{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-16", "file": "debates1984-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "bc315bf4cf588b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-16a.12.8", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ATTORNEY-GENERAL", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that the British public want no changes whatever in the system for the appointment of judges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-16a.12.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-16", "file": "debates1984-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "bc315bf4cf588b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-16a.38.7", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Ordnance Factories and Military Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "nufacture solely overseas. The Government can have no guarantee—whatever legal rights they may attach to shares or whatever complex schemes they may draft—of the safeguard. The Bill is plainly political and ideological. There is very little enthusiasm for it in the Ministry of Defence or the armed forces. Although he did not speak, as far as I can see, the only enthusiast is the Secretary of State", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-16a.38.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-16", "file": "debates1984-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "bc315bf4cf588b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-16a.38.7", "colnum": "38", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Ordnance Factories and Military Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " to do. Since he became Secretary of State, I have noticed that he sometimes needs an escape into that frenetic and furious activity which enables him not always to have to think deeply about defence problems. Whether that escapism is running up and down the Berlin Wall, jumping in and out of helicopters or trying to become the television film critic of the year, the right hon. Gentleman needs it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-16a.38.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-16", "file": "debates1984-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "bc315bf4cf588b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-16a.41.3", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Ordnance Factories and Military Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "ut now it has been brought forward and then it does not matter. Apparently, the Chancellor of the Exchequer will not miss £250 million this year. That is not the case. I have always believed that income tax was an annual tax and that the Budget dealt with one year. Perhaps it is different in the Ministry of Defence. I do not know. I understand that the £250 million will have to be spent this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-16a.41.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-16", "file": "debates1984-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "bc315bf4cf588b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-16a.41.3", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Ordnance Factories and Military Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "or prices in the private sector. We all know how difficult it is to negotiate prices with private manufacturers—although the Government think differently—because their main concern is profit. I challenge the Minister, in winding-up, to deny that the ROFs are frequently not allowed the same profit margin as that allowed to private industry. Perhaps I am wrong, and if so I shall be happy to be told.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-16a.41.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-16", "file": "debates1984-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "bc315bf4cf588b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-16a.53.0", "colnum": "53", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Ordnance Factories and Military Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin M. Brandon-Bravo", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin M. Brandon-Bravo", "preceding_text": " in that company structure. Therefore, I seek the Minister's full assurance that that is all that is intended by such a structure. However, I must draw his attention to the fears of the staff, particularly in Nottingham, about the role that Vickers, for example, might play, that could conflict with its interests, and perhaps with those of others in the present royal ordnance factory holding group.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-16a.53.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-16", "file": "debates1984-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "bc315bf4cf588b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-16a.93.1", "colnum": "93", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Ordnance Factories and Military Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "ry hon. Member who spoke either had a major criticism to make or expressed the feelings and anxieties of his constituents. It cannot he a happy task for the Minister of State to put forward the Bill when it goes, if it does, into Committee, because of the problems that will arise. I am assuming that the Government Whips, as is normal, will put everyone on the Committee who spoke on Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-16a.93.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-16", "file": "debates1984-01-16a.xml", "sha256": "bc315bf4cf588b1c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-16a.129.4", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Urban Development Corporations", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "Neither of the areas that we are considering has any representation on the Government Benches. Since the hon. Member for South Hams (Mr. Steen) came south, Merseyside has been taken over by Labour and Liberal Members. At both local and parliamentary level, the docks, too, are represented by Labour and Liberal Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-16a.129.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-17", "file": "debates1984-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "9ecc784b7c534a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.152.0", "colnum": "152", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State may be reluctant to talk about targeting, but is it not clear from literature published in the United States and in Europe that the cruise missile is targeted on military targets which would be considered significant if a war were to break out in Europe? Is it not a fact that, rather than be obsessed with cruise missiles, he should try to move—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.152.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-17", "file": "debates1984-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "9ecc784b7c534a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "ry (Mr. Michael McNair-Wilson), has actually said that? Is it not also a fact that to get in — one wonders whether this is how the missiles will be got out—Members of Parliament and delegations will have to go over the women's heads in helicopters? Is that the sort of security the exists at that base, not to mention the obscenities perpetrated by American troops against the women outside the base—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-17", "file": "debates1984-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "9ecc784b7c534a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.153.3", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": " how the missiles will be got out—Members of Parliament and delegations will have to go over the women's heads in helicopters? Is that the sort of security the exists at that base, not to mention the obscenities perpetrated by American troops against the women outside the base— [Interruption.] —which some of us have witnessed, including concrete blocks being thrown at the women by American troops.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.153.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-17", "file": "debates1984-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "9ecc784b7c534a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.159.6", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. It has been the policy of successive Governments that local authorities are in the best position to judge the needs in this respect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.159.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-17", "file": "debates1984-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "9ecc784b7c534a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.167.6", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rates Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is quite wrong. As I said before, all the local authority associations accept that it is the duty of local authorities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.167.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-17", "file": "debates1984-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "9ecc784b7c534a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.167.8", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rates Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "No, I shall not give way. Of course, with profligate spending on such a scale, it is the ratepayers who suffer. In the four years between 1979 and 1983, while the RPI rose 55 per cent. and earnings rose 65 per cent., domestic rates went up on average no less than 91 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.167.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-17", "file": "debates1984-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "9ecc784b7c534a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.167.8", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rates Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "fligate spending on such a scale, it is the ratepayers who suffer. In the four years between 1979 and 1983, while the RPI rose 55 per cent. and earnings rose 65 per cent., domestic rates went up on average no less than 91 per cent. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"] In 10 authorities, rates have increased by more than 145 per cent. since 1979–80. The GLC rate went up by 118 per cent. in just two years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.167.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-17", "file": "debates1984-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "9ecc784b7c534a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.167.10", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rates Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is singularly unconvincing, bearing in mind that he was a member of the Department of the Environment when it reduced the percentage of rate support grant from 66 per cent. to 61 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.167.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-17", "file": "debates1984-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "9ecc784b7c534a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.168.1", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rates Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is experienced in these matters. He will know that it is difficult to gauge what might have happened.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-17", "file": "debates1984-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "9ecc784b7c534a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.168.1", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rates Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is experienced in these matters. He will know that it is difficult to gauge what might have happened. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] It is not simple arithmetic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-17", "file": "debates1984-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "9ecc784b7c534a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.171.3", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rates Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "those areas with inadequate accountability. Even those who pay full rates in those areas know that on average for every £5 of spending they support they need to contribute only £1. When people talk about elective dictatorships, perhaps that is what they mean. Those who call for greater accountability owe it to the House to explain what they mean. Presumably no one is proposing votes for companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.171.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-17", "file": "debates1984-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "9ecc784b7c534a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.171.9", "colnum": "171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rates Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I am talking about accountability. Where lies the accountability of local councillors when those who pay most of the rates have no votes while many of those entitled to vote pay no rates? It is hardly surprising that in such areas councillors feel free to spend money like water.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.171.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-17", "file": "debates1984-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "9ecc784b7c534a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.182.0", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rates Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I understand, of course, that the hon. Gentleman —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.182.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-17", "file": "debates1984-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "9ecc784b7c534a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.191.0", "colnum": "191", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rates Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stan Crowther", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stan Crowther", "preceding_text": "al government in 1971–72. However, I am pleased to note that he has learnt it now. There has never been a need for Ministers even to influence, much less control, the total of local government expenditure. There is no economic case for that. The level of rates has no bearing whatever on the national economy, except to the very limited extent that they can affect a company's competitiveness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.191.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-17", "file": "debates1984-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "9ecc784b7c534a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.205.1", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rates Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": " saying that I condemn as strongly as anyone some of the extreme Left-wing Socialist authorities in the country. The advent of people like Mr. Livingstone and Mr. Blunkett has produced a new ball game. We are looking at local authorities concerned primarily not with serving their communities but with fighting a class war, and that produces a new situation of which the Government have to take note.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.205.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-17", "file": "debates1984-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "9ecc784b7c534a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.206.1", "colnum": "206", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rates Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prentice", "preceding_text": "is now called the soft Left category but it has a hard Left element in its ranks and a strong hard Left element in its general management committee. What would they say? They would say: \"Why are our comrades in the next town being rate-capped and we are not? Why are we not on the Tory Government's check list? Why are we cosily co-operating with a reactionary Tory Government to keep spending down?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.206.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-17", "file": "debates1984-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "9ecc784b7c534a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.212.1", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rates Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "ffect to what he wants. Worse than that, however, is the fear which is being instilled into ordinary people. I have a letter from a teacher who runs literacy classes. It contains four letters from students, and they all end by saying: Please vote against the ILEA cuts so that our class can carry on. Each one uses the same words. That is the type of propaganda that has been put into people's minds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-17", "file": "debates1984-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "9ecc784b7c534a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.229.1", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rates Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "s, if they were here, would have to confirm that legions of their inhabitants are ever eager to come into adult education classes provided by ILEA because the skinflint Tories will not do it. Such people do not all come for flower arranging. Adult education has a vital role to play in combating illiteracy and ignorance. I shall read a letter that will be more eloquent than anything that I can say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-17", "file": "debates1984-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "9ecc784b7c534a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.240.4", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rates Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William Ross", "preceding_text": "Before the hon. Gentleman moves too far from councillors' judgment, will he recall that one hon. Member called the Bill an introduction of direct rule? Is the hon. Gentleman aware that we have lived under direct rule for many years in Northern Ireland where the Government are directly responsible for most local government functions, and that under that system there is great frustration?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.240.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-17", "file": "debates1984-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "9ecc784b7c534a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.247.5", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rates Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "I honestly believe that it would serve the House better if I tried to answer the points that were made in the debate. My right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Hexham and the hon. Members for Copeland and Blackburn and others commented on the fact that we cut the rate support grant. Of course we cut the rate support grant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.247.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-17", "file": "debates1984-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "9ecc784b7c534a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rates Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "Bexley and Sidcup said that, as did my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Hexham, my right hon. Friend the Member for Daventry and the hon. Member for Blackburn. Like all Labour spokesmen, he said \"What does a few hundred million matter?\" It matters intensely. I remind my hon. Friends that the whole argument about the Health Service last year was about finding an additional £110 million—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-17", "file": "debates1984-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "9ecc784b7c534a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.266.2", "colnum": "266", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rates Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "he £9 million is added £6 million, simply because of an arbitrary formula that is so ineffective and badly thought out that it has had to be adjusted regularly by people in Whitehall who do nothing other than play with figures and have no occasion to deal with what is really happening throughout the country. Another example is Avon, a Tory-controlled authority that has made strong representations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.266.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-17", "file": "debates1984-01-17a.xml", "sha256": "9ecc784b7c534a0e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Towns (Borrowing)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Straw", "preceding_text": "The order proposes an increase in the borrowing level for the new towns of £500 million for essential services. The Opposition will not divide the House against the order. New towns are of great concern and interest to all hon. Members, especially to the Opposition as the Labour party —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-17a.280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-18", "file": "debates1984-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "7963a6d5f7b0046d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.306.4", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "in Scotland shares the concern of the House and the Scottish people about the future of Scott Lithgow? Does not the only practicable solution for the future of Scott Lithgow lie in the acquisition of the yard by an enterprise or consortium, whether United Kingdom or foreign, with the expertise and commercial reputation to build sophisticated oil-related structures? If my right hon. Friend agrees —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.306.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-18", "file": "debates1984-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "7963a6d5f7b0046d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.308.4", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "ere has never been, and is not now, any disagreement between me and the representatives from Scott Lithgow, whom I have seen several times. If there are faults, they are no doubt on the side of the management and the work force, and that is not a matter of disagreement between them and me. It is a little hard, as I am the only person who has been giving any leadership during the past nine months —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.308.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-18", "file": "debates1984-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "7963a6d5f7b0046d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that I do not agree with routine party insults against him?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-18", "file": "debates1984-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "7963a6d5f7b0046d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that I do not agree with routine party insults against him? [Interruption.] Having seen several Secretaries of State in operation against the Chancellor of the Exchequer and other people, and given the appalling economic policy within which he operates, I do not think he has done badly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-18", "file": "debates1984-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "7963a6d5f7b0046d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.311.1", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for what he has said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.311.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-18", "file": "debates1984-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "7963a6d5f7b0046d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.317.5", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "ther. During Scottish Question Time we are entitled to voice our concern about matters affecting our constituencies and our constituents. The Conservatives are the minority party in Scotland, but they are the Government, and the Government are entitled to defend their record. However, they are not entitled to defend their record in Scotland at the expense of other members of this honourable House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.317.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-18", "file": "debates1984-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "7963a6d5f7b0046d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.317.5", "colnum": "317", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "Government are entitled to defend their record. However, they are not entitled to defend their record in Scotland at the expense of other members of this honourable House. [Interruption.] As there is a serious crisis in Scotland in the energy industry, the shipbuilding industry and the motor car industry, we as Members of Parliament are entitled to an opportunity at Question Time to ask questions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.317.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-18", "file": "debates1984-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "7963a6d5f7b0046d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.328.2", "colnum": "328", "heading": "Abolition of Standing Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "rsonal friends, so I can oppose his Bill with no personal malice and with the greatest of friendship and good will. However, an even more disgraceful Bill in the name of the hon. Member for Dundee, East (Mr. Wilson) will come up next week, and over that measure every pensioner in Scotland will be shedding tears. I oppose the broad principle of hon. Members, via the press, misleading simple people.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.328.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-18", "file": "debates1984-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "7963a6d5f7b0046d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.329.1", "colnum": "329", "heading": "Abolition of Standing Charges", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wells", "preceding_text": "There are two reasons for tabling ten-minute Bills knowing that they will not become law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.329.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-18", "file": "debates1984-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "7963a6d5f7b0046d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.340.8", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tenants' Rights, Etc. (Scotland) Amendment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "No, they do not. I see that the Minister is putting his hon. Friend right on that. I shall not pursue the matter as I am conscious of the time—my time—because the Scottish group of Labour members are meeting the CBI—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.340.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-18", "file": "debates1984-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "7963a6d5f7b0046d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.365.10", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tenants' Rights, Etc. (Scotland) Amendment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "eople who wish to move into the area is even more restricted than in more densely populated areas. In remote parts of Scotland only 19 per cent, of housing is owned by the council. In the north-east of Scotland there are a few areas where the sale of council houses has already created significant problems. It is a pity that the hon. Member for Banff and Buchan (Mr. Mcquarrie) has left the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.365.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-18", "file": "debates1984-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "7963a6d5f7b0046d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.367.3", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tenants' Rights, Etc. (Scotland) Amendment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "preceding_text": " employment? People aged over 60 wishing to move to be near relatives may well be a category who should be potential purchasers of council houses, as are people with special social or medical needs. What about everyone else? What about those who want to retire to an area simply because they like the area? Are they to be denied the opportunity to purchase a house which formerly was a council house?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.367.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-18", "file": "debates1984-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "7963a6d5f7b0046d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.368.1", "colnum": "368", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tenants' Rights, Etc. (Scotland) Amendment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "We are told that there is one in Gordon.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.368.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-18", "file": "debates1984-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "7963a6d5f7b0046d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.369.1", "colnum": "369", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tenants' Rights, Etc. (Scotland) Amendment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"AS a holiday home.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "ore than half the houses are council houses. To suggest that we do not understand such problems and the problems in rural areas is absolute nonsense. I think that Liberals and SDP Members should think through very carefully what they are asking for. To suggest selling a council property to a tenant who then resells it at some later date to somebody else who wants to buy it and to live in the area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.369.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-18", "file": "debates1984-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "7963a6d5f7b0046d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.371.3", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tenants' Rights, Etc. (Scotland) Amendment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "when this performance started, there were just 16 council houses in that village. The last breakdown of the situation in East Lothian, a couple of months ago, showed that five of those houses had been sold. The proportion sold is just short of the one third required to trigger the safeguard in section 4 of the 1980 Act, but we do not yet know how many of those properties will become holiday homes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.371.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-18", "file": "debates1984-01-18a.xml", "sha256": "7963a6d5f7b0046d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.371.3", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tenants' Rights, Etc. (Scotland) Amendment Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": " all night. The hon. Gentleman can make his own speech in his own time. As I was saying, we do not yet know how many of those houses will be sold on to become holiday homes because the sitting tenants who bought them have not yet had time to move on and dispose of them. At this stage, the situation has not changed, but the time bomb is ticking away and there will be serious problems in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-18a.371.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-19", "file": "debates1984-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ef3dbfedc852f460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.443.2", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I point out to the right hon. Gentleman that there are some households in receipt of benefit with the main earner well above the average earnings —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.443.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-19", "file": "debates1984-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ef3dbfedc852f460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.443.2", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "benefit with the main earner well above the average earnings — [Interruption.] I said \"No\" right at the beginning, had the right hon. Gentleman been listening carefully, which I do not expect him to do. He speaks of giving with one hand and taking away with the other, but I point out that this happens in many cases with welfare benefits, and comes from the fact that we are taxing people so highly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.443.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-19", "file": "debates1984-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ef3dbfedc852f460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.443.6", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "With regard to taxation, we have reduced direct taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.443.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-19", "file": "debates1984-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ef3dbfedc852f460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.443.6", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "as reduced from 33 per cent. to 30 per cent. We promised to cut absurdly high marginal rates of tax, and higher rates were considerably reduced. We promised to raise tax thresholds, and income tax allowances have been raised by 6 per cent. more than inflation. We promised that the top rate of income tax would be cut, and the highest rate has fallen by 16 per cent. What is more, real take-home pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.443.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-19", "file": "debates1984-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ef3dbfedc852f460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.444.0", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. This noise is very unseemly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-19", "file": "debates1984-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ef3dbfedc852f460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.444.8", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend had time this week to see the result of the survey undertaken for the Institute of Directors?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.444.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-19", "file": "debates1984-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ef3dbfedc852f460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.444.11", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There is nothing that I can usefully add to what I said on this subject earlier the week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.444.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-19", "file": "debates1984-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ef3dbfedc852f460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.444.11", "colnum": "444", "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 that I can usefully add to what I said on this subject earlier the week. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame\".] I suggest, with respect, that we concentrate on seeing why we do not get more contracts and —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.444.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-19", "file": "debates1984-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ef3dbfedc852f460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.444.11", "colnum": "444", "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 that I can usefully add to what I said on this subject earlier the week. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame\".] I suggest, with respect, that we concentrate on seeing why we do not get more contracts and — [Interruption] —I am going to see that we do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.444.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-19", "file": "debates1984-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ef3dbfedc852f460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.445.0", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCrindle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCrindle", "preceding_text": "On that matter, will my right hon. Friend recognise that there is widespread appreciation on the Conservative Benches—and, I suspect, throughout the country—of the unfailing efforts that she has made to bring contracts home to this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-19", "file": "debates1984-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ef3dbfedc852f460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.446.3", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. In the recent exchanges at Prime Minister's Question Time you will have heard a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Central (Mr. Litherland) regarding the visit to Oman of the Prime Minister and her son. Would you draw to the attention of the Prime Minister the fact that she failed to answer a very simple question —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.446.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-19", "file": "debates1984-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ef3dbfedc852f460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.464.1", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "On 31 December—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.464.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-19", "file": "debates1984-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ef3dbfedc852f460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.464.7", "colnum": "464", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "I greatly respect the hon. Gentleman's integrity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.464.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-19", "file": "debates1984-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ef3dbfedc852f460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": " am sure all hon. Members have done. If cases are brought to the attention of hon. Members, they will be resolved, but I am worried about the number of cases that have been put to me. One of my constituents, who has three children, and whose income is only £61 a week, fears that his income is dropping by just over 90p a week. That may not seem a lot to some of us, but it seems an awful lot to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-19", "file": "debates1984-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ef3dbfedc852f460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which party is in power in Birmingham?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowden", "preceding_text": "rious delays, but there has never been a case such as those which the hon. Lady and the hon. Member for Oldham, West have mentioned. I am sure that any right hon. or hon. Member who was presented with such a case by a constituent would be in the council's offices within 24 hours demanding action, apologies and withdrawal of the notice to quit and would severely reprimand the responsible officials.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.479.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-19", "file": "debates1984-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ef3dbfedc852f460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.486.0", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "preceding_text": "e principle that if Mr. Bloggs has paid into a fund and can look after himself the state does not have to look after him. We should actively encourage that sort of thing. I believe that, as far as possible, we should relieveoccupational pensioners of income tax. I know that that would cost a lot of money and that it is unlikely to happen, but I see it as a principle that should be put into action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-19", "file": "debates1984-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ef3dbfedc852f460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.486.0", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "preceding_text": "that that would cost a lot of money and that it is unlikely to happen, but I see it as a principle that should be put into action. [Interruption.] I shall not help the Opposition in any way. The Labour party's interest in this important subject, which affects millions of our constituents, is shown by the fact that for long periods there have been no more than six Opposition Members in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.486.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-19", "file": "debates1984-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ef3dbfedc852f460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.507.4", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "s taken out. The National Council for Civil Liberties has been at the forefront in assisting Labour council members, who were on certain occasions by far the majority, to achieve that. That has been a success story. I hope that the Nottinghamshire county council will, if it has the opportunity—I suppose that the Tories have hustled the vote in tonight to make sure that they get this thing through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.507.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-19", "file": "debates1984-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ef3dbfedc852f460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.511.4", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "liament in Trafalgar square. There were none from the Government Benches and none of the Social Democrats or the Liberals, those great defenders of freedom who are missing tonight. This is the sort of issue that they will be telling their constituents about no doubt. Those taking part in the demonstration were carrying candles and crosses and somehow or other, as a result of their telephone calls—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.511.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-19", "file": "debates1984-01-19a.xml", "sha256": "ef3dbfedc852f460", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.516.3", "colnum": "516", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "preceding_text": "ver, if only briefly, the main point which the promoter, in its wisdom, expected would be our concern. The House would expect the hon. Member presenting the Bill to justify it, rather than simply say, \"Let us leave it to the good sense of the local authority to decide what is best in that area.\" Conservative Members look distinctly gloomy tonight, and we have had only two short speeches from them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-19a.516.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-23", "file": "debates1984-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "006ea22055e71a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-23a.629.11", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ARTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "That last answer, I think, will cause a lot of anxiety throughout the museums in Britain. We had expected at least a rejection in principle of the concept of payment for museums—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-23a.629.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-23", "file": "debates1984-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "006ea22055e71a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-23a.639.4", "colnum": "639", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I hope that there may be some words of comfort in my speech for an authority such as Norfolk. I come to the settlement for 1984–85. Faced with a budgeted overspend in the current year of £0·75 billion —three quarters of that overspend comes from no more than just 16 Labour-controlled authorities — I have had to increase the White Paper provision —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-23a.639.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-23", "file": "debates1984-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "006ea22055e71a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-23a.684.0", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert N. Wareing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert N. Wareing", "preceding_text": "son) was correct when he said we should ask ourselves what went before. I shall tell the House what went before in Liverpool. during the years when rate support grant was increasing year after year under a Labour Government, Liverpool had the misfortune to be dominated by the Liberals. These were Liberals who owed more to the memory of the late Horatio Bottomley than to the late William Gladstone.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-23a.684.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-23", "file": "debates1984-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "006ea22055e71a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-23a.730.1", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": " well. In one of the most revealing statements that I have ever read during the period of this Government, we learnt on Friday that Mr. Bernard Ingham, the Prime Minister's press secretary, and a man in whom only last week the Prime Minister was expressing her fulsome confidence, described those who dare to oppose the Government from their Back Benches as \"dissidents\" who were to be \"neutralised\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-23a.730.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-23", "file": "debates1984-01-23a.xml", "sha256": "006ea22055e71a56", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-23a.746.0", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Leyland Vehicles (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. John Butcher)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have that already.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. John Butcher)", "preceding_text": "ee years ago, we should have to pre-empt about 8 per cent, of the foreign aid programme and gear it entirely to the output from that one plant in order to secure, say, £100 million of orders. That would be a very difficult and controversial decision to make. We do not look with enthusiasm or indifference at any trend that could bring 20 per cent, unemployment to this part of Scotland or any other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-23a.746.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-24", "file": "debates1984-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "854fabb2f8bfb02f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.761.7", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "It is because I take this matter so seriously —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.761.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-24", "file": "debates1984-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "854fabb2f8bfb02f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.761.9", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "The hon. Lady does her case no good by suggesting that all homeworking is bad and that all employers are paying badly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.761.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-24", "file": "debates1984-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "854fabb2f8bfb02f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.764.7", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "On the subject of young people, is the Prime Minister aware that there are now 400,000 unemployed 18 and 19-year-olds in Britain? Not only do they not have work, but they have no education and no training—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.764.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-24", "file": "debates1984-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "854fabb2f8bfb02f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.766.5", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lofthouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lofthouse", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister inform the House whether her son received any financial reward whatsoever for his efforts—and her efforts too—on behalf of the Cementation company?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.766.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-24", "file": "debates1984-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "854fabb2f8bfb02f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.775.1", "colnum": "775", "heading": "Disarmament (Stockholm Conference)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "NATO has repeatedly said that it will never use any weapons, nuclear or conventional, in response to attack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.775.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-24", "file": "debates1984-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "854fabb2f8bfb02f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.781.3", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shocking\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "ing to intervene. It is not very helpful to spend time going over the past, but this is a real crisis. The House is entitled to ask the Secretary of State, the Department of Trade and Industry or the Scottish Office how they intend to proceed and what can be done to help. One of the most alarming and depressing things that I have read for a long time is the Government amendment on the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.781.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-24", "file": "debates1984-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "854fabb2f8bfb02f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.786.2", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. George Younger)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. George Younger)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, to leave out from \"House\" to the end of the Question and to add instead thereof the amendment on the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.786.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-24", "file": "debates1984-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "854fabb2f8bfb02f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": ": Those are the reasons why I have not asked the Government for money to renegotiate this contract. I also saw the chairman of Britoil recently, whose position is exactly as I have said. Although he wishes, as we all do, to get the rig completed if possible on the lower Clyde, he does not regard as a likely option the renegotiation of the present contract under the auspices of the present parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-24", "file": "debates1984-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "854fabb2f8bfb02f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.790.7", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "empt to assess the position, but their problem is that they have no access to the essential information. Moreover, this information is, and is bound to be, commercially confidential and, what is more, is the subject of litigation between British Shipbuilders and Britoil. It would be wrong of any hon. Member to prejudice such legal action by bandying about all sorts of figures. I have been anxious—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.790.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-24", "file": "debates1984-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "854fabb2f8bfb02f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.790.7", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "ll into the trap of encouraging the belief that the Government are always there to bail out a nationalised industry from difficulties in which it finds itself as a result of failing to produce the goods on a commercial contract entered into freely by both sides. That is the seemingly easy course which has led to so many of the problems with which we are having to grapple today. It is not a course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.790.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-24", "file": "debates1984-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "854fabb2f8bfb02f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.793.0", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Milan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Milan", "preceding_text": "e impression that Britoil was not willing to renegotiate the contract with British Shipbuilders. That is not true. I have had it said privately to me, although it has been said also on the public record, by Mr. Ford and Mr. Clark of Britoil that they are anxious to renegotiate the contract with British Shipbuilders. Either they are telling lies, Mr. Deputy Speaker, or someone else is telling lies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.793.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-24", "file": "debates1984-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "854fabb2f8bfb02f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.793.0", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Milan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce Milan", "preceding_text": "contract with British Shipbuilders. Either they are telling lies, Mr. Deputy Speaker, or someone else is telling lies. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"] I say to the right hon. Gentleman in the most categoric terms that Britoil is willing to renegotiate the contract with British Shipbuilders, and the only thing preventing that is the inactivity of the Government and the unwillingness of British Shipbuilders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.793.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-24", "file": "debates1984-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "854fabb2f8bfb02f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.795.1", "colnum": "795", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Millan", "preceding_text": "ecretary of State will not intervene to bring Britoil and British Shipbuilders together, he has sent civil servants scuttling off to Sweden to try to sell off the facility to foreign interests. We also have the spectacle of Trafalgar House inspecting the yard and being a possible purchaser, arid Trafalgar House is the parent company of Cementation Limited, which is well favoured by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.795.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-24", "file": "debates1984-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "854fabb2f8bfb02f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.805.9", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": ". Friend the Secretary of State. The Opposition may be making a great deal of noise about my right hon. Friend's responsibilities, but it is emphatically not his responsibility that there is a crisis of commercial confidence in the yard. He alone, of all the Scottish politicians, has been issuing warning of the consequences if the work force and the management at Greenock do not change their ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.805.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-24", "file": "debates1984-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "854fabb2f8bfb02f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.811.0", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Henderson", "preceding_text": "n) spoke with the sincerity that the House has come to recognise during the short time that he has been here. He spoke with power and passion. It does him no discredit to say that his speech paled into insignificance when compared with that of my hon. Friend the Member for Renfrew, West and Inverclyde (Mrs. McCurley), which was one of the most impressive speeches made in the House for a long time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.811.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-24", "file": "debates1984-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "854fabb2f8bfb02f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.837.3", "colnum": "837", "heading": "British Rail Engineering Ltd.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "No; tenders have been invited from firms in those towns and from BREL itself. It is extraordinary that the hon. Member for West Bromwich, East wants to ensure that the orders go to BREL by not giving workers in the other towns the opportunity to quote and to get the work. I wonder whether it is right for the Labour party to show its partiality towards one concern in the public sector —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.837.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-24", "file": "debates1984-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "854fabb2f8bfb02f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.876.5", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Education (Assisted Places)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "Has the hon. Gentleman taken into account all the figures? One must consider the problem for the local authority, which still has a duty to provide the school buildings and so on. The staff for a place at each school have to be covered, in addition to the Government paying the money for the assisted place, so there is a double cost to take into account.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.876.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-24", "file": "debates1984-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "854fabb2f8bfb02f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.877.3", "colnum": "877", "heading": "Education (Assisted Places)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bennett", "preceding_text": "ired for a new reading scheme is almost impossible to find within the allowance that is made for equipment. It is amazing that the Government can find money for the assisted places scheme but not to ensure that buildings in the maintained sector are adequate. They cannot find money for new reading schemes in primary schools and they have cut the provision of remedial teachers in primary schools. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.877.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-24", "file": "debates1984-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "854fabb2f8bfb02f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.879.2", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Education (Assisted Places)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evennett", "preceding_text": "y under the scheme, but the Opposition are still complaining. The Government wish not only to help those people but to ensure that the qualification levels are updated in line with inflation. This debate is especially relevant on a day on which many London schools have been subject to disruption due to politically motivated action by those who wish to flout the will of the people of this country —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.879.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-24", "file": "debates1984-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "854fabb2f8bfb02f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.883.2", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Education (Assisted Places)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "I have spoken in previous debates on the matter. We must refer to the cause of the regulations. If I have to cease to do that, my speech will be a waste of time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.883.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-24", "file": "debates1984-01-24a.xml", "sha256": "854fabb2f8bfb02f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.887.0", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Education (Assisted Places)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "on my constituent, who is a hard-working member of the community and who is merely seeking to improve the opportunities available to his children. I look back over my long experience in teaching and recall the damage that the Labour party did to children through its reorganisation scheme. It is clear that its attitude towards this scheme and the regulations is typical of its attitude to education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-24a.887.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-25", "file": "debates1984-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4e02edb4adf7fc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.914.0", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that some of us who have supported the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.914.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-25", "file": "debates1984-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4e02edb4adf7fc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.918.0", "colnum": "918", "heading": "GCHQ (Employment Protection Acts)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "Members of the Security Commission were not consulted. It is not a matter for them. They are normally involved only in cases where there has been a breach of security. Nor was there any consultation with the trade unions at GCHQ.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.918.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-25", "file": "debates1984-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4e02edb4adf7fc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.919.4", "colnum": "919", "heading": "GCHQ (Employment Protection Acts)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": " action. I have been asked why that could not be achieved by a no-strike agreement. Such an agreement could not prevent exposure to industrial tribunals. 'The need to prevent such exposure is the second reason for wanting confidentiality. Experience has also shown that in an organisation whose activities include intelligence work there can be problems if staff are members of national trade unions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.919.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-25", "file": "debates1984-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4e02edb4adf7fc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.920.0", "colnum": "920", "heading": "GCHQ (Employment Protection Acts)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Charles Irving", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Charles Irving", "preceding_text": "fundamental removal of a democratic right, and de-unionising a large group of people, he is setting a precedent. Roughly 7,000 people in my constituency are involved. I should like to know, firstly, whether it is the normal accepted practice in areas of sensitive security to take such steps without the fullest consultation. Are those people who feel offended by this introduction to be guaranteed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-25", "file": "debates1984-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4e02edb4adf7fc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.921.4", "colnum": "921", "heading": "GCHQ (Employment Protection Acts)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "As I have already said, industrial action during disputes before 1981—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.921.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-25", "file": "debates1984-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4e02edb4adf7fc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.922.6", "colnum": "922", "heading": "GCHQ (Employment Protection Acts)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Get back to Moscow.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State admit that this action begins a process of taking legislation on trade unions back to the 19th century, to the days of the Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 1875, when gas and water workers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.922.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-25", "file": "debates1984-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4e02edb4adf7fc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.922.6", "colnum": "922", "heading": "GCHQ (Employment Protection Acts)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State admit that this action begins a process of taking legislation on trade unions back to the 19th century, to the days of the Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 1875, when gas and water workers—[AN HON. MEMBER: \"Get back to Moscow.\"]—were banned from taking industrial action —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.922.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-25", "file": "debates1984-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4e02edb4adf7fc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.925.2", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Scott Lithgow (Debate)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "e, Department of Trade and Industry. Yesterday, in the debate on Scott Lithgow, the Secretary of State for Scotland purported to quote from a speech that I made in the House of Commons when I served in Her Majesty's Government. The Minister of State, Department of Trade and Industry, also purported to make such a quotation. Neither of them notified me in advance that they intended to refer to me —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.925.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-25", "file": "debates1984-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4e02edb4adf7fc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.926.2", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Scott Lithgow (Debate)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why were you not here?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, you make the very point that I seek to make. If I had been notified either by the Secretary of State for Scotland or the Minister of State, Department of Trade and Industry, I should have been able to intervene in the debate yesterday and make clear —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.926.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-25", "file": "debates1984-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4e02edb4adf7fc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.946.2", "colnum": "946", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Clare Short", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes an enormously important point when he says that the Act may have saved lives. I disagree fundamentally with that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.946.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-25", "file": "debates1984-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4e02edb4adf7fc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.1016.2", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Boring.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "preceding_text": " on record tonight our thanks to my right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary and my hon. and learned Friend the Minister of State for the careful, patient and diligent way in which they have answered our queries and amendments, both on the Floor of the House and in Committee. The strange aspect of this legislation is not the attitude of the Government, but that of Her Majesty's Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.1016.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-25", "file": "debates1984-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4e02edb4adf7fc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.1016.2", "colnum": "1016", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "preceding_text": "ow characteristically and contemptibly, seek to creep away from the consequences of their inhumanity. The British Parliament will make no concessions to the bullet and the bomb. We welcome the additional security measures that the Home Secretary has announced and we earnestly hope that they will grant a greater measure of safety to our people as they go about their lawful and peaceful occasions\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.1016.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-25", "file": "debates1984-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4e02edb4adf7fc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.1019.0", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "preceding_text": "ading, we must bear in mind a number of underlying considerations, one being—this leads us to the conclusion that legislation of this type is needed—that the Government have a duty to protect the largest possible number of citizens to the greatest possible extent, but within the acceptable limits of our legal and social system and standards. On the other hand, we as Liberals and Social Democrats —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.1019.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-25", "file": "debates1984-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4e02edb4adf7fc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.1019.0", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "preceding_text": " find it highly offensive. We take the view that we must never cease in our vigilance to protect the private citizen against laws that involve the risk of arbitrary application without regard to natural justice. That risk looms large in some parts of the Bill. In the wake of the Harrods bombing, in a number of cases the nightmare of the knock on the door in the night has unjustly become a reality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.1019.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-25", "file": "debates1984-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4e02edb4adf7fc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.1019.0", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On the one hand.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "preceding_text": "n terrorism again. Such a person can be arbitrarily and wrongly excluded from Great Britain and forced by pressure on his family to take part in terrorism in Northern Ireland. The Bill does nothing to alleviate such cases. The Government have failed to come to grips with many of the important civil liberties issues which cause great anxiety. Of course I accept that there remains, on the one hand —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.1019.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-25", "file": "debates1984-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4e02edb4adf7fc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.1019.0", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "preceding_text": "The Government have failed to come to grips with many of the important civil liberties issues which cause great anxiety. Of course I accept that there remains, on the one hand — [HON. MEMBERS: \"On the one hand.\"] We are not ashamed of saying \"On the one hand\". It is high time that the Government took a balanced view. We believe that the Government have not gone any distance to meet out misgivings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.1019.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-25", "file": "debates1984-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4e02edb4adf7fc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.1021.2", "colnum": "1021", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": "We should not indulge ourselves —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.1021.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-25", "file": "debates1984-01-25a.xml", "sha256": "b4e02edb4adf7fc8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.1032.1", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — A30 (Cornwall)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "on on the A30 in Devon, west of Exeter, and £42 million in Cornwall. We are fully justified in doing that to improve 90 miles of that 114 miles of road. I am satisfied that the proposals represent good value for money. All the schemes on our present plans give us a positive return. The hon. Gentleman may ask \"Why not spend more?\" He mentioned £15 million to dual throughout from Exeter to Penzance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-25a.1032.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-26", "file": "debates1984-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "98a365d87d2f0689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-26a.1043.9", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "ng the lines mentioned by Churchill when he said, Jaw-jaw is better than war-war\", and try to bring together the leaders of the North, who are sitting behind me here, and the leaders of the South, the Government, to discuss the parlous economic position of the whole of Ireland and the politics of the situation? At some time they will have to talk together, and the British people are getting weary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-26a.1043.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-26", "file": "debates1984-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "98a365d87d2f0689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-26a.1043.9", "colnum": "1043", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"TOO long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": " than war-war\", and try to bring together the leaders of the North, who are sitting behind me here, and the leaders of the South, the Government, to discuss the parlous economic position of the whole of Ireland and the politics of the situation? At some time they will have to talk together, and the British people are getting weary—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"] — of the whole business, and it is time —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-26a.1043.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-26", "file": "debates1984-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "98a365d87d2f0689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-26a.1047.12", "colnum": "1047", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "for the removal of those civil rights because of anything that occurred in 1983, or before or since? As the Minister responsible for security matters, will she confirm now that she will belatedly meet the trade unions? Can she tell us how she will justify to them action that can only be described as dictatorial and not to be expected of a British Prime Minister? Was it not shameful and shamefaced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-26a.1047.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-26", "file": "debates1984-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "98a365d87d2f0689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-26a.1050.1", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hordern", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hordern", "preceding_text": "Is it not clear that those employed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-26a.1050.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-26", "file": "debates1984-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "98a365d87d2f0689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-26a.1050.5", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merlyn Rees", "preceding_text": "o keep GCHQ going but that I believe that the action Government took is wrong? The right hon. Lady calls in aid what happened in 1981. I have checked Hansard for those years, and I find that the former Secretary of State, Sir John Nott, made it absolutely clear that the strike had not in any way affected the operational capability in any area. He went on to praise the loyalty of the Civil Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-26a.1050.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-26", "file": "debates1984-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "98a365d87d2f0689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-26a.1068.3", "colnum": "1068", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Military?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I do not have the advantage of having seen the statement to which the hon. Gentleman refers. I confess that I thought that Mr. Ingham was one of the less minatory people —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-26a.1068.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-26", "file": "debates1984-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "98a365d87d2f0689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-26a.1078.3", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "European Community (Developments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "exports often conflict with the wider global interests with which the Community should be equally concerned. The British Government's approach is to advocate what we have referred to as a strict financial guideline—that, at the beginning of each financial year, the Community should decide the amount that is available for agricultural expenditure. That is not a radical measure or a dramatic change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-26a.1078.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-26", "file": "debates1984-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "98a365d87d2f0689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-26a.1083.1", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "European Community (Developments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman says, \"Rubbish.\" I had the benefit of reading the article that he wrote in The Times two days ago, when he informed his leadership that he was about to start on a series of provincial speaking engagements on Europe that stretches right up to the blessed relief of Euro polling day in June\". We shall have a veritable Cook's tour —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-26a.1083.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-26", "file": "debates1984-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "98a365d87d2f0689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-26a.1123.4", "colnum": "1123", "heading": "European Community (Developments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Caborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Caborn", "preceding_text": "The hon. and learned Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Mr. Howard) referred to the analogy that has been drawn between the development of the United States of America and that of the European Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-26a.1123.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-26", "file": "debates1984-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "98a365d87d2f0689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-26a.1132.1", "colnum": "1132", "heading": "European Community (Developments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"None\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "t a higher level. We should have had our big guns firing there, and then we might have got some alteration in the decision of the European Parliament. It was pointed out earlier that we are now, in time, half-way between Athens and Brussels, and we wonder what prospect there is of success. What indications are there that agreement will be reached in Brussels when it could not be reached in Athens?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-26a.1132.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-26", "file": "debates1984-01-26a.xml", "sha256": "98a365d87d2f0689", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-26a.1136.2", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "European Community (Developments)", "cue_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Ian Stewart)", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Ian Stewart)", "preceding_text": "ty. My hon. Friend the Member for Southend, East (Mr. Taylor) asked what would happen if and when the CAP ran out of funds. I have corresponded with my hon. Friend on this subject. The position is unprecedented, and if that were to happen we should be moving into uncharted territory. In such circumstances, all the member states would need to get together and discuss how to deal with the situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-26a.1136.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-27", "file": "debates1984-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "5400cd93408004e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-27a.1176.1", "colnum": "1176", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "is what this has done. There has been a enormous explosion of revenues and prospects, which not only has caused potential conflict inside the agency, but is putting out a tempting pot of gold for a new generation of newspaper moguls who are, in many cases, without the integrity of those who went before them and who are facing financial difficulties that make this pot of gold particularly tempting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-27a.1176.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-01-27", "file": "debates1984-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "5400cd93408004e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-27a.1177.3", "colnum": "1177", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Aitken", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-27a.1177.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-27", "file": "debates1984-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "5400cd93408004e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-27a.1216.0", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "his colleagues have an ambivalent attitude towards the press. When they do not like what it says about them, they want it controlled or they want the Government to intervene. However, when the hon. Gentleman attacks the limited, unrepresentative and monopolistic ownership of the British national press\", he spoils his case. If that is his view, the remedy open to him is to set up his own newspaper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-27a.1216.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-01-27", "file": "debates1984-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "5400cd93408004e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-27a.1236.2", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — TOUR OPERATORS (ADVERTISING OF FOREIGN HOLIDAYS) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order for Second Reading read.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-27a.1236.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-01-27", "file": "debates1984-01-27a.xml", "sha256": "5400cd93408004e5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-27a.1236.16", "colnum": "1236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — CHRONICALLY SICK AND DISABLED PERSONS (AMENDMENT) BILL", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Question [18 November] —That the Bill be now read a Second time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-27a.1236.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-30", "file": "debates1984-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "387db8f40c1c65ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-30a.26.2", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Members Declarations of Interest", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Pure malice.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": "have considered those matters, it would follow that, in future, declarations of interests would appropriately be made when such statements were made to the House. The circumstances have been made exceptionally difficult because of the refusal of the Table Office in recent days to accept questions on those matters. Hon. Members have been left with no other option but to raise them at Question Time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-30a.26.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-30", "file": "debates1984-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "387db8f40c1c65ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-30a.73.0", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Data Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "taxation at every opportunity open to it. It never faces the responsibility that any major party should face in saying that we must increase expenditure in one respect and that to do that we have to decrease it elsewhere or fail to balance the books. The record will show that the amount of increased expenditure advocated by the Liberal party would put about 20p on the standard rate of income tax —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-30a.73.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-30", "file": "debates1984-01-30a.xml", "sha256": "387db8f40c1c65ab", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-30a.73.0", "colnum": "73", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Data Protection Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harry Greenway", "preceding_text": "y major party should face in saying that we must increase expenditure in one respect and that to do that we have to decrease it elsewhere or fail to balance the books. The record will show that the amount of increased expenditure advocated by the Liberal party would put about 20p on the standard rate of income tax — [Interruption.] That is how the Liberal party needs to face its responsibilities —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-30a.73.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-31", "file": "debates1984-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "c214ae29c1b99732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.130.7", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may be surprised to hear that I rather agree with him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.130.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-31", "file": "debates1984-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "c214ae29c1b99732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.136.0", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I tried partially to answer the right hon. Gentleman or one of his right hon. or hon. Friends the other day. If one loses a great deal of time in continuous surveillance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-31", "file": "debates1984-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "c214ae29c1b99732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.137.5", "colnum": "137", "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 saw, and welcome, the CBI survey today. It shows a picture of rising demand and activity levels spreading more widely through the economy, and rising investment. Those trends are welcome, but we cannot expect sudden great improvements in the labour market. As my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House said, in an excellent speech, our GDP is about the same as it was in 1979—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.137.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-31", "file": "debates1984-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "c214ae29c1b99732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.137.5", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ivity levels spreading more widely through the economy, and rising investment. Those trends are welcome, but we cannot expect sudden great improvements in the labour market. As my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House said, in an excellent speech, our GDP is about the same as it was in 1979—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] We are producing, by virtue of not having overmanning and by improved technology —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.137.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-31", "file": "debates1984-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "c214ae29c1b99732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.142.0", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Vocational Education and Training", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Crouch", "preceding_text": "at the hesitancy shown by many young people towards taking part in the youth training scheme was caused by doubt whether the training was real training for a real job, and a real extension of education? I am sure that many hon. Members on both sides of the House would, like me, have welcomed the presence here today of the Secretary of State for Education and Science alongside my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-31", "file": "debates1984-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "c214ae29c1b99732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.144.0", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Vocational Education and Training", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What jobs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend recognises and attaches enormous importance, as those who have studied his recent speeches on this will know, to the fact that the education services must be effectively attuned to the nation's needs. The academic side of further education is not an issue here. We are dealing specifically with the technical and vocational education aspect — preparing people for jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.144.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-31", "file": "debates1984-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "c214ae29c1b99732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.146.0", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Vocational Education and Training", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "owance from 25 quid a week, which represents a theft of £12·50 from the YTS allowance during the life of this Government, to a level more closely related to trade union rates for apprentices, which represent a decent training allowance? As the White Paper refers in paragraph 29 to health and safety, will the right hon. Gentleman respond to the requests that have been made to his Department—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.146.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-31", "file": "debates1984-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "c214ae29c1b99732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.146.2", "colnum": "146", "heading": "Vocational Education and Training", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "—that trainees be given a proper contract of employment so that they are covered by all industrial legislation? Finally, will the right hon. Gentleman ensure —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.146.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-31", "file": "debates1984-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "c214ae29c1b99732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.148.2", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Vocational Education and Training", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What funds?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "It is absolutely vital to ensure that we get the most effective use of the training funds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.148.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-31", "file": "debates1984-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "c214ae29c1b99732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "nd unemotional way, he has given us a well-prepared script, full of bad news. I suppose that we are used to bad news. After all, it has become almost routine over the years. The Secretary of State continually gives us more of the same. He has sketched a pretty dreich and dreary outlook for Scottish local government in the rate support grant. One of the Secretary of State's great weapons is tedium.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-31", "file": "debates1984-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "c214ae29c1b99732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.160.0", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "ters. Their general tactic is to create a crisis, deny what they have done, and then duck for cover, blaming everyone else in sight. I am sure that the Secretary of State's favourite slogan is, \"It wasna me.\" But many of the troubles that we now face can clearly be laid entirely at his door. The Secretary of State constantly poses as the ratepayers' champion, and has done so again this afternoon —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.160.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-31", "file": "debates1984-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "c214ae29c1b99732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.176.4", "colnum": "176", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "leman knows that the enterprise zone opened amidst dubiety and doubt about its funding I was present at the opening of the zone, but the hon. Gentleman was not sufficiently interested in the plight of my constituents to be present. When the Scottish Office Minister for Industry opened the zone, he acknowledged that there were problems, and I compliment the Government on doing something about that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.176.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-31", "file": "debates1984-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "c214ae29c1b99732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.178.2", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I shall not drift into an area that is not covered by the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.178.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-31", "file": "debates1984-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "c214ae29c1b99732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.184.1", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Craigen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What a man!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craigen", "preceding_text": "3 per cent.? At the very time when we need to use local authority facilities, schools and public buildings cannot be used as much as they otherwise would be to cater for young people outside school hours. The truth is that on rating reform the Government have fled the field and the local authorities have to bear the burden. The hon. Member for Ross, Cromarty and Skye (Mr. Kennedy)—what a mouthful!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.184.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-31", "file": "debates1984-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "c214ae29c1b99732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.216.1", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "the Government introduced, as a temporary measure, a 90 per cent. scheme that has been an absolute beanfeast for them, a beanfeast that they are still enjoying and will enjoy no doubt for a year or two to come. If Opposition Members believe that, because notice has been given that that bonanza is over, somehow or other these gentlemen are going to change their minds and vote for the Labour party —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-31", "file": "debates1984-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "c214ae29c1b99732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.217.2", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "e parasites upon those ratepayers. Lord Wheatley's original report on local government was right. The suburbs of Glasgow should have been part and parcel of Glasgow district council and should not have been kept out, as they were under a Tory Government. If they had been part and parcel, there would still have been a Labour majority now, and we would have had more money to spend on the facilities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.217.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-31", "file": "debates1984-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "c214ae29c1b99732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.221.1", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "can be done to help all the people. I hope that the Government will look carefully at the Select Committee report when it is published. There is no doubt that what the report covers is the most important area of housing need in Scotland. We must tackle the problems of those who have been afflicted by bad local authority housing. We have a duty and responsibility, first, to examine that carefully —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-01-31", "file": "debates1984-01-31a.xml", "sha256": "c214ae29c1b99732", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.224.4", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Housing Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "Those are cheap jibes. However, if everybody bought a house which was available for housing—bought it for £100, as I did, and made it into a home — the problem of Scottish housing would be solved. I congratulate the Secretary of State. We have been wise to move the people of Scotland against what they do not want. They do not want to live as the serfs of the local authority —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-01-31a.224.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-01", "file": "debates1984-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "c352ec5f766626fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.261.3", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about jobs?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "ndustry. It is true that profitability does not compare well with industry in general, but there have been some striking company results — for example, Vantona-Viyella and Illingworth Morris. Courtaulds profits have risen by no less than 100 per cent. Textile output in the third quarter of 1983 was 3·6 per cent. up on the previous quarter, and 3·2 per cent. up on the previous year. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.261.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-01", "file": "debates1984-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "c352ec5f766626fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.268.4", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Nissan Project", "cue_speaker": "Mr Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is British.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Tebbit", "preceding_text": " to anyone. A site will be sought of about 800 acres on which the factory will be built. That site will be purchased. My hon. Friend asks about the aid that will be given. I shall not repeat the figures because I am sure that my hon. Friend will be able to read them in Hansard tomorrow. The aid that will be given to Nissan will not be nearly as much as that which has been given to British Leyland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.268.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-01", "file": "debates1984-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "c352ec5f766626fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.269.6", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Nissan Project", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Hickmet", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Hickmet", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State consider the great hopes that have been raised by Nissan's decision? Will he bear in mind also that the Scottish and Welsh lobbies have a nauseating amount of time in the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.269.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-01", "file": "debates1984-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "c352ec5f766626fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.273.5", "colnum": "273", "heading": "Nissan Project", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman again was not listening. The question of the £35 million arises only in the event that we go on to phase 2, so there is no question of a post-dated cheque. The decision quite clearly will be taken by the company concerned, in the same way that it is taken by Ford.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.273.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-01", "file": "debates1984-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "c352ec5f766626fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.274.3", "colnum": "274", "heading": "Nissan Project", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "to look after its own financing before too long. The fact that my hon. Friend is not asking for the company to go to north-west Surrey, must be a relief to all of us, not least his constituents. Finally, I did not fully answer the hon. Member for Birmingham, Hodge Hill (Mr. Davis) on the subject of the number of jobs, but, of course, it is impossible to estimate that, beyond the fact that we know—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.274.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-01", "file": "debates1984-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "c352ec5f766626fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.295.2", "colnum": "295", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Brown", "preceding_text": "I cite an example in support of my right hon. Friend's argument. The Humber Graving Dock, a privately-owned shipbuilding and ship repair company in my constituency, yesterday announced 500 redundancies. It is no coincidence that that company's losses were sustained from 1977 onwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.295.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-01", "file": "debates1984-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "c352ec5f766626fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.296.0", "colnum": "296", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "heir orders into British Shipbuilders' yards and that that had brought about the crisis in the industry. Frankly, I have some contempt for the way in which, not least through this debate—if it goes the way that the motion suggests it is likely to go—the matter is being approached by Labour Members, and I should be particularly depressed to see a willingness to play politics with men's livelihoods—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.296.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-01", "file": "debates1984-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "c352ec5f766626fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.297.5", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": " aspect of the Opposition motion is its attempt to make the responsibility for the misfortunes of the shipbuilding industry predominantly, if not entirely, a matter for the Government—that is, until the right hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Stepney changed his mind when he was caught on the hop and made a foolish intervention. In the Labour party's book, all would be well but for the Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.297.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-01", "file": "debates1984-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "c352ec5f766626fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.304.4", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkins", "preceding_text": "I have read the amendment to the motion, and I shall have something to say about it. But the Secretary of State referred much more to the speech of the right hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Stepney and replied to that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.304.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-01", "file": "debates1984-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "c352ec5f766626fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.309.0", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ernie Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ernie Ross", "preceding_text": "This seems to be a night for making apologies, so I apologise for the fact that I shall leave the Chamber after I have spoken, because this is my wedding anniversary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.309.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-01", "file": "debates1984-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "c352ec5f766626fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.321.3", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "[HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "at new management, such as Sir Michael Edwardes, could make a success of the firm. There is no reason why any firm that takes it over should not make a success of it. The present management has also played a part in reducing costs. Overtime, which cost £7·5 million last year with no great increase in productivity, has been cut by 75 per cent. Subcontracting has been cut by 65,000 per cent.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.321.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-01", "file": "debates1984-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "c352ec5f766626fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.350.1", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "that at that time British Shipbuilders had rather extensive interests in China and was hoping to do some business by selling technology to China. The response to the international situation must be an international one. That is why the previous Labour Government accepted the principle that aid to the industry should be degressive. That is why they negotiated the fourth directive. The EC dimension—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.350.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-01", "file": "debates1984-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "c352ec5f766626fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.350.5", "colnum": "350", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "e have never said that the position at Scott Lithgow is the fault of just the labour force. It is extremely difficult to come to a conclusion that management does more than carry a large part of the blame for its position. Having made that admission, I do not believe that it alters the conclusion. British Shipbuilders must be the best judge of its management resources, how they are best deployed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.350.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-01", "file": "debates1984-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "c352ec5f766626fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.362.0", "colnum": "362", "heading": "Industrial Tribunals", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Alan Clark)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Alan Clark)", "preceding_text": "I should like briefly to set out the Government's position, and with the leave of the House I shall reply later to any points that are raised. The regulations arise from the amendment that we made to the Equal Pay Act to allow women to claim equal pay for work of equal value —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.362.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-01", "file": "debates1984-02-01a.xml", "sha256": "c352ec5f766626fc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.363.6", "colnum": "363", "heading": "Industrial Tribunals", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "I apologise, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I understand that Lord McCarthy is the representative in the other place of Labour Members who moved the prayer and I thought that I would be in order in quoting from his speech, but I apologise for being out of order. In the light of what we have done, these comments by some of our former critics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-01a.363.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-02", "file": "debates1984-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b8853867bf4dc709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-02a.399.1", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that at some polytechnics, including Leeds, Bradford and Huddersfield, certain subsidised courses are being run for shop stewards, the subject being to combat privatisation in the public sector? Is this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-02a.399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-02", "file": "debates1984-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b8853867bf4dc709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-02a.401.2", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brinton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brinton", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that the \"Panorama\" programme last Monday was a disgraceful example—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-02a.401.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-02-02", "file": "debates1984-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b8853867bf4dc709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-02a.410.3", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "She is not answering it.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "As the Prime Minister answers questions every Tuesday and Thursday, that is an interesting topic to be directed to her.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-02a.410.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-02", "file": "debates1984-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b8853867bf4dc709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-02a.414.1", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Freeports", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eddie Loyden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eddie Loyden", "preceding_text": "Can the Minister say at this stage whether registered dock workers will be employed at the freeports?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-02a.414.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-02", "file": "debates1984-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b8853867bf4dc709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-02a.414.6", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Freeports", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I know that this is a matter of great interest to all hon. Members who have been seeking to intervene, and I shall endeavour to call them all, but I appeal for short supplementary speeches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-02a.414.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-02-02", "file": "debates1984-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b8853867bf4dc709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-02a.419.6", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Freeports", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Question.