a Government should represent one section of society and not others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-29a.180.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-29", "file": "debates1983-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "01077ae5f71875e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-29a.265.0", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Telecommunications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "believe has helped the Bill to reach the stage that it has tonight with as much good will as it has had, and with such little truculence and bad-tempered opposition, has been the way that my hon. Friend the Minister has brought the Bill before the House, has dealt with the Bill and dealt with queries and his constant courtesy to everyone in Committee and within the House as the Bill has proceeded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-29a.265.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-29", "file": "debates1983-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "01077ae5f71875e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-29a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Housing Benefits", "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": "I beg to move, That the draft Supplementary Benefit (Housing Benefits) (Requirements and Resources) Consequential Amendment Regulations 1983, which were laid before this House on 17th March, be approved. Hon. Members may be relieved to know that this is the last batch of supplementary benefit amendments consequential on the introduction of housing benefit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-29a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-30", "file": "debates1983-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "867037ab1c308140", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-30a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "Between the passing of the Act in 1981 and 21 February 1983, approximately 1,034 hectares—775 hectares in Scotland—of land awaiting planting were sold by the commission, and the total amount of land that has so far been sold is about 90,000 hectares—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-30a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-30", "file": "debates1983-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "867037ab1c308140", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-30a.345.2", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Overseas Students (Awards)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ears, that the House should have a separate statement on awards today with yet another one to come later concerning the much more costly question of the implications for higher education fees of the Scarman judgment of 16 December last? Will the provision in paragraph 4 of the Secretary of State's statement that there will be no retrospective legislation apply as much to fees as it does to awards?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-30a.345.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-30", "file": "debates1983-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "867037ab1c308140", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-30a.345.2", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Overseas Students (Awards)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": " State's statement that there will be no retrospective legislation apply as much to fees as it does to awards? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"] As the two are closely analogous, and as arrangements have run in tandem, that is a legitimate question to ask to enable the House to have a clear idea about exactly what the Government's intentions are in respect of fees that could have huge cost implications.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-30a.345.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-30", "file": "debates1983-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "867037ab1c308140", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-30a.345.2", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Overseas Students (Awards)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "tatement in which he said: local authorities … will not be obliged to make new awards after today to overseas students who have been resident here wholly or mainly for the purposes of education. If students of immigrant families are here for their education and for perpetual residence, will they enjoy the full benefits of being students regardless of when they came here? Would it be a case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-30a.345.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-30", "file": "debates1983-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "867037ab1c308140", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-30a.345.2", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Overseas Students (Awards)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "when they came here? Would it be a case—[AN HON. MEMBER: \"Oh, no!\"] I recognise that exposing the utter failure of the Conservative party is bound to provoke a reaction. Will a student returning with his family to this country as a consequence of unsuccessful emigration now qualify for full awards, as he should in the belief of the Labour party? Will not the right hon. Gentleman consider adopting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-30a.345.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-30", "file": "debates1983-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "867037ab1c308140", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-30a.345.2", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Overseas Students (Awards)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "EMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"]—the Labour party's policy for the proper treatment of overseas students on the basis of their poverty or the poverty of the country from which they came, and of their direct and legitimate entitlement to awards if they are in this country for purposes other than those of education; indeed, for purposes of permanent residence. Could I finally ask the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-30a.345.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-30", "file": "debates1983-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "867037ab1c308140", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-30a.345.2", "colnum": "345", "heading": "Overseas Students (Awards)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "st to taxpayers and ratepayers? What figure does his Department have to make good the judgment in the terms of the statement that the Secretary of State has made to the House? In paragraph 5, do the differential arrangements that the Secretary of State proposes to maintain apply to the further introduction of the race relations exemption circular or is there a more complex meaning to that? Lastly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-30a.345.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-30", "file": "debates1983-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "867037ab1c308140", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-30a.350.4", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Overseas Students (Awards)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is it not fair to say that today we have witnessed a Secretary of State for Education and Science, a Tory theologian, who is guilty of fudging and mudging.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-30a.350.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-30", "file": "debates1983-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "867037ab1c308140", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-30a.350.4", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Overseas Students (Awards)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is it not fair to say that today we have witnessed a Secretary of State for Education and Science, a Tory theologian, who is guilty of fudging and mudging. [HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"] That is one of the phrases that Dr. Death uses from time to time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-30a.350.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-30", "file": "debates1983-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "867037ab1c308140", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-30a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Local Authorities (Expenditure Powers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "ining their expenditure on approved schemes within the 2p rate limit, and the ADC will wish to consider … whether to seek an amendment to the Bill to deal with this situation. The Labour party, in the campaign document that it published yesterday, reaffirmed its long-standing commitment to assist local authorities to create jobs and revive local economies. As part of that, we shall abolish—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-30a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-30", "file": "debates1983-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "867037ab1c308140", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-30a.366.1", "colnum": "366", "heading": "Local Authorities (Expenditure Powers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "the Bill to deal with this situation. The Labour party, in the campaign document that it published yesterday, reaffirmed its long-standing commitment to assist local authorities to create jobs and revive local economies. As part of that, we shall abolish— [Interruption.] The right hon. Gentleman had better behave himself. We are discussing a serious Bill and he should not heckle in a flippant way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-30a.366.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-30", "file": "debates1983-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "867037ab1c308140", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-30a.369.3", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Local Authorities (Expenditure Powers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "I know about the alternative proposal, but I was told—I shall not name names—that the first intention was that the Bill should be taken in a Second Reading Committee. Someone must have had the idea, because I remember having to argue against it. If right hon. and hon. Members on both Front Benches wish to sort out whose idea it was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-30a.369.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-30", "file": "debates1983-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "867037ab1c308140", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-30a.407.0", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Standing Orders (Revision)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": " have been dynamite. I was, therefore, surprised when my hon. Friend the Member for Keighley reminded us of the speed at which this report had come to the House. Some time ago I referred to the Secretary of State for Employment as the Secretary of State for Unemployment. One thing led to another, and I think I described him as a liar instead of using a phrase such as \"terminological inexactitude\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-30a.407.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-30", "file": "debates1983-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "867037ab1c308140", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-30a.439.11", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Merchant Shipping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sproat", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East spoke about safety. The Government have a responsibility for safety at sea, part of which is to ensure that safety and environmental regulations are realistic and appropriate. I continue to keep them under review. The House will know that I have recently taken several initiatives. I shall give two examples.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-30a.439.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-31", "file": "debates1983-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "7cdd3def42f4cd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-31a.460.5", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Farmers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman will know, although farm incomes themselves rose substantially last year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-31a.460.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-31", "file": "debates1983-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "7cdd3def42f4cd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-31a.460.5", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman will know, although farm incomes themselves rose substantially last year—[Hon. MEMBERS: \"Farmers.\"] I refer to the income of farmers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-31a.460.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-03-31", "file": "debates1983-03-31a.xml", "sha256": "7cdd3def42f4cd10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-31a.463.0", "colnum": "463", "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 answer my second question? Does she agree that the deployment of cruise missiles—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-03-31a.463.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-12", "file": "debates1983-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "b4eef558c77610ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-12a.676.1", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Citizens Advice Bureaux", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Consumer Affairs (Dr. Gerard Vaughan)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Consumer Affairs (Dr. Gerard Vaughan)", "preceding_text": "rector from April 1982 to February 1983. That is one aspect that has concerned me. The other has been allegations of changing attitudes within some CABs and the taking up of campaigns that some people have seen as going outside the generally accepted scope of the service. For example, a local chairman resigned recently after 30 years in the service out of disgust at what was happening in his area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-12a.676.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-12", "file": "debates1983-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "b4eef558c77610ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-12a.677.2", "colnum": "677", "heading": "Citizens Advice Bureaux", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What allegations?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "preceding_text": "I think that it is the proper function of the organisation to run its own affairs and to reassure me, the House and the public generally that those affairs are properly conducted and that there is no substance in the various allegations that have been made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-12a.677.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-12", "file": "debates1983-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "b4eef558c77610ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-12a.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Citizens Advice Bureaux", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Did you say it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "preceding_text": "Clearly, I am not responsible for the content of a particular article.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-12a.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-12", "file": "debates1983-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "b4eef558c77610ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-12a.680.0", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Citizens Advice Bureaux", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You are not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "preceding_text": "I endorse what the hon. Gentleman said about local authorities. I hope that they will continue to support the organisation and, where appropriate, increase their support. The organisation does extremely good work. I can only repeat that this is not a witch hunt of any sort. I do not think that the House would feel that I was doing my job properly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-12a.680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-12", "file": "debates1983-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "b4eef558c77610ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-12a.681.1", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Citizens Advice Bureaux", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It was your decision.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "preceding_text": "I certainly do not accept the implication of the right hon. Gentleman's demands. I have not dragged the organisation into the political arena.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-12a.681.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-12", "file": "debates1983-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "b4eef558c77610ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-12a.681.9", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Citizens Advice Bureaux", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "preceding_text": "I think that there should be an end to any controversy over this issue. It is clear that there has been a number of misunderstandings. However, it is in no one's interests, least of all those of the service, to have the sort of comments being made about it which have been expressed recently. I accept very much what my hon. Friend has said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-12a.681.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-12", "file": "debates1983-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "b4eef558c77610ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-12a.683.6", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Citizens Advice Bureaux", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Did you say it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "preceding_text": "No, I have never implied that there was any misuse of funds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-12a.683.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-12", "file": "debates1983-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "b4eef558c77610ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-12a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Plant Varieties Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mrs. Peggy Fenner)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mrs. Peggy Fenner)", "preceding_text": "sed requirement would present formidable difficulties. It would be well nigh impossible to distinguish between discovered material and that which had been bred. It would be extremely difficult to determine whether material originated abroad or in the United Kingdom, and the authenticity of a document purporting to grant the consent of the country concerned might often not be readily ascertainable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-12a.732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-12", "file": "debates1983-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "b4eef558c77610ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-12a.768.4", "colnum": "768", "heading": "House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawrence", "preceding_text": "on and speaks for his union or the trade union movement in the course of parliamentary proceedings, to complain about lawyers who in my experience very seldom take the sort of opportunity we are taking tonight to speak up for lawyers in their own defence. Certainly it is seldom in my experience that lawyers deliberately advance the cause of lawyers by anything very much that they do in this place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-12a.768.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-13", "file": "debates1983-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "46c594bd644b1afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-13a.791.3", "colnum": "791", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. It has been said twice on the Government Benches that my position on cruise was at one time different from what it now is. That is absolutely untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-13a.791.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-13", "file": "debates1983-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "46c594bd644b1afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-13a.807.2", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Televising of Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Ashton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Ashton", "preceding_text": "that report was published, there were no headlines that the Committee had done a good job in finding out what had gone wrong. The Select Committee probably saved the nationalised industry a great deal of money. However, the press is interested only in instant reaction, and that is the case against my hon. Friend. My hon. Friend referred to Watergate. Ten years ago I went to the Watergate hearings—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-13a.807.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-13", "file": "debates1983-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "46c594bd644b1afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-13a.826.0", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security and Housing Benefits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": "I shall certainly write to the Minister on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-13a.826.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-13", "file": "debates1983-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "46c594bd644b1afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-13a.830.0", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security and Housing Benefits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "Perhaps it has burst upon the Opposition in a moment of amazement but, if the amendment were accepted and if the Bill were abandoned at this stage, pensioners would be paid less in November and would be worse off. It is thought probable that the 12-month inflation rate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-13a.830.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-13", "file": "debates1983-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "46c594bd644b1afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-13a.830.4", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security and Housing Benefits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman must listen. On the new basis pensioners stand to gain a rise of about 4·5 per cent. There is a difference between 3·3 per cent. and 4·5 per cent. Pensioners will be better off under the proposed change whereas Mrs. Castle's change in 1976 left them more than 6 per cent. worse off. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman's memory is stuck in that groove—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-13a.830.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-13", "file": "debates1983-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "46c594bd644b1afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-13a.870.0", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security and Housing Benefits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "ime because I have never had anything to do with men.\" My relationship with her has been gentle, but suitably close, and I hope that I have been of support. I certainly seek to be. She has a friend called Jenny, who is 103. She lives in sheltered accommodation and is particularly pleased with the 5p television licence that she has only recently been able to obtain as a result of Government action—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-13a.870.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-13", "file": "debates1983-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "46c594bd644b1afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-13a.893.3", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Closed Shop", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivan Lawrence", "preceding_text": "In case my right hon. Friend thinks that only the NGA has been behaving in that way, is he aware that 25 representatives of the Transport and General Workers Union, some of them lifelong Socialists and shop stewards, came into the offices of the Burton Conservative association begging me", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-13a.893.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-13", "file": "debates1983-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "46c594bd644b1afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-13a.893.6", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Closed Shop", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "There could be no better illustration of the intolerance and the detestation of the democratic process than what is happening this evening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-13a.893.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-13", "file": "debates1983-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "46c594bd644b1afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-13a.896.6", "colnum": "896", "heading": "Closed Shop", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "It is linked to the right—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-13a.896.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-13", "file": "debates1983-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "46c594bd644b1afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-13a.899.3", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Closed Shop", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Varley", "preceding_text": "I am usually willing to give way to the right hon. Gentleman, but he spoke for 25 minutes, with scant regard for anything concerning industrial relations, so I shall not give way to him tonight—not until he treats the House with much more respect. As I was saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-13a.899.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-13", "file": "debates1983-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "46c594bd644b1afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-13a.903.4", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Closed Shop", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": ". Both in the Chamber and in Committee the closed shop seems to be regarded as a virility symbol, notably by Labour Members. Opposition Members with union connections do not consider sufficiently seriously what is happening in law because they are carried away by their emotions. In saying that, I declare an interest not just as a member of APEX but as president of the Conservative trade unionists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-13a.903.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-13", "file": "debates1983-04-13a.xml", "sha256": "46c594bd644b1afb", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-13a.911.0", "colnum": "911", "heading": "Closed Shop", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "rticular case, taking into account equity and the merits of the case. The Act was framed in that way because it would have been impossible to provide in legislation for each and every circumstance where a union's activity was to be regarded as unreasonable, and to have set out in law only some such circumstances would have invited tribunals to find the union's action in all other cases reasonable—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-13a.911.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-14", "file": "debates1983-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "46151bc3fec29f38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-14a.937.9", "colnum": "937", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.>", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend heard the various estimates of the cost of implementing the recently published Labour policy proposals, at between £15 billion and £40 billion or 12p on the basic rate of income tax and 5 million unemployed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-14a.937.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-14", "file": "debates1983-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "46151bc3fec29f38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-14a.939.3", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Tuesday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ipbuilding and ship repair industries for Wednesday's business. We shall deal then with some of the issues that were dealt with during the exchanges a few minutes ago. We are deeply sorry that the Government have not been prepared to take any action to protect work in British shipyards, so we ask that the House of Commons shall come to the rescue. We shall have a vote on that subject on Wednesday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-14a.939.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-14", "file": "debates1983-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "46151bc3fec29f38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-14a.939.3", "colnum": "939", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "or Wednesday's business. We shall deal then with some of the issues that were dealt with during the exchanges a few minutes ago. We are deeply sorry that the Government have not been prepared to take any action to protect work in British shipyards, so we ask that the House of Commons shall come to the rescue. We shall have a vote on that subject on Wednesday. [HoN. MEMBERS: \"Tuesday.\"] On Tuesday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-14a.939.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-14", "file": "debates1983-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "46151bc3fec29f38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-14a.950.1", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Armed Forces (Youth Training)", "cue_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Miss Joan Lestor", "preceding_text": "d learned Member for Runcorn (Mr. Carlisle), whose child is safely through university, to welcome this scheme on behalf of large numbers of children who will not have the opportunity to go to university because of the education cuts that have been made. Is not the Minister saying that there are no long-term prospects for thousands of young people and therefore he is offering them the armed forces?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-14a.950.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-14", "file": "debates1983-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "46151bc3fec29f38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-14a.950.6", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Armed Forces (Youth Training)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Allaun", "preceding_text": "Is it seriously intended to give training in arms to 16-year-olds?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-14a.950.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-14", "file": "debates1983-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "46151bc3fec29f38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-14a.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Armed Forces (Youth Training)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "preceding_text": "I think that the whole House has been disturbed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-14a.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-14", "file": "debates1983-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "46151bc3fec29f38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-14a.955.5", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": " countries. More than 30 million people in these countries were unemployed. Unemployment has risen rapidly in the United States, Germany, Canada, the Netherlands and elsewhere. Here, too, unemployment has continued to rise, if at a slower rate. However, having entered recession rather earlier than many countries, we are now leading the world out of recession. United Kingdom output has been rising—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-14a.955.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-14", "file": "debates1983-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "46151bc3fec29f38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-14a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "I have made the matter entirely plain. My view is that at present we are heavily overtaxed in relation to the needs of the economy, and that to get some growth, life and activity into our economy and to reduce unemployment we genuinely need to ease the burden of taxation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-14a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-14", "file": "debates1983-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "46151bc3fec29f38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-14a.969.3", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Where will it get us?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "on sense to urge tax reductions. If the economy is moving back towards full employment, or has reached full employment, and there is a danger of demand exceeding supply, it makes perfect sense to increase some taxes. It is a classical Keynesian point of view. Perhaps it is a little difficult for the Financial Secretary to the Treasury to follow, but I am sure that he has heard it somewhere before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-14a.969.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-14", "file": "debates1983-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "46151bc3fec29f38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-14a.986.2", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Browne", "preceding_text": "d some very fine economic achievements. The reduction of inflation was the Government's main objective and it has fallen from 22 per cent. to less than 5 per cent. For the first time in recent history we have had a real inflation rate, free from dividend and pay controls, and so on. That is a major achievement. It is almost mealy-mouthed of people to deny it. Of course a price has had to be paid —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-14a.986.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-14", "file": "debates1983-04-14a.xml", "sha256": "46151bc3fec29f38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-14a.1023.0", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "The Minister is making some extravagant claims, as I think he realises.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-14a.1023.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-15", "file": "debates1983-04-15a.xml", "sha256": "e96a35c58cfe701f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-15a.1099.1", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Dependent Territories", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend said something similar to that. However, if he did not say it, I am glad, because it does not make sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-15a.1099.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-18", "file": "debates1983-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "12b279c75ad2d116", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-18a.4.6", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "The upturn that we are about to see—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-18a.4.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-18", "file": "debates1983-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "12b279c75ad2d116", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-18a.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Lead in the Environment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": " that I had a little time to study it. We welcome the report as a significant milestone in the campaign against lead in the environment. We accept its recommendations, including the valuable recommendations of home improvement and repair grants for the removal of lead from plumbing and the reduction of lead in paint. We note with interest the Government's U-turn on the removal of lead from petrol—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-18a.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-18", "file": "debates1983-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "12b279c75ad2d116", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-18a.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Lead in the Environment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "port, it simply will not do to say that the action they will now take is that the Under-Secretary will write to his opposite numbers in the Community. The Secretary of State should himself initiate talks with the Community right away. The Minister did not mention a date for implementation. What is his timetable? What date does he have in mind? The next Labour Government will implement this report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-18a.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-18", "file": "debates1983-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "12b279c75ad2d116", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-18a.24.0", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Lead in the Environment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is deliberately distorting what the Royal Commission says —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-18a.24.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-18", "file": "debates1983-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "12b279c75ad2d116", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-18a.40.4", "colnum": "40", "heading": "The Brandt Commission Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ery disturbing to Opposition Members that the United States seems to be tempted to try to solve the economic and social problems, which it is largely responsible for inflicting on the countries of Central America, by brute force and military intervention. When people talk of Finlandisation, I must say that I would feel much happier these days to be a citizen of Finland than a citizen of Nicaragua.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-18a.40.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-18", "file": "debates1983-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "12b279c75ad2d116", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-18a.40.4", "colnum": "40", "heading": "The Brandt Commission Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "tted plants than on foreign aid. The third proposal is that all countries should aim at achieving 0.7 per cent. of gross national product in official aid in the next five years. The Labour party has committed itself to achieving that. I believe that it is the only British party that has done so. The Government are still outrightly refusing to give any indication of how they will move in that area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-18a.40.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-18", "file": "debates1983-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "12b279c75ad2d116", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-18a.81.1", "colnum": "81", "heading": "The Brandt Commission Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brocklebank-Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brocklebank-Fowler", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. I have too much to say in my contribution to permit me to do so. The hon. Member for Bridlington (Mr. Townend) has not been in the Chamber for very much of the debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-18a.81.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-18", "file": "debates1983-04-18a.xml", "sha256": "12b279c75ad2d116", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-18a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "The Brandt Commission Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "preceding_text": "s the best way of meeting that problem. I have no doubt that both in the discussions leading up to Lome and in the negotiations proper the future of STABEX is bound to feature prominently. If the economic position of the ACP countries has not improved since Lome 1, we have to say that that is because of the world economic situation. They would certainly be much less worse off had Lome not existed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-18a.133.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-19", "file": "debates1983-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "3344c537e2cbec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.153.10", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "The Government's statistical record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.153.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-19", "file": "debates1983-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "3344c537e2cbec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.159.2", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Assuming that the forecasts on inflation are reasonable — I know that our inflation forecasts have been wrong for a long time—even if inflation were to go up a bit in the coming months, and even if prices were to increase a little in the year —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-19", "file": "debates1983-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "3344c537e2cbec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.159.5", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Lady is now to join the Chancellor of the Exchequer in favour of the cut-and-run election that will make excellent news throughout the country, because we are certainly happy to have it whenever they wish.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.159.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-19", "file": "debates1983-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "3344c537e2cbec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.159.6", "colnum": "159", "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": "Our performance on inflation is far better—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.159.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-19", "file": "debates1983-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "3344c537e2cbec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Rockwell Graphic Systems, Preston", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stan Thorne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stan Thorne", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-19", "file": "debates1983-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "3344c537e2cbec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Rockwell Graphic Systems, Preston", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stan Thorne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stan Thorne", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House— [Interruption.] — under Standing Order No. 10, for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration, namely, the threatened unemployment at Rockwell Graphic Systems, Preston\". The management of that firm, which is part of a conglomerate multinational, the Rockwell International Corporation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-19", "file": "debates1983-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "3344c537e2cbec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.167.0", "colnum": "167", "heading": "New Writ (Cardiff, North-West)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"They do not want you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "preceding_text": " on 26 November 1973. He said that the view which was expressed in the letter was the unanimous view of every member of the Speaker's Conference. That Speaker's Conference included not only the Government and the Opposition but the minority parties, whose representatives were so vociferous a moment ago in supporting the hon. Member for Caernarvon (Mr. Wigley). Perhaps they should get a new leader—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.167.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-19", "file": "debates1983-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "3344c537e2cbec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.168.6", "colnum": "168", "heading": "New Writ (Cardiff, North-West)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wigley", "preceding_text": "May I respond —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.168.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-19", "file": "debates1983-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "3344c537e2cbec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.193.1", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 10TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "preceding_text": "To put the record right, I referred to what the Government called \"dynamic industry\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-19", "file": "debates1983-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "3344c537e2cbec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.194.5", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 10TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Paul Hawkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Paul Hawkins", "preceding_text": "ge number of retired people coming to Norfolk has meant a great increase in the demand for social services, hospitals, doctors and welfare workers. No Government have recognised the large costs of that and of the upkeep of a huge network of roads when they allocate the rate support grant. Like Norfolk people, our county council has an excellent record for thrift. Yet because of thrift in the past—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.194.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-19", "file": "debates1983-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "3344c537e2cbec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.199.2", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 10TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler", "preceding_text": "ms that are starting, which we also welcome, they do not tell the House how many small firms have gone out of business because of Government policy. We wish to see a coherent programme to deal with general unemployment, by which we mean investment in capital projects such as roads, railways, drainage, sea defences and house improvements, that would generate the employment that we desperately need.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.199.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-19", "file": "debates1983-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "3344c537e2cbec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.207.3", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 10TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ennals", "preceding_text": "It is no such thing. In the debate on the Serpell report, in which I took part, the Minister excluded only one—the most extreme—of the six options. He did not exclude any of the remaining five, which would cut off Lowestoft, Great Yarmouth, Cromer and King's Lynn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.207.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-19", "file": "debates1983-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "3344c537e2cbec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 10TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman seeks to intervene from a seated position after his very long speech —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-19", "file": "debates1983-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "3344c537e2cbec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.208.1", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 10TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "Anglia and throughout the country by taking Britain out of the European Community. The hon. Member for Ipswich well knows what the result would be, because on television he could not answer when asked where jobs would be found for the thousands of people in Norwich whose jobs now depend on exports to the EC. Before the hon. Gentleman comes to the House with his day return knowledge of East Anglia—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.208.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-19", "file": "debates1983-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "3344c537e2cbec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.208.3", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 10TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": " minutes of an East Anglian debate and I must cover the points advanced by the Opposition. The hon. Member for Norwich, South told us of the problems in Leiston in my constituency. The fact that he could not even pronounce the name showed how much he knew about it. He told us all about the impact of the Richard Garrett closure and about the job losses involved. He got the figures wrong, of course.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.208.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-19", "file": "debates1983-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "3344c537e2cbec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.208.3", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 10TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "tts. It came to Saxmundham which I should say, in case the geography of East Anglia defeats the hon. Gentleman, is only five miles from Leiston. With this large order and another which is in the pipeline, it hopes to get a new factory. A whole series of other engineering businesses have opened in the Leiston area. We are not quite up to the number of jobs lost, but we are more than half way there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.208.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-19", "file": "debates1983-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "3344c537e2cbec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.209.4", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Orders of the Day — 10TH ALLOTTED DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "There was no reference to the Cambridge science park and all the developments there, where the jobs of the future will be. Those are the jobs which we desperately need. What is the policy of the Labour party towards them? It is to tax all those new industries so heavily that they go out of business so as to steer industry—\"steer\" is the word in its plan—from East Anglia into the depressed regions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.209.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-19", "file": "debates1983-04-19a.xml", "sha256": "3344c537e2cbec7f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.216.0", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Shipbuilding and Ship Repair", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is abusing the time of the House. My hon. Friend the Member for Whitehaven (Dr. Cunningham), who is to reply to the debate for the Opposition, and my right hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Craigton (Mr. Millan) did not address the lobby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-19a.216.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-20", "file": "debates1983-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "afd0ae7efc987ba0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-20a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Cruise Missiles (Referendum)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "Those countries have no independent deterrent and they have no freedom. Nobody in his right mind wants war. What we are discussing is whether we are able to prevent war in the first place and the purpose of a deterrent is to deter. CND and the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-20a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-20", "file": "debates1983-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "afd0ae7efc987ba0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-20a.290.3", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Cruise Missiles (Referendum)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": " to criticise the Government's defence policy but they become angry when anyone criticises them. They show an arrogant assumption of a monopoly of morality and virtue when discussing these matters—which, of course, concern us all. The hon. Gentleman said little about the referendum. He will recall that on 19 April 1978 he and I were in the same Lobby voting against a referendum on the Wales Bill —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-20a.290.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-20", "file": "debates1983-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "afd0ae7efc987ba0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-20a.290.3", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Cruise Missiles (Referendum)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Who won?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": " already installed against Europe? Or should we let the Russians think that we have lost the will to defend ourselves?\" Propaganda is all-important in the activities of CND and those who think like the hon. Gentleman. We have heard a great deal about the 40,000 women who arrived at Greenham common on Easter Saturday. But 46,000 turned up at White Hart lane two days later to see Spurs play Arsenal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-20a.290.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-20", "file": "debates1983-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "afd0ae7efc987ba0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-20a.294.10", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Cruise Missiles (Referendum)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. W. Stallard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. W. Stallard", "preceding_text": "uld do if people complained in the Soviet Union. I appreciate that that is outside your jurisdiction. You will recall that on a previous occasion when some women were evicted from the Gallery there was discussion about the imprisonment of some of them in Westminster hall and the punishment meted out to them during the day. They had to remain here until 10.30 pm, cooped up in a small room upstairs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-20a.294.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-20", "file": "debates1983-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "afd0ae7efc987ba0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-20a.306.2", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security and Housing Benefits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "use and the country into believing that there will not be a public expenditure saving. But that £210 million works out at about a week's pension for each individual. On another occasion, the Government said that pensioners would have to make a sacrifice. The then Secretary of State, the right hon. Member for Wanstead and Woodford (Mr. Jenkin), said that, as soon as the economy started to improve —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-20a.306.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-20", "file": "debates1983-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "afd0ae7efc987ba0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-20a.316.1", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security and Housing Benefits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stallard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stallard", "preceding_text": "No.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-20a.316.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-20", "file": "debates1983-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "afd0ae7efc987ba0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-20a.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security and Housing Benefits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": "f pensions on a twice-yearly basis in June and December. As many of my hon. Friends have said, pensioners must already wait for what seems to them a long and unnecessary time to receive the pension increases that they believe are their right and that are necessary if pensions are to keep pace with inflation. Those of us who saw television pictures of the Prime Minister being hackled by pensioners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-20a.319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-20", "file": "debates1983-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "afd0ae7efc987ba0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-20a.323.0", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security and Housing Benefits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "longer than the speech that I intended to make. First, I make the obvious point that not only did my party not win that election, but I did not succeed in my seat. I saw many commitments made by the Labour party in that election that it did not carry out, such as most of its arguments about statutory incomes policies and strict control of wages. We also saw, during five years of Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-20a.323.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-20", "file": "debates1983-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "afd0ae7efc987ba0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-20a.328.2", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security and Housing Benefits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Clawback.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rossi", "preceding_text": "f 6 per cent. inflation is £210 million. However, the question was based on a misapprehension. The uprating would not necessarily have been 6 per cent. under the forecasting method just because there was a 6 per cent. forecast for the November in question. The Government made it perfectly clear that we would have adjusted that uprating to have regard to the overshoot at the November 1982 uprating.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-20a.328.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-20", "file": "debates1983-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "afd0ae7efc987ba0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-20a.365.0", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security and Housing Benefits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "ntribute to ensure that the elderly have a decent standard of living. I hope that this amendment will find more favour than amendment No. 1. It is ridiculous that we should be going through this pantomime now—even the Minister has said that the legislation will cause more problems —when we know that there will be an election within the next 12 months and that there will be a change of Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-20a.365.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-20", "file": "debates1983-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "afd0ae7efc987ba0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-20a.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security and Housing Benefits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is wrong on both points. If we consider the real value of the pension compared with the retail price index — the Select Committee said that the retail price index was probably the best comparison—and take it up to the current year, we are ahead of prices. On the forecast we are ahead of prices, which means a real increase—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-20a.369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-20", "file": "debates1983-04-20a.xml", "sha256": "afd0ae7efc987ba0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-20a.385.0", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Social Security and Housing Benefits Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John", "preceding_text": ". He talked about inflation during the Labour Government affecting the standard of living of pensioners. There was a 20 per cent. real increase in pensions by the end of the Labour Government, even allowing for inflation. If he could achieve a tenth, or even a twentieth, of that at the end of his term of office, he would be overjoyed, but we know that he will not. The Secretary of State mentioned—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-20a.385.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-04-21", "file": "debates1983-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ea29045e3400207d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-21a.399.14", "colnum": "399", "heading": "PRIVATE BUSINESS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chairman of Ways and Means (Mr. Bernard Weatherill)", "preceding_text": "t been given indiscriminately in the past but has been granted where the physical features of a site are an issue being considered by a Committee. The Chairman of the Committee, the hon. Member for Edinburgh, East (Mr. Strang), has represented to me that the Committee would indeed be greatly helped on this Bill by seeing the site for themselves, and I am happy to support him by moving this motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-21a.399.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-21", "file": "debates1983-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ea29045e3400207d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-21a.423.0", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Council of Agriculture Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "so proposed to move around 75,000 tonnes of cereals from intervention into Northern Ireland\"? Is this an incorporation scheme? Is it to help the livestock producers and, again, at what rate will it be released.? The Minister will agree that expenditure is now running at 330 million ecus per month over last year's costs. That means that there is an increased annual rate of cost of about £2 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-21a.423.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-21", "file": "debates1983-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ea29045e3400207d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-21a.429.5", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Council of Agriculture Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Deakins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Deakins", "preceding_text": "pt to argue in Brussels for nil price increases. Has he not retreated from Brussels, bought off with a share of the booty? Is it not the case that what the right hon. Gentleman has given the pig industry on the one hand he has taken away with the other? Is the right hon. Gentleman not emerging as an exponent of a new type of Tory economics: that an extra cost to pig producers is a benefit to them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-21a.429.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-21", "file": "debates1983-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ea29045e3400207d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-21a.437.1", "colnum": "437", "heading": "Foreign Affairs Committee (Chairman's Draft Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "reeable procedure of referring the matter to the Committee of Privileges. The issue of misinformation must be taken into account. This was dealt with by the Select Committee on Defence. In the paper that is complained of today there is a statement on page 6 that the rear-admiral in charge of Hermes—at the moment in New York—said that there had been a decoy between Hermes and the Atlantic Conveyor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-21a.437.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-21", "file": "debates1983-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ea29045e3400207d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-21a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Foreign Affairs Committee (Chairman's Draft Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael English", "preceding_text": " the Select Committee and, by a mysterious coincidence, all leaks from that Committee ceased. The Chairman knew his Committee and took an appropriate course of action. That is one solution. Another, which my hon. Friend the Member for West Lothian (Mr. Dalyell) touched on, is to meet more often when considering a report. There is almost a tradition that Select Committees can meet only once a week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-21a.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-21", "file": "debates1983-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ea29045e3400207d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-21a.444.0", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Foreign Affairs Committee (Chairman's Draft Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Ashton", "preceding_text": "at the end of the inquiry. The journalist will not reveal his source of information, and the report will not come back to the House for debate. Perhaps the House recalls the case in 1963 with Mr. Harold Macmillan, when a journalist who was involved in the Vassall inquiry eventually went to prison, which alienated the whole of Fleet street from the Conservative party just before the 1964 election —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-21a.444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-21", "file": "debates1983-04-21a.xml", "sha256": "ea29045e3400207d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-21a.448.3", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Conduct of Members (Threats)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "preceding_text": "these statements or to apologise for them. Indeed, she is reported as saying: We find it rather disturbing that these Members of Parliament seem to be more concerned about their privileges than the safety of women. It is not our sensitivities which are of concern, but the clear threat to the conduct of our work in this place. We should not have to carry out our duties under threats of this nature.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-21a.448.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-25", "file": "debates1983-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "d307c22868d07825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-25a.608.0", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Wainwright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Wainwright", "preceding_text": " whether there is a record of the total cost of comprehensive Budget proposals from the alliance, I refer them to the alliance Budget, which was published well in advance of the Chancellor's effort. It was thoroughly costed and arrived at a modest total compared with the astronomical total from the Labour segment of the Opposition. That is our view about the scorekeeping, and we shall stick to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-25a.608.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-25", "file": "debates1983-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "d307c22868d07825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-25a.611.1", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "preceding_text": "Mr. Weatherill, I am quite sure that I should not just risk, but incur, your wrath if I were to quote at any length from the manual on combined tax and benefit systems. The manual is available at the modest price of £1 and is written in the most limpid prose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-25a.611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-25", "file": "debates1983-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "d307c22868d07825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-25a.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Wainwright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Wainwright", "preceding_text": "document from the SDP under the distinguished leadership of Mr. Dick Taverne. The hon. Member for Norfolk, North (Mr. Howell) tried to make some play of this issue before he left the Chamber, but it will be apparent to hon. Members that my attitude is simply governed by the fact that a debate on an amendment to a Tory Finance Bill to introduce a reduced tax rate band is emphatically not the time —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-25a.616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-25", "file": "debates1983-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "d307c22868d07825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-25a.617.2", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "ssions that have been included in this year's Budget. All the statistical juggling was based on an alleged PSBR of £7·5 billion at the time of the Budget. We were told that that was in line with the medium-term financial strategy. But last Thursday a bombshell was dropped when it was suddenly discovered that the PSBR had been grossly underestimated and that it would be £9·5 billion —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-25a.617.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-25", "file": "debates1983-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "d307c22868d07825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-25a.617.4", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "f in society? At the same time that a man earning £45,000 a year gained a £120 a week rise in real take-home pay, the average unemployed man, if one takes into account the removal of earnings-related benefit, is £15–30 a week worse off. What a gross injustice. One could go on for hours about the position of those people but I shall not do so because so many of my hon. Friends wish to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-25a.617.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-25", "file": "debates1983-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "d307c22868d07825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-25a.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "despite our coal, and gas and oil from the North Sea, prices and unemployment in Britain have risen by more than in almost any other major industrialised country. And output has risen by less. With much poorer energy supplies than Britain, the others have nonetheless done much better\". They found that possible because they did not have our Government and did not have to suffer from their mistakes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-25a.620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-25", "file": "debates1983-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "d307c22868d07825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-25a.624.12", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman must not allow himself to get so excited by his own statements. The position is perfectly simple. If one takes the figure for the tax threshold and indexes it in the sense of increasing it to take account —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-25a.624.12"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-25", "file": "debates1983-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "d307c22868d07825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-25a.634.3", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin F. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin F. Cook", "preceding_text": " I should like to take up some of what he said at the close of the Second Reading debate. I should especially like to take up his surprising statement that, after two years of answering the questions of my hon. Friend the Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw), he had concluded that he had given the wrrong answers and that instead of adding child benefit to earnings as he has done in the past few years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-25a.634.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-25", "file": "debates1983-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "d307c22868d07825", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-25a.639.0", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Stoddart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Stoddart", "preceding_text": "1; What falsity! What a thing to do to the electorate! The Government promised them one thing and then did the reverse. I do not know how the Government have the gall to suggest that, if they go to the electorate in June, they will return them to power. The electorate are not as daft as that. They are beginning to understand the sleight of hand the Government have practised on them —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-25a.639.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-26", "file": "debates1983-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "31e2adfcb05d50ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-26a.745.5", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Local Government and Community Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": " that Britain and other countries face. I said in the press release that this was just the first progress report, and that it is too early to judge the position. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will join me in believing that the enterprise zone can make a contribution—in some areas there are signs that it can—to Tyneside. The new Vickers factory was developed quickly because of the enterprise zone—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-26a.745.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-26", "file": "debates1983-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "31e2adfcb05d50ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-26a.749.0", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Local Government and Community Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman will explain the difference between the rate levels per head of population in Manchester and Liverpool by the fact that Liverpool has a housing waiting list of 30,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-26a.749.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-26", "file": "debates1983-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "31e2adfcb05d50ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-26a.802.3", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Local Government and Community Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "ng this meal to you?\" He replied, \"I would be eating bread and cheese.\" But because of the cuts in rate support grant, Nottinghamshire is unable to provide the required number of meals for the elderly. It should not be forgotten that today's elderly have made their contribution to society and it is our responsibility to look after them. We do not look after them by imposing cuts in their services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-26a.802.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-26", "file": "debates1983-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "31e2adfcb05d50ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-26a.806.3", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Local Government and Community Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "massive city's diversity of cultures and the obligation to meet educational provision, especially in post-school and higher education, the Inner London education authority could be expected to spend much more than other authorities that appear to have similar problems. One more thing must be said, in case the hon. Gentleman continues to distort the facts and to mislead his constituents and others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-26a.806.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-26", "file": "debates1983-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "31e2adfcb05d50ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-26a.806.3", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Local Government and Community Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": " of ratepayers and taxpayers are severely disadvantaged and impoverished as a result of the cuts in the financial regime. For the Government plaintively to ask us in their amendment to congratulate them on improving standards in education is pure bunkum. That is the truth about the alleged improvement in education standards, but we would not expect anything much better from a Government of frauds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-26a.806.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-26", "file": "debates1983-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "31e2adfcb05d50ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-26a.807.1", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Local Government and Community Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Is it permissible, Mr. Speaker, in the interest of accuracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-26a.807.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-26", "file": "debates1983-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "31e2adfcb05d50ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-26a.807.3", "colnum": "807", "heading": "Local Government and Community Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "re are other deceits. There were promises to strengthen local democracy, but all we have had is \"Big Sister\" centralisation. There were promises to save on bureaucracy. What has been imposed is a new autocracy of cash limits and means tests. The Conservatives' promise to raise educational standards has been atomised by cuts in provision which threaten even numeracy and literacy in primary schools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-26a.807.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-26", "file": "debates1983-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "31e2adfcb05d50ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-26a.814.0", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Local Government and Community Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State says that the technical and vocational education initiative —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-26a.814.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-26", "file": "debates1983-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "31e2adfcb05d50ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-26a.831.3", "colnum": "831", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": " few people must be asked the slightly more difficult questions in the second stage. The hon. Lady's arguments about how few people are found to be ineligible can be turned against her when she argues about the cost of the policy. She said that the results at the Royal Free hospital were disappointing. The hospital has had to ask the second-stage questions of only eight people during three months.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-26a.831.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-26", "file": "debates1983-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "31e2adfcb05d50ad", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-26a.838.8", "colnum": "838", "heading": "National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "arantor for her. He ran a small plumbing business in America, but he went bankrupt as a result. That is the position in the United States of America, but the same thing could arise in Britain. It is all very well for the Minister to say that payment will not be demanded from relatives and friends, but that is not clear in the regulations. Where do the regulations say that they cannot go elsewhere?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-26a.838.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-27", "file": "debates1983-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2640595540b1523d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-27a.871.0", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Cable Television", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "preceding_text": "The House will be cautious in encouraging new television schemes after Channel 4 and TV-am, but will the right hon. Gentleman accept that my right hon. and hon. Friends encourage the manner in which the White Paper is constructed and the way that he is moving away from the original Hunt report? I shall ask the right hon. Gentleman three questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-27a.871.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-27", "file": "debates1983-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2640595540b1523d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-27a.875.5", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Citizens Advice Bureaux", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "preceding_text": "tion. I am very glad to say that complete agreement has been reached with the national association that the review should be carried forward on this basis, and I am sure that that will be welcomed by the whole House. In the light of this, and my helpful discussions with the national association's officers, I can confirm that Government funding for NACAB for the whole of the current financial year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-27a.875.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-27", "file": "debates1983-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2640595540b1523d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-27a.876.0", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Citizens Advice Bureaux", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That is a bit rich.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "preceding_text": "I am glad about the first part of the right hon. and learned Gentleman's remarks and about the welcome that he has given to the statement. I also welcome his supportive remarks, which are contrary to many of the comments that have been made, which undermine local bureaux—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-27a.876.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-27", "file": "debates1983-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2640595540b1523d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-27a.879.11", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Citizens Advice Bureaux", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "preceding_text": "The money will be met by the Government. It is not coming from the allegation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-27a.879.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-27", "file": "debates1983-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2640595540b1523d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-27a.880.3", "colnum": "880", "heading": "Citizens Advice Bureaux", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Vaughan", "preceding_text": "I am disappointed that the hon. and learned Gentleman does not welcome what we are doing and accept it in the spirit in which it has been entered into. I do not see how I can possibly withdraw allegations that I have not made. It is part of my job to pass on complaints as they arise and that is what I have been doing. I should have thought that I was the person who had been most witch-hunted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-27a.880.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-27", "file": "debates1983-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2640595540b1523d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-27a.944.0", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Education (Fees and Awards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Shocking!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "preceding_text": " their approach to the question of overseas student fees. I fully accept that the problems of overseas student fees did not begin in 1979–80. They began long before that. Indeed, as it is now ancient: history, perhaps I can tell the story of how as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the late Mr. Crosland I was given an inspired written question to put down two days before Christmas eve 1966", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-27a.944.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-27", "file": "debates1983-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2640595540b1523d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-27a.964.0", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Education (Fees and Awards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitehead", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitehead", "preceding_text": "ays glad to start with the hon. Member for Wokingham (Sir W. van Straubenzee), who spoke with his customary eloquence. He is a Norman Hunter on ice—one is so struck by the elegant facade with which he approaches that one misses the boot until it has almost struck home. I am prepared to spell out to the hon. Gentleman Labour party policy which will be implemented shortly after the general election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-27a.964.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-27", "file": "debates1983-04-27a.xml", "sha256": "2640595540b1523d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-27a.964.0", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Education (Fees and Awards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitehead", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Heeley.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitehead", "preceding_text": "he spirit of Christmas past, revived by the hon. Gentleman today, will enthuse his actions in accepting that criticisms can be made of the manner in which this legislation has been brought forward. If the hon. Gentleman believes that we are doing terribly well in non-advanced further education, he should look at the figures and the record set out by my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Hooley—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-27a.964.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-28", "file": "debates1983-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "cfa0a152ec59a241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-28a.992.0", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There was no pledge to abolish rates in the last election manifesto—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-28a.992.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-28", "file": "debates1983-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "cfa0a152ec59a241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-28a.994.6", "colnum": "994", "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": "With regard to the head of any Church, my right hon. Friend has had no conversation with either Cardinal Hume or —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-28a.994.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-28", "file": "debates1983-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "cfa0a152ec59a241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-28a.1021.3", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheldon", "preceding_text": "In a moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-28a.1021.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-28", "file": "debates1983-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "cfa0a152ec59a241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-28a.1026.0", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "nomic Secretary to say that because the Labour party introduced the tax it should bear responsibility for its present existence. We are not responsible for that. The hon. Gentleman is aware that since this Government's election and the implementation of their strategies my right hon. and hon. Friends have demanded the removal of the surcharge, because of the damage it is doing to British industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-28a.1026.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-28", "file": "debates1983-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "cfa0a152ec59a241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-28a.1026.2", "colnum": "1026", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "ve an immediate effect on the payroll costs. One of the most notable costs is the national insurance surcharge, which acts—as the hon. Menher for Colne Valley (Mr. Wainwright) pointed out—as a payroll tax of inordinate proportion. While the Government whistle in the wind, with their platitudes about the upturn, prominent organisations refute the Government's statements and are making every effort—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-28a.1026.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-04-28", "file": "debates1983-04-28a.xml", "sha256": "cfa0a152ec59a241", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-28a.1044.0", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": ". Campbell-Savours), who made an impassioned contribution to the debate, will be particularly interested in this—said: The north-western economy is tending to mark time. These statements and the figures on which they are based do not sustain the claim of the Chief Secretary in the debate we had last month that the evidence of recovery around us was reaching—I use the word that he used—a crescendo.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-04-28a.1044.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-03", "file": "debates1983-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "5d5536005b8cf19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-03a.16.0", "colnum": "16", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "tax payments—increased more under the Labour Government than it has under the present Government. As to the European Community forecasts, it seems that the figures were calculated from the body of the article. It seems that calculations were made of increased output and of increased productivity and conclusions were arrived at from that information, assuming that everything else would be the same.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-03a.16.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-03", "file": "debates1983-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "5d5536005b8cf19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-03a.18.2", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " of people in the age group who qualify for degrees, we find that Britain has one of the best records in Europe. By measuring the degrees given by age group, one finds that Britain performs strongly — better than Germany and about the same as France. Britain's participation rate in full-time degree courses has improved quite markedly since we took office — from 12·4 to 13·2 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-03a.18.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-03", "file": "debates1983-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "5d5536005b8cf19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-03a.27.0", "colnum": "27", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "I rise only because I believe that a Conservative Member should expose the ridiculous argument of the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Sparkbrook (Mr. Hattersley) that the Bill was produced in intolerable haste. It is based on a Royal Commission —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-03a.27.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-03", "file": "debates1983-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "5d5536005b8cf19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-03a.46.1", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "sponse to his inquiries — and the answer that my hon. Friend the Member for Norwood (Mr. Fraser) eventually elicited from the Home Secretary. That reply showed that there was a tendency on the part of some policemen of junior rank — and some policemen of senior rank who authorised the behaviour of their junior colleagues—to enter premises for one purpose and to use their entry for another purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-03a.46.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-03", "file": "debates1983-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "5d5536005b8cf19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-03a.58.2", "colnum": "58", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyell", "preceding_text": "t he wants. A serious arrestable offence is defined in the Bill. The hon. Member for Croydon, North-West (Mr. Pitt) is wrong to think that it is not. It is defined first as an arrestable offence. An arrestable offence can easily be listed and is definable. It is an offence for which the sentence is a maximum of not less than five years. Such an offence is potentially serious by anyone's standards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-03a.58.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-03", "file": "debates1983-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "5d5536005b8cf19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-03a.80.1", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Atkinson", "preceding_text": " the individual some protection against force being used to enter premises. That is an important point. I wish to mention the attitude of some Conservative Members about the use of reasonable force when entering premises. I was the chairman of a sub-group of the national executive of the Labour party and members of the TUC who came together to discuss the necessity of a wealth tax which I opposed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-03a.80.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-03", "file": "debates1983-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "5d5536005b8cf19c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-03a.172.5", "colnum": "172", "heading": "New Schedule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Price", "preceding_text": "debated. We are not at our best at this time in the morning. If we want to consider the Report stage fully and properly, it may be best to do it a little later today. The Government have allowed two more days for the Bill, and there seems to be plenty of time. There are few people who would commend the idea of carrying on with the Report stage, as the motion suggests. The second reason. Mr. Dean —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-03a.172.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-04", "file": "debates1983-05-04a.xml", "sha256": "cd802758f88e9383", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-04a.326.1", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "'s reply is not to the satisfaction of the hon. Member for Bury St. Edmunds, I trust that he will press the matter to a vote. I understand that it is procedurally impossible for the House to vote on new clauses 19 and 20 because the substance of both clauses is virtually identical. The Opposition are anxious to place on record their concern to ensure that this long overdue reform comes into being.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-04a.326.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-05", "file": "debates1983-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "8535b0155b4fdc91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-05a.382.7", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitelaw", "preceding_text": "I cannot give an answer to the first part of the hon. Gentleman's question without notice. If I were to send bills to all those who organised demonstrations, those bills would be considerable. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-05a.382.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-05", "file": "debates1983-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "8535b0155b4fdc91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-05a.388.1", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "May I urge the Home Secretary to struggle to remember the speech of his hon. and learned Friend the Minister of State in the small hours of this morning, and to tell the House now, in the light of day, how long it will be before the field trials are completed and, therefore, how long it will be before the prospect of tape recording is widely introduced.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-05a.388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-05", "file": "debates1983-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "8535b0155b4fdc91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-05a.395.3", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that her decision to postpone telling the House whether there is to be a June election until after she has had a chance to analyse the local election results shows clearly —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-05a.395.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-05", "file": "debates1983-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "8535b0155b4fdc91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-05a.395.8", "colnum": "395", "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 do not think the first part of the right hon. Gentleman's question merits a reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-05a.395.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-05", "file": "debates1983-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "8535b0155b4fdc91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-05a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Saint Christopher and Nevis", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "sson learnt, and, I hope, profited from. The judiciary will remain independent, under the provisions of the constitution, notably chapter 9. The appellate court will remain the eastern Caribbean supreme court, as at present, and I hope that that will give my hon. Friend the Member for Hertford and Stevenage comfort. In some ways I wish that he had made his points .at the constitutional conference.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-05a.528.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-05", "file": "debates1983-05-05a.xml", "sha256": "8535b0155b4fdc91", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-05a.529.1", "colnum": "529", "heading": "Saint Christopher and Nevis", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "it wanted to move towards independence, it had not been elected in 1976 with a mandate for independence. Indeed, in opposition, it had campaigned against independence without a referendum. Thus it is hardly strange that it should have been told that, as it had come to power on one platform and now wished to stand on another, it might be as well to test it by the appropriate means of a referendum.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-05a.529.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-05-06", "file": "debates1983-05-06a.xml", "sha256": "31ea7b3e4d2e00e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-06a.602.11", "colnum": "602", "heading": "RATING (CARAVAN SITES) (SCOTLAND) (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [29 April].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-06a.602.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-09", "file": "debates1983-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "0087fcfb331b73d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-09a.614.6", "colnum": "614", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "Nuclear-powered stations are undoubtedly very much less subject to environmental pollution —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-09a.614.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-09", "file": "debates1983-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "0087fcfb331b73d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-09a.617.0", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gray", "preceding_text": "Jealousy will get the hon. Gentleman nowhere. The Opposition are afraid of good news. The North sea has an abundance of good news. I have said outside the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-09a.617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-09", "file": "debates1983-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "0087fcfb331b73d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-09a.625.4", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "Those matters are ultimately for the authority of Parliament and not for an agreement between the unsual channels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-09a.625.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-09", "file": "debates1983-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "0087fcfb331b73d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-09a.626.9", "colnum": "626", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House confirm that in the 10 years since Britain joined the EC, which he consistently voted against—36 times in the first Session, I think—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-09a.626.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-09", "file": "debates1983-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "0087fcfb331b73d7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-09a.705.0", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Poland", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "country? It is our business and duty to support those in our own community who seek to sustain that morale at a critical time in the history of Poland. Such support may come from trade unions, the churches or all sections of the community, but it is our business to stand by Poland today. Martial law has depressed the Polish nation even further than it was depressed before the present difficulties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-09a.705.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-10", "file": "debates1983-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5adddba0fe0ee2ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-10a.721.1", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Grow up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to hear that the hon. Gentleman is assuming that the Government will be returned at the next general election —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-10a.721.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-10", "file": "debates1983-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5adddba0fe0ee2ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-10a.721.8", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I am not able to give my hon. Friend that figure, partly because the gathering of statistics on the creation of new jobs is not nearly as effective as our recording of unemployment statistics.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-10a.721.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-10", "file": "debates1983-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5adddba0fe0ee2ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-10a.722.7", "colnum": "722", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows full well the statistics that he quotes. I think that I must quote something to him. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-10a.722.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-10", "file": "debates1983-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "5adddba0fe0ee2ef", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-10a.729.12", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There is nothing irresolute about this Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-10a.729.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-11", "file": "debates1983-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e980d45aa9e39063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-11a.789.6", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Proportional Representation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. English", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. English", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Edge Hill must deal with his own party, but if he no longer supports the single transferable vote procedure he should say so to his party and not in public. The thing that perhaps cuts me to the quick—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-11a.789.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-11", "file": "debates1983-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e980d45aa9e39063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-11a.790.0", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Proportional Representation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I think that I have had enough now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-11a.790.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-11", "file": "debates1983-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e980d45aa9e39063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-11a.796.5", "colnum": "796", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "It would vary enormously, according to circumstances. There is no answer to such a question. Many of the builders who warmly welcomed the increase proposed by the Government would not be able to sell houses to those first-time buyers. The Opposition are seeking — vainly, hopelessly and pointlessly — to deliver a blow to the construction industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-11a.796.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-11", "file": "debates1983-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e980d45aa9e39063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-11a.798.0", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": "There is no sillier accusation than to say that we on these Benches are against home ownership. We favour people having the opportunity to buy their own houses. They should have equal opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-11a.798.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-11", "file": "debates1983-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e980d45aa9e39063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-11a.823.0", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "rs' hearts have bled this evening, are paying an additional £7 a week in taxation, while those earning £40,000 a year are paying £24 a week less. That is the reality of the Government's practise of the politics of greed. The Government should not lecture the Opposition on the need for fairness in taxation. During the past four years the Government have destroyed 2 million jobs and have collapsed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-11a.823.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-11", "file": "debates1983-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e980d45aa9e39063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-11a.823.0", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "00 a year are paying £24 a week less. That is the reality of the Government's practise of the politics of greed. The Government should not lecture the Opposition on the need for fairness in taxation. During the past four years the Government have destroyed 2 million jobs and have collapsed — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] I am not reading. I have a blank piece of paper in front of me. This Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-11a.823.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-11", "file": "debates1983-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e980d45aa9e39063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-11a.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Health and Social Services and Social Security Adjudications Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "horities, we should raise the practice of all to the practice of the best and should include any new thoughts that arise from the wide-ranging consultations that we hope will take place this year. I was asked about the factors that the court would take into account. I am not a lawyer, but I hesitate to ask my hon. and learned Friend the Minister for Health to bring his legal expertise to bear, or—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-11a.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-11", "file": "debates1983-05-11a.xml", "sha256": "e980d45aa9e39063", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-11a.887.6", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Local Authorities (Expenditure Powers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. None the less, I think that it might speed the proceedings, shall we say, on other matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-11a.887.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-12", "file": "debates1983-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9ed54117543b881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.916.2", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Elliott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, the hon. Gentleman is going.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Elliott", "preceding_text": "On the original question on employment in the northern region, is my right hon. Friend aware that very good news is coming from that region?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.916.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-12", "file": "debates1983-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9ed54117543b881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.917.5", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " account of inflation, more is being spent on the National Health Service. The amount spent per year on the NHS when we came to office was E7·5 billion. It is now £15 billion. There are more than 40,000 more nurses and midwives in England and 6,000 more doctors and dentists. Pensions have not been cut. Pensions are the best that they have ever been— far better than when Labour was in power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.917.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-12", "file": "debates1983-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9ed54117543b881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.918.8", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Why was no magnanimity shown to the relatives of the Argentine war dead in view of the Prime Minister's knowledge that the Belgrano had been sunk, when there was a treaty, bound in red leather, which her Foreign Secretary was ready to sign?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.918.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-12", "file": "debates1983-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9ed54117543b881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.927.3", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Mr. Speaker (Retirement)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "preceding_text": "se's work into the future. Members for many generations to come will be grateful for the work that has been done. Those of us who have been members of the Commission are deeply grateful for the way in which you have conducted its proceedings. Secondly, I wish to express a few words on behalf of those younger Members—there are many of us —to whose families you have shown particular consideration. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.927.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-12", "file": "debates1983-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9ed54117543b881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.944.1", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974 (Extension)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "It may fail, but I am confident that it will succeed. It will succeed because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.944.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-12", "file": "debates1983-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9ed54117543b881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.952.4", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974 (Extension)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": " have made it clear to the right hon. Gentleman in private that when Stormont fell we should have returned to our proper position within the United Kingdom. We should never have been kept in limbo. The negotiations could then have taken place, but that was denied. Then the Unionists of Northern Ireland came together and formed the United Ulster Unionists Council. They hammered out a united policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.952.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-12", "file": "debates1983-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9ed54117543b881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974 (Extension)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "ference. The right hon. Member for Down, South and his colleague were appointed to the Speaker's Conference. They had an interesting pact with the then Labour Government. I do not know how official or unofficial it was, but to-ings and froings took place. The right hon. Member for Leeds, South may shake his head, but I have other stories to tell. The decision was that Ulster should be sold short —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-12", "file": "debates1983-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9ed54117543b881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.954.3", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974 (Extension)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Paisley", "preceding_text": "d to have just 12. I want to make that clear. That is my position, and I have always been consistent. I do not apologise for that. However, we were sold. Then one day there was a meeting. The right hon. Member for Down, South suggested that we should go to the Labour Government and tell them that we would never vote against them in a vote of confidence. I said that I would not be a party to that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.954.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-12", "file": "debates1983-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9ed54117543b881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.954.3", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974 (Extension)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Paisley", "preceding_text": "I said that I would not be a party to that — [Interruption.] The loudest and most vehement of all hon. Members, the hon. Member for Londonderry (Mr. Ross), was not present in the House. At the meeting, he said that we should change the people who were talking to the Government. As a result, the right hon. Gentleman was no longer allowed to speak for the group. Another two spokesmen were appointed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.954.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-12", "file": "debates1983-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9ed54117543b881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.954.3", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974 (Extension)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Paisley", "preceding_text": "oundary Commission was an independent body and that the people of Northern Ireland had the right to put their points to it. I am also glad that even though not all the points were accepted we can at least say that it did its best. I do not challenge the Boundary Commission in this House. If I thought that it had acted wrongly, I would indict it. However, we have 17 seats when we could have had 22—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.954.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-12", "file": "debates1983-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9ed54117543b881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.954.3", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974 (Extension)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Paisley", "preceding_text": " is all very well for hon. Members to discount it and to say goodbye to it now. Hon. Members are praying for a hung Parliament and hope that we shall return to the time of the Labour Government when they exercised some power and influence. That influence would be much more powerful with 22 Members. After the election, the Official Unionist party may be even bigger than the Social Democratic party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.954.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-12", "file": "debates1983-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9ed54117543b881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974 (Extension)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way. The right hon. Gentleman is always praising the House and he knows that he has no right to speak unless he is called.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-12", "file": "debates1983-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9ed54117543b881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974 (Extension)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Name them. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "ours in. which to debate an order and that is it. However, that is no longer it. The order goes to a Committee of the Northern Ireland Assembly. If representatives do not attend the Committee, they choose to do nothing about it. However, there are those in Northern Ireland who attend Committees and who provide quorums. Some members of the Official Unionist party have deplorable attendance records.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-12", "file": "debates1983-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9ed54117543b881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.956.1", "colnum": "956", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974 (Extension)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "e them. \"] The hon. Member for Armagh (Mr. McCusker) is not on any of the Committees. He made his position clear from the beginning. Today the right hon. Member for Down South spoke about money, but it ill becomes him to do so because his colleagues are drawing their money and are entitled to do so, just as he is in the House. It is ridiculous for any hon. Member to say that he should get nothing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.956.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-05-12", "file": "debates1983-05-12a.xml", "sha256": "c9ed54117543b881", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.958.2", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Northern Ireland Act 1974 (Extension)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "e strengthened. We are not content with mere scrutiny powers. We need a proper devolved Parliament and Government for the people of Northern Ireland. We need a Government that can govern the Province and a Parliament that can pass laws and administer the Province. Proposals for moving towards legislative devolution have been put to the Assembly. I hope that the Assembly will continue on that road.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-05-12a.958.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-15", "file": "debates1983-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9c9a3d80407e7021", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-15a.4.1", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Dormand", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Dormand", "preceding_text": " in all parts of the House. It would be impossible to undertake the Speakership without a sense of humour. In that respect some people may compare the right hon. Gentleman with his distinguished immediate predecessor, but I say that if the motion is carried we shall see a different, but equally compelling, sense of humour. Perhaps above all we can say that the right hon. Gentleman is his own man —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-15a.4.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-15", "file": "debates1983-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9c9a3d80407e7021", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-15a.4.1", "colnum": "4", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Dormand", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Dormand", "preceding_text": "eman is his own man —[HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"] — and we shall see a unique occupant of the Chair. I shared an experience with the right hon. Gentleman. We saw long service as Whips. The House may know that Whips have been described as people who know more and more about less and less. They are sometimes known by other names. Serving as a Whip in your Government, Mr. Callaghan, was no easy task—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-15a.4.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-15", "file": "debates1983-06-15a.xml", "sha256": "9c9a3d80407e7021", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-15a.6.2", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Election of Speaker", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Abse", "preceding_text": "ment by every Back Bencher comes not just when the Executive seeks to appropriate the Chairmanship of the House but also when Whips seek to expropriate the Chairmanship of the House. There is no greater threat to all Back Benchers than that there should exist a belief that there could possibly be any collusion between Whips on both sides and the Speaker in putting through legislation and business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-15a.6.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-22", "file": "debates1983-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "9995baedca2af7d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-22a.42.3", "colnum": "42", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Mills", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ooh, arr.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Mills", "preceding_text": "Parliament. As is traditional, I say immediately how honoured my constituency of Torridge and West Devon is to be associated with the privilege of moving this Loyal Address. There will be some surprised constituents, for this is the first time that any Member, or their latest Member, has moved the Loyal Address on the Queen's Speech. It reminds me of a remark made to me by a local farmer in Devon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-22a.42.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-22", "file": "debates1983-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "9995baedca2af7d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-22a.46.0", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "l be out of work and among black youth, unemployment will be the main feature of their lives. These areas will be deprived of their basic services as a result of spending cuts by central Government and the abolition of the metropolitan authorities. Already, we have seen a huge increase in crime, and riots in the streets. The next five years could bring back some other Victorian traditions as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-22a.46.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-22", "file": "debates1983-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "9995baedca2af7d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-22a.46.0", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "s, as distinct from the warheads, could be sold or transferred to a British Government providing that the procedures for obtaining congressional authorisation are observed. That was actually done when the old Thor missiles were deployed. A duality of control was established by a duality of ownership, but the Prime Minister has refused the duality of ownership, so the same situation does not apply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-22a.46.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-22", "file": "debates1983-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "9995baedca2af7d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-22a.82.0", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Benyon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Benyon", "preceding_text": "esent, throws it out. So I hope that my right hon. Friends will think again about this matter. Finally, there is the question of law and order which, apart from unemployment, was what I heard about on the doorsteps more than anything else during the election. We shall have the ritual vote shortly on capital punishment. I do not know how it will go, but I suspect that the situation will not change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-22a.82.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-22", "file": "debates1983-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "9995baedca2af7d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-22a.82.0", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Benyon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Benyon", "preceding_text": "ployment, was what I heard about on the doorsteps more than anything else during the election. We shall have the ritual vote shortly on capital punishment. I do not know how it will go, but I suspect that the situation will not change. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"] Certainly I do not intend to change my view on the subject. I have always been an abolitionist, and I see no reason to change my view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-22a.82.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-22", "file": "debates1983-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "9995baedca2af7d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-22a.84.0", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "t only Argentine boys but, inevitably, our boys on Sheffield, Antelope, Atlantic Conveyor, Ardent and Coventry and at Goose Green. In considering the case for an inquiry one must look carefully at the article by Andrew Wilson and Arthur Garshon in The Observer on Sunday 5 June at page 6. Here is set out a great deal of factual information, with which I should not take up the time of the House now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-22a.84.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-22", "file": "debates1983-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "9995baedca2af7d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-22a.91.1", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "which called for an Argentine withdrawal from the Falklands and negotiations on the dispute", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "l vague or general or not ready to be put into effect at once. That is a clear contradiction of what the Prime Minister said. He continued: It was the result of very long negotiations, mainly with Haig whom we took to be speaking for Britain. We thought that we'd worked out a completely practical proposal which had a fair and balanced text completely consistent with Security Council Resolution 502", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-22a.91.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-22", "file": "debates1983-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "9995baedca2af7d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-22a.92.3", "colnum": "92", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "ry moved,' Belaunde later recalled. An inquiry should examine exactly what ambassador Charles Wallace was told in Lima, and what he passed to London. These matters are not idiosyncratic in any way. I shall spare the House the full text of the Pym letter to the Daily Mirror. But why on earth did not the Prime Minister make some effort at least to consult her Foreign Secretary who was doing his job—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-22a.92.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-22", "file": "debates1983-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "9995baedca2af7d8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-22a.104.0", "colnum": "104", "heading": "Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick McNair-Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick McNair-Wilson", "preceding_text": "iticising Government policies, as outlined in the Queen's Speech, without realising that they have no believable alternative to offer to the country. The general election made it crystal clear that the Labour Opposition in Britain today are completely bankrupt of ideas that the electorate regard as being likely to solve our problems. That is why the Conservative party had such a massive majority —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-22a.104.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-23", "file": "debates1983-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "b84a01254d31c4de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-23a.147.0", "colnum": "147", "heading": "European Council (Stuttgart)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "our Government left us with no arrangements for refunds of any kind. After renegotiation, there were no arrangements. Despite that, over the four years we have secured £2,500 million in refunds. That is a reasonable arrangement for Britain. As regards own resources, all the decisions on the long-term budget are to be made after all the discussions. When we started the discussions on own resources—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-23a.147.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-23", "file": "debates1983-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "b84a01254d31c4de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-23a.148.0", "colnum": "148", "heading": "European Council (Stuttgart)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The 750 million ecu this year was calculated on a reference figure of 1,900 million ecu for our unadjusted contributions this year —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-23a.148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-23", "file": "debates1983-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "b84a01254d31c4de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-23a.148.0", "colnum": "148", "heading": "European Council (Stuttgart)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The 750 million ecu this year was calculated on a reference figure of 1,900 million ecu for our unadjusted contributions this year — [Interruption.] It is about 0·6 if that is how the right hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Stepney (Mr. Shore) chooses to do the calculations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-23a.148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-23", "file": "debates1983-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "b84a01254d31c4de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-23a.148.0", "colnum": "148", "heading": "European Council (Stuttgart)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The 750 million ecu this year was calculated on a reference figure of 1,900 million ecu for our unadjusted contributions this year — [Interruption.] It is about 0·6 if that is how the right hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Stepney (Mr. Shore) chooses to do the calculations— [Interruption.] I am sorry. One never knows what the budget is until the end of the year. That is why for the years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-23a.148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-23", "file": "debates1983-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "b84a01254d31c4de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-23a.157.4", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I shall certainly take account of the point that the hon. Gentleman has made. I am sure that he will realise that he has referred to a major innovation which would be highly controversial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-23a.157.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-23", "file": "debates1983-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "b84a01254d31c4de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-23a.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "nto police pay which I set up in the dying days of the Labour Government. If we want to take credit for these matters, I am prepared for the first time in three years to remind the House that that is what happened. The idea that the Edmund-Davies committee should be set up and that its recommendations should be implemented was a matter not of party controversy but of agreement between the parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-23a.190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-23", "file": "debates1983-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "b84a01254d31c4de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-23a.190.0", "colnum": "190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "haracter of new recruits to the police force is one of them. We have sociological changes. The age of deference is past. We live in a much more rebellious society, and that makes the work of the police very much more difficult. There is also the fact that 15 years ago the foot patrol was abandoned in favour of the Panda car, which detached the policeman from the area in which he or she patrolled —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-23a.190.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-23", "file": "debates1983-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "b84a01254d31c4de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-23a.193.5", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "eving as I do that hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue, I should even have welcomed that. Yesterday, we listened to a Prime Minister who has divided the nation into north and south, rich and poor, employed and unemployed, white and black, and who chose to speak only for the prosperous and the privileged. In this Parliament it will be the Opposition's duty to speak for all the nation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-23a.193.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-23", "file": "debates1983-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "b84a01254d31c4de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-23a.222.0", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert N. Wareing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert N. Wareing", "preceding_text": "or Knowsley, South (Mr. Hughes), to see the conditions in which people have to live. The boarded-up houses are not the type of accommodation that anyone wanting a decent home and standard of living would want to purchase. They are a testimony to years and years of domination by Liberals on the Liverpool city council. If there is anyone in this House — I see that the Liberal-SDP Benches are empty —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-23a.222.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-23", "file": "debates1983-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "b84a01254d31c4de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-23a.238.0", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Heddle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Heddle", "preceding_text": "nd slum clearance programmmes involving not real slums but merely houses that perhaps fronted on to the street. Those houses could have been rehabilitated, refurbished and revived with improvement grants, thus stimulating the construction industry, but they were cleared because they were inconvenient to the planner's pencil and sketch pad. Those areas have been demoralised by insensitive planning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-23a.238.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-23", "file": "debates1983-06-23a.xml", "sha256": "b84a01254d31c4de", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-23a.243.1", "colnum": "243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is new to these matters. In the last Parliament his principal achievement was to be rebuked by the courts of law for his activities on other matters. He may be interested to know that I made this accusation of collusion outside the House in the general election campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-23a.243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-24", "file": "debates1983-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "9c9b79ef6c77c430", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-24a.267.1", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Privatisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "ear to industry. The Government also have a duty to keep to a minimum the burdens which they impose on industry. We have slashed the cynical tax on jobs imposed by the last Labour Government, with the help of the absent Liberal party. The reduction in the national insurance surcharge, which our prudent economic policies have made possible, is worth a further £2 billion a year to British industry —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-24a.267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-24", "file": "debates1983-06-24a.xml", "sha256": "9c9b79ef6c77c430", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-24a.270.1", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Privatisation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": ". What benefit do we get from the open trading system? A third of the people in this country would be in very severe straits, as their jobs depend on access for our goods to other people's markets. The sooner that Opposition Members wake up to that fact, the better. Our continued membership of the European Community is essential to our future trading success and so to employment prospects at home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-24a.270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-27", "file": "debates1983-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "5194747293bdc80b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-27a.346.5", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Strategic Airfield)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "Does that not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-27a.346.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-27", "file": "debates1983-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "5194747293bdc80b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-27a.346.5", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Falkland Islands (Strategic Airfield)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "Does that not—[HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I am entitled to ask a further supplementary, am I not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-27a.346.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-27", "file": "debates1983-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "5194747293bdc80b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-27a.363.1", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Welfare State", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I really must get on. I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman will have an adequate opportunity to reply and to try and rebut the truth on many other occasions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-27a.363.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-27", "file": "debates1983-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "5194747293bdc80b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-27a.385.1", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Welfare State", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hicks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hicks", "preceding_text": "d appeal to my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer in relation to the public sector borrowing requirement, and the creation of real jobs, rather than synthetic ones, in important sectors such as home improvement, energy conservation, water and sewerage replacement schemes and rail electrification programmes, to name but a few, should appeal to my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-27a.385.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-27", "file": "debates1983-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "5194747293bdc80b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-27a.393.0", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Welfare State", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": " he returned to the House to represent Middlesbrough, East from 1962. He retired gracefully at the last election after serving for 21 years. Arthur Bottomley asked me, when I came to the House, to get myself sworn in early. When I asked him why that was, he said that in 30 years' time I would be well placed to become the Father of the House. Arthur Bottomley has great hopes and expectations of me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-27a.393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-27", "file": "debates1983-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "5194747293bdc80b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-27a.429.0", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Welfare State", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "d Gentleman an undertaking, on his last point, that we shall show considerably more decorum and felicity than marked the occasion of the election of the leader of the Conservative party. I recall her, like another figure in history, housepainting, and her main rival at the time—now a Viscount, no less—consorting in washing the dishes for the sake of promoting themselves in the Conservative party —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-27a.429.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-28", "file": "debates1983-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "24ce344f393f66ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": " the private sector in the National Health Service? When the Secretary of State had his discussions with the regional health authority chairmen, was a particular problem raised by the Trent regional health authority chairman about a private unit in the central health district? If not, may I ask the right hon. Gentleman about it? Is he aware that in the past three years the National Health Service—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-28", "file": "debates1983-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "24ce344f393f66ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.451.6", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Grant", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Grant", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend confirm —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.451.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-28", "file": "debates1983-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "24ce344f393f66ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.456.0", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am well aware of what my hon. Friend says and of the anxiety that those completely false scares caused. I stress again that during the lifetime of the last Government our record on the National Health Service was absolutely excellent. By the time we left office there were 56,000 more nurses and midwives than when we started, 7,000 more doctors and dentists and —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.456.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-28", "file": "debates1983-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "24ce344f393f66ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.457.8", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "What mandate does the Prime Minister have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.457.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-28", "file": "debates1983-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "24ce344f393f66ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.458.0", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Cranborne", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Cranborne", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend noticed the report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.458.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-28", "file": "debates1983-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "24ce344f393f66ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Timber Frame Houses", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "preceding_text": "ystem, at least until the Building Research Establishment's survey of timber frame construction is published in full and to ensure that the report is not hushed up. It seems that at the moment we are operating on the basis of act first and think second. Fourthly, we need an urgent debate on the Government's involvement in the matter. There seems to be some type of cover-up as I was refused a copy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-28", "file": "debates1983-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "24ce344f393f66ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.462.3", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Timber Frame Houses", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "reason, to allay the fears of thousands of people who have already bought timber frame houses. There is a real need for a debate as we may be on the verge of a national scandal on the scale of the system building scandals of the 1960s. Without further Government statements, it appears that a fraud is being perpetrated on the first-time buyer by certain speculative builders, assisted by Ministers —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.462.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-28", "file": "debates1983-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "24ce344f393f66ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.469.1", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "erim committee of the IMF. When the IMF makes loans, it makes them strictly conditional on performance. With regard to official IMF loans to Latin America, performance must be monitored month by month as each additional tranche of assistance is offered. There is no reason why similar conditions should not have been enforced by Western Governments who have supported British banks in similar loans —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.469.