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "It was not in the Labour manifesto. Will the Minister bear in mind also that some of us are not kidded about this freeport? They are not free and they are not ports. This is nothing more than a confidence trick. A few years ago we had another one called enterprise zones. Enterprise zones were going to solve the problems of a few areas in the country. We do not hear much about them now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-02a.419.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-02", "file": "debates1984-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b8853867bf4dc709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-02a.420.2", "colnum": "420", "heading": "Freeports", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heifer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heifer", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that many Labour Members have at no time supported the concept of freeports? Once the Government had come forward with a policy of free ports—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-02a.420.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-02", "file": "debates1984-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b8853867bf4dc709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-02a.438.1", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": "outh is. With all their fine words, the Government have given little for the development of these experimental aeroplanes. We should study the experience of the United States. It has built demonstrator models, as it did with the F16. Afterwards the United States found itself faced with enormous deficits. If it is decided to build only one or two experimental aircraft, a great many corners are cut.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-02a.438.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-02", "file": "debates1984-02-02a.xml", "sha256": "b8853867bf4dc709", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-02a.485.0", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Royal Air Force", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McNamara", "preceding_text": " the leave of the House, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I should like to speak again. This has been an interesting and wide-ranging debate. Fortunately, every hon. Member who wished to speak has been able to do so. If, therefore, my remarks are somewhat short and I do not deal with every argument raised, I trust that I shall be forgiven. Unfortunately, I cannot say as the Minister can, \"I will write to you.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-02a.485.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-03", "file": "debates1984-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "01c5ad0b95168fd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-03a.508.3", "colnum": "508", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "the figures right so that I am not challenged by the Minister. His wages have not gone down. Since the Health and Safety Excutive came under his control he has had another £5,000, but he is not doing any extra work. One might ask why we have had all these Government cuts. The answer is simple. The Government intend to give those who finance the Tory party a better chance of exploiting the workers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-03a.508.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-03", "file": "debates1984-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "01c5ad0b95168fd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-03a.519.1", "colnum": "519", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baldry", "preceding_text": "needs only to look at the empty Benches around him—even if there is to be a full Division — to realise how much work the Labour party must do to set its house in order. One of my difficulties as both a Member and a barrister is that of trying to deal with the number of very bad points made by the Opposition. It has become almost impossible to distinguish between the bad points and the good points—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-03a.519.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-03", "file": "debates1984-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "01c5ad0b95168fd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-03a.526.1", "colnum": "526", "heading": "GCHQ (Trade Union Membership)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "They do not get redundancy, that is the point. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has just spelt that out. Does the right hon. and learned Gentleman realise that he stands condemned because he not only misled the House—we accept completely that that was inadvertent —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-03a.526.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-03", "file": "debates1984-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "01c5ad0b95168fd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-03a.534.0", "colnum": "534", "heading": "GCHQ (Trade Union Membership)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": " destroying such occasion as he has by exaggeration and hyperbole. I have never heard such extravagant and unjustified language applied to such events. Of course we care about civil rights. It is because of our concern for them that we attach such importance to the effective uninterrupted operation of this institution. That is why I came to the House to explain the position as I did on 25 January.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-03a.534.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-03", "file": "debates1984-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "01c5ad0b95168fd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-03a.565.3", "colnum": "565", "heading": "Health and Safety at Work", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "r also attempted to attack the members of those tribunals. More than 1,000 members of those tribunals are appointed on the recommendation of the Trades Union Congress. It is a disgrace that the hon. Gentleman should besmirch decent people who spend a great deal of their time trying to do what is right by the majority of the population. I come next to the hon. Gentleman's comments about accidents —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-03a.565.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-03", "file": "debates1984-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "01c5ad0b95168fd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-03a.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Health and Safety at Work", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman would listen to me, he would be in a position to decide whether I was a joke. The annual average of accidents in mining where there are changes in measurement procedures and the rest of it —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-03a.566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-03", "file": "debates1984-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "01c5ad0b95168fd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-03a.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Health and Safety at Work", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "en 1970 and 1974 the annual average of accidents per 100,000 man shifts was 118·79. Between 1975 and 1979 it fell to 93·12. In 1980 it went down again to 72·66. In 1981 it fell to 64·26. In 1982 it fell to 54·39. The fall is continuous and clear, and the hon. Member for Bolsover is wrong to say that there has been an increase in the number of accidents in mining—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-03a.566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-03", "file": "debates1984-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "01c5ad0b95168fd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-03a.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Health and Safety at Work", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "x00B7;26. In 1982 it fell to 54·39. The fall is continuous and clear, and the hon. Member for Bolsover is wrong to say that there has been an increase in the number of accidents in mining— [Interruption.] In fact, he is even more wrong, because I can announce today that it looks as though the figures for fatalities in mining will be down to their lowest in history at, probably, 30 in 1983 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-03a.566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-03", "file": "debates1984-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "01c5ad0b95168fd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-03a.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Health and Safety at Work", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "d the hon. Member for Bolsover is wrong to say that there has been an increase in the number of accidents in mining— [Interruption.] In fact, he is even more wrong, because I can announce today that it looks as though the figures for fatalities in mining will be down to their lowest in history at, probably, 30 in 1983 — [Interruption.] That compares with 38 in 1982, 35 in 1981, 42 in 1980 and 53 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-03a.566.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-03", "file": "debates1984-02-03a.xml", "sha256": "01c5ad0b95168fd6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-03a.566.1", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Health and Safety at Work", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": " be down to their lowest in history at, probably, 30 in 1983 — [Interruption.] That compares with 38 in 1982, 35 in 1981, 42 in 1980 and 53 — [Interruption.] It is interesting. The hon. Gentleman said that it went up, whereas it has come down to 30 compared with 35 in 1981 and 38 in 1982. The hon. Gentleman is taking one year when there was an increase of three. The figure has fallen by eight now—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-03a.566.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-06", "file": "debates1984-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "5acab1b088530320", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-06a.591.6", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "preceding_text": "ng Mersey tunnel users from charges to cross the river? Incidentally, that involves hon. Members coming from her constituency. Because of the damage caused to Mersey tunnel finances by Government policy and the erection of the bridge across the Mersey from Runcorn to Widnes, will the hon. Lady now consider the claim being made for compensation by the Merseyside county council to cover that damage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-06a.591.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-06", "file": "debates1984-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "5acab1b088530320", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-06a.594.1", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This is not a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "ber for Worthing (Mr. Higgins), who implied that I had acted improperly in repeating a conversation between myself and the general manager of the southern region of British Rail. The figures that I gave to the House—on the third cut in eight years in the rail service—are accurate and can be found in the 1983 corporate plan of British Rail. The 135 per cent. load factor for southern region trains —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-06a.594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-06", "file": "debates1984-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "5acab1b088530320", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-06a.679.0", "colnum": "679", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Transport (Mrs. Lynda Chalker)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Transport (Mrs. Lynda Chalker)", "preceding_text": " would be to saddle the ratepayers of Kent and Essex with responsibility for servicing and repaying outstanding debts amounting to some £65 million. The hon. Member for Greenwich (Mr. Barnett) suggested that it was inappropriate to toll a tunnel which was now said to be part of the M25. The Government accept that the tunnel links two sections of the M25, but it is not part of that motorway per se—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-06a.679.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-06", "file": "debates1984-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "5acab1b088530320", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-06a.697.3", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "I am not sure what the right hon. Gentleman is trying to prove. I am trying to point out that the Unionists are not in a position to criticise others. I do not say that I am in a position to criticise —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-06a.697.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-06", "file": "debates1984-02-06a.xml", "sha256": "5acab1b088530320", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-06a.734.5", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": " party system as compared with the rest of the United Kingdom, there is a strong case for an electoral system in Northern Ireland for the European Assembly which is likely to lead to the election of three MEPs who represent the great majority of voters. The principle that Northern Ireland's three representatives should be elected by STV was established in 1978 when Parliament passed the European —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-06a.734.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-07", "file": "debates1984-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "6d423d8b371063f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-07a.754.8", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bruinvels", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware of the money that the Inner London education authority is spending at present? It is living as if there were no tomorrow. It desperately needs financial control —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-07a.754.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-07", "file": "debates1984-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "6d423d8b371063f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-07a.758.6", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Gardner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it out.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Gardner", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-07a.758.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-07", "file": "debates1984-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "6d423d8b371063f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-07a.758.6", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Edward Gardner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Edward Gardner", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the Leader of the Opposition— [HON. MEMBERS: \"Read it out.\"] Is my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-07a.758.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-07", "file": "debates1984-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "6d423d8b371063f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-07a.760.3", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that I have in my hand a copy of the planted questions for her to answer, which were circulated among Tory Back Benchers? Is she further aware that that is an abuse of Question Time?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-07a.760.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-07", "file": "debates1984-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "6d423d8b371063f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-07a.761.0", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Further to the supplementary question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Mr. Golding), is it not without precedent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-07a.761.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-07", "file": "debates1984-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "6d423d8b371063f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-07a.761.3", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tapsell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tapsell", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. It may surprise you to know that I have been trying to put a question that was not planted.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-07a.761.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-07", "file": "debates1984-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "6d423d8b371063f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-07a.764.0", "colnum": "764", "heading": "Severn Bridge", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Those were the days.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Prescott", "preceding_text": "interest. Everything in the right hon. Gentleman's statement vindicated my hon. Friend's concern, and the House would expect the right hon. Gentleman at least to retract his past statement and apologise to my hon. Friend, who performed a public service in bringing the matter to our attention. I ask the Secretary of State to confirm that the possible cost of the repairs to the bridge is about £33 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-07a.764.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-07", "file": "debates1984-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "6d423d8b371063f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-07a.789.3", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Co-operative Development Agency and Industrial Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": " hope, too, that a certain adviser near this Chamber who is scribbling speech notes like mad will send them down the Bench in time to save him. I do ask the hon. Gentleman, in his winding-up speech, to deal with the matter raised by my right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Wythenshawe (Mr. Morris) in his winding up. Turning to the regional aspects of the Bill, some aspects of the proposals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-07a.789.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-07", "file": "debates1984-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "6d423d8b371063f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-07a.798.5", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Co-operative Development Agency and Industrial Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. Does it not ill become an hon. Gentleman who has wandered late into the debate to criticise Opposition hon. Members?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-07a.798.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-07", "file": "debates1984-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "6d423d8b371063f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-07a.806.3", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Co-operative Development Agency and Industrial Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "preceding_text": "imply result in a shift of employment — and, hence, a shift in unemployment — from one area to another. Around enterprise zones the experience has been that people have simply moved in to an enterprise zone from outside, creating a desert around a small oasis. We wonder whether Whitehall is best suited to decide exactly what aid is needed, and where. Surely, this is a need for regional government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-07a.806.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-07", "file": "debates1984-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "6d423d8b371063f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-07a.825.1", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Co-operative Development Agency and Industrial Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "development agencies in Scotland, Wales and England, put co-operative development officers on the payroll and build the infrastructure of co-operatives. The local authorities that the Government want to abolish have done a good job in setting up co-operative development and the metropolitan counties and the GLC have led the way in putting money into the future of the people who work in their area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-07a.825.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-07", "file": "debates1984-02-07a.xml", "sha256": "6d423d8b371063f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-07a.827.0", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Co-operative Development Agency and Industrial Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ha, Ha.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "ate capped. Will that impinge upon their ability to carry on with the work of co-operative development? Even changes in the nature of the urban programme have made it more difficult to start new co-operative initiatives. I do not welcome the Bill. It will be a disaster for co-operatives and co-operation in the coming four years. The next Labour Government—we must wait perhaps four years for that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-07a.827.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-08", "file": "debates1984-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "0abd3cc867b45d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-08a.875.3", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend expects to meet the local authority associations — [Interruption.] — at the Consultative Committee on Local Government Finance — [Interruption.] — in the spring and at the Housing Consultative Committee —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-08a.875.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-08", "file": "debates1984-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "0abd3cc867b45d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-08a.879.7", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "The House might be more impressed if, instead of asking that rather pointless question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-08a.879.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-08", "file": "debates1984-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "0abd3cc867b45d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-08a.931.1", "colnum": "931", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Here he goes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "by the Secretary of State. The ratepayers of both authorities are being subjected to crippling financial penalties. That is the measure of the report before us this evening. The most vulnerable members of the community will suffer severely. The services provided by local authorities are for the benefit of the vulnerable members of the community. Further cuts will deny services to the handicapped —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-08a.931.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-08", "file": "debates1984-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "0abd3cc867b45d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-08a.977.1", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Sea Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Wall", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Wall", "preceding_text": "xploratory voyages and joint ventures will be useful to the remainder of the distant water fleet remaining in Hull, not that there is much left of it, but there is some. As my hon. Friend the Minister said, joint ventures could include the Falkland Islands. There is still scope for those fine vessels costing over £1 million each. When I first became a Member of the House, 30 years ago come Friday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-08a.977.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-08", "file": "debates1984-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "0abd3cc867b45d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-08a.985.0", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Sea Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "m and say that a vessel is really fit, or that a fisherman can go, as under any outrageous law, to the High Court and ask for a judicial review. That is not the remedy that we look for when legislation is discussed in the House. I am asking the Minister not to withdraw the order but, after reflection, to introduce a subsidiary order providing for an appeal procedure. I hope that he will introduce—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-08a.985.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-08", "file": "debates1984-02-08a.xml", "sha256": "0abd3cc867b45d5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-08a.985.0", "colnum": "985", "heading": "Sea Fisheries", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "ous law, to the High Court and ask for a judicial review. That is not the remedy that we look for when legislation is discussed in the House. I am asking the Minister not to withdraw the order but, after reflection, to introduce a subsidiary order providing for an appeal procedure. I hope that he will introduce— [Interruption.] Does my hon. Friend the Whip want to intervene? I hoped that he might.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-08a.985.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-09", "file": "debates1984-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "c96910b290b6c58e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-09a.1015.2", "colnum": "1015", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "That is not a very impressive way to approach a serious issue—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-09a.1015.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-02-09", "file": "debates1984-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "c96910b290b6c58e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-09a.1019.4", "colnum": "1019", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "preceding_text": "In view of the right hon. Lady's oft-repeated claim that the economy is looking up, how does she think that squares with the recent survey by the Merseyside chamber of commerce which said that Home deliveries and orders static or dropping … More firms working at 60 per cent. to 80 per cent. capacity only … liquidity worsening—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-09a.1019.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-09", "file": "debates1984-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "c96910b290b6c58e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-09a.1023.7", "colnum": "1023", "heading": "Scott Lithgow Ltd.", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "On the first point, both my right hon. Friend and I were kept fully informed and were aware of the situation before the announcement was made. If the deal went through, Trafalgar House would hope to employ 2,000 at first, to be maintained if new work is found. Otherwise, the total would fall to a nucleus of 1,250 jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-09a.1023.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-09", "file": "debates1984-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "c96910b290b6c58e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-09a.1034.4", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Council of Agriculture Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "I am again grateful for my hon. Friend's opening remarks, and I regret to say that I have not yet had the chance to see the report from the Exeter university on these matters, but I shall make sure that it is drawn to my attention. With regard to the Commission's proposals for a 25 per cent. ceiling on the premiums that are payable for sheepmeat, while that is something—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-09a.1034.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-09", "file": "debates1984-02-09a.xml", "sha256": "c96910b290b6c58e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-09a.1110.0", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Maze Prison (Hennessy Report)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "I am merely repeating what the widow, Mrs. Ferris, said to me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-09a.1110.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-14", "file": "debates1984-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd9dfd83375ad02a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-14a.113.5", "colnum": "113", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister remember that under a Labour Government we never lost the Falkland Islands and that they were never invaded? Is he aware that if his Government had shown rather more prudence the invasion would not have taken place?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-14a.113.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-14", "file": "debates1984-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd9dfd83375ad02a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-14a.117.8", "colnum": "117", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that following the visit of the Secretary of State for Defence — [interruptionl —some of us went there to find out for ourselves what conditions were like at the base? We did not intend to use it as a propaganda visit, but by putting cruise missiles in the base Conservative Members have allowed it to become propaganda. Is the Minister aware —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-14a.117.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-14", "file": "debates1984-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd9dfd83375ad02a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-14a.122.3", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "May I say — —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-14a.122.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-14", "file": "debates1984-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd9dfd83375ad02a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-14a.122.5", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilkinson", "preceding_text": "May I ask, Mr. Speaker, why you would not accept my point of order?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-14a.122.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-14", "file": "debates1984-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd9dfd83375ad02a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-14a.123.1", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. In fairness to him, I shall call the right hon. Gentleman once more.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-14a.123.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-14", "file": "debates1984-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd9dfd83375ad02a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-14a.161.0", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "What SHAC does is a matter for it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-14a.161.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-14", "file": "debates1984-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd9dfd83375ad02a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-14a.199.0", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Couchman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Couchman", "preceding_text": "nd rates of just £27 a week. We are talking of a couple with an income of £10,000 a year, including child benefit, with two dependent children and the husband only working, who might receive housing benefit if their rate bill were just £11 a week, and £11 a week is not a large rate bill in London, where we have some highly profligate Labour-controlled councils imposing extremely high rates indeed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-14a.199.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-14", "file": "debates1984-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd9dfd83375ad02a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-14a.211.0", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security (Dr. Rhodes Boyson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Social Security (Dr. Rhodes Boyson)", "preceding_text": " the numbers of hon. Members on the Opposition Benches remain static. The speech of the hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Meacher) would have been more effective if he had had more backing on the Benches behind him, for all the great indignation that he showed on that occasion. While we have been sitting here, some of us have missed the fact that the gold medal was won by Torvill and Dean tonight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-14a.211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-14", "file": "debates1984-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd9dfd83375ad02a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-14a.211.0", "colnum": "211", "heading": "Social Security", "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": "oulkes), who has now rejoined us. I should like to put in perspective the whole matter of social security spending by this Government. Opposition Hon. Members may not like it because we are spending money. Next year we shall be spending £37 billion on social security, 30 per cent. of Government expenditure and 25 per cent. more in real terms than when we came into office four and a half years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-14a.211.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-14", "file": "debates1984-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd9dfd83375ad02a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-14a.215.1", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "as already been mentioned, and I imagine that many hon. Members are affected by it. One fact does not seem to have been mentioned. Last year we increased from £25,000 to £30,000 the level of mortgage relief. If my memory serves me correctly—and I stand to be corrected on this—the last time there was an increase in mortgage relief from £20,000 to £25,000, it was done by a Labour Government in 1974.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-14a.215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-14", "file": "debates1984-02-14a.xml", "sha256": "dd9dfd83375ad02a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-14a.216.11", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": " and the DHSS budget. As Opposition Members have reminded us frequently this evening, the Department's budget is £37 billion. We must consider the entire budget over a period before we decide. That was an idea that we got from Opposition Members, which we have taken on board completely. The Government's priorities have been the protection of the poorest, those on the lowest incomes and pensioners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-14a.216.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-02-15", "file": "debates1984-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "7d4f1ab72c9555ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.248.10", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Mr. Douglas Hogg.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.248.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-15", "file": "debates1984-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "7d4f1ab72c9555ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.258.2", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adams", "preceding_text": "et a home improvement grant? Out of the blue an iron curtain came down and they did not get the grant. Is the Minister aware that these people, many of them elderly and many of them traditional Conservatives, are now out of pocket by £400–£500? The House is entitled to ask whether the Government intend to do anything about that. Do they intend to reimburse these people in any way? Secondly—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.258.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-15", "file": "debates1984-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "7d4f1ab72c9555ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.259.0", "colnum": "259", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "Is the Solicitor-General aware that this question is part of a vendetta which the hon. Member for Tayside, North (Mr. Walker) has been waging against the travelling people for a long time? Is he further aware that the real criminals are the Tory Members of Parliament who have failed to persuade the local authorities to provide the right kind of sites and facilities for the travelling folk?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.259.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-15", "file": "debates1984-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "7d4f1ab72c9555ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.261.2", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOLICITOR-GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General for Scotland", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman talks about the Committee which he attended last night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.261.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-15", "file": "debates1984-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "7d4f1ab72c9555ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.267.1", "colnum": "267", "heading": "Local Government Elections (Proportional Representation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "ons should be taken as closely as possible to the people affected by them. It is also recognised that local people are the best qualified to appreciate the problems and opportunities in their areas and to take decisions accordingly. The Bill aims to ensure that local authorities are elected in a way that makes them truly representative of their local communities. A number of benefits will accrue —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.267.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-15", "file": "debates1984-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "7d4f1ab72c9555ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "inking and that he accepts our motion. When he leads us into a discussion of social security benefits, there is a serious danger of attempting to get rid of the problem of low pay in the context of social security. That is the error into which the hon. Gentleman may fall. He is hinting at a so-called negative income tax system. I do not believe that many hon. Members would come into that category.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-15", "file": "debates1984-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "7d4f1ab72c9555ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.276.3", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I proposed to deal with that point a little later, but I shall deal with it now. An important debate has started within the trade union movement and the Labour party about moving towards the adoption, I hope, of minimum wage provision. I do not disguise the fact that some problems must be overcome.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.276.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-15", "file": "debates1984-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "7d4f1ab72c9555ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.276.3", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Conservative Members snigger. They are not prepared to face any of these problems. We are near the start of a new Parliament. We must face serious social and economic problems. The Labour party is thinking seriously and radically about solutions. We will be open and honest in the way that we discuss those problems. We shall cause those problems to be discussed in the House in debates such as this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.276.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-15", "file": "debates1984-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "7d4f1ab72c9555ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.279.2", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "rry the logic through to the idea of a maximum wage level. The only argument that can advance the idea of an effective floor is one that provides for a ceiling as well. We shall come to the argument against that. The hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) does not put that case forward and until he is prepared to do so we cannot take him seriously. We must improve our competitiveness if we are to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.279.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-15", "file": "debates1984-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "7d4f1ab72c9555ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.279.2", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "ioned because, as it is true, it is difficult for them to argue against it. It is not the simple shorthand answer, but it is the answer that comes from real compassion and it would be honourable to say that it is the only way in which we can solve our problems. We entered the world recession after a period in which our cost competitiveness had been heavily eroded by vast increases in money wages —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.279.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-15", "file": "debates1984-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "7d4f1ab72c9555ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.280.5", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": " not going to change my mind in the middle of this debate. The connection is simple. If that part of the cost of goods caused by wages is higher here than in other countries, people are more likely to buy those other countries' goods rather than ours. My hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-West (Mr. Budgen) asked me to discuss the details of the connection between wages and inflation.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.280.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-15", "file": "debates1984-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "7d4f1ab72c9555ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.284.1", "colnum": "284", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "on wholly laudable. But the other side of the coin is that if the operation of such councils leads to more unemployment—I say \"if—and if it leads to fewer jobs and less opportunities, it would be quite wrong for any Government concerned about unemployment not to consider carefully the way in which those wages councils work. It is only in the past few days that we have heard of two wages councils —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.284.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-15", "file": "debates1984-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "7d4f1ab72c9555ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.312.0", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "ure or Government wage legislation, the predictable consequence must be bankruptcies and more redundancies. High wages that are not precipitated by consumer demand and productivity will raise labour costs. They will have to be paid for by higher prices, which will result in less investment and decreased competitiveness. Opposition Members may not like it, but those are the economic facts of life —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-15", "file": "debates1984-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "7d4f1ab72c9555ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.312.0", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Leigh", "preceding_text": "ntimate connection between wages and employment levels. Over the past 10 years, there has been a rise in real hourly earnings and an increase in the number of jobs lost. In the United States of America, by contrast, employment has expanded by 17 per cent. while real wages have fallen. In other words, while we have priced people out of jobs, the United States of America has priced people into them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-15", "file": "debates1984-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "7d4f1ab72c9555ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.325.1", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "should follow. Like the hon. Gentleman, I believe that it is impossible to have a substantial increase in material standards of living for the low-paid, and others in society, without a flexible political and economic system. The trouble with most countries that declare themselves to be Socialist or state Socialist is that they do not have flexible economic and political systems. It is well worth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.325.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-15", "file": "debates1984-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "7d4f1ab72c9555ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.325.3", "colnum": "325", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which job?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend. I hope that that agreement with my hon. Friend will help me to get preferments so that I can take his job, which I think I could do half as well as he does—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.325.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-15", "file": "debates1984-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "7d4f1ab72c9555ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.332.0", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Hind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Hind", "preceding_text": "One thing that is clear from the debate is that the Labour party believes that it has a monopoly of understanding of those who are worst off and who have not come from privileged backgrounds. There are many Conservative Members, whose fathers and grandfathers were unemployed, who have struggled in backgrounds that were not affluent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-15", "file": "debates1984-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "7d4f1ab72c9555ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.332.0", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Hind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kenneth Hind", "preceding_text": "hose fathers and grandfathers were unemployed, who have struggled in backgrounds that were not affluent— [Interruption.] This is the unacceptable face of Socialism. Labour Members will not accept that some Conservative Members have fought their way through greater deprivation than was suffered by many of them. Because of that, we can say that we understand and relate to those who are not well off.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.332.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-15", "file": "debates1984-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "7d4f1ab72c9555ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.333.3", "colnum": "333", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "preceding_text": " when they were paid a lower wage, because they will be dependent on benefits paid by the state. That is the unacceptable face of the policy. It is nonsense to say to the general public that it is a policy that will work. The hon. Member for Broadgreen told us about the money that is being paid to company directors. There are people in our society who get high wages, but they are a small minority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.333.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-15", "file": "debates1984-02-15a.xml", "sha256": "7d4f1ab72c9555ae", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.346.4", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "trying to claim that things are all right for the low-paid because average wages have gone up. Will he not confess that that is totally misleading because the average does not tell us what is happening to the lowest paid? Under the Government the number of low-paid people has risen. In 1979 one tenth of male manual workers were low paid, whereas in 1983 the proportion had increased to one in six —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-15a.346.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-16", "file": "debates1984-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "0b42a05d14c3bc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-16a.371.1", "colnum": "371", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Does the Home Secretary know why the courts gave the police authority to rifle through the home and bicycle bag of Duncan Campbell?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-16a.371.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-16", "file": "debates1984-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "0b42a05d14c3bc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-16a.372.7", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "In view of the threat posed to livestock by technological developments, such as increasingly sophisticated air weapons —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-16a.372.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-16", "file": "debates1984-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "0b42a05d14c3bc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-16a.372.7", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "In view of the threat posed to livestock by technological developments, such as increasingly sophisticated air weapons — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"]—will my hon. and learned Friend review the Fire Arms (Dangerous Air Weapons) Rules 1969—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-16a.372.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-16", "file": "debates1984-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "0b42a05d14c3bc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-16a.376.6", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robinson", "preceding_text": "he reckless bungling of the matter by the Foreign Secretary has resulted only in enormous and unnecessary damage to the international standing of our security system, and to the individual integrity of employees? Does she further agree that the six-point programme put forward in the recommendations of the unanimous report represents a reasoned and constructive basis for an agreement to be reached?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-16a.376.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-16", "file": "debates1984-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "0b42a05d14c3bc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-16a.376.9", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "affirmed at the forthcoming meeting with the Prime Minister. In addition, the Select Committee produced not only a constructive report, but a unanimous report. In the light of these developments, does the Prime Minister not now realise that failure to adopt a course such as the one suggested by the Select Committee would be to abandon fair play and common sense, and neglect the national interest?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-16a.376.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-16", "file": "debates1984-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "0b42a05d14c3bc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-16a.377.3", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The Committee endorsed the Government's objectives. It pointed out that the Government had to be satisfied that those objectives could be reached. I have yet to see anything which satisfies me —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-16a.377.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-16", "file": "debates1984-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "0b42a05d14c3bc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-16a.377.7", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "We have not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-16a.377.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-16", "file": "debates1984-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "0b42a05d14c3bc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-16a.379.1", "colnum": "379", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": " since 25 January on the subject of GCHQ, not one right hon. or hon. Member from any Opposition party has uttered a word in condemnation of the industrial action that has disrupted activity, including that which took place between February and April 1979 when the right hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dr. Owen) had direct ministerial responsibility for these matters? Does my right hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-16a.379.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-16", "file": "debates1984-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "0b42a05d14c3bc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-16a.380.5", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dixon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dixon", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Bearing in mind the antics of the public schoolboys on the Tory Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-16a.380.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-16", "file": "debates1984-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "0b42a05d14c3bc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-16a.380.5", "colnum": "380", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dixon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dixon", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Bearing in mind the antics of the public schoolboys on the Tory Benches— [Interruption.] —who have clearly not stopped yet, do you recall that in the last Parliament—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-16a.380.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-16", "file": "debates1984-02-16a.xml", "sha256": "0b42a05d14c3bc48", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-16a.427.0", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Wiggin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Wiggin", "preceding_text": "ily, surely conduct should be a part of the settlement. I do not agree with the hon. Member for Peckham (Ms. Harman), who believes that this should not be taken into account in the financial settlement after the breakup of a marriage. There is something that I can say that not many other hon. Members who are here can say, because they are lawyers. The legal costs in divorce have become outrageous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-16a.427.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-20", "file": "debates1984-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "19c971c39c83a735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-20a.549.4", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rogers", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State accept that in giving the figures in that way he is distorting them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-20a.549.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-20", "file": "debates1984-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "19c971c39c83a735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-20a.576.3", "colnum": "576", "heading": "European Communities (Budget)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "posed amendments for the regulations had been found unacceptable by the Commission. There is no doubt that these amendments would make it more difficult for the United Kingdom to receive the bulk of our funds by the end of March. For instance, the Parliament has proposed that the refunds should finance only projects initiated after 1 January 1983. This can be regarded only as a wrecking amendment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-20a.576.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-20", "file": "debates1984-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "19c971c39c83a735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-20a.578.5", "colnum": "578", "heading": "European Communities (Budget)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my hon. Friend the Minister of State has heard that request. I understand that the letter is addressed to my right hon. and learned Friend who is in Brussels—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-20a.578.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-20", "file": "debates1984-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "19c971c39c83a735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-20a.580.1", "colnum": "580", "heading": "European Communities (Budget)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "The Delors proposals are at present confidential to the negotiations —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-20a.580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-20", "file": "debates1984-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "19c971c39c83a735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-20a.591.4", "colnum": "591", "heading": "European Communities (Budget)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "No, I shall take up the Minister of State's point in a moment. I wish first to make it clear that we do not accept his entirely false premise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-20a.591.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-20", "file": "debates1984-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "19c971c39c83a735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-20a.591.4", "colnum": "591", "heading": "European Communities (Budget)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "No, I shall take up the Minister of State's point in a moment. I wish first to make it clear that we do not accept his entirely false premise. [Interruption.] If the hon. Member for Harrow, East (Mr. Dykes) will be kind to his hon. Friend the Minister, I will give the Minister an answer. I presume that the question was intended to elicit a reply from me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-20a.591.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-20", "file": "debates1984-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "19c971c39c83a735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-20a.601.7", "colnum": "601", "heading": "European Communities (Budget)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "nion. Since we were in the old European Parliament, I have been on record as being in favour of British Conservatives linking with the Christian Democrat group. I hope that my hon. Friend the Minister of State will say something about the meeting this weekend at St. Cloud. I missed the first few minutes of the debate, so perhaps my hon. Friend the Economic Secretary made some reference to it then—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-20a.601.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-20", "file": "debates1984-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "19c971c39c83a735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-20a.614.2", "colnum": "614", "heading": "European Communities (Budget)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "preceding_text": "I promise to deal with that, because a number of Conservative Members have said, erroneously, that the British Labour group is anti-European, when in fact we are greatly pro-European.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-20a.614.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-20", "file": "debates1984-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "19c971c39c83a735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-20a.632.2", "colnum": "632", "heading": "European Communities (Budget)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "preceding_text": "in their money-grabbing exercises. They have not only destroyed the countryside, but have laid waste to other countries' economies. It is extremely important to put the budget in the wider context of a continual sell-out of British interests. What disturbs me greatly is the fossilised attitude of. Pro-Marketeers in the Conservative party. The right hon. and learned Member for Hexham (Mr. Rippon) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-20a.632.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-20", "file": "debates1984-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "19c971c39c83a735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-20a.650.0", "colnum": "650", "heading": "European Communities (Budget)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Oonagh McDonald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Oonagh McDonald", "preceding_text": "nd of March. The Economic Secretary also said that it would be premature to withhold payments. He said that we have until the end of March to get our rebate from the EEC. The end of March is not far away, and the signs do not yet seem very hopeful. In view of the heavy weight of the documents, which we have, of course, all dutifully read over the past few days to prepare ourselves for this debate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-20a.650.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-20", "file": "debates1984-02-20a.xml", "sha256": "19c971c39c83a735", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-20a.657.1", "colnum": "657", "heading": "European Communities (Budget)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "ace. Secondly, there is still no procedural reason why sums due to the United Kingdom should not be paid by the end of March. The European Parliament has itself indicated that it is fully aware of the significance of that date, and until that date has lapsed we are prepared to give the Parliament the benefit of the doubt. That, I believe, is the only reasonable, proper and responsible thing to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-20a.657.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-21", "file": "debates1984-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "16b2a9f4c1149464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-21a.686.2", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "he Tory party and to the big businesses which allocate millions of pounds to it each year? Will he also extend it to the Social Democratic party, as I have just seen a statement of its income for the year ending 31 March 1983? Although there has been a drop of £175,000 in members' subscriptions, there has been an increase in other donations to the tune of £310,000. Where does that money come from?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-21a.686.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-21", "file": "debates1984-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "16b2a9f4c1149464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-21a.687.0", "colnum": "687", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend at last kill the myth that the Conservative party is financed purely by big business? Will he confirm that, of every £1 spent by the Conservative party, 82p comes from the doorstep, and about 18p only comes from large donations —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-21a.687.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-21", "file": "debates1984-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "16b2a9f4c1149464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-21a.693.9", "colnum": "693", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "se that her coming out against the working people at GCHQ Cheltenham having the right to join a union is seen as a continuation of the anti-trade union legislation which her Government have been passing for some time? Does she also realise that that is bound to give aid and comfort to the anti-trade union groups, such as the pro-Nazi group that is deeply entrenched in the bowels of the Tory party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-21a.693.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-21", "file": "debates1984-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "16b2a9f4c1149464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-21a.694.7", "colnum": "694", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister agree that where there is legitimate public doubt or general public anxiety over instances where a Minister has or has not separated his ministerial duties from his private interests, it is in the general public interest—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-21a.694.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-21", "file": "debates1984-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "16b2a9f4c1149464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-21a.696.7", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I should not want to put the House to any inconvenience, and when I attempt to rise I require and seek absolutely no privilege other than that accorded in your judgment and your consideration—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-21a.696.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-21", "file": "debates1984-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "16b2a9f4c1149464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-21a.697.1", "colnum": "697", "heading": "Scottish Shipping Subsidies", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. George Younger)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. George Younger)", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-21a.697.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-21", "file": "debates1984-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "16b2a9f4c1149464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-21a.718.1", "colnum": "718", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tourism (Overseas Promotion) (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Craigen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craigen", "preceding_text": "I hope that the Minister will give my hon. Friend that assurance. I have travelled on that line, going the other way. Many visitors come from Scandinavia as well as from Australia and New Zealand. It will be important for the Scottish tourist board to continue to try to improve our prospects in those areas. However, what about Japan?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-21a.718.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-21", "file": "debates1984-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "16b2a9f4c1149464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-21a.727.1", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tourism (Overseas Promotion) (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman has proved by his attitude to the Scottish Assembly that he is completely ignorant of the Scottish dimension as well, far be it from me —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-21a.727.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-21", "file": "debates1984-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "16b2a9f4c1149464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-21a.727.2", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tourism (Overseas Promotion) (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "thshire.\" Scotland cannot be promoted just on the basis of the general name. It is essential for the Scottish tourist board to have freedom to promote the individual attractions of Scotland. I worry about the new arrangements when it is suggested that the chairman of the English tourist board should be the same person as the chairman of the British Tourist Authority. I do not wish to walk on eggs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-21a.727.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-21", "file": "debates1984-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "16b2a9f4c1149464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-21a.727.2", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tourism (Overseas Promotion) (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Fairbairn", "preceding_text": "ent in his seat. One of the characteristics of tourists, presumably—or frequently — is that they have not been to the place before. They therefore do not know where places are. Even if they know where the places are, they may not know what is there when they get there. For some years, and against much opposition, we have managed to bypass most of the towns that lie between the south and Inverness.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-21a.727.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-21", "file": "debates1984-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "16b2a9f4c1149464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-21a.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tourism (Overseas Promotion) (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "I know that your patience has been estimable, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I shall desist from what I was going to say about Scottish Opera. I simply ask: what can be done to help Scottish Opera to tour? It will have a greater reputation at home if it is a touring company. In this world, the touring companies —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-21a.734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-21", "file": "debates1984-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "16b2a9f4c1149464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-21a.734.1", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Tourism (Overseas Promotion) (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "en. The Scottish Ballet is desperately hard-pressed. Soon a long letter on that subject will go to Department of Education and Science Ministers, as that Department is the sponsoring body. I hope that the muscle —if that is the correct word in relation to ballet—of Scottish Ministers will be deployed as forcefully as possible with their DES colleagues so that this company can progress. On tourism—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-21a.734.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-21", "file": "debates1984-02-21a.xml", "sha256": "16b2a9f4c1149464", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-21a.777.7", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Tourism (Overseas Promotion) (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John MacKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John MacKay", "preceding_text": "It is appropriate that I start by saying that I am pleased to see you in the Chair, Mr. Dean, as your interest in Scottish tourism was no doubt greatly encouraged by your fortnight's stay in the island of Coll in my constituency this year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-21a.777.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-02-22", "file": "debates1984-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "58ca127e444d62be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-22a.819.5", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Ministerial Statements", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": " of the National Coal Board, who was knocked down? A major incident appears to have taken place. In view of the fact that two statements are to be made, would it not be reasonable to ask the Leader of the House, who has now come into the Chamber, to arrange for the Home Secretary to make a statement to the House about that incident? I think that it is a matter of concern in all parts of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-22a.819.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-22", "file": "debates1984-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "58ca127e444d62be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-22a.819.6", "colnum": "819", "heading": "Ministerial Statements", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-22a.819.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-22", "file": "debates1984-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "58ca127e444d62be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-22a.820.5", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Ministerial Statements", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Dr. David Owen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-22a.820.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-22", "file": "debates1984-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "58ca127e444d62be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-22a.826.3", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Foreign Affairs Council", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"It will be the first time.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "One can give a great deal of detail in answer to that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-22a.826.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-22", "file": "debates1984-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "58ca127e444d62be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-22a.840.1", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Youth Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "pects for the economy. The right hon. and learned Gentleman said that he had heard it all before, that there is not really any recovery, and that those are the same old words Government spokesmen always give and we have heard over the years. Our first objective is to get inflation down. We remember the disastrous peak in 1975 when it was as high as 27 per cent. Inflation is now down to 5 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-22a.840.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-22", "file": "debates1984-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "58ca127e444d62be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-22a.844.0", "colnum": "844", "heading": "Youth Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Golding", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Golding", "preceding_text": " 1982 survey, which was unfavourable to the Government, but to a recent parliamentary answer. I understand that four fifths of the jobs for which an allowance is paid are not dependent on that allowance. My arithmetic may be wrong, but I have calculated that at present it costs the Government £1,435 a year for each job with wages of £42 per week. That does not make sense. It is not economic sense.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-22a.844.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-22", "file": "debates1984-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "58ca127e444d62be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-22a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Youth Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": "ght hon. and learned Friend the Member for Monklands, East, and it was repeated by my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, South-East (Mr. Nellist). We are not dreaming or theorising, but are relating the direct experience of our constituents, who are at the sharp end where it counts. The youth training schemes in my constituency are no substitute for jobs, nor do they provide sufficient training.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-22a.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-22", "file": "debates1984-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "58ca127e444d62be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-22a.918.2", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Double Taxation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I do not wish to be objectionable", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-22a.918.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-22", "file": "debates1984-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "58ca127e444d62be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-22a.921.1", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Double Taxation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "preceding_text": "avoidance on a massive scale. I understand from the notes that were available with the order in the Vote Office that the United Kingdom could not have taxed the capital gains. Therefore, it is necessary for the Swedish Government to levy tax. Otherwise that massive loophole could have been exploited by tax avoidance experts who abound in this country, mainly on the Conservative side of the House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-22a.921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-22", "file": "debates1984-02-22a.xml", "sha256": "58ca127e444d62be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-22a.938.0", "colnum": "938", "heading": "Double Taxation (Falkland Islands)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "I was not aware of the nature of the bank that had opened on the Falkland Islands. In view of the Minister's remarks on shipping, why did not a British bank open on the Falklands? So far as I know, Standard Chartered is an American-owned and controlled bank—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-22a.938.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-23", "file": "debates1984-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3a9f86308016eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.960.7", "colnum": "960", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Atkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A private one?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Atkins", "preceding_text": "As one who travels on a Shorts 330 some weekends to my constituency —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.960.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-23", "file": "debates1984-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3a9f86308016eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.969.1", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister realise that unless some political reorganisation takes place the Assembly is clearly a failure, because the minority community regards itself as oppressed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.969.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-23", "file": "debates1984-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3a9f86308016eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.969.10", "colnum": "969", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "It is on this issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.969.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-23", "file": "debates1984-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3a9f86308016eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.971.2", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heddle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heddle", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend recall the speech made by the Leader of the Opposition on Monday in Chesterfield, in which he called for the immediate abandonment of Britain's nuclear defences?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.971.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-23", "file": "debates1984-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3a9f86308016eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.971.9", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkinson", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister recall that she and her party won a handsome majority at the general election based on record unemployment?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.971.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-23", "file": "debates1984-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3a9f86308016eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.973.4", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This Government's record on putting investment into the coal industry is outstanding. It exceeds the \"Plan for Coal\". The \"Plan for Coal\" had three parts—good investment in good pits, raising productivity and closing old pits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.973.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-23", "file": "debates1984-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3a9f86308016eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.973.5", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. It is becoming increasingly difficult to ask a proper question in the House—as has been evidenced by the last two seconds or so — because the sheer hooliganism and noise —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.973.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-23", "file": "debates1984-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3a9f86308016eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.974.6", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "You are going to get it. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.974.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-23", "file": "debates1984-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3a9f86308016eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.974.8", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "e Opposition should be allowed to make a statement on an incident about which the Leader of the House refused to make a statement yesterday and on which the Minister of State later wrote a letter to me which did not contain any of the words in the statement which the Home Secretary made at 11.30 pm and which the Prime Minister made at Question Time? We have had no opportunity to raise the issue. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.974.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-23", "file": "debates1984-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3a9f86308016eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.974.8", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "he Minister of State later wrote a letter to me which did not contain any of the words in the statement which the Home Secretary made at 11.30 pm and which the Prime Minister made at Question Time? We have had no opportunity to raise the issue. — [Interruption.] Such abuse of the House has been tolerated for the last eight months. It is getting to the stage where we will not accept this behaviour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.974.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-23", "file": "debates1984-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3a9f86308016eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.974.10", "colnum": "974", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "You, Mr. Speaker, allowed the Leader of the Opposition to make his statement. I am asking you whether you should have allowed that statement or whether you should have interrupted it as you would have done if any other right hon. or hon. Member had made such a statement—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.974.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-23", "file": "debates1984-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3a9f86308016eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.975.0", "colnum": "975", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.975.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-23", "file": "debates1984-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3a9f86308016eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.976.0", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. As I understand it, one of your functions is to preserve and protect the veracity of the business and statements in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.976.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-23", "file": "debates1984-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3a9f86308016eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.976.0", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. As I understand it, one of your functions is to preserve and protect the veracity of the business and statements in the House. [Interruption.] Today and in previous statements the Foreign Secretary and the Prime Minister have repeatedly stated that the only areas of suppression of trade union activity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.976.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-23", "file": "debates1984-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3a9f86308016eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.989.4", "colnum": "989", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ask the question\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "preceding_text": "Given the unsatisfactory and inadequate replies to my hon. Friends the Members for Newham, North-West (Mr. Banks) and Sedgefield (Mr. Blair), the fact that the GCHQ debate on Monday will take place on the 150th anniversary of the Tolpuddle martyrs and the Prime Minister's crazy notion that democracy is defended by suppressing it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.989.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-23", "file": "debates1984-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3a9f86308016eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.1012.5", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wine Production", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. It is very difficult for young new Members of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.1012.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-23", "file": "debates1984-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3a9f86308016eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.1012.7", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wine Production", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I have before me \"Erskine May's Parliamentary Practice\". I do not expect new young Members to have read this book within the space of a fortnight, but the election took place on 9 June. Now we have the appalling spectacle of the Liberal candidate in Chesterfield, who is not prepared to debate with the candidates there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.1012.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-23", "file": "debates1984-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3a9f86308016eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.1013.0", "colnum": "1013", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Wine Production", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I think it is time that we got on to the Adjournment debate. For the third time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.1013.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-23", "file": "debates1984-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3a9f86308016eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.1037.5", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council Bill [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. When the hon. Member for Shrewsbury and Atcham referred scornfully to 11 coaches, he implied that they were small coaches or even minibuses.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.1037.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-23", "file": "debates1984-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3a9f86308016eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.1038.2", "colnum": "1038", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council Bill [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "preceding_text": "ing this bridge be careful to cause no pollution.\"? I hardly like to mention the word Cementation in the House, but can any hon. Member imagine its chairman saying, \"Fellows, keep the water clean. Let the sand run without let or hindrance,\" or, \"I see some soil, some slippage into the water, that may cause flooding further on. Fellows, don't do it.\" To imagine that is to live in cloud-cuckoo-land.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.1038.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-23", "file": "debates1984-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3a9f86308016eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council Bill [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "preceding_text": "lt over the river Severn, at such great cost, it will not make the angling any worse. However, he did not even mention it. The matter did not even cross his mind. For him, rivers are only for building bridges across. That is his attitude. Give him a piece of water and he will put cement across it. The hon. Member for Littleborough and Saddleworth wants to speak shortly, and I think that he should.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-23", "file": "debates1984-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3a9f86308016eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.1052.2", "colnum": "1052", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council Bill [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "trative centre — which certainly it is — a valuable conservation area— which undoubtedly it is—and an important tourist attraction—which, of course, it is. I am one of the tourists who enjoy visiting it because it is such a lovely place. It would be less than honest if I did not congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Shrewsbury and Atcham (Mr. Conway) on the way in which he presented the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.1052.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-23", "file": "debates1984-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3a9f86308016eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.1054.0", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council Bill [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "I am obliged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.1054.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-23", "file": "debates1984-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3a9f86308016eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council Bill [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "aying at home or away. People will say, \"Oh dear. I forgot that they were at home today. If I had remembered I would have stayed at home.\" We must remember the trade which shopkeepers will lose on home match days. So many factors must be considered. Investment is needed. That stands out a mile. Development schemes are needed to raise some of the money necessary. There are so many bridges to climb—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-23", "file": "debates1984-02-23a.xml", "sha256": "3a9f86308016eee6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.1055.1", "colnum": "1055", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council Bill [Lords] (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "ve enjoyed it. We should dispatch the Bill tonight so that everyone can talk. That will lead to progress. Most hon. Members contributing to tonight's debate have gone to the trouble of going to the market place, the town centre and the football ground. They have bothered to take an interest. I got a letter from the Football Association because of my connections with Huddersfield Town football club", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-23a.1055.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-24", "file": "debates1984-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "24bf241815afe050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-24a.1078.0", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "London (Government Policy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "As one who formerly worked for the LCC, I subscribe to the hon. Gentleman's tribute to it, at least in education, where it had a good record. However, in housing, to which the hon. Gentleman referred extensively earlier, the LCC was principally responsible for establishing the high-rise blocks to which he took strong exception —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-24a.1078.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-24", "file": "debates1984-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "24bf241815afe050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-24a.1078.5", "colnum": "1078", "heading": "London (Government Policy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "t years has not led to higher costs and deteriorations in certain services. We must always keep the structure of local government under close review, but the way that we go about doing that is perhaps the most important feature. Some hon. Members may be aware that I am still a serving member of the GLC. I do not come to this place as an apologist for the GLC. I accept that the GLC has its faults —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-24a.1078.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-24", "file": "debates1984-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "24bf241815afe050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-24a.1097.5", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "London (Government Policy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deakins", "preceding_text": "cause the Government do not like the National Health Service. However, because the NHS is so popular in London and elsewhere, the Government's attitude of the past few years could be summed up by the couplet: Thou shalt not kill; but need'st not strive Officiously to keep alive. I ask the six Conservative Members in the Chamber how many of of them do not use private health facilities and medicine.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-24a.1097.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-24", "file": "debates1984-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "24bf241815afe050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-24a.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "London (Government Policy)", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "n's argument has been that it is wrong to abolish the GLC per se. They did not develop the consequential arguments put forward by the hon. Gentleman, as he will see if he reads Hansard. I agree with Opposition Members that the democracy of London is threatened. It is certainly threatened when councillors in Brent are prevented by a mob from discharging their obligations. The Caribbean Times said —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-24a.1112.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-24", "file": "debates1984-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "24bf241815afe050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-24a.1112.1", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "London (Government Policy)", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Smear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "pposition would do them a world of good. Democracy in Lambeth is not assisted by attempts by the Labour party to hold on to power by bringing forward by two months the traditional date of the mayor-making ceremony. Democracy in Lambeth was disgraced when a Social Democratic party councillor, who had left the Labour party, returned to it after an indefensible campaign of violence and intimidation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-24a.1112.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-02-24", "file": "debates1984-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "24bf241815afe050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-24a.1134.5", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "London (Government Policy)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Apologise.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "ed not by my right hon. Friend, but by my hon. Friend who was asking the question. When my right hon. Friend replied, he said, not that he agreed with the figures, but: I agree with my hon. Friend's general thesis.\" — [ Official Report, 7 February 1984; vol. 53, c. 748.] The hon. Lady is misleading the House if she says that my right hon. Friend gave those figures to the House, because he did not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-24a.1134.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-24", "file": "debates1984-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "24bf241815afe050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-24a.1136.3", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "London (Government Policy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "cares about cuts are a cover for some very sinister developments. The article stated that there had been a complete change in the authority after the elections, and commented: Prior to the election there occurred a 'takeover of the executive of the London region of the Labour Party by a majority of people who, though claiming the designation socialist, can only be accurately described as leftist.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-24a.1136.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-24", "file": "debates1984-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "24bf241815afe050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-24a.1136.3", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "London (Government Policy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": " GLC reflected this change. People like the previous Leader of the ILEA, Sir Ashley Brammall, were elbowed unceremoniously out of the way and London's schools were in the hands of Authority members whose contact, if any, with London's schools and their children and parents could be measured at best in months and whose understanding and knowledge of education is minimal. The article went on to say—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-24a.1136.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-24", "file": "debates1984-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "24bf241815afe050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-24a.1137.1", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "London (Government Policy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "etings by varied groupings of teachers hooked on the 'policies' of Rank and File (Socialist Workers' Party, formerly International Socialism), Socialist Teachers' Alliance (International Marxist Group), many of whom now have 'entered' the Labour Party and even masquerade as Labour Party local councillors, together with a number of members of the Communist Party of Great Britain —Marxist-Leninist.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-24a.1137.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-24", "file": "debates1984-02-24a.xml", "sha256": "24bf241815afe050", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-24a.1137.1", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "London (Government Policy)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chope", "preceding_text": "e my quotation with this comment by the author: In the 'general' meetings of these associations, consisting on average of three per cent. of the membership, the various trotskyite groups vie with their Godzilla 'resolutions', united only in one thing—their hatred of the Union nationally and their contempt for the general membership. The ILEA and its unions have been taken over by the extreme Left—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-24a.1137.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-27", "file": "debates1984-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "79bc73f513e285e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-27a.9.2", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "dards officers has been a matter for their discussion. The hon. Gentleman knows that the traffic commissioners are independent enforcement agents. They, together with the police and the trading standards officers, must decide on the most effective method of enforcement. To prohibit a vehicle which is overweight, which they are encouraged to do, involves an immediate penalty, backed by prosecution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-27a.9.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-02-27", "file": "debates1984-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "79bc73f513e285e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-27a.21.2", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Conduct of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "represent by ensuring that freedom of speech is upheld in this Chamber. Finally, I take this opportunity to remind all right hon. and hon. Members—particularly new Members—that the placing of a prayer card on a particular seat does not give that Member a prescriptive right to that seat unless he has occupied it for Prayers. I hope that in all this I shall have the unqualified support of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-27a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-27", "file": "debates1984-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "79bc73f513e285e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-27a.35.0", "colnum": "35", "heading": "GCHQ Cheltenham", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "decision to do something by not actually denying that they will do it. For the Government, the way to hell is paved with \"no intentions\". The Government must recognise that their decision about GCHQ is a kick in the teeth for all those trade union leaders who have been prepared to develop a constructive relationship with the Government. Above all, it is a kick in the teeth for Mr. Lionel Murray. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-27a.35.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-27", "file": "debates1984-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "79bc73f513e285e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-27a.40.0", "colnum": "40", "heading": "GCHQ Cheltenham", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Browne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Browne", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman regards the no-strike agreement as paramount, as if function were the only thing to be considered here, but surely security is also of vital importance. Is it not true that trade union practice and convention at Cheltenham prevent such things as briefcases being searched when people leave the premises?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-27a.40.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-27", "file": "debates1984-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "79bc73f513e285e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-27a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "GCHQ Cheltenham", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "I made the point before that the threat to security in that sense, through espionage, in all Government establishments comes from former public school boys such as the hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-27a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-27", "file": "debates1984-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "79bc73f513e285e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-27a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "GCHQ Cheltenham", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "use — at least one third, I suspect, according to the Government's own figures. Then what will happen? This is where the \"resolute approach\" is already fraying at the edges. The Prime Minister is unravelling her woollen statue very fast, because Sir Robert Armstrong has given the director at GCHQ freedom to delay action indefinitely against people who refuse to sign—a day, a week, a month, a year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-27a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-27", "file": "debates1984-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "79bc73f513e285e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-27a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "GCHQ Cheltenham", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "ut the country. The Permanent Secretary at the Foreign Office told the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs that the cost of the bribe, if successful, could amount to £10 million. I hope that we shall be told that it will not be carried on the Foreign Office Vote, but I understand that there is no other Vote on which GCHQ is carried, so will the Government take it out of the pockets of Cementation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-27a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-27", "file": "debates1984-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "79bc73f513e285e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-27a.53.1", "colnum": "53", "heading": "GCHQ Cheltenham", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "newspaper arid on every radio station, not just in Britain but in every country. It has been discussed in Pravda, Tass and everywhere. At long last we are asking the House of Commons to debate it. What is it debating it on? It is debating it on a motion for the Adjournment of the House, with, apparently, a two-line Whip on the Government and Opposition Benches. What a way to discuss a major issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-27a.53.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-27", "file": "debates1984-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "79bc73f513e285e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-27a.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "GCHQ Cheltenham", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That is a good try.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "gn and Commonwealth Affairs. Her answer to that was yes. She answered a question on polygraphs at the same time. I wonder whether at this late stage of the debate, and before her right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Employment replies, she would care to comment. Naturally, I would willingly give way to the Prime Minister. Perhaps she wants to say something. It would greatly help the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-27a.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-27", "file": "debates1984-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "79bc73f513e285e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-27a.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "GCHQ Cheltenham", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": " of the Falklands campaign. Why was it that the right hon. Lady's Government briefed the press in the early stages that part of this decision concerned the Falklands campaign, when her Foreign Secretary says that the Falklands campaign had nothing to do with it? Once again, both explanations cannot be true. I say as courteously as I can to the Prime Minister, which is it? Which is it? Which is it?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-27a.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-27", "file": "debates1984-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "79bc73f513e285e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-27a.96.0", "colnum": "96", "heading": "GCHQ Cheltenham", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "been put many times in this debate, because we have had no explanation for the delay. Could it be that we have not been told something? Could it be that there is information which it would be embarrassing to reveal? I must tell the Prime Minister that next week a book will be published by Secker and Warburg, written by Desmond Rice and Arthur Gaushon, which will call for all sorts of explanations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-27a.96.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-27", "file": "debates1984-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "79bc73f513e285e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-27a.98.0", "colnum": "98", "heading": "GCHQ Cheltenham", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Smith", "preceding_text": "ttention of the House and crystallised the issues for many of those listening to the debate, it was the speech of my right hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, South and Penarth (Mr. Callaghan), the Prime Minister in the last Labour Government, under whom I had the privilege of serving. He spoke not only as a former Prime Minister but, interestingly enough, as a former Civil Service union official.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-27a.98.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-27", "file": "debates1984-02-27a.xml", "sha256": "79bc73f513e285e2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-27a.107.0", "colnum": "107", "heading": "GCHQ Cheltenham", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Callaghan", "preceding_text": " Official Report for confirmation. I asked the Foreign Secretary to \"deny the serious allegations that are made in the document.\" I then enumerated the allegations. The right hon. Gentleman may have misunderstood me, but I do not believe that I could have been clearer. I was under no misapprehension. This was a statement being made by the Civil Service unions, and that is what I asked him to deny.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-27a.107.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-28", "file": "debates1984-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "5b4ea98c816b8da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-28a.130.6", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State consider conducting a private inquiry among Members of the House of Commons to find out whether they carry donor cards —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-28a.130.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-28", "file": "debates1984-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "5b4ea98c816b8da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-28a.133.9", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "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": "Single payments of supplementary benefit can be made to supplementary benefit claimants who have responsibility for the funeral or cremation of a close relative.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-28a.133.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-28", "file": "debates1984-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "5b4ea98c816b8da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-28a.136.1", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "It is a matter of personal choice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-28a.136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-28", "file": "debates1984-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "5b4ea98c816b8da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-28a.163.0", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Jones", "preceding_text": "bout National Health Service pilot schemes in Wales. However, we heard nothing about meaningful new jobs. We were given no guarantee on Llanwern, or about the B1 courses on the youth training scheme. I would describe his speech as cleverly constructed and comprehensive and heaped with alibis and let-outs which attempted to be optimistic, notwithstanding the record amount of unemployment in Wales——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-28a.163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-28", "file": "debates1984-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "5b4ea98c816b8da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-28a.173.0", "colnum": "173", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "preceding_text": " one of many attacks which have been more vicious than we envisaged even from the anti-trade union Government elected in 1979. The Government have attacked the trade union movement more often than has been the case since before the days of the Tolpuddle martyrs. The Government are led by the most ruthless, scurrilous, slippery professor of chicanery that this country has ever known, ably assisted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-28a.173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-28", "file": "debates1984-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "5b4ea98c816b8da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-28a.192.0", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hubbard-Miles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hubbard-Miles", "preceding_text": "ave found only a small area for the headline, \"Health spending soars as staff levels rise.\" There are one or two things to be said about the health cuts. Having spent the past 10 years as a member of the largest health authority in Wales, and having been conscious of the increase in the service of that health authority over the past five years, I do not find it difficult to refute the allegations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-28a.192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-28", "file": "debates1984-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "5b4ea98c816b8da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-28a.193.1", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hubbard-Miles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hubbard-Miles", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way, because I am sure that the hon. Member will do his best to catch your eye, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I shall give the figures. After allowing for the existing service in 1979–80, £1·4 million was available for new development and growth. In 1980–81, £828,000 was available for new proposed developments in the Health Service in Mid-Glamorgan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-28a.193.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-28", "file": "debates1984-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "5b4ea98c816b8da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-28a.194.0", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Coleman", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Coleman", "preceding_text": "at the outset of my remarks on this Welsh day. I suggest that it would not come amiss if we were to remember three of our former colleagues who spoke in our proceedings this time last year—Michael Roberts, Alec Jones and loan Evans. They were sons of Wales who, according to their lights, did their very best for Wales, and I believe that it is right for us to remember them and their families today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-28a.194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-28", "file": "debates1984-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "5b4ea98c816b8da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-28a.218.1", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"To keep up with the town hall.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "tial text books were shared by three or four pupils, in which essential resources arid materials either were not available or were at an absolute premium, and in which the classroom furniture was such a disgrace, so tattered and fragmented in appearance, that it was positively dangerous to the children. The school wants as many as possible of its 1,500 pupils to keep up with our technological age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-28a.218.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-28", "file": "debates1984-02-28a.xml", "sha256": "5b4ea98c816b8da0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-28a.224.4", "colnum": "224", "heading": "Welsh Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "flexibility of the wealth-creating private sector. This Government alone hold out the hope of progressive change. The people of Wales realise it and that is why they returned a record number of Conservative Members at the last election. We shall keep that hope alive by our solid achievements in office during the life of this Parliament. We look to the future. The Opposition still look to the past.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-28a.224.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-29", "file": "debates1984-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "405eea0fddac2777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.244.1", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: 'Why?\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "Does it occur to the Secretary of State that we are glad that he has so far given rather cautious answers? Does he agree that it would be manifest nonsense and would lead to a weakening of British Leyland as a whole, and Jaguar if separated from it —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-29", "file": "debates1984-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "405eea0fddac2777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.245.8", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Warships?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for his reply and hope that I can take from it that he will be presenting proposals fairly soon for the privatisation of these warship yards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.245.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-29", "file": "debates1984-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "405eea0fddac2777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.247.5", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "nvested by overseas companies in developments in electronics in Scotland, and there is no doubt that the United Kingdom generally has become a magnet for investment of this sort. To give some examples: Hewlett Packard, 700 jobs at South Queensferry; Wang, 150 jobs at Stirling; and last week the Japanese silicon manufacturer, Shin Etsu, made a £37 million investment bringing 400 jobs to Livingston.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.247.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-29", "file": "debates1984-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "405eea0fddac2777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.254.3", "colnum": "254", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Will you confirm, in view of what my right hon. Friend the Member for Bethnal Green and Stepney (Mr. Shore), the Shadow Leader of the Opposition — the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.254.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-29", "file": "debates1984-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "405eea0fddac2777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.255.1", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Visitors (Notice)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I am sorry that I have not had the opportunity to give you notice of this point of order, but the matter has only just come to my attention. I normally enter these premises by New Palace Yard so that I can dutifully get to my office as quickly as possible and deal with my constituents' interests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.255.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-29", "file": "debates1984-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "405eea0fddac2777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.255.3", "colnum": "255", "heading": "Visitors (Notice)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "turbed to find on the closed door to St. Stephen's entrance a notice in the following words: Visitors by appointment only. Closed to the general public. If a constituent of mine wishes to approach me, I would like him, or preferably her, to have direct access to whatever advice he or she seeks. The words, \"Visitors by appointment only\", are somewhat off-putting, and since some of my constituents —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.255.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-29", "file": "debates1984-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "405eea0fddac2777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Rates Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "l complexity. All these provisions, too, should find a proper amount of time allocated for their consideration. Bearing this in mind, it is with stoicism—if not with surprise—that I have to tell the House that the Standing Committee has, after 80 hours of debate, managed to complete only six clauses. In what I might most charitably call its determination to ensure that no point goes unconsidered —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-29", "file": "debates1984-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "405eea0fddac2777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.271.0", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Rates Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William O'Brien", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William O'Brien", "preceding_text": "ars experience in local government and, together with other hon. Members with similar experience, I hope that our views will be heard. That is why we have spent so many hours in painstaking debate in Committee trying to provoke Conservative Members to ask questions about our amendments. They did not know what the Bill or the amendments were about. We took many hours explaining the measure to them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-29", "file": "debates1984-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "405eea0fddac2777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.286.1", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Rates Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "I am sure that that is the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.286.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-29", "file": "debates1984-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "405eea0fddac2777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Rates Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "Mr. Roberts), dated 25 January 1984. Under the heading \"Rates Committee\", item 35 states: There was a discussion as to the wisdom of forcing a guillotine. No firm conclusions were reached. However, the fact of the matter is that, by the time the Committee stage was under way, the Opposition had reached their conclusions, and they have talked and talked and talked, with the result that we have no —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-29", "file": "debates1984-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "405eea0fddac2777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.315.0", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Barclays Bank Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Anderson", "preceding_text": "aged to train himself for a suitable business opportunity came to the bank and was considered sufficiently credit-worthy, I assume that he would be considered on the same credit-worthy criteria as other customers. I do not make claims about that. However, I do claim—this is substantiated by the shadow reports on the operations of the bank—that the bank is mightily involved in the apartheid system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.315.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-29", "file": "debates1984-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "405eea0fddac2777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.331.0", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Barclays Bank Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "If I thought that that was happening, I should be worried about the matter. I take the view that that is not what is happening, and that therefore those assets will not be placed in any risk. I represent my party—the Liberals and the Social Democratic party—and I want to express my view on the subject that has been raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.331.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-29", "file": "debates1984-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "405eea0fddac2777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.337.1", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Barclays Bank Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " one examines it but the international Court of Justice has ruled that South Africa's presence in Namibia is illegal, and United Nations resolutions ask business organisations not to take part in the business of running Namibia. Yet Barclays is happy to breach international law where it thinks that it can raise profits. Barclays is happy to support the military, because that is where the money is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.337.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-02-29", "file": "debates1984-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "405eea0fddac2777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.338.2", "colnum": "338", "heading": "Barclays Bank Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "preceding_text": "It entitles them, most certainly and absolutely, to be there and to play a proportionate part in the Government of that country—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.338.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-02-29", "file": "debates1984-02-29a.xml", "sha256": "405eea0fddac2777", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.339.2", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Barclays Bank Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "That remark is contrary to the customs of the House, where courtesy and restraint in language are characteristics of our parliamentary debates. I am sure that the hon. Member for Coventry, South-East is sufficiently experienced to be able to communicate his meaning in better language. Mr. Nellist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-02-29a.339.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-01", "file": "debates1984-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "86a67d0c06c57c94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-01a.387.9", "colnum": "387", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How many go on?\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s have increased while the raw figures have diminished. The Government take extensive special measures to try to alleviate the problem. We cannot spend the oil revenue twice over. It is already being spent either on current expenditure or capital expenditure, and a good deal of it is being used to help the creation of small businesses. About 300,000 people a month go off the unemployment register—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-01a.387.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-01", "file": "debates1984-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "86a67d0c06c57c94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-01a.388.6", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "In many, many respects what the Prime Minister alleges is not true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-01a.388.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-01", "file": "debates1984-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "86a67d0c06c57c94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-01a.392.0", "colnum": "392", "heading": "France-England Soccer Match", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ball Association is not to blame for what happened? Is it true that the National Front was behind much of the ugly violence that we witnessed? Is it also true that the National Front deliberately organised for its members to attend this match in force? Since 1980, we have seen similar events perpetrated by English soccer followers—not the Irish, not the Welsh, not the Scots — in Denmark, Holland —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-01a.392.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-01", "file": "debates1984-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "86a67d0c06c57c94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-01a.446.4", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. William McCrea", "preceding_text": "I thank the hon. Member for Belfast, East (Mr. Robinson) for his intervention. He is correct in believing that much of the money sent to Northern Ireland to be spent on the Province has been kept in the Treasury's purse. It was not passed on as additionality but was used instead to subsidise others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-01a.446.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-01", "file": "debates1984-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "86a67d0c06c57c94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-01a.479.2", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "g the question of representation, that the Republican Member of this House, the hon. Member for Foyle (Mr. Hume), is not present when we are battling for those matters which will help all sections of the community to retain their jobs and their place in Northern Ireland. The Unionist representatives on both sides of this House are battling on these issues for the betterment of the whole community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-01a.479.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-01", "file": "debates1984-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "86a67d0c06c57c94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-01a.482.3", "colnum": "482", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "No, I do not think so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-01a.482.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-01", "file": "debates1984-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "86a67d0c06c57c94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-01a.487.0", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. James Kilfedder", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. James Kilfedder", "preceding_text": "rned Gentleman the Member for Warley, West (Mr. Archer) for. having been absent when they spoke. I understand however, that they made weighty and admirable speeches. When I was leaving the Palace of Westminster to attend to important constituency matters, I came across the people who were engaged in a lobby of the House, the pensioners who came to the House to speak to their Members of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-01a.487.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-01", "file": "debates1984-03-01a.xml", "sha256": "86a67d0c06c57c94", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-01a.493.1", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "st one decent report on the economy, for example, forum —I might make a point of sending him a copy so that he can take advantage of it—to see that the economy of both the North and the South has been seriously bled by the events in the North. That has been the result of the economic and political structures that exist in those two parts of the island of Ireland, and it is nonsense to ignore that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-01a.493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-02", "file": "debates1984-03-02a.xml", "sha256": "d5bf6291c4c2dced", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-02a.512.1", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Housing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "vide for the housing and shelter of its citizens. After four years of Tory government, local authority spending is projected to be one third of the figure inherited in 1979–80. That shows no element of local authority spending. By Government diktat, rents of local authority tenants between 1978–79 and last year rose by 117 per cent. in cash terms and about 50 per cent. in real terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-02a.512.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-05", "file": "debates1984-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "97f74bbf19f50af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-05a.634.1", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Rating and Valuation (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill (Allocation of Time)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Pathetic.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "preceding_text": "could not even keep discussion on part I of the Bill going. When they returned to their constituencies, the hard men of the Left were saying \"Why is there not a guillotine?\" Labour spendthrift councillors had come down to London at ratepayers' expense and wanted to see a proper fight. Labour Members are under pressure because reselection is in the air again. That is another reason for the charade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-05a.634.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-05", "file": "debates1984-03-05a.xml", "sha256": "97f74bbf19f50af7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-05a.699.0", "colnum": "699", "heading": "OPPOSITION DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "I am absolutely confounded. Since I went to see him about the case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-05a.699.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-06", "file": "debates1984-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52964e1bb9372f60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.727.8", "colnum": "727", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State realise that I, from the north of England, ask this question about ILEA because of the deep admiration for the work of ILEA that exists throughout the education spectrum?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.727.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-06", "file": "debates1984-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52964e1bb9372f60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.729.11", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman fails to take into account the fact that until this year the staying-on rate in schools was rising steadily. That must be taken into account. Moreover, there is very little evidence indeed that people fail to stay on at school for cash reasons.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.729.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-06", "file": "debates1984-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52964e1bb9372f60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.731.0", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": " instance, it leaves only another 104,000 jobs to go until we get back to where we were in 1979. On my original question, many schemes require further examination, but it appears that the examination being made by the Department of Trade and Industry is resulting in a reduction of the funds necessary for microelectronics support and development, for robotics, fibre optics and software development—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-06", "file": "debates1984-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52964e1bb9372f60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.731.0", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": " necessary for microelectronics support and development, for robotics, fibre optics and software development— [Interruption.] While I realise, Mr. Speaker, that the more atavistic elements in the Conservative party see these matters in a cavalier light, I am sure that the Prime Minister takes them very seriously. In the examination currently being conducted by the Department of Trade and Industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.731.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-06", "file": "debates1984-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52964e1bb9372f60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.731.8", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has no doubt read The Sunday Times of two days ago on the recent revelations about her problem family. Does the right hon. Lady recognise that those revelations, which were made by her own friends, simply reinforce the current opinion that she has degraded her high office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.731.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-06", "file": "debates1984-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52964e1bb9372f60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.731.8", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has no doubt read The Sunday Times of two days ago on the recent revelations about her problem family. Does the right hon. Lady recognise that those revelations, which were made by her own friends, simply reinforce the current opinion that she has degraded her high office— [Interruption.] — and turned No. 10 into a squalid, seedy family casino", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.731.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-06", "file": "debates1984-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52964e1bb9372f60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.731.8", "colnum": "731", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "lem family. Does the right hon. Lady recognise that those revelations, which were made by her own friends, simply reinforce the current opinion that she has degraded her high office— [Interruption.] — and turned No. 10 into a squalid, seedy family casino [Interruption.] —in which each member of that family, albeit with limited capacity, seems to be on the make. Will the right hon. Lady come clean—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.731.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-06", "file": "debates1984-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52964e1bb9372f60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.734.4", "colnum": "734", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "he precise question from the general question that the right hon. Gentleman is asking. There is no question of the Ministry of Defence trying to introduce a form of vetting based on party political beliefs. The matter arose in the Ministry of Defence out of the case of one senior civil servant who, while at work, was actively and openly promoting the views of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.734.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-06", "file": "debates1984-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52964e1bb9372f60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.740.4", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Freedom of Information", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "The leader of the Liberal party says \"Of course they are.\" I remind the House that there is a slush fund in the Liberal party which only a few people know about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.740.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-06", "file": "debates1984-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52964e1bb9372f60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.740.4", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Freedom of Information", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "ed to some of it. When this box is opened by a Freedom of Information Bill, I want to have a right to examine Liberal party accounts, just as people have a right to examine Labour and Tory party accounts. I also want to be able to find out precisely what the Social Democratic party accounts are. Where does that party's money come from? Information has been passed to me that in the past 12 months —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.740.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-06", "file": "debates1984-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52964e1bb9372f60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.740.4", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Freedom of Information", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "shed to support such a measure. We told him that such a Bill would not stand a chance of being passed during the present Parliament and that he would do better to use the private Member's Bill procedure. The leader of the Liberal party has ended up as Des Wilson's poodle. I have to tell him, too, that I do not believe that the leader of the Social Democratic party would have done what he has done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.740.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-06", "file": "debates1984-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52964e1bb9372f60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.742.2", "colnum": "742", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Peter Rees)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Peter Rees)", "preceding_text": "doubt whether we shall face the same problems at least in the next couple of years. If I had to distil two themes from the mass of facts in the White Paper, they would be transparency and stability. I hope that the first will gain the support of the leader of the Liberal party. I am sorry that he has already left his place, but I know that the matter will be taken up by others of his hon. Friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.742.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-06", "file": "debates1984-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52964e1bb9372f60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.746.7", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "priorities. I have no doubt that he supported them as a whole. Therefore, we must live with the consequences. As I said, it was for that reason that I emphasised that we hope — indeed, we plan firmly — to stick to a flat public expenditure path over the next three years. I have no doubt that my hon. Friend will mobilise the full force of his oratory and commitment to support us in our objectives —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.746.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-06", "file": "debates1984-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52964e1bb9372f60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.753.1", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "e six years ago. When we made the same point we were always referred to the pupil-teacher ratio in connection with the size of the school population. If hon. Members consider the real figures for education and the analyses that have been done, they will see that the school sector is certain to be disadvantaged by the White Paper. I thought for a moment that the hon. Gentleman was agreeing with me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.753.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-06", "file": "debates1984-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52964e1bb9372f60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": " that. If they stop a minute, they will realise that that is why they are supporting it. That is what they are about. That is why some people think that the Chancellor is doing a good job, because the Government represent capital, the strong and the wealthy as compared with the people that my right hon. Friends and I seek to represent. The policy is carried through deliberately by the use of fear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.760.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-06", "file": "debates1984-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52964e1bb9372f60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "preceding_text": "I am expecting the pay negotiations in the relevant public service to be genuine, and I trust that we will get agreed settlements. I certainly will not be conducting those pay negotiations over the Table in the House of Commons. The right hon. Gentleman shows how far removed he is from reality by making such a suggestion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-06", "file": "debates1984-03-06a.xml", "sha256": "52964e1bb9372f60", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.822.1", "colnum": "822", "heading": "Public Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "preceding_text": "ial boost to the construction industry, and I think that it has done a great deal to restore the fabric of much housing. We are often accused by a number of Opposition Members of wasting North sea oil. One hears that charge from time to time, but the benefits of North sea oil to the balance of payments have helped us to transform the nation's overseas balance sheet in the past five years. In 1976—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-06a.822.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-07", "file": "debates1984-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "42a8a4588d0158f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-07a.835.0", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I totally deny what the hon. Gentleman said about the Government's attitude to the North sea. On the contrary, we intend to play a positive part", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-07a.835.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-07", "file": "debates1984-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "42a8a4588d0158f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-07a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dormand", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dormand", "preceding_text": "Had my hon. Friend the Member for Stockton, North (Mr. Cook) recovered his voice on time, I am sure that he would have said that that reply was hardly reassuring. However, it says here —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-07a.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-07", "file": "debates1984-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "42a8a4588d0158f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-07a.850.5", "colnum": "850", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ut precedent for the Government to place in the Library the whole of the very substantial volume of evidence that we have received. We have published a list of the main organisations — local authorities and other substantial representative organisations—which presented evidence. It is there, and it is for the Library to secure the copies of that. On the first part of the hon. Gentleman's question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-07a.850.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-07", "file": "debates1984-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "42a8a4588d0158f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-07a.859.1", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Agricultural Holdings Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-07a.859.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-03-07", "file": "debates1984-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "42a8a4588d0158f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-07a.873.1", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Agricultural Holdings Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ken Weetch", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give way?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-07a.873.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-07", "file": "debates1984-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "42a8a4588d0158f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-07a.881.3", "colnum": "881", "heading": "Agricultural Holdings Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Weetch", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too much.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Weetch", "preceding_text": "oot causes of the difficulties. I was interested when the Minister referred to the Northfield committee report. That report said that we had insufficient information in this country about the structure of and personnel in landholding. There is still too much that we do not know about the structure of landholding. How much of the agricultural land in England and Wales is in institutional ownership?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-07a.881.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-07", "file": "debates1984-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "42a8a4588d0158f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-07a.914.3", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Agricultural Holdings Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "uarters for the establishment of a national land trust, which would be analogous to the National Trust. It would be empowered to borrow money from the Treasury for the purpose of buying land when it came on to the market. For example, there is a 16,000-acre estate at Belton in Lincolnshire which would be suitable for public acquisition in that way. This would not be a move to nationalise the land—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-07a.914.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-07", "file": "debates1984-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "42a8a4588d0158f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-07a.926.0", "colnum": "926", "heading": "Agricultural Holdings Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mark Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"At what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mark Hughes", "preceding_text": "ers representing every part of the country are deeply concerned to ensure the continuous prosperity of and support for an effective tenancy arrangement as an integral part of British agriculture for many years to come. There is not one hon. Member who does not see a prosperous tenant sector as doing other than contributing a major element to that facility for a long time to come. I look behind me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-07a.926.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-07", "file": "debates1984-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "42a8a4588d0158f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-07a.945.6", "colnum": "945", "heading": "Road Traffic (Speed Limits)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": " a new limit of 50 mph for all car-towing combinations on all roads. We have taken the opportunity to bring the speed limits for drawbar trailers up to 60 mph on motorways, 50 mph on dual carriageways and 40 mph elsewhere, as for other types of heavy lorries. Small vans derived from car chassis are now treated as private cars and not as goods vehicles. The light/heavy goods vehicle dividing line —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-07a.945.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-07", "file": "debates1984-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "42a8a4588d0158f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-07a.952.1", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Road Traffic (Speed Limits)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Adley", "preceding_text": "to industry and to the consumer, wherever this can be done without prejudice to road safety, and at the same time reducing risks and environmental nuisance to motorists and others who share our roads with these large vehicles. Whoever wrote that seems to have a strange idea of what we should be doing in the House to improve the environment. I want to speak briefly about the effect on British Rail.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-07a.952.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-07", "file": "debates1984-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "42a8a4588d0158f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-07a.958.6", "colnum": "958", "heading": "Road Traffic (Speed Limits)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Twenty-two foot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "Some trains travel at 125 mph, as ray hon. Friend should know. I do not believe that, with the taxation regime that the road transport industry has always had to bear, he can sustain that particular case. Several hon. Gentlemen have asked about caravan towing limits. The hon. Member for Truro (Mr. Penhaligon) cited the example of a Mini towing a 22-ton caravan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-07a.958.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-07", "file": "debates1984-03-07a.xml", "sha256": "42a8a4588d0158f9", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-07a.959.1", "colnum": "959", "heading": "Road Traffic (Speed Limits)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I cannot give the House an indication of the conclusion that I may reach. I appreciate the point that my hon. Friend the Member for Dumfries made about relative speeds from the point of view of overtaking. On dual carriageways, even though lorries and coaches may have speed limits 10 mph faster. I doubt whether they will go much faster, because they go too fast already. While that may not follow —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-07a.959.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-08", "file": "debates1984-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "32f78b2b368be5b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-08a.976.2", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I am disappointed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-08a.976.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-08", "file": "debates1984-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "32f78b2b368be5b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-08a.977.2", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to hear of the individual cases in his constituency to which the hon. Gentleman draws attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-08a.977.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-08", "file": "debates1984-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "32f78b2b368be5b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-08a.979.6", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to be able to confirm that the Labour Government in the 1970s —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-08a.979.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-08", "file": "debates1984-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "32f78b2b368be5b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-08a.979.6", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I am delighted to be able to confirm that the Labour Government in the 1970s — [Interruption.] I am delighted to be able to confirm that the Labour Government in the 1970s—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-08a.979.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-08", "file": "debates1984-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "32f78b2b368be5b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-08a.986.10", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "s will be laid before the House today. The exempt groups—children, old people, expectant and nursing mothers, certain of the long-term sick and those on low incomes—are unchanged. Moreover, 72 per cent. of prescriptions are free and another 6 per cent. are purchased by low-cost season tickets. The increases in charges will mean that, as a percentage of the total cost of the National Health Service", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-08a.986.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-08", "file": "debates1984-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "32f78b2b368be5b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-08a.992.9", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I cannot make any helpful comment about why —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-08a.992.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-08", "file": "debates1984-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "32f78b2b368be5b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-08a.993.0", "colnum": "993", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": " in mind the fact that there may well be a strike, and that about 18 weeks ago the chairman of the National Coal Board said that he was not bothered about the overtime ban lasting for decades because it would save the National Coal Board and the taxpayer money? As it has already cost the board and the taxpayer £240 million, should not the Leader of the House make sure that the chairman of the NCB—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-08a.993.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-08", "file": "debates1984-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "32f78b2b368be5b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-08a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "ing responsibility for making decisions to regions. It also enabled regions to come to such divergent opinions. It is obvious, for example, that the policy followed by Wessex does not commend itself to any hon. Member, whereas the policy followed by the northern region is perfectly acceptable. I do not think that any hon. Member has said that there should not have been any voluntary redundancies —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-08a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-08", "file": "debates1984-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "32f78b2b368be5b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-08a.1036.1", "colnum": "1036", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "d on what the individuals had already earned. Only £7 million was compensation for their early retirement. In other words, £33 million would have to be paid out, in any event, in the course of the next few years if the individuals reached normal retirement age. Pension payments represent £14 million. Of that, almost half the sums paid out to date are earned superannuation rather than compensation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-08a.1036.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-08", "file": "debates1984-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "32f78b2b368be5b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-08a.1039.1", "colnum": "1039", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "e service to the size it ought to be. However, we know that if we produce manpower targets next year, the hon. Member will launch another hysterical assault, saying that this is an attack on the National Health Service and is cutting back on all that was most dear to Nye Bevan and his descendants. Not only are we getting numbers under control, but we also want to improve the quality of management.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-08a.1039.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-08", "file": "debates1984-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "32f78b2b368be5b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-08a.1054.0", "colnum": "1054", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terence Higgins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Untaxed.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terence Higgins", "preceding_text": "e National Union of Mineworkers, will take that into account when considering whether a pit is justified in continuing to operate. The cost of keeping uneconomic pits in operation, which has gone on far too long, is a burden on the rest of the community. We need to know who is subsiding whom. My constituents are paying out more than £5 a time for the cost of providing concessionary coal to miners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-08a.1054.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-08", "file": "debates1984-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "32f78b2b368be5b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-08a.1079.2", "colnum": "1079", "heading": "ESTIMATES DAY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": " in the coal industry, of removing uneconomic pits to enable the price of coal to be competitive, is a prize which every hon. Member of this House should be committed to achieving. The work that Mr. MacGregor and his colleagues are doing in the National Coal Board is a commitment to achieving that objective — a viable coal industry with a long-term future, high employment and a high wage industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-08a.1079.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-08", "file": "debates1984-03-08a.xml", "sha256": "32f78b2b368be5b4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-08a.1083.2", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Jonathan Mills", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Marshall", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Marshall", "preceding_text": "I am especially grateful to you, Mr. Speaker, for allowing me the opportunity to outline some of the problems and concerns that have arisen following injuries sustained by Weapons Engineering Artificer Apprentice Jonathan Mills from the efflux of a Seacat missile on board HMS Fife off the Falkland Islands on Saturday 28 January.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-08a.1083.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-09", "file": "debates1984-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "ed5377bcdf307975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-09a.1136.1", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "Soviet Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitney", "preceding_text": "ould also say that when President Castro came to power he was given a ticker-tape welcome in the streets of New York. When the Sandinistas came to power in Nicaragua they were given $118 million in the first 18 months of their existence. I remind him that the elections in El Salvador were designed to give the people of that country a voice, as are the elections to be held later this month —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-09a.1136.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-09", "file": "debates1984-03-09a.xml", "sha256": "ed5377bcdf307975", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-09a.1137.3", "colnum": "1137", "heading": "Soviet Union", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitney", "preceding_text": "The Kissinger committee devoted hundreds of hours and great resources to reaching a solution that provided for $8 billion for the region. I should be surprised if that could be called military aggression and if it could be compared with Soviet action in Poland, other countries in eastern Europe or Afghanistan.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-09a.1137.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-12", "file": "debates1984-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "93ea494911ad0f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.6.8", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "Contrary to being a disaster, Mr. MacGregor is of great benefit to the future of the mining industry in Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.6.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-12", "file": "debates1984-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "93ea494911ad0f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.125.1", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Pollution", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Clark", "preceding_text": "ops, although the magnitude of the effect is uncertain. Paragraph 5.84 states: While most records of the effects of acidification of freshwaters have come from Scandinavia and North America, we are aware of increasing evidence of effects in the United Kingdom. I could go on and on, but I do not wish to take the Minister's time. All the evidence is there and it is time that the Government faced it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-12", "file": "debates1984-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "93ea494911ad0f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.126.0", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Environmental Pollution", "cue_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. William Waldegrave)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. William Waldegrave)", "preceding_text": "s we know from the work of Nigel Haigh and others, that is not always the case in Europe. We take European Community legislation seriously. As a throwaway line, the hon. Gentleman said that it was his party's policy to do away with the EQO regime on water pollution. I hope that he has discussed this with his union colleagues and with the CBI, as it is a major revolution in United Kingdom thinking.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.126.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-12", "file": "debates1984-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "93ea494911ad0f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.133.5", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hamilton College", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robertson", "preceding_text": "or £410,000. That goes beyond generosity and becomes suspicious. The cost turned out to be £106,000 and that year, during which Miller had the option to pull out altogether from the deal, the net return to the taxpayer was only £304,000. But now we know that Miller will make a profit, even on its own figures, of probably over £2 million, although it could well be in excess of £3·5 million —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.133.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-12", "file": "debates1984-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "93ea494911ad0f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.139.0", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hamilton College", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "Certainly. I was going to deal with that point later, but I shall do so now if the Minister is determined that I should. Strathclyde education committee, Hamilton district council and practically every other relevant body in Scotland, including the Minister himself, had opposed the closure of that college and taking it out of the public sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.139.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-12", "file": "debates1984-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "93ea494911ad0f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.141.0", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hamilton College", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "n England, and it recommended that consultations should take place with the local planning authority to discover what was available. That was done perfuntorily and was not repeated and continued in this case. Second, it was recommended that the sale should be put in the hands of an estate agent and not left in the hands of other selling bodies. I accept that solicitors sell properties in Scotland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.141.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-12", "file": "debates1984-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "93ea494911ad0f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.148.0", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hamilton College", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Dear, dear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "s of his firm, Wright Johnson and McKenzie, of which he is the senior partner. According to the Daily Mirror of last Thursday, one of the most prestigious clients of Wright Johnson and McKenzie is Tennant Caledonian, the brewers, a director of which was the right hon. Member for Ayr (Mr. Younger), the Secretary of State for Scotland, until virtually his appointment as Secretary of State in 1979. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.148.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-12", "file": "debates1984-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "93ea494911ad0f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.154.11", "colnum": "154", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hamilton College", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "ot mentioned that. They are trying to blow up the importance of paragraph 2. The hon. Member for Hamilton (Mr. Robertson) says that I should read the last sentence in paragraph 5. That sentence states: This guidance will ensure that the recommendations of the Halliday report are appropriately applied. One must accept, from the report's wording, that the action is to be taken only when appropriate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.154.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-12", "file": "debates1984-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "93ea494911ad0f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.163.1", "colnum": "163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Hamilton College", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "in August 1980 and the college legally ceased to exist as a separate college in September 1981. The public advertisement of the Hamilton property as available for disposal was issued in December 1981 and January 1982. The following six months were devoted to establishing the extent of interest in the property, and firm offers were invited in June 1982 from those who appeared to be most interested—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.163.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-12", "file": "debates1984-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "93ea494911ad0f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.179.2", "colnum": "179", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Royal Irish Rangers", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Defence Procurement (Mr. Geoffrey Pattie)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Defence Procurement (Mr. Geoffrey Pattie)", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the hon. Member for Belfast, South (Rev. Martin Smyth) for raising this important matter. It is a vindication of the processes of the Consolidated Fund Bill that, instead of having a cosy one-to-one debate, we have had a full turnout —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.179.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-12", "file": "debates1984-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "93ea494911ad0f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.225.2", "colnum": "225", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Middle East (Prime Minister's visit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "vamen of the Omani contract is that the British companies had not learnt the lesson over the years that if they did do as their overseas competitors did and form a consortium they would make it very difficult for the Government of the day, of whichever political complexion, to give full support to the British bid without inviting accusations of partiality in favour of one firm and against another.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.225.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-12", "file": "debates1984-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "93ea494911ad0f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.227.2", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Middle East (Prime Minister's visit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "Woodrow, which said to the press that it would have liked to bid for this contract, but Cementation had a substantial track record. It was not new to this market. For some years it had enjoyed the services of two well-known operators, one a Libyan and the other a Lebanese, whose names I have, and they also had good local connections, includng two brothers, one of whom was the ex-Foreign Minister —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.227.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-12", "file": "debates1984-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "93ea494911ad0f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.228.3", "colnum": "228", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Middle East (Prime Minister's visit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": " have to offer a company that already has those connections? What did his Monteagle marketing company, a company with no office and an ex-directory phone number, have to offer that was attractive and necessary to Cementation? In the Sunday People on 12 February 1984, a Cementation executive said that the company paid and used Mark Thatcher because he is the Prime Minister's son. That is important.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.228.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-12", "file": "debates1984-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "93ea494911ad0f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.232.1", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Middle East (Prime Minister's visit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"So what?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "That amplifies what I am saying—that there was this distinction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.232.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-12", "file": "debates1984-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "93ea494911ad0f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.232.3", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Middle East (Prime Minister's visit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "bed, had not the courtesy to be here to hear most of the evidence that I have given. I do not take kindly to interventions which are based on ignorance and lack of knowledge of what has gone before. Last Tuesday, 6 March, the Prime Minister abused Parliament and our procedures. In answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Fife, Central, as all hon. Members saw, she clearly read a prepared statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.232.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-12", "file": "debates1984-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "93ea494911ad0f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.233.1", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Middle East (Prime Minister's visit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "Let me finish. The hon. Gentleman can make his point in his own time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-12", "file": "debates1984-03-12a.xml", "sha256": "93ea494911ad0f7c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.233.1", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Middle East (Prime Minister's visit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Williams", "preceding_text": "Let me finish. The hon. Gentleman can make his point in his own time. [Interruption.] We understand that Conservative Members do not want to hear all the facts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-12a.233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-13", "file": "debates1984-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7026e8089825430a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.265.11", "colnum": "265", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Queen's Flight", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that within the hour the Chancellor of the Exchequer will be demanding further cuts in public expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.265.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-13", "file": "debates1984-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7026e8089825430a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.269.5", "colnum": "269", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Cruise Missiles", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister seriously think that the British people will feel reassured by that answer?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.269.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-13", "file": "debates1984-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7026e8089825430a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.271.11", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — Falkland Islands", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "In view of the fact that the hon. Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Dalyell) has asked 696 questions since 1982 concerning the Falklands campaign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.271.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-13", "file": "debates1984-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7026e8089825430a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.280.5", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.280.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-13", "file": "debates1984-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7026e8089825430a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.280.5", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker— [Interruption.] Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.280.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-13", "file": "debates1984-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7026e8089825430a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.280.9", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. In relation to the attack made on me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.280.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-13", "file": "debates1984-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7026e8089825430a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.283.1", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Concessionary Television Licences for State Retirement Pensioners", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen McKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen McKay", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to provide for concessionary television licences for state retirement pensioners and others. I am aware of the importance of our later debate, but the House should also be aware of the importance of the subject of my Bill and its effect on 9 million pensioners. On 6 October 1982—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.283.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-13", "file": "debates1984-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7026e8089825430a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.283.3", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Concessionary Television Licences for State Retirement Pensioners", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": "n the community. The present situation causes bitterness and animosity. To cover those households without non-pensioners would cost £170 million. To cover all pensioners would cost £250 million. This could be raised by increasing the basic rate of tax by one quarter of a penny and VAT by one third of 1 per cent. But why not dispense with television licensing altogether and avoid all the anomalies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.283.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-13", "file": "debates1984-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7026e8089825430a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.289.9", "colnum": "289", "heading": "WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "The target range for broad money will continue to apply to sterling M3 and for the coming year will be set at 6 to 10 per cent., as indicated in last year's MTFS. The target range for narrow money will apply to MO and for next year will be set at 4 to 8 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.289.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-13", "file": "debates1984-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7026e8089825430a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.306.5", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "at it is a physical ordeal for Chancellors to be on their feet for such long periods, and I am prepared to believe it. Of course, millions of people who work an 8-hour day standing on their feet would not believe that it was such an ordeal, but I am sure we all understand that it is the apex of some strain and anticipation on the part of the Chancellor. Therefore we can accept that it is a strain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.306.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-13", "file": "debates1984-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7026e8089825430a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.306.5", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "on worth of North Sea oil revenues—are to continue. The policies of five years with allowances and concessions that have most benefited the rich but no concessions to benefit the poor in real terms are to continue. During those five years we have seen the income tax burden cut by £1·2 billion and the national insurance burden increased by £3·4 billion. Those policies are to continue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.306.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-13", "file": "debates1984-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7026e8089825430a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.306.5", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "years we have seen the income tax burden cut by £1·2 billion and the national insurance burden increased by £3·4 billion. Those policies are to continue. [Interruption.] On that basis, and on the generality of what we heard from the Chancellor of the Exchequer this afternoon, I have to say that this Budget does much more for the City of London than it does for the country of Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.306.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-13", "file": "debates1984-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7026e8089825430a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do something about it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "rection that he wants to follow, and the disadvantages that it will impose upon the people. The inflation rate that they say is worth all of this history of contraction, of reduction, of stagnation, of public expenditure cuts and of disadvantage is their jewel in the crown. I begin to think that that jewel is actually made of paste. Everybody is in favour of lower inflation rates. We welcome them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-13", "file": "debates1984-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7026e8089825430a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "onment of depression, but inflation rates have been falling elsewhere, a product of the deflation that is afflicting other similar countries. We have a lower inflation rate, not because of any effective actions of this Government or the one before them. We have a lower inflation rate that is similar to, if not precisely the same as, the fall in inflation rates of all the other members of the OECD.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-13", "file": "debates1984-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7026e8089825430a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.311.0", "colnum": "311", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Change to a pipe. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "st pace that he has set for himself. I hope that this Budget will be the first of several which will allow him to get rid of the devil of excessive taxation that this country has suffered from for too many years. There were only two aspects of the Budget that I did not much like. As a smoker, I was upset to hear that I shall have to pay a good deal more for the small panatella cigars that I smoke.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.311.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-13", "file": "debates1984-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7026e8089825430a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.314.0", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Wrigglesworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Wrigglesworth", "preceding_text": ", so any growth in the industry would not damage our balance of payments. We are disappointed that the Chancellor has imposed the VAT burden on the industry. We are prepared to accept the other excise duties. It is now accepted by both sides of the House that the Chancellor virtually indexes the excise duties on drinks and other such items. I shall not comment on the balance between beer and wine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.314.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-13", "file": "debates1984-03-13a.xml", "sha256": "7026e8089825430a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.359.1", "colnum": "359", "heading": "Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "now what the shade of Ian Macleod would think about some of the actions of the Government. When he was in Committee Room 11, the Chancellor of the Exchequer was a political thug. I do not like political thugs, because they often bully Back-Bench Members. When pressed, the Chancellor is often wrong. He is not all that well briefed, and I do not think he is very clever either, but that is by the by.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-13a.359.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-14", "file": "debates1984-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "81487f79dc87db27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-14a.377.6", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "As the Member of Parliament for the constituency which produces splendid Islay malts, I am all for the production and consumption of good whisky—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-14a.377.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-14", "file": "debates1984-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "81487f79dc87db27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-14a.414.3", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "e it hypothesises and predicts that child benefit will increase by 5 per cent. in the coining year. If the Chancellor wants to tell me that that forecast cannot be relied upon, I shall give way to him at once. if he does not reply, I look forward to hearing the Chief Secretary's comments. If neither the Chancellor nor the Chief Secretary responds, we shall assume that what we already know is true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-14a.414.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-14", "file": "debates1984-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "81487f79dc87db27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-14a.414.3", "colnum": "414", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Inflation.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "h the Chancellor's philosophy. I doubt neither his conviction nor his fervour. His problem is not that he does not believe in what he is doing, but that what he believes is wrong. We need, but are denied, because of the Chancellor's dogmatism, a substantial boost to demand, largely stimulated by increased capital investment, which should be financed in the public sector by an increase in the PSBR.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-14a.414.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-14", "file": "debates1984-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "81487f79dc87db27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-14a.418.1", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "at the Treasury. Borrowing for investment in future growth rather than for frivolous or unnecessary purposes is a prudent rule that ought to be applied to the country, just as it is applied to the most successful businesses. Because of the doctrinal rejection of public borrowing by the Chancellor and others of like mind we shall not have growth, but deflation. We are to have a deflationary Budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-14a.418.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-14", "file": "debates1984-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "81487f79dc87db27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-14a.419.0", "colnum": "419", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "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": " am sorry that he did not draw attention to the latest striking evidence of satisfaction with the Budget—the cuts in base rate announced today by at least three of the clearing banks. In a more prosaic vein, I begin with one or two announcements that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor could not fit into his Budget speech yesterday but which the House will wish to hear at the earliest opportunity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-14a.419.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-14", "file": "debates1984-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "81487f79dc87db27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-14a.422.1", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Boring.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": " his measures. The cost of the increase in allowances in terms of tax forgone next year will be £1,715 million. The cost of raising these allowances accounts for about 80 per cent. of the full-year cash cost of the income tax reductions in the Budget—so much for the inevitable parrot cry from the Opposition of, \"A Budget for the rich,\" and so much for the stale phraseology of the politics of envy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-14a.422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-14", "file": "debates1984-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "81487f79dc87db27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-14a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": " raising of the threshold and the reduction in the rates of corporation tax. I am sure that those three fiscal benefits will more than outweigh any disadvantages that they may reap from the extension of the VAT base. I cannot speak for the hon. Gentleman's contacts in the construction industry. No doubt they will have a chance to air their point of view through a perhaps more articulate spokesman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-14a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-14", "file": "debates1984-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "81487f79dc87db27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-14a.455.3", "colnum": "455", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Jeremy Bray", "cue_text": "SEVERAL HON. MEMBERS: It certainly does.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Jeremy Bray", "preceding_text": "I note what you say, Mr. Deputy Speaker, about the Government Benches. I take it that that does not necessarily apply to the Opposition side of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-14a.455.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-14", "file": "debates1984-03-14a.xml", "sha256": "81487f79dc87db27", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-14a.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terry Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Davis", "preceding_text": "he rate of inflation in May. Had they intended to announce a real and genuine increase in child benefit, it could have been announced today. However, we shall be patient and wait until June, but I should tell the Chief Secretary—I hope that he will tell the Chancellor—that, come June, we expect the increase to be at least 80p a week. That is what the Conservative party promised when in opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-14a.472.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-15", "file": "debates1984-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "0afb33d50751efe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.495.0", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "y in this matter, since when has he been responsible for law and order? Were not this Government elected on a law and order ticket, and has not the problem got progressively worse with every one of the five years that the Government have been in office? Therefore, why did the Minister responsible for sport the other day fatuously call on overseas countries to deal vigorously with our own problem?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.495.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-03-15", "file": "debates1984-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "0afb33d50751efe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.502.5", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Key", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that if ever there was a case for harmonisation with our European Community partners, it is in respect of the increasing number of British vineyards, which are not allowed to offer the degustation facilities that are available in other Community countries? Would that not be a major boost to Britain wine producers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.502.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-15", "file": "debates1984-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "0afb33d50751efe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.505.5", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows that we raised thresholds, which obviously affect—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.505.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-15", "file": "debates1984-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "0afb33d50751efe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.513.0", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Collieries (Picketing)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "ing Mr. Ian MacGregor when, in search of party advantage, he repudiated his own Minister of State's honest statement of the facts. He has done it again today in a statement that goes far outside his departmental responsibilities as Home Secretary, and it is deliberately calculated to inflame a situation that requires conciliation. We all know that it is the Prime Minister who has put him up to it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.513.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-15", "file": "debates1984-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "0afb33d50751efe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.513.0", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Collieries (Picketing)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": " it is this Government who are directly responsible for this lamentable situation, first, by forcing on to the statute book legislation deliberately calculated to inflame delicate industrial problems, and, secondly, by appointing Mr. MacGregor to carve up the coal industry. When the Government did both these things, they must have known what would happen. They may even have hoped for it to happen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.513.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-15", "file": "debates1984-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "0afb33d50751efe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.513.0", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Collieries (Picketing)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "tion, first, by forcing on to the statute book legislation deliberately calculated to inflame delicate industrial problems, and, secondly, by appointing Mr. MacGregor to carve up the coal industry. When the Government did both these things, they must have known what would happen. They may even have hoped for it to happen. [Interruption.] They have a vested interest in provoking industrial anarchy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.513.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-03-15", "file": "debates1984-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "0afb33d50751efe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.514.5", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Collieries (Picketing)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Page?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member is quite right; latitude is given to the Front Bench, but I think that the right hon. Gentleman is coming to his last page.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.514.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-15", "file": "debates1984-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "0afb33d50751efe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.514.6", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Collieries (Picketing)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\") It is she—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "That is true, Mr. Speaker. As always, you anticipated correctly what I was going to do. The person responsible for this sorry situation is the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.514.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-15", "file": "debates1984-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "0afb33d50751efe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.514.6", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Collieries (Picketing)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "That is true, Mr. Speaker. As always, you anticipated correctly what I was going to do. The person responsible for this sorry situation is the Prime Minister. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\") It is she—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"] It is she who appointed Mr. MacGregor to butcher the coal industry. It is she—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.514.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-15", "file": "debates1984-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "0afb33d50751efe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.514.6", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Collieries (Picketing)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "MBERS: \"Question.\") It is she—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"] It is she who appointed Mr. MacGregor to butcher the coal industry. It is she—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"] It is she who has ordered the Home Secretry to make this provocative statement today. It is she who said, \"Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is despair, let me sow hope.\" The Prime Minister has sown hatred and despair.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.514.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-15", "file": "debates1984-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "0afb33d50751efe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.514.6", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Collieries (Picketing)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": " Mr. MacGregor to butcher the coal industry. It is she—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"] It is she who has ordered the Home Secretry to make this provocative statement today. It is she who said, \"Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is despair, let me sow hope.\" The Prime Minister has sown hatred and despair. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Question.\"] I hope that she is satisfied with what she has done.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.514.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-15", "file": "debates1984-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "0afb33d50751efe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.514.7", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Collieries (Picketing)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.514.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-15", "file": "debates1984-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "0afb33d50751efe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.515.3", "colnum": "515", "heading": "Collieries (Picketing)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman) began what purported to be his questions on my statement with a condemnation of violence whatever its cause or source may be. Every single word that he uttered after that showed that that condemnation was no more than a ritual wringing of hands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.515.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-15", "file": "debates1984-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "0afb33d50751efe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.569.0", "colnum": "569", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "ting system, but we need a fundamental reform to spread the burden of funds that are required by local government across all earners. Having said that, I congratulate the Government on their achievements on inflation and interest rates. Again I am trying to strike a balance, because often from Conserative Members we hear eulogies about what the Chancellor has said. As a Member from the north-west—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.569.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-15", "file": "debates1984-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "0afb33d50751efe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.585.0", "colnum": "585", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Oonagh McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Oonagh McDonald", "preceding_text": "ffects of the income tax cuts. In May, a married couple will on average receive £2.08 a week in tax benefits. A married couple on £25,000 a year, however, will receive £6 a week, and a married couple on £50,000 a year will receive £11.55 a week in benefit. The cost of reducing the tax burden of higher rate taxpayers will be £140 million. That is getting close to the sums the Chancellor would need—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.585.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-15", "file": "debates1984-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "0afb33d50751efe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.587.3", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "preceding_text": "ancellor has allowed to grow up in the two days since the Budget was delivered. That mythology has been carefully fostered by Conservative Members who seem to look at the Budget debate with a totally uncritical eye. I do not know what some of them expect from the right hon. Lady the Prime Minister. Perhaps they think that, having made such speeches, they will get a pat on the head or a cup of tea—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.587.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-15", "file": "debates1984-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "0afb33d50751efe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.587.6", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "preceding_text": "ndirect taxes. Another piece of mythology that has grown up around the Budget is that it will give a boost to jobs as a result of the removal of what Conservatives have described as the jobs tax, the national insurance surcharge. That has involved the removal of the 1 per cent. surcharge, the amount finally left from the 3·5 per cent. which was imposed by the then Labour Government in 1977.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.587.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-15", "file": "debates1984-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "0afb33d50751efe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.587.8", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "preceding_text": "It lasted for longer than the ravages of inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.587.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-15", "file": "debates1984-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "0afb33d50751efe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.588.1", "colnum": "588", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "preceding_text": "I intend to deal with all these matters in my speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.588.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-15", "file": "debates1984-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "0afb33d50751efe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.590.0", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Moore)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. John Moore)", "preceding_text": "ith more restrictive reliefs and allowances. It must be less prone to manipulation that can reduce taxable profits below any fair assessment of profitability. I cannot disagree, and I am sure that Opposition Members will have some difficulty when they come to vote on substantial parts of the Budget. We know that the present system has produced an enormous emphasis on tax efficiency and distortion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.590.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-15", "file": "debates1984-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "0afb33d50751efe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.594.1", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "It has enabled Britain, in the worst recession for half a century, to reach a position from which, one day, we may be not only competitive but able to produce secure employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.594.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-15", "file": "debates1984-03-15a.xml", "sha256": "0afb33d50751efe3", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.594.1", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "final and almost absolute cheek was the official Opposition's reaction to the abolition of the national insurance surcharge. My right hon. Friends the Members for Chesham and Amersham and for Worthing and my hon. Friends the Members for Kensington, for Devizes, for Macclesfield and for Suffolk, South welcomed the abolition. It is the height of impudence for the official Opposition, who introduced—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-15a.594.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-16", "file": "debates1984-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "4d5b7cd08d3d6ea1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-16a.632.3", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Video Recordings Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "preceding_text": "be seen by children at all. Either it is suitable for seeing in the home or it is not. If it is so depraved and corrupting or so likely to shock if it gets into the hands of children, it should not be produced at all. The idea that it should be hired only from a shop to which adults have access is a mistake. It will invite more attention to that type of production. I return to the narrower point —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-16a.632.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-16", "file": "debates1984-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "4d5b7cd08d3d6ea1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-16a.643.9", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Video Recordings Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bright", "preceding_text": "We might have had newsreels put on videos and classified if they contained scenes of violence, even hooliganism at football matches, or if they contained the violence we see regularly on television in wars. This is particularly relevant at present, with the situation in the middle east. I want to make a two-minute speaking rule.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-16a.643.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-16", "file": "debates1984-03-16a.xml", "sha256": "4d5b7cd08d3d6ea1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-16a.651.1", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Video Recordings Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brinton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brinton", "preceding_text": "used by amendment No. 21, though I have read it many times and I listened carefully to the explanation of my hon. Friend the Member for Luton, South (Mr. Bright). Many people criticised the original amendment, because it could conceivably result in the designating authority defining all homes in Britain where there were five-year-old children and thereby limiting the supply of classified material.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-16a.651.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-19", "file": "debates1984-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "7fbfc291e80db99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-19a.688.6", "colnum": "688", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON\" MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "Those instructions were sent out not by the licensing authorities but by an official in my Department. I think it has been said that it was done without the knowledge of myself or my Minister of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-19a.688.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-19", "file": "debates1984-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "7fbfc291e80db99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-19a.707.1", "colnum": "707", "heading": "Midlands Coalfields (Police Action)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "resence in Derbyshire. I have also just received information on an immediate matter from one of my hon. Friends to the effect that the police presence in Whitwell colliery canteen in my constituency resulted in the meeting being called to a halt and the police refusing to leave until the meeting ends. Many people, both in and outside the coalfields, are affronted by this attack on civil liberties—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-19a.707.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-19", "file": "debates1984-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "7fbfc291e80db99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-19a.717.1", "colnum": "717", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "e industries. These are important industries, accounting for about 10 per cent. of manufacturing employment, with exports last year in excess of £2 billion. They have been affected by intense competition— [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch (Mr. Sedgemore) seems to think that there is something inconsistent between prudent and profitable investment in high technology—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-19a.717.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-19", "file": "debates1984-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "7fbfc291e80db99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-19a.726.2", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward Heath", "preceding_text": " later this year, but I doubt whether that will be time enough. However, it means a £1·2 billion change in cash flow for the Chancellor. I hope that, when the time comes, the other members of the Community will be prepared to adopt our present system. I hope that the Chancellor will not be deterred by the loss of £1·2 billion cash flow from going along with the rest of the Community.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-19a.726.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-19", "file": "debates1984-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "7fbfc291e80db99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-19a.732.1", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, he has not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "ed Budget when we have the public sector that we have, and are bound to have in large part in the future. Nobody will buy the coalmines, railways or many other aspects of the public sector. They must have their capital, and the Government are entitled to put it on to capital account. I am glad that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor has given up talking about a balanced Budget and zero inflation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-19a.732.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-19", "file": "debates1984-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "7fbfc291e80db99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-19a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "preceding_text": "#x00B7;1 per cent. should be willingly accepted by all hon. Members, especially Opposition Members. They should rejoice in the fact, but, as far as we can see, the only thing that seems to please the Opposition is bad news. If anything good happens, they are not really interested. I wish to kill the growing accusation that the Government are responsible for unemployment. Let us be fair about this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-19a.737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-19", "file": "debates1984-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "7fbfc291e80db99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-19a.737.1", "colnum": "737", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "preceding_text": "on. Members regret the withdrawal of tax relief on life assurance premiums. In many cases, that is the one form of small saving undertaken by the ordinary person. After all, Conservative philosophy is to encourage people to stand on their own two feet. What better way of doing so than to have a small life assurance policy so that, in the event of her husband's death, the widow receives something?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-19a.737.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-19", "file": "debates1984-03-19a.xml", "sha256": "7fbfc291e80db99e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-19a.781.0", "colnum": "781", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeff Rooker", "preceding_text": "or 13 February 1984, at column 303, that he has used \"every penny\" at his disposal to raise the basic tax thresholds. The Chief Secretary also has an interest in the Budget. I ask him whether the statement issued by the Tory party, when in opposition, was a true and important statement of Tory intentions. He will not respond now, but he said that that was the case. In 1978 in a debate on taxation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-19a.781.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-20", "file": "debates1984-03-20a.xml", "sha256": "be99122a285e7ec1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-20a.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Rate Support Grant Supplementary Report", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "As ever, I am grateful to my hon. Friend the Member for Bootle (Mr. Roberts), to whom I defer. He is the chairman of the environment committee of the parliamentary Labour party and he is an expert on these matters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-20a.990.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-21", "file": "debates1984-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "bf4479558d5674d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-21a.1060.9", "colnum": "1060", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "s aware of these facts—that the difference between the offer made by President Mitterrand and ourselves was reduced to 15 per cent.; 85 per cent. of what was being asked for by the Prime Minister was agreed. This is a very narrow gap. In regard to the time limit, five years for budgets is a considerable time, although if it is possible to get acceptance for a permanent system, we would support it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-21a.1060.9"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-03-21", "file": "debates1984-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "bf4479558d5674d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-21a.1061.1", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "\"This is the leader of the opposition.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "This is longer than the Leader of the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-21a.1061.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-21", "file": "debates1984-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "bf4479558d5674d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-21a.1061.4", "colnum": "1061", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " Common Market summit. With regard to own resources, there is no agreement on that unless there is agreement on other matters. The own resources provisional decision went further than most of us wished, in that the proposal was for 1·4 per cent. in 1986 and envisaged the prospect of 1·6 per cent. in 1988. That also was hotly contested, for reasons that my right hon. Friend will know.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-21a.1061.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-21", "file": "debates1984-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "bf4479558d5674d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-21a.1062.4", "colnum": "1062", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "Yes, Mr. Speaker. I realise the difficulties in which you are placed on such occasions, because within both main parties some members are still strongly pro-Market—I do not know why—and the majority of the Opposition still believe that Britain should be out of the Common Market and will fight for that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-21a.1062.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-21", "file": "debates1984-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "bf4479558d5674d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-21a.1063.0", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I hope that the House will agree—I think that it does—that ex-Prime Ministers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-21a.1063.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-21", "file": "debates1984-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "bf4479558d5674d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-21a.1063.0", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "European Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I hope that the House will agree—I think that it does—that ex-Prime Ministers—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Order.—that ex-Prime Ministers, from whichever side of the House, have a very special position in this place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-21a.1063.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-21", "file": "debates1984-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "bf4479558d5674d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-21a.1096.4", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "That is right. Coal prices were increased last November by 3·8 per cent. after one year. Gas prices were increased this January, after 15 months, by 4·3 per cent. Electricity prices are to be increased by 2 per cent. in April, after no increase in two years. Under the last Labour Government, prices were increasing by 2 per cent. every six weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-21a.1096.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-21", "file": "debates1984-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "bf4479558d5674d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-21a.1097.1", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "e greatest regard, but I must continue with my theme and talk about the views of my hon. Friends. We have only seven minutes left before a Division. Reference has been made to the over-80s by my hon. Friend the Member for Bedfordshire, North. The Government have helped the over-70s on supplementary benefit as well as unemployed men aged 60-plus who were in need of long-term supplementary benefits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-21a.1097.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-21", "file": "debates1984-03-21a.xml", "sha256": "bf4479558d5674d6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-21a.1141.1", "colnum": "1141", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "ESPRIT and Alvey is complex, because it depends on the extent to which they have an involvement in our country. The main thrust of both programmes is to develop our own research and development capabilities. I do not seek to be disparaging in talking in terms of screwdriver assembly, but that company started in a very modest way. However, it has made a major series of investments which we welcome—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-21a.1141.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-22", "file": "debates1984-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "fcdc3d3de293d5c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-22a.1164.4", "colnum": "1164", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "May I ask the Secretary of State, first, why he has taken these two questions together? One is a narrow question on security, and the other is a very broad question on the All Ireland Forum. Therefore, may I address myself to my question? Although the other one is very important, they are separate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-22a.1164.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-22", "file": "debates1984-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "fcdc3d3de293d5c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-22a.1165.15", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. The hon. Member for Antrim, North (Rev. Ian Paisley) is correct for once—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-22a.1165.