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-28", "file": "debates1983-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "24ce344f393f66ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.487.1", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "rope and arms control. First, Europe. One of the few beneficial outcomes of the general election is that it has finally settled the issue of the permanence of Britain's membership of the European Community. That should have been settled by the referendum. Those who most wanted the referendum said that they wanted it because it would determine Britain's policy and direction for a generation ahead.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-28", "file": "debates1983-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "24ce344f393f66ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.525.0", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "preceding_text": "ich is manipulated by the IRA propaganda machine. I pay tribute to the members of the security forces who continually risk their lives in the streets and in the countryside of Ulster, both on duty and off duty. I make a solemn appeal to the Government: do not let the matter continue for another 13 years. Perhaps some hon. Members do not remember it, but there was a time when Ulster lived in peace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.525.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-28", "file": "debates1983-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "24ce344f393f66ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.536.1", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ich is in chains, is finding that the leaders that it has managed to retain are being put into Chilean gaols. It is time that the Government stopped having double standards. Political freedom is indivisible. It is just as right to fight for political freedom in Chile, Turkey, South Africa and black African states as it is in Poland and East Europe. If Tory Members have double standards, we do not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.536.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-28", "file": "debates1983-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "24ce344f393f66ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.536.1", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "where. The situation in Turkey is interesting. I have been to see Foreign Office Ministers about Turkey, urging them to say that unless democratic rights are restored in that country it will be condemned by NATO and the Council of Europe. Have they taken a stand in NATO? Have they done anything about it? The answer is clear. They have not. I refer now to the argument about Labour's defence policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.536.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-28", "file": "debates1983-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "24ce344f393f66ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.543.1", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "NATO took a decision —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.543.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-28", "file": "debates1983-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "24ce344f393f66ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.543.16", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Of course I respect your ruling, as I always will, but the right hon. Gentleman made a statement that the Labour Government had agreed to modernise intermediate range nuclear forces. In fact, the right hon. Gentleman has now made a different statement. Will he admit now that he was not telling the truth to the House a moment ago?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.543.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-28", "file": "debates1983-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "24ce344f393f66ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.544.0", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I have only—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.544.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-28", "file": "debates1983-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "24ce344f393f66ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.544.0", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I have only— [Interruption.] All I have done is to quote from the documents of the previous Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.544.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-28", "file": "debates1983-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "24ce344f393f66ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.544.0", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I have only— [Interruption.] All I have done is to quote from the documents of the previous Labour Government. [Interruption.] I know how embarrassing those documents are, but it does not lie in my gift to withdraw the truth of their own records.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.544.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-28", "file": "debates1983-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "24ce344f393f66ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.544.9", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I am quoting from a press release—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.544.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-28", "file": "debates1983-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "24ce344f393f66ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.544.9", "colnum": "544", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "se—[HON MEMBERS: \"Oh\"]—which was issued by NATO as a result of the meeting at which Mr. Fred Mulley, the Secretary of State for Defence in the previous Labour Government, represented the Government. The Leader of the Opposition said that I am taking words out of context and that I am quoting Ministers without the evidence. Let me try once again to quote from the document which Mr. Mulley approved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.544.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-28", "file": "debates1983-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "24ce344f393f66ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.545.2", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. As the Secretary of State has practically admitted to telling an untruth, will you allow him to take the Mace away again?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.545.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-28", "file": "debates1983-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "24ce344f393f66ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.545.6", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": " defence policies. He is now trying to stop me from expounding our defence policy in the House. If we intend to discuss the record of those right hon. and hon. Members on both sides of the House who have served in the Ministry of Defence, we should remember what the right hon. Member for Leeds, East said when he held my post and what he wrote as a reflection of it in The Guardian of 12 April 1981.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.545.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-28", "file": "debates1983-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "24ce344f393f66ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.545.6", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Take the Mace away again.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "side Europe. NATO's nuclear strategy is an essential part of that balance. To threaten to upset it by refusing to let America base any of her nuclear weapons in Britain would make war more likely, not less likely. Within two years of saying that, the right hon. Gentleman was campaigning throughout the country to elect a Labour Government who would have driven American nuclear bases out of Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.545.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-28", "file": "debates1983-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "24ce344f393f66ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.545.6", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "hroughout the country to elect a Labour Government who would have driven American nuclear bases out of Britain. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Take the Mace away again.\"] I have quoted the right hon. Gentleman's own words. He said that refusing to allow American nuclear weapons in Britain would make war more, not less, likely. Under the apparent unity of the Labour manifesto, there is an irreconcilable division.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.545.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-28", "file": "debates1983-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "24ce344f393f66ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.545.6", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Debate on the Address", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": " Those are the words of the right hon. Member for Leeds, East. They are as true today as when he first said them. The first and overriding duty of any British Government is to secure the defence of peace and liberty. The Government will not betray that trust, no matter how much the Opposition now try to betray everything that they have stood for during nearly 30 years in government and opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-28a.545.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-29", "file": "debates1983-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb68d2b4b4c60f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.560.5", "colnum": "560", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend that regional policy has had a distorting effect in many cases. That is why one of the first things that we did in the last Parliament was to reduce the area of the country covered by regional policy from 44 per cent. of the population to 27 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.560.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-29", "file": "debates1983-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb68d2b4b4c60f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.562.0", "colnum": "562", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Godman", "preceding_text": "The chairman of British Shipbuilders has asked the Government for special emergency help to enable the corporation to gain orders during the recession —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.562.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-29", "file": "debates1983-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb68d2b4b4c60f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.569.2", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "That is precisely what we have been doing. A substantial increase in imports from Japan last year was in video cassette recorders, which are simply not made in Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.569.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-29", "file": "debates1983-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb68d2b4b4c60f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.583.1", "colnum": "583", "heading": "The Economy and Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "do not think that my hon. Friend did know full well; nor did anyone else during the election campaign. Perhaps the Chancellor will now take the opportunity of telling the House and the nation which social security benefits are to be price-protected and which are not. What about child benefit, sickness benefit, invalidity pensions, and pensions other than the national insurance retirement pension?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-29", "file": "debates1983-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb68d2b4b4c60f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.583.1", "colnum": "583", "heading": "The Economy and Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "ey have a pension, if they are unemployed they have unemployment benefit, and if they are sick they have sickness benefit. It is against that background — the massive deterioration in our economic prospects this year to which I have referred, and the admitted, though privately held, Government estimates of a £15 billion tax deficit in the years ahead—that we must look at the Government's strategy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-29", "file": "debates1983-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb68d2b4b4c60f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "The Economy and Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "Certainly, and the policies on which we have embarked, and which we shall continue to pursue, are the only policies that have any hope of bringing down unemployment, in Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.591.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-29", "file": "debates1983-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb68d2b4b4c60f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.597.0", "colnum": "597", "heading": "The Economy and Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You put them there\".", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": "Despite profound disagreement with some aspects of the Government's policy and the Queen's Speech, we hope that the Prime Minister and her Government succeed. We have no vested interest in the failure of the Government. If they fail, the country will have failed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.597.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-29", "file": "debates1983-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb68d2b4b4c60f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.598.1", "colnum": "598", "heading": "The Economy and Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "me Minister governs by the moral authority of a supposed mandate based on 43 per cent. of the votes cast, or 31 per cent. of the electorate. I shall reply now to the hon. Gentleman the Member for Liverpool, Walton (Mr. Heffer). I was honoured to serve in that Government. The day after 23 March 1977 the Labour Government broadened the base on which they had support. They went into the Lib-Lab pact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.598.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-29", "file": "debates1983-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb68d2b4b4c60f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.598.3", "colnum": "598", "heading": "The Economy and Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "I am not saying that we had a mandate on every aspect. All I say is that if the measure went through —Liberals did not vote against—I believe that the decision to create British Aerospace was a sensible rationalisation of industry, although I now support the taking of equity shares in British Aerospace —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.598.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-29", "file": "debates1983-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb68d2b4b4c60f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.598.3", "colnum": "598", "heading": "The Economy and Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "proportional representation in the European elections. It is on such issues that the Prime Minister will be judged. She must widen her base and listen to other people. She much govern for the good of the whole nation. We shall be a constructive Opposition. We shall not spend our time looking back over the past—I HON. MEMBERS: \"All six of you.\"] Yes, all six of us, but we are joined by 17 Liberals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.598.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-29", "file": "debates1983-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb68d2b4b4c60f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.598.3", "colnum": "598", "heading": "The Economy and Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "st election, making the extraordinary statement that we should have stayed in the Labour party. Does the House believe that we should have endorsed that manifesto, which we would have had to do had we stayed in the Labour party? The Prime Minister must now speak for the nation. In many respects, I welcome the Chancellor of the Exchequer to his post. Back in 1966, we were allies on economic policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.598.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-29", "file": "debates1983-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb68d2b4b4c60f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.598.3", "colnum": "598", "heading": "The Economy and Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "d, and back to $1·50. The IMF index of relative unit labour cost shows that it would be better if the pound was at the level it reached in relation to the dollar in March of this year, before the rebound. I believe that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as opposed to the Prime Minister, might be interested in now joining the European monetary system. We are effectively a member of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.598.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-29", "file": "debates1983-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb68d2b4b4c60f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.598.3", "colnum": "598", "heading": "The Economy and Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "o, that the Chancellor rethinks the commitment in the Gracious Speech to yet further centralisation of Government control of local government. The degree of centralised control of local government that has taken place in the past 20 years is horrendous. I do not offer it as an absolute panacea, but there is no doubt that a fairer voting system would lead to far less extremism in council chambers.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.598.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-29", "file": "debates1983-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb68d2b4b4c60f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.631.3", "colnum": "631", "heading": "The Economy and Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McGuire", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McGuire", "preceding_text": "hire, South-East (Mr. Pym) reminded them, with, because of the quirks in our political system of first-past-the-post, fewer votes than they polled in 1979. I am one of the minority of Opposition Members who believe that the British public will not let that inequality endure. We must look at proportional representation. I am not sure of the precise form, but I am absolutely sure that we must do it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.631.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-29", "file": "debates1983-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb68d2b4b4c60f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.642.0", "colnum": "642", "heading": "The Economy and Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. M. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. M. Beckett", "preceding_text": "that trade unionists in my constituency, should their eyes have fallen on the Queen's Speech, will have been rubbing them in disbelief at one of the Prime Minister's more extraordinary contributions. We are all well acquainted with the fact that, whatever may go wrong in Britain or whoever's fault it may be, it is never the fault of the right hon. Lady. The blame always lies with some other party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.642.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-29", "file": "debates1983-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb68d2b4b4c60f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "The Economy and Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "he board and take the lower paid out of tax altogether. That will give them a great incentive to work. The final area in which the electorate expects much from the Government is essential services. In the midst of an economic recession, the electorate returned a Conservative Government because they understood why we make public expenditure cuts. We are immensely proud of making many of those cuts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-29", "file": "debates1983-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb68d2b4b4c60f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.663.0", "colnum": "663", "heading": "The Economy and Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "There is a very simple remedy. My speeches would be much shorter if the Prime Minister would explain the truth of her actions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.663.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-29", "file": "debates1983-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb68d2b4b4c60f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.663.0", "colnum": "663", "heading": "The Economy and Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Prime Minister would explain the truth of her actions. [Interruption.] What answer is to be given not only to me, but to my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Aberavon (Mr. Morris), a very careful Queen's counsel who set out a formidable list of questions? In particular, I will promise to speak very briefly if the Prime Minister will explain why she did not consult her Foreign Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.663.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-29", "file": "debates1983-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb68d2b4b4c60f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "The Economy and Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "e to measured satisfaction, particularly considering that the French equivalent is more than 12·5 per cent. The third area in which reasonable progress is being made is that of industrial relations. In 1982, 5·3 million working days were lost through industrial action, which compares quite strikingly with the figure of 12 million days for the annual average in the preceding 10 years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-29", "file": "debates1983-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb68d2b4b4c60f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "The Economy and Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "ions for success, not its guarantors. As my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer said today, there are also other issues, including the legislative and fiscal framework for business. A balanced assessment of all such matters will conclude that we are beginning to see some real tangible signs, which lead to the hope of a general recovery in the economy. The evidence that I would cite —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-29", "file": "debates1983-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "6bb68d2b4b4c60f6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.664.1", "colnum": "664", "heading": "The Economy and Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"who is 'we'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "ed more than enough in our post-war world. In a most formidable and memorable speech, my right hon. Friend advised Conservative Members that there was a message about how Conservatives should conduct themselves. He said that he was drawing upon our traditions as a party in saying that it must be national in its interests and unifying in its aim. We are more than delighted to echo that observation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-29a.664.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-30", "file": "debates1983-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e8ce1a96d5e9e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-30a.687.7", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "preceding_text": "May I join in the welcome to the right hon. Gentleman in his new post?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-30a.687.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-30", "file": "debates1983-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e8ce1a96d5e9e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-30a.695.6", "colnum": "695", "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 will depend very much on their choice of foods and the movement in food prices. The hon. Gentleman will be aware that last year food prices —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-30a.695.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-30", "file": "debates1983-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e8ce1a96d5e9e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-30a.695.8", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "How they use their national insurance and supplementary benefit is wholly a matter for their choice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-30a.695.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-30", "file": "debates1983-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e8ce1a96d5e9e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-30a.697.6", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister agree that until Argentina formally ends the hostilities that it started last year, the interest, honour and credibility of our country requires the maintenance of an adequate garrison —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-30a.697.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-30", "file": "debates1983-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e8ce1a96d5e9e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-30a.698.9", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is not the practice to publish reports by the Central Policy Review Staff —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-30a.698.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-30", "file": "debates1983-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e8ce1a96d5e9e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-30a.711.1", "colnum": "711", "heading": "Ways and Means", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wainwright", "preceding_text": "I have already explained that I assent to the token vote proposition, because there is no purpose in asking hon. Members to vote on everything —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-30a.711.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-30", "file": "debates1983-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e8ce1a96d5e9e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-30a.713.2", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Ways and Means", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "preceding_text": "During the course of the debate, Labour Members showed some zeal for voting against motion No. 3. It was not intimated beforehand by the Labour Front Bench spokesman, who told me that they would be unwilling to vote against this provision for reasons which they might like to explain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-30a.713.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-30", "file": "debates1983-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e8ce1a96d5e9e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-30a.782.0", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Cable Systems and Services", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Information Technology (Mr. Kenneth Baker)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Information Technology (Mr. Kenneth Baker)", "preceding_text": "ill ever aspire to see BBC or ITV cameras at their ground. Cable makes it possible for the local team to be seen on television in the local area. Yesterday's relay went out to 10,000 homes in Swindon. As cable expands, many other towns will have an opportunity of genuine local television programming. As a strong supporter of Yorkshire county, the right hon. Gentleman will welcome that opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-30a.782.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-06-30", "file": "debates1983-06-30a.xml", "sha256": "e8ce1a96d5e9e7f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-30a.798.1", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Tobacco Industry (Sports Sponsorship)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macfarlane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macfarlane", "preceding_text": "lar event which was held last March. If the hon. Gentleman has further evidence that suggests that the sponsoring company breached the voluntary agreement or, indeed, if any hon. Member feels that he has such evidence of a breach for any sporting event, I urge him to write to me forthwith. I understand that the Glenshee snow week attracted low profile sponsorship from the tobacco company involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-06-30a.798.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-01", "file": "debates1983-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6180080d4cf0c833", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-01a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Fisheries Council", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Michael Jopling)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Michael Jopling)", "preceding_text": "rds of the total quotas proposed by the Commission for each member state for 1983, in order to permit fishing to continue until the next Council meeting. This would also have permitted the Council to agree to the Norwegians continuing to fish on a similar basis. Unfortunately, the Danish delegation were unable to agree and when the matter was put to the vote they invoked the Luxembourg compromise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-01a.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-01", "file": "debates1983-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6180080d4cf0c833", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-01a.837.3", "colnum": "837", "heading": "London", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Berry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Berry", "preceding_text": "Under-Secretary of State made that clear in his speech and the Minister did so in the Queen's Speech debate. There will be many consultations during the coming months before the final decision is taken on how the changes should be made. I strongly welcome the decision to set up the new transport authority. The present system is wrong. Party politics have played too big a part in what has happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-01a.837.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-01", "file": "debates1983-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6180080d4cf0c833", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-01a.839.0", "colnum": "839", "heading": "London", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": " for did not occur. Since 1964, control of the GLC has fluctuated between the two major political parties. Conservative Members might dislike the policies of the Greater London council —although I cannot for the life of me see why—and they might even dislike the people who lead the council. However, the Government can be sure that in 1985 Londoners will have the opportunity to express their views.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-01a.839.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-01", "file": "debates1983-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6180080d4cf0c833", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-01a.839.0", "colnum": "839", "heading": "London", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "ok-Partridge. The Labour GLC has dared to oppose the Prime Minister; therefore, the council must go. A characteristic of the right hon. Lady seems to be that if she does not like something or someone, it has to go. A few Conservative Members have felt the force of that expression. It is a great pity that the right hon. Lady does not take a similar dislike to unemployment, poverty and homelessness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-01a.839.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-01", "file": "debates1983-07-01a.xml", "sha256": "6180080d4cf0c833", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-01a.839.0", "colnum": "839", "heading": "London", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "ort, I shall make it freely available to those hon. Members who wish to read it. One would have thought that this was a matter of some public interest, as several newspapers have referred to it, but not a word has appeared in the Daily Mail, the Daily Express or The Sun. I suggest that if the politicians in this series of scandals had been from the Labour party, it would have been front page news.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-01a.839.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-04", "file": "debates1983-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8fa208692087e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.12.7", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I said that there were no plans at present to privatise any of the activities of the NCB, but that does not mean that I exclude any consideration of it in future. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.12.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-04", "file": "debates1983-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8fa208692087e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.18.7", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "Has not the Prime Minister, in her appointments to top Civil Service posts, her sacking of the Think Tank and her axing and humiliation of Ministers who dared to disagree with her, displayed an obsession to surround herself with boot-licking yes-men? Is not the blinkered style and personality of the Prime Minster the great deterrent —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.18.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-04", "file": "debates1983-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8fa208692087e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.21.5", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Petroleum Royalties (Relief) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Private education.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "t hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East (Mr. Smith) came up with a figure of £20 billion, which he said we had obtained from the North sea and had spent entirely on unemployment. That was his choice. To broaden the area of choice, I mention certain other areas to which that money might be said to have gone. It might be said that £3·4 billion went to increase expenditure on education —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.21.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-04", "file": "debates1983-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8fa208692087e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Petroleum Royalties (Relief) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "tically support the proposals that I inherited. As the new Secretary of State, I have examined them carefully and I believe that they are perfectly correct and will result in considerable action and economic activity in the years immediately ahead. We must recognise the considerable importance for our offshore supply industry of ensuring that these developments and export opportunities take place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-04", "file": "debates1983-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8fa208692087e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.24.2", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Petroleum Royalties (Relief) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "The Minister has at last disgorged some figures. He said that the putative loss to the Government would be 3 per cent. of the £4·5 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.24.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-04", "file": "debates1983-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8fa208692087e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.29.3", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Petroleum Royalties (Relief) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "age development, the same possibility of ascertaining what will be the result applies. The Government gave figures in the Red Book, and they were used in our discussions on the Finance Bill. I do not understand why we cannot be shown the same courtesy by the Department of Energy as the House has come to expect from the Chancellor of the Exchequer when we discuss these important financial measures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.29.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-04", "file": "debates1983-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8fa208692087e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Petroleum Royalties (Relief) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "The royalties proposal was rejected. Perhaps I should explain the position again carefully to the Secretary of State —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.34.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-04", "file": "debates1983-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8fa208692087e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.35.1", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Petroleum Royalties (Relief) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "and hours, rather than of days, before that happens. We are told that that is all right, because there is competition. But there is not much competition at the petrol pump. The oil companies tend to move together in their pricing policies. Why was there no reference to the proposed price increase in the recent election campaign, just as there was no mention of a building society mortgage increase?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.35.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-04", "file": "debates1983-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8fa208692087e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.69.8", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Petroleum Royalties (Relief) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member for Pontefract and Castleford (Mr. Lofthouse) is no longer in the Chamber. He contrasted the Government's treatment of the oil companies under the Bill with their treatment of the mining industry. The difference is that the oil companies do not ask for or get handouts from the Government, whereas the coal industry, for historical and other reasons, receives substantial public funds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.69.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-04", "file": "debates1983-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8fa208692087e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.82.1", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Petroleum Royalties (Relief) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "Yes. They mean without tax. I hope that that satisfies the hon. Gentleman. The words \"tax free\" meant that royalty remissions would not be liable to PRT or corporation tax. They were thus potentially of significant benefit, although the positive features did not offset the objection of uncertainty and the possibly discriminatory nature of the powers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.82.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-04", "file": "debates1983-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8fa208692087e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.82.1", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Petroleum Royalties (Relief) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "n tax. They were thus potentially of significant benefit, although the positive features did not offset the objection of uncertainty and the possibly discriminatory nature of the powers. [Interruption.] Perhaps the hon. Member for Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney (Mr. Rowlands) will have the courtesy to allow me to finish my speech. These conditions still apply to fields developed prior to 1 April 1983.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.82.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-04", "file": "debates1983-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8fa208692087e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.90.1", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Petroleum Royalties (Relief) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "m not up-to-date on my Scottish political geography. One of my hon. Friends said that he should not follow his predecessor too closely in certain respects. Having spent two or three years in saying not very nice things about the right hon. Gentleman's predecessor, Hamish Gray, I should add that I never found Hamish in personal terms anything but a most pleasant and delightful person to argue with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.90.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-04", "file": "debates1983-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8fa208692087e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.95.4", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Petroleum Royalties (Relief) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Energy (Mr. Alick Buchanan-Smith)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Energy (Mr. Alick Buchanan-Smith)", "preceding_text": "in that vein he will ensure that he qualifies for Standing Committee duties. As the Minister who will have to steer this Bill through Committee, I shall not be entirely sorry if he is not a member of that Standing Committee. However, being a short Bill, it might be a good one on which to begin with co-operation from the Opposition. The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East (Mr. Smith)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.95.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-04", "file": "debates1983-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8fa208692087e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.95.4", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Petroleum Royalties (Relief) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Energy (Mr. Alick Buchanan-Smith)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not a candidate.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Energy (Mr. Alick Buchanan-Smith)", "preceding_text": "whereas others waited far less long for their chance to contribute. The right hon. and learned Gentleman did a disservice to the entire oil industry today in the fierce attack that he launched on the Bill. There was a great deal of rhetoric, but very little substance in his criticism. He may have sought to justify his position in the Opposition leadership contest by the strength of his criticism —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.95.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-04", "file": "debates1983-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8fa208692087e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.109.0", "colnum": "109", "heading": "Scotland (Rating and Valuation)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State far Scotland (Mr. Michael Ancram)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Boring.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State far Scotland (Mr. Michael Ancram)", "preceding_text": "regulations make a similar disapplication in respect of 5 and 7 March and amend the revisions relating to notification of a new rate determined under section 108A to the rating authority, to take account of lower rates determined by a local authority in terms of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1966. Section 5(4) (b) as inserted last year by the Local Government and Planning (Scotland) Act 1982", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-04", "file": "debates1983-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8fa208692087e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.112.0", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Scotland (Rating and Valuation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "section 5(4) of the 1966 Act as amended by the 1982 Act, and the purpose of this order is to make it clear beyond doubt that the Secretary of State may, with regard to a rate determined under section 5(4), make a regulation under the new provision 111(1) (f) with regard to the repayment of sums paid under section 108 and to the cost of levying and collection to be borne by the authority concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.112.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-07-04", "file": "debates1983-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8fa208692087e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.128.1", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Liverpool (Unemployment)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Fields", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my hon. Friend will allow me to intervene on behalf—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.128.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-04", "file": "debates1983-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8fa208692087e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.132.6", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Liverpool (Unemployment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Ernest Armstrong)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker (Mr. Ernest Armstrong)", "preceding_text": "Order. As I understand it, it was not a direct allegation against any individual hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.132.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-04", "file": "debates1983-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8fa208692087e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Liverpool (Unemployment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "hat he would want us to continue. The comments about acronyms and so on make good copy, but I am not sure that they are fair. I know that the schemes are not enough, but it is very important to have them, and the Government are right to have them. The hon. Gentleman would attack us very strongly if we did not have them. But in the end the question is how to bring real employment back to Liverpool.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-04", "file": "debates1983-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "b8fa208692087e72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.134.1", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Liverpool (Unemployment)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "ave them, and the Government are right to have them. The hon. Gentleman would attack us very strongly if we did not have them. But in the end the question is how to bring real employment back to Liverpool. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign.\"] The entire Liverpool city council ought to resign first. The extremists should be thrown out. Their noise today shows once again that they are not willing to listen to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-04a.134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-05", "file": "debates1983-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "7717b799b6711127", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-05a.150.3", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brooke", "preceding_text": "My first advice would be to get in touch with the National Union of Students—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-05a.150.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-05", "file": "debates1983-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "7717b799b6711127", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-05a.150.8", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Ah\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "For what reason, when he was in a negotiating position—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-05a.150.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-05", "file": "debates1983-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "7717b799b6711127", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-05a.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Building Control Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "The inclusion of that clause in the Bill owes everything to my hon. Friend's suggestion during the previous Parliament. Clauses 23 and 24 will strengthen the tenants' charter —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-05a.163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-05", "file": "debates1983-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "7717b799b6711127", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-05a.230.4", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Building Control Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "I have only a few minutes in which to conclude. The Bill does nothing to help the mobility of council tenants, and 500,000 people want a transfer within that housing sector. It does nothing to reinforce the family —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-05a.230.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-06", "file": "debates1983-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "de1f3d575b539588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-06a.333.1", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Bray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Bray", "preceding_text": "er rates of tax. The Bill deals with only a tiny minority of the population. By reducing the rate of tax at the top end of the scale, one effectively increases the rate of tax at the bottom end. Any Chancellor must design his tax structure to produce the required tax yield. The Bill further skews the distribution of income tax so that the great majority of people end up paying higher rates of tax.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-06a.333.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-06", "file": "debates1983-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "de1f3d575b539588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-06a.360.0", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "At last we have the hon. Gentleman's admission that what I said is true. I want to come to those rates. A married man earning £30,000, with two children, pays in income tax and national insurance contributions combined, expressed as a proportion of his total income, 22 per cent. in France, 29 per cent. in the United States, 32 per cent. in Germany —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-06a.360.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-06", "file": "debates1983-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "de1f3d575b539588", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-06a.375.0", "colnum": "375", "heading": "Merchant Shipping", "cue_speaker": "Dr. M. S. Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. M. S. Miller", "preceding_text": "seafaring but if the examining doctor is satisfied that the lesion is firmly healed, the radiological appearance is acceptable and the patient has completed a full course of chemotherapy, re-entry might be considered. I bet that most of the older Members of Parliament sitting here this evening will have healed tuberculous lesions in their lungs. No one says that we are unfit to sit in Parliament —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-06a.375.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-07", "file": "debates1983-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "9a90c29218852272", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.395.8", "colnum": "395", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Peter Rees)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Peter Rees)", "preceding_text": "The financial policies pursued by the Government over the past four years have reduced inflation to the lowest level for 15 years. We will continue to pursue those policies during the present Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.395.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-07", "file": "debates1983-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "9a90c29218852272", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.397.8", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's command of figures is a little imperfect. Even the House of Lords Select Committee arrived at only £5,000, with many qualifications. The hon. Gentleman seems to overlook the £2 billion that the Government have spent on programmes to create real rather than phoney jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.397.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-07", "file": "debates1983-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "9a90c29218852272", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.403.8", "colnum": "403", "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 has always been a free vote on that matter. If a Bill were to be introduced consequent upon a vote in favour of restroring capital punishment, I would expect it to be introduced by a private Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.403.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-07", "file": "debates1983-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "9a90c29218852272", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.404.7", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "May we turn from the Scottish atmosphere of Southend-on-Sea, so that I may ask the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.404.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-07", "file": "debates1983-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "9a90c29218852272", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.404.7", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"British Aerospace\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "May we turn from the Scottish atmosphere of Southend-on-Sea, so that I may ask the Prime Minister— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\"] — to return, possibly for the first time, to the subject of mass unemployment throughout our country? Is it not a fact that British Airways has recently had to state that 3,500 people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.404.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-07-07", "file": "debates1983-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "9a90c29218852272", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.414.6", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "he questions that he was asked. Let me put one straight question to him. Is he telling the House that neither he nor the Prime Minister knew four weeks ago, before polling day, with full access to all the information available to his colleagues in the Government, that a £1,000 million cut in public expenditure was going to come almost immediately after the polling stations had closed. Tell us now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.414.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-07", "file": "debates1983-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "9a90c29218852272", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.421.6", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "As I mentioned in answer to an earlier question, there is a continual flow of information during the course of the financial year; it comes week by week, almost day by day. Eventually a picture emerges, and when that picture emerged and I thought that the time had come when action had to be taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.421.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-07", "file": "debates1983-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "9a90c29218852272", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.421.8", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "This is not a cut in public expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.421.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-07", "file": "debates1983-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "9a90c29218852272", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.422.4", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I cannot give the hon. Gentleman my working diary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.422.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-07", "file": "debates1983-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "9a90c29218852272", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.422.4", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that I cannot give the hon. Gentleman my working diary. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"] For one thing, I do not have it with me. To suggest that the House is being misled could not be further from the truth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.422.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-07", "file": "debates1983-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "9a90c29218852272", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.453.3", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "t work unless resources are made available. That means that the Government must put their money where their mouth is and must also provide the necessary safeguards. When the Northern Ireland Economic Council refers to \"returning to normal\", it is really talking about returning to the time when the Labour party left office. That is what the council is saying, in effect. That is relative normality —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.453.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-07", "file": "debates1983-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "9a90c29218852272", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.457.1", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "t owed to his own merits and talents and to his being a rising hope of the Conservative party and of this House. We wish the hon. Gentleman well in the impossible task he has undertaken. I hope that he will regard it as no derogation from that expression of good will when I tell him that it is the ambition of my hon. Friends and myself to give him a nervous breakdown at the earliest possible time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-07", "file": "debates1983-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "9a90c29218852272", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": " renewal of direct rule at the end of the last Parliament, so now we vote against the condition of uncertainty—the equivocal twilight position—in which an integral part of the United Kingdom, for so it is officially described, is maintained by an order such as this. If anyone were to say that in voting against the order we are voting against the expenditures and the purposes outlined in the order—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-07", "file": "debates1983-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "9a90c29218852272", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.462.1", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": ". Member for Bath discovered that indeed there was a derating in Great Britain by which clubs in Northern Ireland did not benefit. Since then, there has been silence from the Northern Ireland Office as to the measures that would be taken to rectify the admitted anomaly. I am awaiting a reply from several months ago on the subject—from the noble Lord who is no longer at the Northern Ireland Office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.462.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-07", "file": "debates1983-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "9a90c29218852272", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.465.0", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": " — is absolutely and totally ridiculous. I do not know what other arguments will be brought in this House, but let me make it clear to the hon. Gentleman that I believed that, when Stormont was abolished, this House should have given us the statue quo, and from that point we would have renegotiated for our own Parliament and for our own position in Northern Ireland. That has always been my policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-07", "file": "debates1983-07-07a.xml", "sha256": "9a90c29218852272", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.465.0", "colnum": "465", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "is House, but let me make it clear to the hon. Gentleman that I believed that, when Stormont was abolished, this House should have given us the statue quo, and from that point we would have renegotiated for our own Parliament and for our own position in Northern Ireland. That has always been my policy. [Interruption.] If the hon. Gentlemen who are shouting would read the report of the Convention —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-07a.465.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-08", "file": "debates1983-07-08a.xml", "sha256": "9ae7a974538ac0f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-08a.534.0", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Youth Training", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Corbett", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Corbett", "preceding_text": "d. In many ways the UVP is the precursor of the YTS. An example of the Secretary of State's achievements is that only one in 10 of last year's school leavers in Birmingham has yet found work. That is in a city which was renowned for having 1,001 trades. The pride has been ripped out of Birmingham and more damage has been done to its industry by the Government than the Luftwaffe managed to achieve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-08a.534.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-11", "file": "debates1983-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "c2f1428f96b1fd9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-11a.625.2", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — International Monetary Arrangements Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman misunderstands. Of course the Opposition are serious about their amendment, but they are not serious about the subject. Hence the contradictions in which the right hon. Gentleman involved himself. I am much relieved that the right hon. Gentleman has not disavowed his intention to vote against the Question, That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-11a.625.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-11", "file": "debates1983-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "c2f1428f96b1fd9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-11a.625.2", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Orders of the Day — International Monetary Arrangements Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "se political forces. I shall be interested to see the IMF setting about that task by the remote persuasion of an international body. There is indeed one threat that the IMF dare not utter. The right hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Stepney got very near to it, but he saw the gulf before his feet and stepped back just in time. The IMF cannot say, \"Do this or we shall not lend you any more money\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-11a.625.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-11", "file": "debates1983-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "c2f1428f96b1fd9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-11a.654.0", "colnum": "654", "heading": "Greater London Council (Money) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "ainst the money Bill or threatened it—would not get the works that they were due to have. In my constituency we were threatened by the GLC that we would not have pedestrian crossings and other such amenities that are fundamental to the safety of children and others. I believe that that tactic, that arm-twisting and blackmail, is a disgrace and must be brought to the attention of the House as such.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-11a.654.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-11", "file": "debates1983-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "c2f1428f96b1fd9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-11a.669.1", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Greater London Council (Money) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shersby", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shersby", "preceding_text": "cumbent on the GLC—no matter which party controls it—to have regard to the effect of rate increases on jobs. The GLC will have exceeded its spending target this year by about £300 million or 53 per cent. The metropolitan counties will have overspent by £72 million, or 6·5 per cent. Abolition of the GLC would remove that overspending and might eventually save a further £120 million per year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-11a.669.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-11", "file": "debates1983-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "c2f1428f96b1fd9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-11a.684.2", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Greater London Council (Money) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "ion authority? Do they lack the capacity that the people of Hampshire, Dorset or Richmond possess? Are they incapable of judging whether the present authority and the present arrangements are good enough for their children? I think that they are capable of making that judgment. On one occasion they made the wrong decision, when they voted out the Labour-controlled Inner London education authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-11a.684.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-11", "file": "debates1983-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "c2f1428f96b1fd9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-11a.684.2", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Greater London Council (Money) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "and we hope to convince the people of London so well that we shall be able to resist that threat to ILEA. Despite all its shortcomings—and God knows it has a lot of them—and all the things that need to be done to improve the standard of the education service in London, the people of London treasure ILEA, just as they previously treasured the London county council and the London board of education—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-11a.684.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-11", "file": "debates1983-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "c2f1428f96b1fd9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-11a.691.0", "colnum": "691", "heading": "International Monetary Arrangements Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "he conditionalities of the IMF should he politicised. I do not want to use the cumbersome phrase \"politicising conditionalities\". The issue is clear. Does the IMF operate on political or on purely economic grounds? The two cannot be separated. There are many issues on which there is no such thing as straightforward economics which can be divorced from political principles. The two are intertwined—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-11a.691.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-11", "file": "debates1983-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "c2f1428f96b1fd9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-11a.699.0", "colnum": "699", "heading": "International Monetary Arrangements Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "s she suggested earlier this year, to ensure the closest possible scrutiny of the use to which money is put within the IMF criteria, the right hon. Lady should use the criteria and understandings identified by that senior adviser in his article to ensure that there is more positive restraint on the use of this money by the Argentine Government. A. W. Hook, another IMF commentator, in the pamphlet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-11a.699.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-11", "file": "debates1983-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "c2f1428f96b1fd9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-11a.704.2", "colnum": "704", "heading": "International Monetary Arrangements Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": " ground that one of his monetary targets was 3 per cent. adrift of that which was set under the conditions that were attached to the facility. It is perhaps just as well for the Government that they are not the recipients of credit from the IMF on the condition that they hit their monetary targets because they have been far more than 3 per cent. adrift on their targets on the monetary aggregates.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-11a.704.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-11", "file": "debates1983-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "c2f1428f96b1fd9b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-11a.734.0", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "hat is going on. They will understand the issue of pit closures and they will realise that they are being put out of work by the way they are working—by the bonuses they earn, by the increased productivity in the industry and by the stocks of coal that are costing the coal board a fortune because industry, as a result of Government policies, does not need it. I could speak for a great deal longer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-11a.734.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-12", "file": "debates1983-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ba988e1f6c7179e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-12a.753.6", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that the Danish Parliament, most people in Holland and possibly even the West Germans—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-12a.753.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-12", "file": "debates1983-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ba988e1f6c7179e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-12a.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Trade Unions (Proposals for Legislation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Giles Radice", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Giles Radice", "preceding_text": " Conservative party, whose members do not have a vote in the election of their leader, and which is proud of a so-called shareholders' democracy which is totally dominated by a few institutions, is hardly in a position to lecture the trade unions or anybody else about democracy? Is the right hon. Gentleman also aware that the Opposition are strongly in favour of union ballots but that we believe —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-12a.764.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-07-12", "file": "debates1983-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ba988e1f6c7179e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-12a.764.3", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Trade Unions (Proposals for Legislation)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Too long.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "Oh yes I do. Does the Secretary of State realise, however, that his proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-12a.764.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-12", "file": "debates1983-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ba988e1f6c7179e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-12a.767.6", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Trade Unions (Proposals for Legislation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Evans", "preceding_text": "First, I declare that I am a member of the engineering section of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers and an officer in the union.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-12a.767.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-12", "file": "debates1983-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ba988e1f6c7179e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-12a.769.2", "colnum": "769", "heading": "Trade Unions (Proposals for Legislation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "No, Sir. That is a matter for the trade union concerned. We shall require that a union should not enjoy immunity from the normal civil law —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-12a.769.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-12", "file": "debates1983-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ba988e1f6c7179e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-12a.782.4", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They were not panic measures.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "es through the House, can he assure us that he does not intend to come back in the autumn with panic measures to cut public expenditure\". As hon. Members who were present will recollect, I received the following reply: I hope that panic measures will not characterise this Administration.