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-22", "file": "debates1984-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "fcdc3d3de293d5c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-22a.1166.7", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "Question No. 5 on today's Order Paper, in the name of the hon. Member for Suffolk, South (Mr. Yeo), refers to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland meeting the \"Prime Minister of Ireland.\" That is incorrect, as there is no Prime Minister of Ireland. The leader of the hon. Gentleman's party is Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-22a.1166.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-22", "file": "debates1984-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "fcdc3d3de293d5c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-22a.1166.7", "colnum": "1166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": " name of the hon. Member for Suffolk, South (Mr. Yeo), refers to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland meeting the \"Prime Minister of Ireland.\" That is incorrect, as there is no Prime Minister of Ireland. The leader of the hon. Gentleman's party is Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-22a.1166.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-22", "file": "debates1984-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "fcdc3d3de293d5c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-22a.1179.2", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I believe that if a Select Committee asks an hon. Member to attend, it is his duty so to do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-22a.1179.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-22", "file": "debates1984-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "fcdc3d3de293d5c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-22a.1179.2", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Select Committees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I believe that if a Select Committee asks an hon. Member to attend, it is his duty so to do. [Interruption.] If that is not so, I shall take refuge in saying that I should like to look into the matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-22a.1179.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-22", "file": "debates1984-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "fcdc3d3de293d5c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-22a.1216.1", "colnum": "1216", "heading": "Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walters", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walters", "preceding_text": "onal Council conference, and the hesitation over supplying a relatively small quantity of arms to Jordan—while continuing to pour the latest equipment into Israel—obviously proved to be the last straw for the king. Only today it has been confirmed that President Reagan has withdrawn the proposal to sell anti-aircraft missiles to Jordan, in response to the pressure from the American Zionist groups—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-22a.1216.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-22", "file": "debates1984-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "fcdc3d3de293d5c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-22a.1249.2", "colnum": "1249", "heading": "Foreign Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas", "preceding_text": "Perhaps it would be easier if I stood nearer to the microphone. Then, if the hon. Gentleman puts his ear to the earpiece, he may hear clearly what I am saying. I am carefully reading the text which I had typed out in order to ensure that I put all the facts before the House. I am pleased to be able to speak in this debate on behalf of the Government and people of Nicaragua.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-22a.1249.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-22", "file": "debates1984-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "fcdc3d3de293d5c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-22a.1278.1", "colnum": "1278", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy Prices", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Precisely the reverse is the case. There is no escaping the fact that the Minister has brought the debate forward at this hour because he knows that he can—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-22a.1278.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-22", "file": "debates1984-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "fcdc3d3de293d5c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-22a.1281.3", "colnum": "1281", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy Prices", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " the pig industry, which is important to Scotland and to many other areas. My friends in the National Farmers Union of Scotland have impressed on me the severe difficulties faced by the pig industry, not just in Scotland, but throughout the United Kingdom. They believe that the crisis has been caused by the inadequacy of the pigmeat regime. They have suggested several ways of resolving the crisis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-22a.1281.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-22", "file": "debates1984-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "fcdc3d3de293d5c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-22a.1283.3", "colnum": "1283", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy Prices", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": "ction. My part of the world has a deep interest in the future of beef. I hope that my right hon. Friend can take with him to the negotiating table next week the unanimous feeling of the House that the variable premium scheme should continue. It is logical and sensible and does not put beef into cold store. It puts beef on to people's plates, and they eat it. That cannot be bad; it must be logical.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-22a.1283.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-22", "file": "debates1984-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "fcdc3d3de293d5c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-22a.1298.0", "colnum": "1298", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy Prices", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is Warwickshire.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "preceding_text": "mbers' Interests in relation to farming. I would like to tot it up. The hon. Member for Dorset, West (Mr. Spicer) mentioned Sir Henry Plumb and his advocacy, as the chairman of the democratic group in the European Parliament, and of course Sir Henry Plumb, as a former president of the National Farmers Union and, as a fairly substantial farmer in the Thames valley, has a particular vested interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-22a.1298.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-22", "file": "debates1984-03-22a.xml", "sha256": "fcdc3d3de293d5c8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-22a.1307.5", "colnum": "1307", "heading": "Common Agricultural Policy Prices", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacGregor", "preceding_text": "only four minutes left in which to respond to all the other points that hon. Members have made. Being aware of the problems that were coming up, we have been instructing ADAS to get itself into a position in which it could give advice on these issues to dairy producers, because the situations of individual dairy producers differ enormously. My hon. Friend the Member for Congleton (Mrs. Winterton)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-22a.1307.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-26", "file": "debates1984-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "90c36505afd6438b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-26a.8.2", "colnum": "8", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "More shameful is that the right hon. Gentleman was a member of the Government who imposed this wicked tax on jobs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-26a.8.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-26", "file": "debates1984-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "90c36505afd6438b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-26a.23.0", "colnum": "23", "heading": "Territorial Army (Expansion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Cheap.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denzil Davies", "preceding_text": " well-merited tribute that he paid to the reserve forces and to the Territorial Army. Statements from the Ministry of Defence are coming thick and fast almost every Monday. The more cynical among us might say that a secondary purpose was perhaps to create a company of \"Michael's own territorials\" behind the right hon. Gentleman, ready for the day when the Prime Minister slips on that banana skin —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-26a.23.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-26", "file": "debates1984-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "90c36505afd6438b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-26a.26.5", "colnum": "26", "heading": "Territorial Army (Expansion)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "Like my hon. Friend the Member for Bolton, South-East (Mr. Young), I am assuming that this announcement is made in preparation for the social unrest that the Government's policies seem to be bringing about. I should like to ask the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-26a.26.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-26", "file": "debates1984-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "90c36505afd6438b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-26a.46.0", "colnum": "46", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spencer Batiste", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spencer Batiste", "preceding_text": "r members and accepting their democratic judgment about whether to go out on strike. In the context of the new clause, it is interesting to examine the device by which the executive has procured that end. The union's national constitution calls clearly for a ballot on a national strike. The executive has used the regional structure and committees to break the union action down on a regional basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-26a.46.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-26", "file": "debates1984-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "90c36505afd6438b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-26a.56.2", "colnum": "56", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis Stevens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis Stevens", "preceding_text": " private sectors. We are trying to change the position so that there is not a struggle against employers but a struggle with them to serve this country. We do not want the direct antagonism that was implicit in the right hon. and learned Gentleman's words. We want the trade unions to develop in the future. We have not adopted an anti-trade union approach at any time during the passage of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-26a.56.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-26", "file": "debates1984-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "90c36505afd6438b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-26a.61.0", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The union members were bribed as well.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "of trade unions at Cheltenham, which was hardly a democratic decision. There was not a ballot so that the members could decide whether they wanted to remain in their respective unions. The Government gave a diktat. The union members had to give up their membership if they wanted to work at Cheltenham. That was not an illustration, I suppose, of the Government's commitment to any form of democracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-26a.61.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-26", "file": "debates1984-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "90c36505afd6438b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-26a.69.2", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "r difficulties themselves, if it were not for the fact that many Conservative Members have gone up and down the country saying to those who demanded that there should be such legislation that the change would take place internally, trade unions would make their decisions because in general they were sensible people who would produce a democratic answer which would differ from one place to another—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-26a.69.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-26", "file": "debates1984-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "90c36505afd6438b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-26a.69.2", "colnum": "69", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "d thing, but he would like to see it more widely expressed, with a wider interpretation, so that the trade unions would be left to make their own decisions on what is democratic. If there had been a sign that GMBATU was moving away from branch elections, in which the minority scoops the pool, or that something was being done in even small unions which Opposition Members think it peculiar to quote—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-26a.69.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-26", "file": "debates1984-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "90c36505afd6438b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-26a.91.9", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "preceding_text": "s to the ballot papers, but they counted the individual results of individual areas. That opens up questions of how accurate and open to abuse this ballot is. That is the first demonstration that all is not right in the NUM balloting procedure, and it calls into question Mr. Heathfield's victory as general secretary of the NUM. I have also received some letters from the minefields—from the miners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-26a.91.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-26", "file": "debates1984-03-26a.xml", "sha256": "90c36505afd6438b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-26a.99.2", "colnum": "99", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "at position. First, it is important that we should define the minima of democracy not by the method of balloting but by the conditions under which the ballot should be held. A ballot should be secret, it should provide equal votes for those who have title to vote and it should be a convenient vote. Those are the basic minima. The hon. Member for Stockton, South goes further than that and suggests—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-26a.99.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-27", "file": "debates1984-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "edd88a0f0ac6a755", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-27a.130.3", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"700.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that on 28 April 1979, the Prime Minister said that Labour claims that the Tory Government would increase prescription charges were a lie? Will he therefore explain how prescription charges have now been increased by 800 per cent. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-27a.130.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-27", "file": "debates1984-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "edd88a0f0ac6a755", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-27a.136.13", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis", "preceding_text": "The savage sentence meted out to Miss Tisdall contrasts sharply with the establishment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-27a.136.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-27", "file": "debates1984-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "edd88a0f0ac6a755", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-27a.136.16", "colnum": "136", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "In between her engagements today, can my right hon. Friend spare a moment to consider whether it might—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-27a.136.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-27", "file": "debates1984-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "edd88a0f0ac6a755", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-27a.138.7", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "preceding_text": "Did my right hon. Friend read in the Leicester Mercury the report of Mr. Jack Jones, who said: We are not violent men but we will not be intimidated. We have voted to work and even if we\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-27a.138.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-27", "file": "debates1984-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "edd88a0f0ac6a755", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-27a.138.9", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "preceding_text": "Mr. Jones said: even if\"——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-27a.138.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-27", "file": "debates1984-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "edd88a0f0ac6a755", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-27a.138.11", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "preceding_text": "Did my right hon. Friend read the report of the leader of the miners in Leicestershire, Mr. Jack Jones, who said: We are not violent men but we will not be intimidated.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-27a.138.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-27", "file": "debates1984-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "edd88a0f0ac6a755", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-27a.139.1", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware of the disgraceful campaign being conducted by the GLC against its abolition?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-27a.139.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-27", "file": "debates1984-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "edd88a0f0ac6a755", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-27a.139.6", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "He is instructed, if I might use —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-27a.139.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-27", "file": "debates1984-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "edd88a0f0ac6a755", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-27a.140.1", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Leak.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leigh", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that an internal CND document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-27a.140.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-27", "file": "debates1984-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "edd88a0f0ac6a755", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-27a.207.0", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS Order!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I am sure that they do not sleep together.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-27a.207.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-27", "file": "debates1984-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "edd88a0f0ac6a755", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-27a.207.0", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I am sure that they do not sleep together. [HON. MEMBERS Order!\"] The suggestion came from the Conservative side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-27a.207.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-27", "file": "debates1984-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "edd88a0f0ac6a755", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-27a.207.2", "colnum": "207", "heading": "Clause 1", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I apologise. I am totally deaf in one ear, so I sometimes get the direction of comments wrong—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-27a.207.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-27", "file": "debates1984-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "edd88a0f0ac6a755", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-27a.229.3", "colnum": "229", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "not do too bad a job on this legislation. Certainly we should be thankful that it is there. I remind the House that there are some hon. Members who believe that there should be only one Chamber. One Chamber, an authoritarian Secretary of State and rate capping bodies bodes far more ill than two Chambers, and that is why the legislation should go to two Chambers for consideration, if it must exist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-27a.229.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-27", "file": "debates1984-03-27a.xml", "sha256": "edd88a0f0ac6a755", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-27a.245.1", "colnum": "245", "heading": "Clause 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "arliamentary question, by an investigation of the relevant Select Committee or by the other procedures that are open to Members of the House. In exercising his discretion, the Secretary of State is required to act \"reasonably\" in the legal sense, and he could be taken to court if he failed to do so. I was recently taken to court by the London borough of Hackney, and the court decided in my favour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-27a.245.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-28", "file": "debates1984-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "1bf2c50745f58e49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-28a.276.7", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "I am not quite as pessimistic as the right hon. Gentleman about the merits of the United Kingdom components industry. With a 60 to 80 per cent. local content requirement —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-28a.276.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-28", "file": "debates1984-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "1bf2c50745f58e49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-28a.279.2", "colnum": "279", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "That is a question that the right hon. Gentleman should perhaps address to those sitting near him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-28a.279.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-28", "file": "debates1984-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "1bf2c50745f58e49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-28a.297.0", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Foreign Affairs Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Amery", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that this is no time, when negotiations are so close, for back-seat or Back-Bench driving? Is he further aware that he has achieved a great deal more than any of us expected?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-28a.297.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-28", "file": "debates1984-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "1bf2c50745f58e49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-28a.304.1", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Mining Dispute(Police Conduct)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "rbyshire area of the NUM that the police have set up road blocks on roads in the area, have arrested about 40 miners who were driving vehicles miles from the collieries, have impounded their vehicles and have compelled other passengers to abandon their vehicles. Since I spoke to you this morning, Mr. Speaker, I now understand that miners are being prevented from the peaceful picketing of the pits—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-28a.304.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-28", "file": "debates1984-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "1bf2c50745f58e49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-28a.315.1", "colnum": "315", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rates Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is wrong.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "nt from themselves. I do not know why we are doing it. They are in an impossible position. It reminds me of what happened to a previous Labour Government when they tried to introduce \"In Place of Strife\". They knew that they were doing wrong. Ministers did not believe in their speeches in Committee as they followed their briefs. Everyone is opposed to what they are doing, but they will not listen.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-28a.315.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-28", "file": "debates1984-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "1bf2c50745f58e49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-28a.361.1", "colnum": "361", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rates Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has put a wholly unreal proposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-28a.361.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-28", "file": "debates1984-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "1bf2c50745f58e49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-28a.370.3", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rates Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do they?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "preceding_text": " that they do not take into account the ability of all sectors of the community to meet the rate, that is nonsense. I served on a Conservative-controlled local authority in London some years ago and was leader of the Burnley borough council until May last year. Most councils spend a considerable time working out not only what the domestic ratepayer can pay but the effects on industry and commerce.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-28a.370.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-28", "file": "debates1984-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "1bf2c50745f58e49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-28a.403.1", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mineworkers (Pensions and Concessionary Coal)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "I shall make my speech in my own way. I shall not give way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-28a.403.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-28", "file": "debates1984-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "1bf2c50745f58e49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-28a.409.1", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mineworkers (Pensions and Concessionary Coal)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name them.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "s, Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire in one year only to find that in the following year they have moved from being in the red to being in the black. They might have found some decent strata. In many cases, the uneconomic pits that the Government want to close have extremely rosy prospects. My hon. Friends could cite countless examples of pits that have moved from the red to the black in a short time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-28a.409.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-28", "file": "debates1984-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "1bf2c50745f58e49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-28a.411.0", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mineworkers (Pensions and Concessionary Coal)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend consider it fit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-28a.411.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-28", "file": "debates1984-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "1bf2c50745f58e49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-28a.411.0", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mineworkers (Pensions and Concessionary Coal)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend consider it fit—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"] If we had a bit more quiet on the Government Benches I could get on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-28a.411.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-28", "file": "debates1984-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "1bf2c50745f58e49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-28a.411.3", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mineworkers (Pensions and Concessionary Coal)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Vested interests.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Gentleman will only represent the oil companies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-28a.411.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-28", "file": "debates1984-03-28a.xml", "sha256": "1bf2c50745f58e49", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-28a.411.5", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Mineworkers (Pensions and Concessionary Coal)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I believe that the answer for the mining industry does not lie in passing orders. They affect only the margin. They only follow on the devastation caused by this Government, MacGregor and the rest of them who work on their behalf.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-28a.411.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-29", "file": "debates1984-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "99b74528ff79c57b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.446.4", "colnum": "446", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hirst", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend seen the reports of the speech made last week by the Leader of the Opposition to the National Federation of Self-Employed and Small Businesses Ltd., in which he recognised the importance of small business?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.446.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-29", "file": "debates1984-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "99b74528ff79c57b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.448.2", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "With regard to the latter point, local authorities are spending well above Government target, and if they are choosing to cut on some of the weakest sections, it is up to local people to say what they should choose to spend money on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.448.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-29", "file": "debates1984-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "99b74528ff79c57b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.448.8", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think in fairness we really should move on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.448.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-29", "file": "debates1984-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "99b74528ff79c57b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.448.8", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think in fairness we really should move on. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] Order. I am the defender of the Back Benches here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.448.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-29", "file": "debates1984-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "99b74528ff79c57b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.448.11", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware of the growing public concern in this country about the erosion of the liberties of our subjects by the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.448.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-29", "file": "debates1984-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "99b74528ff79c57b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.448.11", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware of the growing public concern in this country about the erosion of the liberties of our subjects by the— [Interruption.] —arbitrary, secretive and oppressive use of central Government power under successive Governments, and is she prepared—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.448.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-29", "file": "debates1984-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "99b74528ff79c57b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.449.0", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "Is she prepared to fulfil the promise made in her 1979 manifesto to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.449.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-29", "file": "debates1984-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "99b74528ff79c57b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.449.0", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "Is she prepared to fulfil the promise made in her 1979 manifesto to— [Interruption.] —seek to enter into constitutional talks with all parties in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.449.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-29", "file": "debates1984-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "99b74528ff79c57b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.449.2", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "In particular—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.449.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-29", "file": "debates1984-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "99b74528ff79c57b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.449.2", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "In particular— [Interruption.] —is the Prime Minister prepared to enter into discussions to seek to ensure that those of our citizens whose fundamental rights have been eroded, although they are guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights, do not have to seek a remedy through the court in Strasbourg but may do so—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.449.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-29", "file": "debates1984-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "99b74528ff79c57b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.450.4", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "During Question Time this afternoon we have seen organised chanting on the Conservative side—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.450.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-29", "file": "debates1984-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "99b74528ff79c57b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Pontefract and Castleford (Police Action)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unbelievable.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse", "preceding_text": " were interviewed individually by two plain clothes officers, who showed no sign of identification. The great concern which the NUM officials, and, indeed, the men, feel on this matter arises from the questions which the men alleged were put to them, and for the benefit of the House, and my case, I shall quote them. The men allege that they were asked how they voted at the last general election. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-29", "file": "debates1984-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "99b74528ff79c57b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.460.1", "colnum": "460", "heading": "Pontefract and Castleford (Police Action)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Unbelievable.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Lofthouse", "preceding_text": "ection. — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Unbelievable.\"] I hear \"Unbelievable\" from the Government Benches. When this was first put to me I shared that view, and that is why I think it is so important and necessary for the House to hear it this afternoon, rather than read it in the press. Secondly, they were asked how they would vote if there were only a Conservative party and a Communist party in the country. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.460.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-29", "file": "debates1984-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "99b74528ff79c57b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.469.2", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating and Valuation (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "and the £45 million that was taken back by general abatement there is an overspend on revenue — a distinction that the Minister will cling to—of only £57 million. That is a small fraction—perhaps 2 per cent.—of predicted expenditure of local authorities as a whole, which runs at about £2·6 billion. I believe that there is paranoia, lack of proportion and lack of perspective, Mr. Armstrong —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.469.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-29", "file": "debates1984-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "99b74528ff79c57b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.472.2", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating and Valuation (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "It is interesting to consider what the situation would have been if the Bill and the new clause had been on the statute book now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.472.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-29", "file": "debates1984-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "99b74528ff79c57b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.510.1", "colnum": "510", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating and Valuation (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "art of England with local government and the attack on democracy throughout Scotland is unfair. I gather that we are debating the Bill tonight rather than last night or the night before simply because the Secretary of State for the Environment wants to parade his ego on \"Question Time\" tonight. The debate is being held tonight only because he wants to appear on that programme. That is disgraceful.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.510.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-29", "file": "debates1984-03-29a.xml", "sha256": "99b74528ff79c57b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.530.0", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rating and Valuation (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael J. Martin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael J. Martin", "preceding_text": "end the Member for Falkirk, West (Mr. Canavan) mentioned the statutory rights of local authorities. They have a statutory obligation to raise rates both from football grounds and race courses. No doubt the Minister has received a great deal of correspondence from race course owners and football associations. Race courses in England pay a quarter in rates of what their counterparts in Scotland pay.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-29a.530.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-03-30", "file": "debates1984-03-30a.xml", "sha256": "19d5ccae09f5fd8c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-30a.573.1", "colnum": "573", "heading": "Schedule 2", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dorrell", "preceding_text": "ot need once the backlog has been cleared. The management of the registry and my hon. Friend the Minister will deal with that matter in the most efficient way available to them. I have gone through the Government's arguments in opposition to my noble Friend's Bill in another place, not least because it is interesting to point out, especially to Opposition Members, if there were more of them here —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-03-30a.573.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.649.1", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Energy Supplies", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I shall not allow the question to go wider, whatever the Secretary of State said —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.649.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.649.1", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Energy Supplies", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I shall not allow the question to go wider, whatever the Secretary of State said — [Interruption.] —which he should not have said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.649.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.649.4", "colnum": "649", "heading": "Energy Supplies", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "Further to those points of order, Mr. Speaker. I must point out to the House that I was asked a question about the decision of certain trade unions. There has been no decision of certain trade unions; there has been a pronouncement of certain trade union leaders. I submit, therefore, with respect, Mr. Speaker, that it is perfectly in order in reply to this question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.649.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.680.6", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "I understand that a decision is to be made on 12 April as to whether the NUM is to have a ballot.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.680.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.680.6", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "im his seat in the Cabinet and he never really recovered his political career afterwards. We are discussing what is to be allowed in a ballot, how the ballot papers should be framed and how the lawyers come into it. History and experience show that when lawyers get involved, morality, ethics and fair play seem to go out of the window and we finish up with charges of contempt of court and the like.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.680.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.692.4", "colnum": "", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "itical candidates or parties, this Bill introduces the novel concept of campaigning against particular political parties. That is an essential and major change. There is no doubt that its purpose is to catch anti-Tory campaigns. The fact that the Bill does not deal with the position of companies is particularly relevant. After all, trade unions will generally be opposed to the Conservative party —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.692.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.705.7", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "the barman at Annabel's is somehow involved in industrial relations. It is a fact — I do not think that even the hon. Member for Thanet, North (Mr. Gale) would wish to deny it — that no restrictions on companies are being introduced in the Bill. As my hon. Friends have rightly said, the position is extremely unequal and unfair. Shareholders have no say whatever in whether a donation is to be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.705.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.705.7", "colnum": "705", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Winnick", "preceding_text": "be made. [Interruption.] Conservative Members may mutter but the facts are perfectly clear. Companies make donations—inevitably they are either to the Tory party or to the front organisations connected with it—and they do so without any consultation with shareholders. Moreover, no shareholder is in a position to say, as a trade unionist can, \"I wish to contract out.\" No shareholder has that right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.705.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.706.4", "colnum": "706", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashton", "preceding_text": "Do not give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.706.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.709.0", "colnum": "709", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Raymond Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Raymond Gower", "preceding_text": "on the clause were made by Opposition Members. The first claim was that something similar did not apply to company law. I should have thought that a distinction could be drawn between a person who buys shares in a company and a person who works for a company and is therefore unable to withdraw from that company in the way that a person can who has bought shares in it and wishes to dispose of them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.709.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.725.1", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Haynes", "preceding_text": "are on the other side of the Chamber — the rebels of the Tory party, the \"bovver\" boys who are really putting in the boot. They are the storm-troopers of the Conservative party. That is what it is all about. They do not have a clue about democracy, trade unions or representation of the workers. They do not have a clue about representing the workers. many of them have not had a tool in their hands—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.725.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.726.2", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hon. Friend?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "preceding_text": "I am much obliged to my hon. Friend. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.726.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.726.4", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "is why the hon. Gentelman intervened. It was about the only thing that he could do. I would welcome it if the hon. Gentleman made a sensible contribution to our debate, but he just tried to trip me up, despite the fact that I am trying to make a sensible contribution. The Bill, and particularly the new clause, show that the Conservative party is trying to destroy our nation's industrial relations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.726.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.726.4", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "at I am trying to make a sensible contribution. The Bill, and particularly the new clause, show that the Conservative party is trying to destroy our nation's industrial relations— [Interruption.] That is the action that is being taken. I am sorry, but that is it. If Conservative Members talked to workers in their constituencies, they would get the message. I get the message — I got it last night —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.726.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.726.4", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "g, I am convinced that we shall get rid of it next time. We shall then have a Socialist Government to put the people back to work and to repair the damage done to the economy. The new clause and the Bill will only make matters worse. The situation will only get worse as a result of them. Trade unions are having their rights taken away from them and are being shackled. Many years ago I saw a film —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.726.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.726.4", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "the Conservative party fund, but only in terms of the people who own shares. We should not forget that even my hon. Friends contribute to Conservative party funds every time they buy a pint of beer, no matter what brew it is. One cannot go into a shop and buy something, no matter what it is, without contributing to Conservative party funds. The hon. Member for Bridlington said nothing about that.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.726.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.726.4", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "efore—but this measure will be vicious in its effect on the ordinary person in the trade union movement. 9 pm I have mentioned the CTU. That is infiltration into the trade union movement. It is the reason why we have Tories in the trade union movement. I remember the right hon. Member for Waveney (Mr. Prior) encouraging Conservatives to join trade unions years ago. That was how the CTU came about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.726.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.729.3", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Onslow", "preceding_text": " As it is, if the new clause is incorporated in the Bill, it will have two effects. First — this is undesirable enough—it tells the TUC that we who voted the Bill in have no faith either in its intentions or in its ability to deliver. That seems to be a serious mistake, but it would be a more serious mistake if we told the Government that they should not have placed any confidence in the TUC and —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.729.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.730.0", "colnum": "730", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Bidwell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sydney Bidwell", "preceding_text": "donations donations without which the Tory party could not exist—the position would be rather different. From time to time we see the list of donations made by those companies to the Tory party, and we also see the special privileges and honours that are given to the heads of the industries concerned. They make handsome contributions to the Tory party and what happens thereafter is a quid pro quo.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.730.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.738.1", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "preceding_text": "on. Gentleman will find that in 14 unions the proportion was over 95 per cent. What the hon. Gentleman says does not apply to all of those. It does not apply either to the Transport and General Workers Union, where only 1·6 per cent. of the members contracted out —1,668,713 of the 1,695,818 members paid the levy in 1981 to just one party. The psephological evidence is clearly against that.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.738.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.740.4", "colnum": "740", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Franks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Franks", "preceding_text": "ned in the constitution of the Labour party, are obliged to finance the organisation of a political party that they detest and abhor. Compulsory membership of a trade union is simply industrial blackmail. The payment of the political levy is no more and no less than the extraction of protection money. It is naive at the least, and dishonest at the worst, to believe that individual trade unionists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.740.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.746.1", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen Wells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen Wells", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for her remarks. I was just coming to those matters. I shall listen carefully when my right hon. Friend replies to the conditions that he thinks should appropriately be placed on his undertaking with the TUC. I would be persuaded to support him in the trust that he has exhibited in the trade union movement if he set, say, a maximum of two years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.746.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.746.3", "colnum": "746", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen Wells", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do it now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen Wells", "preceding_text": "I am quoting a specific example from my own constituency. I shall give the name and address to the hon. Gentleman in private —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.746.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.753.2", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": ". Friend and I share. I believe that, by the voluntary approach, this statement of guidance covers completely the circumstances that ensure that the contracting-out arrangements work effectively and that, if it is honoured, it will make a major improvement and will end much abuse. I understand that there are a number of my hon. Friends who do not believe that any voluntary arrangement is possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.753.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.754.1", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "t sentence in the manifesto on the political levy — I paid great attention to an earlier sentence, so I pay equal attention to the next—refers to the steps that the trade unions are able and willing to take. I make it clear: In the event that the trade unions are not willing to take such steps, the Government will be prepared to introduce measures to guarantee a free and effective right of choice.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.754.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.758.0", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman makes much of the fact that in his judgment there are no difficulties in contracting out. Has he read the September issue of Marxism Today ?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.758.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.766.1", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Golding", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Do not be too long\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Golding", "preceding_text": "May I declare an interest?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.766.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.773.6", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "preceding_text": "ion members would recognise as a sensible basis, if they were given a ballot on it. If they do not want to support a party other than the Labour party, it is their privilege so to do, but they should have an alternative. To be fair, the amendment must apply to companies as well. The logic is that it should be done on both sides. I offer the new clause to the House towards 1 o'clock in the morning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.773.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.777.0", "colnum": "777", "heading": "Orders of the Day — BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "preceding_text": "I am now more encouraged than I was. It has been said that we want the money. I do not deny that. We want only what people are willing to give us, just like any other party in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.777.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-04-02", "file": "debates1984-04-02a.xml", "sha256": "6aab6ce9c9bad270", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.783.2", "colnum": "783", "heading": "BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " word 'six' for the word `four'; and (2) at tomorrow's sitting, proceedings on the business selected under paragraph (2) of that Order shall lapse at Seven o'clock, if not previously concluded, and shall count as a half day as therein provided; and any Motion for the adjournment of the House in the name of the Prime Minister may be proceeded with, though opposed, until Twelve o'clock.— [Mr. Lang.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-02a.783.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-03", "file": "debates1984-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "713ce6375a529994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.798.6", "colnum": "798", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sheerman", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State use the opportunity of his visit to the Open University to consider some of the criminal damage that has been done to that institution in the last year?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.798.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-03", "file": "debates1984-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "713ce6375a529994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.805.6", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lord", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lord", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that the one inescapable responsibility of the Leader of the Opposition—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.805.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-03", "file": "debates1984-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "713ce6375a529994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.805.8", "colnum": "805", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lord", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lord", "preceding_text": "All I ask my right hon. Friend is whether, in her opinion, as Leader of the Opposition —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.805.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-03", "file": "debates1984-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "713ce6375a529994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.808.2", "colnum": "808", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I hear what my hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.808.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-03", "file": "debates1984-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "713ce6375a529994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Mining Dispute (Police Action)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"I would have fingerprinted the lot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Quite right.\") They were escorted out of the county by two police cars and two police motor cycles. On that occasion no charges were made. When people are charged, a condition of bail is that they do not return to that NCB work place again. Is not that like saying that they are guilty of the offences without a hearing? Over 500 people have been bailed under those conditions already.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-03", "file": "debates1984-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "713ce6375a529994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.813.4", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Mining Dispute (Police Action)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": " the Adjournment of the House for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that he thinks should have urgent consideration, namely, the threatened arrests, the arrests and the conditions of bail involved in the current miners' dispute. I say to the hon. Member and to the House that I do not in any way under-estimate what he has said. We debated this matter last week on two orders—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.813.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-03", "file": "debates1984-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "713ce6375a529994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.817.1", "colnum": "817", "heading": "Opposition Days (Allocation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Beith", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. According to the Order Paper, this is the 12th of 19 allotted Opposition days. Of those 19 days, one has so far been made available to the Liberal party, and it has been made plain to us that that is the only day which the Leader of the Opposition will make available. One half day, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.817.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-03", "file": "debates1984-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "713ce6375a529994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.818.1", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Opposition Days (Allocation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. It will not have escaped your notice, especially since you have a copy of the Standing Orders before you, that this matter has been settled democratically —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.818.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-03", "file": "debates1984-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "713ce6375a529994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.818.6", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Opposition Days (Allocation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I do not think that the House wishes to become involved in a debate on the rift —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.818.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-03", "file": "debates1984-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "713ce6375a529994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.829.7", "colnum": "829", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "d me saying that. I should like to make the Secretary of State's case for him. He will claim today that the Government have managed to keep education spending roughly stable in real terms during their period of office and that spending per pupil has never been higher. However, I say strongly that it is ludicrous for the Minister to take credit for that achievement, if achievement it can be called.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.829.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-03", "file": "debates1984-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "713ce6375a529994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.830.3", "colnum": "830", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "The ratio should be much lower than it is now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.830.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-03", "file": "debates1984-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "713ce6375a529994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.835.3", "colnum": "835", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "Calculating on my feet, I can give credit for the lower pupil-teacher ratio to the extent of about a third of the overspending of local education authorities. The hon. Member for Durham, North laid much stress on the HMI reports. We have read them; they contain many things that are satisfying and many that are not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.835.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-03", "file": "debates1984-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "713ce6375a529994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.840.0", "colnum": "840", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Spencer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Spencer", "preceding_text": "e assisted places scheme. There may be the criticism that that was perhaps an over-ambitious application, but it is one which I hope that in the fullness of time my right hon. Friend will look at favourably. That is the first lesson for those from less-favoured places to learn from Leicester. Thus I appeal across the Chamber to the hon. Member for Hillsborough, who really ought to come with me to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.840.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-03", "file": "debates1984-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "713ce6375a529994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.859.9", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith (seated and covered)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith (seated and covered)", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Further to the point of order raised by the hon. Member for Hampshire, East (Mr. Mates), I hope that you will he understanding of the hon. Gentleman's difficulty, which was genuine, and which, I think, arose because, for the fourth time in two days, Labour and Conservative Members were trying to go into the same Lobby at the same time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.859.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-03", "file": "debates1984-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "713ce6375a529994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.874.4", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howe", "preceding_text": "and time again. He asks whether it is enough. Of course in itself it is not enough, but this progress under this deal has been made even before the regulations that are going to become operative have started to operate. For that reason it represents, as I say, a significant and courageous start. I must say that here again there is a curious lack of precision about the policies of the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.874.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-03", "file": "debates1984-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "713ce6375a529994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.874.4", "colnum": "874", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howe", "preceding_text": " do hon. Gentlemen reconcile their call for radical reform with the criticism which they reserve the right to make that the reforms achieved are too vast? How can they say, as they do, that the agreement costs too much, while adding that it should be put into place more slowly? They really must tell the House, and above all they must tell the farmers, exactly how they would cut agricultural costs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.874.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-03", "file": "debates1984-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "713ce6375a529994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.883.1", "colnum": "883", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "The farmers themselves have predicted that beef prices could rise by between 18p and 25p in the pound. That is the prediction that I have read in the papers, and I have no reason to disbelieve it. Already, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food seems to have swallowed up the projected VAT increase to 1·4 per cent., before it has even been agreed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.883.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-03", "file": "debates1984-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "713ce6375a529994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.886.1", "colnum": "886", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": " that already we are being invited to cover further expenditure on agriculture? This is the problem that I have with these negotiations and proposals. We heard from my right hon. and learned Friend the Foreign Secretary that the agricultural package is not in itself enough to meet the criteria laid down by the Government for an increase in own resources. I found that statement at least reassuring—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.886.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-03", "file": "debates1984-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "713ce6375a529994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.899.0", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What a good idea.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "preceding_text": " pretty elastic: the buffers may turn out to be made of rubber. For instance, the non-agricultural parts of the budget could he raided if the European Parliament and a majority in the Council agreed. Or, more likely, there could be an agreement among the other nine countries to finance the CAP by national payments outside the budget — payments which would not be returnable to the Community budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.899.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-03", "file": "debates1984-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "713ce6375a529994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.899.0", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "preceding_text": "hey are important sums for Britain, and they will probably become even more important. This is not just a British question. It is a question that will not go away, because, using the words of the right hon. Member for Down, South, it is of fundamental importance for the \"institutionalisation\" of Europe. The history of all federations is clear— and I have no doubt that the Community is a federation", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.899.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-03", "file": "debates1984-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "713ce6375a529994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.899.0", "colnum": "899", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "preceding_text": " they will probably become even more important. This is not just a British question. It is a question that will not go away, because, using the words of the right hon. Member for Down, South, it is of fundamental importance for the \"institutionalisation\" of Europe. The history of all federations is clear— and I have no doubt that the Community is a federation[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"] — in the making —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.899.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-03", "file": "debates1984-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "713ce6375a529994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.902.1", "colnum": "902", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnson", "preceding_text": "ursuing a sensible approach to this matter. The Liberal party accepts the need to cut, but it must be phased in sensibly. Most hon. Members will have read the article by Hugh Noyes in The Times today. The Labour party seems to be saying that the cuts are not enough, that they are not sufficiently draconian and that they are not quick enough. The Labour party is becoming the anti-agricultual party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.902.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-04-03", "file": "debates1984-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "713ce6375a529994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.918.7", "colnum": "918", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Oppenheim", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.918.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-03", "file": "debates1984-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "713ce6375a529994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.919.0", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "of being present for most of them. It calls in question the rhetoric of those SDP Members who are fond of saying that they, and they alone, hold the key to the vision and the ideal of the future of Europe. One striking feature of the debate has been the lack of support from either side of the House for the package that looks like emerging from the negotiations in which Ministers have been engaged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.919.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-03", "file": "debates1984-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "713ce6375a529994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.919.0", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Cook", "preceding_text": "he vision and the ideal of the future of Europe. One striking feature of the debate has been the lack of support from either side of the House for the package that looks like emerging from the negotiations in which Ministers have been engaged. [Interruption.] The hon. Member for Wirral, South (Mr. Porter), from the sedentary position which he has maintained all evening, says that that is not true—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.919.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-03", "file": "debates1984-04-03a.xml", "sha256": "713ce6375a529994", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.928.2", "colnum": "928", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "believe me, he need only ask the Prime Minister or Head of Government of any other member state. If the right hon. Gentleman needs to be educated, I am happy to respond to that request. I shall tell the right hon. Gentleman and his hon. Friends exactly what the Government have achieved in the nine months since Stuttgart. As an aperitif, I shall comment on the achievements of the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-03a.928.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-04", "file": "debates1984-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "89666c291b60369c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-04a.948.6", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "Certainly not. The question which the hon. Gentleman tabled deals with the sale of vacant dwellings, whereas the issues that he has just raised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-04a.948.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-04", "file": "debates1984-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "89666c291b60369c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-04a.957.4", "colnum": "957", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Wind up, Frank.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State now admit that the appointment of Mr. Alfred was a total disaster? Is he aware that we in the Opposition think that the right hon. Gentleman is a total disaster? Could I help the Secretary of State by asking him whether he will ensure —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-04a.957.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-04", "file": "debates1984-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "89666c291b60369c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-04a.962.1", "colnum": "962", "heading": "Mining Dispute (Police Action)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": " McKay) today. You said that you could not grant the request, but stressed that the debate could not be granted on that day. We all understand that there are guidelines and conventions to be followed and we were —to say the least—under the impression that you would be prepared to consider such a request if a further application were made. I am beginning to wonder whether we are being strung along—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-04a.962.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-04", "file": "debates1984-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "89666c291b60369c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-04a.964.0", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Mining Dispute (Police Action)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "must raise the matter in the House at the earliest possible moment. My hon. Friend the Member for Sunderland, North (Mr. Clay) and I have just returned from Greenham common, where a mass eviction occurred this morning. There is also a police road block there, which raises exactly the same issues as they do elsewhere. There is also confiscation of property and a police barrier around some property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-04a.964.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-04", "file": "debates1984-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "89666c291b60369c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-04a.964.0", "colnum": "964", "heading": "Mining Dispute (Police Action)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "en raised today. I ask you to consider this point seriously, in advance of a possible application tomorrow under Standing Order No. 10. I repeat what I said yesterday: if major erosions of civil liberties occur and are brought to the attention of the House, and if, for one reason or another, the House does not find the opportunity to discuss those matters, the House will be brought into disrepute.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-04a.964.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-04", "file": "debates1984-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "89666c291b60369c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-04a.965.4", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Questions to Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. You said in reply to a point of order raised by my hon. Friend the Member for Denton and Reddish (Mr. Bennett) that you are not responsible for questions on the Order Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-04a.965.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-04", "file": "debates1984-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "89666c291b60369c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-04a.969.0", "colnum": "969", "heading": "BILL PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alton", "preceding_text": "I did seek leave to speak against the Bill and I continue to seek leave to oppose it. The hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) may not like it, but that is the right of any hon. Member. The reason why I am speaking against the Bill is that I am unsure of what the hon. Member—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-04a.969.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-04", "file": "debates1984-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "89666c291b60369c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-04a.1025.6", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "her hon. Members who wished to see them, it is clear that the number of pensioners in different areas varies considerably. As I have pointed out before, the equalisation principle on which the existing GLC scheme is run means that the 3p rate is the cost to all the boroughs, irrespective of how many pensioners there are in each area. 8 pm Bromley, that reactionary authority that started the trend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-04a.1025.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-04", "file": "debates1984-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "89666c291b60369c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-04a.1041.0", "colnum": "1041", "heading": "New clause 3", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": " on both sides of the House—it has probably come as a worse shock to the Members on the Government Benches than those on the Opposition Benches—that the concessionary fares scheme that the Government are now going to enshrine in statute will cost the boroughs a lot more than the present scheme costs them. I have heard nothing to gainsay that. I want to ask the Minister, when she is summing up, to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-04a.1041.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-04", "file": "debates1984-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "89666c291b60369c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-04a.1050.10", "colnum": "1050", "heading": "New Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "For the sake of the Minister, I shall be entirely accurate. The GLC's transport function will be stripped from it under the legislation that we are discussing. The legislation to bring about its abolition will, presumably, be introduced in the none-too-distant future. I hope that that is not too pedantic for the Minister and that it provides an accurate account of the likely events to come —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-04a.1050.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-04", "file": "debates1984-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "89666c291b60369c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-04a.1071.3", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "New Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I am sorry to interrupt the hon. Gentleman so early in his speech, but I am bound to say to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-04a.1071.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-04", "file": "debates1984-04-04a.xml", "sha256": "89666c291b60369c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-04a.1077.1", "colnum": "1077", "heading": "New Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Brown", "preceding_text": "at I am about to make. Whatever the division of opinion between the parties about the rest of the country, the division between ourselves in Tyne and Wear and the county of Northumberland cannot be countenanced. I am talking not about Right versus Left, or right versus wrong, but about corruption versus decency. The division that has been made in Newcastle is corrupt—no more and no less than that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-04a.1077.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-05", "file": "debates1984-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "2eb56dacc10efa3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1096.11", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I have no present intention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1096.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-05", "file": "debates1984-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "2eb56dacc10efa3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1099.10", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "Although I am not quite sure that that really arises on this question, I am happy to answer by saying that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and my right hon. and learned Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer have made the Government's position perfectly clear on this.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1099.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-05", "file": "debates1984-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "2eb56dacc10efa3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1107.11", "colnum": "1107", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No, Sir.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1107.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-05", "file": "debates1984-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "2eb56dacc10efa3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1109.0", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ws, my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary agreed to a request from the Metropolitan police for the purchase of a small number of sub-machine guns, as I said on Tuesday. The right hon. Gentleman may recollect, as it is within public knowledge, that as long ago as 1976 the Labour Administration approved the acquisition by the Metropolitan police of a small number of conventional sub-machine guns —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-05", "file": "debates1984-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "2eb56dacc10efa3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1109.7", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "er, Mr. Speaker. I should like to raise with you a point of order relating to remarks made by the hon. Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Griffiths), which you and the House will have heard during the Prime Ministr's Question Time. The hon. Gentleman said that I made an attack on the police. That has never been true, is not true, and never will be true. My references to the use of sub-machine guns —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1109.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-05", "file": "debates1984-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "2eb56dacc10efa3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1110.0", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. The Leader of the Opposition raised what he claimed to be a point of order. To protect Back Benchers, will you declare that spuriously to raise as a point of order something that in no sense is a point of order is just as unacceptable from the Front Benches as it is from the Back Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1110.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-05", "file": "debates1984-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "2eb56dacc10efa3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1117.3", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my hon. Friend will not be disappointed by the tone and content of the speech of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1117.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-05", "file": "debates1984-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "2eb56dacc10efa3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1128.7", "colnum": "1128", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Friend agree that one of the ways of dealing with ILEA would have been, and might still be, to allow those boroughs that want to do so to take over their own education? Does he also agree that even with direct elections there is no assurance that the leaders of ILEA will be those who appear to be the leaders at the time of the election? We have seen two changes in ILEA since the last GLC election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1128.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-05", "file": "debates1984-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "2eb56dacc10efa3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1139.0", "colnum": "1139", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "nt many hours with the hon. Lady discussing the Bill. We sat late into the evening on many occasions. I confess, to echo the right hon. Lady's words, that I usually went home unsatisfied. But surely the role of an Opposition is to be dissatisfied; a role to which the hon. Lady will become accustomed on the happy day when we can remove this bunch of frauds from Government offices throughout London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1139.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-05", "file": "debates1984-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "2eb56dacc10efa3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1143.1", "colnum": "1143", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "o. The Minister has said that fares under LRT will not have to rise beyond the rate of inflation. If so, LRT should be required to produce fairly detailed plans setting out how it intends to maintain fare increases at or about the level of inflation. Is that an unreasonable demand to place on professional management? The hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington (Mr. Dicks) probably thinks that it is —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1143.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-05", "file": "debates1984-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "2eb56dacc10efa3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1150.3", "colnum": "1150", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": "Let me finish my point and I shall give the hon. Gentleman the opportunity to put both feet more firmly into the bog in which he is already standing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1150.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-05", "file": "debates1984-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "2eb56dacc10efa3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1152.7", "colnum": "1152", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": " possible travelling at a reasonably low fare so that the greatest possible public service is provided and the maximum return is made on the capital. That is good business in the interests of the public. It is public business, not private business. The hon. Gentleman should keep that distinction clear. I believe that I am the first speaker in this debate who was not a member of the Committee club.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1152.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-05", "file": "debates1984-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "2eb56dacc10efa3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1168.1", "colnum": "1168", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "Yes, when the application first came before the city council, it made a mistake of the worst kind —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1168.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-05", "file": "debates1984-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "2eb56dacc10efa3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1173.0", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "I am obliged to the hon. Gentleman, who on this occasion is indeed on our side. That is the situation to which I referred when I said that the Bill had been brought in under false pretences, first, because the bishop had not been consulted and secondly, because it was put forward on the basis that the strewing of ashes would be either at All Saints in Highcross street, which is not far away —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1173.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-05", "file": "debates1984-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "2eb56dacc10efa3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1179.1", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "An HON.MEMBER: \"More customers.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "oom to plant anything else, the putting of a crematorium for the disposal of human remains where the bereaved cannot walk out into a field, into a garden or into sunshine where they can sit quietly and reflect. They can walk out only on to one of the busiest streets in the midlands, with traffic flowing in both directions, where, alas, they and the casket may be knocked down, may be whisked away —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-05", "file": "debates1984-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "2eb56dacc10efa3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1185.2", "colnum": "1185", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soames", "preceding_text": "I know how carefully my hon. Friend investigated these matters. When, as Chairman of the Committee, my hon. Friend visited the site with the Committee to assess the matter that it was discussing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1185.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-05", "file": "debates1984-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "2eb56dacc10efa3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1187.3", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": "If the bishop was not privy to the negotiations entered into by the church, that is a criticism of the bishop, and bishop ought to apologise to us.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1187.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-05", "file": "debates1984-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "2eb56dacc10efa3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1189.1", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS:\"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I can put the following question to my hon. Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-05", "file": "debates1984-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "2eb56dacc10efa3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1201.2", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "espected for that. The Leiceser City Council granted planning permission on 5 October 1982. As we tried to point out to my hon. Friend the Member for Crawley (Mr. Soames), that has not been revoked. Ginns and Gutteridge gave the Select Committee an undertaking that it would provide 65 car parking spaces, and 30 already exist. I have been to the site and I assure Opposition Members that that is so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1201.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-05", "file": "debates1984-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "2eb56dacc10efa3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1202.1", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "), I find it incredible that the Bishop has only just found out that this Bill is before the House and that there is the possibility of another crematorium. That is amazing. I and other hon. Members have spoken about this on the radio, and articles have regularly appeared in the Leicester Mercury. The matter was debated on 14 February 1983, yet the Bishop has only just found out. That is strange —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1202.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-05", "file": "debates1984-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "2eb56dacc10efa3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1227.1", "colnum": "1227", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "t.\" I believe that the Notts miners will regret their action if it lasts for too long. We cannot be sure, because some Nottinghamshire pits are lined up for closure by Mr. MacGregor, backed by the Government. Although the NCB has tried to hide the fact it is ready to shut them, some of the people in the Notts area know the names—Pye Hill 1, Pye Hill 2, and Moorgreen with one or two more to follow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1227.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-05", "file": "debates1984-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "2eb56dacc10efa3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1229.0", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Powell", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend also aware that the phones of some striking miners have been tapped—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1229.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-05", "file": "debates1984-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "2eb56dacc10efa3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1229.1", "colnum": "1229", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Secondary picketing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "m through the picket line, not to turn coal but just so that the police can say to the coal board, \"We are helping to drive a thin wedge through.\" In other words, they are strike-breaking. That is a political act by the police force. Not only are the Government happy for that to happen, but they are guiding the police along the way. I was on the Bolsover picket line at 12.15 pm on Friday 30 March—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1229.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-05", "file": "debates1984-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "2eb56dacc10efa3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1233.1", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": " the TUC. It is his right to choose. If he chooses not to cross the picket line, that is his decision and it is not an invasion of his freedom. He is exercising his freedom, and he is aware of what he is doing if he crosses the picket line. Different perceptions exist between Labour and Conservative Members on many issues, and that brings me to the second matter that I wish to raise, that of Oman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-05", "file": "debates1984-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "2eb56dacc10efa3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1243.1", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clay", "preceding_text": "p was not an acceptable address, so she said, \"But I live there.\" The magistrate said that she must provide other addresses, so she gave him three others. Then the magistrate said, \"But you have already told me that you live at Greenham common peace camp. I cannot accept these other addresses because I know that you will not be there if we require to re-arrest you,\" so he sent her to gaol as well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-05", "file": "debates1984-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "2eb56dacc10efa3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1243.1", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Good.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clay", "preceding_text": "at I observed in Nottinghamshire the same sort of road blocks as I observed being organised by the police in Berkshire this week. It disturbs me that, wherever we turn these days, we see the elimination of protest, attacks on protesters and intolerance towards dissent. Conservative Members are cheering it on. It frightens me more than anything that I have seen in my limited life has frightened me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-05", "file": "debates1984-04-05a.xml", "sha256": "2eb56dacc10efa3f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1244.0", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "New Clause 10", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "preceding_text": "I start with a highly personal confession. This is exactly the second anniversary of my becoming Leader of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-05a.1244.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-09", "file": "debates1984-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "b86e6b7ffbd6c8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-09a.20.0", "colnum": "20", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stokes", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is it in order for Opposition Members to make direct criticism of Her Majesty's judges —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-09a.20.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-09", "file": "debates1984-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "b86e6b7ffbd6c8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-09a.24.1", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute (Police Operations)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen McKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen McKay", "preceding_text": "I beg to ask leave to move the Adjournment of the House, under Standing Order No. 10, for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration, namely, The implications for civil liberties and the rule of law of policing operations connected with the current mining dispute. In seeking this debate it is not my intention to attack the police force.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-09a.24.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-09", "file": "debates1984-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "b86e6b7ffbd6c8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-09a.24.1", "colnum": "24", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute (Police Operations)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen McKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen McKay", "preceding_text": "Thursday, after all, when it is all over we have \"to live together again\". The local police have said the same thing to some of my constituents and to some of the pickets. Over the weekend I have had the opportunity to discuss this problem at my surgery, at a family wedding, where most of the people were miners and their families, and all were extremely concerned, with my colleagues over a dinner—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-09a.24.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-09", "file": "debates1984-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "b86e6b7ffbd6c8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-09a.46.2", "colnum": "46", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Stevens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Stevens", "preceding_text": " Association—on whose parliamentary panel I serve—if these matters could be clarified and confirmed by my ministerial friends. 5.30 pm The second point is slightly more complex and relates to the contribution by London ratepayers to the Secretary of State's proposed expenditure on London's transport. The association claims that the two thirds provision is arbitrary and could at some time lead to —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-09a.46.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-09", "file": "debates1984-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "b86e6b7ffbd6c8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-09a.105.1", "colnum": "105", "heading": "Clause 39", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Ross", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Ross", "preceding_text": "riences of other countries. Let us look at what happened in America— the greatest supporter of private enterprise. Why was America forced to nationalise its railways? Why did it bring in Amtrac? Why can we not follow the French and have good public transport services, railways and underground systems? Why do we not follow the example of the Germans and Swiss? Why must we put the bloody clock back—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-09a.105.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-09", "file": "debates1984-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "b86e6b7ffbd6c8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-09a.134.2", "colnum": "134", "heading": "Clause 39", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Marlow", "preceding_text": "We have just heard rather a lot of special pleading. I found it a little disturbing and unsettling, and I expect that my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon, South (Sir W. Clark) feels much the same —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-09a.134.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-09", "file": "debates1984-04-09a.xml", "sha256": "b86e6b7ffbd6c8bc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-09a.149.1", "colnum": "149", "heading": "Clause 39", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "ore pay. That loss or damage must be shown to be the thing, or one of the things, he was setting out to do. I shall give the other side of the coin. It will not be a defence that the defendant's main purpose is to secure improved terms of employment, if his purpose includes a desire to bring about the breach of the order and thereby to cause loss to the customer. In that case, he will be liable. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-09a.149.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.194.11", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I have already answered questions on this matter—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.194.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.194.16", "colnum": "194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Latham", "preceding_text": "Can my right hon. Friend prescribe any early cure for the sad political laryngitis that continues to prevent the Opposition Front Bench from condemning the loutish militant picketing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.194.16"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.198.15", "colnum": "198", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew Faulds", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Sir, I understand the extreme delicacy of this matter.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.198.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.200.1", "colnum": "200", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth (Sterling)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth (Sterling)", "preceding_text": "I beg to move. That leave be given to bring in a Bill to regulate the issue of bank notes in Scotland. Hon. Members who have the good taste to visit Scotland will be aware that our banks enjoy the right to issue their own bank notes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.200.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.204.0", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Adley", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.203.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.204.1", "colnum": "204", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McKay", "preceding_text": "ack. He received another blow. He was then summoned for obstruction and taken to the police station. Four people have given evidence of incidents. Is not the stopping of men 100 miles away from their destination, on the assumption that they will commit a breach of the peace, an unacceptable erosion of civil liberties? It is a dangerous precedent. Who will be next? Will we have football supporters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.208.2", "colnum": "208", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "The Minister has made a number of allegations about what happened at Silverdale this morning. Is it not clear from the very keen observations of miners, and thankfully the one video that has been shown, that many police undercover agents are infiltrating the picket lines? Therefore, what evidence has he that all the misdemeanours that he referred to have not been carried out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.208.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.212.1", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "We welcome the debate —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.212.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.212.1", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "We welcome the debate — [Interruption.] — and I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Barnsley, West and Penistone (Mr. McKay) on having obtained it. I congratulate him as well on his impressive speech in introducing the debate. Such an adjective could not be applied to the lamentable contribution that we have just heard from the Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.212.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.213.11", "colnum": "213", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I hope that we can continue to debate with calmness, as we have done so far. All hon. Members know of the hon. Gentleman's interest, as it is declared in the Members' Register of Interests. The hon. Gentleman may have the opportunity later to make a speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.213.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.214.0", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I shall clear the issue. The right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman) will agree that every hon. Gentleman declares his interests in the register and speaks impartially. We should not impute dishonour to each other.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.213.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": " Mr. Hampson allowed to take them another day. As he says in a letter: I cannot take them because I have been warned that if I travel that road again either on my own or with passengers during the dispute I will be arrested. Then there is the case of Father Marshall, the vicar of Goldthorpe parish church. He had gone along with some of his parishioners to see what was happening on the picket line.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.227.0", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terry Patchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Patchett", "preceding_text": "ce officer opened the door. Mr. Lingard said, \"Excuse me, but I am making a private telephone call.\" The officer replied, \"I suspect that you are ringing for more pickets to be brought to Yorkshire.\" He said, \"I am not ringing for pickets. It is a private telephone call.\" The officer's retort was, \"If you are doing nothing wrong, there is no need for privacy.\" That was in a public telephone booth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.227.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.230.1", "colnum": "230", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Griffiths", "preceding_text": "ine offering violence are not miners, but others who have joined in the dispute. One of the simple ways—it may be an unwise way—in which an ordinary copper in south Yorkshire may try to find out whether a person has nothing to do with south Yorkshire or mining, but is there for his own extremist purposes, is to say, \"If you are from south Yorkshire, which MP did you vote for in the last election?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.230.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.232.0", "colnum": "232", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "t and that we would all engage in the usual Oxford Union general election-type politics with which the general public are fed up to the teeth. It is right that we should discuss this problem here today so that we can clear the air. I am the son, grandson, great-grandson and great, great-grandson of a coalminer. Indeed, one of my great, great-grandmothers worked as a coal miner. I am proud of that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.232.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.234.1", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come on.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "That is so, even though we write in our diaries when we leave the office, \"Never believe one word that appears in a newspaper.\" However, the newspapers appear every morning and we find ourselves asking whether they have presented us with the truth. That is why we are right to question Ministers in this place. I had great respect for one of the Home Secretary's predecessors, Mr. Reginald Maudling —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.235.0", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Knowles", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Knowles", "preceding_text": "ents provocateurs. The police have made no secret of the fact that they have used plain clothes policemen in this operation to get round the back of the crowd. They are after two kinds of people there—those throwing bricks and bottles over the heads of those in front and the organisers, because in many cases even some of those who come to picket are innocents, loyal to their union and their class—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.235.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.235.0", "colnum": "235", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Knowles", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Knowles", "preceding_text": "lication is bound to be that it is a vote of no confidence in the police. Disguise it how Labour Members will — stepping daintily on eggshells through the minefield—that is the implication. The nasty reality is that the Labour party is still swinging to the left and the fear, among the Left-wing Members of the party more than among the few moderates still left, is that re-selection time is coming.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.235.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.236.2", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Ellis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Ellis", "preceding_text": "worst evil the state could inflict on its citizens was wrongfully to take away their freedom. Unfortunately, that has become the daily practice in the coalfields of Britain. Hundreds of innocent witnesses are being picked at random and are suffering the implied violence of forcible arrest, and are set free only under terms of curfew. We are living in a police state or under selective martial law —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.236.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.236.2", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ray Ellis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ray Ellis", "preceding_text": "e at the pit head. I have not had an opportunity to see or speak to my son, but, according to this morning's newspapers, he and others have been given instructions until the middle of May to keep away from all premises of the National Coal Board and any premises picketed by the NUM except for purposes of residence. According to the NUM rules, hundreds of innocent lads cannot vote until late May. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.236.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.238.6", "colnum": "238", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"About the ballot.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "have only a few moments in which to make my point. It is utter hypocrisy to say that the Government are defending the right to work when 20,000 miners have been denied that right by Government edict through Mr. MacGregor. If Conservative Members wish their views to carry weight with the public, they should go to a mining area in which mass closures are being announced. They should ask the miners —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.238.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.239.3", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "he Home Secretary at the beginning of the dispute, when he listed the powers of the police, meant that in advance the right hon. and learned Gentleman authorised the actions of the police. Despite the statements by my right hon. Friend the Member for Morley and Leeds, South (Mr. Rees), the former Home Secretary, about telephone tapping, I point out that there has been widespread telephone tapping.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.239.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.239.3", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "ok at what the former Home Secretary, Lord Whitelaw, said in his written answer on 25 February 1982. The guidelines issued to chief constables state that the authorising officer must satisfy himself that telephone tapping is operationally necessary, operationally feasible and justified in all the circumstances. The theory that Home Secretaries are required to authorise telephone tapping is untrue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.239.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.239.3", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "n provides that those who are on strike are deemed to have had £15 a week in strike pay. That is using the law to change the facts. One can say, \"You cannot have starved to death; you are deemed to have had breakfast this morning.\" There is hardship now among many miners' families, and, in addition to taking away the right to obtain benefits, the Government have deliberately obstructed the claims.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.239.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.257.1", "colnum": "257", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "I look forward to the hon. Gentleman asking the Government why they are increasing the tax burden on the British people so severely in the year following the general election. It will be interesting to see what answers he will get from the Government Front Bench.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.257.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"It could be higher spending.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "ast Labour Government. Last year they were £6·9 billion higher in real terms than in 1978–79, and there has been only 5 per cent. inflation between last year and this year. So we have over £2 billion extra taxes on expenditure from the last financial year—election year—to this year, this Budget and this Finance Bill. That cannot be claimed to be the result of increased real earnings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.268.1", "colnum": "268", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": " per cent. However, those who are paying 52 per cent. will also have their rate reduced to 35 per cent. In other words, there is a relative increase in corporation tax on industrial and provident societies. Is that the intention? After all, if both sectors pay the same rate of corporation tax it represents a relative increase if one compares industrial and provident societies with major companies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.268.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "With respect to the hon. Gentleman, who has intervened several times tonight, I do not think that he understands what he is talking about. I shall not dodge the issue. I do not intend to abuse the hon. Gentleman, but I intend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.297.1", "colnum": "297", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "t in public because they do not want the cartel arrangement to be made public, as I am doing now. They are complaining bitterly that it is all very well for Trafalgar House, Mr. Nigel Broackes and Lord Matthews to buy a knighthood or two, but it is different to buy a £300 million political favour. I do not know whether that is a justified allegation, but that is what the companies complain about —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.297.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.306.1", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "ative Members and the Chancellor could grasp that simple mathematical model and then go to our European partners and to other countries and start to work out new criteria for the western world to achieve economic growth and — I do not want to go into this — new relationships between the advanced countries of the western world and the Third world, we might eventually see some more economic growth —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.306.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.308.1", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "t. The Treasury argues that local government expenditure is out of control. As is the case with so many of the arguments that we have been discussing, there appears to be no empirical evidence for that assertion. It is beginning to make argument impossible for the Opposition. It appears that the Government can put forward a theory and a practice, but they do not have to adduce any evidence for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.308.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.309.2", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sedgemore", "preceding_text": "That just shows how vicious, nasty little spite can somehow intervene in our debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.309.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.332.3", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "Considering all the financial theology over which the Chancellor puzzled— whether to have little MO, PSL2, M3 or M1 for his sacred religion of monetarism—the paramount question of the VAT rate on a chip buttie must be among the most difficult. Perhaps when he replies the Minister will deal with that basic but philosophical question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.332.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.335.0", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roland Boyes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roland Boyes", "preceding_text": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, this is an important speech —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.335.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.335.2", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "preceding_text": "I am having discussions with my legal adviser, Mr. Deputy Speaker, on the correct procedure, because I have a problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.335.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.335.4", "colnum": "335", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "preceding_text": "I have now decided to change from an intervention to a point of order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.335.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.337.10", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Aye\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Question is, That the Question be now put. As many as are of that opinion say \"Aye\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.337.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.337.10", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Question is, That the Question be now put. As many as are of that opinion say \"Aye\" [HON. MEMBERS: \"Aye\".] To the contrary \"No\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.337.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.340.4", "colnum": "340", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham (seated and covered)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Further! Further!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham (seated and covered)", "preceding_text": "n behalf of myself and many other Opposition Members, I wish to raise a very serious point of order. I note that the doors are now locked. Having sought to raise certain constitutional matters, I and many of my colleagues are now denied the right to register our protest. Accordingly, on behalf of Members of the House, I call your attention to the absolute right, going back not just to Magna Carta—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.340.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.341.7", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bell (seated and covered)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bell (seated and covered)", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.341.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.353.3", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "se the debate. I must not allow myself to be distracted by my strong feelings on that point, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I shall restrict myself, as you have ruled, to a brief explanatory statement on why some clauses should be taken on the Floor of the House. We are very worried about the Government's behaviour this evening. We have been subjected to a break-down in discussion through the usual channels.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.353.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.353.3", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "corporation tax. We prefer to debate that matter by including clause 19. Similarly, we are happy that the clauses on furnished holiday lettings and taxation of woodlands should be discussed in Committee. Chapter II deals with capital allowances. The Government propose to debate clause 57 alone, but we should like to press that clauses 57, 58, 59 and 60 be taken together because they are a package.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.353.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-10", "file": "debates1984-04-10a.xml", "sha256": "c57982379bdcdc43", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.356.4", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "I am in your hands, of course, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I was seeking to make a brief explanatory statement on why some clauses should be added to the motion. I have covered 69 clauses in just over 10 minutes. Of course, if you feel that I am taking too much time on each of those clauses, I must accept your ruling. I certainly do not want to lose your good will. I was explaining why I thought—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-10a.356.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.376.13", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "I think we would all agree—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.376.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.388.0", "colnum": "388", "heading": "Foreign Affairs Council", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "The answer to the hon. Gentleman is that, despite the quality and style of his running commentary, we are conducting the negotiations with a view to securing a successful conclusion of the negotiations —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.388.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.398.2", "colnum": "398", "heading": "Scottish Anglers' Trust", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "Yes, Mr. Deputy Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.398.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.399.0", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Scottish Anglers' Trust", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": " the subject of the first protection order. I have not heard of a case in which a working-class constituent has crawled through the grass to beg for permission to fish in any river. The hon. Gentleman talks nonsense. The fact that it is entertaining nonsense is beside the point. He has just delivered a vicious attack on the Labour Government's legislation, which was perfectly sound and works well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.399.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.405.2", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I am making one simple point: this main, simple proposition has been pressed upon successive Governments ever since then, and this Government have decided to act. I was asked a moment ago about the GLC. Yes, there was wide support for the GLC when it was brought into existence. I supported it myself and I am on record as having said so. One has to ask: what has happened since then?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.405.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.406.2", "colnum": "406", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Another quango.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "sures. We are considering a number of such measures. I can today announce that it is our intention to include in the main Bill provision for a statutory basis for collective funding by all the London boroughs or, as the case may be, in each metropolitan area by all the districts. This should ensure that bodies serving the interests of a wider area can continue to look for funding on a wider basis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.406.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I think that many ratepayers—I know this from correspondence that I have received—deeply resent the fact that so much of their money is being spent on political propaganda. As for the advertisement with the picture of Mr. Livingstone, to which reference has just been made, let the country remember that he usurped the leadership of the Labour majority on the GLC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "nce that I have received—deeply resent the fact that so much of their money is being spent on political propaganda. As for the advertisement with the picture of Mr. Livingstone, to which reference has just been made, let the country remember that he usurped the leadership of the Labour majority on the GLC. [Interruption.] He did that within 24 hours. Nobody elected him to be the leader of the GLC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.407.1", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "t that so much of their money is being spent on political propaganda. As for the advertisement with the picture of Mr. Livingstone, to which reference has just been made, let the country remember that he usurped the leadership of the Labour majority on the GLC. [Interruption.] He did that within 24 hours. Nobody elected him to be the leader of the GLC. [Interruption.] I want to make a third point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.407.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.407.3", "colnum": "407", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "The Labour party went before the electorate of London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.407.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.409.6", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I think that I am entitled to point out that the official Opposition's amendment complains that they are being asked to approve the Bill without the detailed arrangements being known, and I should have thought it would be helpful—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.409.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.409.6", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I think that I am entitled to point out that the official Opposition's amendment complains that they are being asked to approve the Bill without the detailed arrangements being known, and I should have thought it would be helpful— [Interruption.] I am coming to the elections in a moment. I should have thought it would be helpful to both sides of the House to have the announcement of the decisions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.409.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.409.6", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " amendment complains that they are being asked to approve the Bill without the detailed arrangements being known, and I should have thought it would be helpful— [Interruption.] I am coming to the elections in a moment. I should have thought it would be helpful to both sides of the House to have the announcement of the decisions. [Interruption.] Before I come to the Bill, may I make one more point?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.409.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.409.9", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "l be made and the 1985 elections will take place in the ordinary way. If the main Bill fails at a later stage, an order will be made to restore the elections at the earliest sensible date. Clauses 2 to 5 deal with the elections themselves. There were three courses open to us. The first would have been, contrary to all the precedents, to have allowed the elections to take place in the ordinary way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.409.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.409.9", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "a later stage, an order will be made to restore the elections at the earliest sensible date. Clauses 2 to 5 deal with the elections themselves. There were three courses open to us. The first would have been, contrary to all the precedents, to have allowed the elections to take place in the ordinary way. [Interruption.] Perhaps the House will allow me to explain. That really would have been absurd.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.409.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.410.6", "colnum": "410", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "n the substance of the issue. I do not see how we could responsibly consider letting the 1985 elections proceed in such circumstances. We have been widely supported on the matter in the responsible press. The leading article in the Financial Times today makes the sensible point—as did The Times on Saturday—that, in accordance with precedent, elections are cancelled when there is any restructuring.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.410.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.411.1", "colnum": "411", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend reinforces my point. What we are proposing is, I believe, fair and democratic.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.411.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.412.1", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ems probable that control will change. Whereas in the 1981 GLC election Labour won a small majority, after the 1982 London borough elections—the later elections—the majority of the London boroughs were Conservative controlled. If one accepts the practical point that for the 11-month transitional period the successor councils should be in charge, the change of control in London necessarily follows.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.412.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.412.3", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "Let me make it quite clear that this action is perfectly in accordance with precedent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.412.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.412.3", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ies in the interim period. This time, because we are abolishing an upper tier and devolving powers to a lower tier, the lower tier authorities already exist. That is why, unlike previous reorganisations, we have a choice. That is good, as we have a choice about whether to cancel the elections and let the existing authorities run on, with all the possibilities of hassle and obstruction, or whether—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.412.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.413.3", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " If the House accepts the Bill, I strongly hope that wiser counsels will prevail. Nevertheless, it is right that, in clause 7, we take powers to require authorities and their staff to make the necessary information available. One consequence of the boycott of discussions has been that we have not yet had such information as we need to make a reasonably accurate assessment of the costs and savings.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.413.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.418.2", "colnum": "418", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Elected authorities.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "With respect, the hon. Gentleman has just said that. He quoted the two schedules. This is the heart of the argument. New authorities were being created.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.418.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.425.3", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "It is a bad Bill because it is an unnecessary Bill. There is another course open to the Government, which I shall discuss later. It is a bad Bill because it is an unprecedented Bill in this area. I must appeal to my right hon. Friend not to go on saying that it follows precedent and that the crucial issue is cancelling elections. The crucial issue is what happens after the elections are cancelled—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.425.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.427.3", "colnum": "427", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "I shall use the neutral term \"the alliance\". The alliance could choose to go into coalition with the Conservatives, on condition that the alliance got one of the nominated seats and the Conservative the other. What happens to the 28 Labour members who remain unrepresented? The alliance might choose to go into coalition with the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.427.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.440.1", "colnum": "440", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "rking people to those events. Democracy, I repeat, is a class issue. The ruling class, and their representatives in the Tory Cabinet, are in favour of democracy when they think that it can influence the closing of pits, or when they think that people such as Woodrow Wyatt can help to influence decisions on postal ballots and trade union elections. We are the only consistent defenders of democracy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.440.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.443.5", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "The aims of the reserve powers and of the powers in the forthcoming Bill will be in line with the future needs of local government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.443.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.458.4", "colnum": "458", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roland Boyes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roland Boyes", "preceding_text": "heir mistress in case their red boxes and chauffeur-driven Austin Princesses are taken from them. I suggest that they consider tonight the bigger sacrifice made by many of our forefathers to create the democratic system that Conservative Members are busy dismantling. To support that point, I shall quote from an article written by George Tremlett, OBE, a leading Tory councillor in the Morning Star.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.458.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.469.0", "colnum": "469", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. William Waldegrave)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. William Waldegrave)", "preceding_text": " the bits of the 1960s \"big is beautiful\" reorganisation mania—namely, the metropolitan counties and the GLC. Practically no one—including most of those responsible for inventing them—who has studied the history of local government since the war regards these very brief additions to England's local government scene as other than failures. My right hon. Friend the Member for Guildford (Mr. Howell)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.469.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.472.6", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "llors for another year, for appointed they would be. That is my answer to the hon. Member for South Shields. They would not have been elected, and they would have no mandate. They would be appointed by my right hon. Friend for an extra year for which they had not been elected. They would have no mandate. To do that would be wrong. I have to say to my hon. Friends that it would be extremely foolish", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.472.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "If a Labour Government were to carry out their pledge to abolish the counties—about which we have heard rather a lot—and if the successor districts in a particular area were more Labour-controlled than the previous council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.475.1", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"] If Labour Members stopped bellowing like demented sheep, they might hear the answer. If the Labour party abolished the county councils and the succeeding districts had a different balance of political power, they would have a different balance of political power. The hon. Gentleman is a brilliant political analyst. There is one thing that is unprecedented about the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.475.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.475.3", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "If there is one thing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.475.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.475.5", "colnum": "475", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "ready mentioned proposals to meet points raised by those anxious to protect some of the good things—and of course there have been good things—done by the metropolitan councils. Land reclamation has been mentioned, and I pay tribute to some of that work. Good work has also been done on the arts, historic buildings, sport and on the housing mobility scheme in London. We will look after those things—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.475.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.476.1", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman plays on a weak wicket there. First, he should advise his hon. Friends and his colleagues in the metropolitan councils to allow the Government to talk to the employees—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.476.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.488.4", "colnum": "488", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "I shall shortly come even closer to the obligations of the Home Office to make inquiries before taking any fees. That is a matter of major anxiety. I hope that the hon. Gentleman will contain himself. The Daily Mail has set up a trust fund which is believed to be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.488.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.489.2", "colnum": "489", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "SEVERAL HON. MEMBERS: \"If.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "the point is very simply that if that has happened, if this lady has said that her sister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.489.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-11", "file": "debates1984-04-11a.xml", "sha256": "896517bcb601b3b6", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.497.0", "colnum": "497", "heading": "Orders of the Day — British Nationality", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "Is the hon. Gentleman aware that in the part of the city of Leicester that I represent many people cannot get citizenship now? They include Mr. Vasani, who is blind and unemployed, and Mr. Ruparelia, who has lost his job.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-11a.497.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-12", "file": "debates1984-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "984d7e8b928d2b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-12a.519.5", "colnum": "519", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes there is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "As I made clear in the debate, there is no evidence whatsoever of what the hon. Gentleman has said—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-12a.519.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-12", "file": "debates1984-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "984d7e8b928d2b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-12a.521.2", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "learned Friend for that answer. Will he convey the deep thanks of the House to the Association of Chief Police Officers for the way in which police throughout the country have managed to make it possible for miners who wish to go to work to exercise their right to do so? Will he also convey the sympathy of the House to the 57 police officers injured to date, and, finally, will he look at the cost—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-12a.521.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-12", "file": "debates1984-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "984d7e8b928d2b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-12a.523.7", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "preceding_text": "When the Prime Minister next sees the Queen—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-12a.523.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-12", "file": "debates1984-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "984d7e8b928d2b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-12a.523.7", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "preceding_text": "When the Prime Minister next sees the Queen— [Interruption.] will she tell the Queen that when she is no longer Prime Minister she does not intend to accept a hereditary peerage? Or did she reintroduce grossly undemocratic hereditary peerages to guarantee a future for her son when she is no longer Prime Minister?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-12a.523.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-12", "file": "debates1984-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "984d7e8b928d2b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-12a.525.7", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that Amnesty International—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-12a.525.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-12", "file": "debates1984-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "984d7e8b928d2b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-12a.527.1", "colnum": "527", "heading": "Royal Navy (Guided Weapons)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State for Defence Procurement (Mr. Geoffrey Pattie)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State for Defence Procurement (Mr. Geoffrey Pattie)", "preceding_text": "will be payable in sterling. The Government are convinced that this decision is right for the Royal Navy and right for the taxpayer, and is also entirely satisfactory in employment terms for British industry. In addition, I am also glad to be able to inform the House that today we have authorised the placing of a firm contract with British Aerospace for the full development and initial production—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-12a.527.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-12", "file": "debates1984-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "984d7e8b928d2b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-12a.532.4", "colnum": "532", "heading": "Royal Navy (Guided Weapons)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pattie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pattie", "preceding_text": "Without personalising matters too much, those in Washington who have had to do battle with me in the past on other British systems would be somewhat amused to hear me described in those terms.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-12a.532.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-12", "file": "debates1984-04-12a.xml", "sha256": "984d7e8b928d2b08", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-12a.590.1", "colnum": "590", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing and Building Control Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "ic sector it ceases to be available as housing accommodation. When an elderly person buys his house, it changes ownership. That is all. The local authority concerned has a capital receipt. We discussed whether it was right to discriminate against the disabled. The House must now consider the extent to which, if at all, it is proper to discriminate against those who happen to be of pensionable age.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-12a.590.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-25", "file": "debates1984-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "a500f5bb58b17444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.736.2", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. It was demonstated here today that about 35,000 miners in the industry are working — [Interruption.] — that about 35,000 to 40,000 miners are working in the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.736.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-25", "file": "debates1984-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "a500f5bb58b17444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.736.5", "colnum": "736", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"How do you know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "Is it not clear that, despite everything that the Government and Mr. MacGregor have said, they have totally failed to persuade a vast majority in the NUM to accept—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.736.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-25", "file": "debates1984-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "a500f5bb58b17444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.738.5", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shaw", "preceding_text": "That is not a matter involving this question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.738.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-25", "file": "debates1984-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "a500f5bb58b17444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.739.2", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Libyan People's Bureau (Shooting Incident)", "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": "t any warning, shots were fired from an automatic weapon from a window on the first floor of the bureau. Twelve people were injured and were taken to hospital, including a woman police constable, Yvonne Fletcher, who, as the House knows, died shortly afterwards. I am sure that all hon. Members will wish to be associated with the message of deepest sympathy that I sent to Yvonne Fletcher's parents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.739.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-25", "file": "debates1984-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "a500f5bb58b17444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.751.8", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Libyan People's Bureau (Shooting Incident)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "to do so, and it is reasonable that we should be able to probe him on some of those matters. He has already widened his statement to the issues to which I have referred but did not ask about in detail. My request is legitimate in that, when you, Mr. Speaker, intend to ask the spokesman for the Labour party to speak again, it is not unreasonable on some of these issues that some of us may be asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.751.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-25", "file": "debates1984-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "a500f5bb58b17444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.760.1", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "Clearly the hon. Gentleman does not know about the performance of the British Transport Docks Board before it was privatised. If he goes to the Library and examines its profit or productivity record—however he wishes to measure it—he will see that it always had a fair measure of success. The hon. Gentleman is clearly not from a port area —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.760.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-25", "file": "debates1984-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "a500f5bb58b17444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.763.1", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "e company to Hoverspeed, also sat on the board of Hoverspeed. I should have thought that that was a definite conflict of interests. BRIL is also in charge of selling Sealink. There have been low earnings and losses in Sealink that can only be detrimental to its sale value at this time. That is why I referred the matter to the Public Accounts Committee. It is a scandalous disposal of public assets.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.763.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-25", "file": "debates1984-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "a500f5bb58b17444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.768.0", "colnum": "768", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "ent financial support and inadequate investment\". The private sector has been investing with great vigour, and I am amazed to see the Opposition motion trying to stop it. When I announced earlier this month the abolition of section 9 of the Harbours Act 1964, which has enabled Governments to stop investment in ports, the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull, East had the temerity to table a motion —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.768.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-25", "file": "debates1984-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "a500f5bb58b17444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "ent. a year. Rural bus services have declined inexorably since the 1950s, under Governments of both colours. Since 1978 rural bus mileage has declined by some 2 per cent. per annum, and passengers by some 4 per cent. per annum. That means that there is a better service. I believe that Labour Members should look at the innovative ideas on rural transport that are happening in some of the counties —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-25", "file": "debates1984-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "a500f5bb58b17444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.788.1", "colnum": "788", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Parris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Parris", "preceding_text": "—and we will be able to charge them for it. When we can do that, we shall be able to charge a competitive price for buses and tubes, because it will be much more expensive to travel by car.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.788.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-25", "file": "debates1984-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "a500f5bb58b17444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.790.1", "colnum": "790", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "ore to it than that. If we want a transport system that integrates rail, road, freight, air and port services, does not recent transport legislation conflict with the Trade Descriptions Acts 1968 and 1972? If the Government win tonight, the country will lose, because we are living in a changing world with changing technology. There has been a 70 per cent. contribution by the work force since 1950—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.790.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-25", "file": "debates1984-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "a500f5bb58b17444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.818.3", "colnum": "818", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "they build so well.\" I am sure that the hon. Gentleman will join me in being pleased at that. The hon. Gentleman asked for assurances that Sealink services to the Isle of Wight and elsewhere will not be cut. For a long time Sealink has operated on a fully commercial remit. Therefore, there is no reason why a change to privatisation should have any effect on the services operated by the management.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.818.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-25", "file": "debates1984-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "a500f5bb58b17444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.838.0", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tim Renton (Mid-Sussex)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tim Renton (Mid-Sussex)", "preceding_text": "ansard reports of debates that take place after 11 o'clock at night—they will come to the conclusion that there was a great deal of posturing on the Third Reading of the Trade Union Bill. Everyone must realise that if the strike in the coal industry develops further, it is likely at some stage to cause a radical change in our trade union law which will go beyond any of the provisions in the Bill —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.838.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-25", "file": "debates1984-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "a500f5bb58b17444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.841.1", "colnum": "841", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman nods. The Bill will stop that procedure. Charlie will not dare to come along, because —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.841.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-25", "file": "debates1984-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "a500f5bb58b17444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Wrigglesworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Wrigglesworth", "preceding_text": "Mr. Deputy Speaker —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-25", "file": "debates1984-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "a500f5bb58b17444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Wrigglesworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Wrigglesworth", "preceding_text": "lear in Committee and I hope that Labour Members will now accept that it is not a new principle. The question before us today is whether the Bill will improve the operation of the trade union movement and whether it is right in principle. I have no doubt that the extension of trade union members' right to ballot should be supported by the House. That is why we voted for the Bill on Second Reading.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-25", "file": "debates1984-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "a500f5bb58b17444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Wrigglesworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Wrigglesworth", "preceding_text": "our Members wish to speak on Third Reading, I am sure that the House will look forward to hearing them, but I hope that you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, will remind them that their comments should be made not from a sedentary position but as contributions later in the debate. We believe that there is a very powerful case for an extension of the principle of one member one vote in the trade union movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-25", "file": "debates1984-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "a500f5bb58b17444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.843.0", "colnum": "843", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Wrigglesworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Wrigglesworth", "preceding_text": ". As was demonstrated on Report, even the National Union of Mineworkers, which has a long tradition of balloting which many people admire, has a system of workplace balloting which is open to abuse and manipulation and is not as correct and open to scrutiny as ballots carried out in the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunication, and Plumbing Union and the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.843.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-25", "file": "debates1984-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "a500f5bb58b17444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.857.7", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sweatshops", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "r of fire prevention officers, as proposed by the Labour Group on the Leicestershire County Council. This was blocked by the Tory and Liberal groups. There have been several fires within the textile industry in Leicester recently. When will there be a major tragedy? We pray to God that there will be none, but, if there is, the burden that rests upon the Minister and the Government is a mighty one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.857.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-25", "file": "debates1984-04-25a.xml", "sha256": "a500f5bb58b17444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.862.3", "colnum": "862", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Sweatshops", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "If the hon. and learned Gentleman will listen this time, he will hear what I have to say. The Government have said that they are looking at the whole question of wages councils.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-25a.862.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-26", "file": "debates1984-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "e18effe52542a1fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-26a.879.0", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not think that the percentages are relevant —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-26a.879.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-26", "file": "debates1984-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "e18effe52542a1fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-26a.883.3", "colnum": "883", "heading": "\"The Observer\"", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "Mr. Rowland's attempt to muzzle and denigrate The Observer's editor constituted an inhibition if not a restraint on the editor's freedom … they constitute improper proprietorial interference in the accurate presentation of news and the free expression of opinion\"? Does the right hon. Gentleman agree? Does the right hon. Gentleman also agree that Mr. Rowland's further threats to close down —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-26a.883.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-26", "file": "debates1984-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "e18effe52542a1fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-26a.971.3", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "We are praying against the regulations for three fundamental reasons. First and foremost, the Opposition unreservedly condemn the practice of huge increases in Health Service charges, which has been one of the worst hallmarks of the Tory Government. We condemn that practice because its completely undermines one of the guiding principles of the NHS —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-26a.971.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-26", "file": "debates1984-04-26a.xml", "sha256": "e18effe52542a1fd", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-26a.973.3", "colnum": "973", "heading": "Orders of the Day — National Health Service", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "ion charge is already in the pipeline for next year? I demand that he rejects that assertion if it is untrue. By constrast to the Government's appalling record on Health Service charges, I should like to make it clear that it is the Opposition's policy not merely to halt the enormous increase in Health Service charges brought about by the Tories but to reduce them and ultimately to phase them out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-26a.973.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-30", "file": "debates1984-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "fc9d6f2d8f568a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-30a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "it be? The number of businesses that will close down or lose so much turnover that they will cease to be registered for VAT must have been calculated. Will the Government claim that they will all become so small that they will dip under the VAT threshold and that none will close down? The Government must have done some work on that, or they would not claim that there will be a small net reduction.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-30a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-30", "file": "debates1984-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "fc9d6f2d8f568a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-30a.21.1", "colnum": "21", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": " that none will close down? The Government must have done some work on that, or they would not claim that there will be a small net reduction. [Interruption.] I am interested in the loss of jobs, but I suspect that the hon. Member for Northampton, North (Mr. Marlow) is not. That is why he is sitting on that side of the House. We are talking about the loss of jobs. That is what the debate is about.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-30a.21.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-30", "file": "debates1984-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "fc9d6f2d8f568a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-30a.33.0", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jim Lester", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jim Lester", "preceding_text": "rm the north or middle of the country. A survey of convenience food shops, including fish and chip shops, would show that the three categories—fish and chip, Chinese and Kentucky fried chicken shops—are spread throughout the country, so it is unfair to suggest that this tax is a further attack on the north. One ought to spring to the defence of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-30a.33.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-30", "file": "debates1984-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "fc9d6f2d8f568a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-30a.45.0", "colnum": "45", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Howarth", "preceding_text": "way food shops in our constituencies. They are small businesses. We want to see them thrive, and we are concerned that they should do so. However, while it is true that many of these shops are small businesses, there are still a number of multiple chains run as franchises but which are substantial companies, such as the McDonalds chain, which is one that I and my family frequent from time to time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-30a.45.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-30", "file": "debates1984-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "fc9d6f2d8f568a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-30a.60.0", "colnum": "60", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the Chief Secretary will recognise that the fish and chip shop in Scotland sells a much wider range of goods than similar shops in other areas, including products such as black pudding, which is almost unique to Scotland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-30a.60.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-30", "file": "debates1984-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "fc9d6f2d8f568a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-30a.63.1", "colnum": "63", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "n. Friend the Chancellor is, therefore, entitled to extend the base of VAT in this instance. I hope that the Committee, on reflection after a thorough debate, will take note of that point. One or two technical and important matters were raised, especially by my right hon. Friend the Member for Blackpool, South (Sir P. Blaker), who was supported by my hon. Friend the Member for Wyre (Sir W. Clegg).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-30a.63.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-30", "file": "debates1984-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "fc9d6f2d8f568a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-30a.96.3", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chapman", "preceding_text": "call a reverse corporation tax announcement and said, \"From this financial year all building work—repairs, maintenance, alterations, extensions and new work—will be rated at 3 per cent., which will increase to 6 per cent. next year and to 9 per cent. the year after,\" or at worst he could have said, \"It will be 5 per cent. this year, 10 per cent. next year and the full 15 per cent. the year after\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-30a.96.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-30", "file": "debates1984-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "fc9d6f2d8f568a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-30a.112.2", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "preceding_text": "be confused by thinking of people who have contractual arrangements. I am talking not about those but about people who were perhaps considering entering into contractual arrangements and on the basis of the 1 June date decided not to proceed or even changed their arrangements. If they now found that the date will be 1 January, they would say, \"If only I had know that, I could have done something\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-30a.112.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-30", "file": "debates1984-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "fc9d6f2d8f568a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-30a.132.0", "colnum": "132", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": "explanations, clarification and assistance to those who will have to operate VAT for the first time. What is being done to produce explanatory notes, notices and other material in the main ethnic minority languages? What steps are being taken to provide information in the main ethnic minority newspapers about the impact of VAT, how it is to be operated, as well as information about other aspects —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-30a.132.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-30", "file": "debates1984-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "fc9d6f2d8f568a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-30a.133.1", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "preclude the operator from being registered or trying to deregister, but would take him, or part of his supplies, out of charge to tax. That would create considerable administrative difficulties. I do not like resisting an amendment on that ground, but I must emphasise the difficulty. The charge of VAT on take-away foods will advantage to a small degree the cash flow position of small businesses —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-30a.133.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-30", "file": "debates1984-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "fc9d6f2d8f568a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-30a.153.0", "colnum": "153", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "preceding_text": " Over the years that level has crept up to £7,100. The Tory Government of those days accepted that it was important to distinguish between those two types of income. They believed that the Government should look more kindly on people who had gone out to work to earn their wages than on those who acquired wealth by accident or inheritance and needed only to wait at home while the money mounted up.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-30a.153.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-04-30", "file": "debates1984-04-30a.xml", "sha256": "fc9d6f2d8f568a38", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-30a.155.0", "colnum": "155", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS:\"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Rees", "preceding_text": "I—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-04-30a.155.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-01", "file": "debates1984-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "eca02ee9aad1ddc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-01a.175.3", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "I saw those comments. I understand that we are about to have some elections this week. That, I think, is the only possible explanation that one can give. It was a most disgraceful attack on professional statisticians in my Department who are responsible for producing the figures and who have given the most clear evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-01a.175.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-01", "file": "debates1984-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "eca02ee9aad1ddc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-01a.187.7", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that the eyes of the nation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-01a.187.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-01", "file": "debates1984-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "eca02ee9aad1ddc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-01a.193.2", "colnum": "193", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "I think the hon. Gentleman's question should be addressed to the trade union leaders concerned, as they are inviting their members to disrupt children's education. I do not think that arbitration is the answer —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-01a.193.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-01", "file": "debates1984-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "eca02ee9aad1ddc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-01a.203.2", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William Clark", "preceding_text": "f the British people have the greatest admiration for the way in which the police force handled the St. James's square affair? Is he further aware that, given all the difficulties surrounding the Libyan episode and bearing in mind the number of British nationals in Libya, he has earned the admiration of many people for the cool, calm and restrained way in which he has handled it? Having said that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-01a.203.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-01", "file": "debates1984-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "eca02ee9aad1ddc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-01a.205.4", "colnum": "205", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "The answer is that either the hon. Gentleman has secured very special privileges from the airlines that he patronises, or his bag is significantly different in size from that of many diplomatic bags, which can amount to actual crates. Whether on diplomatic and other grounds it is appropriate to X-ray diplomatic bags is a matter for my right hon. and learned Friend the Foreign Secretary—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-01a.205.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-01", "file": "debates1984-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "eca02ee9aad1ddc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-01a.212.0", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "Both The Times and the Daily Telegraph have described the episode to which the Foreign Secretary and the Home Secretary have addressed themselves as a humiliating defeat for Britain. I think that that must be the view of the majority of hon. Members on both sides of the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-01a.212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-01", "file": "debates1984-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "eca02ee9aad1ddc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-01a.212.0", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Healey", "preceding_text": "g defeat for Britain. I think that that must be the view of the majority of hon. Members on both sides of the House—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"] I think that the Foreign Secretary and his predecessors must accept a large share of the responsibility for this humiliation. The miserable story that the Foreign Secretary has recounted would, in a more robust age, have been regarded as grounds for impeachment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-01a.212.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-01", "file": "debates1984-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "eca02ee9aad1ddc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-01a.215.4", "colnum": "215", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "Is there any truth in the stories widely reported in the newspapers and on radio and television today that the American Government are approaching their allies with a view to co-operation in illegal action designed to overthrow the Gaddafi regime? There have been reports on the radio this morning from America that a proposal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-01a.215.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-01", "file": "debates1984-05-01a.xml", "sha256": "eca02ee9aad1ddc0", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-01a.271.0", "colnum": "271", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about the Opposition Benches?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Austin Mitchell", "preceding_text": "It is extraordinary that yesterday, when we discussed important social issues, so few Conservative Members attended. It is even more extraordinary that fewer have attended today, when we are discussing a question that is of central and paramount interest to business—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-01a.271.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-02", "file": "debates1984-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "581cb47b4ab2472e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-02a.332.6", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ward", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend remember that some of us view all regional aid with considerable scepticism, not least because it has distorted management decisions —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-02a.332.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-02", "file": "debates1984-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "581cb47b4ab2472e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-02a.346.14", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-02a.346.14"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-02", "file": "debates1984-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "581cb47b4ab2472e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-02a.347.6", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I give the hon. Gentleman one more warning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-02a.347.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-02", "file": "debates1984-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "581cb47b4ab2472e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-02a.421.0", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "It will be replaced or supplemented with the more positive consumer protection aimed at what really matters—the quality of the goods and services provided.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-02a.421.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-02", "file": "debates1984-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "581cb47b4ab2472e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-02a.422.0", "colnum": "422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "I do not believe that large numbers of errors will be made by qualified or unqualified people. I do not believe that there will be any dramatic changes of that kind. Generally speaking, if an error is made in dispensing, whether by a registered or an unregistered parctitioner, a person who has had glasses before will notice when he puts them on if they slip off his nose or give him double vision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-02a.422.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-02", "file": "debates1984-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "581cb47b4ab2472e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-02a.439.2", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "a question of priorities. He also asked me directly what my priorities would be. If we could afford increased expenditure on social security, I should not answer that question off the top of my head now. I should go through the list. Indeed, earlier today I listed certain priorities that needed to be tackled. They were general views which may be changed after discussion with colleagues and others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-02a.439.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-02", "file": "debates1984-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "581cb47b4ab2472e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-02a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "s accepting treatment by a responsible, qualified doctor who has access to notes and knows what he is doing. At present 20 per cent. of people covered by general practitioner services are heavily covered by deputising services. We must accept that they are here to stay, but we must ensure that they function properly, however far they may have come from the ideal of the old-fashioned family doctor.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-02a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-02", "file": "debates1984-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "581cb47b4ab2472e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-02a.473.0", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Beckett", "preceding_text": "I shall try not to detain the House long. The Minister seemed a little hurt that people did not recognise his generosity—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-02a.473.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-02", "file": "debates1984-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "581cb47b4ab2472e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-02a.478.4", "colnum": "478", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-02a.478.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-02", "file": "debates1984-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "581cb47b4ab2472e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-02a.479.0", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "To have such a conversion I should need to be blinded. I shall follow the example of the hon. Member for Roxburgh and Berwickshire (Mr. Kirkwood) and be brief. In considering this matter, we must compare the financial position of the pensioner today with what he was getting in 1978.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-02a.479.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-02", "file": "debates1984-05-02a.xml", "sha256": "581cb47b4ab2472e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-02a.479.1", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health and Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Penhaligon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Penhaligon", "preceding_text": "The Minister gave the standard response, but as it is nearly 1 o'clock in the morning and nobody is listening —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-02a.479.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-03", "file": "debates1984-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "e1c8d3665c9441a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-03a.540.3", "colnum": "540", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": "Given the widespread sentiment in the House that there should be an independent inquiry into the circumstances associated with the killing —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-03a.540.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-03", "file": "debates1984-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "e1c8d3665c9441a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-03a.554.1", "colnum": "554", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "removing. There is no point in the Government making the perennial cry that we find in handouts from Central Office; the cry that the Conservatives have been making since 1979, \"You put it on, yah-boo,\" as if that were a justification for having retained the national insurance surcharge for all this time. It was put on in 1976 largely as a result of the situation that existed when the IMF came in.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-03a.554.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-03", "file": "debates1984-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "e1c8d3665c9441a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-03a.566.0", "colnum": "566", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Raymond Gower", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Raymond Gower", "preceding_text": "I start by emphasising that the hon. Member for Stoke-on-Trent, Central (Mr. Fisher), supported by his hon. Friend the Member for Wrexham (Dr. Marek), said that the Labour party was in favour of the measure. However, he expressed great doubts about it because the Government—especially the Chancellor—cannot prescribe with certainty —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-03a.566.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-03", "file": "debates1984-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "e1c8d3665c9441a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-03a.571.3", "colnum": "571", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "The problem with the hon. Gentleman is that he so often comes in two thirds of the way through a series of debates. Clearly he was not here for the debate on the amendment that was moved earlier by the Opposition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-03a.571.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-05-03", "file": "debates1984-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "e1c8d3665c9441a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-03a.605.5", "colnum": "605", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cockeram", "preceding_text": "In view of the unsatisfactory nature of the Minister's reply I intend to pursue the matter further with my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer and with my colleagues. I shall consider putting down further amendments or new clauses on Report. I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-03a.605.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-03", "file": "debates1984-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "e1c8d3665c9441a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-03a.624.0", "colnum": "624", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 98", "cue_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he—reading his speech?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "preceding_text": "resholds. Capital taxation must be rethought in a more effective way. That is an answer to the hon. Gentleman. More will be forthcoming in the years to come. The hon. Gentleman must try to make what use he can of that. The Government's claim is that the highest rates are badly out of line with comparable rates abroad. The hon. Member for Corby, who is still out of the Chamber, made plenty of that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-03a.624.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-03", "file": "debates1984-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "e1c8d3665c9441a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-03a.628.1", "colnum": "628", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 98", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": " defeated what I saw as one of CTT's main objectives, which was to shake up capital and to get it to change hands. I wanted to give it more vigour, and to put it into new hands, so getting the dead wood out. But that objective was not helped by the exemptions. Since 1979, the Conservative party has been in office, and we have had the sordid sad spectacle of it taking the teeth and guts out of CTT.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-03a.628.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-03", "file": "debates1984-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "e1c8d3665c9441a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-03a.631.4", "colnum": "631", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 98", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We? Who are 'We'?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "While we are thinking about potential reviews, may I insinuate the thought into the heads of those on the Treasury Bench that we on these Benches —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-03a.631.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-03", "file": "debates1984-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "e1c8d3665c9441a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-03a.632.7", "colnum": "632", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 98", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "No. I know that the hon. Gentleman gets a little over-excited in these debates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-03a.632.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-03", "file": "debates1984-05-03a.xml", "sha256": "e1c8d3665c9441a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-03a.633.1", "colnum": "633", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Clause 98", "cue_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "preceding_text": "here would not need to be an annual debate, if the Government had the courage to carry out the commitment that the Prime Minister gave in opposition and repealed CTT altogether. The Government do not have the nerve to do that, because they know how much opposition there would be throughout the country. They prefer to hold an annual debate at a late hour and to hope that the public will not notice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-03a.633.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-08", "file": "debates1984-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c1fcd45d3887accf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-08a.717.5", "colnum": "717", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I regret to have to inform the House of the death of Ralph Bonner Pink, esquire, CBE, VRD, Member for Portsmouth, South, and I desire, on behalf of the House, to express the sense of the loss we have sustained and our sympathy with the relatives of the hon. Member.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-08a.717.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-08", "file": "debates1984-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c1fcd45d3887accf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-08a.721.0", "colnum": "721", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "That is a very entrepreuneurial and farsighted scheme by the local counc—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-08a.721.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-08", "file": "debates1984-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c1fcd45d3887accf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-08a.725.2", "colnum": "725", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "I do not want to get too deeply drawn into that issue, because it is a matter for my hon. Friend the Minister with responsibilities for sport and not one of my ministerial responsibilities. However, I shall hazard one remark—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-08a.725.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-08", "file": "debates1984-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c1fcd45d3887accf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-08a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "preceding_text": "May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on her courageous initiative in inviting the Prime Minister of South Africa to Britain?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-08a.732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-08", "file": "debates1984-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c1fcd45d3887accf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-08a.732.0", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Lloyd", "preceding_text": "May I congratulate my right hon. Friend on her courageous initiative in inviting the Prime Minister of South Africa to Britain? [Interruption] . Will she suggest to her more vociferous critics that they should examine—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-08a.732.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-08", "file": "debates1984-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c1fcd45d3887accf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-08a.732.3", "colnum": "732", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I doubt whether Mr. Botha would do it in quite the language that the right hon. Gentleman has used—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-08a.732.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-08", "file": "debates1984-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c1fcd45d3887accf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-08a.756.3", "colnum": "756", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY DOCUMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr.Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.Brittan", "preceding_text": "I must stress that it is not an obligation not to readvertise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-08a.756.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-08", "file": "debates1984-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c1fcd45d3887accf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-08a.770.0", "colnum": "770", "heading": "EUROPEAN COMMUNITY DOCUMENTS", "cue_speaker": "Mr.Tim Brinton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.Tim Brinton", "preceding_text": " pm. If from the Radio Times and TV Times we worked out the proportion of foreign and non-EEC material during those times, we would see a different picture. That is what people are really talking about when they refer to that magic figure quota. A great deal is already broadcast and received in that popular way. Last night I was riveted by BBC 1, as, I suspect, was any hon. Member who was at home.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-08a.770.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-08", "file": "debates1984-05-08a.xml", "sha256": "c1fcd45d3887accf", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-08a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "European Regional Development Fund", "cue_speaker": "Mr.Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.Budgen", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend and I have had this argument many times. That is why it may well be that I tend more towards the Gladstonian element in our party and he more to the—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-08a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-09", "file": "debates1984-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "75c89fe1084c552c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.867.3", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Laughter", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "blems of the city to slide into chaos? Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that the appalling difficulties that the people of Liverpool now face will become unimaginably worse if the city is allowed to slide into bankruptcy? I very much hope that the right hon. Gentleman will meet the leaders of the Liverpool city council and if I and my hon. Friends can be of any assistance in those discussions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.867.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-09", "file": "debates1984-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "75c89fe1084c552c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.870.4", "colnum": "870", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "If the Secretary of State—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.870.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-09", "file": "debates1984-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "75c89fe1084c552c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.879.8", "colnum": "879", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "preceding_text": "I guarantee that when I ask the Secretary of State what the balance was he will tell me that most of them were against the measures, because in the local elections in my area, as I mentioned earlier—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.879.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-09", "file": "debates1984-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "75c89fe1084c552c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.901.0", "colnum": "901", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cowans", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Unfair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cowans", "preceding_text": "ck a long time and sometimes words come back and we have to eat them. At the Tory party conference in October 1983, the Secretary of State said: I am a Tory\"— I think that was true— and I have been brought up as a Tory\"— I think that was true— and I believe that the burden of proof is upon the man who advocates change, and if he does not satisfy that burden of proof then change should not be made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.901.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-09", "file": "debates1984-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "75c89fe1084c552c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.908.0", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "ded to give such councils the opportunity to row themselves in. That argument is flawed because they are contemplating giving the power of the present GLC for one year to people who were elected to a totally different body. That can be compared with hon. Members starting their term of office here and ending up serving their time in Strasbourg, which could hardly give our electors the best service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.908.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-09", "file": "debates1984-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "75c89fe1084c552c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.924.1", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "With respect, the figures were spelt out in a written answer from one of my hon. Friends in the DHSS which showed that there has been a continuous reduction in the proportion of NHS costs that go on administration. That reorganisation—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.924.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-09", "file": "debates1984-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "75c89fe1084c552c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.927.1", "colnum": "927", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "preceding_text": "I said that Mr. Carvel was quite capable of writing accurately from the memo. The Times summed up the Government's attitude in a leader on 13 April. It said: This let's-get-on-with-it approach suits the Thatcher style; Am I allowed to say that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.927.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-09", "file": "debates1984-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "75c89fe1084c552c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.929.1", "colnum": "929", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that in a moment, when I shall read some rather nasty things about the Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.929.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-09", "file": "debates1984-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "75c89fe1084c552c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.930.2", "colnum": "930", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "preceding_text": "I am giving way, Mr. Dean, within the spirit of what you have just said. Had it been a debate, I might have taken a different attitude. I am grateful for your ruling on that point. I knew exactly what you would say because you are an honourable and honest man.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.930.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-09", "file": "debates1984-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "75c89fe1084c552c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.953.1", "colnum": "953", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That was a Conservative Government.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beaumont-Dark", "preceding_text": "opolitan counties and the GLC. I do not know enough about the metropolitan councils to comment upon them now, but many of us who were involved in local government then were against the great nonsense that the Government of the day went in for. I remember when Sir Frank Griffin, Alderman Neville Bosworth and I went to see the late Sir Graham Page and the then Secretary of State for the Environment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.953.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-09", "file": "debates1984-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "75c89fe1084c552c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.967.6", "colnum": "967", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "not imagine that it will get the right hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Mr. Heath) back into much favour with the leadership. We are in an incredible position. Instead of facing up to the problems of Greater London and the metropolitan county areas and the many difficulties that go with them, the Government are trying to force through, in this disgraceful manner, a Bill to abolish elections.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.967.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-09", "file": "debates1984-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "75c89fe1084c552c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Litherland", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Litherland", "preceding_text": " is forthcoming can the continued support of the business community for abolition be counted upon … The glaring absence hitherto of any detailed Government costings of either the transitional or the long-term financial implications for streamlining has prompted some chambers to call for an independent inquiry into the financial aspects of abolition. That comes from the Government's friends.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.970.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-09", "file": "debates1984-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "75c89fe1084c552c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.977.5", "colnum": "977", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I made it clear that that was an internal estimate that had been made by officials of the Department on the best information they had available.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.977.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-09", "file": "debates1984-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "75c89fe1084c552c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "It recommended unitary local government for the whole of the rest of the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.979.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-09", "file": "debates1984-05-09a.xml", "sha256": "75c89fe1084c552c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "I have already agreed that the Government's interim arrangements are not perfect.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-09a.1024.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-10", "file": "debates1984-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "50388d546695d6ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-10a.1072.8", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dormand", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dormand", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that the economy is already being affected by the dispute in the coal mining industry and that that is likely to cause a rapid deterioration before long? Does the Chancellor not agree that it would therefore be financially and economically advantageous at least to consider, if not to meet, the present demands of the miners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-10a.1072.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-10", "file": "debates1984-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "50388d546695d6ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-10a.1073.3", "colnum": "1073", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree with the right hon. Gentleman that unemployment at present is appallingly high, but he is a fair man and knows full well that the rise in unemployment over the past 20 years has occurred throughout the world and not simply in this country. He was referring to the 1960s which was 20 years ago.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-10a.1073.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-10", "file": "debates1984-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "50388d546695d6ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-10a.1091.0", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "erhaps one of the most odious of all political accusations. They are fiddling the outcome of elections. We do not have the Official Report and I do not want to misquote or to misrepresent what the Secretary of State had to say on this issue in our debates in the early hours of the morning, but I believe that he said that this was an accident. He said that it was an unfortunate outcome of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-10a.1091.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-10", "file": "debates1984-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "50388d546695d6ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-10a.1100.2", "colnum": "1100", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Tracey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where was the Prime Minister?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Tracey", "preceding_text": "Did the hon. Gentleman share my surprise that the Leader of the Opposition did not support the amendments tabled by his party?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-10a.1100.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-10", "file": "debates1984-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "50388d546695d6ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-10a.1109.0", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "preceding_text": "aim has been revealed again; it is simply a matter of pressing the Government's party political prejudice to the point where they seek to demolish all their opponents, not by force of argument but by attempting to abolish them. Indeed, there could be no finer monument erected outside county hall to the memory of governor Elbridge Gerry than that of the Secretary of State who is promoting the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-10a.1109.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-10", "file": "debates1984-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "50388d546695d6ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-10a.1122.0", "colnum": "1122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cowans", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cowans", "preceding_text": "s already foolish. He needs no help from those councils. He is doing a magnificent job. It took him 15 minutes—I have four children, three of whom are at school — and a BSc degree to work out that three into two would not go. That revelation will be greeted right across the country. 6.15 pm This is a Bill of absolute utter nonsense. I felt very sorry for the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-10a.1122.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-10", "file": "debates1984-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "50388d546695d6ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-10a.1175.5", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Supplementary Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "It is simple. The legal advisers told the Government that there had been no change.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-10a.1175.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-10", "file": "debates1984-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "50388d546695d6ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-10a.1175.5", "colnum": "1175", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Supplementary Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "our Government just as they are sent out under the Conservative Government. This interpretation was sent out in October 1981. In the debate at that time it was said that the legal advice to the Government was that it was a consolidation matter. It did not go to the Social Security Advisory Committee. If previous Labour Governments have never been wrongly advised, they have been flaming well lucky.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-10a.1175.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-10", "file": "debates1984-05-10a.xml", "sha256": "50388d546695d6ac", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-10a.1190.0", "colnum": "1190", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Supplementary Benefit", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "nment's actions are right. We are returning to what we believe was the previous position. If people can set up on their own in unfurnished accommodation and immediately get second—hand furniture installed with the aid of supplementary benefit, the family unit would not be encouraged. It would instead encourage people to move away from the family after the slightest argument and it would be costly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-10a.1190.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-14", "file": "debates1984-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "4ff746f77427d927", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-14a.11.6", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I suggest that the right hon. Gentleman should also have a meeting with Mr. Scargill —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-14a.11.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-14", "file": "debates1984-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "4ff746f77427d927", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-14a.18.3", "colnum": "18", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — CIVIL SERVICE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "preceding_text": "The Treasury is responsible for Civil Service pay, and questions about that should not be raised at this Question Time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-14a.18.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-14", "file": "debates1984-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "4ff746f77427d927", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-14a.43.0", "colnum": "43", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"New clause 25.'", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "New clause 24 is an absolute disgrace—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-14a.43.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-14", "file": "debates1984-05-14a.xml", "sha256": "4ff746f77427d927", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-14a.75.1", "colnum": "75", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Meyer", "preceding_text": "I try to avoid dealing with such things formally. However, I had extensive correspondence with the chief constable. I would rather not go into the matter any further —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-14a.75.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-15", "file": "debates1984-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "fd33ec06779d54ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-15a.148.3", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I am asking your advice, Mr. Speaker, on whether it was in order for me to receive a letter asking me to inform the Prime Minister's PPS what my supplementary question would have been.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-15a.148.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-05-15", "file": "debates1984-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "fd33ec06779d54ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-15a.151.0", "colnum": "151", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "ce again to correct the right hon. Gentleman's inaccuracies. My right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary took part in the Report stage yesterday and intends to do so today. Moreover, as the right hon. Gentleman has said, my right hon. and learned Friend will no doubt also be here tomorrow, so I do not think that there is any substance in the charge against my right hon. and learned Friend.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-15a.150.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-15", "file": "debates1984-05-15a.xml", "sha256": "fd33ec06779d54ca", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-15a.336.5", "colnum": "336", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Milk Production", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There are none present now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "I am most grateful to the Minister. I am sorry to interrupt him so early, but he said that he welcomed the debate. Can we take it from that that he would welcome a fuller debate at which more members of the Conservative party were present—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-15a.336.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-16", "file": "debates1984-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "4e22074aaf0a9858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-16a.346.5", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "What about Provost Gibson MacDonald?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-16a.346.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-16", "file": "debates1984-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "4e22074aaf0a9858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-16a.372.0", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Local Authorities (Prevention of Expenditure on Party Political Advertising)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Then sit down.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "nd penalties of a member of the Rumbold family who had been heavily involved in that squalid matter, the South Sea Bubble. The family appears to be in decline. This time, instead of relieving the family's pains and penalties, the hon. Lady seeks to impose them upon those with whom she does not agree. It is an offence to waste police time, and it should be an offence to waste the time of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-16a.372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-16", "file": "debates1984-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "4e22074aaf0a9858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-16a.372.0", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Local Authorities (Prevention of Expenditure on Party Political Advertising)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Thousand.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "t if section 137 were used for party political purposes that would be open to legal challenge\".—[ Official Report, 23 November 1983.] If it is open to legal challenge already, there is no need to change the law. We must first find which councils are spending their 2p rate. Islington council, which the hon. Lady mentioned, is entitled to a 2p rate in excess of £1 but it has spent only £361 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-16a.372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-16", "file": "debates1984-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "4e22074aaf0a9858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-16a.372.0", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Local Authorities (Prevention of Expenditure on Party Political Advertising)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS So far.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "rposes that would be open to legal challenge\".—[ Official Report, 23 November 1983.] If it is open to legal challenge already, there is no need to change the law. We must first find which councils are spending their 2p rate. Islington council, which the hon. Lady mentioned, is entitled to a 2p rate in excess of £1 but it has spent only £361 million. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Thousand.\"] I am sorry—£361,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-16a.372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-16", "file": "debates1984-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "4e22074aaf0a9858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-16a.372.0", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Local Authorities (Prevention of Expenditure on Party Political Advertising)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Only!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Frank Dobson", "preceding_text": "o legal challenge already, there is no need to change the law. We must first find which councils are spending their 2p rate. Islington council, which the hon. Lady mentioned, is entitled to a 2p rate in excess of £1 but it has spent only £361 million. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Thousand.\"] I am sorry—£361,000. [HON. MEMBERS So far.\"] The GLC is entitled to raise £38 million, but it has spent only £8 million.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-16a.372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-16", "file": "debates1984-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "4e22074aaf0a9858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-16a.382.0", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "g persons who have been arrested. There are greater safeguards for people from whom non-intimate samples are forcibly taken. There is the abolition of the common law power of search of persons. All these matters are ones on which we put forward amendments, for which we argued, against which in many cases the Minister of State resisted our arguments, and. to which in the end the Government yielded.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-16a.382.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-16", "file": "debates1984-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "4e22074aaf0a9858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-16a.385.3", "colnum": "385", "heading": "Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "I am not putting anything into the mouths of the Police Federation; I am saying what the Police Federation put into my ears. Representatives of the federation told me that they do not want the Bill. I am happy to go on record saying that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-16a.385.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-16", "file": "debates1984-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "4e22074aaf0a9858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-16a.393.0", "colnum": "393", "heading": "Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "preceding_text": " profoundly repugnant. arAlthough the Secretary of State said that those intimate searches would be carried out only in the last resort, I am afraid that that is not how it appears from the wording of the Bill. It seems to be a matter of convenience only. The powers for stop and search are regularised and made universal throughout the country. We genuinely welcome the undertaking given on Report —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-16a.393.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-16", "file": "debates1984-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "4e22074aaf0a9858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-16a.400.0", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jerry Hayes", "preceding_text": "o give credit where it is due, the right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman) whose speeches I have read and listened to intently, has achieved a great deal from the Government. If he will forgive my saying so, however, I wish that he would try to prevent the reflex action of his foot, which seems to edge its way towards the groin of my right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-16a.400.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-16", "file": "debates1984-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "4e22074aaf0a9858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-16a.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "e public. Customs officers have that power. I have defended and prosecuted many people. In one case, the only evidence against the defendant, who was charged with stealing a motor vehicle, was that he had hidden the keys up his back passage. The police, noticing that he was walking peculiarly, searched him. It is ludicrous that we should now ask the police to investigate crimes without that power.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-16a.401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-16", "file": "debates1984-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "4e22074aaf0a9858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-16a.409.2", "colnum": "409", "heading": "Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Douglas Hurd)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. Douglas Hurd)", "preceding_text": " campaign has flopped. It is left to the London ratepayers to pick up the bill. The proof of that is in the conduct of Labour Members in Committee and on Report. I do not want to shop those hon. Members, but, if they believed all the rubbish that the GLC was putting out, they would have handled the matter quite differently. They must have been a sad disappointment to those who were egging them on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-16a.409.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-16", "file": "debates1984-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "4e22074aaf0a9858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-16a.423.1", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Hong Kong", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Healey", "preceding_text": "eople does not yet fully enjoy representative institutions and when many of those who have been elected to some of the bodies that have elected members have been elected on very low votes. We must avoid a referendum. Our experience of the referenda on Scotland and on the European Community suggests that a referendum is a most unsuitable means of consulting a people on major constitutional change.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-16a.423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-16", "file": "debates1984-05-16a.xml", "sha256": "4e22074aaf0a9858", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-16a.429.3", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Hong Kong", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heath", "preceding_text": "That shows that their criminal arrangements are flexible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-16a.429.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-17", "file": "debates1984-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b33ceeb193c7d49b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-17a.501.11", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MIMSTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wardell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wardell", "preceding_text": "Following the leaking of yet another confidential report —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-17a.501.