\"—[ Official Report, 6 July 1983; Vol. 45, c. 283–4.] I did not have to wait long for the panic measures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-12a.782.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-12", "file": "debates1983-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ba988e1f6c7179e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-12a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": " the Dispatch Box, I would be well advised to seize what he is offering with both hands, because it is likely to be well in excess of anything that the Chancellor of the Exchequer will allow US. That brings me to the point that I was coming to: the vigorous and vehement opposition of the present Chancellor of the Exchequer to implementing the proposed increase in salaries of Members of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-12a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-12", "file": "debates1983-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ba988e1f6c7179e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-12a.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "norance of the margins that people live on. When the Financial Secretary discussed how the money might alternatively be used, to trivialise the amount he suggested that if it were used on child benefit, it would be raised by only 40p a week. That is a lot of money to many families. It could buy two loaves in the stale bread shop that has been opened in my constituency to cater for the unemployed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-12a.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-12", "file": "debates1983-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "3ba988e1f6c7179e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-12a.852.1", "colnum": "852", "heading": "Overseas Development and Co-operation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitney", "preceding_text": " The bank's executive board recently agreed a two-year trial period to test new financial instruments whereby the bank invests its funds in the commercial loan through jointly financed bank projects. We share my hon. Friend's enthusiasm for that. I hope that I have covered the points that were made about the United Nations development programme. I recognise the problems of the IDA 7 replenishment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-12a.852.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.877.6", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": "Was the Solicitor-General happy about the Secretary of State's decision to instruct .Fife health board, when the appeal in this matter was pending, to impose conditions on those appellants —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.877.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.882.6", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Gardner", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Gardner", "preceding_text": "lty, the same person would calculate the chances of being arrested, charged, convicted and ultimately brought to the point of sentence knowing that it could be the death penalty, and would conclude that he would not take the risk and would not, therefore, use a gun or go out and kill. How could that possibly enter into the statistics? That is the point that we must face. I rely not on statistics —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.882.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.885.4", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Leon Brittan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"I did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Leon Brittan)", "preceding_text": "an a year since the House last debated capital punishment, but it is entirely right for us to do so once more. As my Hon. and learned Friend the Member for Fylde (Sir E. Gardner) pointed out, public interest in the issue is intense, we have a new Parliament, and concern remains very strong. Not one of us, I am sure, failed to be questioned about our views n this issue during the election campaign.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.885.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.885.4", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Leon Brittan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Leon Brittan)", "preceding_text": "icult to see why a murderer who has shot his victim should be regarded with greater abhorrence than, say, a poisoner. Finally, the amendment in the name of my hon. Friend the Member for Banff and Buchan (Mr. McQuarrie), proposes the death penalty for murder resulting from acts of terrorism. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland powerfully put the case against restoration", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.885.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.885.4", "colnum": "885", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Leon Brittan)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Leon Brittan)", "preceding_text": "into account terrorism more generally, whatever its origins. The truth is that in Great Britain the threat is not only from Irish terrorists. No one, of course, could forget, for example, the horrific attacks perpetrated in Hyde park and Regents park just a year ago this month, when 11 soldiers were killed and 59 people were injured. Those crimes were brutal, callous, cowardly and indiscriminate —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.885.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.892.0", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Shame.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Leon Brittan)", "preceding_text": "he state to signal its total and absolute repugnance for those who commit crimes that undermine its very foundations. There can be no clearer or more decisive a demonstration of that repugnance than to reserve the ultimate penalty, capital punishment, for those who commit such crimes. It is for those reasons that I shall vote tonight for the restoration of capital punishment for terrorist murders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.885.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.892.2", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "Finally, let me say a word about what may follow this debate. The House will, I hope, agree with the way in which the amendments allow hon. Members the fullest opportunity to express their views and vote on them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.892.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.892.2", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "Finally, let me say a word about what may follow this debate. The House will, I hope, agree with the way in which the amendments allow hon. Members the fullest opportunity to express their views and vote on them. [ Interruption. ] As my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has already made clear, if the House votes for the restoration of capital punishment for any category of offence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.892.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.892.6", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Never.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "s country, become the only Western democracy where the state possessed and exercised the right to kill as judicial punishment. Nothing can justify savagery of that sort. A reversion to such a practice would debase and, in the literal sense of the word, demoralise us all. My profound hope is that with our vote tonight we shall reject capital punishment decisively and lay the whole subject to rest —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.892.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.892.6", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": " debate during the past six weeks has asserted quite the opposite and in a moment we must deal with the evidence for the two conflicting judgments. Before I do that I want to repeat, because I want the House to understand my position clearly, that even were there evidence to demonstrate that capital punishment was a deterrent—such evidence does not exist—I should still believe hanging to be wrong.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.892.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.892.6", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "society one can justify, shall I say as a matter of principle, the taking of a life of a man or woman who has himself or herself taken a life. Indeed, the Prime Minister, in a television interview during the general election campaign—which I suppose was in part the genesis of the debate—seemed to he saying that some murders were so hideous that execution was an intrinsically appropriate response —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.892.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.892.6", "colnum": "892", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": " man or woman who has himself or herself taken a life. Indeed, the Prime Minister, in a television interview during the general election campaign—which I suppose was in part the genesis of the debate—seemed to he saying that some murders were so hideous that execution was an intrinsically appropriate response — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"]— seemed to be saying that some murderers deserved to die.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.892.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.894.0", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Gardner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Gardner", "preceding_text": "Why does the right hon. Gentleman keep referring to hanging? What we are debating today is capital punishment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.894.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.894.1", "colnum": "894", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Irrelevant.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Gardner", "preceding_text": "Why does the right hon. Gentleman keep referring to hanging? What we are debating today is capital punishment—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no!\"]—and he knows that as well as anyone else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.894.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.898.1", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "on of retribution and revenge, although it was mentioned by the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Sparkbrook (Mr. Hattersley). I was saddened to hear murmurs in some parts of the House that appeared to support retribution and revenge. Quite frankly, from any moral viewpoint, I find revenge completely unacceptable. I do not believe that it is for the House to decide whether there should be revenge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.898.1", "colnum": "898", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": "next to the point which in recent years I have found more and more worrying and more and more impressive. I refer to condemnation by mistake. I find it impossible to accept a penalty that is irreversible when it is so apparent that a number of mistakes have been made. One of my hon. Friends said on the radio that if no one else is prepared to hang people he is quite prepared to do the job himself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.898.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.903.3", "colnum": "903", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "It was not unreasonable of me to ask the right hon. and learned Gentleman to clarify that, because I do not think it was clear from his speech to any hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.903.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "I am not putting forward an argument —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.916.1", "colnum": "916", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "I am not putting forward an argument — [ Interruption. ] Four good UDA soldiers from the Ulster Defence force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.916.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "out 12 months ago to threaten this House with the death of two British soldiers for every terrorist sentenced to death.\" — [ Official Report, 11 December 1975, Vol. 902, c. 666–67. ] His views and those of others that I have quoted should be heeded by any Member who has not yet come to a decision on how he should vote this evening. The public demand action from us and we must not fail them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.930.4", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "We were told by the right hon. Member for Glasgow, Hillhead (Mr. Jenkins) that we had to abolish jury trials. I remind him that in Standing Committee, when he was a member of the Labour party, the Socialists voted to a man against abolishing juries, as did the leader of the SDLP, and I voted against the abolition of juries. However, if we bring in capital punishment, we must return to jury trials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.930.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.930.4", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "sh jury trials. I remind him that in Standing Committee, when he was a member of the Labour party, the Socialists voted to a man against abolishing juries, as did the leader of the SDLP, and I voted against the abolition of juries. However, if we bring in capital punishment, we must return to jury trials. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".] Of course we must. We cannot have anything but a return to jury trials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.930.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.941.6", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bendall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bendall", "preceding_text": " My answer to those who try to influence events in that way is that if the law changes and they feel that they cannot administer it, although it is the democratic will of Parliament, they should leave the positions that they hold. Otherwise, such a situation would take us into very dangerous waters. I am bitterly disappointed about much of the role that the Church has recently played in politics —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.941.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.941.6", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bendall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bendall", "preceding_text": "I should like the Church—regardless of which Church it is—to be more active in speaking out against violence. I should like it to exert more influence on that subject. We only seem to hear from the Church on certain aspects of politics. It does not seem to cover the wider spectrum. I have never heard the Church of England Synod refer to the victims in its debates on murder and capital punishment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.941.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.941.6", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bendall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bendall", "preceding_text": "r to the fact that the measures taken after 1957 have basically failed to work, because life imprisonment has not meant exactly that. Murderers leave prison 10 to 12 years after committing their crimes and often serve much shorter sentences than possibly the train robbers, the Krays, the Richardsons and others who have committed capital murders, although frequently against their own criminal kind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.941.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.947.0", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Higgins", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. and learned Friend says, apparently, three judges. The number of judges is not relevant, with great respect. I am sorry that my right hon. and learned Friend did not spell out what he had in mind in greater detail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.947.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.960.0", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "I am upset by the concept that there is no argument showing that capital punishment is a deterrent, so may I give the House some figures?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.960.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.960.0", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "a deterrent, so may I give the House some figures?—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] In Scotland, between 1950 and 1957, there were 7,500 assaults on the person each year. Between 1957 and 1964 there was an average of 17,000 such assaults. Since the abolition of capital punishment, the figure has been 80,000 a year, and last year there were 100,000 assaults. In 1957 there were 32 High Court cases in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.960.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.961.1", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": " Chief Whip influenced a free vote on a moral issue such as capital punishment. Perhaps he will also explain that he joined the Government of which I was Prime Minister at my invitation, on the basis that, because of his European views, he would resign if the Government introduced a Bill to enter the Community—which he did — and that later I invited him to rejoin the Government, which he also did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.961.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-13", "file": "debates1983-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "307eea7d0f51a808", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.961.3", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Death Penalty", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": " because we were convinced by what he said about the need to have a democratic voice to express the views of the people of Northern Ireland. If there is one thing in the history of Ireland that is clear, and on which I think everyone agrees, it is that far too many people think they know how to solve the problems of Northern Ireland but do not have to go through the agony of suffering as a result.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-13a.961.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-14", "file": "debates1983-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "bcc3c9a4a1bcc24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-14a.1008.7", "colnum": "1008", "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 is no definition of the poverty line —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-14a.1008.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-14", "file": "debates1983-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "bcc3c9a4a1bcc24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-14a.1010.9", "colnum": "1010", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Brazil is negotiating for another IMF tranche today and it is hoped that those negotiations will be completed by tomorrow. The President of Brazil made a statement today. We have not seen its full text but it looks as if Brazil has taken certain action. That may or may not mean that the next slice of IMF aid will be released.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-14a.1010.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-14", "file": "debates1983-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "bcc3c9a4a1bcc24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-14a.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "demolition of CTT with a will. In 1980 he doubled the threshold for CTT and thus removed from the tax two thirds of those who were eligible for it before. Before departing from the Treasury in 1982, he again took up his demolition sledgehammer and struck out the cumulative principle from CTT. That was an interesting choice. In removing the cumulative principle, he effectively reduced CTT to a tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-14a.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-14", "file": "debates1983-07-14a.xml", "sha256": "bcc3c9a4a1bcc24f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-14a.1044.2", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": " capital taxation. I remind the Minister of the figures that were given by the Financial Secretary at the close of our debate at midnight on 25 April. He said that in 1970–71 the revenue from estate duty was £1,645 million, that in 1975 it was £1,026 million, and that by 1979 the revenue from CTT had fallen to £638 million. This year it will be £540 million. I do not make a partisan point —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-14a.1044.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-15", "file": "debates1983-07-15a.xml", "sha256": "8d335e1a2d401066", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-15a.1153.0", "colnum": "1153", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nigel Spearing", "preceding_text": "then the policy of changing to beat policemen has been given very much higher priority, and rightly. It is my view that that would not have occurred without political pressure and the accountability of the Home Secretary, through this House, to London Members. My knowledge of Hertfordshire and Broxbourne is not perhaps what it should be, but I assume that it is included in the Greater London area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-15a.1153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-18", "file": "debates1983-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "607aa702b992c1b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-18a.7.1", "colnum": "7", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "he figure on which he will start—at least, he is not prepared to divulge it—will he go a little further in his star gazing and give the House the basis of the formula on which he will assess the new grants to district health authorities in relation to the amounts that will be available to them for capital and revenue expenditure? How will that formula be arrived at? Will he abolish the old system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-18a.7.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-18", "file": "debates1983-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "607aa702b992c1b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-18a.18.8", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — THE ARTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member will have noticed that my brief runs only up to question 28 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-18a.18.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-18", "file": "debates1983-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "607aa702b992c1b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-18a.99.0", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Telecommunications Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Information Technology (Mr. Kenneth Baker)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Information Technology (Mr. Kenneth Baker)", "preceding_text": "that he had fought five elections before getting here. During those elections, two opponents were leaders of other parties. One has resigned his leadership and the other is now in limbo. Some Opposition Members must therefore be pleased that my hon. Friend has found a safe berth. My hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen, South, succeeds our old colleague Iain Sproat, who is much missed in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-18a.99.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-18", "file": "debates1983-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "607aa702b992c1b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-18a.99.0", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Telecommunications Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Information Technology (Mr. Kenneth Baker)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Information Technology (Mr. Kenneth Baker)", "preceding_text": ". If the House rises on the day that my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House has suggested, I hope to be on holiday with my family in the right hon. Gentleman's constituency in a fortnight's time. There are some very remote areas in that constituency, and the traveller — as well as the local community — is comforted to know that a telephone kiosk is there in case he breaks down or gets lost.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-18a.99.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-18", "file": "debates1983-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "607aa702b992c1b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-18a.101.1", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Telecommunications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": " was put in, but in future anyone who is so disgruntled will be able to appeal to the director general of Oftel who can consider the complaint and assess whether the charge is reasonable. He could take alternative quotes and if he found a cheaper quote he could instruct that the service should be provided at the lower cost. This Bill generally increases substantially the interests of the consumer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-18a.101.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-18", "file": "debates1983-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "607aa702b992c1b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-18a.102.1", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Telecommunications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I appreciate that point. However, many suggestions have been made as to how BT could be carved up if it were to be carved up—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-18a.102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-18", "file": "debates1983-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "607aa702b992c1b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-18a.102.1", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Telecommunications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "an integrated operation for the past 70 years. The argument about dividing BT rests upon the extent of competition that it already faces. Those who argue for a splitting up of BT underestimate that competition. It is not only Mercury that is being given a licence. There has been some comment and criticsm about that company during the debate, yet it has already undertaken £50 million of investment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-18a.102.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-18", "file": "debates1983-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "607aa702b992c1b2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-18a.102.3", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Telecommunications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "e achieved only in a competitive market — not one dominated by state monopoly. The Bill will help to create such a market. It will allow us to end the prime instrument monopoly of BT. It is in the long-term interest of BT, its employees, it customers and all who work in the telecommunications industry. There has been talk tonight to the effect that we are selling a public asset for private profit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-18a.102.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.162.2", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lennox-Boyd", "preceding_text": "hen all the hubbub has died down, the shouting has stopped and my right hon. Friend's proposals have become law, they will find that their leadership is renewed and invigorated as they will discover that they are acting with a clear mandate, having been elected by a majority of their members and, if they want to call an official strike, it will be a clear request from a majority of their members —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.162.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.188.5", "colnum": "188", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "ion of chemical warfare studies by the Russians. Does that account for the fact that there has not been a whimper of complaint from the Secretary of State about Reagan's decision to resume chemical warfare studies? In this arena there is nothing to choose between the two super-powers, and the Government should be as firm with the United States as they are with the USSR. Both should be called upon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.188.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.189.3", "colnum": "189", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "ernment protest about them both doing it? If it is right for us to abolish it, it is right for them to do so also. The Government need not worry. There is no fear that Reagan will leave the Alliance. Reagan needs NATO as much as, if not more than, we need Reagan. The British fleet safeguards the freedom of the United States by protecting the Atlantic approaches and the eastern seaboard of America—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.189.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.192.1", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "pe on both sides may be increased, and hence the risk of nuclear war will increase as well. In the face of all this, the Government's decision to increase the installation of cruise missiles on British territory is the reverse of a real defence policy. Such a stance is not resolute but irrational. What is equally irrational is that the Secretary of State appears to welcome a nuclear confrontation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.192.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.212.0", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "ose vessels are in the Falklands area. I emphasise that Lord Lewin raised the subject on that occasion, last week, and not me. Just as we are indebted to him for confirming on the BBC on 30 January that there was no difficulty in communication between Northwood and Conqueror during the period when the Belgrano was sunk, so we are indebted to him for that information, about which Ministers are coy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "I did not see who said that. I do not think that that comment came from the Front Bench.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.222.1", "colnum": "222", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "preceding_text": " on the Government side. The Secretary of State does not want to play war games. He wants to get on with the real thing. I had hoped that before more and more nations, some of them totally irresponsible, got hold of nuclear weapons, someone somewhere would start getting rid of them. I had hoped that the Labour party would win the election so that we could set that example to the rest of the world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.222.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, Hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": " our orthodox weaponry to defend ourselves, we should say to other countries, \"We have set the example. We expect you to join us in persuading the Soviet Union and America to come together to scale down their armaments steadily.\" It is a matter not just of unilateral disarmament but of unilateral nuclear disarmament. We hope that our example will spread. That might appear to be a fool's paradise —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.250.3", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. E. P. Duffy", "cue_text": "Hots. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. E. P. Duffy", "preceding_text": "stand aside beyond an irreducible minimum. However, his response to the right hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (Mr. Amery), who reminded him about Britain's limited negotiating position, means that there will be no negotiating in good faith by the United Kingdom. The Secretary of State knows that. He knows the real position, and he could not have made that statement this afternoon in good faith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.250.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.256.4", "colnum": "256", "heading": "Defence Estimates", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "spoke of leadership in the 1980s. We can be certain that we shall not get any leadership from the Labour party, because its members are going in opposite directions. If ever a debate was designed to throw up the internal contradictions of Labour party policies, it is this one. This afternoon, after the introduction by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State in a farsighted and profound speech—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.256.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.265.2", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Members' and Ministers' Pay and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Jeremy Bray", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Jeremy Bray", "preceding_text": "e other amendments can be divided on. To remedy the matter, Mr. Speaker, I ask you to accept a manuscript amendment to amendment (e) in the names of the hon. Member for Havant (Mr. Lloyd), myself and other Members, so that the substance can be taken as an amendment by the hon. Member for Poole, and so divided on. This is a major question affecting a matter on which hon. Members have a strong view.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.265.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.279.1", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Members' and Ministers' Pay and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "My amendment is a devoted attempt to get the House out of the difficulty that it now faces. Fourthly, I remind the House that it has twice voted in favour of linkage. It is right that the House should state overwhelmingly that linkage is the only way out of the difficulty and that that is what we want.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.279.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.279.5", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Members' and Ministers' Pay and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. du Cann", "preceding_text": "I cannot speculate about that. No hon. Member in his right mind would attempt to do that, although we must all rejoice at the low rate of inflation. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.279.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Members' and Ministers' Pay and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dormand", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dormand", "preceding_text": "I remember that well, and I am glad that the hon. Gentleman has pointed it out. I have had a most interesting experience in the past few days —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Members' and Ministers' Pay and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dormand", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dormand", "preceding_text": " it out. I have had a most interesting experience in the past few days — [Interruption.] You should not be smiling, Mr. Speaker! That remark relates to the theme to which I have devoted my remarks. Last week I made six national broadcasts on television and radio about this issue. I told my secretary to be prepared for an avalanche of letters. However, I have received only one letter on the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.283.2", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Members' and Ministers' Pay and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hugh Fraser", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Too long\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hugh Fraser", "preceding_text": "ervant who will emerge in in 1988, but to positive actual figure today which makes the thing realistic. My right hon. Friend the Leader of the House said that this would lead to a colossal problem at the next election. This Government are pledged to keeping inflation to zero. What are they worried about? Our amendment would encourage them to greater things. I have been in the House for many years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.283.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.289.2", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Members' and Ministers' Pay and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"My right hon. Friend did it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "My first remark will be widely welcomed, because I do not intend to speak for long, but I shall speak freely because this matter must be determined by the House, not by the Government. I hope that the payroll vote, as it has been called, will not be wheeled out this evening by the Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.289.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.289.2", "colnum": "289", "heading": "Members' and Ministers' Pay and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "es should increase by only 4 per cent. That is a completely wrong priority. The proposal that allowances should increase so that the gap between them and the salary paid to a Member becomes very small is highly undesirable. I welcome the initiative of my right hon. Friend the Member for Taunton. His amendment is an improvement—everyone will have to concede that—on the original Government proposal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.289.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.294.3", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Members' and Ministers' Pay and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "ensive, a responsibility and a duty of decision which is its own. The nature of the embarrassment arises from the conception which we attach to the nature of the salary. If that salary is the going rate for the job, the competitive rate in the market, we can test it by finding for how low a sum, if not for a positive payment, hon. Members can be found to stand for and secure election to the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.294.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.294.8", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Members' and Ministers' Pay and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"How much will it be?\") I consider that, viewed in that light, the present figure is perfectly adequate and ought not to be increased. [HoN. MEMBERS: \"Back to 1900.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "ney terms, of the abilities of hon. Members, their services and their labours, or of the place which they occupy in the constitution of this country. The figure should be such that it could not in any way be mistaken for the going rate, for remuneration or for the salary which individual hon. Members might command if we had taken a choice other than that which we and the electorate took on 9 June.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.294.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.295.3", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Members' and Ministers' Pay and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "No, I will not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.295.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.295.5", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Members' and Ministers' Pay and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A banana monarchy.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "Figures have been quoted in the debate, to the shame of those who quoted them, of the sums paid to members of other assemblies. I do not admit for a moment that we should judge the status or the honour of this House by comparing the emoluments of its members with what is paid in assemblies junior and inferior to this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.295.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.298.0", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Members' and Ministers' Pay and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "ho did a high mileage did not get a high marginal rate for every mile. That is not a commercial deal. In my view, it is not a necessary deal, although I declare an interest in that my constituency is seven miles from London and consists of 12 square miles. I say in public what I said in private to Plowden, that I thought it right to have a limit that changes after the first so many thousand miles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.298.0", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Members' and Ministers' Pay and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": " it right to have a limit that changes after the first so many thousand miles. [HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] The simple reason is that 9,000 miles a year produces a reimbursable payment—if that is the right expression—of about £2,200, and at a rate of 14p a mile after that it is about double the cost of 25 miles to the gallon. So there is still a contribution towards the overall running costs of the car.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.307.0", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Members' and Ministers' Pay and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Joseph Ashton", "preceding_text": " changed and the seats changed hands, about 80 hon. Members were suddenly thrown out of a job with a couple of weeks notice. The severance pay that they received was not up to the levels existing outside the House. I can quote from today's Daily Express which says: From the Commons to the dole. The article lists some of the prominent Members: Bill Rodgers, Albert Booth, Roland Moyle, Tom Bradley,—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.307.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.309.0", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Members' and Ministers' Pay and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "cue_text": "Horn. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "preceding_text": "s been fascinated by the subject of salaries. I think that I am now so good that I could almost tell a man's salary from the colour of his eyes. I have a professional feeling of solidarity with the distinguished members of the review body whom we specially asked to advise us and two of whom I know well. However, it is rather futile to ask those experts to advise us when we never take their advice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.309.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Members' and Ministers' Pay and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Dykes", "preceding_text": "I do not wish to stand against any suggestions that have come from the Chair, but I detect that the House wishes to proceed to a vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Members' and Ministers' Pay and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I fear that I cannot match in brevity the admirable speech of the right hon. Member for Lewisham, Deptford (Mr. Silkin).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.322.1", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Members' and Ministers' Pay and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "self admirably. I am certain that he has a highly successful House of Commons career ahead of him. I refer to motor mileage. Only someone possessed of the most rhinoceros hide would be unaware that my earlier remarks caused something of a reaction. I wish to dispel speedily the anxiety and unease that there may be about that. I shall at once, of course, arrange for an independent inquiry into the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.322.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.323.5", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Members' and Ministers' Pay and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give effect to.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "The Government will wish to return to the House to table resolutions which will take account of such a vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.323.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.323.6", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Members' and Ministers' Pay and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Wrigglesworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Wrigglesworth", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.323.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.326.3", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Members' and Ministers' Pay and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why then?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "e Member for Hampshire, East (Mr. Mates). My hon. Friend believes that developments in the economy in the next three years will be such as to render the proposals of my right hon. Friend the Member for Taunton insupportable. I assure the House that if on 1 January 1988 the linkage proposed by my right hon. Friend is patently inequitable, the Government will bring the matter before the House again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-19", "file": "debates1983-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "e7b6d95cbc12d503", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.327.3", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Members' and Ministers' Pay and Allowances", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "30 June 1983 for calculation purposes, although the linkage itself will operate from the date in the amendment. I feel that this could prejudice the working of linkage in that there would be the likelihood of a substantial salary lift if this formula were operated. I do not believe that a salary hike of perhaps 20 per cent. is the kind of circumstances in which one would wish to undertake linkage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-19a.327.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-20", "file": "debates1983-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c8424e96ee548af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-20a.483.0", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Sex Discrimination", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I have read in the newspapers that in the House one is not allowed to accuse another hon. Member of not being sober. However, I seriously put it to you that the Minister is incapable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-20a.483.0"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-07-20", "file": "debates1983-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c8424e96ee548af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-20a.483.11", "colnum": "483", "heading": "Sex Discrimination", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I understand how the hon. Lady feels. She has not been long in the House. However, she really ought to withdraw that allegation. It is not permitted to accuse an hon. Member in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-20a.483.10"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-20", "file": "debates1983-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c8424e96ee548af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-20a.491.0", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Sex Discrimination", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "ial irritated employee is going to pretend that her work is of equal value. It is an open invitation to any feminist, any harridan or any rattle-headed female with a chip on her bra strap to take action against her employer. I have heard of barrackroom lawyers and sea lawyers. This is a charter for petticoat lawyers. Why on earth do the Conservative Government bring this nonsense before the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-20a.491.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-20", "file": "debates1983-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3c8424e96ee548af", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-20a.537.1", "colnum": "537", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Housing)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "The waiting list has been falling because for many years, as the Minister knows, there was no good policy of house building, renovation and repair in Northern Ireland. It was not until direct rule was introduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-20a.537.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-21", "file": "debates1983-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "b01bb314b40a929d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-21a.577.10", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Rates (Glasgow District)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman does not agree with me. I presume, therefore, that the hon. Gentleman would not, like me, have abandoned action against Shetland but would have proceeded with it. The four authorities against which action continues were told in the letter of 29 June that I proposed to limit the rate reduction initially proposed and the authorities —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-21a.577.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-21", "file": "debates1983-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "b01bb314b40a929d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-21a.581.3", "colnum": "581", "heading": "Rates (Glasgow District)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "ve to place limits on overspending and that they did so when last in office. The Labour party should remember that it reduced the rate of RSG by 6·5 per cent. over two years between 1975–76 and 1977–78. We have also reduced it, but by 6·8 per cent. over four years. The comparison is interesting and I hope that the right hon. Member for Govan will address himself to it.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-21a.581.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-21", "file": "debates1983-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "b01bb314b40a929d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-21a.587.7", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Rates (Glasgow District)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He said June.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": " do not think that he knows anything about them. His hon. Friend the Member for Eastwood (Mr. Stewart) is now dealing with something else. He will know about it because he, with the Secretary of State, was at a meeting with COSLA on 22 April, when the specific point about the £4 million was drawn to the right hon. Gentleman's attention. That is not what the Secretary of State said this afternoon.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-21a.587.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-21", "file": "debates1983-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "b01bb314b40a929d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-21a.590.1", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Rates (Glasgow District)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": " There is understandable dismay that, after two years of moderation in Glasgow, the authority has put its foot on the spending accelerator once again. One need not be a Glasgow Member to know about the businesses that have been driven out because of high local authority rates. Every day small shopkeepers and commercial and retail organisations are driven out of business because they can no longer—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-21a.590.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-21", "file": "debates1983-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "b01bb314b40a929d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-21a.591.0", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Rates (Glasgow District)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": " powers. However, that is preferable to exposing ratepayers to increases year after year, and I am glad that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State was prepared to come to the rescue of hard-pressed ratepayers. During the general election campaign my right hon. Friend attended several meetings at which he articulated the Government's intentions on rates. Those proposals have won wide support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-21a.591.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-21", "file": "debates1983-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "b01bb314b40a929d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-21a.591.2", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Rates (Glasgow District)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley (Mr. Foulkes) should be careful when bandying about figures for the general election. If the Conservative party had lost 250,000 votes, I would not be here now. Many figures have been bandied about this afternoon, especially by the right hon. Member for Glasgow, Govan (Mr. Millan)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-21a.591.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-07-21", "file": "debates1983-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "b01bb314b40a929d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-21a.591.4", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Rates (Glasgow District)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"You are lucky.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am finding it difficult to hear what is being said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-21a.591.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-21", "file": "debates1983-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "b01bb314b40a929d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-21a.608.1", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Rates (Glasgow District)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will allow me to make my speech in my own way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-21a.608.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-21", "file": "debates1983-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "b01bb314b40a929d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-21a.608.3", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Rates (Glasgow District)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "Yes, but this Government found the money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-21a.608.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-21", "file": "debates1983-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "b01bb314b40a929d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-21a.624.5", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Rates (Lothian Region)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "real consequences of what we are debatig tonight. The first of these consequences is the dire effect on services already cut. This is the third year in which the Lothian region faces cuts, and we have already had experience of what those cuts mean. Livingston has the highest proportion of toddlers of any constituency in Scotland and I have more pre-school children than anybody else in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-21a.624.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-21", "file": "debates1983-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "b01bb314b40a929d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-21a.649.1", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Rates (Stirling District)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Michael Ancram)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Michael Ancram)", "preceding_text": "ctions in expenditure in 1983–84. It is a matter for regret that my right hon. Friend's act of understanding on that occasion has not been repaid in a substantial expenditure reduction this year. However, for 1983–84 Stirling's guideline excess was, at 29·5 per cent., well above the average and its expenditure per head at £68·89 was above that of comparable authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-21a.649.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-21", "file": "debates1983-07-21a.xml", "sha256": "b01bb314b40a929d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-21a.655.5", "colnum": "655", "heading": "Rates (Stirling District)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "rease in unemployment, in that it means an increase in public expenditure, and the massive increase in defence expenditure, such as the £10,000 million-plus which the Government plan to spend on Trident and which they are attempting to foist on the people of Scotland, despite the fact that the vast majority of those people want nothing to do with it. Those are the priorities of public expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-21a.655.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-22", "file": "debates1983-07-22a.xml", "sha256": "dbc0a099d0d122b9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-22a.698.0", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Regional Industrial Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This is a maiden speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-22a.698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-25", "file": "debates1983-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "a92069ef6f983a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-25a.786.3", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Energy Assets (Sale)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Max Madden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Max Madden", "preceding_text": "ast Thursday the Leader of the Opposition asked the Leader of the House for a statement to be made on the Government's public expenditure plans. That issue is tremendously important to all Back Benchers. On your election, Mr. Speaker, you restated your commitment to the protection of Back Benchers. Every city in the land is under threat from the effects of the cuts in the National Health Service —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-25a.786.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-25", "file": "debates1983-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "a92069ef6f983a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-25a.789.0", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Energy Assets (Sale)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "If the Chancellor of the Exchequer wants to make a statement there is no reason why he should not make it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-25a.789.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-07-25", "file": "debates1983-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "a92069ef6f983a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-25a.800.0", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Energy Assets (Sale)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Like Amersham International.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "The Government are selling shares where there is no national interest reason for the Government's holding them. They are sold as and when market conditions appear appropriate and in quantities which appear appropriate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-25a.799.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-25", "file": "debates1983-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "a92069ef6f983a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-25a.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Adjournment (Summer)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": " power nor in the intention of Her Majesty's Government to promote the aim which the Irish Republic has sought to attach as a condition to good relations between Ireland and the United Kingdom. The sooner that is understood—the sooner that is made clear in actions and not in words—the better it will be for the people of Northern Ireland and for the people of the remainder of the island of Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-25a.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-25", "file": "debates1983-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "a92069ef6f983a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-25a.805.0", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Adjournment (Summer)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": " which they have no statutory need because there are superb organisations in most boroughs that are coping magnificently with the problems of community relations. We do not want a set of interfering busybodies over the road running such committees. The only reason that many do it is to claim additional attendance allowances because many of them have never worked in their lives and never intend to.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-25a.805.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-25", "file": "debates1983-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "a92069ef6f983a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-25a.883.0", "colnum": "883", "heading": "West Midlands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Winnick", "preceding_text": " of what Lord Home of The Hirsel said in the 1930s, when he argued that many of the people who were unemployed in the north could become domestic servants in the south. What about the skilled and semi-skilled people in the engineering and allied trades who have been made redundant? Should men in their forties and fifties 5ecome waiters? Is that the best prospect that the Government can offer them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-25a.883.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-25", "file": "debates1983-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "a92069ef6f983a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-25a.899.2", "colnum": "899", "heading": "West Midlands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "That may be why the hon. Lady speaks more sense than some of her colleagues. As I was trying to say when I was so pleasantly interrupted, some of us were putting forward the argument many years ago that the main problem with west midlands industry was its near total dependence on the motor car industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-25a.899.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-25", "file": "debates1983-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "a92069ef6f983a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-25a.899.4", "colnum": "899", "heading": "West Midlands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "It is not irrelevant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-25a.899.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-25", "file": "debates1983-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "a92069ef6f983a32", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-25a.900.1", "colnum": "900", "heading": "West Midlands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "e we should have started that policy many years ago. Not nearly enough effort has been made, whether out of political embarrassment or lack of knowledge, to collect the moneys available from the European Community that could help to improve industrial and economic life, and the employment prospects, of the west midlands. I agree with some of the arguments of my hon. Friend the Member for Wallasey—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-25a.900.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-26", "file": "debates1983-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "60c728f60ebe89fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-26a.1048.3", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Lamond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Lamond", "preceding_text": "Before the Prime Minister gets carried away—;", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-26a.1048.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-26", "file": "debates1983-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "60c728f60ebe89fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-26a.1065.1", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "Steel Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hal Miller", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS Robust?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hal Miller", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State on his robust defence of British interests—;", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-26a.1065.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-26", "file": "debates1983-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "60c728f60ebe89fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-26a.1085.3", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "s a novel notion, is what is known as local democracy. The House wants to know what the future of local democracy is to be. On 6 July, the Secretary of State announced that he would publish a White Paper on the rating system towards the end of this month. There are only five more days in this month. Will the Secretary of State adhere to that commitment? He gave no sign in his speech that he would.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-26a.1085.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-26", "file": "debates1983-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "60c728f60ebe89fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-26a.1094.0", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right, too.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "ntrol over the way the services are delivered. Westminster city council recently decided that it would be cheaper if it privatised the cleaning of its town halls. Women workers who have given years of service, doing what in many cases was unpleasant work late at night or early in the morning, were told that they were surplus to requirements and that a private cleaning company would be brought in.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-26a.1094.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-26", "file": "debates1983-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "60c728f60ebe89fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-26a.1106.0", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Michie", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Michie", "preceding_text": " pompous or for believing that we know better than local authorities. Local authorities have tremendous responsibilities, some of which we cannot always understand, and certainly cannot experience, because we have a different job to do. I speak with the experience of 12 or 13 years on the local authority in Sheffield, which I consider to be one of the most progressive authorities in the country.—;", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-26a.1106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-26", "file": "debates1983-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "60c728f60ebe89fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-26a.1106.0", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Michie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Michie", "preceding_text": "nt decided to withdraw rate support and other grants. I deplore the argument that all the responsibility lies with local government. Every so often we get people coming from London to Sheffield. The Prime Minister, who came up for the annual Cutlers' nosh-up feast, had the nerve to say that Sheffield would be much better off and industry much healthier if the city council had not put up the rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-26a.1106.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-26", "file": "debates1983-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "60c728f60ebe89fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-26a.1107.0", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Knowles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Knowles", "preceding_text": "luded in the target. Again, that is not much incentive for councils to get a move on. Section B, paragraph 4, makes a point about home improvement grants. If, for various reasons, such as a shortage of staff, local authorities find that they cannot spend the money on the home improvement grants, will that money revert to the rate support grant? I do not know and I should welcome an answer on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-26a.1107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-26", "file": "debates1983-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "60c728f60ebe89fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-26a.1107.0", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Knowles", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"And in Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Knowles", "preceding_text": "arently appreciating the revenue implications of the consequential costs. All that must be taken on board but, as I said, it is not impossible. I led a council that more than achieved that, so it is possible. I would not welcome some Labour Members as allies. The hon. Member for Woolwich (Mr. Cartwright) spoke of some of the more lunatic spending that is going on in local government and so it is—;", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-26a.1107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-26", "file": "debates1983-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "60c728f60ebe89fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-26a.1122.3", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": " widely held expectation that local authority expenditure and manpower could continue to grow, regardless of the general condition of the economy or of the burden that this expenditure imposed on taxpayers and ratepayers alike. When we set out to halt and to reverse those seemingly remorseless trends, many wild accusations were made. No doubt Opposition Members will continue to make them tonight—;", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-26a.1122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-26", "file": "debates1983-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "60c728f60ebe89fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-26a.1130.2", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is the gauleiter.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "e this centralist bureaucracy upon them and to try to make them control matters which are outside their control. The time has come when the Secretary of State should have the guts to appoint himself to run local authorities in Wales. He should stop hiding behind his computers, multipliers, poundages and close-ending adjustments, accept reality and become the gauleiter of local government in Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-26a.1130.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-27", "file": "debates1983-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e368e7be9eb3cc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-27a.1171.5", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend knows that I have an interest in the industry —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-27a.1171.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-27", "file": "debates1983-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e368e7be9eb3cc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-27a.1174.6", "colnum": "1174", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "Given the rebirth of British industry over the last four years —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-27a.1174.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-27", "file": "debates1983-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e368e7be9eb3cc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-27a.1176.3", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": " cautious welcome to that answer, especially as it builds on a Liberal party initiative in the Finance Act 1978, may I make it clear to the Minister that the Liberal party believes that he could go much further on this matter? Does he agree that share ownership schemes have a value that extends well beyond being used as a carrot for the privatisation of nationalised industries? Does he also agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-27a.1176.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-27", "file": "debates1983-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e368e7be9eb3cc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-27a.1179.2", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the reform of insolvency law is urgently required, particularly by small creditors, to redress the balance against the preferential creditors such as the state, that is the Inland Revenue and the local authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-27a.1179.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-27", "file": "debates1983-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e368e7be9eb3cc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-27a.1179.2", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hanley", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the reform of insolvency law is urgently required, particularly by small creditors, to redress the balance against the preferential creditors such as the state, that is the Inland Revenue and the local authorities—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"]—the banks, with their floating charges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-27a.1179.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-27", "file": "debates1983-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e368e7be9eb3cc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-27a.1197.1", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Stock Exchange", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "The Act envisages other bodies being added to the list of bodies already exempt from its provisions. There is a substantial list of exempt bodies, including the trade union movement, the legal profession and my profession. The Act envisages that other bodies can be added to that list—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-27a.1197.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-27", "file": "debates1983-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e368e7be9eb3cc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-27a.1200.1", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Stock Exchange", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "A great deal less than they would have been if the action had carried on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-27a.1200.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-27", "file": "debates1983-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e368e7be9eb3cc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-27a.1201.3", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Stock Exchange", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Laurie Pavitt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Laurie Pavitt", "preceding_text": "I confess to the Secretary of State—no doubt to the surprise of many of my hon. Friends—that at one period I was a dealer on the floor of the London Stock Exchange.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-27a.1201.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-27", "file": "debates1983-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e368e7be9eb3cc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-27a.1221.0", "colnum": "1221", "heading": "Rating Reform", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "of the House for responding to my representations which resulted in the Secretary of State being here. In view of what the right hon. Gentleman said, particularly about the Government's acceptance of the need for consultation and the involvement of this House in consultation—it was in the interests of the House that I raised this matter—may I, with your permission, Mr. Speaker, ask two questions?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-27a.1221.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-27", "file": "debates1983-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e368e7be9eb3cc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-27a.1226.3", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": " this year's uprating had been based on the old forecast method—the one brought in by the Labour Government in 1976—it would have started with a forecast increase in prices of 6 per cent. Full adjustment for last year's over-estimate of 2·7 per cent. would have resulted in a rise of 3·3 per cent. in pensions, compared with the actual rise of 3·7 per cent. under the new method.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-27a.1226.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-27", "file": "debates1983-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e368e7be9eb3cc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-27a.1264.1", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Galley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Galley", "preceding_text": "The disasters of the last Labour Government were based on such fantasies —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-27a.1264.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-27", "file": "debates1983-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e368e7be9eb3cc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-27a.1290.0", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Benefit", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security (Dr. Rhodes Boyson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security (Dr. Rhodes Boyson)", "preceding_text": " the regulations are, I shall have to reply to the others in writing. We shall enjoy not only our conversations this evening but some written exercise afterwards. The matter is complicated. This is not an attempt to pass the buck of housing benefit to local authorities, which are responsible already for millions of people who receive rent and rate rebates. It was an attempt to simplify the system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-27a.1290.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-27", "file": "debates1983-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "e368e7be9eb3cc4a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-27a.1291.1", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Gabbling.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "that has Stockport seen the light politically but that it has introduced housing benefits so smoothly. When we considered when this scheme should be introduced, we found that an April start was a complex exercise, given the scale and diversity of the changes involved. Last November, 1·5 million people were transferred, and we did not experience the problems that have been outlined tonight —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-27a.1291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-28", "file": "debates1983-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "ba41286f24494c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-28a.1320.6", "colnum": "1320", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "HoN.MEMBERS:\"Reading\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister not agree that it is quite remarkable that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-28a.1320.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-28", "file": "debates1983-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "ba41286f24494c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-28a.1323.6", "colnum": "1323", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "pecific request for help. Our forces are, of course, in Belize. What happens in the rest of Central America is very important to Belize, which is a bastion of democracy in that area. It is important that it remains so. Also very important to us is what happens in the Caribbean, where we have at least one ship. Therefore, what the United States is doing to try to bring democracy to Central America—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-28a.1323.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-28", "file": "debates1983-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "ba41286f24494c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-28a.1329.7", "colnum": "1329", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Forum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "on the Liberal Benches welcome the Minister's announcement, but I urge him to go further and to say that, in proceeding in this way, he takes a totally different view from that reported from the Democratic Unionist party, which says that it is wrong to edge Northern Ireland into an all-Ireland situation. Will he tell the House that it is clear that Northern Ireland is in an all-Ireland situation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-28a.1329.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-28", "file": "debates1983-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "ba41286f24494c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-28a.1332.3", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "First, I take up the exchanges that took place a short while ago on the events that are taking place in central America, which are extremely urgent. There is still time for the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-28a.1332.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-28", "file": "debates1983-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "ba41286f24494c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-28a.1343.4", "colnum": "1343", "heading": "Royal Air Force (Defence Suppression Weapon)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Yes, it has.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-28a.1343.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-07-28", "file": "debates1983-07-28a.xml", "sha256": "ba41286f24494c64", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-28a.1382.0", "colnum": "1382", "heading": "Local Government (Audit Practice)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McWilliam", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" Newsline\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McWilliam", "preceding_text": "rdshire, West (Mr. Jones) that competition solves everything. When talking about areas that are effectively local monopolies, competition, while an interesting concept, cannot be held in all circumstances to solve all problems. However, I agree with the hon. Gentleman's general point. I hope that all local authorities will advertise in all newspapers, be it Labour Weekly, the Conservative whatsit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-07-28a.1382.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-24", "file": "debates1983-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8bb41f9a2794d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-24a.35.5", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Lebanon", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "This Lebanese Government was elected under the constitution —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-24a.35.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-24", "file": "debates1983-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8bb41f9a2794d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-24a.64.0", "colnum": "64", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"For how long?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend remember what happened recently in Zimbabwe? The very Conservative Members who seek to introduce this Bill cried out loud—quite rightly in my opinion — about those who were incarcerated by the Government there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-24a.64.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-24", "file": "debates1983-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8bb41f9a2794d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-24a.66.0", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "inst terrorism. If we are to give Lord Jellicoe the credit that the Home Secretary demands, and which I am sure Lord Jellicoe deserves, we must give proper weight to that judgment. That judgment is as it says it is. The Government are taking these powers not because they are certain that they will in some way assist in the fight against terrorism, but because they might do so and because we hope —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-24a.66.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-24", "file": "debates1983-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8bb41f9a2794d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-24a.86.3", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "preceding_text": "th terrorism, no matter in what part of the United Kingdom it may be taking place. I have listened to Opposition Members talk about the rights of those who are brought in. Let me ask a question. What about the rights of Ulster's murdered? What about the rights of a man going to work with a lunch box under his arm—unlike many Republicans who lie in their beds and take every state benefit available?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-24a.86.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-24", "file": "debates1983-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8bb41f9a2794d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-24a.100.1", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "th—I shall comment on some of his remarks in a moment, if I have time—is the action that leads up to that period, before the breakdown in law and order. I shall come to that in a moment. If one does not examine that aspect, it becomes too late to take the action that is needed. The Tory party is historically weak in protecting civil liberties. It has always been a reluctant and resentful convert —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-24a.100.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-24", "file": "debates1983-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "c4f8bb41f9a2794d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-24a.106.1", "colnum": "106", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "rson being questioned. The hon. Member for Hillsborough spoke of his belief in the need for a united Ireland and for political solutions to many of the problems. One always sympathises with those who want peaceful solutions to problems, but not many hon. Members would go along with him in saying that terrorists are deeply convinced political animals who believe they are fighting for a just cause —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-24a.106.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-25", "file": "debates1983-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "50cd6410a6211498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "That is not true. It is a lie. On a point of order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-25", "file": "debates1983-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "50cd6410a6211498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.135.9", "colnum": "135", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that before Her Majesty's inspectors report on standards in schools is sent to him, a draft is prepared by the headmasters and directors of education for the schools concerned?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.135.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-25", "file": "debates1983-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "50cd6410a6211498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "When I was in the United States, I made it very clear to the President that any resumption of the sale of arms to Argentina by the United States would be received with very grave concern—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.140.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-25", "file": "debates1983-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "50cd6410a6211498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.146.4", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Grenada", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "I repeat that we were keeping in close touch, through our embassy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.146.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-25", "file": "debates1983-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "50cd6410a6211498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.147.5", "colnum": "147", "heading": "Grenada", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "The President explained that those considerations took account of the factors affecting the safety of American citizens.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.147.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-25", "file": "debates1983-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "50cd6410a6211498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.150.7", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Grenada", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "Does not the Foreign Secretary think that it is time that he and the Prime Minister reconsidered their attitude of underwriting American policies across the world, particularly when that Government is conducted by a bunch of ignorant business men led by a President who is a dangerous cretin —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.150.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-25", "file": "debates1983-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "50cd6410a6211498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.151.2", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Grenada", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman, who is himself a distinguished actor, is in no position to criticise the Administration of the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.151.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-25", "file": "debates1983-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "50cd6410a6211498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.152.2", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Grenada", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "As I said when the question was first answered, the American action in Grenada is a result of their decision —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.152.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-25", "file": "debates1983-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "50cd6410a6211498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.153.4", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Grenada", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "The subject does not deserve jibes of that quality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.153.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-25", "file": "debates1983-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "50cd6410a6211498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.157.1", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Radioactive Wastes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I can well understand the anxiety to which my hon. and learned Friend has drawn attention. Perhaps it will go some way towards reassuring him and his constituents if I say that in the two areas in question, NIREX will undertake a substantial public information —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.157.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-25", "file": "debates1983-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "50cd6410a6211498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.157.2", "colnum": "157", "heading": "Radioactive Wastes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Cook", "preceding_text": "live only 400 ft above the site of the proposed waste? Will he also ensure that the inquiry is fully informed of the nature of the high concentration of industry in that area, of the wide range of very volatile substances that are stored in subterranean caverns, cheek by jowl in the same area, as well as the liquefied petroleum gas, the Calor gas, the propane, the ethylene and the ethylene oxide?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.157.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-25", "file": "debates1983-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "50cd6410a6211498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.158.1", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Radioactive Wastes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. Gentleman ensure that the inquiry is made fully aware that 14 per cent.—one sixth — of the registrable hazardous locations in this country are located in that area?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-25", "file": "debates1983-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "50cd6410a6211498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.162.0", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Radioactive Wastes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " The matter of funds for objectors at public inquiries has been considered many times by successive Governments, and in particular has been raised many times in connection with the Sizewell inquiry. I do not believe that it would be right for me to give any fresh undertakings on that at this stage. However, local authorities themselves are powerful bodies which can command considerable resources —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.162.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-25", "file": "debates1983-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "50cd6410a6211498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.168.0", "colnum": "168", "heading": "National Health Service (Management Inquiry)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": " proposing implies a reduction of staff inside the Department. It does not imply new tiers and new staff. Above all, it is a way of improving the method by which the structure works. We shall not impose new chief executives on top of the existing structure. In all probability the general managers at regional and district levels will be chosen from among the existing district medical officers and —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.168.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-25", "file": "debates1983-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "50cd6410a6211498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "National Health Service (Management Inquiry)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Favell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Favell", "preceding_text": "Opposition Members have shown concern for patient care. Does my right hon. Friend agree that the best way to ensure patient care is for the NHS to be properly managed, which at the moment it patently is not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-25", "file": "debates1983-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "50cd6410a6211498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.185.0", "colnum": "185", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tenants' Rights, Etc. (Scotland) Amendment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Milian", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Milian", "preceding_text": "figure that the Secretary of State inherited in 1979. It is clear that even the 1983 figure for private housing, let alone the public sector, will not be as good as that achieved by the Labour Government. The Secretary of State abused his position when opening the debate today by not mentioning last week's announcement on improvement and repair grants. The Bill deals with tenants' right of repair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.185.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-25", "file": "debates1983-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "50cd6410a6211498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.191.1", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tenants' Rights, Etc. (Scotland) Amendment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": " authorities in the original Bill regarding the families of tenants. Even that has been taken away by the Bill. The Secretary of State cannot abide the thought that a local authority may decide to make its own decision on these matters. We take exactly the opposite view. We believe that the decisions on all these matters should be taken by the democratically elected local authorities in Scotland —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-25", "file": "debates1983-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "50cd6410a6211498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.193.1", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tenants' Rights, Etc. (Scotland) Amendment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "se on the Opposition Front Bench will no doubt bear testimony to that, because they, too, find such letters in their postboxes. Some of the worst authorities in Scotland have even taken it upon themselves to get together for little secret conferences, financed by the ratepayers, so that they can discuss ideas, exchange views and co-ordinate their campaigns to frustrate those democratic decisions —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-25", "file": "debates1983-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "50cd6410a6211498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.193.3", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tenants' Rights, Etc. (Scotland) Amendment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "I am surprised that the hon. Gentleman is not aware that in varying parts of Scotland the employment prospects are slightly better —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.193.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-25", "file": "debates1983-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "50cd6410a6211498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.197.0", "colnum": "197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tenants' Rights, Etc. (Scotland) Amendment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Brown", "preceding_text": "cially it has only two clauses, but it is really a three-card trick. The clauses are so insignificant that it is no wonder that the Secretary of State said that it needs further amendment and that the clause on repairs will probably need to be dealt with by regulation. Let me give the background to the issue of sales. It is clear that we as a party oppose the indiscriminate sale of council houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-25", "file": "debates1983-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "50cd6410a6211498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.214.2", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tenants' Rights, Etc. (Scotland) Amendment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "en a tenant and builder. The Minister should give that careful thought. It would be wrong to pass a regulation whereby the sheriff court determined answers. This small Bill merits acceptance by the House. The main discussion has been about improvement grants which have nothing to do with the Bill. I do not object to the Opposition taking the opportunity to address themselves to that subject today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.214.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-25", "file": "debates1983-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "50cd6410a6211498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.246.3", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "The location of the head office and the activities of the company will be decisions for the board of directors. The company is the original company registered by the British Gas Corporation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.246.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-25", "file": "debates1983-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "50cd6410a6211498", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.246.3", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Gas", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "head office and the activities of the company will be decisions for the board of directors. The company is the original company registered by the British Gas Corporation— [Interruption.] It is exactly the same company. Some staff have been seconded from British Gas. The lovely dream idea that it is a new company with all new people is wrong. It is the same company. The company is preparing itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-25a.246.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.270.8", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend will know that my predecessors have successively reduced the proportion of local expenditure that is met by the rate support grant. That has been widely welcomed by many local authorities as increasing local accountability —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.270.8"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.275.2", "colnum": "275", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell", "preceding_text": "nd will look with great interest at the list of bodies that were consulted this summer, in particular to see whether consultation took place with the Nuclear Industry Radioactive Waste Executive? They will be asking whether the environmental protection of Cleveland will be taken into consideration when considering placing nuclear waste in the bowels of the earth at Cleveland. I refer the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.275.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.286.0", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Control of Dog Nuisance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Bowden", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Bowden", "preceding_text": "no irresponsible dogs, only irresponsible dog owners. I accept that of the 6·5 million dog owners a small minority do not keep their dogs under control but allow them to foul the pavements or to run wild, which is utterly unacceptable in our society. They should be fined very heavily indeed. If, in all our constituencies, every irresponsible dog owner was fined £50 for fouling the streets —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.286.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.291.1", "colnum": "291", "heading": "Grenada (Invasion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "ish territory in an island in another part of the south Atlantic was attacked by another aggressor, and that they will insist on the immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops from Grenada and the immediate cessation of hostilities. It has become clear in the past 24 hours that, if there is not an immediate withdrawal of foreign troops from Grenada, the fighting may go on for months, if not years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Grenada (Invasion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " of this affair one must feel that Her Majesty's Government have been guilty here of the same sort of fecklessness as they showed in dealing with the threat of an Argentine invasion of the Falklands 18 months ago. The prime responsibility for that fecklessness must lie with the Prime Minister herself. She has shown a lack of grip, a flaccid indolence, in dealing with a threat to British territory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.293.1", "colnum": "293", "heading": "Grenada (Invasion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " months ago. The prime responsibility for that fecklessness must lie with the Prime Minister herself. She has shown a lack of grip, a flaccid indolence, in dealing with a threat to British territory. [Interruption.] She has failed in her duty to the House. She has failed in her duty to the British people. She has failed in her duty to the Commonwealth, and she has failed in her duty to the Palace.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.293.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.294.2", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Grenada (Invasion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I should like the Foreign Secretary to tell us whether it is true, as widely reported in the newspapers this morning, that both the Prime Minister and the Palace first heard of the invasion from press reports. Is it also true that a telex from the Government of Grenada announcing the invasion was delivered to an old Foreign Office number which now belongs to a Scandinavian plastics company?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.294.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.294.2", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Grenada (Invasion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "aribbean region. Contrary to all her undertakings at the European summit, she supported the use of force for the solution of the problems of central America although she had signed a communique, along with the other heads of Community Governments, specifically disavowing the use of force as a useful solution to the problems. The Prime Minister has been an obedient poodle to the American President.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.294.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.294.2", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Grenada (Invasion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "on co-operation and consensus with his allies in favour of what has come to be called a sort of global unilateralism. That tendancy of the United States to go it alone in every aspect of world affairs carries with it immense dangers for world peace, since the American President at the moment sees the world exclusively in terms of red and white. He sees Russia as the foes of all evil in the world —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.294.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.294.2", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Grenada (Invasion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "y. I shall put three specific and urgent suggestions to her. First, along, I hope, with her European partners, she must not offer support for a multinational force in the Lebanon unless the United States joins the European Governments in pressing President Gemayel to give the Muslim majority in the Lebanon a fair share of power, and concedes the right of Syria to have an interest in the problems —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.294.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.294.2", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Grenada (Invasion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "t of Mexico. That Government certainly cannot be called Communist by any stretch of the imagination. It is about time that the Prime Minister started working with Governments who want conciliation in central America rather than with those who support confrontation. One of. the most worrying things that the President has said in recent days is that we cannot pick and choose where we defend freedom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.294.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.296.0", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Grenada (Invasion)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "I welcome this opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.296.0", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Grenada (Invasion)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "irmed reports that 12 Cubans have been killed during the fighting. There is no firm information at present about the extent of other casualties. In addition, there are reports that a number of Soviet nationals may have been detained, and rumours that Mr. Bernard Coard, one of the leaders of last week's coup d'etat, has sought sanctuary in the Soviet embassy. I am not in a position to confirm that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.296.0", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Grenada (Invasion)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "evacuation by British aircraft. A consular mission from the British high commission in Bridgetown is standing by to go to Grenada as soon as practicable to establish how many British citizens may wish to be evacuated. The majority of them are long-term residents of Grenada. I am glad to be able to inform the House that we have received assurances that the Governor-General, Sir Paul Scoon, is safe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.296.0", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Grenada (Invasion)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Sir Geoffrey Howe)", "preceding_text": "da as soon as practicable to establish how many British citizens may wish to be evacuated. The majority of them are long-term residents of Grenada. I am glad to be able to inform the House that we have received assurances that the Governor-General, Sir Paul Scoon, is safe. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"] For his safety, it would not be sensible in the present circumstances for me to say more than I have.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Grenada (Invasion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman will recall that I asked him to confirm the statement of Prime Minister Adams of Barbados that in the night of Friday a request was sent to Her Majesty's Government for support for military invasion of Grenada by a number of east European Caribbean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.298.3", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Grenada (Invasion)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You did not express it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": ". Nevertheless, the extent of the consultation with us was regrettably less than we would have wished. In the course of that consultation, my right hon. Friend made it plain to the United States Administration the views that we took, as one would expect her to do. For the right hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey), when there is a difference of view between the two countries plainly expressed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.298.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.300.15", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Grenada (Invasion)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "In a moment. The right hon. Member for Leeds, East sought to draw attention to the views of the United States President on the dangers posed by the Soviet Union to the world, and dismissed them lightly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.300.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.300.15", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Grenada (Invasion)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "e House considers his commendation of that resolution. The fact is that in Afghanistan troops have occupied the country. In Grenada, the intention of the United States and those who are acting with her is to move as quickly as possible towards the withdrawal of their troops and towards the holding of free elections. Would that the House could count on the prospect of free elections in Afghanistan—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.300.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.301.4", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Grenada (Invasion)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Leeds, East suggested that this week's events are relevant to decisions that might have to be taken about the use of nuclear weapons. There is no credible analogy between our exchanges with the Americans on Monday night and the consultations that would take place before any decision could be taken to fire American nuclear missiles from Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.301.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.301.6", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Grenada (Invasion)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "On a matter of this kind it is still possible for more than one view to be held—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.301.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.302.2", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Grenada (Invasion)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes—now.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "If I may return to the Caribbean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.302.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.302.4", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Grenada (Invasion)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They should not be there.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": " be in touch with our Commonwealth partners about that, and we welcome the willingness of the Commonwealth Secretary-General to help towards that end. The Americans, as the House clearly understands., have made plain their wish to withdraw from the Grenadian scene at the earliest reasonable opportunity. Meantime, their forces and those of Commonwealth countries involved are exposed to great danger", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.302.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.302.4", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Grenada (Invasion)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Resign, resign!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "hould not be there.\"] We shall do nothing to make their task more difficult. We must all wish for a speedy and successful outcome, one that will quickly pave the way for genuine elections in Grenada, for the first time in many years. The whole House will hope that Grenada will again be able to move forward along the path of democracy and so improve the prospects for peace throughout the Caribbean.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.302.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.317.0", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Grenada (Invasion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman seems to think that other people's motives are as low as his. I am speaking my mind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.317.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.317.6", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Grenada (Invasion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "uty to attempt to restrain rather than to encourage it. Damage has undoubtedly been done to the Alliance. The first duty of the Government is to seek to repair that damage as quickly and effectively as possible. It is right that we should make our views known through diplomatic channels, but it would not be right for the Foreign Secretary to stand at the Dispatch Box and condemn the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.317.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.318.0", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Grenada (Invasion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "preceding_text": "s for consultation; there may be only four minutes. If we cannot get an accommodation and have an honest agreement between allies in present circumstances, how can we believe that it could be done in other circumstances? I am not expressing animosity towards Americans. It is inevitable that our two countries, with a common culture and language, are tied together, rather like East and West Germany.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.318.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Grenada (Invasion)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "whole post-war tradition of acting on the basis of co-operation and consensus with the allies. He argued, in an absurd phrase, that the President of the United States is following a unilateralist policy which is creating danger for the world. It must be clear that the right hon. Gentleman has been delighted, to his shame, to use this debate as an occasion for pandering to anti-American sentiments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Grenada (Invasion)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "pposition Members, but it must be said that it does not serve the interests of the British people. The suggestion that the American Administration are following a unilateralist policy — which Opposition Members normally support and which on this occasion crept into the speech of the right hon. Member for Leeds, East — is absolute rubbish. The close consultation between the members of the Alliance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.331.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.331.2", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Grenada (Invasion)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Resign.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "ins still an essential purpose of the Alliance. The right hon. Member for Leeds, East also talked about servility. That, too, is utter nonsense. It is demonstrated by the fact that we disagreed with the view of the United States on this occasion and did not participate in the intervention. We formed our own conclusions. There is no trace of servility there. I invite the House to reject the motion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Civil Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "For example, the SS20—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.338.1", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Civil Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "er few words about casualty estimates, because there has been a good deal of recent discussion on this matter. All estimates are bound to be uncertain and no one should claim a monopoly of wisdom. Much of the research and evidence comes from the United States and should be examined in the light of British conditions — for example, British houses tend to be somewhat more solid than American houses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.338.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.356.3", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Civil Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": " one important aspect of these regulations— the harnessing of voluntary help. I have always believed that there is a huge reservoir of people who are willing, qualified and able to give voluntary help. We have no better example than the Royal Observer Corps which for many years, against a great deal of opposition to civil defence measures, has maintained its numbers and done a remarkably good job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.356.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.367.1", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Civil Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thorne", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the hon. Lady has been present for so little time that she did not hear much of the previous debate. In a time of conflict varying lengths of time apply. In the second world war six months elapsed before any hostilities of any magnitude took place which affected the civilian population but —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.367.4", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Civil Defence", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Marek", "preceding_text": "Is not one of the significant matters to be taken into consideration that a so-called civil defence policy would make the Government more likely to want to wage a nuclear war and to win it? I have rarely listened to such unadulterated rubbish as I have tonight. We are in the realms of fantasy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.367.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.369.2", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Civil Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Michie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Michie", "preceding_text": " help people, but they have returned to the period of tin hats and red crosses. I am surprised that in their shopping list they did not have a Vera Lynn record. That shows how far the Conservative party has progressed. I do not know how many hon. Members know much about nuclear weapons. Perhaps none of us knows a lot, but we all know a little. I know my little hit, as I was in the Royal Air Force—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.369.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-26", "file": "debates1983-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "973d7f227cdbf402", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.389.3", "colnum": "389", "heading": "Civil Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "derstand others, particularly on the Opposition Front Bench, who claim that their opposition is based solely on the Government's presentation of the civil defence proposals and that they are not against civil defence itself. The right hon. Members for Birmingham, Sparkbrook (Mr. Hattersley) and for Govan spoke about evacuation. The Government never made a decision to move to an evacuation policy —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-26a.389.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-27", "file": "debates1983-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e46d898f7a6c500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.415.8", "colnum": "415", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "carded by all rational people and rational Governments? In assessing the problems of 20th century depression, will he tell both the House and the 150 four-year-olds who have come here from Hackney today whether in his view, in theory or in practice, a relaxation of fiscal policy, including an increase in public expenditure, can lead to a permanent increase in the effective level of demand? If not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.415.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-27", "file": "debates1983-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e46d898f7a6c500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.421.8", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or American.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I confirm what my hon. Friend says. Grenada is an independent sovereign state, and is not British territory.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.421.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-27", "file": "debates1983-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e46d898f7a6c500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.422.11", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "e with everything that the Foreign Secretary said yesterday, particularly his view that there are much larger issues at stake between the United States and the United Kingdom, such as the whole future of the freedom of Europe and the whole future of NATO. We stand by the United States and will continue to do so in the larger alliances. The United States is the final guarantor of freedom in Europe—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.422.11"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-27", "file": "debates1983-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e46d898f7a6c500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.424.5", "colnum": "424", "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 no responsibility to answer for the Governor-General—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.424.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-27", "file": "debates1983-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e46d898f7a6c500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.426.0", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": " is frequently the device chosen because it enables a wide-ranging debate to take place. I should be surprised if, during the debate on Thursday, matters affecting the middle east, as well as matters in the Caribbean, were not raised. However, the right hon. Gentleman has asked me to consider his point, and I shall do so. The great zeal for debating shown by the right hon. Gentleman is consistent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.426.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-27", "file": "debates1983-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e46d898f7a6c500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.443.7", "colnum": "443", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "eches to the Tory party conference, even though he gives them in parliamentary answers. Fact 3 is that the health service is employing more front line staff like doctors and nurses than ever before. That is fine. But the Secretary of State should acknowledge that the figures that he produced are largely a benign legacy from the arrangements that were made by the outgoing Labour Government of 1979—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.443.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-27", "file": "debates1983-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e46d898f7a6c500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.444.8", "colnum": "444", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "nt. over the higher provision made for 1983–84. That was the phrase it used. Two days before the general election, on 7 June, the Secretary of State said: these plans will be subject to further consideration and upward review. There is no question of a downward review taking place on the public expenditure White Paper figures already published. We know now that was a premeditated falsehood—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.444.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-27", "file": "debates1983-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e46d898f7a6c500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.444.11", "colnum": "444", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "—premeditated—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.444.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-27", "file": "debates1983-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e46d898f7a6c500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.444.12", "colnum": "444", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Is the use of the term—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.444.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-27", "file": "debates1983-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e46d898f7a6c500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.447.1", "colnum": "447", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "are supposed to be issued at the weekend, as the Secretary of State promised last year. Let us examine the practical experience of hospitals. In the first six months of the year, the Royal Free hospital raised £167 from charging overseas visitors. The Royal Liverpool hospital, which has a great port nearby and could have expected many overseas visitors and casualties among seamen, raised just £71—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.447.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-27", "file": "debates1983-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e46d898f7a6c500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.450.0", "colnum": "450", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr. Norman Fowler)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr. Norman Fowler)", "preceding_text": "alue for money spent on patient care.\". One point is basic to this debate. Not surprisingly it is one of the many points that the right hon. Member for Islwyn (Mr. Kinnock) has ignored. It is simply that: All social services have to be paid for in one way or another from what is produced by the people of Britain. We cannot create a scheme which gives the nation as a whole more than we put into it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-27", "file": "debates1983-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e46d898f7a6c500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.450.0", "colnum": "450", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr. Norman Fowler)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr. Norman Fowler)", "preceding_text": "oduced by the people of Britain. We cannot create a scheme which gives the nation as a whole more than we put into it. [Interruption.] I am sorry that Opposition Members do not like those words. They are not mine but those of Clement Attlee in a broadcast on the eve of the introduction of the National Health Service in July 1948. That, of course, was a time when the Labour party had a real leader—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-27", "file": "debates1983-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e46d898f7a6c500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.450.0", "colnum": "450", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr. Norman Fowler)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr. Norman Fowler)", "preceding_text": " real leader— [Interruption] —and the badge of that leadership was that he was prepared to tell the public what was actually needed to sustain the Health Service and the social services of this country. The basic charge against the right hon. Gentleman is not his inability to describe the problems of the Health Service. No problem has yet been invented which he cannot trip past with a glib phrase.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-27", "file": "debates1983-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e46d898f7a6c500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.450.0", "colnum": "450", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr. Norman Fowler)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Social Services (Mr. Norman Fowler)", "preceding_text": "is country. The basic charge against the right hon. Gentleman is not his inability to describe the problems of the Health Service. No problem has yet been invented which he cannot trip past with a glib phrase. [Interruption.] The real case against him is his total bankruptcy of ideas and of policies to deal with the problems he describes. He inhabits a land where the generalisation reigns supreme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.450.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-27", "file": "debates1983-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e46d898f7a6c500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.485.7", "colnum": "485", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Birmingham hospitals?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "This hon. Lady will not give way. I am giving the Opposition a taste of what it is like to have no one give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.485.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-27", "file": "debates1983-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e46d898f7a6c500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.485.7", "colnum": "485", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": " be done, but along with four other ladies I work in an office in a hospital,\" which she named. She said, \"There is enough work for one person in that office. The rest of us have very little to do indeed. One of the clerks was retiring and we told the administrator that there was no need for a replacement as the rest of us could do the work perfectly well.\" Unfortunately, that person was replaced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.485.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-27", "file": "debates1983-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e46d898f7a6c500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.491.0", "colnum": "491", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Hawkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Christopher Hawkins", "preceding_text": "tituency. His contribution to the House was far greater than that recorded in Hansard. He served on numerous Committees and as a Whip for many years. As a result he was prevented from contributing to debate as often as he and the House would have liked. The House is poorer for his departure because of ill-health. I am sure that all hon. Members would want me to wish him a full and speedy recovery.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.491.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-27", "file": "debates1983-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e46d898f7a6c500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.495.2", "colnum": "495", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lies\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "preceding_text": "a further £778,000 between March 1984 and March 1985. How will that be achieved? First, by not appointing a badly needed consultant chest physician. The Minister is aware of the incidence of chest diseases in our part of south Wales from industrial causes. It will be achieved by cutting care for geriatrics in an aging community, and the already scarce health provision for the mentally handicapped—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.495.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-27", "file": "debates1983-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e46d898f7a6c500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.502.2", "colnum": "502", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Freedom of choice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "e Prime Minister behaves. She is keen on talking about leadership. Therefore, I shall put several questions to her, even though she has not honoured us with her presence this evening, although she was in the Chamber earlier. If she is so keen on giving a lead to the people, why did she not go for her own personal treatment to one of the best centres of excellence to be found anywhere in the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.502.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-27", "file": "debates1983-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e46d898f7a6c500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "for Crewe and Nantwich says that by generic substitution alone we can save £170 million, I would point out that the best estimate of the total profitability of the industry from the National Health Service is £250 million. On top of all the other things that she believes that she can obtain from the drugs bill, she will put 70,000 people out of work and turn away a great deal of inward investment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.512.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-27", "file": "debates1983-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e46d898f7a6c500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.513.1", "colnum": "513", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ny people they employed. The target exercise enabled them to concentrate on searching for efficiency and that will benefit the authorities. The record must be set against the rising demand for services. My hon. Friends the Members for Eastleigh (Sir D. Price) for Devizes (Mr. Morrison) and for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Mrs. Knight) in the most informed speeches on the Health Service all acknowledged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.513.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-27", "file": "debates1983-10-27a.xml", "sha256": "1e46d898f7a6c500", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.524.4", "colnum": "524", "heading": "Shoe Manufacturing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Although I accept your ruling, Mr. Speaker, that the length of speeches affects the number of participants in a debate, right hon. and hon. Members on the Liberal Bench represent more than 4 million people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-27a.524.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-31", "file": "debates1983-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "fd89d8cc60a25709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.601.15", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "Does that total include the figure for October? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that redundancies have escalated in Wales, especially in Ogmore? Is he further aware that in Maesteg unemployment stands at well above 30 per cent.? A factory is closing there and 560 miners are being pushed out of work at the Wyndham-Western colliery—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.601.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-31", "file": "debates1983-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "fd89d8cc60a25709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.607.2", "colnum": "607", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "We should make sure that regional policy is effective—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.607.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-31", "file": "debates1983-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "fd89d8cc60a25709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.622.3", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Intermediate Nuclear Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "s Fred Mulley, had within six months turned their support for that communique into support for the decision to deploy cruise and Pershing missiles by the end of this year. We are asked to believe that, alone of the NATO allies at that meeting, Labour in office would have taken a different course. Just to show how incredible that assertion is, there can be found Bill Rodgers' statement in Hansard —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.622.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-31", "file": "debates1983-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "fd89d8cc60a25709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.622.3", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Intermediate Nuclear Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "f cruise missiles in this country. The evidence is that they would have taken the same decision as all their NATO Allies and this Government actually took. Once the Government had taken the decision, they accepted it as essential. The trouble with the right hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Heale) is that he has all the intellect, all the experience, and none of the integrity necessary for his job—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.622.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-31", "file": "debates1983-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "fd89d8cc60a25709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.625.1", "colnum": "625", "heading": "Intermediate Nuclear Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary and I have made it clear that if START succeeds in changing dramatically the level of deployment of intercontinental strategic missiles, Britain would not stand apart from the consequences of that decision, which would welcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.625.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-31", "file": "debates1983-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "fd89d8cc60a25709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.628.0", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Intermediate Nuclear Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": " types of capability. I disagree with the right hon. Gentleman about the American Poseidon submarines, which are not subject to a physical dual key. They fire missiles. If he, when he was Foreign Secretary of this country, believed that missiles fired from British territory needed a dual key, I would be more impressed if he had acted then, when in government, than now, from the Opposition Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.628.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-31", "file": "debates1983-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "fd89d8cc60a25709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.628.2", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Intermediate Nuclear Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "know that the House will want to debate it at considerable length. It is therefore important for me to finish what I have to say. I have already given way on the matter. As I have said, the House will realise that for 30 years every British Prime Minister has been convinced that the assurances we have are absolute. Certainly, there are no military arguments for now changing to a dual key position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.628.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-31", "file": "debates1983-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "fd89d8cc60a25709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.629.4", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Intermediate Nuclear Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "our defences that it has been for more than 30 years. If we are to impose physical control on American weapons now, with all the political undertones that that implies in order to meet British public opinion, what possible argument is there to American public opinion that America should provide us with the absolute freedom to use the British independent nuclear deterrent without a dual key system?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.629.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-31", "file": "debates1983-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "fd89d8cc60a25709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.630.3", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Intermediate Nuclear Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "n increased risk of nuclear attack. would undermine public confidence in the Alliance—as it is already doing in all the countries in which deployment is proposed—and would make the prospect of disarmament far more difficult. The proposition that ground launched cruise missiles have no military value is endorsed by military experts on both sides of the Atlantic, including Field Marshal Lord Carver—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.630.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-31", "file": "debates1983-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "fd89d8cc60a25709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.632.3", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Intermediate Nuclear Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": " accuracy of the Soviet weapons. There is rough equivalence at the European level as well as at the global level. In Europe, just as worldwide, the West has so far offset its inferiority in land-based missiles with a superiority in submarine-launched missiles. The Soviet Union has been compelled against its will to rely on land-based missiles because its access to the world's oceans is so limited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.632.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-31", "file": "debates1983-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "fd89d8cc60a25709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.636.1", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Intermediate Nuclear Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ult. That is the case for a nuclear freeze, and a freeze has overwhelming support in the United States—75 per cent. support in the referendums which have been held, and passed two to one by the House of Representatives. There is still time for a major NATO effort to shift the emphasis away from reliance on nuclear weapons to deter conventional attack to conventional weapons, even if it costs more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.636.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-31", "file": "debates1983-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "fd89d8cc60a25709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.638.0", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Intermediate Nuclear Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "l-key system for any Cruise missiles based in the United Kingdom.'. In moving the amendment may I say that I look forward with confidence to 10 o'clock tonight to the right hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey) skulking away with an abstention\", to quote his own words. It is all very well to have some fun with the differences of emphasis, which I have never denied exist between our two parties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.638.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-31", "file": "debates1983-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "fd89d8cc60a25709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.644.1", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Intermediate Nuclear Forces", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Gilmour", "preceding_text": " The only way in which the events in Beirut and Grenada were related was by way of American internal politics. Having received a humiliating and hideous setback in Beirut, there was an additional incentive for the Americans to lash out in the Caribbean. That being said, and granted that the Reagan Administration is probably the most unreliable in foreign affairs that America has had since the war—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.644.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-31", "file": "debates1983-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "fd89d8cc60a25709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.657.3", "colnum": "657", "heading": "Intermediate Nuclear Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "I shall not answer that question for one simple reason.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.657.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-31", "file": "debates1983-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "fd89d8cc60a25709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.683.1", "colnum": "683", "heading": "Intermediate Nuclear Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Critchley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why is that important?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Critchley", "preceding_text": "weapons. No doubt, members of that wing of that party will make their case in due course. The right hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey) mentioned in passing the Thor missile, and reminded us that that missile, which was operational in the 1950s, was in fact dual-key. It was dual-key because it was a first-strike weapon, not a second-strike weapon. However, he did not carry that point through.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.683.