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-17", "file": "debates1984-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b33ceeb193c7d49b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-17a.501.11", "colnum": "501", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MIMSTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wardell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wardell", "preceding_text": "Following the leaking of yet another confidential report — [ Interruption. ] With your permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to repeat my question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-17a.501.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-17", "file": "debates1984-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b33ceeb193c7d49b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-17a.502.4", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MIMSTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The date on which we were expecting it was 31 March, but I am afraid that that is not a legally enforceable date.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-17a.502.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-17", "file": "debates1984-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b33ceeb193c7d49b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-17a.504.0", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MIMSTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "Is it not a shameful abandonment of principle, after everything that was said during the general election—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-17a.504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-17", "file": "debates1984-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b33ceeb193c7d49b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-17a.504.0", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MIMSTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "Is it not a shameful abandonment of principle, after everything that was said during the general election— [Interruption.] —for the Prime Minister and her Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-17a.504.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-17", "file": "debates1984-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b33ceeb193c7d49b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-17a.504.2", "colnum": "504", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MIMSTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "Is it not a shameful abandonment of principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-17a.504.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-17", "file": "debates1984-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b33ceeb193c7d49b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-17a.512.10", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I hope that I am not contravening the fourth amendment or doing myself undue harm when I say that I have never read a biography of my leader.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-17a.512.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-17", "file": "debates1984-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b33ceeb193c7d49b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-17a.526.0", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Ordnance Factories and Military Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": " forces throughout the country, which made clear their opposition to the Government's original intention, and perhaps most of all to the members of the Ministry of Defence police force when it was announced that the Government had had second thoughts. My faith in the parliamentary democratic system was reassured when the Government decided to make a considerable change to their original intention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-17a.526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-17", "file": "debates1984-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b33ceeb193c7d49b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-17a.533.7", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Ordnance Factories and Military Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pattie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pattie", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I should have restricted my remarks and said nothing about the future. I was attempting to assist the House and have a short debate. The new clause and the schedule empower ROF plc to have Ministry of Defence police. That is a nice, short speech. I should move that and sit down.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-17a.533.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-17", "file": "debates1984-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b33ceeb193c7d49b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-17a.593.4", "colnum": "593", "heading": "Adjournment (Spring)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "on (Mr. Stanbrook) said to the Leader of the House—although I am not here to defend that bloke. Indeed, he does not need that. However, when the hon. Gentleman says that the Leader of the House is not as competent as the Home Secretary or some other Minister to answer his question, that is stretching things too far. The Home Secretary compared with the Leader of the House is only a selling plater—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-17a.593.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-17", "file": "debates1984-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b33ceeb193c7d49b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-17a.594.3", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Adjournment (Spring)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " whether they will intervene on the other side. They have already intervened to try to smash the National Union of Mineworkers. I am fairly convinced that, as a result of the 10-week strike—and it looks as though it will continue for some considerable time yet, from my experience of rallies which I have addressed in areas where the strike is particularly strong — the Government should understand —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-17a.594.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-17", "file": "debates1984-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b33ceeb193c7d49b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-17a.594.3", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Adjournment (Spring)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "people that they are on the right track, they have another think coming. The strike has already cost the British taxpayer £1·4 billion, not only in lost coal, but in the overhead costs of keeping the pits in being. Even in Nottinghamshire, with only half production, the total overheads of all the pits must continue to be met. I hope that the British taxpayers appreciate that Mrs. Thatcher —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-17a.594.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-17", "file": "debates1984-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b33ceeb193c7d49b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-17a.594.3", "colnum": "594", "heading": "Adjournment (Spring)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "pend that amount of their money on an exercise in revenge. In 1981 she had to do a U-turn on her policy of shutting pits. She waited, and then she cut up one industry after another in salami fashion, picking them off one by one, including trying to smash the trade unions here, there and everywhere, and to some extent she got away with it. The miners decided that they would try to put a stop to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-17a.594.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-17", "file": "debates1984-05-17a.xml", "sha256": "b33ceeb193c7d49b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-17a.611.1", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Adjournment (Spring)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": " and scope of any debate. I shall ensure that the relevant Ministers are informed. My hon. Friend the Member for Banbury (Mr. Baldry) spoke with feeling about the M40 and the Banbury bypass. I know the feeling well because the Oswestry bypass similarly appears to have acquired a measured status in the archives in the Department of Transport — although happily our bypass will eventually go forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-17a.611.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-21", "file": "debates1984-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "337cde2eb9c5cc5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-21a.694.4", "colnum": "694", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "There are Rolls-Royce engines, David Brown gear boxes and Decca navigation equipment, all made by us, in the formidable weaponry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-21a.694.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-21", "file": "debates1984-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "337cde2eb9c5cc5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-21a.694.5", "colnum": "694", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "preceding_text": "unity and our membership of it, doing a great disservice to this country in the process. If added proof is required—and how carefully this has been fudged over—one needs only to look at the list of candidates put forward by the Labour party. Putting it charitably, we do not see the same kind of mainstream candidates. In one constituency after another we see the hard Left coming forward every time.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-21a.694.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-21", "file": "debates1984-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "337cde2eb9c5cc5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-21a.698.0", "colnum": "698", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "sk for an assessment of how ESPRIT is going. I realise that is a grey area, but I must ask the same question of the European Micro-Biology Organisation, of which Dr. Kendrew was the first director. Again, a good deal of Euro money is involved. When talking about the future of the Community it is important to know whether the Government think that the British taxpayer's contribution is appropriate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-21a.698.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-21", "file": "debates1984-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "337cde2eb9c5cc5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-21a.699.1", "colnum": "699", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "ear after that—be used against us, Heaven help us, in a replay of uncertain outcome which would certainly involve more bloodshed. Given that Blohm and Voss are members of the Community, it must raise very serious questions if they go ahead and sell such weaponry as submarines to Argentina. It could be used against British forces. Those questions could be repeated over the sale of Oto—Melara mines—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-21a.699.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-21", "file": "debates1984-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "337cde2eb9c5cc5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-21a.701.1", "colnum": "701", "heading": "European Community", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gardiner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gardiner", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman may laugh at the fact that two of my hon. Friends are on their way out of the Chamber, but his energies would be better devoted to drumming up some Labour Members to attend the debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-21a.701.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-21", "file": "debates1984-05-21a.xml", "sha256": "337cde2eb9c5cc5a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-21a.749.2", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Ordnance Factories and Military Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Anna McCurley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Anna McCurley", "preceding_text": "ion that good can be made better by improved commercial status and that Bishopton will prosper and flourish, thus giving employment for many years to come. That is why I support the Bill. There are, however, some small points that the Minister should consider. I was not a member of the Committee, but during one of our recent all-night sittings I spent some time, profitably, reading all 27 reports.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-21a.749.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.813.5", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I am sure that the hon. Gentleman is fully aware that any activities conducted by the police are entirely a matter for my right hon. and learned Friend the Home Secretary. I cannot believe that it is now the Labour party's doctrine that we should encourage the leaking of confidential Government documents.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.813.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.815.10", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We seem to have got ourselves into a bit of a twist.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.815.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.815.10", "colnum": "815", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We seem to have got ourselves into a bit of a twist. [Interruption.] Order. This takes time. I call Mr. Tim Eggar. Is he present?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.815.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.825.5", "colnum": "825", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "At present 43 pits are working completely normally and 14 are working partially in Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lancashire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire. More miners are working now than at the start of the strike. They are earning good wages at good pits, where there is good investment, and their families are flourishing. I trust that others will follow their example.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.825.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.826.5", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "Why did the Prime Minister encourage Mr. Ian MacGregor to veto the meeting that was proposed to be held tomorrow on the basis that he said it had to be held at Hobart house or nowhere else, when it is well know that the miners are not prepared to cross picket lines?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.826.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.827.1", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Questions to Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Willie W. Hamilton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Willie W. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "with the amount of money it would cost to save the Bathgate venture. Far from seeking to answer that question, the Minister went on to attempt to answer Question No. 6. You had not even called that question. The hon. Member for Enfield, North (Mr. Eggar), in whose name the question stands, was not even here, but you allowed the Minister to get away with that. I think there was a misunderstanding —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.827.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.827.3", "colnum": "827", "heading": "Questions to Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hamilton", "preceding_text": "The point of order is simple. You regard yourself, Mr. Speaker, and we regard you, as the protector of Back-Bench interests in the House. That was not evident in the course of those exchanges.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.827.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.828.8", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Questions to Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What is the point of order?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. A few days ago when I was addressing a meeting in the Nottinghamshire coalfield it was reported to me that an old-age pensioner, crippled since birth, had been going round the coalfield collecting money for miners' families.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.828.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.828.10", "colnum": "828", "heading": "Questions to Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I have not got to the point of order yet. She was raising money and, as a result of intimidation from those miners who were working—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.828.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.831.0", "colnum": "831", "heading": "British Leyland (Corporate Plan)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the right hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Stepney (Mr. Shore) could not find a single word of praise for the efforts of the Leyland workers who have brought the cars group back into profitability, who have brought Jaguars to profitability and who are returning the whole business to profitability.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.831.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.832.1", "colnum": "832", "heading": "British Leyland (Corporate Plan)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "It might help Labour Members to regain some of their courtesy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.832.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.832.3", "colnum": "832", "heading": "British Leyland (Corporate Plan)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": " Leyland truck and appreciate that they are in different markets. I am glad, however, that he begins to understand that there has been a fall in the marked for trucks outside Europe. Indeed, in Nigeria alone, a traditional market for Leyland vehicles, sales have fallen from 1,400 in 1978 to fewer than 300 in 1983. I suppose that he also wants to blame the British Government for Nigeria's problems.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.832.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.834.0", "colnum": "834", "heading": "British Leyland (Corporate Plan)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "First, let me remind the hon. Gentleman that my words of praise for the workers of British Leyland encompassed every worker, from the chairman to the last man or woman in the humblest job, whether in Scotland or in Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.834.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.835.4", "colnum": "835", "heading": "British Leyland (Corporate Plan)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I hope that the hon. Member for Tottenham (Mr. Atkinson) did not say that. I did not hear it, anyway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.835.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.836.5", "colnum": "836", "heading": "British Leyland (Corporate Plan)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Grylls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Grylls", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend not be deflected by the silly comments by some Opposition Members who were talking about the de-industrialisation of Scotland, when so many parts of Scotland are booming with the new —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.836.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.843.1", "colnum": "843", "heading": "British Leyland (Corporate Plan)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "There is nothing incompatible in believing in success for the British industry, and privatising it. The success that we have achieved in bringing BL back into profit —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.843.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.856.1", "colnum": "856", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "of elected bodies can be put into practice only if and when the main abolition Bill is placed before Parliament. From studying opinion polls, it can be seen that many people, perhaps the majority, are against what the Government are doing about the metropolitan counties and the GLC. It is becoming increasingly difficult to find anyone who believes that what the Government are doing has much sense—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.856.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.891.1", "colnum": "891", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chris Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are the 100 sheep?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chris Smith", "preceding_text": "request which has been made of them. Ratepayers' money will be wasted and the confusion generated will be detrimental to the smooth running of local government, in which, supposedly, we should all be interested. I hope that the Government will respond to our arguments, but I will be surprised if they do. Nevertheless, there is always hope that the one hundredth sheep that gets lost may be rescued.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.891.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.905.1", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"NO.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "preceding_text": " outside his trade union, to court for not providing information that the Secretary of State demands of him. I should like to lean on my own experience for a moment. Before 1979, when I became a Member of the European Parliament, I was an assistant director of social services. I therefore had access to and generated confidential information. Was that information my property to do with as I wished?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.905.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.923.2", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "The debate has rambled on for many hours. With all due respect, it might be better if I tried to answer some of the points so that we can make progress.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.923.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.924.1", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman made a speech which he almost admitted was a filibuster. I shall not give way to him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.924.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.925.0", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "preceding_text": "n the legislation and the Secretary of State to turn for information to a local officer of any rank, including social workers, housing officers and any designated officer. It is a red herring to discuss whether those hon. Members who happen to be councillors in the metropolitan counties or on the GLC will urge their officers to defy the legislation, because they will defy it of their own volition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.925.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.979.1", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "g-standing statutory basis for the organisation of local government electoral boundary reform, everything will depend on the Minister's ability to get one order through at a later date. Therefore, there are several contingencies. Let us consider what will happen if the Bill is passed. Many questions will be raised about what the precise size of the metropolitan boroughs should be. Their functions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.979.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.987.3", "colnum": "987", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "Now it is all coming out.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I was a councillor for a ward that took in one quarter of Finsbury Park.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.987.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.990.1", "colnum": "990", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend draws attention to an important question.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.990.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.991.0", "colnum": "991", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Dean. Although I am sitting in the closest possible proximity to my hon. Friend, I cannot hear what he is saying because many hon. Members are baying and laughing. There might be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.991.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.992.3", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "jor issues of principle. I congratulate my hon. Friends the Members for St. Helens, South (Mr. Bermingham) and for Islington, North (Mr. Corbyn) on their eloquent arguments on the principle. We are glad that the Government have recognised the force of the argument. In the light of the categorical undertaking that the Under-Secretary of State has given, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.992.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.996.0", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "When I was—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.996.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.996.0", "colnum": "996", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": " given to Londonders. The new Thames barrier provides a further opportunity for recreational facilities when the barrier is up. It could provide a large lagoon in which a number of exciting and interesting sporting events could take place to the great delight of Londoners and all our visitors. We were concerned that we were unable to get the transfer of functions that the Water Act 1973 envisaged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.996.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1002.0", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Penhaligon", "preceding_text": "e to large stresses behind them are analysed? It is important for the Committee to understand this in some depth. If the Minister is not aware of how that is analysed, I might be able to rake my memory and tell him. In essence, one must attach to the concrete at an appropriate moment a strain gauge of a non-wire type that can be stretched over a large distance. Someone then has the responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1002.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1004.0", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is a Labour amendment.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "When the hon. Gentleman loses his seat to the Conservatives at the next election, in view of his experience in these matters I shall use what influence I can to try to find him a suitable job in that area. The amendment seeks to remove a good housekeeping provision for no good reason at all. I have to tell the alliance that it is one of the least plausible amendments in the entire Committee stage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1004.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1024.0", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": ": The Greater London Council and each metropolitan county council shall consult its constituent councils\". Not only have the Government changed their spots in advising consultation; they are positively imposing it. This comes from a Government who, as I shall prove, have a well-identified tendency to tyranny which is recognised throughout the country and which has been perfectly clearly expressed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1024.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1025.4", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "I do not intend to go down that line, Mr. Armstrong, because I am afraid that you would admonish me. I see that 30 per cent. of my hon. Friends and a depressing percentage of other hon. Members are in the Chamber.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1025.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1032.3", "colnum": "1032", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fourteen hours.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "I support the amendments. It was very sad to hear the Minister's reply. The Government are proposing a most devastating centralisation of power, and all that he can say at the end of nine hours of debate is that he will reflect again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1032.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1035.2", "colnum": "1035", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "sure that Ministers want the outcome to be all that specific. Such a break would be for the assistance of hon. Members, although my hon. Friends are happy and indeed anxious to debate a number of other features of the Bill. I detect from Conservative Members the sense that they have been kept here for a long time discussing a Bill to which they are not enthusiastically committed, to put it mildly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1035.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1058.1", "colnum": "1058", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "Anyone can call in the district auditor. I have served in a local authority for nine years. The district auditor was called in on many occasions, but on no occasion was anything found to be wrong. That is very often the case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1058.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1074.2", "colnum": "1074", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We have been here all night.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Freud", "preceding_text": "o not believe it. If people wrote to the Secretary of State saying that they were worried about this, or approved of that, they would have thought carefully about it before writing and would not mind publication, even if they minded identification. I welcome the wealth of Labour Members who have joined us since I last spoke. We now have three Labour Members in the Chamber, so they are pouring in —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1074.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1083.1", "colnum": "1083", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ide, and using a different tone from that used in the rest of the debate, I should like to extend condolences to one of my colleagues who represents Southwark, the hon. Member for Dulwich (Mr. Bowden) whose wife died only last week. He struggled to bear her illness, yet it came as a great shock to him when Mrs. Bowden died. I pay tribute to him. I am sure that hon. Members will support my remarks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1083.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1091.1", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is your leader?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend makes a valid point. Some Labour Members determinedly tried to keep their flag flying through the night. Sadly, their leaders did not follow but deserted them in action.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1091.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1093.1", "colnum": "1093", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "The Minister is seeking to make a party political point, whereas my hon. Friend the Member for Southwark and Bermondsey (Mr. Hughes) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1093.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1097.0", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "The last two speeches differed in length, in preparation and in degree of boredom. They had one fundamental and simple theme, the alliance between the alliance Benches and the Conservative Benches in a conspiracy to deny the people of London the right to vote. It is a conspiracy between parties determined to destroy the right of the people of London to elect their councils.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1097.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1097.0", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "gree of boredom. They had one fundamental and simple theme, the alliance between the alliance Benches and the Conservative Benches in a conspiracy to deny the people of London the right to vote. It is a conspiracy between parties determined to destroy the right of the people of London to elect their councils. [Interruption.] That is what we have witnessed today. That is what we have seen going on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1097.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1097.0", "colnum": "1097", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "ate. In 1978, my borough council was a Labour council. Some of those people defected, called themselves the SDP, took control of the council, refused to resign and refused to face the people until they had to—and what happened when they did face the people in the 1982 elections? All bar one of them was chucked out. In all, 27 were thrown out by the electorate, and that one remaining miserable cur—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1097.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1098.2", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "I will give way on a point of order only.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1098.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1098.2", "colnum": "1098", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "e game of numbers representing each borough when the real issue centres around the fact that the ballot box has been stolen by the Conservatives with the connivance of the alliance. Nearly 14 million people in Britain are about to lose their right to vote at elections. This bunch on the alliance Benches who masquerade as part of the Opposition are simply conniving in the destruction of democracy —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1098.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1099.0", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "eople elected to borough councils with nothing to do with the GLC or, in the case of the metropolitan counties, the councils to which they were first elected. This is a means of specifically and deliberately preventing a large number of individuals who presently hold office at county hall from continuing to hold that office. The proposals put forward by the alliance with the Conservative Benches —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1099.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1109.3", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "In which case—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1109.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1109.5", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "What I am asking, Mr. Dean, is—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1109.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1111.5", "colnum": "1111", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Patrick Jenkin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Patrick Jenkin)", "preceding_text": " feeling in the Committee that this business should now be disposed of. In the circumstances, I think that we would do well to continue with the debate until the proceedings are completed. I think, if I may say so, that the hon. Member for Blackburn (Mr. Straw) was a little hard. The Liberal party will have to defend itself. Some of its behaviour during the course of the night has been outrageous.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1111.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1112.0", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith", "preceding_text": "British Leyland today, instead of tomorrow, as the House would otherwise be obliged to do. There was no question at any stage that that debate could be threatened by a proper discussion of this Bill. If the hon. Member for Blackburn tempts me to disclose what hon. Members representing Labour London constituencies said about the Greater London Council (Money) (No. 2) Bill, it would be very unwise —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1112.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1113.2", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "int of order. I was about to say that in an earlier point of order, when only a handful of hon. Members were present, I said that Mr. Speaker had given a ruling to the effect that he thought that the issue of Leyland and Bathgate transcended even the vital issue of cruise missiles. I am simply suggesting that the Committee should take no different a view from that taken by Mr. Speaker. I must add—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1113.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1114.6", "colnum": "1114", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor (Southend, East)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Teddy Taylor (Southend, East)", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and the right hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Stepney (Mr. Shore) suggested that it was a simple issue of whether we should go on or stop. I suggest that it is a more complicated issue. I doubt that Labour Members are in a fit state to go ahead, because I believe that they have had far too much sleep.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1114.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1119.4", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I do not think that it would be appropriate for me to anticipate —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1119.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1119.5", "colnum": "1119", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Proctor", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Dean. It is now an hour and two minutes since the very good speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Surbiton (Mr. Tracey) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1119.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1147.5", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1147.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1147.5", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker— [Interruption.] Is it not a fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1147.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1147.6", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We have had a long night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1147.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1147.7", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"In Committee.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "It was not irresponsible action by my hon. Friends to ensure that the Bill on Report —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1147.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1148.2", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "f office you have contributed to \"Erskine May\" quickly by setting a precedent and, to some extent, managing to obtain debates on two important issues. Will you bear in mind that it comes a bit raw when the leader of the Social Democratic party comes here at 4.30 pm complaining about the activities of the Labour party and anybody else in the House, when he was dodging the draft last night? He left—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1148.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1148.2", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "\" quickly by setting a precedent and, to some extent, managing to obtain debates on two important issues. Will you bear in mind that it comes a bit raw when the leader of the Social Democratic party comes here at 4.30 pm complaining about the activities of the Labour party and anybody else in the House, when he was dodging the draft last night? He left— [Interruption.] He left it to the Liberals —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1148.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1148.4", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I think that you should bear in mind for future occasions, Mr. Speaker, that when points of order are raised by the alliance—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1148.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1162.1", "colnum": "1162", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "he possibility of some savings — even the Coopers and Lybrand figures show that—and some show possible great savings. Many Opposition Members have been determined opponents of the upper-tier authorities. They hide their present change of heart behind demanding proof of savings which might make them stick to their original position. They did not call for such proof when they held the old opinions —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1162.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1163.0", "colnum": "1163", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "the public service and local authorities, together with councillors in local authorities, to make this difficult transitional period work. It will be a difficult period. There was some unnecessary sabre-rattling in Committee from a few hon. Members about confrontation in this period. That would be quite outwith the traditions of public service that we expect and receive from the local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1163.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1165.10", "colnum": "1165", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Copeland (Dr. Cunningham) seems to have thought better of the rather extreme comments that he has just made.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1165.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1169.1", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Whitfield", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Whitfield", "preceding_text": "My experience of local government is as a ratepayer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1169.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1186.0", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": " of their doing that successfully in respect of this Bill is fairly remote. From the hyperbole—or overstatement — put into their attack, the impression may have been given that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is a trades union leader proposing to call a general strike without first balloting his members. The Bill contains interim provisions which have effect only during the 10 months —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1186.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1187.0", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicolas Bonsor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicolas Bonsor", "preceding_text": ". Gentleman's constituents will be affected by it, and so will mine; I speak as a Member of Parliament for the Greater London area. But to talk about denying people a vote is wholly misleading. They will be able to vote for their Member of Parliament and for their local councillors. Again, they may vote for the people who will represent their interests in the interim council which is being set up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1187.0", "colnum": "1187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicolas Bonsor", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"You are misleading the House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicolas Bonsor", "preceding_text": "nt for the Greater London area. But to talk about denying people a vote is wholly misleading. They will be able to vote for their Member of Parliament and for their local councillors. Again, they may vote for the people who will represent their interests in the interim council which is being set up. [HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"]. There is no point in Opposition Members saying no from a sedentary position.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1187.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1188.2", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they now?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Nicholas Bonsor", "preceding_text": "wholly abhorrent. I hope that we will find other ways of attacking it. Most of the criticisms of the Bill have not come from Opposition Members. The most powerful criticisms came from my right hon. Friends the Members for Cambridge, South-East (Mr. Pym), for Chesham and Amersham (Sir I. Gilmour) and for Old Bexley and Sidcup (Mr. Heath) and my hon. Friend the Member for Milton Keynes (Mr. Benyon).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1188.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1192.3", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "preceding_text": " That was also the alliance platform for the general election. I scratch my head in wonderment at what the hysteria of the past 24 hours has been about. Emerging from the objections of the Opposition has been the idea of a challenge to democratic rights. To most business people I know, that would seem like a sick joke in connection with local democracy and local rates. One has to say the obvious —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1192.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1192.3", "colnum": "1192", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brandon-Bravo", "preceding_text": "past 24 hours has been about. Emerging from the objections of the Opposition has been the idea of a challenge to democratic rights. To most business people I know, that would seem like a sick joke in connection with local democracy and local rates. One has to say the obvious — [Interruption.] I wonder whether the children on the Opposition Benches would kindly allow an hon. Member a small moment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1192.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1197.0", "colnum": "1197", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harrison", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harrison", "preceding_text": "One of the problems to which the hon. Gentleman is referring was that under the 1972 legislation councillors in that area were being denuded of their powers and responsibilities. The hon. Gentleman knows that Sheffield was an all-purpose area, and it was being denuded. It suited the Conservative Government's purpose.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1197.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1198.1", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Osborn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Osborn", "preceding_text": " Sir Desmond Plummer had been in charge of the GLC the pressure for this change might not have been so great. If there had been a responsibile, independent — not necessarily Conservative — majority on the South Yorkshire council, with realistic policies, the pressure might not have been so great from politically neutral, perhaps apathetic, business people, such as small shop keepers and retailers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1198.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-22", "file": "debates1984-05-22a.xml", "sha256": "a44eaa5dee85e90a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1201.1", "colnum": "1201", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "preceding_text": "listened to what the Merseyside churches have had to say. The Archbishop and the Bishop of Liverpool both abhor the Secretary of State's attempt to abolish county councils. Only a few days ago, the Merseyside churches ecumenical council held a vote. It was overwhelmingly in favour of the retention of the county council. So which credible body on Merseyside is in favour of these draconian measures?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-22a.1201.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-05-24", "file": "debates1984-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "3c51dc26c6aa2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1234.2", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State consider that the officials in the Northern Ireland Office, whose disastrous advice he has followed with characteristic self-satisfaction and obtuseness for the past two and a half years, contemplate with any degree of satisfaction the bloody consequences of their achievements?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-24", "file": "debates1984-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "3c51dc26c6aa2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1245.3", "colnum": "1245", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "As the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1245.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-24", "file": "debates1984-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "3c51dc26c6aa2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1256.7", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "When will time be made available for a debate on the Greater London Council (Money) (No. 2) Bill? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that any delay in passing that measure seriously endangers a large number of capital projects throughout London, including a number in my constituency?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1256.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-24", "file": "debates1984-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "3c51dc26c6aa2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1270.1", "colnum": "1270", "heading": "British Leyland (Closures)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "at Corpach, the smelter at Invergordon, and so on. They suggested that those closures were all that had happened in Scotland during the past five years of the Government's economic policy. Understandably, it was not even a complete list, because hon. Members forgot to add companies, such as Singer, Monsanto and Prestcold, which closed within a week or two of the advent of this Government in 1979 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1270.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-24", "file": "debates1984-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "3c51dc26c6aa2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1276.1", "colnum": "1276", "heading": "British Leyland (Closures)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "As the hon. and learned Gentleman has raised that matter, I shall tell him exactly. I inquired whether a BL bus of the kind that I required was available and—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-24", "file": "debates1984-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "3c51dc26c6aa2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1282.0", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "British Leyland (Closures)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hal Miller", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hal Miller", "preceding_text": "as not been available to us, and backed by Scottish Development Agency funding which is not available to us. Scotland has been backed by a political economy which ensures that carpet firms and foundries which might go under are rescued, whereas their counterparts in the west midlands which might have been successful in competing have not been rescued. Scottish industry has had a pretty good ride —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1282.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-24", "file": "debates1984-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "3c51dc26c6aa2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1285.3", "colnum": "1285", "heading": "British Leyland (Closures)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Malone", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Malone", "preceding_text": "it would kill our presence in export markets. It is clutching at straws to make such points, which illustrate that the priority to be reached in the decision that BL is now making is that truck-making facilities in the United Kingdom must be preserved in the most viable way possible. It is regrettable that Bathgate no longer has a viable life, but there is nothing more realistic than facing facts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1285.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-24", "file": "debates1984-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "3c51dc26c6aa2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1286.0", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "British Leyland (Closures)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Derek Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Derek Fatchett", "preceding_text": "those workers. The madness of it is that we cut public spending to increase public spending. It is cut to stop productive and useful activity and is increased at the other end to ensure that we have the money to keep people idle as they suffer because of unemployment. We now need from the Government a recognition of the futility of monetarism. They are using money deliberately to keep people idle.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1286.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-24", "file": "debates1984-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "3c51dc26c6aa2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1313.1", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Cruise Missiles", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": " Member for Llanelli tried to say that that had nothing to do with cruise. I accept that the communiqué did not refer to the cruise missile system. The right hon. Gentleman wants the House to believe that it was a decision about the modernisation of the F111s. However, shortly afterwards, it was announced that we were going to proceed with modernisation, involving the cruise weapon system —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-24", "file": "debates1984-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "3c51dc26c6aa2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1313.1", "colnum": "1313", "heading": "Cruise Missiles", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "n system — [Interruption.] That was in December, by which time we were in office. But the suggestion that the option was F111s has to be seen in the context not of what the right hon. Gentleman had to say, but of what the Labour party spokesmen had to say when my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State made his announcement, and a debate was held on the NATO decisions. I shall quote Bill Rodgers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-24", "file": "debates1984-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "3c51dc26c6aa2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1322.3", "colnum": "1322", "heading": "Cruise Missiles", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"That is not true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pym", "preceding_text": "quate to deter the potential threat and to preserve the peace. That is our purpose. We are not competing with them weapon for weapon or anything like that. Fifthly, the motion states that the deployment has weakened public support for the North Atlantic Treaty organisation\". I do not accept that. The British people are solidly behind NATO. The vast majority of the people of Europe are behind NATO.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1322.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-24", "file": "debates1984-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "3c51dc26c6aa2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1325.3", "colnum": "1325", "heading": "Cruise Missiles", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ans retained a commitment to it. That also helped to govern the dual-track decision. There have been great developments since that date. No one would dispute that. There have been many developments on the flexible response. Some of us thought that the whole idea of so-called flexible response was an insanity from the beginning. Many others took some time to come to that view. Field Marshal Carver—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1325.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-24", "file": "debates1984-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "3c51dc26c6aa2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1333.3", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Cruise Missiles", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Any.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": "It says that they will not use any weapons first.\" — [ Official Report, 22 May 1982; Vol. 60, c. 820.] They will not?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1333.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-24", "file": "debates1984-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "3c51dc26c6aa2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1333.3", "colnum": "1333", "heading": "Cruise Missiles", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Powell", "preceding_text": " \"Yes, this is the time when we convert this struggle into a nuclear one.\" What I cannot believe is that any British Government would make that choice on behalf of the British people. Therefore, I conclude on an assessment of each stage of a developing struggle with the Soviet Union that there is no point at which conversion of the struggle from non-nuclear into nuclear would be rational for us. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1333.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-24", "file": "debates1984-05-24a.xml", "sha256": "3c51dc26c6aa2209", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1338.0", "colnum": "1338", "heading": "Cruise Missiles", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin McNamara", "preceding_text": "er they get blown up by cruise or Polaris—they just do not want to he blown up—we get nowhere. The Russians are determined that, whatever happens, they will not have it. Because of the lack of faith that people in Britain have in the Government's attitude to the negotiations, they are forced to say, \"We do not want cruise.\" The policy of the Labour party on this issue is clear and straightforward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-24a.1338.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-05-25", "file": "debates1984-05-25a.xml", "sha256": "c965f459d2ff950f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-25a.1383.2", "colnum": "1383", "heading": "Maintained Schools (Governing Bodies)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Speech.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "preceding_text": " hon. Friend the Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed (Mr. Beith) in the Education Bill Committee in 1979? On the subject of schools and the Secretary of State's encouragement to develop the identity and sense of purpose of schools in the local community, will he now stop closing village schools such as the school in the village of Coveney in my constitutuency, which is doing such good work; and finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-05-25a.1383.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-04", "file": "debates1984-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "b7742563a8cc1d6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-04a.81.0", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Co-operative Development Agency and Industrial Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "May I first refer the right hon. Gentleman to annexe B at page 15, item 5 of the White Paper.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-04a.81.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-04", "file": "debates1984-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "b7742563a8cc1d6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-04a.81.8", "colnum": "81", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Co-operative Development Agency and Industrial Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "volved with the modernisation proposals anyway. That is an important point. The right hon. Gentleman is concerned about small firms. We are aware that the European Commission does not allow replacement investment. It allows modernisation. I have already gone to some trouble to define that. The question of replacement investment does not arise because that is not allowed by the European Commission.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-04a.81.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-04", "file": "debates1984-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "b7742563a8cc1d6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-04a.95.0", "colnum": "95", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Co-operative Development Agency and Industrial Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Geoffrey Robinson", "preceding_text": "at the amount of grant that can be given under RDG as limited by the job ceiling would put the country at a disadvantage. Can we now assume that the position is still as it was when the Bill was amended, that while non-job-creating modernisation does not qualify for RDG, job-creating modernisation would, irrespective of the size? That was not clear from what the Parliamentary Under-Secretary said.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-04a.95.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-04", "file": "debates1984-06-04a.xml", "sha256": "b7742563a8cc1d6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-04a.121.0", "colnum": "121", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Co-operative Development Agency and Industrial Development Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "preceding_text": "is an abuse of the conventions, if not the procedures, of the House to speak in that way about the Bill's contents. He and other hon. Members who accept his views have mislead the House about regional policy over the years and the impact that the Bill will have on that policy. The hon. Gentleman complained that regional policy had led to the closing of factories and had disadvantaged the midlands.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-04a.121.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-05", "file": "debates1984-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c1d53c6be2696b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.144.2", "colnum": "144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman does no service to the real problems faced by the unemployed by trying to pretend that there is some simple wand that can be waved. The idea that this problem is faced uniquely by Conservative Governments —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.144.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-05", "file": "debates1984-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c1d53c6be2696b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.148.3", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clark", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. and learned Gentleman will probably recall, the Labour Government started the scheme and changed it three times in the first two years. I have already said that expenditure on the scheme has risen —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.148.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-05", "file": "debates1984-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c1d53c6be2696b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.157.2", "colnum": "157", "heading": "South African Prime Minister (Visit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "m in South Africa, or for the cause of human rights, political freedom and self-determination in the countries of southern Africa? Will the right hon. Lady affirm that no discussion of arms supply — including the selling of the Coastguarder aircraft—took place during the meeting at Chequers? Will she take this opportunity not only publicly to affirm her detestation of and opposition to apartheid —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.157.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-05", "file": "debates1984-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c1d53c6be2696b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.157.2", "colnum": "157", "heading": "South African Prime Minister (Visit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": " London? On Namibia, can the right hon. Lady reaffirm that there has been no change in the Government's opposition to any linkage between Cuban troop withdrawals from Angola and the independence of Namibia, and no change in the Government's insistence that United Nations Security Council resolution 435 must be the basis for a transition to independence in Namibia? Will the right hon. Lady tell us—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.157.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-05", "file": "debates1984-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c1d53c6be2696b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.159.4", "colnum": "159", "heading": "South African Prime Minister (Visit)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ialist Prime Minister and the President and had successful talks there; that he then went to Switzerland, where he was received by the President of that country; and that today he is in Bonn, where he is being received by Chancellor Kohl. Does the right hon. Gentleman want us to be the only country which is not talking to South Africa, although it has enormous strategic importance to this country?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.159.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-05", "file": "debates1984-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c1d53c6be2696b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.159.7", "colnum": "159", "heading": "South African Prime Minister (Visit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Steel", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister accept that those of us who believe that the visit was a profound mistake are nevertheless grateful that the South African Prime Minister was slipped in and out of this counry without ceremony like some undesirable package? Is she surprised—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.159.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-05", "file": "debates1984-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c1d53c6be2696b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.163.11", "colnum": "163", "heading": "South African Prime Minister (Visit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Wrigglesworth", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Wrigglesworth", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that on these Benches —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.163.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-05", "file": "debates1984-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c1d53c6be2696b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.166.0", "colnum": "166", "heading": "South African Prime Minister (Visit)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I need any help on this matter. Every hon. Member knows that the phrase poses dishonour —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.166.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-06-05", "file": "debates1984-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c1d53c6be2696b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.166.1", "colnum": "166", "heading": "South African Prime Minister (Visit)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "help on this matter. Every hon. Member knows that the phrase poses dishonour — [Interruption.] The phrase has a connotation in this country which is well known, and I do not think that it should be used in the House. If the hon. Gentleman used that phrase, I ask him to withdraw it, as did his right hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Gorton (Mr. Kaufman). Did the hon. Gentleman use that phrase?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.166.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-05", "file": "debates1984-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c1d53c6be2696b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.203.1", "colnum": "203", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Data Protection Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "I shall give way when I have finished this part. The circular says—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.203.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-05", "file": "debates1984-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c1d53c6be2696b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.239.1", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Data Protection Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where were the Liberal amendments?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashdown", "preceding_text": "es, perhaps with justification, that the Bill has improved. We further depart from his view on that point. We believe that by codifying the current system and setting up a wholly inadequate system, that fact itself will make it more difficult to make the changes that I suspect the hon. Gentleman would wish, which I too would wish. On that ground, we believe, on this fundamental issue of principle—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.239.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-05", "file": "debates1984-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c1d53c6be2696b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.239.2", "colnum": "239", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Data Protection Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Denis Howell", "preceding_text": "ing because it is a matter of fundamental principle. He said that the fundamental principle was expressed by his party in minimalist terms, whatever that means. I do not know how one can express fundamental opposition to a Bill in minimalist terms. It is beyond my comprehension, unless the minimalist terms are intended to refer to the number of people that the alliance get into the Division Lobby.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.239.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-05", "file": "debates1984-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c1d53c6be2696b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.240.1", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Data Protection Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He voted for the Bill on Second Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howell", "preceding_text": "d against clause stand part on almost every occasion in Committee, but, of course, he never did so. Although manual files were not included and there are other deficiencies in the Bill the Government have gone a long way to meeting many of the points put in Committee and it would be reprehensible not to acknowledge the improvements made in the Bill. What the hon. Member for Yeovil is trying to do—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.240.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-05", "file": "debates1984-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c1d53c6be2696b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.240.4", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Data Protection Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waddington", "preceding_text": "hear drivel of the sort that we heard tonight from the hon. Member for Yeovil (Mr. Ashdown). It was unsavoury drivel for the reason mentioned by the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Small Heath (Mr. Howell). Although it was obvious that until now the alliance was perfectly content with the Bill, the great parade by the hon. Member for Yeovil a few moments ago was designed to catch the headlines —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.240.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-05", "file": "debates1984-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c1d53c6be2696b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.251.1", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Inshore Fishing (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hugh Brown", "preceding_text": "I am provoked into taking part in the discussion by the somewhat cynical opportunism of the two hon. Members who have just spoken.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.251.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-05", "file": "debates1984-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c1d53c6be2696b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.252.4", "colnum": "252", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Inshore Fishing (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "I was not going to take part in the debate, but I must rise to that bait. It is very easy to make the sort of speech that my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, Provan (Mr. Brown) has just made. If he represented a constituency such as East Lothian —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.252.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-05", "file": "debates1984-06-05a.xml", "sha256": "5c1d53c6be2696b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.283.2", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "preceding_text": "Government. Let us not hear any rubbish about the Government not preparing to tackle a strike. The Government transferred Mr. MacGregor from the steel industry to the coal board after he had cut 85,000 jobs. That was a preparation. His withdrawal from the negotiations is a sign that the dispute is being won. When hon. Members and workers outside call Mr. MacGregor a butcher and the angel of death—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-05a.283.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-06", "file": "debates1984-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "da1e9e9780d075f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-06a.300.1", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I am sorry, the right hon. Gentleman cannot say that. Well, he can say it, but it does not happen to be true. The scale of help within the United Kingdom is, of course—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-06a.300.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-06", "file": "debates1984-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "da1e9e9780d075f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-06a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agricultural Holdings Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Mills", "preceding_text": "ers. I hope that the Opposition will make it clear that they do not intend to do that. Finally, democratically elected local councils or authorities should decide on these matters. Most of them will take the matter seriously, and they should decide what to do. The Minister should not deal with the matter. He may give guidance, but the local people—they are the ratepayers—should have the final say.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-06a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-06", "file": "debates1984-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "da1e9e9780d075f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-06a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agricultural Holdings Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Budgen", "preceding_text": "Like the bulk of the Conservative party, I represent an urban constituency. My constituents are concerned most of all to have cheaper food and to keep monetary support to the farming industry within proper bounds.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-06a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-06", "file": "debates1984-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "da1e9e9780d075f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-06a.357.0", "colnum": "357", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agricultural Holdings Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Winterton", "preceding_text": "and learned Friend the Member for Burton (Mr. Lawrence), faced with a dilemma. There have been different views within the NFU as to how the milk package should be handled. However, to say that the NFU is at sixes and sevens and does not know where it stands on any issue is to do a grave disservice to one of the finest organisations representing one of the most efficient industries in the country —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-06a.357.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-06", "file": "debates1984-06-06a.xml", "sha256": "da1e9e9780d075f5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-06a.413.1", "colnum": "413", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Agricultural Holdings Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A good idea. \"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jackson", "preceding_text": "ult working life. However, under the Government's proposals in the Bill, he has only one chance to demonstrate that eligibility and suitability, and if he fails, he does not have another chance. It is a throw of the dice; all or nothing—in a phrase, \"sudden death\". It is as if, in the House, we were allowed only one chance to be elected to Parliament, and having failed, we could never stand again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-06a.413.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.438.8", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULUTRE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jopling", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman examines the statistics he will share with me much pleasure in the fact that during the past five years the cost of food has increased more slowly than have prices in general —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.438.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.442.1", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I will, of course, convey to my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister the point that has been made by the right hon. Gentleman, which shows just how shallow and completely —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.442.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.442.6", "colnum": "442", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Hon. MEMBERS: \"No\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "Is it not the case that the letters published yesterday reveal that the chairman of the Railways Board was actually instructed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.442.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.443.11", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Atkins", "preceding_text": "Has my right hon. Friend noticed that, despite the protestations in support of agriculture from members of the alliance party, they, along with members of the Labour party, voted in Committee on the Rates Bill in support of the rating of agricultural land?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.443.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.444.5", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "The early and full exposition of the plans of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food would, I am sure, be of immense electoral advantage —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.444.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.444.10", "colnum": "444", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House comment on a lottery organised by police officers in which officers involved in policing the mining dispute contributed £1 to a kitty, to be awarded to the policeman who arrested Arthur Scargill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.444.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.445.0", "colnum": "445", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I agree with my hon. Friend. There is no doubt that in this House and outside there are those who can see no satisfactory end to this contest other than in beer and sandwiches and the white flag—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.445.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.452.3", "colnum": "452", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "Is the Leader of the House aware that today and yesterday, on Derby day and Coronation cup day, fewer than 200 Tory Members have been present in the House — fewer than 200 out of nearly 800 Members of Parliament?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.452.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.457.1", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "Energy during the past 13 weeks unbelievable. After 13 weeks of a major strike he has not yet spoken to both sides. All we have had from him is an unhelpful interview in last Sunday's News of the World. We made an attempt not to negotiate but to get talks going on a proper basis between the two sides. I invited Mr. Scargill and his colleagues to come to the House to see me, which they readily did.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.457.1", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "ave done it. Mr. Scargill explained the case of the National Union of Mineworkers. A couple of days later I asked to see Mr. MacGregor, to which he readily agreed. He put the National Coal Board's case. Following those exchanges and recognising the gap that existed between the two sides — I am not underestimating that— I felt that there was a basis for talks, and I said so. Talks have now started.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.457.1", "colnum": "457", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "he letter, as confirmed by Conservative Members. The events of 1981 make it clear that since they came to power in 1979 the Government have been preparing to take on the miners. In 1981, as now, it was the Labour party who stood by the commitments in \"Plan for Coal\". It has repeatedly called on the Government to continue security of employment for mineworkers implicit in that programme for growth.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.457.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.461.1", "colnum": "461", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "penditure on major projects at existing mines will decline from approximately 32 per cent. of total capital investment in 1981–82 to 12 per cent. by the end of the decade. Yet \"Plan for Coal\" specifically states that a main point of new investment is to extend the life of existing pits. The failure to upgrade the productivity of existing pits spells decline and disaster for many coalfields.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.461.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.466.2", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer, farmer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "Perhaps we have a situation—this is very interesting—in terms of miners' conditions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.466.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.470.6", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "s and the claims that some Conservative Members have made throughout the period of the dispute. He said not a single word to suggest how we should get back to the negotiating table. He said a few kind words to my right hon. Friend the Member for Salford, East (Mr. Orme), who has been discharging the responsibilities that the right hon. Gentleman and Ministers should have been seeking to discharge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.470.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.470.6", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "ase but that the Prime Minister has intervened in the dispute. I am not surprised that the Secretary of State did not refer to that. Probably he was not consulted on it. Possibly the only Minister who was consulted about that aspect of the right hon. Lady's policy was the Minister of State, Department of Employment — the chairman of the Conservative party — who has entered into the correspondence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.470.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.470.6", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "h these matters, especially, as is now revealed, when that Department, which should have much wider responsibilities, has been dealing with the specific question of intervening to try to stop successful negotiations. That is what it has been doing, when from the beginning it should have intervened to prevent the dispute ever taking place. I served at the Department of Employment for several years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.470.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.470.6", "colnum": "470", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Foot", "preceding_text": "king place under Labour Administrations before 1970. I opposed those closures because I came from a mining constituency and thought at that time that the NUM was not only looking after its own interests but had a wiser understanding of the interests of the nation at large than did many of the people who were supporting the oil and other industries. I learnt from that, as did the Labour Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.470.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.473.1", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "ll very well for the hon. Gentleman to say, \"Give in.\" It is clear that Conservative Members who make such interruptions when we are discussing such important issues have no comprehension of the strength of feeling in the mining areas of Britain. They have no comprehension of how bitter is the feeling about the way in which the miners have been forced into this dispute. They have no comprehension—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.473.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.473.3", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "—of how that bitterness will be increased when they read how the Prime Minister has lied to the House —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.473.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.480.0", "colnum": "480", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "en honest enought to admit — we may have to rely on another leak — is that they intend to sell off the profitable pits. That is why they are investing in Selby. They want to pour public money into Selby and some of the Nottinghamshire coalfields so that when they have beaten the NUM—as they think that they will, but they will not—they can sell off the pits into which they have poured public money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.480.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.491.0", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Thompson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He has been on television.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Thompson", "preceding_text": "ntroduction of new industries to use that coal. Although I have concentrated on my area, I am certain that the conditions there are reflected in Durham and in parts of Yorkshire. I was interested to read a document produced last year by the Nottinghamshire NUM, which talked in detail about pit closures in Nottingham. I am happy to see the hon. Member for Sherwood (Mr. Stewart) back in the Chamber—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.491.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.495.1", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "n (Mr. Straw). That brings meneatly to the second reason why the debate is a disaster for the Opposition. It has been put off for 13 weeks. The Opposition have ducked the issue. They have not wanted a debate in their own time, but today we have it, and it represents the triumph of extremism over the Left. The right hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Stepney (Mr. Shore) spoke of puppets on a string.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.495.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.496.3", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howarth", "preceding_text": "I have not, and I shall say why. I do not believe that it is the job of responsible politicians to inflame difficult circumstances, and I have stayed away deliberately. We have read today that paint stripper has been thrown at policemen, three of whom have suffered substantial burns. Those of my constituents who are miners —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.496.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.500.4", "colnum": "500", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hickmet", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hickmet", "preceding_text": "the question. They have ducked the question for 13 weeks. I do not expect an answer from the Leader of the Opposition, because he has no guts, I cannot expect an answer from the right hon. Member for Salford, East for a similar reason, and I do not expect an answer from the hon. Member for Midlothian, because the question is unanswerable. If we do not get that coal, and if we do not get that coke—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.500.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.505.0", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alistair Burt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alistair Burt", "preceding_text": "ales. Closure of the highest cost pits would remove over-capacity and would cut losses. Much is said in those two paragraphs. The right hon. Member for Salford, East (Mr. Orme) mentioned encouraging more sales for coal, but he failed to deal with the problem that the Government face which is to encourage industry to move from oil-fired to coal-fired boilers; a plan sabotaged by the miners' strike—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.505.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.517.0", "colnum": "517", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "to this place. I say that with no disrepect to the hon. Member for Stafford (Mr. Cash), who also made his maiden speech earlier this evening. We meet today in rather peculiar circumstances. In effect, we are the shareholders of the mining industry, for we represent the nation. The speeches of some Conservative Members have suggested that we are discussing a clapped-out industry that has no future—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.517.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.520.3", "colnum": "520", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hind", "preceding_text": "ofitable pits. We want a modern industry producing low-priced coal, which will benefit us all. The miners should know that with the dispute they are upsetting the future of their industry and putting off those who might have changed from oil-fired to coal-fired power. They should also consider the coal board's programme to assist them to set up in business and the marvellous terms for redundancy —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.520.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.521.0", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Hardy", "preceding_text": " boy said— (Interruption.] This is not a laughing matter. The scars that result from this type of experience will bring bitterness and grief to another generation of Conservatives. The boy said that he was not pleased with life because his mother was always crying. I shall not give the name of the headmaster, because the Secretary of State for Education and Science wants to get rid of headmasters.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.521.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.523.3", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander Eadie", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander Eadie", "preceding_text": ". There is good reason for it being named as such. If one adds it to the expenditure in the Falklands and the colossal cost of sustaining unemployment, we undoubtedly have the most irresponsible and extravagantly expensive Government ever in peacetime. The miners' dispute is probably costing twice as much as the Falklands war. I restrain myself with great difficulty from going into details about —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.523.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-07", "file": "debates1984-06-07a.xml", "sha256": "ae9ac558fd11762f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.523.3", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alexander Eadie", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"And the Prime Minister.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alexander Eadie", "preceding_text": "hat about 700 places are standing idle all over the British coal fields. If this dispute lasts much longer, I estimate that about £1·75 billion worth of equipment underground will be at risk, but in Mr. MacGregor's words, this is a \"little temporary difficulty\". I put it to the House in all seriousness that, because of his monumental incompetence, Mr. MacGregor should be sacked immediately.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-07a.523.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-08", "file": "debates1984-06-08a.xml", "sha256": "1d12dc77667b72a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-08a.601.1", "colnum": "601", "heading": "Orders of the Day — South Atlantic", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "various ideas and it transpired in the morning that he had these ideas worked out or in the process of working out, with Peru. Fred Emery: He says he spent all night. He was up all night on the phone … Francis Pym: Well, he may have been up all night on the phone … Fred Emery: Do you remember him telling you that? Francis Pym: Well, he may have been up all night on the phone …", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-08a.601.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-11", "file": "debates1984-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c6e9d97361240a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-11a.622.11", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mason", "preceding_text": "Why should Parliament believe that the Secretary of State's figures are accurate? How do we know that the Secretary of State is telling the truth?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-11a.622.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-11", "file": "debates1984-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c6e9d97361240a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-11a.630.6", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I have a large amount of correspondence flowing through my office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-11a.630.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-11", "file": "debates1984-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c6e9d97361240a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-11a.643.0", "colnum": "643", "heading": "Pensions (Early Leavers)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": " that that would force a renegotiation of the benefit scales? Is he aware that that would not be so burdensome to the corporate sector as many funds are accumulating substantial surpluses? Has the Secretary of State considered the retrospective application of his proposals, since millions of young people have been cheated of their basic rights by the tardiness with which the Government have acted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-11a.643.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-11", "file": "debates1984-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c6e9d97361240a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-11a.658.0", "colnum": "658", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "preceding_text": "ate at an early stage to attend a commitment which I undertook before I knew that this debate would take place, leaving the Opposition Front Bench in the care of my hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, Central (Mr. Fatchett). I hope that it will be the first of many appearances by him on this Bench. Those saints who were said to have practised the miracle of bi-location failed to leave us the secret.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-11a.658.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-11", "file": "debates1984-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c6e9d97361240a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-11a.678.1", "colnum": "678", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Chris Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Chris Patten", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for a chance to intervene, and I am even more grateful that the hon. Member for Upper Bann (Mr. McCusker) took the trouble to read my speech to a seminar the other day, although it sounds from what he said as though he read only the rather truncated reports which appeared in one of Northern Ireland's newspapers which, alas, does not have many journalists working for it at the moment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-11a.678.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-11", "file": "debates1984-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c6e9d97361240a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-11a.720.3", "colnum": "720", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": "The Labour party will be abstaining—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-11a.720.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-11", "file": "debates1984-06-11a.xml", "sha256": "c6e9d97361240a25", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-11a.738.2", "colnum": "738", "heading": "Afia Begum", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Waddington)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Home Office (Mr. David Waddington)", "preceding_text": "hile she excercised that right, the immigration officers, who have been so criticised by the hon. Member for Leyton, recognised that this was a sad case and gave her temporary admission so that she could clear up her husband's affairs. Mrs. Hamid appealed to the independent appellate authorities and she lost, but even then this unprincipled, wicked Government were in no hurry to make her go, and —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-11a.738.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-12", "file": "debates1984-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "fa2011082dd154f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-12a.745.9", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "It seems to be a heavy casualty day—like D-day plus seven today. We are awaiting legal advice from the Attorney-General, who is giving this matter his urgent attention.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-12a.745.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-12", "file": "debates1984-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "fa2011082dd154f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-12a.749.3", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "I appreciate my hon. Friend's point. Three schemes put out for consultation two years ago involved transferring money to those who were most in need. However, no agreement was reached. I remind my hon. Friend —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-12a.749.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-12", "file": "debates1984-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "fa2011082dd154f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-12a.750.6", "colnum": "750", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "I thought that I had replied to that question earlier. However, I shall help the hon. Gentleman, who is obviously too far away to hear. The overall cost of the death grant—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-12a.750.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-12", "file": "debates1984-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "fa2011082dd154f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-12a.754.7", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that according to a secret Government document —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-12a.754.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-12", "file": "debates1984-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "fa2011082dd154f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-12a.754.8", "colnum": "754", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "As it happens, I have a copy of that so-called \"secret\" document with me. So far as I know, there is also a copy in the Library. If the hon. Gentleman has any other secrets, perhaps he will share them with me. If that document is not already in the Library, it will certainly be there tomorrow.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-12a.754.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-12", "file": "debates1984-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "fa2011082dd154f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-12a.758.7", "colnum": "758", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "With regard to the precise papers that the Secretary of State for Energy sees, I suspect he has seen a great deal more than I have, because he is the sponsoring Minister. With regard to intervenion, right hon. and hon. Members are still urging me to intervene by getting them all to No. 10. I have not done so, and will not do so. I have repeatedly said that this Government have set——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-12a.758.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-12", "file": "debates1984-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "fa2011082dd154f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-12a.761.6", "colnum": "761", "heading": "Parliamentary Expressions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dobson", "preceding_text": "Could we seek your advice, Mr. Speaker?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-12a.761.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-12", "file": "debates1984-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "fa2011082dd154f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-12a.765.0", "colnum": "765", "heading": "London Economic Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "resident Mitterrand and Prime Minister Craxi. On monetary growth and interest rates, the communiqué said that we shall pursue policies to keep down monetary growth and interest rates. Interest rates in the United States are a great deal lower now than they were three or four years ago. Indeed, they are only about half what they were. We have set out a programme to deal with the debt crisis—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-12a.765.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-12", "file": "debates1984-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "fa2011082dd154f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-12a.768.5", "colnum": "768", "heading": "London Economic Summit", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ter that mandate had been exhausted, which would have been a wrong precendent which could have been used to prolong the mandate, for example, of the House. That would have been constitutionally wrong. It would clearly be wrong to prolong a mandate after it had been exhausted. The issue was whether we should substitute for those councillors other councillors who would take over the responsibility —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-12a.768.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-12", "file": "debates1984-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "fa2011082dd154f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-12a.820.2", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Council (Money) (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Berry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Berry", "preceding_text": "ts use. I understand that the GLC is unlikely to ask for the addition and, speaking from the Back Benches, I see no objection to that. As a reasonable person, I should like to think that the Treasury would give consent to extra capital spending if it were satisfied that that was appropriate. If such a situation arose, having the extra resources available in part IV would make the consent feasible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-12a.820.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-12", "file": "debates1984-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "fa2011082dd154f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-12a.826.1", "colnum": "826", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Council (Money) (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"1981.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spearing", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has given his view of the right decision, which is minus £46 million. He is really saying that the right decision is no. But is that the right decision from the point of view of the rights of the public? The present members of the GLC were elected in 1972 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-12a.826.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-12", "file": "debates1984-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "fa2011082dd154f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-12a.846.1", "colnum": "846", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Council (Money) (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "cil. The Government believe that the provision that the GLC seeks in the Bill is more than what is appropriate. My hon. Friend the Member for Southgate has already spoken about his instruction, on which we shall vote later this evening, and which asks the Committee to reduce the provision. I am grateful to my hon. Friend for bringing forward proposals with which I find myself in complete sympathy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-12a.846.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-12", "file": "debates1984-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "fa2011082dd154f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-12a.853.1", "colnum": "853", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Council (Money) (No. 2) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bottomley", "preceding_text": "born and St. Pancras said it all along, because Hansard will show that he did not, and in the first 20 minutes of his speech he was unable to given any information about it. The claims to democratic accountability have been shown not to stand up to examination. This £10 million deal was hidden from the hon. Member for Newham, North-West, and appears not to have been known to most people in London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-12a.853.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-12", "file": "debates1984-06-12a.xml", "sha256": "fa2011082dd154f7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-12a.868.1", "colnum": "868", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Greater London Council (Money) (No. 2) Bill (By Order)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "preceding_text": "ends and I have been quoting, other schemes will have to go. If the hon. Gentleman would care to put in bids for other capital projects that will have to go, instead of the ones that we have mentioned, it is up to him to put forward his alternative proposals. I am describing the schemes that are the most likely to suffer as a result of the instruction that he and his hon. Friends have put forward.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-12a.868.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-13", "file": "debates1984-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "bafe2439debdf332", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-13a.919.0", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Rate Capping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Coming so soon after an occasion when the Prime Minister has been found to be misleading the House, the matter is plainly important, specific and urgent. We have a Prime Minister who is increasingly a stranger to the truth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-13a.919.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-13", "file": "debates1984-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "bafe2439debdf332", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-13a.920.2", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Rate Capping", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dickens", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. The House has been misadvised, because the Prime Minister, in answering a question yesterday—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-13a.920.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-13", "file": "debates1984-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "bafe2439debdf332", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-13a.921.1", "colnum": "921", "heading": "Members of Parliament (London)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What is this?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bottomley", "preceding_text": "Member of Parliament. I am referring to the threat to stop school improvements in some constituencies because they do not vote for Labour Members of Parliament. I submit to you, Mr. Speaker, that this is the sort of matter that should be raised as specific, urgent and important. The Government have stepped in to take over housing responsibilities and it is possible that they will take over others.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-13a.921.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-13", "file": "debates1984-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "bafe2439debdf332", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-13a.950.0", "colnum": "950", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Favell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Favell", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way. My intervention will save me making a speech later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-13a.950.