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-31", "file": "debates1983-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "fd89d8cc60a25709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.694.0", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Intermediate Nuclear Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Stokes", "preceding_text": "inion should cloud our judgment over collaborating fully with the United States on cruise missiles and all other defence matters in Europe. The stakes are far too high for any other approach. I suggest that some hon. Gentlemen should go and see the wall in Berlin and the great frontier between East and West with the mines, towers, barbed wire, searchlights, dogs, and troops. On Thursday afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.694.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-31", "file": "debates1983-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "fd89d8cc60a25709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.695.0", "colnum": "695", "heading": "Intermediate Nuclear Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": ". Therefore, the question then arises: in what circumstances would British nuclear weapons be used if they were to be used in a situation that was unacceptable to the American Government? In what circumstances would we alone decide, without consulting Washington, to use nuclear weapons? It was the Secretary of State, not I, who raised the argument. If I have it wrong, perhaps he will interrupt me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.695.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-31", "file": "debates1983-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "fd89d8cc60a25709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Intermediate Nuclear Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "I shall certainly send to the right hon. Gentleman a copy of the Labour party's policy by which I am bound.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-31", "file": "debates1983-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "fd89d8cc60a25709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.699.3", "colnum": "699", "heading": "Intermediate Nuclear Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "r strategy at that time, said: Anyone who believes that the initiative for deployment originated with Europe believes in the Easter bunny. Obviously the Secretary of State believes in the Easter bunny. We can see that a new start is being made in the world—it needs to be. There is a growing belief throughout the world in not the probability but the certainty of nuclear war before the century ends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.699.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-31", "file": "debates1983-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "fd89d8cc60a25709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.702.1", "colnum": "702", "heading": "Intermediate Nuclear Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luce", "preceding_text": " of those weapons. The issue is fudged. I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will carefully reconsider his position. It is right to meet head on the main strand of tonight's debate, which was our relationship with our closest ally, the United States. That was raised by a number of speakers. The point was made effectively by my right hon. Friend the Member for Chesham and Amersham (Sir I. Gilmour)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.702.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-31", "file": "debates1983-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "fd89d8cc60a25709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.703.7", "colnum": "703", "heading": "Intermediate Nuclear Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luce", "preceding_text": "t 30 years. The suggestion that there is an analogy between our exchanges with the Americans on the eve of their troops landing in Grenada and the consultations that would take place before a decision to fire American nuclear missiles in Britain are, as my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs said in the House on 26 October, simply not credible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.703.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-31", "file": "debates1983-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "fd89d8cc60a25709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.704.1", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Intermediate Nuclear Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luce", "preceding_text": " fewer bombs, fewer missiles, fewer destroyers, fewer tanks and fewer rifles on both sides. That is our fervent wish. The two pillars reinforce each other. Without adequate defences, agreements on arms control will be that much harder to achieve. Aneurin Bevan once warned against the dangers of being thrust naked into the conference chamber. Without agreement, the maintenance of adequate defences—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.704.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-10-31", "file": "debates1983-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "fd89d8cc60a25709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.704.3", "colnum": "704", "heading": "Intermediate Nuclear Forces", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luce", "preceding_text": "In a speech that I made last week at the United Nations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-10-31a.704.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-01", "file": "debates1983-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "d9f2e5c726286255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-01a.737.7", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "lt to determine the accuracy of the Prime Minister's reply. As we are led to suspect that the answer to my question is none, can the Prime Minister tell us what validity there is in the central proposition made by the Secretary of State in last night's debate? Does she not agree with millions of our citizens who believe that there is a certain imbalance when the United States has cruise missiles —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-01a.737.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-11-01", "file": "debates1983-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "d9f2e5c726286255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-01a.738.2", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Reading.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Yes, Sir. It is clear, both from the Griffiths report and from the Merrison report, that there is much scope for economy within the NHS. The Griffiths report, most recently, said: It is almost a denial of the management process to argue that the modest levels of cost improvement at present required of the NHS are unachievable without impacting seriously on the level of service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-01a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-01", "file": "debates1983-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "d9f2e5c726286255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-01a.738.7", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend. The latest CBI survey is encouraging. It provides further confirmation of the recovery —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-01a.738.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-01", "file": "debates1983-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "d9f2e5c726286255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-01a.738.7", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "provides further confirmation of the recovery — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] For the sake of better accuracy on what the CBI survey says, I am reading. It says that business confidence continues to grow, as does optimism about export prospects, that output is expected to continue rising and investment is projected to grow at 5 per cent. through 1984, and that costs and prices are rising only slowly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-01a.738.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-01", "file": "debates1983-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "d9f2e5c726286255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-01a.739.2", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "Secondly, will the Prime Minister make a distinction between the British retaining sovereignty and a readiness to discuss the future of the Falkland Islanders? Will she realise that by making —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-01a.739.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-01", "file": "debates1983-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "d9f2e5c726286255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-01a.740.5", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I should have thought that the hon. Gentleman would be glad that progress towards recovery continued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-01a.740.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-01", "file": "debates1983-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "d9f2e5c726286255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-01a.754.3", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Shipbuilders (Borrowing Powers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "The figures that I gave are after intervention fund. The record of performance in some of the merchant offshore and ship repair yards has been appalling and we must face that. Productivity at some of the merchant yards has not returned to the level that it was at before nationalisation, despite the amounts of investment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-01a.754.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-01", "file": "debates1983-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "d9f2e5c726286255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-01a.784.0", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Shipbuilders (Borrowing Powers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Needham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Needham", "preceding_text": " as they might be. If the British merchant marine is to survive, there is no alternative other than to ensure that the owners buy their ships where they can at the best possible price. The Opposition complain about that, but what would be the position if they were in power? Does anyone suggest that a Labour Government would spend the same amount on the naval shipbuilding programme that we suggest?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-01a.784.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-01", "file": "debates1983-11-01a.xml", "sha256": "d9f2e5c726286255", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-01a.812.1", "colnum": "812", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Shipbuilders (Borrowing Powers) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "he yard registered a loss of £65·98 million. The loss had increased from £14·9 million in 1982—a staggering increase of £51·08 million. It accounts for over half the loss by the whole of British Shipbuilders. The reasons for such poor performance are varied, but they have been there for many years. I remember the strikes from my youth. The yard suffered from poor productivity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-01a.812.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-02", "file": "debates1983-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "cb63698b26a84322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.860.2", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Serpell Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "I suspect that the hon. Gentleman knows Crianlarich as well as I do. However, that is a complete distortion of the general purpose of the Serpell report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.860.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-02", "file": "debates1983-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "cb63698b26a84322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.866.8", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Housing Improvement Grants", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "urrent rules for eligibility in that people who live in a house the rateable value of which is in excess of the threshold do not qualify, albeit that they may be in considerable need? As I understand that a working party is at present reviewing the rules of eligibility, will he give urgent consideration to a relaxation of the rateable value threshold rule, but insist that the income qualification—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.866.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-02", "file": "debates1983-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "cb63698b26a84322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.867.6", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Housing Improvement Grants", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ancram", "preceding_text": "I always listen carefully to what the hon. Member for East Lothian (Mr. Home Robertson) has to say about improvement schemes as I know that he is a great believer in them so far as his own personal housing is concerned.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.867.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-02", "file": "debates1983-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "cb63698b26a84322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.935.1", "colnum": "935", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Michael Ancram)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Michael Ancram)", "preceding_text": "umptions of expenditure for the purpose of allowing local authorities to come into line more gradually with the Government's plans for their expenditure. Opposition right hon. and hon. Members will undoubtedly say that the variation order which we are debating would reduce the RSG payable this year by £45 million — a higher general abatement than the £27 million in each of the preceding two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.935.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-02", "file": "debates1983-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "cb63698b26a84322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.947.5", "colnum": "947", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "easure, the Government's refusal to reform the rating system, and their desire to take detailed control over every aspect of local democracy, it is little wonder that councillors of every persuasion and none in Scotland are disillusioned. Only last weekend a Conservative councillor in my constituency said that, as a result of the Government's policy, there would be no local government in Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.947.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-02", "file": "debates1983-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "cb63698b26a84322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.949.1", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "That is a typically nonsensical concept. The idea that coastline does not involve any land —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.949.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-02", "file": "debates1983-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "cb63698b26a84322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.958.1", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady will have plenty of opportunity in the next few years to develop those arguments, but that is pure chickenfeed in terms of public and local authority expenditure. I do not complain about who started this. It does not matter who made the first mistake or who was to blame. There are faults on both sides, and that should be recognised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.958.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-02", "file": "debates1983-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "cb63698b26a84322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.959.3", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "ey claim to speak on behalf of the people of Scotland. They have no mandate to influence —let alone direct—the level of rates in Scotland. Before the recess certain selective measures were taken against Stirling, Kirkcaldy and Glasgow district councils and the Lothian regional council. Last year similar measures were taken against Stirling and Dundee district councils and Lothian regional council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.959.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-02", "file": "debates1983-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "cb63698b26a84322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.961.3", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "ay to the hon. Gentleman. I come back to local government. The hon. Member who claims to be the Member for Stirling used to be a councillor here in Westminster, and I understand that he was well versed in local government affairs here in Westminster. I understand, too, that he is even more experienced in dealing with people who are trying to privatise local government and get rid of it altogether.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.961.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-02", "file": "debates1983-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "cb63698b26a84322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.961.8", "colnum": "961", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "st judgments. However, they are probably not his; he just accepts them from the Prime Minister and the Treasury. He is just the hatchet man or the puppet whom the Prime Minister uses to impose Tory rule in Scotland. He is like an unelected governor-general, who is kicking the people of Scotland and treating them as if their country were a colony. The people of Scotland can stand for only so much —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.961.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-02", "file": "debates1983-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "cb63698b26a84322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.963.5", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Ireland?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "We are seeing an increasing centralisation of power with decisions being taken in Whitehall, in St. Andrew's House or in various Government Departments. Parliament is very often unable to debate and vote on these measures, yet they are being steamrollered through without parliamentary accountability. Anyone who believes in democracy, whether he is from Scotland, England or Wales—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.963.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-02", "file": "debates1983-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "cb63698b26a84322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.963.5", "colnum": "963", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "land should be represented in this place, but that is another matter. I do not wish to be sidetracked because I am sure that Mr. Deputy Speaker would call me to order over the railroading of Ireland into this debate. I must get back to Scotland. The order is about rates. I could get unanimous support from all 650 hon. Members by saying that no one loves an increase in rates. It is an unpopular tax", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.963.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-02", "file": "debates1983-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "cb63698b26a84322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.964.1", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "In case the hon. Gentleman is referring to the fact that I was born and brought up in a council house and still live in one —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.964.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-02", "file": "debates1983-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "cb63698b26a84322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.969.0", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "e a better society. One of the best ways of creating a fairer opportunity in education, health and social services for the elderly, sick and the disabled, is by getting central Government off the back of local government. We must return to the standard of local democracy that existed in 1979 and build upon it. We must give the people what they voted for — freedom for their elected representatives—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.969.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-02", "file": "debates1983-11-02a.xml", "sha256": "cb63698b26a84322", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.969.0", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"They did not vote for your lot either\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": " and social services for the elderly, sick and the disabled, is by getting central Government off the back of local government. We must return to the standard of local democracy that existed in 1979 and build upon it. We must give the people what they voted for — freedom for their elected representatives— [Interruption.] The people of Scotland did not vote for that lot on the Conservative Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-02a.969.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-03", "file": "debates1983-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e26f671b05c5d37f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-03a.984.1", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Kellett-Bowman", "preceding_text": "Much as I respect the Minister, I regard his first answer as wholly lacking in urgency. It is not good enough.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-03a.984.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-03", "file": "debates1983-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e26f671b05c5d37f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-03a.987.12", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "d not pay a penny piece towards the licence fee while pensioners, who have been robbed and cheated by the Government over the past four years, have to pay the full £46? The Minister of State should not give me any of that nonsense about the BBC not having any money, because only the other week it agreed a contract with David Dimbleby, that anti-NUJ man who works for the BBC, for a £12,000 payment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-03a.987.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-03", "file": "debates1983-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e26f671b05c5d37f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-03a.997.3", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There are a number of indicators that would seem to suggest that the recovery is under way", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-03a.997.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-03", "file": "debates1983-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e26f671b05c5d37f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-03a.1015.0", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "e Community is to make a full success of our membership. Since the beginning of July I have spent many days in negotiation with our Common Market partners and can report to the House that throughout the Community there is greater recognition that there is a real budgetary problem for the Community as a whole to be resolved and beyond that a greater willingness to negotiate to resolve that problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-03a.1015.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-03", "file": "debates1983-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e26f671b05c5d37f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-03a.1020.1", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ach of international law. In an interview on Sunday, the Foreign Secretary belatedly made it clear that he shares that view. It is very disappointing that he did not join members of the Commonwealth such as New Zealand and Canada, and members of NATO such as the Netherlands and France, in condemning America's action on this occasion. By seeking to ride two horses, he has fallen between two stools.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-03a.1020.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-03", "file": "debates1983-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e26f671b05c5d37f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-03a.1036.0", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "er years—I have been occupied in British politics recently — I was impressed by the number of people who said that the right hon. and learned Gentleman has made an impact on the Council of Ministers as a Foreign Secretary. Admittedly, they gave a good reason for that — the right hon. and learned Gentleman is impervious to boredom, which is an important quality in the affairs of Europe. It is also—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-03a.1036.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-03", "file": "debates1983-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e26f671b05c5d37f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-03a.1036.0", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The lights are going out all over Europe.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "been occupied in British politics recently — I was impressed by the number of people who said that the right hon. and learned Gentleman has made an impact on the Council of Ministers as a Foreign Secretary. Admittedly, they gave a good reason for that — the right hon. and learned Gentleman is impervious to boredom, which is an important quality in the affairs of Europe. It is also— [Interruption.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-03a.1036.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-03", "file": "debates1983-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e26f671b05c5d37f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-03a.1038.1", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The right hon. Gentleman is not likely to now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "cy-making remained where they belong—with the Foreign Secretary in the Foreign Office, subject to discussion with the Cabinet. The Foreign Office has been much maligned recently. I hold no particular brief for it. It so happens that it is the only one of the three traditionally great Departments of state in which I have never served. However, I have worked with it closely and seen it in operation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-03a.1038.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-03", "file": "debates1983-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e26f671b05c5d37f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-03a.1044.3", "colnum": "1044", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": "I do not think the hon. Gentleman is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-03a.1044.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-03", "file": "debates1983-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e26f671b05c5d37f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-03a.1045.1", "colnum": "1045", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "preceding_text": "at to the United States' invasion of Grenada, show an acceptance or application of double standards. The Foreign Secretary reminded us of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Almost every right hon. and hon. Member strongly condemned that invasion. However, the United States invasion of Grenada is a mirror image of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Resemblances between the two are almost uncanny.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-03a.1045.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-03", "file": "debates1983-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e26f671b05c5d37f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-03a.1048.6", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "plify the problem by thinking in terms only of Israeli-Arab conflict. In fact, the inter-Arab conflicts are much more dangerous, partly because some of them are inspired by religion. Not only are Moslems set against Christians, but Moslem is set against Moslem. There are more than two different groups of Moslems who treat each other with the same brotherly love as some of the Christians in Ulster.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-03a.1048.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-03", "file": "debates1983-11-03a.xml", "sha256": "e26f671b05c5d37f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-03a.1048.6", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "lster. [Interruption.] Conservative Members should not laugh at that. Throughout history, religious differences have caused more bloodshed than almost any others. The rivalry between Shi'a and Sunni represents a real danger. It is no joke. Even if the callow hon. Members around him do not know that, the right hon. and learned Gentleman ought to know it. He should not laugh. I shall end as I began.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-03a.1048.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-04", "file": "debates1983-11-04a.xml", "sha256": "cbfab47645ccdd00", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-04a.1115.0", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "om direct experience when I say that the only thing that will make industrialists invest is demand and the prospect of being able to sell the end product. Whatever the range of help available for small industries and however beneficial it may be, we shall not achieve the rate of increase in the new small companies or the growth of existing industries required without investment. I have been brief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-04a.1115.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-07", "file": "debates1983-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "ce194f10e7b93264", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-07a.37.1", "colnum": "37", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Anti-police.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Unfortunately, there is a let-out on that as well. He is duty bound, except when he is not duty bound. That, basically, is what the Bill says. I recommend the hon. Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Griffiths) to read it for himself —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-07a.37.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-11-07", "file": "debates1983-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "ce194f10e7b93264", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-07a.51.10", "colnum": "51", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lyell", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-07a.51.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-07", "file": "debates1983-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "ce194f10e7b93264", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-07a.81.0", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "preceding_text": "munity. Those hon. Members who represent areas such as mine or that of my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Garscadden (Mr. Dewar) will know that above all else the police need people to come forward as witnesses. That will not happen if people are suspicious of the police and see them as the enemy. We must give the police more facilities. Strathclyde police are undermanned because of cutbacks —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-07a.81.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-07", "file": "debates1983-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "ce194f10e7b93264", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-07a.84.3", "colnum": "84", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholls", "preceding_text": " question could be asked in the light of the anecdote that I have just given the House shows the absolute depths of irresponsibility to which the alliance has sunk. What an extraordinary thing to say. I do not know why the police stopped me, but I guess that they said to themselves, \"Here is a person driving around in an area of this type late at night who does not seem to know where he is going\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-07a.84.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-07", "file": "debates1983-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "ce194f10e7b93264", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-07a.95.1", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "dence for an increasing number of offences, including car thefts and petty burglaries, unless the person responsible is apprehended at the time of or shortly after the crime. The Bill is a major step forward in providing real protection for the citizen. Of course, for every power that the police are given in the Bill, a new statutory safeguard is provided either in the Bill or in one of the codes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-07a.95.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-07", "file": "debates1983-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "ce194f10e7b93264", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-07a.100.0", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way, as I am short of time. We conceded a few minutes' extra time to Back Benchers, so the winding-up speeches started late. It is thus no discourtesy if I do not give way now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-07a.100.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-07", "file": "debates1983-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "ce194f10e7b93264", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-07a.100.0", "colnum": "100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "preceding_text": "owers that the Bill provides in that connection. I shall give an example which will be unpalatable to Conservative Members. If a peace demonstrator were arrested for writing \"No cruise missiles\" on a wall, would she be liable to the full force of measures in this Bill because that offence might lead to serious harm to the state or to public order? That is how far we have got with this legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-07a.100.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-07", "file": "debates1983-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "ce194f10e7b93264", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-07a.102.12", "colnum": "102", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman made his hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Perry Barr (Mr. Rooker) an exception to the general rule that Opposition Front Benchers cannot speak effectively. I think that the right hon. Gentleman adequately proved that point himself today.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-07a.102.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-07", "file": "debates1983-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "ce194f10e7b93264", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-07a.112.1", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sheep Variable Premium", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculure, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John MacGregor)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculure, Fisheries and Food (Mr. John MacGregor)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the Sheep Variable Premium (Protection of Payments) (Amendment) Order 1983, a copy of which was laid before this House on 15th July, be approved. This order enables us to give effect to a Community regulation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-07a.112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-08", "file": "debates1983-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "29f476fe0b90d611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.138.1", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tracey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tracey", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that it ill-becomes the Labour party to lecture the Government on unemployment since, on Friday last when the House discussed the important subject of small business, one of the greatest providers of new jobs —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.138.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-08", "file": "debates1983-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "29f476fe0b90d611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.152.4", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Summit Meeting", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I frequently said from the Dispatch Box—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.152.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-08", "file": "debates1983-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "29f476fe0b90d611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.153.6", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Anglo-Irish Summit Meeting", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I said precisely that I found no general increase in alienation, but in that part of the United Kingdom one is very concerned —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.153.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-08", "file": "debates1983-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "29f476fe0b90d611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.165.1", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": " may have resolved in the past or may now believe, a particular form of electing representatives is to be imposed on every British trade union, whatever its circumstances. In short, they seek to impose the rule that every voting member of a principal executive committee has to be elected every five years. That is the rule that the Government impose on every trade union, whether or not it wants it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.165.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-08", "file": "debates1983-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "29f476fe0b90d611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.177.0", "colnum": "177", "heading": "Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Leighton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Leighton", "preceding_text": "? Do they know, when they insure their houses with the Sun Alliance Insurance Group, that they are bankrolling this bunch of idealogues on the Government Front Bench? Do they know that they are contributing to the Government when they patronise Trusthouse Forte plc? This is an act of naked malice and prejudice. The Labour party has seen the public opinion polls, and it feels the wind in its sails.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.177.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-08", "file": "debates1983-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "29f476fe0b90d611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.180.0", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Ian Percival", "preceding_text": "s knows how they could become so excited about so mild a measure. The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East said that the Government were consumed with animosity towards the trade unions and the hon. Member for Newham, North-East talked about a \"mean, nasty vendetta\" and also used the word \"animosity\". That is bunkum. I know of no Government Member who entertains any of those feelings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.180.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-08", "file": "debates1983-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "29f476fe0b90d611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "preceding_text": "andom manner, as a reaction to anger and outrage, and are not generated by shop stewards. Part II is not necessarily all bad, but many questions must be asked about it. I fear that the Government may be introducing a measure that will make industrial relations on the shop floor more chaotic, and against the general improvement of British industry. My party will vote for the Bill on Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-08", "file": "debates1983-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "29f476fe0b90d611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.192.0", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hoyle", "preceding_text": "The Minister makes my point for me.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-08", "file": "debates1983-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "29f476fe0b90d611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.206.1", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mills", "preceding_text": "another Bill at some stage. It could be called \"The Customer's Right to Public Services Bill.\" So far we have said little about the rights of customers. I hope that my right hon. Friend will consult widely about the removal of immunity for monopolistic supply concerns so that the customer has the right to challenge some of their decisions. I am not sure how the mechanics of that could be arranged—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-08", "file": "debates1983-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "29f476fe0b90d611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.211.3", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": "go and now out of time—and others, often unelected, like him. Clause 2(2) denies the right to vote to union members who are not in employment. In the unions of which I am a member — the National Union of Journalists, the Association of Cinematograph and Television Technicians, of which Alan Sapper is a member, and British Equity—there are many full-time members who are not in full-time employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.211.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-08", "file": "debates1983-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "29f476fe0b90d611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.221.3", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "The Labour party's stance on industrial relations lacked credibility.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.221.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-08", "file": "debates1983-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "29f476fe0b90d611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.229.0", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "with his job of working hard for his country and employer and putting the country back on its feet. Apart from the contradictory nonsense of those two positions, the real absurdity of the lack of knowledge of the British trade union movement on the part of the Tories, the Liberals and the Social Democrats is that they delude themselves into thinking that it is run and owned by general secretaries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-08", "file": "debates1983-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "29f476fe0b90d611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.229.4", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": " House fundamentally is that we can all be swept away by passionate feelings, and, like anyone else, I can fall prey to that. Nevertheless, this debate deserves the most serious consideration, for on both sides of the House matters of real import have been raised and I shall deal with them as clearly and carefully as I can. In that spirit I take first, head on, the question of the party political—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.229.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-08", "file": "debates1983-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "29f476fe0b90d611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.230.3", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I will not give way at this stage. One hon. Gentleman who wishes to intervene has not been present during any part of the debate and I shall not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-08", "file": "debates1983-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "29f476fe0b90d611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.230.3", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "ne hon. Gentleman who wishes to intervene has not been present during any part of the debate and I shall not give way. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way\".] Very few Opposition Members have been present during much of the debate and therefore they are not in a position to intervene. It has been argued that we should apply the arrangements for balloting trade unions on political funding to companies as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-08", "file": "debates1983-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "29f476fe0b90d611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.230.3", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "he rules for donations by companies to political parties it did not choose the ballot as its method of control. Its reforms were different in kind. It did not consider owning shares in a company as being on a par with the importance of belonging to a trade union. Trade unionists on the whole have little choice as to the trade union to which they belong, while shareholders have considerable choice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.230.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-08", "file": "debates1983-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "29f476fe0b90d611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.230.5", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has not been present for any part of the debate, sitting down or standing up, so I shall not give way to him. Above all, the Labour party admitted no parallelism with trade unions and felt no obligation even to review the arrangements over the political levy, even though there was evidence of considerable concern among trade unionists about the levy —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.230.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-08", "file": "debates1983-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "29f476fe0b90d611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.230.5", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": " to be the case, we shall examine the matter, because we had no intention of circumscribing the trade unions. The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East asked whether a vote for a strike meant that there would have to be a vote to go back to work after a strike. The National Union of Mineworkers must have a vote before a strike; it does not have to vote to return to work after a strike.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.230.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-08", "file": "debates1983-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "29f476fe0b90d611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.231.6", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "That question comes curiously from the vice president of ASTMS —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.231.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-08", "file": "debates1983-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "29f476fe0b90d611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.231.6", "colnum": "231", "heading": "Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "That question comes curiously from the vice president of ASTMS — [Interruption] — an organisation that said that it would use every penny that it had to stop one of its members from taking it to court because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.231.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-08", "file": "debates1983-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "29f476fe0b90d611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.233.0", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman tell the House whether there has been a previous occasion in the House when the spokesman for the Department of Employment, which is an important Government Department, was a representative of the Conservative party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.233.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-08", "file": "debates1983-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "29f476fe0b90d611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.235.5", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "No doubt the hon. Gentleman could not be present for the debate. None of the present free, fair and secret elections showed up during Labour's leadership campaign. Was it too much to expect support from the right hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Stepney (Mr. Shore) for the principle of one man, one vote? After all, it was he who told ITN viewers that the Labour party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.235.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-08", "file": "debates1983-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "29f476fe0b90d611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.235.9", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": ". One of the things that amazes me about the debate is that the Labour party seems to think that only it is interested in the trade unions. However, we in the Conservative party would not be in government if it were not for the votes of trade unionists. However insulting the former Leader of the Opposition may have been to me, I would not be a Minister were it not for the votes of trade unionists.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.235.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-08", "file": "debates1983-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "29f476fe0b90d611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.253.0", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Asbestos", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cyril Smith", "preceding_text": "First, I should declare the fact that I own 1,300 shares in Turner and Newall Limited, — out of a total issue of 108 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.253.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-08", "file": "debates1983-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "29f476fe0b90d611", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Newspapers (Stockport)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "nts. As my hon. Friend the Member for Altrincham and Sale knows. we especially deplore attempts to enforce the closed shop by the back door through threats of blacking and other industrial action against employers who refuse to impose closed-shop working on their employees. I also deeply deplore any employer deciding that he will not employ somebody because of that person's trade union membership.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-08a.281.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-09", "file": "debates1983-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3244d2be6e464ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-09a.298.5", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "It is now generally recognised by our partners that the Community must agree measures that will end the budget inequity suffered by certain member states, notably the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-09a.298.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-09", "file": "debates1983-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3244d2be6e464ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-09a.298.7", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "There was a somewhat incredulous response from the Opposition when I initially replied to the question. However, I should point out that there is, indeed, unanimity among all member states of the Community about the fact that reform is needed to deal with Britain's budgetary imbalance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-09a.298.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-09", "file": "debates1983-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3244d2be6e464ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-09a.356.0", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Liverpool Area Health Authority (Budget)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": "eptember 1981, but on 30 September this year the figure was 13,288. That is a dramatic increase in the number of my constituents in that district health authority area who are waiting for hospital treatment. The Minister does not like the figures, but they are important. Whatever their origin or cause, the figures show the scale of the problem and are a starting point. If we go behind the figures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-09a.356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-09", "file": "debates1983-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3244d2be6e464ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-09a.356.4", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Liverpool Area Health Authority (Budget)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": "You know me well enough, Mr. Deputy Speaker, to know that I never stray in any circumstances. The Minister has made a pertinent point. I do not know whether he is accusing the doctors, nurses and ancillary workers in the Health Service of being inefficient. I would not make that accusation, and I doubt whether his hon. Friends would —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-09a.356.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-09", "file": "debates1983-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3244d2be6e464ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-09a.372.3", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Liverpool Area Health Authority (Budget)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "about 10 per cent. to 15 per cent. in certain specialties. It has not been possible in the NHS since 1948 to provide every specialty in every hospital in Britain. It is necessary for patients to travel to avail themselves of certain specialties. In the technical sense of the word it still remains the fact that the health authority is overfunded compared with other authorities in the Mersey region.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-09a.372.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-09", "file": "debates1983-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "3244d2be6e464ea8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-09a.392.3", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Solvent Abuse", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I utterly refute that statement. This is the first time in four hours that vulgar party politics have intruded on our otherwise totally bipartisan debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-09a.392.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-10", "file": "debates1983-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6bfaf637b7cc8c50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-10a.411.2", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister take time to congratulate the Secretary of State for Energy on behalf of Opposition Members and million; of pensioners, unemployed and low-paid people throughout the country on his fight in the Cabinet this morning against the Chancellor of the Exchequer to keep energy prices down below the rate of inflation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-10a.411.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-10", "file": "debates1983-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6bfaf637b7cc8c50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-10a.411.7", "colnum": "411", "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 may have noticed that the secretary general of the CBI concluded his speech by saying: We now have forward momentum\"——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-10a.411.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-10", "file": "debates1983-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6bfaf637b7cc8c50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-10a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that when MacGregor, the right hon. Lady's hit man in charge of the coal industry, was speaking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-10a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-10", "file": "debates1983-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6bfaf637b7cc8c50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-10a.412.3", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-10a.412.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-10", "file": "debates1983-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6bfaf637b7cc8c50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-10a.412.6", "colnum": "412", "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 when MacGregor spoke in Nottingham yesterday he said that if miners refused to withdraw the overtime ban he would withdraw the wage increase?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-10a.412.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-10", "file": "debates1983-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6bfaf637b7cc8c50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-10a.439.1", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Young People (Employment Opportunities)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Employment (Mr. Peter Morrison)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Employment (Mr. Peter Morrison)", "preceding_text": "' money to schemes to help prepare youngsters for work and to promote employment opportunities for them. During the next few minutes I shall demonstrate how we have done that. Interesting though the hon. Gentleman's analysis was, lasting employment opportunities, not just for young people, but across the board, depend — the hon. Gentleman did not mention this—on British industry being competitive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-10a.439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-10", "file": "debates1983-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6bfaf637b7cc8c50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-10a.450.1", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Young People (Employment Opportunities)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman well knows, we have our own plans for a debate on unemployment. We cannot accept the Liberal-SDP motion as it stands —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-10a.450.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-10", "file": "debates1983-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6bfaf637b7cc8c50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-10a.453.0", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Young People (Employment Opportunities)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "of our declining position in world trade and of the automative revolution means that our society will probably have an endemic and structural high level of unemployment. I wish that politicians of all parties would stop telling people at general elections the old lie that if they give them their votes, they will give them back their jobs tomorrow. We cannot do that, and that should be recognised —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-10a.453.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-10", "file": "debates1983-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6bfaf637b7cc8c50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-10a.456.2", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Young People (Employment Opportunities)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Thompson", "preceding_text": "e present for this very important debate. I hope that there will be a better attendance the next time we discuss these matters. I have studied the motion with some care, but I do not feel that it does a service to our young people. It does not meet the challenge of youth employment and I find it impossible to support the motion as it stands. I am, however, able to support the Government amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-10a.456.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-10", "file": "debates1983-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6bfaf637b7cc8c50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-10a.476.4", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Personal Social Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Ross", "preceding_text": "I invite the Minister to come to the Isle of Wight —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-10a.476.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-10", "file": "debates1983-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6bfaf637b7cc8c50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-10a.485.0", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Personal Social Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Timothy Yeo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Timothy Yeo", "preceding_text": "nistrators. I am not satisfied that regional health authorities are making enough progress in that direction. In addition to setting a date, if the numbers of children remaining in long-stay institutions were published regularly, that would help to focus regular public and political attention on the problem. I stress the importance of providing support for those who do the caring in the community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-10a.485.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-10", "file": "debates1983-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6bfaf637b7cc8c50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-10a.497.0", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Personal Social Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meadowcroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meadowcroft", "preceding_text": "gth and prevents it from being liberated. For example, the stigma attached to those on unemployment benefit means that they feel unable to claim the sums due to them, because they are made to feel that they are scroungers. After all, attitudes are just as important as reality. I was struck by an article that appeared in today's edition of The Times and which was written by Sir William Rees-Mogg. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-10a.497.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-10", "file": "debates1983-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6bfaf637b7cc8c50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-10a.500.0", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Personal Social Services", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mr. John Patten)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bring her back!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (Mr. John Patten)", "preceding_text": "easonable and reasoned public face which the alliance likes to put before the electorate. Instead, it is redolent with words of condemnation of what the Government are doing. The motion might well have been written by that late lamented-figure the hon. Member for Crewe and Nantwich (Mrs. Dunwoody), who was until recently the Front Bench spokesman for the Opposition. It is within the lingua franca—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-10a.500.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-10", "file": "debates1983-11-10a.xml", "sha256": "6bfaf637b7cc8c50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-10a.501.1", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Personal Social Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on—you have only 10 minutes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "ng but brief speech of the hon. Member for Leeds, West (Mr. Meadowcroft), who wound up the debate for the alliance. Leeds must be an interesting place to live in, with Balliol and bar-room brawling in Leeds, East and J. B. Priestley pragmatism in Leeds, West—a rather undistinguished sting in the tail that the hon. Gentleman will regret having read on to the record. Extremely constructive also was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-10a.501.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-11", "file": "debates1983-11-11a.xml", "sha256": "f0ffefbaadc96526", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-11a.528.1", "colnum": "528", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Video Recordings Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bright", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bright", "preceding_text": "material applies to the blue movie. Whether we like it or not, many people enjoy watching such films. I had never watched a blue movie, but I must admit that when I was in Sweden I was led astray by some Swedish politicians and I did not enjoy the experience at all. I have no wish to see blue movies. I acknowledge that some of my hon. Friends may wish to do so. Clause 4 allows for such safeguards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-11a.528.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-14", "file": "debates1983-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "f37cfefd09bb26e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-14a.608.8", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Member for Newport, East was not here then.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is not a point of order for me. I think that the hon. Member for Newport, East (Mr. Hughes) heard what the hon. Member for Ogmore (Mr. Powell) said earlier —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-14a.608.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-14", "file": "debates1983-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "f37cfefd09bb26e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-14a.616.1", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Cruise Missiles", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Michael Heseltine)", "preceding_text": "les had been arriving at RAF Greenham common for some time, that further equipment, including the transporter-erector-launchers, would be arriving shortly, and that I would make a further statement when the missiles themselves arrived in this country. In honouring that commitment I should inform the House that, earlier today, the first cruise missiles were delivered by air to RAF Greenham common.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-14a.616.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-14", "file": "debates1983-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "f37cfefd09bb26e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-14a.616.2", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Cruise Missiles", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Silkin", "preceding_text": "For the Secretary of State to talk of halting, modifying or reversing this American decision is completely unrealistic. The truth is that this American decision remains a watershed. Does the Secretary of State really know what is happening?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-14a.616.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-14", "file": "debates1983-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "f37cfefd09bb26e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-14a.617.0", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Cruise Missiles", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "made it absolutely clear that we hope the Geneva talks will go on and produce a satisfactory result. That is what we have been trying to achieve for four years and it remains a prime objective of NATO. The right hon. Gentleman asked about the possibility of the Americans trying to move cruise missiles out of the base without a joint decision. That will not happen. There is a categoric undertaking—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-14a.617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-14", "file": "debates1983-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "f37cfefd09bb26e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-14a.617.0", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Cruise Missiles", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "st Labour Government relied—that there will be no use of American weapons on or off British bases witout a joint decision. That was good enough for the then Labour Government and we have accepted it as the basis of our decision. The right hon. Gentleman suggests that I do not know what is going on and goes on to refer to an American decision, when the whole world knows that it was a NATO decision—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-14a.617.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-14", "file": "debates1983-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "f37cfefd09bb26e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-14a.617.2", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Cruise Missiles", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman must be aware that there is no possibility of the missiles being removed from Greenham common on deployment unless that is in company with a joint force of American and British personnel. That will not happen unless the British are—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-14a.617.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-14", "file": "debates1983-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "f37cfefd09bb26e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-14a.617.2", "colnum": "617", "heading": "Cruise Missiles", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "ate and timing of the cruise missiles at every appropriate moment. Indeed, it is fair to say that the dates and timings were in reflection of suggestions from this country rather than the other way round. My decision today was whether to abandon my Aldershot visit or cut it short. In view of the commitment that I felt to the large number of people at Aldershot who were looking forward to my visit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-14a.617.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-14", "file": "debates1983-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "f37cfefd09bb26e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-14a.618.0", "colnum": "618", "heading": "Cruise Missiles", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael McNair-Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael McNair-Wilson", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware of the steadfastness of the great majority of my constituents in supporting the stationing of cruise missiles at RAF Greenham common—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-14a.618.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-14", "file": "debates1983-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "f37cfefd09bb26e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-14a.627.1", "colnum": "627", "heading": "Cruise Missiles", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman asked me a number of questions. He first wanted me to say why I did not know that cruise was coming. The best answer that I can give him is that that would not be true. I knew that it was coming.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-14a.627.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-14", "file": "debates1983-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "f37cfefd09bb26e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-14a.646.1", "colnum": "646", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Grants and Awards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Madel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Madel", "preceding_text": " the initial stages for such funding will come from the rate support grant. If the rate support grant has been reduced substantially because a local authority has got itself into the penalty zone, how will that match in with central funding as a result of the Bill? Will the Secretary of State weight grant according to the penalties imposed on local education authorities either now or previously? —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-14a.646.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-14", "file": "debates1983-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "f37cfefd09bb26e1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-14a.691.1", "colnum": "691", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Grants and Awards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": " to miss their valuable contributions. Contrary to popular belief, this has been a good debate. I listened with great interest to Members from both sides of the House, and especially to the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, Central. I am delighted to see him in the House. He is a worthy successor to a worthy father. However, he should be on the Conservative Benches, and one day we may see him there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-14a.691.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-15", "file": "debates1983-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7725ce5f868c4e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.716.9", "colnum": "716", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You make more people sick.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "We are treating more patients this year than ever before—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.716.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-15", "file": "debates1983-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7725ce5f868c4e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.720.4", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "May I direct my right hon. Friend's attention to another matter? Will she today consult her Secretary of State for Energy and the Chancellor of the Exchequer about the cost of energy? How can she explain the proposed increases in the price of electricity and gas for next year —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.720.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-15", "file": "debates1983-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7725ce5f868c4e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.721.3", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No'", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "For the answer to that, the hon. Gentleman should go to the many reports that have been written. In fact, crime has increased in all countries of the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.721.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-15", "file": "debates1983-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7725ce5f868c4e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.729.4", "colnum": "729", "heading": "House of Commons Stationery (Members' Use)", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Harriet Harman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Harriet Harman", "preceding_text": "order, Mr. Speaker, I should welcome any guidance that you may wish to give me or the House. However, the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes) was referring to a meeting of local governors to protect our children's education. I offered to discuss the matter with your Office, Mr. Speaker, in order not to detain the House, but the hon. Gentleman insisted on raising a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.729.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-15", "file": "debates1983-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7725ce5f868c4e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.737.0", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "ational Coal Board, because for most of the period during which he says there was a lack of productivity he, along with Jim Slater, was organising Slater Walker trusts all round the world. That company went bankrupt, and the Labour Government, while trying to deal with \"Plan for Coal\" and many other matters, had to bail out that bankrupt firm which he had milked so successfully many years before —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.737.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-15", "file": "debates1983-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7725ce5f868c4e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "way from their policy of confrontation. In particular I urge Mr. Ian MacGregor not to take action in the coalfields that could damage the industry. I hope that he will not follow at the NCB the path he followed at the British Steel Corporation, which resulted in 100,000 steel workers being put in the dole queue. In other words, I hope that Mr. MacGregor will not try any practice of having ballots—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-15", "file": "debates1983-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7725ce5f868c4e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.743.1", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "n in the coalfields that could damage the industry. I hope that he will not follow at the NCB the path he followed at the British Steel Corporation, which resulted in 100,000 steel workers being put in the dole queue. In other words, I hope that Mr. MacGregor will not try any practice of having ballots— [Interruption.] I put it to Conservative Members that this is a matter for the union concerned.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.743.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-15", "file": "debates1983-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7725ce5f868c4e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.748.0", "colnum": "748", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "I congratulate the hon. Member for Sherwood (Mr. Stewart) on his maiden speech. Although he is a member of the National Farmers Union, he has certainly started to get a grasp of mining. He had some idea of the problems faced by the industry, but I cannot say that for the Secretary of State. My hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.748.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-15", "file": "debates1983-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7725ce5f868c4e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.751.0", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. T. H. H. Skeet", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the jobs and the men?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. T. H. H. Skeet", "preceding_text": "rcapacity in the industry. Another significant indicator is stock levels. Today there are 58 million tonnes of stocks compared with 34 million tonnes five years ago. The truth is staring us in the face. If only the Labour party and the miners would realise that it is no use producing all that coal if there are no buyers. If it cannot be sold abroad or at home, it goes into stock and remains there.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.751.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-15", "file": "debates1983-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7725ce5f868c4e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.751.2", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many pits?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "preceding_text": "ort puts it rather well: In 1981, for example, the losses incurred in 30 of the Board's older collieries totalled some £228 million, equivalent to 90 per cent. of the industry's operating deficit in that year. If a few totally unprofitable pits reaching the end of their natural life were closed, the industry could become viable, but if we try to retain those pits the industry will never be viable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.751.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-15", "file": "debates1983-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7725ce5f868c4e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "preceding_text": "As I have said before, if the NCB is prepared to pay the transportation charges —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-15", "file": "debates1983-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7725ce5f868c4e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.754.1", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skeet", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has put a figure on it. I am not doing that. I am prepared to look up the figures involved. Some job losses will be carried by natural wastage. The Government have given a guarantee to younger miners that they will be kept in employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-15", "file": "debates1983-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7725ce5f868c4e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.801.7", "colnum": "801", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I may ask the right hon. Gentleman a simple question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.801.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-15", "file": "debates1983-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7725ce5f868c4e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.804.0", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. Giles Shaw)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Energy (Mr. Giles Shaw)", "preceding_text": "s it does not mean change. That philosophy is not worthy of the industry or of those hon. Members on both sides of the House who have its interests at heart. The debate has been wide-ranging and more balanced than other debates. Since May 1979 the Conservative Benches have had a number of worthy representatives from coal mining areas. Debates on coal mining are now, certainly, cross-party affairs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.804.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-15", "file": "debates1983-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "c7725ce5f868c4e7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.815.0", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Education (Fees and Awards) (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the explanation about part III was as full as some hon. Members would have wished. Can the Minister expand on that? I am not clear about the specific provision which seeks to discriminate against English, Welsh, Northern Irish and overseas students—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-15a.815.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-16", "file": "debates1983-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4dc466d4126accac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.839.8", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "There are, of course, cases of dumping, as the right hon. Gentleman says. They are investigated and the anti-dumping unit in the Department is only too anxious to assist people, and has frequently done so, to prepare their cases for the Community. Where there is a good case, remedies can be taken. If the right hon. Gentleman has a specific case we shall look into it straight away.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.839.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-16", "file": "debates1983-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4dc466d4126accac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.857.5", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Improvement Grants (Cuts)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker has asked us to be brief. I shall not give way. I draw the attention of the House to a further piece of advice from the hon. Member for Walton. He wrote a book, \"The Class Struggle in Parliament\", to which his right hon. Friend the former Leader of the Opposition wrote a foreword.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.857.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-16", "file": "debates1983-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4dc466d4126accac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.858.5", "colnum": "858", "heading": "Improvement Grants (Cuts)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. The plain fact is that since 1979 we have made the grant system more flexible, more generous and better attuned to priority needs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.858.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-16", "file": "debates1983-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4dc466d4126accac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.868.0", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Improvement Grants (Cuts)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Reg Freeson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Reg Freeson", "preceding_text": "kle the question of replacement. I have a few matters to raise which inevitably are illustrated by my experience in Brent, to which I have alluded. However much the Minister may dislike our use of the word \"crisis\", in parts of the borough of Brent—I am sure that the same can be said of other inner city areas —we have reached a crisis. We now have 500 families in bed and breakfast accommodation. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.868.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-16", "file": "debates1983-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4dc466d4126accac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.873.3", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Improvement Grants (Cuts)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "preceding_text": "The short answer is no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.873.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-16", "file": "debates1983-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4dc466d4126accac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.874.2", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Improvement Grants (Cuts)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "preceding_text": "tingham, South (Mr. Brandon-Bravo). It was partisan and reeked of complacency. I suppose that was excusable, given that he did not address his remarks either to the motion or to the amendment. I also suppose that he is representative of the new generation of Conservative Members whose only experience of housing problems lies in deciding which one of their many homes they will live in that weekend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.874.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-16", "file": "debates1983-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4dc466d4126accac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.874.2", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Improvement Grants (Cuts)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "preceding_text": "0 a house and in Wales it is £52 a house. This is not a record of which anyone can be proud or one which the Secretary of State, who is the responsible Minister and who has presided over that decline, can attempt to justify, let alone support. In 1982, Shelter—a group that many Opposition Members will recognise as being in the forefront of housing battles — reported that since 1970 Wales has been—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.874.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-16", "file": "debates1983-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4dc466d4126accac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.878.1", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Improvement Grants (Cuts)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "I was referring to the Minister, as I am sure he knew. I come to my last point, which I am sure will be a great relief, but I am sure that hon. Members appreciate that I had to give way to the Minister. We should pay full regard to housing associations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-16", "file": "debates1983-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4dc466d4126accac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.883.1", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Improvement Grants (Cuts)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butterfill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butterfill", "preceding_text": "It was almost two years before the general election. The Government have always said that the larger grants would be temporary. Under the inspired leadership of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, we are at last seeing some recovery in the British economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.883.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-16", "file": "debates1983-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4dc466d4126accac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Improvement Grants (Cuts)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What does that have to do with improvement grants?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "preceding_text": "re were 107,000 starts in the public sector. That fell to as low as 37,000 in 1981, although it increased to 52,000 in 1982. Nevertheless, that was only half the number of starts in the last complete year of the Labour Government. It is also interesting to compare employment in the private construction industry. I have with me a list of the top six firms and the comparisons between 1981 and 1982 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-16", "file": "debates1983-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4dc466d4126accac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.888.0", "colnum": "888", "heading": "Improvement Grants (Cuts)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "preceding_text": ". are on the housing waiting list hoping for a decent home. The absence of a decent home and the inability to get a job are the two factors which are most likely to undermine a family and to provide an assault on the dignity of the citizens. Like many hon. Members, I have to live week in, week out, with the consequences of this policy. Bad housing is the cause of family breakup and social tension.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.888.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-16", "file": "debates1983-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4dc466d4126accac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.930.2", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Milk", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Torney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Torney", "preceding_text": "d to the regulations that the Minister is introducing. It represents 4,500 dairy companies and co-ops throughout England and Wales. Likewise, the Milk Marketing Board is hardly Socialist. It is as opposed as I am to the orders. The Minister does not appear to care about the 75,000 full-time workers in the milk industry—those in distribution, the roundsmen, the supervisors and those in the dairies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.930.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-16", "file": "debates1983-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4dc466d4126accac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.930.2", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Milk", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Torney", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That was UHT.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Torney", "preceding_text": "because they cannot afford the higher price. People want to pay less in times of mass unemployment. I do not know how the Minister can bury his head in the sand and say that the milk tastes nasty. Of course sterilised milk does not taste nice. I do not like it. The dog belonging to the former Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food did not like it either. The right hon. Gentleman told us that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.930.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-16", "file": "debates1983-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4dc466d4126accac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.932.2", "colnum": "932", "heading": "Milk", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "inent. The British housewife has more sense than to be conned by this evil-tasting liquid from the Continent. The Milk Marketing Board has already accepted this tremendous challenge and has many new products under consideration, which it is developing and which will be welcomed by the housewife when they come on the market. In this way, we shall help to reduce the supply of surplus milk in Europe.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.932.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-16", "file": "debates1983-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4dc466d4126accac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.942.2", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Milk", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colin Shepherd", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Why compound it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colin Shepherd", "preceding_text": "lations may not be so strict. No speech would be complete without mentioning the doorstep delivery. In my view, it is under attack even now from our own dairy industry. People in that industry are queueing up and falling over themselves to tender supermarkets for the supply of fresh, pasteurised milk which undercuts the doorstep delivery. That is the dilemma facing the dairy trade and the country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.942.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-16", "file": "debates1983-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4dc466d4126accac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.948.3", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Milk", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "No. The right hon. Member for Manchester, Wythenshawe (Mr. Morris) made his speech and in fairness to other hon. Members—because I have much to say—I will not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.948.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-16", "file": "debates1983-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "4dc466d4126accac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.948.3", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Milk", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "No. The right hon. Member for Manchester, Wythenshawe (Mr. Morris) made his speech and in fairness to other hon. Members—because I have much to say—I will not give way. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] I am endeavouring to answer the debate. I have singled out the five points on which we are agreed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-16a.948.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-17", "file": "debates1983-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "83bdc479a3ee3201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-17a.982.7", "colnum": "982", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has missed a fundamental point—the Falkland Islands are freehold, Hong Kong is leasehold. Under the treaty—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-17a.982.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-17", "file": "debates1983-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "83bdc479a3ee3201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-17a.986.0", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Government have an excellent practical record in helping the disabled, both with eligibility for benefits and with increased cash benefits. For example, invalidity benefit —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-17a.986.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-17", "file": "debates1983-11-17a.xml", "sha256": "83bdc479a3ee3201", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-17a.988.0", "colnum": "988", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I can start at the same point as the right hon. Gentleman started—with the opinion polls and the Telecommunications Bill. I happened to observe in today's Daily Telegraph that the right hon. Gentleman is slipping in the opinion polls. I would not draw any ungenerous conclusion from that statistical aberration. I invite him to show the same generosity towards the Telecommunications Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-17a.988.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-18", "file": "debates1983-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "c2832d710ef938ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-18a.1135.0", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Yeo", "preceding_text": "I have had a large number of contacts with many individual disabled people and organisations —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-18a.1135.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-18", "file": "debates1983-11-18a.xml", "sha256": "c2832d710ef938ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-18a.1141.1", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I acquit the hon. Gentleman of any need to refer to the clauses by number. However, he might have referred to some of the text of the Bill. It is not enough just to say, \"Let us do something about this. Never mind about this Second Reading debate. Never mind about the Bill. It can all be resolved in Committee\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-18a.1141.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-22", "file": "debates1983-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "b12713427bbbf9a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-22a.154.6", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about MPs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that throughout the population there are doctors and engineers who are not as good as we would expect —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-22a.154.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-11-22", "file": "debates1983-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "b12713427bbbf9a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-22a.162.9", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "The Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I think that the hon. Gentleman would wish to rephrase his comment that the Leader of the House knowingly decived the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-22a.162.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-22", "file": "debates1983-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "b12713427bbbf9a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-22a.204.5", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Restrictive Trades Practices (Stock Exchange) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parkinson", "preceding_text": "as my hon. Friend would wish, I suspect, but more than the Director General of Fair Trading would have had if he had won his argument before the court. Finally, there is the question of single capacity. I agree with the right hon. Gentleman that single capacity gives investment protection. That was why I said in my statement that the system of single capacity should be retained for the time being.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-22a.204.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-22", "file": "debates1983-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "b12713427bbbf9a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-22a.206.1", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Restrictive Trades Practices (Stock Exchange) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "o protect this country's invisible earnings, we have to reform the way our institutions work. If we are to reform, let us do the job properly. Let us not mess about. The Bill messes about. It merely moves a little way. It does not go far enough. It abolishes minimum commission, which in turn, so we understand and are told on the best available advice, will lead to the abolition of single capacity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-22a.206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-22", "file": "debates1983-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "b12713427bbbf9a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-22a.212.2", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Restrictive Trades Practices (Stock Exchange) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "It is not unusual. The right hon. Gentleman should know that. On the second issue, I am not prepared to say at this stage whether the operation of a free market is a good or bad thing —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-22a.212.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-22", "file": "debates1983-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "b12713427bbbf9a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-22a.228.1", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Restrictive Trades Practices (Stock Exchange) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ryman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ryman", "preceding_text": "y and I understand that the Director General registered more than 160 agreements. I do not dispute the importance of the stock exchange concessions, but the Minister makes a thoroughly false point in his intervention, because the concessions cover only a fraction of the 160 or more registered agreements. I shall not detain the House any longer as I know that many hon. Members are anxious to speak.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-22a.228.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-22", "file": "debates1983-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "b12713427bbbf9a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-22a.250.1", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Restrictive Trades Practices (Stock Exchange) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gould", "preceding_text": "That makes it entirely inappropriate to act as the regulatory agency—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-22a.250.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-22", "file": "debates1983-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "b12713427bbbf9a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-22a.267.0", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Parliamentary Building", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "preceding_text": " improvements in accommodation in this building. I regret much of the development of the work of Members of Parliament. Over the years we have become too much officebound, paperbound and some of us, let it be acknowledged, are in thrall to our own servants. Too many of us allow questions to be put down in our names which are a mere sop to the vanity of those who work for us as research assistants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-22a.267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-22", "file": "debates1983-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "b12713427bbbf9a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-22a.271.0", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Parliamentary Building", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Harrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Harrison", "preceding_text": "e?\" The Minister was not to blame, but the \"boys in the Box\" could not tell him. He asked, \"Walter, will you be kind enough to accept the insertion in the report of the details of the meeting?\" I said that I would. Five years had gone by and it cost us £53 million for hesitating, for not grasping the nettle and saying, \"This is what we are entitled to have and this is what we should really have.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-22a.271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-22", "file": "debates1983-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "b12713427bbbf9a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-22a.278.2", "colnum": "278", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Parliamentary Building", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "the right hon. Member for Wakefield said, we could have done it properly in 1968. I voted for it then. I did not very much like the designs put forward by Sir Basil Spence. They were modern and, perhaps, not quite the right setting to face the old Treasury building. But I confess that at that time I said we should get rid of the Treasury building and have a modern London and a modern Parliament. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-22a.278.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-22", "file": "debates1983-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "b12713427bbbf9a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-22a.281.0", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Parliamentary Building", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "e expensive and takes much longer. It amuses me that the PSA spends its time putting little lawns outside compulsive ruins so as to put notices on them saying \"Do not walk on this lawn.\" I hope that this matter will proceed with great dispatch; that the scheme will be continued, but not in the nervousness of phase 1 first and then, \"Let us see.\" I have lived through the Edinburgh opera house saga.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-22a.281.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-22", "file": "debates1983-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "b12713427bbbf9a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-22a.282.0", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Parliamentary Building", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roland Boyes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roland Boyes", "preceding_text": " cannot use the main Library. I should like to draw the attention of the Leader of the House to one matter. I hope that none of the young students from America who get placements is working in the Library and keeping my girl out. That would be unfair. She should have access to it, as it is near my office. I feel better now that I have said a few words, and am grateful for the opportunity to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-22a.282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-22", "file": "debates1983-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "b12713427bbbf9a9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-22a.287.0", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Parliamentary Building", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "preceding_text": " period in the House and for his work for the House as a whole and that of all his hon. Friends. If I may be allowed a small digression, when the history of the last Labour Government comes to be written, that extraordinary political feat of survival without any visible means of support, the role of my right hon. Friend the Member for Wakefield will loom much larger than anyone can anticipate now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-22a.287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-23", "file": "debates1983-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "71276eeeb353c901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-23a.303.6", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": " problems of conurbations? Does he realise that his proposals have hardly any supporters in the local government associations? The proposals will cause unnecessary dislocation of essential services. Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that, in addition, the proposals will result in control over those services being removed from the democratic process? They will be overseen by rate-raising quangos—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-23a.303.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-23", "file": "debates1983-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "71276eeeb353c901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-23a.319.4", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Messenger Group Newspapers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Montgomery", "preceding_text": "hey did not want to join the union? Is my right hon. Friend further aware that the union has accepted that point? On Sunday there was a 13-hour meeting between the two parties and ACAS. The point of difficulty seems to be the re-employment of the six people who withdrew their labour. That difficulty has arisen because the other employees in the organisation are not happy to have those people back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-23a.319.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-23", "file": "debates1983-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "71276eeeb353c901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-23a.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Messenger Group Newspapers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State agree that a politically inspired private notice question does not help the solution of a sensitive industrial dispute?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-23a.320.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-23", "file": "debates1983-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "71276eeeb353c901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-23a.320.1", "colnum": "320", "heading": "Messenger Group Newspapers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "se involved in the dispute? I quote from it: On behalf of the Organising Committee it is requested that the demonstration remains peaceful and you are asked not to attack the building or be provoked into using violence. Does the Secretary of State accept, if he can hear me above the interruptions from behind him, that the trade union involved acted responsibly in giving that advice to its members?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-23a.320.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-23", "file": "debates1983-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "71276eeeb353c901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-23a.323.12", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Messenger Group Newspapers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "ime, Mr. Speaker, because my point of order relates to an important matter on which you have ruled. You said that it was sub judice to refer to charges which are to come before the court. However, that did not prevent the Minister from out of hand condemning workers in relation to charges on which they have not yet appeared before any court. The Minister said that those workers were already guilty", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-23a.323.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-23", "file": "debates1983-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "71276eeeb353c901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-23a.324.1", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Messenger Group Newspapers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Parry", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Parry", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that I had a long meeting last Saturday with the full-time secretary and officials of the NGA at which strong allegations were made of police brutality against pickets?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-23a.324.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-23", "file": "debates1983-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "71276eeeb353c901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-23a.335.1", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Intermediate Nuclear Force Talks", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roland Boyes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roland Boyes", "preceding_text": " members faster than the British Communist party is the SDP? Why has the Minister concentrated on only half the formula? He said that the talks had to lead to balanced and verifiable reductions. The big problem in the talks is that cruise missiles cannot be verified for a number of reasons. First, they are very small. Secondly, they are mobile. How can the Soviet Union count them their satellites—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-23a.335.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-23", "file": "debates1983-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "71276eeeb353c901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-23a.336.4", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Intermediate Nuclear Force Talks", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Marek", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish\".", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Marek", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister stop misrepresenting the position and trying to mislead the country by equating the cruise missile with the SS20? The cruise missile is a cheap, accurate, new generation weapon with a first strike capability—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-23a.336.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-23", "file": "debates1983-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "71276eeeb353c901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-23a.360.0", "colnum": "360", "heading": "Pensioners", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon,. Friend make sure that when the inquiry is at work it looks with a very jaundiced eye indeed at some of the figures that were put forward today by the hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Meacher), who said that in Birmingham hundreds of thousands of pensioners were in difficulty over their rents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-23a.360.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-23", "file": "debates1983-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "71276eeeb353c901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-23a.378.0", "colnum": "378", "heading": "Pensioners", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "id, 2 million pensioners need supplementary benefits to make up their basic pensions. We have lowered the expectations of the House, of pensioners, and of pensioners' organisations. Keeping up with inflation is not enough if one starts from a low base, which is why the ratchet effect was one of the greatest advantages that pensioners enjoyed. I see the hon. Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-23a.378.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-23", "file": "debates1983-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "71276eeeb353c901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-23a.385.0", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Pensioners", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernie Roberts", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernie Roberts", "preceding_text": "em is to put money into places such as Hackney. Arising from this poverty and neglect Hackney borough has the second highest discharge rate from hospitals for schizophrenia—20 in every 10,000, which is almost twice the national average. Old people are being driven into insanity. It is no exaggeration to say that when they come to see me week after week at the surgery I see a mental deterioration.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-23a.385.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-23", "file": "debates1983-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "71276eeeb353c901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-23a.388.1", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Pensioners", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Half the arms programme\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "from thin air. The Government are a little more responsible and do not gull people in that way. The support of those of pension age takes in excess of £9,000 million a year from the resources of the Exchequer, taxpayers' money or contributions—whichever way it is put. Said quickly, that is a figure taken from thin air. However, £9,000 million a year is actually £16 a week from each person in work.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-23a.388.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-23", "file": "debates1983-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "71276eeeb353c901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-23a.391.2", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Pensioners", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "debate. That shows the paucity of the Government's efforts for the pensioners. Therefore, I do not take much cognisance of the argument about there being no money. There is always plenty of money for the purposes that some of my hon. Friends referred to earlier. My hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun (Mr. McKelvey) talked about Trident, which will now cost £10 billion or £12 billion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-23a.391.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-23", "file": "debates1983-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "71276eeeb353c901", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-23a.404.1", "colnum": "404", "heading": "Pensioners", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "puter broke down. Local authorities quickly complained that the system was not working. I have received no further request for extensions to the transitional arrangements for implementing housing benefit, although extensions have twice been given. I shall now deal with the pensions inquiry. I will then give a short summing up. I am sure that hon. Members would be disappointed if I did not do that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-23a.404.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-24", "file": "debates1983-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "05a55f524b1d8a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-24a.446.11", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I am dealing with one aspect of investment. The right hon. Gentleman may not be aware that there is likely to be an increase of 10 per cent. in private house building—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-24a.446.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-24", "file": "debates1983-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "05a55f524b1d8a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-24a.453.6", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I am not quite clear who the sophisticated satellite is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-24a.453.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-24", "file": "debates1983-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "05a55f524b1d8a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-24a.471.1", "colnum": "471", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "trol as Captain Mainwaring and Sergeant Wilson over their \"Dad's Army\" platoon, but it would be reasonable for the right hon. Gentleman to let us know whether he has any idea of what his party's policy might be. For example, does he support the Labour party's manifesto pledge to increase public expenditure by about £10 billion a year? If not, will he tell us by how much he has revised that figure?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-24a.471.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-24", "file": "debates1983-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "05a55f524b1d8a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-24a.476.4", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "Although both sides of the House will acknowledge that my right hon. Friend has never been lucky in the coincidence of his views and facts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-24a.476.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-24", "file": "debates1983-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "05a55f524b1d8a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-24a.504.0", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ralph Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Identify them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ralph Howell", "preceding_text": "00 more people looking after 100,000 fewer patients than in 1960. In the same period, in education, manpower has doubled from 600,000 to 1,250,000, and in local government a further 400,000 people have been employed. The problem is that restrictive practices are rife in the entire public sector and there are appalling losses because of theft, fraud and general waste, which does the public no good—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-24a.504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-24", "file": "debates1983-11-24a.xml", "sha256": "05a55f524b1d8a44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-24a.541.1", "colnum": "541", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman will contain himself. I have already mentioned some of the pointers to that successful outcome. The hon. Gentleman might care to ponder on a predicted 5 per cent. growth in manufacturing investment next year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-24a.541.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-25", "file": "debates1983-11-25a.xml", "sha256": "9722629d9034f895", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-25a.628.7", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Concessionary Travel (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "taking money away from the wealthy boroughs, such as the City, Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, and sharing the burden throughout London as a whole. If the present arrangement is scrapped, it will mean that the richer boroughs will make big savings and most other London boroughs will lose out. In the borough of Newham, it will cost an extra £700,000 out of the rates to continue the GLC scheme.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-25a.628.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-28", "file": "debates1983-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "2d0f3908cc432816", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-28a.660.2", "colnum": "660", "heading": "Ophthalmic Services", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": " in advertising and the end of the dispensing monopoly, that clearly has implications for the general ophthalmic service. I do not believe that it is reasonable to continue in the way that we have in the past and ignore the fact that these changes will take place. There is no way in which I can give the hon. Gentleman the average cost figure, for the good reason that there are so many differences—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-28a.660.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-29", "file": "debates1983-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d906b83b12f71388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-29a.754.2", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Why is the Minister not prepared to discuss something that is virtually known already? Is it not a fact that 572 missiles are to be distributed in Europe, of which we shall have 160 or so? Will the Minister agree with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-29a.754.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-29", "file": "debates1983-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d906b83b12f71388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-29a.756.3", "colnum": "756", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Silkin", "preceding_text": "A moment ago the Secretary of State said that the Russians would not mount a first strike against cruise—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-29a.756.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-29", "file": "debates1983-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d906b83b12f71388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-29a.766.4", "colnum": "766", "heading": "National Graphical Association (Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "ct the highway or to intimidate people when going to their place of work. I am glad to have the endorsement of the chairman of the Labour party on this point, because he appeared to suggest that there was a call in the Labour party to support the union in encouraging breaches of the law. I am referring to encouraging and paying people to come from other parts of the country to support the pickets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-29a.766.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-29", "file": "debates1983-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d906b83b12f71388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-29a.798.5", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Scottish Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "I have given way to the hon. Gentleman's colleagues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-29a.798.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-29", "file": "debates1983-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d906b83b12f71388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-29a.800.1", "colnum": "800", "heading": "Scottish Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "unity is aware that it may have to pay marginally more, but it is less than the rate of inflation. Energy prices paid by industry in Scotland and the other parts of the United Kingdom are lower than those paid in West Germany and the United States, which are Scotland's principal competitors. The quiet and growing confidence that exists in certain parts of Scotland cannot be measured by statistics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-29a.800.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-29", "file": "debates1983-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d906b83b12f71388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-29a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Scottish Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "raditional Scottish industries, many of which use the most advanced techniques. That is no reason for Opposition Members to denigrate the importance of high technology in general and electronics in particular, and the services that go with them. Some Opposition Members want to keep open uneconomic pits with wholly unsatisfactory employment conditions for men who would be better employed elsewhere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-29a.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-29", "file": "debates1983-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d906b83b12f71388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-29a.839.1", "colnum": "839", "heading": "Scottish Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "ost advanced techniques. That is no reason for Opposition Members to denigrate the importance of high technology in general and electronics in particular, and the services that go with them. Some Opposition Members want to keep open uneconomic pits with wholly unsatisfactory employment conditions for men who would be better employed elsewhere— [Interruption.] To do so, they are prepared to charge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-29a.839.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-29", "file": "debates1983-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d906b83b12f71388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-29a.847.1", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Scottish Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I apologise to the hon. Gentleman, but I shall not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-29a.847.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-29", "file": "debates1983-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d906b83b12f71388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-29a.847.1", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Scottish Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which sectors?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "everal hon. Members who spoke today implicitly rejected change. They mentioned the decline in some sectors of industry and gave instances of firms in difficulties, and suggested that those alone prove the generally poor state of the Scottish economy. However, the House should consider the full picture. The process of industrial revolution means the growth of some sectors and the decline of others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-29a.847.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-29", "file": "debates1983-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d906b83b12f71388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-29a.847.1", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Scottish Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "re than 180,000 since 1970, and increased by 11,000 between 1979 and 1981 alone. The most significant increase was in the professional and scientific services, but as my hon. Friend the Member for Strathkelvin and Bearsden mentioned the importance of the service industries, and said that they make Edinburgh an international port of call for big business that is as important as Zurich or Frankfurt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-29a.847.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-29", "file": "debates1983-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "d906b83b12f71388", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-29a.847.1", "colnum": "847", "heading": "Scottish Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "ent, manufacturing employment declined by 110,000. My hon. Friend the Member for Strathkelvin and Bearsden referred to the rate of new starts in Scotland. The statistics show that in 1981 8,000 new companies were registered in Scotland. Of course most of them are not at present major employers, but they are the seed corn from which tomorrow's major enterprises will grow. Success has been achieved—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-29a.847.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-30", "file": "debates1983-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "40cd31b21ee1c39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-30a.873.6", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Robertson", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that it was in my constituency, at Blantyre weir, that the historic return of the salmon to the Clyde was first noticed?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-30a.873.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-30", "file": "debates1983-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "40cd31b21ee1c39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-30a.884.0", "colnum": "884", "heading": "National Graphical Association (Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "gton, particularly in relation to the communications van of the National Graphical Association which has been parked at the Warrington works for four weeks with police permission, and which the police themselves have used during that period? Are not the deplorable scenes of violence the direct outcome of the folly of the Government in dragging industrial relations into the law courts and allowing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-30a.884.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-11-30", "file": "debates1983-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "40cd31b21ee1c39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-30a.885.1", "colnum": "885", "heading": "National Graphical Association (Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "The right hon. Gentleman should answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "ce about what happened last night. Violence caused by mass picketing would have been just as unlawful before those changes as it is today. My right hon. Friend is right to refer to the importance of the force of informed opinion. We in this House have a tremendous responsibility. We do not want a repetition of those scenes, and one of the ways of ensuring that is for all of us to condemn violence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-30a.885.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-30", "file": "debates1983-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "40cd31b21ee1c39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-30a.887.5", "colnum": "887", "heading": "National Graphical Association (Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": " enable the van to get out of the yard, but the police were provoking the incidents for many hours before that? The police have had an official complaint about that van with which I hope they will be able to deal. Is not the truth of the matter that this Tory Government have set out to smash the trade union movement and that they use the Tory judges in order to cripple the trade unions' financial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-30a.887.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-30", "file": "debates1983-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "40cd31b21ee1c39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-30a.891.1", "colnum": "891", "heading": "National Graphical Association (Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman wishes to pursue complaints against the police, there is a proper avenue for doing so. The hon. Gentleman said that it was a frightening experience to be there. I have no doubt that he is right in saying that. But what he has to bear in mind is that the purpose of lawful picketing as enunciated by the TUC itself in 1979 does not require 4,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-30a.891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-11-30", "file": "debates1983-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "40cd31b21ee1c39d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-30a.891.1", "colnum": "891", "heading": "National Graphical Association (Dispute)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": " hon. Gentleman wishes to pursue complaints against the police, there is a proper avenue for doing so. The hon. Gentleman said that it was a frightening experience to be there. I have no doubt that he is right in saying that. But what he has to bear in mind is that the purpose of lawful picketing as enunciated by the TUC itself in 1979 does not require 4,000— [Interruption.] If the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-11-30a.891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-01", "file": "debates1983-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "c723fd9e7f304f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.979.6", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meadowcroft", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister accept that many clubs — especially the working men's clubs referred to by the hon. Member for Normanton (Mr. O'Brien) — which play an important role in the community are facing increasing financial difficulties? Will he consider assisting them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.979.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-01", "file": "debates1983-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "c723fd9e7f304f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.984.2", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "We have heard much of the Prime Minister's policy of non-intervention. On 14 October Mr. Shah obtained his first two injunctions under the 1980 and 1982 legislation. That was also the day on which the Prime Minister met Mr. Shah in the north and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.984.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-01", "file": "debates1983-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "c723fd9e7f304f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.984.2", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ntervention. On 14 October Mr. Shah obtained his first two injunctions under the 1980 and 1982 legislation. That was also the day on which the Prime Minister met Mr. Shah in the north and— [Interruption.] If the Prime Minister wants photographic evidence I have it here. The Sale and Altrincham Messenger of 21 October carries two photographs of the Prime Minister in deep conversation with Mr. Shah.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.984.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-01", "file": "debates1983-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "c723fd9e7f304f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.984.5", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This dispute is about an attempt to impose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.984.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-01", "file": "debates1983-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "c723fd9e7f304f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.984.6", "colnum": "984", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House must listen in silence to the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.984.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-01", "file": "debates1983-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "c723fd9e7f304f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.985.8", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am not in a position to comment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.985.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-01", "file": "debates1983-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "c723fd9e7f304f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.986.0", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "e Opposition, who presented her with a question that has not yet been answered. In the meantime, will she read in today's Official Report the Standing Order No. 10 application made by my hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell), in which he inquired whether she was aware of what had transpired in the Peruvian peace talks and had been informed on 2 May before the sinking of the Belgrano—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.986.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-01", "file": "debates1983-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "c723fd9e7f304f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.994.6", "colnum": "994", "heading": "Commonwealth Heads of Government (Meeting)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I guess that there are many countries that would love to have a general election on their hands now, and who have never had or known what a general election means.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.994.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-01", "file": "debates1983-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "c723fd9e7f304f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.997.3", "colnum": "997", "heading": "Commonwealth Heads of Government (Meeting)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ns Security Council Resolution he will see that it was sponsored by this country and very well voted upon. It was a very good resolution. There is one other aspect, of course. Britain is a guarantor power. Under the 1960 treaty it has the duty of calling together the three guarantor powers, Turkey, Greece and ourselves, if we can manage to get the three together. If we cannot, it is possible that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.997.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-01", "file": "debates1983-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "c723fd9e7f304f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.1014.1", "colnum": "1014", "heading": "European Community (Budget)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "port by the Foreign Secretary on the Foreign Council meeting, the hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber raised doubts that the Government's position on budgetary contributions might impede the objective of the EC in obtaining the economic convergence of the economies of the member states. I find it a remarkable tribute to the blindness of alliance Members in their infatuation with Europe —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.1014.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-01", "file": "debates1983-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "c723fd9e7f304f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.1031.0", "colnum": "1031", "heading": "European Community (Budget)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "m credit for it. He fills the place remarkably well and may he long remain making the sort of speech that cuts no ice. I turn to the subject of the debate, to the early-day motion and to the amendment that stands in my name. Let me make two things crystal clear. First, I was asked to sign the early-day motion and at no time was I done the courtesy of being told I was to be one of the six sponsors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.1031.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-01", "file": "debates1983-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "c723fd9e7f304f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.1035.0", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "European Community (Budget)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": "y have adopted it? Whether I actually dirty my shoes with them in the Lobby this evening does not mean to say that I do not support it and will not continue to support it wholeheartedly. I am flattered that 130 more of my hon. Friends signed that early-day motion and that the bulk of them still fundamentally believe in, and agree with, what it says. I am flattered that my hon. Friends in the Gest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.1035.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-01", "file": "debates1983-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "c723fd9e7f304f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.1035.0", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "European Community (Budget)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, we do.''", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Marlow", "preceding_text": " European imports of manufactures. We provide the North sea fisheries. We provide North sea oil. We provide an extra political dimension. Why do we also have to provide the cash? It is unjust. Geographically, we are on the edge of the Community. Financially, I am sad to say, we are one of the less wealthy members. Why should we pay? We do not take money from Liverpool and give it to the southeast.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.1035.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-01", "file": "debates1983-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "c723fd9e7f304f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.1037.1", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "European Community (Budget)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "tone syndrome. We will not take it at County hall; why should we take it from Brussels? At least, in support of Red Ken, may I say that he takes the money from the rich to give it to the poor rather than the other way round. There is one way and one way only in which we can ensure fundamental reform of the Community. All of us, sceptics and enthusiasts alike, believe that we are in the Community —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.1037.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-01", "file": "debates1983-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "c723fd9e7f304f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.1065.0", "colnum": "1065", "heading": "European Community Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "delighted that my right hon. Friend said that the 1981 level was not acceptable to the Government and that he hoped — I am sure that the whole of the dairy industry hopes—that it would be based on the 1983 level of milk production, minus no percentage. I come from one of the areas which is a major milk producer. I am, of course, referring to the county of Cheshire, and Macclesfield in particular —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.1065.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-01", "file": "debates1983-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "c723fd9e7f304f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.1074.1", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "European Community Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "at and from the fact that the population is not expanding as fast as it was. No one can say that by encouraging more production, production will be cut. Farmers are not fools, and at the end of the day they realise faster than do most politicians that prices are reduced by increased competition. The CAP has closed all competition. Farmers are like most other people; they are like 999 out of 1,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.1074.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-01", "file": "debates1983-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "c723fd9e7f304f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.1078.0", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "European Community Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Corbett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Corbett", "preceding_text": "ntered into, which has not been repudiated, remains. That undertaking, to which we put our name, is as valid now as it was then and I expect the Minister to take the lead in honouring that obligation. I was amazed when the Minister, in opening the debate, said that he was minded to pursue a revised quota of 83,000 tonnes for New Zealand dairy products, falling by 2,000 tons a year over five years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.1078.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-01", "file": "debates1983-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "c723fd9e7f304f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.1089.1", "colnum": "1089", "heading": "European Community Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not going.