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-13", "file": "debates1984-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "bafe2439debdf332", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-13a.955.5", "colnum": "955", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Best", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Best", "preceding_text": "rs. That marriage will not be saved by having a one-year restriction or by them looking to the law to find that the law says that irretrievable breakdown cannot occur within 12 months. That is what the House will be saying if we pass the Bill unamended. My hon. and learned Friend the Member for Perth and Kinross (Mr. Fairbairn) who supports this new clause spoke in the Special Standing Committee —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-13a.955.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-13", "file": "debates1984-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "bafe2439debdf332", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-13a.965.3", "colnum": "965", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sims", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sims", "preceding_text": "and the basis of the family is marriage. There is, of course, a religious aspect to the issue. Many of us who are of the Christian faith believe that marriage should be for life—although, of course, most of the Christian churches accept that we are all imperfect and fallible and make mistakes. I confess that I should have liked a lead to have been taken in this important matter by Church leaders —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-13a.965.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-13", "file": "debates1984-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "bafe2439debdf332", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-13a.983.6", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir William van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "n virtually no guidance. The appropriate commission of the Church of England gave evidence to the Special Standing Committee and the Bishop of Birmingham has a letter in The Times today. I find it strange, but it is the case — I have examined it closely — that, although his staff made a great many calls to the two Whips' offices, they would not confirm that there was a free vote on the new clause.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-13a.983.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-13", "file": "debates1984-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "bafe2439debdf332", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-13a.983.6", "colnum": "983", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Sir William van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "n. and noble Friend the Lord Chancellor has an emotional commitment to the provisions of clause 1, which may, for the first time, have out-weighed his supreme judicial judgment and great services to the nation. That is not a wise way to legislate, especially for delicate legislation such as this. It troubles me profoundly. Some of his outbursts in relation to the bishops of the Church of England —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-13a.983.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-13", "file": "debates1984-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "bafe2439debdf332", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-13a.999.3", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "today. That is an approach that I find—the House may agree with me or not—highly unjust and unattractively presumptuous. It is one that is incompatible with the basis of our civil law of divorce, which is founded on the irretrievable breakdown of marriage. It is the penalty to which the Law Commission referred and to which my hon. Friends the Members for Ynys Môn and for Stockport referred.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-13a.999.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-13", "file": "debates1984-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "bafe2439debdf332", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-13a.999.3", "colnum": "999", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": " of our civil law of divorce, which is founded on the irretrievable breakdown of marriage. It is the penalty to which the Law Commission referred and to which my hon. Friends the Members for Ynys Môn and for Stockport referred. [Interruption.] Not Southport, Stockport. I know the difference between the two because I went to one of them on Friday. I went to the other at the general election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-13a.999.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-13", "file": "debates1984-06-13a.xml", "sha256": "bafe2439debdf332", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-13a.1012.4", "colnum": "1012", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stevens", "preceding_text": "ortgage payments until the child has completed its education. His income is much reduced. He may not require the wife at any stage to return to her professional activities, and he may not require the gentleman friend, assuming that the wife does not marry him, to make any contribution. To describe such a marriage as having a common endeavour is fraudulent cant. That is what we are trying to avoid.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-13a.1012.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-14", "file": "debates1984-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "671d4c8a673e5a93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-14a.1059.5", "colnum": "1059", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": " say how they propose to do it? Is my hon. Friend aware that the Leader of the Opposition was in his seat on Tuesday when my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister said: We have no intention of extending VAT to food.\" — [ Official Report, 12 June 1984; Vol. 169, c. 756.] Yet the very next day the Leader of the Opposition asserted that the opposite was the case. It is he who dispensed with the truth—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-14a.1059.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-14", "file": "debates1984-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "671d4c8a673e5a93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-14a.1067.8", "colnum": "1067", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Haynes", "preceding_text": "How can the Prime Minister expect the people of this nation—particularly the electorate—to believe that the Government are not planning to increase VAT on food, bearing in mind that the Prime Minister at that Dispatch Box—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-14a.1067.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-14", "file": "debates1984-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "671d4c8a673e5a93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-14a.1090.2", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "The Arts and the Heritage", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macfarlane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macfarlane", "preceding_text": "In the context of the royal parks, it is not an infinitesimal number. They are an important dimension to the royal parks, and I was merely providing some statistics which may or may not be of interest to hon. Members. I was trying to demonstrate the Government's role and their record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-14a.1090.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-14", "file": "debates1984-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "671d4c8a673e5a93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-14a.1090.4", "colnum": "1090", "heading": "The Arts and the Heritage", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Macfarlane", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Macfarlane", "preceding_text": "ss is clearly another person's gain. I am sure that my hon. Friend will accept that there is much that we must do to restore the great losses that we have suffered over the years. Trees are an important component part of our heritage. I referred earlier to the support given by the Government to the appeal launched by the Courtauld Institute, which represents another important part of our heritage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-14a.1090.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-14", "file": "debates1984-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "671d4c8a673e5a93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-14a.1094.0", "colnum": "1094", "heading": "The Arts and the Heritage", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": " deepest analysis of the arts by a Select Committee. There have been sheaves of comments about its report and about the crisis that is facing the arts. Yet this debate is taking place on a day when it was known that many of those who are most concerned could not be here. It is being held on a day when it is impossible for people concerned with the arts to come to lobby their Members of Parliament.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-14a.1094.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-14", "file": "debates1984-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "671d4c8a673e5a93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-14a.1105.4", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "The Arts and the Heritage", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "ropriate for the state to be. There must be permanent, continuing and widening state support for the arts. We cannot have great museums, a British Library or a great national opera house unless they are financed from central funds. The shape and form of the Government's role is a matter of great concern and interest to us all. I have always believed that the Arts Minister should be in the Cabinet—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-14a.1105.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-14", "file": "debates1984-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "671d4c8a673e5a93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-14a.1105.4", "colnum": "1105", "heading": "The Arts and the Heritage", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "ial Government response to it was inadequate. I had hoped for a more detailed response to it today. We hope to hear more in the Government's reply to the debate. We had to wait 18 months for the Government's inadequate response to the report. I hope that we shall have a fuller and speedier response to such documents in future. It is preferable for the Arts Minister to sit in the House of Commons —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-14a.1105.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-14", "file": "debates1984-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "671d4c8a673e5a93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-14a.1109.1", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "The Arts and the Heritage", "cue_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. St. John-Stevas", "preceding_text": "be a major tragedy if the home of so much creative and innovative work in the theatre were to be abolished. It is to lose support from the GLC—although the GLC did not support it to any great extent — and the Arts Council now suggests that the Kensington and Chelsea council should come forward and support it. That is just a pious aspiration. That council has never given a penny to the Royal Court.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-14a.1109.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-14", "file": "debates1984-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "671d4c8a673e5a93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-14a.1115.0", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "The Arts and the Heritage", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Cormack", "preceding_text": "of Commons in general, that the Committee's unanimous report has been treated with such scant attention and respect. The Committee embraced all wings of both the major parties and had on it an eloquent representative from one of the minority parties, whom I am glad to see in his place this afternoon. His constituency escapes me for the moment but it has a most delightful and euphonious Welsh name.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-14a.1115.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-14", "file": "debates1984-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "671d4c8a673e5a93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-14a.1134.1", "colnum": "1134", "heading": "The Arts and the Heritage", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "ough, other nations will not say, \"We want that specific object, because it has particular cultural, religious or national significance to our country.\" When the situation arises, as it will do, that some of the countries are in a position to make requirements in terms of economic deals with certain resources, these matters will come up again, and we will have to be more realistic in our response.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-14a.1134.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-14", "file": "debates1984-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "671d4c8a673e5a93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-14a.1135.0", "colnum": "1135", "heading": "The Arts and the Heritage", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "I shall, wherever possible, avoid reference to the GLC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-14a.1135.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-14", "file": "debates1984-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "671d4c8a673e5a93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-14a.1159.15", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "The Arts and the Heritage", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": ", his are not good enough to be sure of that monopoly being beneficial. My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary was criticised for being too long in his opening speech. We must remember that every day 9 million people attend the institutions, buildings and so on which he looks after. The heritage is a major part of the whole story, and I suggest that he was unfairly criticised. I shall address myself —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-14a.1159.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-14", "file": "debates1984-06-14a.xml", "sha256": "671d4c8a673e5a93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-14a.1160.5", "colnum": "1160", "heading": "The Arts and the Heritage", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "imes were not easy. They have done well. I am grateful for the tributes by the hon. Member for Cambridgeshire, North-East and by my hon. Friends, including my right hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford, who has been generous to his successors. Hon. Members have mentioned poetry. One hon. Member said something that I could not stomach for a moment. He said that there were no good poets in Britain.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-14a.1160.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-18", "file": "debates1984-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f4babab6010ba44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-18a.22.0", "colnum": "22", "heading": "Social Security Benefits (Uprating)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "ate aware that, apart from the inflation indexing of pensions, the real meaning of his statement is that yet again a tiny amount of extra funds is being made available to certain very small groups of beneficiaries, while at the same time very much larger sums are being cut from vastly bigger groups in receipt of benefit? Is the Secretary of State aware in particular—this is a very important point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-18a.22.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-18", "file": "debates1984-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f4babab6010ba44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-18a.48.3", "colnum": "48", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": " be reasonably confident of Mr. Heseltine's new figures. Naturally, we can't … The case for the Trident missile is not even widely accepted. I do not think that it is on the Conservative Benches. The tactics employed by the Ministry of Defence to get us committed to the project are familiar enough—little public debate beforehand, gross under estimate of the cost followed by a quiet series\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-18a.48.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-18", "file": "debates1984-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f4babab6010ba44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-18a.50.1", "colnum": "50", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "t the Secretary of State would agree with this—to be the first to unleash nuclear weapons in central Europe. In fact, it is a strategy of first use of nuclear weapons. The basis of the strategy was set out in a joint article in the American publication Foreign Affairs in spring, 1982. This joint article was written by Mr. Robert McNamara, Mr. McGeorge Bundy, Mr. George Keenan and Mr. Gerard Smith.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-18a.50.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-18", "file": "debates1984-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f4babab6010ba44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-18a.52.2", "colnum": "52", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "tate plans to increase competition in the procurement of defence equipment. Apparently there is to be more competitive tendering, more privatisation, more contracting out and more hiving off from the Ministry of Defence with the aim of getting better value for money. Like many people, I do not believe that we shall get better value for money. Speaking in another place, the noble Lord Carver said —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-18a.52.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-18", "file": "debates1984-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f4babab6010ba44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-18a.57.0", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": "es for the defence budget are extremely serious. If we want Trident, there should be a greater increase in the overall defence budget so that we can pay for Trident and improve our conventional defences. I do not believe that it is possible for the Secretary of State, when no doubt he is off to greener pastures, to fulfill the commitments which are before us within the forward defence expenditure—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-18a.57.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-18", "file": "debates1984-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f4babab6010ba44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-18a.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "ish to be logical and consistent in their anxiety about nuclear weapons, which I share, the way round the problem is to be prepared to spend more on conventional defence. I notice that the right hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey) has not signed the motion in the name of the Leader of the Opposition. I hope that that is because the right hon. Member for Leeds, East is not going to vote for it", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-18a.61.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-18", "file": "debates1984-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f4babab6010ba44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-18a.61.1", "colnum": "61", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "ut nuclear weapons, which I share, the way round the problem is to be prepared to spend more on conventional defence. I notice that the right hon. Member for Leeds, East (Mr. Healey) has not signed the motion in the name of the Leader of the Opposition. I hope that that is because the right hon. Member for Leeds, East is not going to vote for it [Interruption] I cannot conceive of it as possible —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-18a.61.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-18", "file": "debates1984-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f4babab6010ba44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-18a.77.0", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Julian Critchley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Julian Critchley", "preceding_text": "lusively on the American arms industry for advanced technology. It used to be said in my day in Paris that one could sleep as well in the Avenue Wilson—Woodrow, not Harold—as anywhere in Paris. Perhaps that will no longer be true in the future. Finally, I understand that a serving soldier will soon become Britain's first astronaut. Has the Secretary of State any plans for putting a woman in space?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-18a.77.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-18", "file": "debates1984-06-18a.xml", "sha256": "0f4babab6010ba44", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-18a.114.1", "colnum": "114", "heading": "Defence", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lee", "preceding_text": "Kingdom soil. We find that concept entirely unacceptable. One has only to look at the relentless buildup of Soviet chemical weapons to see that one-sided disarmament achieves nothing. I freely acknowledge that certain Labour speakers tonight genuinely believe in substantial conventional arms expenditure, but they are increasingly in a minority as the harder Left within the Labour party takes hold.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-18a.114.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-19", "file": "debates1984-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "91c9faee21173d26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-19a.130.6", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "Or, for that matter, anyone else. The idea that pay can be settled in a free society by equality for all, or some vision of social justice, is a recipe for endless leap-frogging —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-19a.130.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-19", "file": "debates1984-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "91c9faee21173d26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-19a.138.2", "colnum": "138", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "That was not an answer; it was a recitation of arrogant complacency, an evasion, and a betrayal of the national interest.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-19a.138.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-19", "file": "debates1984-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "91c9faee21173d26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-19a.138.4", "colnum": "138", "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, who is shouting and posturing, is more accustomed to it than I am. We have seen violence which he has not —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-19a.138.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-19", "file": "debates1984-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "91c9faee21173d26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-19a.139.6", "colnum": "139", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The facts are well known. The fact that the Government have given a better deal to the mining industry than any other previous Government is well known. The fact that the offer has been taken up by 50,000 miners is also well known. The House knows that 50,000 miners are working and are continuing to work —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-19a.139.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-19", "file": "debates1984-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "91c9faee21173d26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-19a.140.2", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Now that one out of five of the electorate has voted—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-19a.140.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-19", "file": "debates1984-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "91c9faee21173d26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-19a.140.2", "colnum": "140", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "Now that one out of five of the electorate has voted— [Interruption.] Now that one out of five of the electorate has voted for the alliance parties, will the Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-19a.140.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-19", "file": "debates1984-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "91c9faee21173d26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-19a.142.3", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Kaufman", "preceding_text": "dly anticipated the outcome of that inquiry? Will he admit that the police force have been pitchforked against their will into an intolerable situation that the the nation is sick at heart at having to witness? As Mr. Tony Clement rightly complains, the police have become the \"jam in the sandwich\". The Prime Minister today admitted that the Government are using the police to enforce the civil law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-19a.142.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-19", "file": "debates1984-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "91c9faee21173d26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-19a.161.3", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Question of Privilege", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Tracey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Order\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Tracey", "preceding_text": "It is with sadness that I rise to speak on this matter, because the hon. Member for Newham, North-West (Mr. Banks) is, like myself, a new Member of the House. We came here on the same day. I have listened with regret to the attitudes taken by the hon. Member during his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-19a.161.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-19", "file": "debates1984-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "91c9faee21173d26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-19a.164.2", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Question of Privilege", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did not say that.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Shore", "preceding_text": "f the GLC added these words: 'the GLC will continue to allocate resources on the basis of need. To do otherwise would be to penalise the working people of London'.\"—[ Official Report, 19 January 1983; Vol. 35, c. 339.] I have no doubt that that remains the policy of the GLC and would remain the policy supported by my hon. Friend the Member for Newham, North-West, who is a member of that authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-19a.164.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-19", "file": "debates1984-06-19a.xml", "sha256": "91c9faee21173d26", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-19a.253.2", "colnum": "253", "heading": "Harbour Development", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Roberts", "preceding_text": "nemployment in Falmouth, Merseyside and Bristol is not to play one area off against the other, or to offer one goodie to Liverpool, such as the free port, and another goodie to Falmouth, such as the new container terminal. We need a complete change in the economic and industrial policies of the Government, which means planning ports and docks policy. It means considering the direction of shipping—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-19a.253.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-20", "file": "debates1984-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "3f76ef389694c3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-20a.277.8", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "The standard of care in all four maternity hospitals in Edinburgh is of the highest, and I reiterate the point, which the hon. Gentleman does not seem to have heard, that all four hospitals are running at roughly half capacity and under, simply because, for a variety of reasons, not enough mothers are having babies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-20a.277.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-20", "file": "debates1984-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "3f76ef389694c3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-20a.294.1", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Foreign Affairs Council", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "needed is on further move to clinch an agreement. As Chancellor Kohl told the press after his meeting with President Mitterrand on 20 May, that progress can be achieved only if all sides move towards each other. That remains our position and there is no question whatever of any climbdown. The savings that have to be found need to be sought prudently in every area where they can sensibly be found —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-20a.294.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-20", "file": "debates1984-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "3f76ef389694c3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-20a.314.1", "colnum": "314", "heading": "Registrations and Accountability of Charities", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Timothy Yeo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Timothy Yeo", "preceding_text": "e not had some contact with charities in one form or another, whether as a voluntary worker, a financial supporter making a donation or as a direct or indirect recipient of the service of a charity. However, the popular perception of charities remains focused on a few well-known organisations such as Dr. Barnardo's and Oxfam, or, at the other end of the scale, local charitable activities such as —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-20a.314.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-20", "file": "debates1984-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "3f76ef389694c3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-20a.348.8", "colnum": "348", "heading": "Clause 20", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is getting close to seeing a disturbance in the Chamber, which would be most unfortunate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-20a.348.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-20", "file": "debates1984-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "3f76ef389694c3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-20a.367.1", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Clause 34", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "There is much sense in what the Minister is saying—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-20a.367.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-20", "file": "debates1984-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "3f76ef389694c3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-20a.372.0", "colnum": "372", "heading": "Clause 37", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "d would be well advised to visit the new bypass at Killiecrankie. Some changes were made in the road works to permit this bypass, of which I heartily approve. My hon. Friend made this possible. Before one enters the bypass, one meets rumble strips. I thought that they were a modern version of sleeping policemen, because they are about the same size as many other sleeping policemen whom I have met.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-20a.372.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-20", "file": "debates1984-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "3f76ef389694c3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-20a.392.4", "colnum": "392", "heading": "Roads (Scotland) Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Craigen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Craigen", "preceding_text": "I would welcome the Minister's comments on three points. One is that the permission of a roads authority is required only in respect of the occupation of part of public roads and not private roads. COSLA put the point to the Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-20a.392.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-20", "file": "debates1984-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "3f76ef389694c3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-20a.412.4", "colnum": "412", "heading": "Clause 93", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I acknowledge that I did not enjoy the privileged upbringing of the hon. Gentleman. However, I have picked many potatoes and berries and I understand the practical problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-20a.412.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-20", "file": "debates1984-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "3f76ef389694c3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-20a.429.0", "colnum": "429", "heading": "New Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wilson", "preceding_text": "tages of the Roads (Scotland) Bill we are unlikely to have any major changes, particularly as the Secretary of State for Energy, who popped in for a while, has now left. The Committee's attention has been directed to an important aspect. It is desirable that there should be some control, however that may be expressed in drafting terms, over lorry loads of noxious and dangerous chemicals and gases.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-20a.429.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-20", "file": "debates1984-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "3f76ef389694c3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-20a.430.8", "colnum": "430", "heading": "New Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ten years ago.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "w facilities for sport and recreation—Hampden Park is high on our list. Hampden Park, of course, is in my constituency. I have to tell the hon. Member for Tayside, North (Mr. Walker) that that quotation comes from the general election document of October 1974, Freedom for all the people—A charter for Scotland which was printed and published by the Scottish Conservative and Unionist central office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-20a.430.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-20", "file": "debates1984-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "3f76ef389694c3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-20a.430.8", "colnum": "430", "heading": "New Clause 11", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "th such tolls. Furthermore, the tolls should be abolished because they have an adverse effect on industry. I see that some Conservative Members do not agree, but FIDA—a very reputable marketing research and investigative organisation in Edinburgh—did some research into the effect of the Forth road bridge on the Fife area. It has been shown that it has a detrimental effect on industry in that area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-20a.430.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-20", "file": "debates1984-06-20a.xml", "sha256": "3f76ef389694c3ea", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-20a.448.7", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Rating and Valuation (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "l. I remember with great clarity the complicated discussions about the likely impact of clause 15 on the rating of football grounds, racecourses and several other facilities in Scotland, and the deep feeling that there was injustice compared with what happened south of the border. I know that the Minister holds firm to the view that the contractors' principle has died with this set of provisions —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-20a.448.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-21", "file": "debates1984-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "28baee4795d10597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-21a.473.0", "colnum": "473", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Concannon", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Put it to the vote.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Concannon", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister constantly prays in aid the 50,000 miners who are at work, as though they believed in her policy, or Mr. MacGregor's policy. Is she aware that that is not so and that their problem lies elsewhere?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-21a.473.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-21", "file": "debates1984-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "28baee4795d10597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-21a.479.3", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Sir David Price", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Too long.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir David Price", "preceding_text": "early-day motion 817 on the virtue of brevity in debate? [\"That this House recognises that for a speech to be immortal it does not have to be eternal and that the standard of debate would be greatly improved if all back-bench speeches were limited to 15 minutes and all front-bench speeches to 30 minutes without the specific permission of the House.\"] Will he introduce my proposal this coming week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-21a.479.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-06-21", "file": "debates1984-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "28baee4795d10597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-21a.479.7", "colnum": "479", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I cannot believe that there is anyone in the House who would be so innocent as to describe Scottish business as non-divisive. Therefore, I cannot accept the premise of the hon. Gentleman. I believe that it is up to hon. Members to treat this House as a place of full-time work if they wish to be here to hear statements.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-21a.479.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-21", "file": "debates1984-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "28baee4795d10597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-21a.487.1", "colnum": "487", "heading": "Parliamentary Language", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. There is an interesting precedent for exactly the same sort of incident. My right hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff, South and Penarth (Mr. Callaghan), when he was Prime Minister, referred to the arrest of two criminals—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-21a.487.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-21", "file": "debates1984-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "28baee4795d10597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-21a.490.3", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Ministerial Statements", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks (Newham, North-West)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks (Newham, North-West)", "preceding_text": "er. My hon. Friend the Member for Newham, South (Mr. Spearing) is referring to a situation in which statements are a long time in preparation. The suggestion that was made by the Leader of the House that either my hon. Friend the Member for Newham, South or other Opposition Members were not full-time Members was outrageous, given the fact that my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover, (Mr. Skinner)—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-21a.490.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-21", "file": "debates1984-06-21a.xml", "sha256": "28baee4795d10597", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-21a.490.3", "colnum": "490", "heading": "Ministerial Statements", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks (Newham, North-West)", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks (Newham, North-West)", "preceding_text": "on in which statements are a long time in preparation. The suggestion that was made by the Leader of the House that either my hon. Friend the Member for Newham, South or other Opposition Members were not full-time Members was outrageous, given the fact that my hon. Friend the Member for Bolsover, (Mr. Skinner)—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"]—in a debate which I was unfortunately not able to attend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-21a.490.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-22", "file": "debates1984-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "3d36a9db1a97458a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-22a.601.3", "colnum": "601", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "nning that there was nothing about aviation in the Labour party's election manifesto. There was nothing about it in its latest European election manifesto either, despite the fact that our policy here is producing real benefits for travellers. The Labour party's view of Europe extends only as far as the \"parish pump\", but there was something about aviation in \"Labour's Programme 1982\" which read —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-22a.601.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-22", "file": "debates1984-06-22a.xml", "sha256": "3d36a9db1a97458a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-22a.601.3", "colnum": "601", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": " party's view of Europe extends only as far as the \"parish pump\", but there was something about aviation in \"Labour's Programme 1982\" which read — [Interruption.] I am about to read Labour's programme. Labour is certainly not opposed to low air fares\"— I am glad to hear that, despite the double negative. But and this is a substantial but— fares policies must be consistent with a licensing system\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-22a.601.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-25", "file": "debates1984-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "615b97389733ead8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-25a.676.7", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Edwards", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-25a.676.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-25", "file": "debates1984-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "615b97389733ead8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-25a.767.1", "colnum": "767", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Snape", "preceding_text": "rnment's advisers. I am sure that if she had the opportunity she would ride to work on a bike, but more probably would travel in a chauffeur-driven car. 9.30 pm Therefore, I do not accept that Ministers, particularly in this Government, are well qualified to work out the best way to pursue fare dodgers. I say that because they lack experience of the public transport for which they are responsible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-25a.767.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-06-25", "file": "debates1984-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "615b97389733ead8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-25a.780.2", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made and question proposed, That Mr. Michael McNair-Wilson be discharged from the Education, Science and Arts Committee and Mr. Roger Sims be added to the Committee.— [Mr. Fox, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-25a.780.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-06-25", "file": "debates1984-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "615b97389733ead8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-25a.780.5", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made and question proposed, That Sir Reginald Eyre be discharged from the Environment Committee and Mr. Julian Critchley be added to the Committee.— [Mr. Fox, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-25a.780.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-06-25", "file": "debates1984-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "615b97389733ead8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-25a.780.8", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made and question proposed, That Mr. Mark Robinson be discharged from the Foreign Affairs Committee and Mr. Robert Harvey be added to the Committee— [Mr. Fox, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-25a.780.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-06-25", "file": "debates1984-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "615b97389733ead8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-25a.780.11", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made and question proposed, That Mr. Michael Lord be discharged from the Agriculture Committee and Mr. Jim Spicer be added to the Committee— [Mr. Fox, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-25a.780.10"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-06-25", "file": "debates1984-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "615b97389733ead8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-25a.780.14", "colnum": "780", "heading": "Orders of the Day — London Regional Transport Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made and question proposed, That Mr. Robert Harvey be discharged from the Committee on Welsh Affairs and Mr. Keith Best be added to the Committee— [Mr. Fox, on behalf of the Committee of Selection.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-25a.780.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-25", "file": "debates1984-06-25a.xml", "sha256": "615b97389733ead8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-25a.786.1", "colnum": "786", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Walsall (Housing)", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "ad approach that we have encouraged local authorities to adopt. Many, including Labour authorities, have adopted it. Not only does it enable progress to be made in meeting housing needs; it meets the aspiration of the hon. Gentleman's constituents who do not want to be local authority tenants. They would prefer to be home owners. The hon. Gentleman heard the figures which I gave a few minutes ago—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-25a.786.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-26", "file": "debates1984-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e3c40b5d6f2ec67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-26a.802.10", "colnum": "802", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Crouch", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware of the widespread public concern at the news this morning that an unauthorised person—a vet—last month took part in a major surgical operation on a constituent of mine?—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-26a.802.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-26", "file": "debates1984-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e3c40b5d6f2ec67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-26a.803.2", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "What does the deputy Prime Minister—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-26a.803.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-26", "file": "debates1984-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e3c40b5d6f2ec67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-26a.803.3", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "To comment briefly on the right hon. Gentleman's initial premise, I am not deputy Prime Minister", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-26a.803.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-26", "file": "debates1984-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e3c40b5d6f2ec67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-26a.803.5", "colnum": "803", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I remind the hon. Gentleman that there is a police complaints procedure to which his constituent can have recourse—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-26a.803.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-26", "file": "debates1984-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e3c40b5d6f2ec67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-26a.806.6", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "of a committee of eight were re-elected, so they have a majority? Is the right hon. Gentleman further aware that the secretary at Welbeck colliery, who has been on strike from day one, has also been re-elected? As for my brother, he has been nominated by the Nottinghamshire NUM as the Labour party parliamentary candidate for the Sherwood constituency. That constituency is currently held by a Tory—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-26a.806.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-26", "file": "debates1984-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e3c40b5d6f2ec67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-26a.810.1", "colnum": "810", "heading": "Local Government (Access to Information)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "relevant documents. If a member of the public is not able to attend a meeting, or if he is alerted afterwards to a decision that has been made, he should be able at that stage to obtain the information. There are occasions when the privacy of the individual or the particular confidentiality of the item under discussion is a good reason for a matter not to be opened there and then to public debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-26a.810.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-26", "file": "debates1984-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e3c40b5d6f2ec67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-26a.811.1", "colnum": "811", "heading": "Local Government (Access to Information)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " answer. People will not be able to say that something is an exception unless they clearly state, at the meeting or in the documents, why that is so. That decision will be susceptible to challenge in the courts. A few years ago a change was made so that when one applied for bail and was refused one was told the reason so that one could challenge the decision. That was a useful change in procedure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-26a.811.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-26", "file": "debates1984-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e3c40b5d6f2ec67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-26a.876.1", "colnum": "876", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rates Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "he handicapped last week when I raised a similar point in another debate. We must consider the subject of speed limits carefully, and the Minister may be right in what he is doing. However, I am worried about laws which are unenforceable. That is the problem with speed limits. They are ignored by 95 per cent. of the drivers for 98 per cent. of the time. As a result, the law is broken consistently.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-26a.876.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-26", "file": "debates1984-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e3c40b5d6f2ec67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-26a.887.2", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rates Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "Stewart family extremely well. It is an honourable family and I wish that the hon. Gentleman would give some credit to what the travelling people have done for Scotland's culture. Most of the songs that I have gathered and published come from the travelling people, including the Stewarts of Blairgowrie. The hon. Gentleman should pay more attention to what they have to say and enlist their support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-26a.887.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-26", "file": "debates1984-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e3c40b5d6f2ec67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-26a.906.1", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rates Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Hector Monro", "preceding_text": "law to prevent advertising signs from being placed on trunk roads within the highway boundary and that the decision is for the Secretary of State. That gives enormous encouragement, because it means that my right hon. Friend can be flexible and could change his mind tomorrow. It is good to know that there is riot a statutory requirement needing legislation to change it. The Minister made my point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-26a.906.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-26", "file": "debates1984-06-26a.xml", "sha256": "2e3c40b5d6f2ec67", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-26a.912.7", "colnum": "912", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Rates Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": " '(1A) No roads authority shall unreasonably withhold permission for the stationing of such stall or vehicle at convenient places adjacent to public roads, provided that adequate room is available for customers and their vehicles, the area is kept free of litter and the stall or vehicle is of tidy appearance. '. This amendment is in the name of my right hon. Friend the leader of the Liberal party—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-26a.912.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-27", "file": "debates1984-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c8f41b0aa1067f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.992.1", "colnum": "992", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "As long as it takes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.992.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-27", "file": "debates1984-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c8f41b0aa1067f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.994.0", "colnum": "994", "heading": "European Council (Fontainebleau)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "expenditure this year from breaking its budget by 20 per cent., or as much as £2 billion? Will she accept from me, as she will be told by other hon. Members, that there is no justification for increasing the VAT own resources contribution in order to finance higher food mountains and the destruction of foodstuffs or to subsidise Soviet shoppers? On 21 March, on her return from the Brussels summit—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.994.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-27", "file": "debates1984-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c8f41b0aa1067f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.998.0", "colnum": "998", "heading": "European Council (Fontainebleau)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am not at all sure quite what the right hon. Gentleman's question is directed at. He will know that the Italians get an enormous positive benefit from being in the Community and have never really had to battle about a net contribution.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.998.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-27", "file": "debates1984-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c8f41b0aa1067f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.998.0", "colnum": "998", "heading": "European Council (Fontainebleau)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am not at all sure quite what the right hon. Gentleman's question is directed at. He will know that the Italians get an enormous positive benefit from being in the Community and have never really had to battle about a net contribution. [Interruption.] They have never had to battle about a net contribution. Only in one year did they have a net contribution and that was in 1978—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.998.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-27", "file": "debates1984-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c8f41b0aa1067f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.1003.1", "colnum": "1003", "heading": "European Council (Fontainebleau)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I should make it clear that without the new arrangement we had no right to any refund under the existing 1 per cent. VAT. The Labour Government left us with no right to any refund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.1003.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-27", "file": "debates1984-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c8f41b0aa1067f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.1004.7", "colnum": "1004", "heading": "European Council (Fontainebleau)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I must stress again that the amount that we shall be paying after refunds under the 1·4 per cent. VAT is less than the amount that we are now liable to pay under the 1 per cent. VAT. Without this arrangement, we should be paying about £1,200 million this year and £1,200 million next year. We shall actually be paying less.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.1004.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-27", "file": "debates1984-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c8f41b0aa1067f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.1009.0", "colnum": "1009", "heading": "European Council (Fontainebleau)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The answer to the right hon. Gentleman is no. It is because I would not accept just any rebate that we have taken this long to negotiate. I would not accept just any rebate. That is why we went on rejecting and rejecting, until we got what we thought was a fair deal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.1009.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-27", "file": "debates1984-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c8f41b0aa1067f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.1024.1", "colnum": "1024", "heading": "Representation of the People Acts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brittan", "preceding_text": "this year there were 17. Most of those candidates have no serious interest in, or the remotest chance of, being elected to Parliament, which, after all, is what an election is about. Yet they acquire considerable cheap publicity. They confuse and distract electors from the important issues, and in some cases deliberately try to make a mockery of the election or to obtain commercial gain out of it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.1024.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-27", "file": "debates1984-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c8f41b0aa1067f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.1034.0", "colnum": "1034", "heading": "Representation of the People Acts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Hunt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Hunt", "preceding_text": "ons in circumstances which were not under the control of the Electoral Registration Officer. They concluded: The threat of large scale corruption would be very real. That was the view expressed by the Labour Members of the Select Committee in the last Parliament. We were not, of course, given any indication of how such large-scale corruption could arise, and in my view it was really a bogus point.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.1034.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-27", "file": "debates1984-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c8f41b0aa1067f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.1037.1", "colnum": "1037", "heading": "Representation of the People Acts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": " of persuasion and duress in those circumstances needed no elaboration. In fact, hon. Members will confirm that the efficient agent and the efficient organisation have a habit of not leaving it entirely to the elector in receipt of a postal ballot paper to leave it behind the tobacco tin on the mantlepiece until after polling day, but make a point of calling to collect the completed ballot papers—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.1037.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-27", "file": "debates1984-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c8f41b0aa1067f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.1048.1", "colnum": "1048", "heading": "Representation of the People Acts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Exterminated?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "onsiderable sum for a small party and I believe that it would put undue pressure on them. By increasing the deposit, we are playing into the hands of minority parties because the British people have a terrific sense of fair play. I am sure that minor parties will successfully appeal to that sense of fair play. A more serious risk is that many very small parties will be exterminated by the deposit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.1048.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-27", "file": "debates1984-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c8f41b0aa1067f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.1051.0", "colnum": "1051", "heading": "Representation of the People Acts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Maclean", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Maclean", "preceding_text": " have eliminated 10 candidates in the Chesterfield by-election, who achieved 230 votes, or 0·3 per cent. of the popular vote. Although I have opted for the figure of 150 signatures as the minimum necessary on the nomination paper, the fringe candidate who served the writ on me achieved exactly 150 votes. Nevertheless, I believe that a signature is much more difficult to collect than a vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.1051.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-27", "file": "debates1984-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c8f41b0aa1067f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.1071.0", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Representation of the People Acts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dafydd Wigley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dafydd Wigley", "preceding_text": ", I understand why people away from Britain want a say in elections, although if they are away for seven years or so, one may question whether they should have full rights when they are not part of the community here. People who have been living away from Wales for several years, feel the same way. They cannot vote for my party if they are living in London, but no provision has been made for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.1071.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-27", "file": "debates1984-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c8f41b0aa1067f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.1084.1", "colnum": "1084", "heading": "Representation of the People Acts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "do not hear any member of the Select Committee objecting to the fact that instead of British residence in the EEC for an unlimited period, we have substituted the whole world plus a seven-year term. With regard to the deposit, I hardly think that the Select Committee would blame us for being more generous by saying that 7·5 per cent. should fall to 5 per cent. That major change was merited.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.1084.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-27", "file": "debates1984-06-27a.xml", "sha256": "1c8f41b0aa1067f1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.1088.1", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Representation of the People Acts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Money talks.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "I have not the time to give way.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-27a.1088.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-28", "file": "debates1984-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ef9e694f41605890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1158.1", "colnum": "1158", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "use and so forcefully put elsewhere? Our debate on the NHS on Thursday has been deliberately chosen to take place on the anniversary of the establishment of the NHS. Will the right hon. Gentleman take note that we shall be drawing attention to the fact that the attitude of the Conservative party, now as then, is, to say the least, one of very conditional enthusiasm for the National Health Service?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1158.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-28", "file": "debates1984-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ef9e694f41605890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "That was some months ago. The hon. Gentleman must recognise that, for those of us who have been in Committee Room 10, life has moved on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-28", "file": "debates1984-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ef9e694f41605890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1181.3", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "My right hon. Friend the Member for Cambridgeshire, South-East (Mr. Pym) published a notable book, which the hon. Gentleman has no doubt studied.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1181.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-28", "file": "debates1984-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ef9e694f41605890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1181.3", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "ailure is the result of the efforts and activities of millions of people. Most of them are motivated to give of their best and to realise their full potential. They are given the incentive to succeed by the prospect of financial rewards. The Government and the British people recognise the dynamics of a successful economy, the processes that lead to growth and so to better living standards for all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1181.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-28", "file": "debates1984-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ef9e694f41605890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1182.1", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman had contained his impatience and allowed me to develop my theme, he would have heard the answer. He will hear the answer in due course. If he contains himself, I can come to the heart and core of what I have to tell the House. The Opposition are making it difficult.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-28", "file": "debates1984-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ef9e694f41605890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1182.1", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "the Community last year. It is true that we went through one of the sharpest recessions since the 1930s, but none of the Opposition's policies would have helped us to come out of the recession faster or more surely. The European Commission forecasts that we shall be near the top of the Community's growth league this year. We are experiencing one of the longest recovery periods in post-war history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-28", "file": "debates1984-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ef9e694f41605890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1182.1", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": " 1930s, but none of the Opposition's policies would have helped us to come out of the recession faster or more surely. The European Commission forecasts that we shall be near the top of the Community's growth league this year. We are experiencing one of the longest recovery periods in post-war history. [Interruption.] Opposition Members should compare that with their own performance in government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1182.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-28", "file": "debates1984-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ef9e694f41605890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1183.1", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "The American economy is a good deal more flexible than ours. I shall come to that later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-28", "file": "debates1984-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ef9e694f41605890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1183.1", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "The American economy is a good deal more flexible than ours. I shall come to that later. [Interruption.] It is nothing to do with expansionary policy or the United States deficit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-28", "file": "debates1984-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ef9e694f41605890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1183.5", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "Of course, I have thought about it. If I were to produce a number, hon. Gentlemen would probably find it unrealistic, as I would.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1183.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-28", "file": "debates1984-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ef9e694f41605890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1186.1", "colnum": "1186", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman reviews the social security programme, he will see a range of them—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1186.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-28", "file": "debates1984-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ef9e694f41605890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1188.3", "colnum": "1188", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "than the more important policies for creating wealth. He could not make his policies look attractive even to his party, let alone to the country. But I can guess, as I am sure my hon. Friends can, what those policies will amount to. They will mean a bleak prospect for rich and poor alike, a stagnant economy cocooned in controls — exchange controls, dividend controls, and price and profit controls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1188.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-28", "file": "debates1984-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ef9e694f41605890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1210.1", "colnum": "1210", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. William O'Brien", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh yes it can.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. William O'Brien", "preceding_text": " also said that the higher paid should be paying for the lower paid. That is a typical Social Democratic party approach. If the leader of the SDP had his way, more miners would be on the dole. The SDP is revealed in its true light when in one breath it says that it wants to increase unemployment in mining areas, and in another it criticises the level of unemployment. The SDP cannot face both ways.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1210.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-28", "file": "debates1984-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ef9e694f41605890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1214.1", "colnum": "1214", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "preceding_text": "urious habit of choosing subjects about which they are wrong. They will do so again this time next week when they talk about cuts in the National Health Service. We know that the Government have spent more on the National Health Service and on benefits than any previous Government. The motion talks about the gap between the incomes of the rich and those of the poor, but it refers to gross incomes.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-28", "file": "debates1984-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ef9e694f41605890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1215.1", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Currie", "preceding_text": ". The motion completely ignores the fact that our income tax system is intended to redistribute wealth. It is supposed to take money from the well off, or from people with incomes of more than £18,000, and give it to those with incomes at the bottom of the scale. Unfortunately, there are few up-to-date figures for this. I deplore that, and I wish that the DHSS would collect more recent statistics—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-28", "file": "debates1984-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ef9e694f41605890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1240.0", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Opposition Day", "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": "less one has an egalitarian society, there will always be some form of relative poverty; what Christopher Jenks, the American sociologist, called the inability to fit into a social group. To fit into a social group, one must have the means to take part in what it is doing. Absolute poverty, as we understand it, which exists in certain parts of the world, as my hon. Friends have reminded the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1240.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-28", "file": "debates1984-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ef9e694f41605890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1240.2", "colnum": "1240", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "g, and sometimes a lack of light, and it exists in some parts of the world. I am sure that many Opposition Members are widely read and that they will have read Le Grand and Robinson's work entitled \"The Economics of Social Problems\". Those on the poverty line in the United States of America earn more than 50 times the average income of someone in India. That is what relative poverty is all about.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1240.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-28", "file": "debates1984-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ef9e694f41605890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "This Government's policy of cutting taxes at all levels and on businesses provides the incentive to get the economy going.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-28", "file": "debates1984-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ef9e694f41605890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1242.1", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": " in our GDP between 1982 and 1983. Opposition Members can read the figures in Hansard tomorrow. That will be a treat for them at breakfast. In this year's Budget we took 800,000 poorer earners out of tax. Surely we should be praised for that. We in the Conservative party believe in an open, nonrestricted economy, in the equality of opportunity and in a rising standard of living for all our people—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1242.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-28", "file": "debates1984-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ef9e694f41605890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1243.1", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "s. I am glad that the hon. Gentleman is here—he must come more regularly to our debates when I am speaking. The real increase in expenditure on social benefits under this Government is 27 per cent. Increased expenditure on the unemployed is about £1·5 billion, with another £3 billion on social security supplementary benefit. An increase of 27 per cent. means that we have put the equivalent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1243.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-28", "file": "debates1984-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ef9e694f41605890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "There are no plans in the Department to tax child benefit.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-28", "file": "debates1984-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ef9e694f41605890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "There are no plans in the Department to tax child benefit.— [Interruption.] Opposition Members had better ask Treasury Ministers. My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Services made a statement before the last election about the taxing of child benefit. There has been no change of policy since then.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-28", "file": "debates1984-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ef9e694f41605890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "that lot would do if they regained power. In 1978–79, £47 million was spent on the mobility allowance. It is £303 million now. Supplementary benefit single payments have gone up from £25 million to £145 million this year. The hon. Member for Crewe and Nantwich spoke about heating allowances. We are spending, in real terms, £140 million more than when the Conservatives came to power in 1979—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-28", "file": "debates1984-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ef9e694f41605890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "behalf of the Government to do any apologising for what we are doing in terms of social benefits. Our record is there for all to see. The history of the last 50 years in our society has been that of extending the luxuries of a privileged minority to become, first, the everyday conveniences and then even the necessities of a growing majority. Lord Harris of High Cross said in another place in 1981—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-28", "file": "debates1984-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ef9e694f41605890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "een transformed totally, but how? Under the Conservatives, between 1978 and 1983, the number of home owners went up from 54 to 60 per cent. They are not the rich. The rich already had their homes. In the three years between 1979 and 1982, the number of households with some form of central heating increased by 5 per cent. to 60 per cent. They were not the rich. The rich already had central heating—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-28", "file": "debates1984-06-28a.xml", "sha256": "ef9e694f41605890", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1252.12", "colnum": "1252", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "preceding_text": "posterity, I should explain that my sartorial precedent of wearing my own dinner jacket and the tie loaned to me by the Minister of State, Welsh Office, is a sign of my anxiety to respond to the wishes of the right hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Stepney (Mr. Shore) at, as I am sure he would agree, very short notice. I recognise that the vote taken earlier in the other place is most significant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-28a.1252.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-29", "file": "debates1984-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "c66b92a196554f74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-29a.1282.5", "colnum": "1282", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman's last remark is unworthy of him If Ministers resigned every time there was an amendment carried against the Government in another place, there would not be many Ministers of either Conservative or Labour Governments. The House must address itself to the problem. It would be absurd for the elections to be proceeding at the very time when—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-29a.1282.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-06-29", "file": "debates1984-06-29a.xml", "sha256": "c66b92a196554f74", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-29a.1291.4", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "In response to the question I asked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-06-29a.1291.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-02", "file": "debates1984-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9044959863603fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.3.6", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick McNair-Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick McNair-Wilson", "preceding_text": "Since —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.3.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-02", "file": "debates1984-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9044959863603fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.3.6", "colnum": "3", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick McNair-Wilson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick McNair-Wilson", "preceding_text": "Since — [Interruption.] — there is now clearly very little trust between the chairman of the NCB and the president of the NUM—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.3.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-02", "file": "debates1984-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9044959863603fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.12.11", "colnum": "12", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend consider the question of access—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.12.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-07-02", "file": "debates1984-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9044959863603fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.19.10", "colnum": "19", "heading": "Enterprise Oil", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Aye.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "In view of the importance of the matter, have I the leave of the House to allow the hon. Member for Clackmannan (Mr. O'Neill) to put his question?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.19.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-02", "file": "debates1984-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9044959863603fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.30.0", "colnum": "30", "heading": "New Ireland Forum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Archer", "preceding_text": " by consent, and there is no hedging or fudging on either part of that proposition. I have been asked to confirm that consent means consent freely given. It does. That is not an announcement of policy but a statement of the dictionary definition of the word. Of course, consenting to something is making a decision, and no decision is ever wholly free; it is always made within certain constraints. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.30.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-02", "file": "debates1984-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9044959863603fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.34.1", "colnum": "34", "heading": "New Ireland Forum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archer", "preceding_text": "zed if that is spelt out in this debate. There may be differences within the traditions as well as between them. Whether the rational elements or the hardliners on either side prevail may depend on whether the other side seems ready to respond with reason. Hysteria on one side of the divide is necessarily nurtured by hysteria on the other. If I am asked what the agenda is to be, I have a problem —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.34.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-02", "file": "debates1984-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9044959863603fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.37.0", "colnum": "37", "heading": "New Ireland Forum", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "tution. He went on to say that when addressing Protestants from the Shankill road he had said that as a half northern Protestant himself he would not be happy about unification with people who had not shown themselves to be open-minded. The hon. Member for Foyle cannot object to my saying that we do not want to go down the forum road when the Prime Minister of the country had that comment to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.37.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-02", "file": "debates1984-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9044959863603fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.37.0", "colnum": "37", "heading": "New Ireland Forum", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "ation with people who had not shown themselves to be open-minded. The hon. Member for Foyle cannot object to my saying that we do not want to go down the forum road when the Prime Minister of the country had that comment to make. [Interruption.] I have read the report and I shall deal with it in a minute or two. It is a pity that some of those who are interrupting me did not read the whole report.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.37.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-02", "file": "debates1984-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9044959863603fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "New Ireland Forum", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "I should like to nail the lie that the hon. Member has just—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-02", "file": "debates1984-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9044959863603fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "New Ireland Forum", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "I should like to nail the lie that the hon. Member has just— [Interruption.] I should like to say to him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-02", "file": "debates1984-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9044959863603fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.40.3", "colnum": "40", "heading": "New Ireland Forum", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "I will put it in another way, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and say that the hon. Member for Islington, North (Mr. Corbyn) is a stranger to the truth in regard to the matter that he raised.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.40.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-02", "file": "debates1984-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9044959863603fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.40.3", "colnum": "40", "heading": "New Ireland Forum", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": " for Islington, North (Mr. Corbyn) is a stranger to the truth in regard to the matter that he raised. [Interruption.] Statements have been made by members of the party to which the hon. Member belongs and no action has been taken. Immediately the statement was made to which the hon. Member referred, I, as leader of the Democratic Unionist party, saw the councillor concerned. I pointed out to him —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.40.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-02", "file": "debates1984-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9044959863603fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.40.5", "colnum": "40", "heading": "New Ireland Forum", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "at his statement was entirely contrary to the basis and constitution of the party of which he was a member, and could not be reconciled with it. He told me that he agreed with the constitution of the party to which he belonged. I said, \"How could you when you have made a statement contrary to it?\" Immediately the Assembly party of which he was a member met and expelled him from the Assembly party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.40.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-02", "file": "debates1984-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9044959863603fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.40.7", "colnum": "40", "heading": "New Ireland Forum", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.40.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-02", "file": "debates1984-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9044959863603fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.40.7", "colnum": "40", "heading": "New Ireland Forum", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way again. [Interruption.] It was before the election.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.40.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-02", "file": "debates1984-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9044959863603fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.40.7", "colnum": "40", "heading": "New Ireland Forum", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "I shall not give way again. [Interruption.] It was before the election. [Interruption.] Before and after he was suspended, as everybody in Northern Ireland knows. If the hon. Gentleman is suggesting that the people who voted for me did so because of that statement, he knows nothing whatever about the Protestant people of Northern Ireland.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.40.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-02", "file": "debates1984-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9044959863603fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.40.7", "colnum": "40", "heading": "New Ireland Forum", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "cted body. It has a Report Committee which is now taking evidence from everyone who wants to give evidence about a way forward for Northern Ireland. The hon. Member for Foyle and the members of his party should be in that Assembly. They should be arguing with their own fellow Ulstermen on the Floor of the Assembly. If they cannot persuade their fellow Ulstermen, so be it. They have an opportunity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.40.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-02", "file": "debates1984-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9044959863603fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.43.1", "colnum": "43", "heading": "New Ireland Forum", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "only within Northern Ireland. It is up to the elected representatives of the Northern Ireland people to get together and seek a way forward out of this impasse, for an impasse it is, and there is no doubt about it. It is said that some people want violence. The happiest day for me will be when Northern Ireland returns to peace and my stay in politics is concluded. I never wanted to be in politics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.43.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-02", "file": "debates1984-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9044959863603fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.97.1", "colnum": "97", "heading": "New Ireland Forum", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Soley", "preceding_text": "al hon. Members, that Ireland was divided without consent. They are right—it was. Look at the disastrous bloodshed to which that led. One cannot resolve the matter simply by reversing that. The tragedy is that, like so many things, particularly in the discussion of politics in Northern Ireland, the words begin to mean more than the reality. I do not mind whether the word \"consent\" is there or not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.97.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-02", "file": "debates1984-07-02a.xml", "sha256": "9044959863603fe1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.123.0", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Monkeys", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. William Waldegrave)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And monkeys.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. William Waldegrave)", "preceding_text": "I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Derby, North (Mr. Knight) on raising an important matter. The subjects that fall to my Department include the abolition of the GLC —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-02a.123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-03", "file": "debates1984-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa65a06cc75db7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.133.5", "colnum": "133", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "I am sure we all agree that it is an imaginative scheme —so much so that the hon. Gentleman's party changed the rules four times.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.133.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-03", "file": "debates1984-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa65a06cc75db7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.141.10", "colnum": "141", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "That was a rapid tour around many subjects — from international bankers to Fontainebleau. I answered questions on Fontainebleau for about an hour, and on the whole I thought that I answered all the questions that were put to me. I note what the hon. Gentleman has said about this country, but I am happy to report to him that Bolsover colliery has won a £2 million a year contract —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.141.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-03", "file": "debates1984-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa65a06cc75db7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.142.3", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ry of State have to come here last Thursday to make a panic statement to explain the condition? Can the right hon. Lady tell us whether she understood what would be the consequences of the flotation of shares in Enterprise Oil? If she did, why was it necessary for the Secretary of State to come to the House? If she did not know, how can she excuse such crass ignorance of the capital market system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.142.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-03", "file": "debates1984-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa65a06cc75db7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.142.5", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "If the Enterprise Oil fiasco has been a success, God help us if the Government encounter a failure. Can the right hon. Lady tell us what will happen in the future —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.142.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-03", "file": "debates1984-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa65a06cc75db7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.142.5", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ll as the British taxpayers and those who are interested in the affair around the country, what will happen in the future. Can she tell us whether other major purchasers will enjoy the same generosity as that shown to Enterprise Oil? Can she tell us, as the Government are supposed to be in charge, what is their policy, given RTZ's stated objective of getting 49 per cent. control of Enterprise Oil—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.142.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-03", "file": "debates1984-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa65a06cc75db7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.148.2", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Halvergate Marshes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not long enough.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Has the Secretary of State been told that, during the passage of the Wildlife and Countryside Bill in Committee, briefed by Mr. Robin Grove White and Mr. Tony Long of the Council for the Protection of Rural England when I spoke for one and a quarter hours on Halvergate —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.148.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-03", "file": "debates1984-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa65a06cc75db7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.148.3", "colnum": "148", "heading": "Halvergate Marshes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "At that time my hon. Friend answered the hon. Gentleman — I have already said that my hon. Friend has since corrected it in Hansard — we were optimistic that it would be possible—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.148.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-03", "file": "debates1984-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa65a06cc75db7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.150.5", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Halvergate Marshes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "The short answer is that the Broads authority, which is the planning authority for the area, has not asked me to do so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.150.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-03", "file": "debates1984-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa65a06cc75db7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.150.5", "colnum": "150", "heading": "Halvergate Marshes", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "The short answer is that the Broads authority, which is the planning authority for the area, has not asked me to do so. [Interruption.] It is all very well, but how often should Governments take matters out of the hands of those who are appointed to deal with them?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.150.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-03", "file": "debates1984-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa65a06cc75db7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.173.1", "colnum": "173", "heading": "European Community (Milk Quotas)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON.MEMBERS: \"Five years\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ndustry. Nothing that the Minister has said, either inside or outside the House, takes any account of the fact that farm workers will lose their jobs as a result of the changes. Not a single word, nor penny of compensation, has been mentioned. I accept that he mentioned compensation to those whom he wants to buy out. The figure is £650 per cow per annum for as long as they stay out of the scheme —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-03", "file": "debates1984-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa65a06cc75db7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.191.1", "colnum": "191", "heading": "European Community (Milk Quotas)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howells", "preceding_text": "I am not disputing the hon. and learned Gentleman's statement. If that is the fact, it is a fact. I have not said a word to the contrary. Figures produced today show that we have 144 days supply of butter in intervention stores, and that we have 692 days supply of skimmed milk powder. We are all aware that it cannot go on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-03", "file": "debates1984-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa65a06cc75db7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.191.1", "colnum": "191", "heading": "European Community (Milk Quotas)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howells", "preceding_text": " and learned Gentleman's statement. If that is the fact, it is a fact. I have not said a word to the contrary. Figures produced today show that we have 144 days supply of butter in intervention stores, and that we have 692 days supply of skimmed milk powder. We are all aware that it cannot go on. [Interruption.] Wait a while. You are in government and you should have done your homework before now.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.191.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-03", "file": "debates1984-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa65a06cc75db7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.191.3", "colnum": "191", "heading": "European Community (Milk Quotas)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howells", "preceding_text": "Unfortunately not, Mr. Speaker. I apologise. Had the Government looked properly at the problems facing the dairy industry, they could have forecast the marketing system that would prevail. Do not hon. Members on both sides of the House believe as Christians that we should do something about the surpluses by selling them or giving them to the Third world?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.191.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-03", "file": "debates1984-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa65a06cc75db7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.195.1", "colnum": "195", "heading": "European Community (Milk Quotas)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Torney", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thomas Torney", "preceding_text": "lk quota scheme must put farming back where it was before the Government started exhorting it. It must at least put the industry back where it was when I first entered the House in 1970, when it was producing but a tiny proportion of the butter that Britain required. I cannot see how the farming industry can get out of the scheme. In such a position no farmer can have any confidence to plan ahead.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.195.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-03", "file": "debates1984-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa65a06cc75db7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.202.0", "colnum": "202", "heading": "European Community (Milk Quotas)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Colin Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Colin Shepherd", "preceding_text": "ide how the draft regulations might be amended before they are laid before the House as a statutory instrument. That was a wise move. To have laid draft regulations before the House as a statutory instrument without this consultative period would have been to invite deep distrust and disturbance among Conservative Members. I know that the Opposition have been totally prejudiced from the beginning—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.202.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-03", "file": "debates1984-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa65a06cc75db7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.205.5", "colnum": "205", "heading": "European Community (Milk Quotas)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shepherd", "preceding_text": " agree with it. I hope that the Treasury will hear that we would prefer not to see the payment taxed. It is a straight compensation, which will enable justice to be done within the industry. I do not understand why there are no dairy farmers on the panels. It is not too late to change that. I cannot see how the panels can understand the nature of the industry if there are no dairy farmers on them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.205.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-03", "file": "debates1984-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa65a06cc75db7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Discipline Acts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "ble part in a particular period of our history. After the end of the Commonwealth period, Charles II disbanded the standing Army and set up a household brigade—from which the Coldstream Guards emerged—to protect the monarch personally. After that, James II, who succeeded him, began to build up a standing Army again, and it reached the size of 20,000 before the Glorious Revolution of 1688–9.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-03", "file": "debates1984-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa65a06cc75db7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Discipline Acts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "riend the Member for Llanelli (Mr. Davies) said about the problems of drug abuse, capital punishment, courts martial, and so on. But I am raising this question because I think the time has come when Parliament should be a bit more candid about the safeguard which it claims to have. We do have a standing Army in Britain which is not subject to annual approval by Parliament: it is the American Army.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-03", "file": "debates1984-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa65a06cc75db7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Discipline Acts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "pital punishment, courts martial, and so on. But I am raising this question because I think the time has come when Parliament should be a bit more candid about the safeguard which it claims to have. We do have a standing Army in Britain which is not subject to annual approval by Parliament: it is the American Army. [Interruption.] Hon. Gentlemen may not like it, but the reality is that if anybody—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-03", "file": "debates1984-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa65a06cc75db7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Discipline Acts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "r to make war we in Parliament do not control. It is worthwhile when we go through the annual ritual of patting ourselves on the back to recognise that the objectives of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 have been totally neutered. We have another army in Britain which is not subject to any form of parliamentary control over its discipline. I refer to the national police force that has been set up —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-03", "file": "debates1984-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa65a06cc75db7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Discipline Acts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "ference to the fact that we are not required to pass any instrument on an annual basis which would deal with the disciplinary powers of the police as there are for the Army. I am coming to the relationship of the Army and the police. The police force today is much bigger than the standing army that was disbanded in 1688, they are better armed than the army of 1688 and we have no control over them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-03", "file": "debates1984-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa65a06cc75db7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.277.0", "colnum": "277", "heading": "Discipline Acts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "preceding_text": "e Tories do not want any extension of those rights because it would begin to break down the class system on which they rely for the maintenance of discipline in the armed forces. Any analysis of the social, educational and financial background of senior officers shows that the overwhelming majority come from public schools such as Eton and Harrow, from Oxford and Cambridge universities, and so on.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.277.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-03", "file": "debates1984-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa65a06cc75db7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Discipline Acts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "I should like —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-03", "file": "debates1984-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa65a06cc75db7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.280.0", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Discipline Acts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "volved in taking narcotics? What steps are the Government taking to cure them of those unfortunate habits, and how many disciplinary cases have there been? That is very important for one reason, and one reason only. Given the present level of weaponry, the thought of British or American personnel being in contact with nuclear weapons—despite the necessary precautions that we are assured are taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.280.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-03", "file": "debates1984-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa65a06cc75db7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.281.1", "colnum": "281", "heading": "Discipline Acts", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "There are two points to be made. First, I do not suppose that members of the Soviet Union's armed forces are any more influenced by alcoholism than many Conservative Members appear to be —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.281.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-07-03", "file": "debates1984-07-03a.xml", "sha256": "e6aa65a06cc75db7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.286.5", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "een selected by Mr. Speaker may be moved, the Questions thereon shall be put forthwith, and Mr. Speaker shall then put the Question upon the said Motion and any Questions necessary to dispose of the other Motions and of any Amendments moved thereto which have been selected by him; and that, notwithstanding the practice of the House, each Motion shall be regarded as a single Motion. — [Mr. Mather.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-03a.286.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-04", "file": "debates1984-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "69d247fc4cac9612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-04a.294.7", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlisle", "preceding_text": "In addition, does my hon. Friend agree that with a Third world we have a duty to provide markets for some of the poorest countries?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-04a.294.