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "hat the British Minister of Agriculture did today. The hon. Member for Wantage (Mr. Jackson) said that the Prime Minister should shift her ground on these negotiations. That is not the way to go into negotiations or to look after the British interest, about which the hon. Member for Macclesfield spoke. Hon. Members should not say to the Minister that he should shift his ground in the negotiations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.1089.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-01", "file": "debates1983-12-01a.xml", "sha256": "c723fd9e7f304f3a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.1092.1", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "European Community Common Agricultural Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman mentions the coal miners. The coal miners would love to have a common coal policy similar to the common agricultural policy, and they would like the subsidies that the farmers receive. The coal miners would like Community preference. If the hon. Gentleman compares the support for the farmers with the support for the industrial workers he will find that the farmers do very well indeed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-01a.1092.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-02", "file": "debates1983-12-02a.xml", "sha256": "1b99dae5f04b5453", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-02a.1147.2", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Northern Ireland Act 1982 (Amendment) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ken Maginnis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Maginnis", "preceding_text": "e Act reached the statute book last year, it held out the prospect of devolution but only as a tantalising and unobtainable result, always just out of reach, like the luscious fruit which hung a few inches above that unfortunate character in Greek mythology. I pay tribute to my right hon. Friend the Member for Down, South (Mr. Powell) for his great assistance in bringing the Bill before the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-02a.1147.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-05", "file": "debates1983-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "a1540a6d17f95fbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-05a.119.3", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Supplementary Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Hox. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "It is extremely likely to have cost hundreds of millions of pounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-05a.119.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-06", "file": "debates1983-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a29c3da18a2afb72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-06a.152.10", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morrison", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his congratulations. It is not something that often happens, and it is received in the spirit in which it was given. The hon. Gentleman will know that my hon. Friend the Minister of State was sitting in Committee all morning —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-06a.152.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-06", "file": "debates1983-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a29c3da18a2afb72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-06a.159.1", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Amery", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that the murder of nearly 300 American marines by forces supported by the Syrian Government left the Americans no alternative? Will he also assure the House that if British forces suffer any casualties we will hit back just as hard?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-06a.159.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-12-06", "file": "debates1983-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a29c3da18a2afb72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-06a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Companies (Political Contributions)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "If I sense the mood of the House aright, it is that the House wishes to come to a decision on this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-06a.166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-06", "file": "debates1983-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a29c3da18a2afb72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-06a.181.1", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Education (Grants and Awards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "he official Opposition have differences with Liberal Members—thank God for that. I would hate to have to agree with them on everything. Although the Liberals support comprehensive education, they still have a foot in the private camp. They cannot rid themselves of the foothold and I doubt whether they ever will. Of course, many hon. Members attended a grammar school. I remember my grammar school —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-06a.181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-06", "file": "debates1983-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a29c3da18a2afb72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-06a.257.0", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Education (Grants and Awards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "e and taxation. In a way, the wheel has come full circle. We are accustomed, with disputable accuracy, to trace the origin of this assembly to Simon de Montfort and the baronial quarrels with Henry III. But it was the borrowing habits of Henry III, as he successively sought to promote the fortunes of his brother as king of the Romans and his younger son as king of Sicily—if he was his younger son.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-06a.257.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-06", "file": "debates1983-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "a29c3da18a2afb72", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-06a.290.1", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Education (Grants and Awards) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "nt gave Parliament the power to veto projects, or to delay their start until satisfied about them, Parliament would become involved in what should properly remain a managerial and executive function. There would be risks of delay, and an inevitable increase in uncertainty and in administrative cost, and in some cases there could be international repercussions which would add further complications—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-06a.290.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-07", "file": "debates1983-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "e82608d0a6c25983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.305.5", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen Wells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen Wells", "preceding_text": "Although I accept my hon. Friend's explanation of the difficulties in which we find ourselves in relation to Kampuchea, may I ask him two questions —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.305.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-07", "file": "debates1983-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "e82608d0a6c25983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.322.2", "colnum": "322", "heading": "Athens Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ernments oppose significant reforms in the system of financing? Will the Prime Minister tell the House what response she made in Athens to the positive proposals put to her for joint action by member Governments to raise falling investment and to reduce unemployment across the whole continent of Europe? Will she accept that, especially in the light of our own prolonged slump under her Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.322.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-07", "file": "debates1983-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "e82608d0a6c25983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Athens Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "n statement, her own Chancellor budgeted for an increase of £420 million, or 50 per cent., in United Kingdom spending on agricultural intervention next year? Was not that a clear signal to everyone, including those with whom the right hon. Lady was negotiating, that the Government either had no clear intention of securing reform or had given up on it altogether? Was the Chancellor giving a signal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-07", "file": "debates1983-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "e82608d0a6c25983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Athens Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ear intention of securing reform or had given up on it altogether? Was the Chancellor giving a signal? [Interruption.] Apparently the right hon. Gentleman does not understand what I mean. Was it deliberate, or was it just stupid? In either case, does the Prime Minister recognise that the publication of those figures undermined her negotiating posture at the summit? Do not all those considerations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-07", "file": "debates1983-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "e82608d0a6c25983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.323.1", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Athens Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": " it. Our country has been let down again, and they are going to get more of it. The fact that the right hon. Lady has fallen into the period of the French presidency, the failure of Athens itself, the rebate problem and the incompetence of her negotiating stature leave us even worse off now than when she went to Athens. In a spirit of helpfulness and without resorting to any short-term expedients—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.323.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-07", "file": "debates1983-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "e82608d0a6c25983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.323.3", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Athens Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes—yours!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I shall seek earnestly to respond to your request, Mr. Speaker, but we have just heard one of the most superficial and inadequate statements —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-07", "file": "debates1983-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "e82608d0a6c25983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.323.3", "colnum": "323", "heading": "Athens Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"She said that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": " takes longer, by asking questions. In a spirit of helpfulness and without resorting to any short-term expedients—which I abominate as much as the right hon. Lady does — I suggest that the Prime Minister could gain much greater progress by the time of Brussels, first, by assuring the House that there is no question now of asking us for any increase in our own resources VAT contributions to the EC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.323.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-07", "file": "debates1983-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "e82608d0a6c25983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.324.0", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Athens Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "p talks. So far we have not succeeded, because the conditions set by the two parties for sitting down together are at present inconsistent. We shall persist in our efforts. There were talks between the countries represented in the multinational force in the Lebanon. We are in the multinational force together and we believe that we must continue to consult each other and to make decisions together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.324.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-07", "file": "debates1983-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "e82608d0a6c25983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.324.4", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Athens Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yet.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "romises that were suggested, the right hon. Gentleman would really have been able to criticise. They would have sold our farmers down the river and given us a substantial increase in contributions without any lasting solution on effective control of the budget or fairer sharing of the financial burden. I turn to the 1983 rebate. The sum of 750 million ECUs agreed at Stuttgart is not yet in default", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.324.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-07", "file": "debates1983-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "e82608d0a6c25983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.324.4", "colnum": "324", "heading": "Athens Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "rn to the 1983 rebate. The sum of 750 million ECUs agreed at Stuttgart is not yet in default [HON. MEMBERS: \"Yet.\"] The right hon. Gentleman spoke as though the Common Market were in default with Britain. It is not. That contribution of 750 million ECUs is due by the last day in March and there is no default unless it is not paid by that time. With regard to the right hon. Gentleman's next point —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.324.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-07", "file": "debates1983-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "e82608d0a6c25983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.326.3", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Athens Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Queen Maggie.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Head of Government. There were of course Heads of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-07", "file": "debates1983-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "e82608d0a6c25983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.326.3", "colnum": "326", "heading": "Athens Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, Head of Government. There were of course Heads of State—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Queen Maggie.\"] — and as hon. Members know —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.326.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-07", "file": "debates1983-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "e82608d0a6c25983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Athens Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": " Minister has mentioned the European Community running out of money in certain areas. While it is probably true that the funding of the EC is sufficient to last until August, does she not accept that there will be a considerable temptation for the Community to dip into the regional and social funds to fund the deficit in agriculture and other areas? Would she agree with us—would she agree with me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-07", "file": "debates1983-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "e82608d0a6c25983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.334.1", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Athens Summit", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": " running out of money in certain areas. While it is probably true that the funding of the EC is sufficient to last until August, does she not accept that there will be a considerable temptation for the Community to dip into the regional and social funds to fund the deficit in agriculture and other areas? Would she agree with us—would she agree with me—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"]—would she agree with us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.334.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-07", "file": "debates1983-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "e82608d0a6c25983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.373.0", "colnum": "373", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "That is a matter which we shall be explaining in more detail when we lay the statutory instrument before the House. I shall just say that we have been asked whether it might be possible to have exploratory voyages to the Falkland Islands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.373.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-07", "file": "debates1983-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "e82608d0a6c25983", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Sir Walter Clegg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Walter Clegg", "preceding_text": "that I see the scene developing. My right hon. Friend had the advantage of visiting Fleetwood in October. He met the people there, saw the facilities, and listened to the problems. In one small respect, the problems have abated since then, in that an industrial tribunal has found in favour of the inshore men being able to land their own vessels on the quays without the use of national dock labour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-07a.399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-08", "file": "debates1983-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "cc07d93f16e6596f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-08a.460.7", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "On the amount that pensioners have, if one takes our record over the whole period—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-08a.460.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-08", "file": "debates1983-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "cc07d93f16e6596f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-08a.462.4", "colnum": "462", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I note that the hon. Gentleman thinks that getting inflation down is very damaging for Britain—although our record is far better than his—and that the record of output per head is very damaging for Britain, although I think that it is very good. We have done far better on the National Health Service than the Labour Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-08a.462.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-08", "file": "debates1983-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "cc07d93f16e6596f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-08a.463.4", "colnum": "463", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister find time today to read an article—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-08a.463.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-08", "file": "debates1983-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "cc07d93f16e6596f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-08a.464.0", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "Laughted", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "Would the Prime Minister care to comment on an article in Monday's edition of The Times by a Mr. David Hart, who accused National Health Service workers in Enfield and elsewhere—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-08a.464.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-08", "file": "debates1983-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "cc07d93f16e6596f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-08a.464.4", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pavitt", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. In the previous exchanges, great political capital was made out of my constituency of Brent. I was at the meeting referred to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-08a.464.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-08", "file": "debates1983-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "cc07d93f16e6596f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-08a.479.5", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "preceding_text": " whether they could be tempered in a way similar to the Minister's proposals. I take that view from within the industry. however, I warn my hon. and learned Friend not to go too far. It is possible to go just over the limit in reducing not so much promotion costs but profits, with the result that the industry will find it not worthwhile to continue production of the valuable drugs in this country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-08a.479.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-08", "file": "debates1983-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "cc07d93f16e6596f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-08a.491.0", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "preceding_text": "ewhere in Britain. Northern Ireland prices are still 8 per cent. above the national average. For many families there will be little to celebrate this Christmas and precious little with which to celebrate it. The violence which desecrates and shames the politics of Northern Ireland must derive partly from a sense of grievance and from the despair and frustration that stem from the economic factors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-08a.491.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-08", "file": "debates1983-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "cc07d93f16e6596f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-08a.543.0", "colnum": "543", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. Cecil Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. Cecil Walker", "preceding_text": " The security aspect in my constituency has had a traumatic effect on my constituents. We have had our share of the troubles which have beset the Province in the past 14 years. As a result of the bombings, murders and numerous arson attempts my constituency has become the most deprived area in Northern Ireland. I have listened to the Secretary of State referring to an acceptable level of violence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-08a.543.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-08", "file": "debates1983-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "cc07d93f16e6596f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-08a.547.0", "colnum": "547", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Biggs-Davison", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"They are not true anyway.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Biggs-Davison", "preceding_text": "of State, would leap to his feet to refute that assertion, but there was no reaction. Then I said to myself, \"There will be a stern rebuttal when my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State replies to the debate.\" If it could be said seriously by any hon. Member that the policy of the Conservative party leans towards a united Ireland, those words would be music in the ears of the IRA and the INLA.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-08a.547.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-08", "file": "debates1983-12-08a.xml", "sha256": "cc07d93f16e6596f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-08a.565.0", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "t, East confesses that the emergency provisions legislation has done no good. Indeed, the situation is worse than when the legislation was introduced. There must be something profoundly wrong when the situation is admitted to be worse than it has ever been. It must not be divorced from the political background, so complex and intractable, which faces us all. We must try to maintain law and order —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-08a.565.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-13", "file": "debates1983-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "4b6c46ee395f3e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-13a.844.6", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Regional Industrial Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I am not sure in what way the hon. Gentleman seeks to draw a distinction between expenditure on regional economic policy and what he called \"global\" support. I should make it absolutely plain that I expect the total cost of our regional economic policy to be lower in future than it has been in the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-13a.844.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-13", "file": "debates1983-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "4b6c46ee395f3e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-13a.851.1", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Regional Industrial Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "I believe that the Secretary of State realises that these exchanges have brought out and confirmed the central piece of bad news that the Government, at a time when regional unemployment is at its highest level for 50 years, are to cut regional employment aid. That is the Government's message.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-13a.851.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-13", "file": "debates1983-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "4b6c46ee395f3e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-13a.862.5", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "One can derive a whole range of figures, depending on which way one does the calculations, but I defy the hon. Gentleman to produce an answer that is lower than the answer in the Bill, because the Bill represents an improvement for London ratepayers. I come now to the question of concessionary fares for the elderly and disabled, which is an important matter, especially for the 1 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-13a.862.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-13", "file": "debates1983-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "4b6c46ee395f3e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-13a.865.1", "colnum": "865", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "or attack upon the British tradition of local government. It is important to note from the beginning some of the reasons that the Government have given for this dictatorial action. The Secretary of State — London Transport's supremo, or, as has been suggested, commissar —proposes to give London Transport instructions similar to those of some alien, political philosophies that he does not endorse.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-13a.865.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-13", "file": "debates1983-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "4b6c46ee395f3e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-13a.893.2", "colnum": "893", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "ified my hon. Friends and me. He said that London needed a man with power, vigour and authority. We already have that—we have Ken Livingstone. The Liberal party and its proposals, such as they are, are out of touch with the reality of people and commuters in London, as is the Labour party. It must be appreciated that this Bill will take politics out of the London Transport system once and for all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-13a.893.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-13", "file": "debates1983-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "4b6c46ee395f3e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-13a.907.0", "colnum": "907", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Baldry", "preceding_text": " We seem to have been round this hoop before, not only in 1933, as the hon. Member for Newham, South (Mr. Spearing) said, but earlier—in 1924. In preparation for the debate I read the Second Reading debate on the London Traffic Bill of 1924. It is sad that the Labour party has still not got a statue of Herbert Morrison sitting on its Benches, because at least he had the national interest at heart—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-13a.907.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-13", "file": "debates1983-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "4b6c46ee395f3e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-13a.921.5", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": " Only a few months ago we heard that it was not possible for the boroughs to get together as to the funding of voluntary organisations. but they have now got together voluntarily to discuss that subject. From my conversations with leaders of different London boroughs and the leader of the LBA, I have no doubt that they will get together to produce a workable scheme to maintain concessionary fares—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-13a.921.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-13", "file": "debates1983-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "4b6c46ee395f3e2b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-13a.941.1", "colnum": "941", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "bject to an external financing limit but, as with British Rail, that limit will be perfectly adequate for all reasonable investment needs. Of course, there is nothing in the Bill to frustrate proper investment by London Regional Transport. The two should not be mixed up. A distressing aspect of the Opposition's case is that they do not seem to distinguish between revenue subsidies and investment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-13a.941.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-14", "file": "debates1983-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ea50c12676922381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.978.6", "colnum": "978", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman misses some of the points. We have a substantial surplus on invisibles and oils, and unless we are to have an extremely large trade surplus, which would bring its own problems, we must have deficits on some classes of goods. The hon. Gentleman does not read his Scottish newspapers. If he had read the Glasgow Herald on Monday —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.978.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-14", "file": "debates1983-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ea50c12676922381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.980.3", "colnum": "980", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I note what the hon. Gentleman says, but I understand that the truth of the matter is not entirely established. Of course, we have to understand that while there are no international understandings on the export of such items, if this country did not export them someone else would.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.980.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-14", "file": "debates1983-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ea50c12676922381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.991.1", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "ughout the whole of BSC? Will he note that the best parts of those industries—paid for by public money, sometimes known by Conservative Members as taxpayers' money — are being sold off at knock-down prices under Phoenix 2, so creating the ashes from which Phoenix 2 must arise? Will he look, for example, at Guest, Keen and Nettlefold and the plan in which it is engaging to become a major monopoly —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.991.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-14", "file": "debates1983-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ea50c12676922381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.992.5", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "ermediaries, particularly chartered accountants and bank managers. To facilitate what my hon. Friend is suggesting, I intend to publish a sophisticated version of the Government publication \"How to make your Business Grow\". It will be provided for the intermediaries. We shall make it so thick that it cannot be thrown in the waste paper basket. It should be available for small firms seeking advice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.992.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-14", "file": "debates1983-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ea50c12676922381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.998.4", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ulged in what is euphemistically called creative accounting, and in that way disguised its expenditure and minimised its holdback. Next year, Hackney's problems may well come home to roost. The hon. Gentleman asked me about the 1982·83 supplementary report. Because the GLC hopelessly over-budgeted, there will probably be a substantial gap between its budgeting for that year and its outturn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.998.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-14", "file": "debates1983-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ea50c12676922381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.998.4", "colnum": "998", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "d its holdback. Next year, Hackney's problems may well come home to roost. The hon. Gentleman asked me about the 1982·83 supplementary report. Because the GLC hopelessly over-budgeted, there will probably be a substantial gap between its budgeting for that year and its outturn— [Interruption.] A margin of nearly £200 million between the GLC' s budget and what it spent is gross incompetence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.998.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-14", "file": "debates1983-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ea50c12676922381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.1007.5", "colnum": "1007", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "The basic methodology for fixing the targets starts with the higher of the GRE and the target for this year so that the comparison is based on the GRE for this purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.1007.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-14", "file": "debates1983-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ea50c12676922381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.1011.2", "colnum": "1011", "heading": "Scottish Parliament", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gordon Wilson", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. With the temporary headcover of an Order Paper, may I ask you to make a ruling about the method by which the vote will be taken?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.1011.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-14", "file": "debates1983-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ea50c12676922381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.1046.0", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Telecommunications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "ctor. Certainly, few private companies operate fully financed index-linked schemes. In that sense, the successor company would be at odds with its compeitors and would have an extremely onerous financial responsibility. As the Under-Secretary of State recognised, there is a major distinction between private and public sector companies. Unless one can imagine this nation irrevocably going bankrupt—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.1046.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-14", "file": "debates1983-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ea50c12676922381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.1053.2", "colnum": "1053", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Telecommunications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McWilliam", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McWilliam", "preceding_text": "rms of new clause 3, there exist good industrial relations, a lack of strikes, a codified system of settling disputes and a proper bargaining procedure. They know that people by and large get on better, work better and have fewer problems. Those hon. Members shout because they get much more fun out of it. They prefer to be nasty to people who do not deign to vote for them. That is their privilege.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.1053.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-14", "file": "debates1983-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ea50c12676922381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.1090.2", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Telecommunications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Phillip Oppenheim", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Phillip Oppenheim", "preceding_text": " sector might also be effectively controlled through the approval procedures, even if the market is theoretically liberalised for the particular class of equipment being offered. I know that my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary is well aware of the problem. I have received assurances that something will be done to counteract it. I urge that the great advantages enshrined in this speech—in the Bill —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.1090.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-14", "file": "debates1983-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ea50c12676922381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.1092.0", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Telecommunications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "elecommunications network. Through the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, West (Mr. Randall) I congratulate Hull on choosing system X. It is a good product which will safeguard jobs in a number of companies whose names we shall not mention tonight. The hon. Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Mr. Golding) let the cat out of the bag when he said that he wanted to see BT drive Mercury out of business.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.1092.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-14", "file": "debates1983-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ea50c12676922381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.1108.5", "colnum": "1108", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Telecommunications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "reedom was what it was all about, this was the new world opening up to BT, the very essence of the challenges for BT. Then he would rhapsodise about this commercial freedom. After this great barrage of beautiful poetic language, he gave an example of the commercial flexibility it would provide. He said, for instance, that Cable and Wireless had recently done a deal with the Texas Railroad Company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.1108.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-14", "file": "debates1983-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ea50c12676922381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Telecommunications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fisher", "preceding_text": "My ignorance on many matters is very large—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-14", "file": "debates1983-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ea50c12676922381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.1124.1", "colnum": "1124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Telecommunications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": "are strong and legitimate interests. To argue the political case for retaining my hon. Friend the Member for Woolwich, it is fundamentally important to the House to reflect in the Select Committee on Defence all the different viewpoints in the country on the issue of defence. Not to have any representation of Liberal or Social Democrats on the Committee would be to deprive nearly 8 million voters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.1124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-14", "file": "debates1983-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ea50c12676922381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.1129.2", "colnum": "1129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Telecommunications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "e investigation. It would be better if the party structure that the Committee of Selection uses was not used on that Committee and some others. If the Committee is to do the genuine job that it is required to do, all 13 members must work flat out to monitor the Scottish Office, which is an enormous brief, wider than the Welsh brief. The job cannot be done if the Committee is carrying passengers. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.1129.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-14", "file": "debates1983-12-14a.xml", "sha256": "ea50c12676922381", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.1133.2", "colnum": "1133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Telecommunications Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "the House? I have no complaints about the conduct of the Division or the vote. However, are you aware of the fact that the Patronage Secretary and the hon. Member for Watford (Mr. Garel-Jones), who is also a Whip, who were in the No Lobby extracting Members of the Conservative party on instructions from the Whip, were heard to say, \"No, you are not meant to be in this Lobby\"? We have been assured—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-14a.1133.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-15", "file": "debates1983-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "77d68297e46c97d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1160.11", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman missed the vote.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1160.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-15", "file": "debates1983-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "77d68297e46c97d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1161.5", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "I am informing the Prime Minister, since she seems to be unaware of what the Patronage Secretary was doing. It was a gross abuse of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1161.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-15", "file": "debates1983-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "77d68297e46c97d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1161.5", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "I am informing the Prime Minister, since she seems to be unaware of what the Patronage Secretary was doing. It was a gross abuse of the House—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down.\"] I shall stay on my feet until I am heard. Is the Prime Minister aware that she has the responsibility to inform herself about what the Patronage Secretary was doing in the House and that it is an abuse of the power—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1161.5"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1983-12-15", "file": "debates1983-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "77d68297e46c97d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1161.10", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am sure the House wishes to hear what the right hon. Gentleman has to say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1161.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-15", "file": "debates1983-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "77d68297e46c97d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1161.11", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "There was a gross abuse of the House last night, of which the Prime Minister seems to be unaware. She comes to the House and jokes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1161.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-15", "file": "debates1983-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "77d68297e46c97d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1161.11", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "There was a gross abuse of the House last night, of which the Prime Minister seems to be unaware. She comes to the House and jokes—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"] I am asking the Prime Minister whether she is not aware of the abuse. She is the repository of a so-called landslide majority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1161.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-15", "file": "debates1983-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "77d68297e46c97d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1161.11", "colnum": "1161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "There was a gross abuse of the House last night, of which the Prime Minister seems to be unaware. She comes to the House and jokes—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask a question.\"] I am asking the Prime Minister whether she is not aware of the abuse. She is the repository of a so-called landslide majority— [Interruption.] Twenty-six and a half per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1161.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-15", "file": "debates1983-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "77d68297e46c97d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1162.3", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Sit down\".", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "I shall bring my question to a close when I am heard in the House, Mr. Speaker. The Prime Minister was asked a direct question by my hon. Friend the Member for Gordon (Mr. Bruce). She sought to make a joke of a serious question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-15", "file": "debates1983-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "77d68297e46c97d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1163.3", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Fisheries Council", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Michael Jopling)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Mr. Michael Jopling)", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to report that the Council of Fisheries Ministers reached agreement on a series of important decisions which resolve the main outstanding problems affecting the common fisheries policy and started discussion of the total allowable catches and quotas for 1984—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1163.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-15", "file": "debates1983-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "77d68297e46c97d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1167.3", "colnum": "1167", "heading": "Fisheries Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Absolute nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Hughes", "preceding_text": " with stopgap solutions from one Fisheries Council meeting to another and we shall go through the whole of 1984 on the same basis of stopgap solutions, because that is what happened yesterday with white fish. This is not good enough, and once the fishing industry realises what is happening to it, the fine words of congratulation from the Minister's hon. Friends will turn into salt in their mouths—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1167.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-15", "file": "debates1983-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "77d68297e46c97d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1171.1", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Glue Sniffing (Ministerial Statements)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So it is not serious.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "The second category consists of statements which, however important, are usually announced by way of written answer to a parliamentary question. The Government's policy on glue-sniffing has fallen into the second category.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-15", "file": "debates1983-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "77d68297e46c97d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1172.3", "colnum": "1172", "heading": "Glue Sniffing (Ministerial Statements)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": ". It will be in your memory, Mr. Speaker, that a few minutes ago the Minister said that before the press conference referred to by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Leicester, East (Mr. Janner) had started, the replies to written questions Nos. 159 and 160, which embody the Government's thinking on glue-sniffing, were in the Vote Office in sufficient quantities to enable all hon. Members —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1172.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-15", "file": "debates1983-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "77d68297e46c97d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1181.7", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "nditure figure of £3,205·9 million and aggregate grants of £1,930 million. The provision for current expenditure within the total is £2,736·6 million, slightly above the provisional figure which I announced on 27 July, reflecting mainly technical adjustments. The rate of grant derived from these figures is 60·2 per cent. compared with 61·7 per cent. in the present year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1181.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-15", "file": "debates1983-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "77d68297e46c97d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1232.1", "colnum": "1232", "heading": "Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "Of course I understand that it is paying different rates, because its loans were made at different times. The hon. Gentleman must understand that an organisation which borrows with a Government guarantee is different from one which borrows without such a guarantee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1232.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-15", "file": "debates1983-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "77d68297e46c97d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1267.0", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Harrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wrong measure\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Harrison", "preceding_text": "scuss it on several occasions earlier in the day with Opposition Front Bench spokesmen on the subject and to explain my situation, but without success. As I listened to the Minister I thought that there was nothing in the measure relating to the subject that I wished to raise. However, there is provision in the instrument for flood protection works and the protection or improvement of river banks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-15", "file": "debates1983-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "77d68297e46c97d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1267.0", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Harrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Harrison", "preceding_text": "ng and Construction. It is amazing how quickly I go through Ministers, just as I go through chairmen of water authorities. Within six months I have dealt with three Ministers and three chairmen of the Yorkshire water authority, all about the same subject. The reason why I am not receiving support on this issue from my Front Bench is that I have been raising the matter, without success, since 1970.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1267.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-15", "file": "debates1983-12-15a.xml", "sha256": "77d68297e46c97d2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1267.0", "colnum": "1267", "heading": "Schedule 5", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walter Harrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walter Harrison", "preceding_text": "by the Yorkshire water authority or by the Department of the Environment. This is the only opportunity for me to discuss flooding in Wakefield. I rang the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food at 9.30 am last Sunday. One has to be quick off the mark in these matters. I asked the Minister whether I had got him up, but he said that he was still in bed— reading the News of the World , no doubt.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-15a.1267.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-19", "file": "debates1983-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "d20eda2787745b70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-19a.162.3", "colnum": "162", "heading": "Wales (Home Improvement Grants)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "r of the grants because they provided employment. A great deal of concern has been expressed about the numbers of applications which are stockpiled with local authorities, waiting to be approved. It is a matter of great concern to me, too. I have every sympathy with owners who are being told that they will have to wait a long time—years in some cases—before their applications have been dealt with.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-19a.162.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-19", "file": "debates1983-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "d20eda2787745b70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-19a.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Wales (Home Improvement Grants)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "ions would be not less than 80 per cent. of this year's allocation. This was given to them to aid their forward planning, but there was no suggestion that there would also be special arrangements for grants. It has been argued very forcibly that we should be devoting more resources in the future to renovation grants and, indeed, to housing as a whole. But, frankly, this is an unrealistic approach.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-19a.163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-19", "file": "debates1983-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "d20eda2787745b70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-19a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Wales (Home Improvement Grants)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "ymney experienced all that I was talking about in 1974. On 8 May of that year he told the Welsh Grand Committee that— \"despite the 75 per cent. grant and despite the fantastic rate of house improvement during the past few years, we have not yet been able to arrest a decline in the deterioration of housing stock in the Principality.\" — [ Official Report, Welsh Grand Committee, 8 May 1974; c. 96.] —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-19a.166.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-19", "file": "debates1983-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "d20eda2787745b70", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-19a.209.1", "colnum": "209", "heading": "Housing Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS Hear, hear\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "e-parent benefit are at the highest rate ever. No one can say that the Government have not been concerned. One can argue about instances of expenditure — indeed, many people would like more expenditure all the time — but our expenditure on the sick and disabled is up by 21 per cent. in real terms since we came to office. Practically all benefits are higher in real terms than when we came to office", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-19a.209.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-20", "file": "debates1983-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "de69eafe24d55e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-20a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "British Shipbuilders (Britoil Contract)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "were to intervene, either to urge Britoil and its agents to withdraw its notice or to urge British Shipbuilders to renegotiate the contract—which it does not wish to do—the commercial and financial position of one party or the other would be severely prejudiced. The ground would be cut from under both managements' feet. In such a situation Government intervention could only be counter-productive —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-20a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-20", "file": "debates1983-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "de69eafe24d55e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-20a.282.1", "colnum": "282", "heading": "British Shipbuilders (Britoil Contract)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "o—the commercial and financial position of one party or the other would be severely prejudiced. The ground would be cut from under both managements' feet. In such a situation Government intervention could only be counter-productive —[Interruption.] The Government must have regard, not just to the yard but to the wider interests of the taxpayer. The taxpayer has funded huge losses at Scott Lithgow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-20a.282.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-20", "file": "debates1983-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "de69eafe24d55e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-20a.283.3", "colnum": "283", "heading": "British Shipbuilders (Britoil Contract)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": " understand my hon. Friend's concern. She came to see me about this matter the other day. This matter concerns notice about the cancellation of a contract. It is not about the closure of a yard. British Shipbuilders has stated that it intends to continue the work both on the Ministry of Defence contract and on the BP contract. It is not the Government who have pulled out the plug on Scott Lithgow—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-20a.283.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-20", "file": "debates1983-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "de69eafe24d55e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-20a.287.0", "colnum": "287", "heading": "British Shipbuilders (Britoil Contract)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has gone to Canada.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "This is not a case of passing by on the other side of the road. We have all the time been kept fully informed. We have discussed the matter with the chairman of BS and I think that he has taken the right course of action by —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-20a.287.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-20", "file": "debates1983-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "de69eafe24d55e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-20a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "t on to say that he was tempted to voice the indignation that he felt about that, and pointed out that the then Government were putting forward plans to expand the hospital and general practitioner services. Mr. Marquand hoped that those who were critical would realise that their criticism was ill-founded. I do not think that I could improve on that defence, for that is exactly the position today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-20a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-20", "file": "debates1983-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "de69eafe24d55e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-20a.301.0", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "s unsatisfactory both in concept and in operation, and the Government endorse that view. I do not think that there will be any disagreement in the House about that. We have, however, made it clear on a number of occasions that simply abolishing the test and allowing married women to claim NCIP on the same basis as men and single women is not a viable option. It would cost some £275 million a year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-20a.301.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-20", "file": "debates1983-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "de69eafe24d55e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-20a.301.2", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "I shall come to those who gain and those who lose in a moment. I am sure that the right hon. Gentleman will concede that we are increasing —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-20a.301.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-20", "file": "debates1983-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "de69eafe24d55e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-20a.318.1", "colnum": "318", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Morris", "preceding_text": "I have made it very clear that the money was not available to me or my colleagues who were DHSS Ministers to widen the scope of HNCIP in the way decided by the national insurance commissioners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-20a.318.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-20", "file": "debates1983-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "de69eafe24d55e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-20a.328.1", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mawhinney", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will have noticed, however, that in schedule 2, 23 of the 30 members to be appointed, while they are technically appointed by the Secretary of State, are in fact nominated by the various professional and vested interests —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-20a.328.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-20", "file": "debates1983-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "de69eafe24d55e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-20a.350.0", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert N. Wareing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert N. Wareing", "preceding_text": " to the wishes of the Chancellor. Every piece of legislation that comes before us shows more clearly that the Treasury has become a super-Department. The Secretaries of State for Social Services, for the Environment and for Education are all minions at the disposal of the Chancellor. As a result of the decision which no doubt will be taken tonight, because of the three-line Whip, disabled people —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-20a.350.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-20", "file": "debates1983-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "de69eafe24d55e33", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-20a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "If a chemist, or a non-chemist, supplied a badly prescribed drug one could die, have serious side effects or suffer from ill health. If an adult goes into a non-optician and the prescription is not properly made up, he will not suffer any ill health.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-20a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-21", "file": "debates1983-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "f5c7711b33138c2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-21a.425.4", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "Any information and any papers circulated by my right hon. Friend to his Cabinet colleagues—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-21a.425.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-21", "file": "debates1983-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "f5c7711b33138c2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-21a.432.1", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Sellafield (Discharges)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Rhodes James", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Rhodes James", "preceding_text": "ste disposal? As it would appear, prima facie, that this episode was the result of serious mismanagement, does my right hon. Friend agree that this arouses proper concern about the entire future of the nuclear industry? Given the fact that this is a temporary and immediate problem, is my right hon. Friend aware that we have not begun to resolve the long-term problems of radioactive waste disposal?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-21a.432.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-21", "file": "debates1983-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "f5c7711b33138c2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-21a.440.10", "colnum": "440", "heading": "New Clause 12", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "hort-term basis pending redevelopment. County councils were not included in the 1980 legislation because of the specialised nature of the lettings that I described, where a right to buy would clear), not be appropriate. However, we have become increasingly concerned about the position of county council tenants whose homes are no longer required by their landlords for strictly operational purposes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-21a.440.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-21", "file": "debates1983-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "f5c7711b33138c2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-21a.459.0", "colnum": "459", "heading": "New Clause 13", "cue_speaker": "Sir Paul Hawkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Paul Hawkins", "preceding_text": "dation for elderly people. I do not fully understand the 21-year consideration. Nevertheless, 65 plus 21 is only 86 and that is not old for many people in Norfolk. Indeed, if hon. Members want to live for a long time they should live on the north Norfolk coast. Will my hon. Friend the Minister explain in simple language whether new clause 13 will mean that we lose accommodation for elderly people?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-21a.459.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-21", "file": "debates1983-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "f5c7711b33138c2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-21a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Clause 54", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS; \"Rent-a-mob has arrived\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "r from such an area knows, there are thousands of people on council waiting lists in the large cities. Many people live in overcrowded conditions. Young people have to remain in accommodation with mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles and so on. Families are split up with one child in one place and another somewhere else. Thousands of people live in unfit homes and desperately need decent accommodation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-21a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-21", "file": "debates1983-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "f5c7711b33138c2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-21a.522.1", "colnum": "522", "heading": "Clause 54", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "ded conditions. Young people have to remain in accommodation with mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles and so on. Families are split up with one child in one place and another somewhere else. Thousands of people live in unfit homes and desperately need decent accommodation. [HON MEMBERS; \"Rent-a-mob has arrived\".] I appreciate my hon. Friends' support and I intend to ask them to vote for the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-21a.522.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-21", "file": "debates1983-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "f5c7711b33138c2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-21a.532.2", "colnum": "532", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "s a bad Bill. The main reason for this is that it is irrelevant to housing and building needs. It is just one further example of the dogmatism of the Government—a dogmatism that puts the interest of people making profits first and the needs of the people second. As the Minister pointed out, I have said that the Labour party is not against, and never has been against, people buying their own homes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-21a.532.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-21", "file": "debates1983-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "f5c7711b33138c2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-21a.534.0", "colnum": "534", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "preceding_text": "n includes people seeking an exchange. It also includes applicants from other districts and service personnel. That is not a waiting list as it is understood by most reasonable people. In the hands of the Labour party it is completely misused, as we have seen today. The hon. Member for Norwood and the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes) both spoke about sales of the best houses —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-21a.534.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-21", "file": "debates1983-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "f5c7711b33138c2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-21a.534.0", "colnum": "534", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "preceding_text": " last 2,500 homes sold, 16 per cent. were built pre-war and 64 per cent. between 1945 and 1973. I question whether that is the sale of the best houses. We have a £200 million debt in our city on housing alone. I suggest that it is a sensible process to reduce that debt and so hold down the rents of our tenants. We are still happy with the 60 per cent. discount, however we look at the calculations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-21a.534.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-21", "file": "debates1983-12-21a.xml", "sha256": "f5c7711b33138c2e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-21a.535.0", "colnum": "535", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Happy Christmas:", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "nment are concentrating on extending the right to buy here—not something that we oppose in principle at all—and adding to the rights of tenants there, they are presiding over the greatest increase in homelessness, the greatest decrease in housing investment and the most massive accumulation of problems of disrepair and of rundown estates that any Government have been responsible for since the war.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-21a.535.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-22", "file": "debates1983-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "7aee86cc8d8784ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-22a.553.5", "colnum": "553", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "It is suggested that at the meeting of the NEDC the Chancellor put forward a proposition that new jobs would come primarily from the service sector. As we have lost 2·5 million jobs during the recession, mostly in manufacturing, how on earth does he expect to replace those jobs from the service sector? Is it not the case that during a brilliant exposition on the radio this morning —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-22a.553.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-22", "file": "debates1983-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "7aee86cc8d8784ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-22a.559.11", "colnum": "559", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Spam.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "not be able to visit Newham, where she might see at first hand the devastating effects of her economic and social policies. There is an unmployment rate of 19 per cent. and 27,000 people are on social security. Sixty-five per cent. of tenants receive income support because of housing costs. If the Prime Minister cannot visit Newham, will she at least think, when she is eating her Christmas dinner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-22a.559.11"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-22", "file": "debates1983-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "7aee86cc8d8784ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-22a.567.8", "colnum": "567", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I am not going to reply to what are speeches which otherwise —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-22a.567.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1983-12-22", "file": "debates1983-12-22a.xml", "sha256": "7aee86cc8d8784ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-22a.602.1", "colnum": "602", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": " to which beds might be transferred in due course. Farnborough hospital has claimed — I use the word \"claimed\" because the DHSS has examined no options, and has come to no decisions—to be more convenient in terms of public transport than Lennard hospital. I do not know about that, as I am not aware of the bus services in the area. The authority also believes that its proposals are consistent with—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1983-12-22a.602.1"}