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-04", "file": "debates1984-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "69d247fc4cac9612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-04a.300.7", "colnum": "300", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "We should not be able to do that and qualify for any money from the European regional development fund.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-04a.300.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-04", "file": "debates1984-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "69d247fc4cac9612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-04a.303.5", "colnum": "303", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And charm.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that last month, and in May, the balance of payments worsened by about £200 million as a result of additional oil imports? Is it not also a fact that industrial production is being hit by increased energy costs? Will the Secretary of State use all of his tact and diplomacy —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-04a.303.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-04", "file": "debates1984-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "69d247fc4cac9612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-04a.304.5", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State think it helpful to describe what, even on his own figures, would be 120,000 miners, as \"ruthless and violent bullies\", when —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-04a.304.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-04", "file": "debates1984-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "69d247fc4cac9612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-04a.304.5", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "oes the Secretary of State think it helpful to describe what, even on his own figures, would be 120,000 miners, as \"ruthless and violent bullies\", when — [Interruption.] That is the phrase that the right hon. Gentleman used. Does he realise that the future of this country's trade and industry depends on the skill of miners, the overwhelming majority of whom will not accept the Government's policy?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-04a.304.5"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-04", "file": "debates1984-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "69d247fc4cac9612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-04a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Foreign Secretary(Moscow Visit)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "ainly, clearly and repeatedly to both Mr. Chernenko and Mr. Gromyko exactly what we sought and why. I emphasised to them that I was putting a case that had already been put by a whole series of other western leaders. That, in itself, makes the visit worth while. Of course I join my hon. Friend in regretting that large sections of my speech were censored or not reported in some of the Soviet press—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-04a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-04", "file": "debates1984-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "69d247fc4cac9612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-04a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Repatriation of Prisoners Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "rcise of Home Office discretion is that there is individual consideration of each case. In my respectful submission, that does not prevent a Home Secretary from reaching the conclusion that to safeguard the public interest he must make general declarations of his intention, although he always leaves himself room to have regard to a special case. The alternative to doing that, if we were prepared —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-04a.416.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-04", "file": "debates1984-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "69d247fc4cac9612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-04a.423.3", "colnum": "423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Repatriation of Prisoners Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "preceding_text": "we have friendly and close ties and with which there is much interchange, in tourism and other matters, we should debar prisoners from having an opportunity that is enjoyed by prisoners from other countries. Why should we, as would be the effect of the amendment, prevent British citizens—who, say, are on holiday in the Republic and who commit a criminal offence — from being allowed to return here?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-04a.423.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-04", "file": "debates1984-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "69d247fc4cac9612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-04a.426.6", "colnum": "426", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Repatriation of Prisoners Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The criminal's.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": " in those august places. My next problem arises precisely from the word \"humanitarianism\", one of those cosy and pleasant words which are nowadays attached to measures which are expected to receive universal approval. When we consider the meaning of the word \"humanitarianism\"—promoting welfare and social reform, let us say—we are forced to ask: whose welfare and social reform are we talking about?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-04a.426.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-04", "file": "debates1984-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "69d247fc4cac9612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-04a.429.0", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Repatriation of Prisoners Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "the factors that must be considered in the rehabilitation of an offender—the hon. Gentleman may not be aware of this point—is the importance of family ties. Family ties should be enhanced. I note that the hon. Gentleman looks askance. I appreciate that some Conservative Members do not accept that criminals can be rehabilitated. Believe it or not, that is the objective of any incarcceration system.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-04a.429.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-04", "file": "debates1984-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "69d247fc4cac9612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-04a.431.3", "colnum": "431", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Repatriation of Prisoners Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dubs", "preceding_text": "It is not for me to interpret the meaning of a question answered by the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-04a.431.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-04", "file": "debates1984-07-04a.xml", "sha256": "69d247fc4cac9612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-04a.432.0", "colnum": "432", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Repatriation of Prisoners Bill [Lords]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "Because of the hour, I shall be very brief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-04a.432.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-05", "file": "debates1984-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b5e54c772b449fe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.468.4", "colnum": "468", "heading": "Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ocal Government (Interim Provisions) Bill, which is also being made by my right hon. and noble Friend the Lord President in another place. The Government have decided to table an amendment to the Bill on Report in another place to the effect that the present members of the Greater London council and the metroplitan county councils will continue in office until 1986 but without elections next year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.468.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-05", "file": "debates1984-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b5e54c772b449fe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.472.0", "colnum": "472", "heading": "Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I think that the hon. Gentleman is making altogether too much of this.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.472.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-07-05", "file": "debates1984-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b5e54c772b449fe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.476.1", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Answer.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "r remind him that there is no body of opinion in London or the metropolitan counties which supports his plan to abolish the authorities or the elections? In view of his claim to listen to people, should he not now respond to the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Norwood (Mr. Fraser) and say whether he thinks that he has a future as Secretary of State and whether he intends to resign?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.476.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-05", "file": "debates1984-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b5e54c772b449fe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.476.8", "colnum": "476", "heading": "Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I hope that the hon. Gentleman will listen to my reply —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.476.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-05", "file": "debates1984-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b5e54c772b449fe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.477.4", "colnum": "477", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "today. I say \"almost everyone\" because it is surely of the most profound significance that an institution that is almost universally treasured by the nation should have been pointedly and personally spurned by the Prime Minister. When the right hon. Lady had an eye complaint, she went private, for a second time, though I believe that the NHS down the road had to be brought in to do the operation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.477.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-05", "file": "debates1984-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b5e54c772b449fe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.484.4", "colnum": "484", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.484.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-05", "file": "debates1984-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b5e54c772b449fe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.494.3", "colnum": "494", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "ly as anyone else, they will keep the contract, but there is no monopoly of talent in cleaning in the public sector. At the Ministry of Defence, where hospital cleaning has already been contracted out, savings of up to 20 per cent. have been achieved. The most recent eight contracts let in the Health Service have saved over £1 million a year for spending on patient care. A single laundry contract—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.494.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-05", "file": "debates1984-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b5e54c772b449fe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.495.3", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "nouncing today that I shall be making available some £10 million over the next three years for a new programme called \"Helping the Community to Care\". Its chief aim will be to improve support for elderly people and for those who are mentally ill and mentally handicapped by helping those who help them — the volunteers, the friends and the family members who are day by day in the front line in care.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.495.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-05", "file": "debates1984-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b5e54c772b449fe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.498.1", "colnum": "498", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jack Ashley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jack Ashley", "preceding_text": "The rosy picture which the Secretary of State has just presented to the House bears no relation to the reality in hospitals, surgeries and the homes of sick people. We have heard a speech of gimmickry, selective statistics and party political stunts. I thought that the Secretary of State would be capable of making a better speech, but I have never heard such a distorted —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.498.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-05", "file": "debates1984-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b5e54c772b449fe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": " technology is advancing at such a rapid rate. One has to try to match those aspirations. The hon. Member for Vauxhall (Mr. Holland) asked to what extent my party would try to match increasing demand, or what our priorities in the Health Service would be. We would not pledge ourselves to an unrealistic 3 per cent. per annum real increase. We would limit ourselves to 1·5 per cent. per annum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-05", "file": "debates1984-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b5e54c772b449fe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Laugher.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "xtent my party would try to match increasing demand, or what our priorities in the Health Service would be. We would not pledge ourselves to an unrealistic 3 per cent. per annum real increase. We would limit ourselves to 1·5 per cent. per annum. [Interruption.] At least we do not adopt the approach of the hon. Member for Oldham, West which is to think of a number or a problem and double it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.503.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-05", "file": "debates1984-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b5e54c772b449fe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.503.1", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kennedy", "preceding_text": "over government from the Conservative party, it would not be realistic to try to meet the range of pledges that the Labour party is giving. Although 1·5 per cent. must be regarded as a minimum base figure, and every possible effort would have to be made to exceed it, there is more political credibility in arguing for such a target than in promising Havana tomorrow as the Labour party does —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.503.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-05", "file": "debates1984-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b5e54c772b449fe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.514.2", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight (Birmingham, Edgbaston)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight (Birmingham, Edgbaston)", "preceding_text": "d for in independent hospitals and nursing homes. On 31 December 1982—these are the latest figures that I could obtain — there were 2,929 pay beds in NHS hospitals. In all, about 37,000 people are cared for by the independent private sector. Direct savings to the NHS by the private sector—I hope that the Opposition recognise that this figure is important—cannot be less than £600 million per annum.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.514.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-05", "file": "debates1984-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b5e54c772b449fe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.514.2", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight (Birmingham, Edgbaston)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight (Birmingham, Edgbaston)", "preceding_text": "ent private sector. Direct savings to the NHS by the private sector—I hope that the Opposition recognise that this figure is important—cannot be less than £600 million per annum. [Interruption.] The Opposition say that many of the patients are not British subjects. I care that, when those people go in for treatment, their money is used for the alleviation of difficulties within the Health Service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.514.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-05", "file": "debates1984-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b5e54c772b449fe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.526.0", "colnum": "526", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. David Atkinson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What will that do for sick people?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. David Atkinson", "preceding_text": "al income taxation so that taxpayers are more aware of how much they are paying towards their social security and the NHS. It is not generally understood that 85 per cent. of the cost of the NHS comes from general taxation and 11 per cent. from national insurance contributions. Surely it is not beyond the capability of our computers to separate income tax from a health tax and social security tax—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.526.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-05", "file": "debates1984-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b5e54c772b449fe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.549.0", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lofthouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lofthouse", "preceding_text": "d wars, had worked hard all their lives, and had had psychiatric breakdowns, and their one pleasure in life was one day a year out with the staff. For the other 364 days they sat inside four walls. They were all looking forward to the following week, but when I went back that following week it had been decided that because of cuts and savings only half of those men could go on that one day outing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.549.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-05", "file": "debates1984-07-05a.xml", "sha256": "b5e54c772b449fe8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "reat issue of Barking and claimed that privatisation had damaged Barking's interests. However, cleaning in Barking has always been carried out by a private contractor, and the same private contractor was given the tender at a reduced price after a fresh tendering process. Barking health authority now makes a saving. ft cut manning levels, but not wage rates. Barking has saved £143,000 in a year. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-05a.549.1"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-07-06", "file": "debates1984-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "38f9808ec1bb690e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-06a.669.7", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Private Members' Bills", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Order read for resuming adjourned debate on Second Reading [27 April].", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-06a.669.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-06", "file": "debates1984-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "38f9808ec1bb690e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-06a.669.11", "colnum": "669", "heading": "Private Members' Bills", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Stewart", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. We have had 57 Bills today and I hazard a guess that the majority of them would be supported by the majority of hon. Members on both sides of the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-06a.669.11"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-07-06", "file": "debates1984-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "38f9808ec1bb690e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-06a.670.2", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Private Members' Bills", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Janner", "preceding_text": "e \"Guinness Book of Records\" as the greatest slaughter in the shortest time that the House has achieved, can we have time on 26 October, by direction from the Chair, to discuss those matters which Back Benchers wish to raise and which are to come before the House on that date, which cannot then be removed by a sedentary shout from a Government Whip, whether with his feet on the Table or otherwise?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-06a.670.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-07-06", "file": "debates1984-07-06a.xml", "sha256": "38f9808ec1bb690e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-06a.670.6", "colnum": "670", "heading": "Private Members' Bills", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": " selected by Mr. Speaker may be moved, the Questions thereon shall be put forthwith, and Mr. Speaker shall then put the Question upon the said Motion and any Questions necessary to dispose of the. other Motions and of any Amendments moved thereto which have been selected by him; and that, notwithstanding the practice. of the House, each Motion shall be regarded as a single Motion. — [Mr. Neubert.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-06a.670.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-09", "file": "debates1984-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4b61c8c05481c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-09a.682.6", "colnum": "682", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "The concept of the inter-city service has grown up over a period. It originated as a marketing exercise and has continued to its present form as a sector within British Rail. It is for British Rail to decide—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-09a.682.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-09", "file": "debates1984-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4b61c8c05481c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-09a.766.0", "colnum": "766", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roger Gale", "preceding_text": "Had the hon. Member for Western Isles (Mr. Stewart) been present during the Committee stage—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-09a.766.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-09", "file": "debates1984-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4b61c8c05481c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-09a.767.3", "colnum": "767", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gale", "preceding_text": " concerned. That does not necessarily mean having any representative of \"Scotland\". Of what part of Scotland would that representative be representative? Are we seriously suggesting that a Glaswegian could represent the best interests of the Western Isles? Is a Glaswegian more likely to know more than a Londoner or a Cornishman about what is best suited to the Western Isles? The answer must be no.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-09a.767.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-09", "file": "debates1984-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4b61c8c05481c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-09a.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "preceding_text": "will have no … financial or other interests in advertising\". What is important is that people shall not, in the opinion of the authority, have views likely to prejudice their independence. In looking at the Government Benches as though they were an old television set, one sees the hon. Members for Wealden (Sir G. Johnson Smith), for Gravesham (Mr. Brinton) and for Thanet, North (Mr. Gale) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-09a.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-09", "file": "debates1984-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4b61c8c05481c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-09a.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clement Freud", "preceding_text": "n old television set, one sees the hon. Members for Wealden (Sir G. Johnson Smith), for Gravesham (Mr. Brinton) and for Thanet, North (Mr. Gale) — [Interruption.] I understand that I am equally, as it were, on the wrong side of the television set. When my wife said, \"Will you be long?\" I said, \"The debate may not take long but the declaration of interests from the other side may hold it up a bit.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-09a.771.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-07-09", "file": "debates1984-07-09a.xml", "sha256": "6bf4b61c8c05481c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-09a.851.0", "colnum": "851", "heading": "New Clause 8", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "en selected by Mr. Speaker may be moved, the Questions thereon shall be put forthwith, and Mr. Speaker shall then put the Question upon the said Motion and any Questions necessary to dispose of the other Motions and of any Amendments moved thereto which have been selected by him; and that, notwithstanding the practice of the House, each Motion shall be regarded as a single Motion. — [Mr. Neubert.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-09a.850.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-10", "file": "debates1984-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "0f9fa02534463c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-10a.872.3", "colnum": "872", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "This year the Government are supporting the voluntary sector at a higher level than ever before. I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman should choose to drag that sector into the political arena.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-10a.872.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-10", "file": "debates1984-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "0f9fa02534463c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-10a.875.3", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My world is not collapsing. The hon. Gentleman's world should be collapsing, given that the Labour party is supporting strikes, miners who are on strike against those who are at work, and those who look to bring about industrial anarchy as a means of getting round democracy. The economy is in good shape —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-10a.875.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-10", "file": "debates1984-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "0f9fa02534463c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-10a.875.7", "colnum": "875", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "This strike is not about industrial relations. I hope that we can contain mass picketing, which inevitably turns to violence. Those who undertake mass picketing know that it will turn to violence. In the Doncaster region, Rossington colliery was yesterday taken over by pickets. Roads were blocked with trees and girders, and safety cover teams had to be escorted out of the pit by police.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-10a.875.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-10", "file": "debates1984-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "0f9fa02534463c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-10a.894.6", "colnum": "894", "heading": "European Community Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "The position is as I have stated it. I shall not bring to the House proposals on an increase in own resources in the absence of the measures necessary to guarantee the effective application—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-10a.894.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-10", "file": "debates1984-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "0f9fa02534463c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-10a.897.3", "colnum": "897", "heading": "European Community Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "The discussions in which my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer was yesterday engaged are far from complete —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-10a.897.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-10", "file": "debates1984-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "0f9fa02534463c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-10a.898.3", "colnum": "898", "heading": "European Community Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "If we seize the opportunities available for a really expanding Europe-wide market in services and goods, we will create jobs throughout Europe. We must present that case positively, by contrasting — as my hon. Friend the Member for Southend, East did—what can be achieved in the United States with what has not yet been achieved in the Community —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-10a.898.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-10", "file": "debates1984-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "0f9fa02534463c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-10a.915.0", "colnum": "915", "heading": "European Community Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Sir Anthony Kershaw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Anthony Kershaw", "preceding_text": "rity of hon. Members—who do not seem to be here today—I want to congratulate the Government on the results at Fontainebleau. I congratulate the Prime Minister on her determination— sometimes called obstinacy—in making it plain that she would not be fobbed off with an unsatisfactory arrangement. I also congratulate my right hon. and learned Friend the Foreign Secretary on the persistence and skill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-10a.915.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-10", "file": "debates1984-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "0f9fa02534463c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-10a.932.1", "colnum": "932", "heading": "European Community Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "th and the west midlands when Britain was an independent country, so now Britain has relegated itself to a position in which it is being drained in the same way by the logical dynamics of an enlarged Community. We are now compounding that by exporting our capital in an enormous and apparently accelerating scale to invest in the productive industry of the EEC. I conclude by saying that the market —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-10a.932.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-10", "file": "debates1984-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "0f9fa02534463c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-10a.962.3", "colnum": "962", "heading": "European Community Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "preceding_text": "No. The hon. Gentleman will have an opportunity to make his point in a moment. I wish to continue with this argument. I remind Conservative Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-10a.962.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-10", "file": "debates1984-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "0f9fa02534463c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-10a.966.0", "colnum": "966", "heading": "European Community Affairs", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Mr. Malcolm Rifkind)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Mr. Malcolm Rifkind)", "preceding_text": "hether Fontainebleau was a good deal for the United Kingdom. Some people have questioned the durability of the system that has been agreed. A number of hon. Members have said that they are not satisfied that it will be durable and lasting. The conclusions reached state that the 66 per cent. refund for the United Kingdom will last for as long as the increase in own resources to 1·4 per cent.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-10a.966.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-10", "file": "debates1984-07-10a.xml", "sha256": "0f9fa02534463c10", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-10a.970.1", "colnum": "970", "heading": "European Community Affairs", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "ould be shared by other member states, and that would be the case for the first time. One of the main questions asked by hon. Members was whether, if we agree to the deal, we would have lost the opportunity to reform the Community's total expenditure and bring it and agriculture expenditure, in particular, under control. The first point that I must emphasise is that the agreement that was reached—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-10a.970.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-11", "file": "debates1984-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "5f1baa07a45179be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-11a.1040.0", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Youth Service (Report)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "The report explicitly dismisses any suggestion of a crisis among youth in this country —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-11a.1040.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-11", "file": "debates1984-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "5f1baa07a45179be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-11a.1040.4", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Youth Service (Report)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "I seem to be one of the only people who have read the report—few Opposition Members seem to have done so. The report emphasises in chapter after chapter that there could be better management of the large resources with great benefit for the youth service.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-11a.1040.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-11", "file": "debates1984-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "5f1baa07a45179be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-11a.1046.1", "colnum": "1046", "heading": "British Tanker (Gulf Attack)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Luce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Luce", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman is absolutely wrong to suggest that our policies are making a contribution to inflaming the situation between those two countries. We trade, but we trade with both. In ordinary commercial terms, we have, it is true, substantial trade but it is with both countries. As for the war, the hon. Gentleman knows that we remain neutral and do not sell lethal arms; we sell only non-lethal arms—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-11a.1046.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-11", "file": "debates1984-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "5f1baa07a45179be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-11a.1063.0", "colnum": "1063", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr.charles Morrison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr.charles Morrison", "preceding_text": "retation of legislation, which was confirmed by the courts in 1933, that was accepted until 1981. That interpretation of the law has helped to maintain a reasonable level of horse breeding of all types in Britain. Two points should be borne in mind in regard to thoroughbred horses. First, and contrary to some popular assumptions, thoroughbred breeding is not generally a very profitable occupation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-11a.1063.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-11", "file": "debates1984-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "5f1baa07a45179be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-11a.1070.1", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "n for his intervention, because it shows that he will fail to convince the House of the value of his argument. I did not mention jobs. I suggested that thousands of children enjoy the pleasure of pony riding weekend in, weekend out. They do not cause trouble to anyone. Many schemes exist to promote riding for the disabled. All of that would be put at risk if the CTT concession before us were lost.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-11a.1070.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-11", "file": "debates1984-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "5f1baa07a45179be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-11a.1076.3", "colnum": "1076", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moore", "preceding_text": "I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time. This new clause is a relieving provision that seeks to deal with a technical deficiency —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-11a.1076.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-11", "file": "debates1984-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "5f1baa07a45179be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-11a.1156.0", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "ered only part-time employment. A letter has come my way from the Bishop of Carlisle —a man whom Conservative Members would do well to heed, for he expresses an objective and independent view. He bears no political label. He presents effectively the case for what he believes to be a deprived group—people who, though out of work, are required to pay for the change that is taking place industrially.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-11a.1156.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-11", "file": "debates1984-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "5f1baa07a45179be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-11a.1156.0", "colnum": "1156", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "his transition, the old unskilled manual working class are having to pay a very high price indeed. As a matter of both compassion and justice, we, together with many other church people and other bodies, would urge you to think again and bring about this small change. It would be one sign of your concern for all members of our society. Those are the words of the Bishop of Carlisle. He represents —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-11a.1156.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-11", "file": "debates1984-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "5f1baa07a45179be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-11a.1183.1", "colnum": "1183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": " of the burdens. I am glad to say — and it is one little step forward that the Government have taken — that the Home Secretary has at last invited Guernsey and Jersey to consider contributing towards the cost of defence and foreign representation. I suggested that, although I do not say that the invitation has anything to do with me. I am the last person to whom the Government would pay attention—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-11a.1183.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-11", "file": "debates1984-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "5f1baa07a45179be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-11a.1189.1", "colnum": "1189", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barron", "preceding_text": "enue has been investigating the biggest tax-dodging scheme in history, run by the Rossminster group of companies. At least £100 million in lost taxes is involved. According to Granada's World in Action programme, it could be as much as £1,000 million—equal to more than a penny on the rate of income tax for the rest of us. The Treasury Minister in charge of the Inland Revenue is Mr. Peter Rees, QC.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-11a.1189.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-11", "file": "debates1984-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "5f1baa07a45179be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-11a.1200.7", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "preceding_text": "e hon. Member for Glasgow, Cathcart (Mr. Maxton) asked about VAT. For the extension of the VAT base in the Budget, at least 100 extra staff are being deployed, separate from the extra 150 staff to whom I referred earlier. It is clear, therefore, that under this Government there has been a steady increase in the numbers employed in the Revenue departments dealing with the black economy and evasion.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-11a.1200.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-11", "file": "debates1984-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "5f1baa07a45179be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-11a.1248.2", "colnum": "1248", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Terry Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Terry Davis", "preceding_text": "It is significant that so many of my hon. Friends have stayed throughout the night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-11a.1248.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-07-11", "file": "debates1984-07-11a.xml", "sha256": "5f1baa07a45179be", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-11a.1332.5", "colnum": "1332", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "elected by Mr. Speaker may be moved, the Questions thereon shall be put forthwith, and Mr. Speaker shall then put the Question upon the said Motion and any Questions necessary to dispose of the other Motions and of any Amendments moved thereto which have been selected by him; and that, notwithstanding the practice of the House, each Motion shall be regarded as a single Motion. — [Mr. Garel-Jones.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-11a.1332.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-12", "file": "debates1984-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a06b0eacf2b3ba7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-12a.1346.9", "colnum": "1346", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I am not prepared—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-12a.1346.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-12", "file": "debates1984-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a06b0eacf2b3ba7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-12a.1376.1", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "INMOS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "Broadly, the answer to most of the hon. Gentleman's questions is no. But let me specify more clearly some of the matters on which he is wrong. First, he compares speculative valuations of the company at some considerable time in the future with the price achieved for 76 per cent. of the company's equity. So he is in a fairly muddled condition.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-12a.1376.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-12", "file": "debates1984-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a06b0eacf2b3ba7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-12a.1377.1", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "INMOS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I am grateful for my hon. Friend's remarks. I do not think that he should underestimate the extent of the abilities of this country in the semi-conductor field. There are 10 factories already producing semi-conductors in the United Kingdom.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-12a.1377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-12", "file": "debates1984-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a06b0eacf2b3ba7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-12a.1377.3", "colnum": "1377", "heading": "INMOS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"That means nothing.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "First, the company will be developed in a manner which is satisfactory to the board of the company.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-12a.1377.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-12", "file": "debates1984-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a06b0eacf2b3ba7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-12a.1379.0", "colnum": "1379", "heading": "INMOS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for what he has said, and emphasise again that I consider the deal to be a good one, particularly on industrial grounds. It was those grounds which had priority, and not the question of exactly how much we could squeeze out at the end of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-12a.1379.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-12", "file": "debates1984-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a06b0eacf2b3ba7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-12a.1380.5", "colnum": "1380", "heading": "INMOS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I must congratulate the right hon. Gentleman on his sheer courage in putting his head above the parapet to get it thumped once again.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-12a.1380.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-12", "file": "debates1984-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a06b0eacf2b3ba7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-12a.1386.5", "colnum": "1386", "heading": "Bus Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will know that there is a special chapter on Scotland in the White Paper. My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary is present and will be giving detailed answers to questions about Scotland which any hon. Member may ask.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-12a.1386.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-12", "file": "debates1984-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a06b0eacf2b3ba7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-12a.1394.0", "colnum": "1394", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Birmingham, Sparkbrook (Mr. Hattersley) asks leave to move the Adjournment of the House for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that he thinks should have urgent consideration, namely, the deteriorating economic situation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-12a.1394.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-12", "file": "debates1984-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a06b0eacf2b3ba7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-12a.1400.1", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "hat, by contrast, does the Labour party now offer? The red party has become the scarlet woman, Walworth Road Lil, obeying every whim of her militant trade union sugar daddies, a party now so enslaved and dependent that it cannot even summon the breath to condemn the savage violence inflicted on trade unionists who want to work and on their wives and families by the bullies who fear the ballot box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-12a.1400.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-12", "file": "debates1984-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a06b0eacf2b3ba7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-12a.1422.1", "colnum": "1422", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I beg the hon. Lady's pardon. I never develop an affection for any legislation, but this one has become part of our life. I have encountered many Finance Bills, and I do not think that the House would welcome it if I went back over their history. It is remarkable how the theme and structure of the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-12a.1422.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-12", "file": "debates1984-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a06b0eacf2b3ba7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-12a.1423.1", "colnum": "1423", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I am touched by the hon. Gentleman's fidelity to the rules of order and relevance. They were not very apparent to me or to my right hon. and hon. Friends when we were discussing the Bill in Committee Room 10.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-12a.1423.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-12", "file": "debates1984-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a06b0eacf2b3ba7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-12a.1424.3", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": " was closured. It gives me no pleasure to recall that the closure came after three Labour Members had made speeches aggregating four and a half hours. I leave them and those who study our debates in Hansard to judge whether the points that they made justified such long speeches. I am not absolutely certain whether we use our time entirely rationally. Sometimes there is an element of irrationality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-12a.1424.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-12", "file": "debates1984-07-12a.xml", "sha256": "a06b0eacf2b3ba7d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-12a.1424.3", "colnum": "1424", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Finance (No. 2) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "mbers had made speeches aggregating four and a half hours. I leave them and those who study our debates in Hansard to judge whether the points that they made justified such long speeches. I am not absolutely certain whether we use our time entirely rationally. Sometimes there is an element of irrationality. [Interruption.] We should leave that to those outside. I am happy to stand by its judgment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-12a.1424.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-13", "file": "debates1984-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "bd053d530715efc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-13a.1443.1", "colnum": "1443", "heading": "Drug Misuse", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "h petty and organised crime. Those objectives underlie the Government's strategy for tackling drug misuse. I recognise that the Government must develop policies and lines of action that have an impact upon particular aspects of the drug problem. That is what we have been seeking to do; we shall continue to do it with renewed vigour. I am glad to see the House well filled for this important debate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-13a.1443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-13", "file": "debates1984-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "bd053d530715efc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-13a.1445.1", "colnum": "1445", "heading": "Drug Misuse", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "It is not for me to give an account of all the intelligence —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-13a.1445.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-13", "file": "debates1984-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "bd053d530715efc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-13a.1452.1", "colnum": "1452", "heading": "Drug Misuse", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "ause we want the views of the House. We shall go through our policies piece by piece, assisted by the House, and rigorously analyse them. Stimulated by the advisory committee's report, we shall begin with prevention and will give early consideration to importation. It is a long chain of events that leads from the poppy fields on the north-west frontier to misery and death on the streets of London.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-13a.1452.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-13", "file": "debates1984-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "bd053d530715efc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-13a.1459.0", "colnum": "1459", "heading": "Drug Misuse", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": "nister in his whispered interventions. The hon. Gentleman should not attempt to catch me out in such an obvious and silly way. The Home Office is responsible for the discipline and control of prisoners. It has been given evidence of widespread drug abuse within the prison system and the breakdown of discipline and control. I want to know what has been the response of the Home Office to the report—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-13a.1459.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-13", "file": "debates1984-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "bd053d530715efc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-13a.1466.2", "colnum": "1466", "heading": "Mirror Group Newspapers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is correct. The problems of Fleet street will be solved or mitigated not by transfers of ownership but only by addressing the major problems in the operation of Fleet street.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-13a.1466.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-13", "file": "debates1984-07-13a.xml", "sha256": "bd053d530715efc7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-13a.1510.3", "colnum": "1510", "heading": "Drug Misuse", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Derisory.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patten", "preceding_text": "earance of sleeping through my speeches. My ministerial colleagues and I decided to make up to £1 million extra available, with at least £750,000 being spent in the current year. That increases the sum available over the three years to £7 million. I am pleased to have been able to announce the additional money which is being made available for additional improvements to services for drug misusers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-13a.1510.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-16", "file": "debates1984-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "4b8a39ce60cd911f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-16a.30.3", "colnum": "30", "heading": "Personal Pensions", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Not quite.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "No. That is about as silly as the comments of the hon. Member for Oldham, West (Mr. Meacher) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-16a.30.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-16", "file": "debates1984-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "4b8a39ce60cd911f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-16a.41.4", "colnum": "41", "heading": "Dock Strike", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "Of course I understand it. The unions are asking that they and they alone should decide how to classify dockwork and that is a threat to other people's jobs.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-16a.41.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-16", "file": "debates1984-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "4b8a39ce60cd911f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-16a.45.3", "colnum": "45", "heading": "GCHQ, Cheltenham", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "It is a point of importance, upon which the right hon. Member for Devonport did not touch. In mid-December I was told that GCHQ at Cheltenham had decoded the crucial orders to the Belgrano —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-16a.45.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-16", "file": "debates1984-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "4b8a39ce60cd911f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-16a.48.0", "colnum": "48", "heading": "GCHQ, Cheltenham", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bruinvels", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I seek your guidance. Is it in order for one hon. Member to describe another as a \"Tory scab\" in the way that the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-16a.48.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-16", "file": "debates1984-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "4b8a39ce60cd911f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-16a.66.1", "colnum": "66", "heading": "Investor Protection (Gower Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tapsell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tapsell", "preceding_text": "d and less confidential. I cannot imagine why that should be in the interests of the Government. If I may be allowed to take a leaf out of the book of Lord Wilson of Rievaulx and quote myself for a moment—I do it simply to save time—speaking in France to the annual conference of the Association of International Bond Dealers on 17 May this year, I said this to 2,000 bond dealers from 26 countries —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-16a.66.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-16", "file": "debates1984-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "4b8a39ce60cd911f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-16a.77.1", "colnum": "77", "heading": "Investor Protection (Gower Report)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wrigglesworth", "preceding_text": "he younger and newer people, and the longer established institutions and individuals in the City. I am pleased that the hon. Member for East Lindsey was here to put the view of those who are resisting change, but I do not think that he claimed to speak for the whole of the City. I am sorry that we are not hearing the views of those on the Opposition side of the House who want to abolish the City.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-16a.77.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-16", "file": "debates1984-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "4b8a39ce60cd911f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-16a.128.3", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Appointment of Bishops Measure", "cue_speaker": "Sir William van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "I do not think that I can be asked to speculate on the conditions on which so serious an occasion as the refusal to consecrate a man or, possibly in future a woman, might—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-16a.128.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-16", "file": "debates1984-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "4b8a39ce60cd911f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-16a.128.5", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Appointment of Bishops Measure", "cue_speaker": "Sir William van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "—it is best for the archbishop not to consecrate. It is a very serious right that is vested in him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-16a.128.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-16", "file": "debates1984-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "4b8a39ce60cd911f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-16a.129.2", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Appointment of Bishops Measure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bruinvels", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "Will my hon. Friend try to explain to me the one point about which I am uncertain?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-16a.129.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-16", "file": "debates1984-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "4b8a39ce60cd911f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-16a.129.7", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Appointment of Bishops Measure", "cue_speaker": "Sir William van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "We have plenty of time. I am simply saying that on that occasion, having given the matter careful thought, they did not decide to refuse or to withhold the right of consecration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-16a.129.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-16", "file": "debates1984-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "4b8a39ce60cd911f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-16a.129.11", "colnum": "129", "heading": "Appointment of Bishops Measure", "cue_speaker": "Sir William van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "With respect, I think that this is an occasion on which we have to have trust in the men concerned as being persons of sufficient stature, and who, if faced, in circumstances which I profoundly hope would never occur—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-16a.129.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-16", "file": "debates1984-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "4b8a39ce60cd911f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-16a.130.7", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Appointment of Bishops Measure", "cue_speaker": "Sir William van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "use it is perfectly possible for a bishop who has been properly consecrated to be moved to another diocese. The present diocesan Bishop of Oxford was moved from another diocesan post. In the senior bishoprics that happens quite frequently. The measure must so provide. My hon. Friend gives me the opportunity to explain the clauses briefly, because I think that the House will soon weary of my voice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-16a.130.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-16", "file": "debates1984-07-16a.xml", "sha256": "4b8a39ce60cd911f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-16a.143.0", "colnum": "143", "heading": "Appointment of Bishops Measure", "cue_speaker": "Sir William van Straubenzee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir William van Straubenzee", "preceding_text": "e that complaint. It is a totally and absolutely proper exercise of the duties of hon. Members of this House—whatever their religious allegiances or lack of religious allegiances—to take part. I am the last to make any complaint about that. Nobody has heard me complain or threaten that if the measure is not approved tonight, it will inevitably lead to the disestablishment of the Church of England.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-16a.143.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-17", "file": "debates1984-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "32ab050fb96702a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.160.1", "colnum": "160", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "There is no question of removing qualifications. There is a quesion of possibly ceasing to require qualifications.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.160.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-17", "file": "debates1984-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "32ab050fb96702a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.161.2", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "There are free school meals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.161.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-17", "file": "debates1984-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "32ab050fb96702a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.165.6", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "Does not the Prime Minister now wish that she had consulted the trade unions over GCHQ? Does not her refusal to consult bear the stamp and style of her entire way of government? When will she learn, quite apart from GCHQ, which is the subject of her statement later, that the British people prefer democrats to autocrats?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.165.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-17", "file": "debates1984-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "32ab050fb96702a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.166.11", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "When will the Prime Minister realise that, now that the Falklands jingoism has worn off, her real policies have come to light and are plunging this country into total chaos?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.166.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-17", "file": "debates1984-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "32ab050fb96702a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.167.10", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is right. Some people wish to circumvent the processes of parliamentary democracy and impose their wishes upon the rest. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.167.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-17", "file": "debates1984-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "32ab050fb96702a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.171.1", "colnum": "171", "heading": "GCHQ", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "rose ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.171.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-17", "file": "debates1984-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "32ab050fb96702a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.171.4", "colnum": "171", "heading": "GCHQ", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister evaded my question earlier, but the Government have been found guilty of breaking the law. Will the Prime Minister now admit that the judgment of the High Court makes it clear that responsibility for this major breach of natural justice and offence against civil rights rests with her and her alone? Was it not she and she alone who issued instructions—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.171.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-17", "file": "debates1984-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "32ab050fb96702a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.171.6", "colnum": "171", "heading": "GCHQ", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "t the advice of her colleagues, to accept guarantees of continuous operations at GCHQ given by the trade unions way back in early February? Why has she spurned the opportunity afforded her by Mr. Justice Glidewell for a period of reflection and, instead, rushed off to appeal and thus prevent further consideration by this forum of Parliament? In an attempt to explain the reason for going to appeal—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.171.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-17", "file": "debates1984-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "32ab050fb96702a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.172.1", "colnum": "172", "heading": "GCHQ", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ed to make such breaches of natural justice? Will she now conclude this £5 million farce at GCHQ by apologising to loyal civil servants for insulting their integrity, and will she instruct the Government's lawyers in the Court of Appeal to withdraw the appeal this afternoon and inform the court that the decision of the High Court will be followed by the Government? In the light of this experience—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.172.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-17", "file": "debates1984-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "32ab050fb96702a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.172.4", "colnum": "172", "heading": "GCHQ", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ot think that the right hon. Gentleman will find the words that he used within the judgment. May I remind him that during the last Labour Government four Ministers had their actions declared invalid by the courts? The right hon. Member for Glasgow, Hillhead (Mr. Jenkins), when Home Secretary, was told by the Court of Appeal that his attempt to revoke television licences was unlawful, invalid and —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.172.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-17", "file": "debates1984-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "32ab050fb96702a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.175.0", "colnum": "175", "heading": "GCHQ", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "preceding_text": "The reaction on the Opposition Benches shows that the Labour party is, after all, in favour of obeying decisions made by judges. Does my right hon. Friend think that there will come a time when the Leader of the Opposition will advise his supporters to condemn secondary picketing if there is ever an order to that effect in the courts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.175.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-17", "file": "debates1984-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "32ab050fb96702a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.175.0", "colnum": "175", "heading": "GCHQ", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Nicholls", "preceding_text": "The reaction on the Opposition Benches shows that the Labour party is, after all, in favour of obeying decisions made by judges. Does my right hon. Friend think that there will come a time when the Leader of the Opposition will advise his supporters to condemn secondary picketing if there is ever an order to that effect in the courts— [Interruption.] When the case finally goes for appeal, if —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.175.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-17", "file": "debates1984-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "32ab050fb96702a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.176.3", "colnum": "176", "heading": "GCHQ", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Will the Prime Minister shed light on the reported puzzlement of Mr. Justice Glidewell on why the instructions were given to officials orally on 22 December? What precise event prompted the Prime Minister, three days before Christmas, to give those oral instructions? Does she recollect that on 19 December she answered two parliamentary questions from me—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.176.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-17", "file": "debates1984-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "32ab050fb96702a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.176.3", "colnum": "176", "heading": "GCHQ", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tam Dalyell", "preceding_text": " given to officials orally on 22 December? What precise event prompted the Prime Minister, three days before Christmas, to give those oral instructions? Does she recollect that on 19 December she answered two parliamentary questions from me—[Interruption.] —about GCHQ Cheltenham? As she knew well that those questions were prompted by information that had come to me, not from trade union activists—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.176.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-17", "file": "debates1984-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "32ab050fb96702a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.176.5", "colnum": "176", "heading": "GCHQ", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "For over five hours messages in relation to the instructions ordering the Belgrano —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.176.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-17", "file": "debates1984-07-17a.xml", "sha256": "32ab050fb96702a8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.177.8", "colnum": "177", "heading": "GCHQ", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I used about 48 hours came from the Council of Civil Service Unions' campaign report No. 5. I could quote many more passages. We took action because national security and GCHQ are extremely important and we must have continuous coverage. The quotation which I used — I could give many more—shows that the Civil Service unions were prepared selectively to strike at GCHQ and to damage communications —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-17a.177.8"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.299.7", "colnum": "299", "heading": "SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. MacKay", "preceding_text": "The document that I have sent to the health boards has the same status as the many circulars and documents which the hon. Member sent to health boards in his time in office. The document suggests a course of action that health boards should take. I fully expect them to take that action, as they are appointed by my right hon. Friend. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.299.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.310.4", "colnum": "310", "heading": "SOLICITOR GENERAL FOR SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fraser", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman is clearly unhappy that what he hoped would be a cause celebre has not occurred. My noble and learned Friend the Lord Advocate and I have said that there was a misconstruction of one section of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act, by the prosecution as well as by all the defence lawyers in Scotland who were involved.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.310.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.331.1", "colnum": "331", "heading": "Local Authority Capital Expenditure (England)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Patrick Jenkin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the Secretary of State?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Patrick Jenkin)", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement on local authority capital expenditure in England. My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales will make a separate statement afterwards.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.331.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.332.1", "colnum": "332", "heading": "Local Authority Capital Expenditure (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is wrong. This is not a moratorium. It is certainly nothing like the massive cuts in capital spending that were ordered by the Labour Government in July 1976. Compare what I have announced today with what the Government of which he was a member announced —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.332.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.334.4", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Local Authority Capital Expenditure (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I am sure my right hon. and learned Friend recognises that this is not a moratorium.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.334.4"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.341.2", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Local Authority Capital Expenditure (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Coleman", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Coleman", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.341.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.341.5", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Local Authority Capital Expenditure (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"On a point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "All I can say is that the indication given to me was that the Parliamentary Under-Secretary would be making the statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.341.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.341.14", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Local Authority Capital Expenditure (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Wyn Roberts)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Wyn Roberts)", "preceding_text": "With permission, Mr. Speaker, I should like to make a statement on local government capital expenditure in Wales.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.341.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.343.2", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Local Authority Capital Expenditure (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Trimming.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "May I reassure my hon. Friend, as my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment has just reassured other hon. Members, that there is no question of cuts in this case.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.343.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.346.0", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Local Authority Capital Expenditure (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roberts", "preceding_text": "I can tell the hon. Gentleman that there are positive aspects to the statement that I have just made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.355.5", "colnum": "355", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "f the total. That handful of authorities have a reckless approach to spending. The House will be familiar with a long list of the Labour local authorities' wanton extravagance with the money that they raised from their ratepayers. Everyone knows and can see the £5·7 million which the GLC has voted to spend on its advertising campaign to oppose the abolition of the GLC and other authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.355.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.356.3", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I must get on. Islington spent more than £100,000—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.356.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.356.3", "colnum": "356", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "s, but, as we read in The Times of 9 July: Many Labour councillors have decided to risk breaking the law in defying the Government's next spending squeeze\". I understand that the hon. Gentleman was present at the conference in Sheffield to which that report referred. The press does not say whether the hon. Gentleman, who sits on the Opposition Front Bench, stood up and spoke in defence of the law—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.356.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.391.0", "colnum": "391", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Thompson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Thompson", "preceding_text": "ng years. The hon. Gentleman then talked vaguely about rolling programmes and other equally incomprehensible matters and I realised that I should not gain much enlightenment from him. I was astonished that no alliance Members were in the Chamber a few moments ago and that the number of Labour Members present is astonishingly low considering the interest that they are supposed to have in the issue.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.391.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.397.1", "colnum": "397", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maples", "preceding_text": "ed £3 million of additional Government grant and there would have been a rate rise of 7p instead of 29p without in any way affecting services. We all acknowledge that some balance must be struck between the services needed and what the ratepayers can pay. At the moment, the Government's overwhelming objective must be to foster our economic recovery. That involves the control of public expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.397.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.401.1", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"But it stayed intact.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "tation. It may turn out that all his fights with the Treasury, Conservative Back Benchers and Cabinet colleagues have been for nothing, because authorities have not been overspending. Despite the insanity of the system, it charges on rather like the train yesterday, crashing at 100 miles an hour into a nuclear flask. The Secretary of State charges on like that, unaware that destruction is so near.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.401.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.405.12", "colnum": "405", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "formance of the best. I was born in the county of Somerset, which has £800,000 of penalty. I know that if that admirable county council could find ways of reducing its considerable budget expenditure by £1·5 million it could still avoid that penalty. If it did so, it would still be spending more per head on its transport systems than Gloucestershire and Wiltshire, the neighbouring counties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.405.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.417.4", "colnum": "417", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "his constituency have been landed by the decision of their local authority. The very fact that 31 local authorities have budgeted in the current year so as not to exceed their targets shows that what I asked of them was by no means unreasonable or impossible. By keeping within their targets they avoid grant penalty. Those authorities avoid also the associated close ending adjustment which ensures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.417.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.421.0", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jones", "preceding_text": "The homeless, the elderly and school-children—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.420.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.421.3", "colnum": "421", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hubbard-Miles", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman give way on this point?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.421.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should use his eyes to see what is happening in areas such as Powys, and especially in Montgomery, where the real —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.429.1", "colnum": "429", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": " of lollipop ladies by the local education authority? Let him think about the inability of the Powys county council to comply fully with the requirements of the Education Act 1981 for children with special learning needs. Let him think of the cuts in teaching provision in the Carno primary school in my constituency—where rolls are not falling—that are a direct result of the Government's policies —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.429.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.447.4", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Dairy Produce Quotas", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Harvey", "preceding_text": "ly the Government's duty to ensure that change was much less sudden and violent than has been the case. There are horrifying tales in my constituency of the degree to which farmers have found themselves in financial difficulties as a consequence of the suddenness of the change. The jump in interest rates comes as a body blow to an industry that depends heavily on borrowed money for its survival. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.447.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.447.4", "colnum": "447", "heading": "Dairy Produce Quotas", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Harvey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Harvey", "preceding_text": "stability were not guaranteed in the diary sector, at least for the next five years. Further adjustment must be gradual and must reflect our own competitiveness against the inefficiency of our EEC partners. I ask for the Minister's assurance that the uncertainty is over, so that farmers can plan for the future with confidence. My right hon. Friend can still go down as the Minister of Agriculture —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.447.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.450.2", "colnum": "450", "heading": "Dairy Produce Quotas", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "preceding_text": "Of course, if the hon. Gentleman tells me that, I shall take it into account—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.450.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Dairy Produce Quotas", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"How can one know?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "preceding_text": " saying that one dairy farmer in four is likely to claim to be a special case. Why not? If the offer is there, why not take it? The Minister cannot know how many applications there will be under the outgoers scheme. He has admitted that he cannot know how many special cases will be allowed. Both ends of the scheme are total unknowns. He wishes the House to approve the scheme on that lunatic basis.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Dairy Produce Quotas", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "preceding_text": " the outgoers scheme. He has admitted that he cannot know how many special cases will be allowed. Both ends of the scheme are total unknowns. He wishes the House to approve the scheme on that lunatic basis. [HON. MEMBERS: \"How can one know?\"] Of course we cannot know. Why does the Minister not wait until he knows the answer to those questions before he comes here with his daft and lunatic schemes?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Dairy Produce Quotas", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "preceding_text": "untry Landowners Association claims that the dairy produce quota tribunals—another set of quangos which the Government are establishing—will reduce the uncertainty facing producers. With respect, the CLA is wrong. Far from ending the uncertainty, the tribunals will prolong the agony. The Minister has said today that there will be flying tribunals. No doubt they will be followed by flying pickets —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.451.1", "colnum": "451", "heading": "Dairy Produce Quotas", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbett", "preceding_text": "ss, or to total milk production? In many of the areas where direct sellers operate, there is no other milkman. To ask the direct seller to cut back is therefore to introduce a form of rationing. A note will be left outside the door of No. 35: \"Two pints today, please\". The direct seller will have to say, \"I'm terribly sorry, but you can only have one pint, because I have nearly exceeded my quota.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.451.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.453.3", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Dairy Produce Quotas", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Mills", "preceding_text": "rmers whom we need to encourage it is the producer-retailers, because the milk is going down the throats of the consumers and that is the end of it, unlike butter, which is put into intervention and stored. The Community must sort out that problem and there must be more flexibility. One of the most difficult problems with which the Government have had to deal is the weather and how that should be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.453.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.454.1", "colnum": "454", "heading": "Dairy Produce Quotas", "cue_speaker": "Sir Peter Mills", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Mills", "preceding_text": "I can well understand the farmers' difficulty, but I believe that the Government, in their approach to the quota problem, have just about got it right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.454.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.456.3", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Dairy Produce Quotas", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maclennan", "preceding_text": "The Minister has told the House more than once that he did his best. Not many hon. Members would deny that, but his best is not good enough for the future of our farming industry. The right hon. Gentleman has created dismay, havoc and rural poverty where prosperity once existed. The Government have systematically misled the agricultural producers for five years and they will reap the whirlwind.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.456.3"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.456.12", "colnum": "456", "heading": "Dairy Produce Quotas", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Sit down.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Spicer", "preceding_text": "Give way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.456.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-18", "file": "debates1984-07-18a.xml", "sha256": "f2e706f0f94afa97", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.466.2", "colnum": "466", "heading": "Dairy Produce Quotas", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "ar rent agreements before 1 April, only to find that they cannot now generate the cash flow to meet the increased rent because of the quota system. If my right hon. Friend says that he has just made provision—may I have his attention, please? If my right hon. Friend says that he has just—if the Whip on duty would be good enough to allow the Minister to listen to the debate I would be much obliged.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-18a.466.2"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-19", "file": "debates1984-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "9046852b358a1185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-19a.502.3", "colnum": "502", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "As ever, the hon. Gentleman trivialises the situation. Since the Government took office the number of specialist customs investigators dealing with heroin has doubled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-19a.502.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-19", "file": "debates1984-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "9046852b358a1185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-19a.507.2", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "As it has become known that the Prime Minister will tell her Back Benchers tonight that there will be no change in the style and direction of her Government—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-19a.507.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-07-19", "file": "debates1984-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "9046852b358a1185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-19a.508.7", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon Members", "cue_text": "Answer the question.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " has said that pits should not be mined unless they are workable and can be mined beneficially. That is not very different from the tripartite report on \"Plan for Coal\" which was signed by Eric Varley, the noble Lord Gormley and the noble Lord Ezra, which said: Inevitably some pits will have to close as their useful economic reserves of coal are depleted. Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-19a.508.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-19", "file": "debates1984-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "9046852b358a1185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-19a.509.1", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I understand the need for talks. In fact, my right hon. Friend the Member for Salford, East (Mr. Orme) has been working for seven weeks to get talks going, against the will of the Prime Minister and in spite of the Government. We understand the need for talks and the need for a settlement. I am going to ask the Prime Minister again not to dodge the question and evade her responsibility—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-19a.509.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-19", "file": "debates1984-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "9046852b358a1185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-19a.509.2", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I understand the right hon. Gentleman only too well. That is his trouble. Will he say whether he accepts—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-19a.509.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-19", "file": "debates1984-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "9046852b358a1185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-19a.509.5", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I believe this to be Prime Minister's Question Time. Now that she sees where real influence lies and where responsibility is accepted, she is turning this into—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-19a.509.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-19", "file": "debates1984-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "9046852b358a1185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-19a.509.8", "colnum": "509", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \" She does not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Prime Minister answers questions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-19a.509.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-19", "file": "debates1984-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "9046852b358a1185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-19a.511.2", "colnum": "511", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Madden", "preceding_text": "er, Mr. Speaker. I would appreciate your guidance about matters that would clearly be a breach of privilege if said by an hon. Member in the House, but which, according to your recently expressed view, are not a breach of privilege if said outside the House. We seek your guidance as to what the rules of sub judice are when a distinguished and senior parliamentarian, anticipating a decision, said —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-19a.511.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-19", "file": "debates1984-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "9046852b358a1185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-19a.513.2", "colnum": "513", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Say it again!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "preceding_text": "FRIDAY 27 JULY — Motion on the Caribbean Development Bank (Further Payments) Order. MONDAY 30 JULY — Consideration of any Lords amendments which may be received to the Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill. TUESDAY 31 JULY — Opposition Day (19th Allotted Day). There will be a debate on an Opposition motion termed \"The Shambles of the Government's Economic, Employment and Industrial Policies.\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-19a.513.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-19", "file": "debates1984-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "9046852b358a1185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-19a.531.3", "colnum": "531", "heading": "Housing Benefits", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": " public expenditure. Despite the financial constraints of recent times we have maintained all of the key elements of social security and we are spending 27 per cent. more in real terms than when we first came into office in 1979. This vast and growing programme cannot be exempt from restraint. It must be kept within overall expenditure targets if our economic strategy is to continue to bear fruit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-19a.531.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-19", "file": "debates1984-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "9046852b358a1185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-19a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Housing Benefits", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "I shall write to the hon. Gentleman tomorrow if I am wrong — but I am usually right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-19a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-19", "file": "debates1984-07-19a.xml", "sha256": "9046852b358a1185", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-19a.577.3", "colnum": "577", "heading": "Social Security", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": " and for boarding-out fees from the available scale margin, which will benefit more than 3,000 families who would otherwise have problems. Therefore, what we are doing with the available scale margin is taking a modest step back towards the original principle underlying it when it was introduced by the Labour Government. It is equivalent to a return to clause 4 of the Labour party's constitution —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-19a.577.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-20", "file": "debates1984-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3fa7da06e07c60d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-20a.620.1", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Office, Secretarial and Research Allowance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": " Members use a smaller car and therefore incur lower costs they should limit their claim. In the interests of public accountability and of the proprieties being not only observed but seen to be observed, the Government propose to formalise that arrangement. Under the terms of the motion there will therefore be three tiers of allowance, calculated on the same basis as that used by the inquiry team.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-20a.620.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-20", "file": "debates1984-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3fa7da06e07c60d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-20a.622.1", "colnum": "622", "heading": "Office, Secretarial and Research Allowance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes, it is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nicholas Baker", "preceding_text": "Is not the argument that the higher rate will encourage people to buy larger cars ill founded, in that only the running costs are reimbursed? To buy a large car one needs to have or to borrow more money, which is not reflected in the allowances.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-20a.622.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-20", "file": "debates1984-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3fa7da06e07c60d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-20a.651.3", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Office, Secretarial and Research Allowance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": " is seriously intended that when I leave my garage at my home in my constituency and drive the 11 miles to my constituency office I must on each occasion write it down, and then say whether I returned home immediately or called in at the Conservative club for a drink on the way back. Who knows whether that is parliamentary business? I might have been meeting some people on quite important business", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-20a.651.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-20", "file": "debates1984-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3fa7da06e07c60d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-20a.651.3", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Office, Secretarial and Research Allowance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "home in my constituency and drive the 11 miles to my constituency office I must on each occasion write it down, and then say whether I returned home immediately or called in at the Conservative club for a drink on the way back. Who knows whether that is parliamentary business? I might have been meeting some people on quite important business [Interruption.] Always drink and drive within the limit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-20a.651.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-20", "file": "debates1984-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3fa7da06e07c60d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-20a.651.3", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Office, Secretarial and Research Allowance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Holt", "preceding_text": "n each occasion write it down, and then say whether I returned home immediately or called in at the Conservative club for a drink on the way back. Who knows whether that is parliamentary business? I might have been meeting some people on quite important business [Interruption.] Always drink and drive within the limit. [Interruption.] If I were drinking and needed to be driven, as I did last night—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-20a.651.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-20", "file": "debates1984-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3fa7da06e07c60d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-20a.656.4", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Office, Secretarial and Research Allowance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bruinvels", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "he particular type of car. I believe that this will encourage hon. Members to go for gas-guzzlers—to buy up rather than to buy down. As the right hon. Member for Swansea, West (Mr. Williams) said, one needs a reliable vehicle for long journeys on motorways. Nevertheless, we should not encourage hon. Members to purchase larger cars. We should encourage the use of the middle-of-the-road type of car.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-20a.656.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-20", "file": "debates1984-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3fa7da06e07c60d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-20a.656.4", "colnum": "656", "heading": "Office, Secretarial and Research Allowance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bruinvels", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Bruinvels", "preceding_text": "year, cap in hand, to see if we can do a little better. Certainly, I do not think that debates of this kind improve our standing outside. The right hon. Member for Swansea, West referred to my comment that it is an honour to be a Member of this House. I genuinely mean that. Reference has been made to hon. Members lacking proper facilities and being given just a little locker. I have such a locker.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-20a.656.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-20", "file": "debates1984-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3fa7da06e07c60d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-20a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Office, Secretarial and Research Allowance", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pike", "preceding_text": "nt for Members, therefore, to upgrade their cars and buy a petrol-guzzler. In a time of energy conservation, it is not sensible to give Members that encouragement. We must think about that more carefully. I would find it attractive to run a larger car than I need. My car is a 1600 cc Cortina Crusader estate. I can travel down the motorway in comfort, cruising comfortably at around the speed limit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-20a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-20", "file": "debates1984-07-20a.xml", "sha256": "3fa7da06e07c60d5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-20a.674.2", "colnum": "674", "heading": "Greenland (Withdrawal from EEC)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "wing home rule movement in Greenland which sought and ultimately achieved Greenland's withdrawal from the European Community. With respect to my hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow, it would be the kind of argument that might be sustained by some of his opponents in Blackburn, West Lothian, rather than by some of our supporters in Blackburn, Lancashire, if I may use his own argument against him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-20a.674.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-23", "file": "debates1984-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "91e043a641e1c762", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-23a.698.8", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lofthouse", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lofthouse", "preceding_text": "rties to the mining dispute? Does he further agree that he has an obligation, through his high office, to meet the president of the NUM just as he has been meeting the chairman of the National Coal Board, the second party to the dispute? If he is not prepared to do that, are we to take it that he is prepared to sit back and join the Prime Minister in a shoot-out? Is the right hon. Gentleman aware—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-23a.698.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-23", "file": "debates1984-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "91e043a641e1c762", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-23a.700.4", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "No such remarks have been made about the miners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-23a.700.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-23", "file": "debates1984-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "91e043a641e1c762", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-23a.700.7", "colnum": "700", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dormand", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dormand", "preceding_text": "for which he has no direct responsibility but for which he has a strong moral responsibility? First, will he seek to change the regulations by which PAYE refunds to miners are not being paid, remembering that there is great hardship and that it is the miners' own money? Are they not entitled to it? Secondly, is he aware that in my constituency some miners' children are now unable to get new shoes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-23a.700.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-23", "file": "debates1984-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "91e043a641e1c762", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-23a.751.1", "colnum": "751", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Iron and Steel", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Laughter .", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "ith the products they wanted at prices they could afford. During the past few months, Mr. Sirs has said nothing more nor less than that. He has shown great courage. Of course, we all want a unified trade union movement. I do not think that any Conservative Member derives any pleasure from seeing trade union leader fight trade union leader. That is not healthy for industrial democracy or good will—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-23a.751.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-23", "file": "debates1984-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "91e043a641e1c762", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-23a.752.1", "colnum": "752", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Iron and Steel", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Brown", "preceding_text": "Of course I speak for myself, but I cannot believe that I am not speaking for the whole House in saying that we derive no pleasure from seeing Bill Sirs fighting the leader of the National Union of Mineworkers. Surely the Opposition would agree with me on that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-23a.752.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-23", "file": "debates1984-07-23a.xml", "sha256": "91e043a641e1c762", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-23a.753.2", "colnum": "753", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Iron and Steel", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tom Clarke", "preceding_text": "stry which, despite the tone of the Minister's speech and the remarks of Conservative Members, still feels insecure. The hon. Member for Brigg and Cleethorpes said that he had attended every steel debate in the House for the last five years. I do not want to split hairs, but I suggest that he was wrong. I have been in the House for two years and in that time have initiated two Adjournment debates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-23a.753.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-24", "file": "debates1984-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ccf8140b074e9b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.816.4", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to hear that, but if the Government are serious about getting a chemical weapons ban—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.816.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-24", "file": "debates1984-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ccf8140b074e9b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.816.4", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to hear that, but if the Government are serious about getting a chemical weapons ban—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"]—is the Minister prepared —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.816.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-24", "file": "debates1984-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ccf8140b074e9b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.816.4", "colnum": "816", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — DEFENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "I am pleased to hear that, but if the Government are serious about getting a chemical weapons ban—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"]—is the Minister prepared — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"] to tell the United States that the United Kingdom does not want its chemical weapons in this country, and that we will not allow any planes in this country to have those chemical weapons?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.816.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-24", "file": "debates1984-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ccf8140b074e9b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.819.3", "colnum": "819", "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 will readily accept that any changes in this year's Finance Bill cannot have had any effect on previous losses in merchant shipping—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.819.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-24", "file": "debates1984-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ccf8140b074e9b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.820.0", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I do not accept what the hon. Gentleman has said about our economic policy. As I have said in the House before, gross domestic product is up 2·75 per cent. on the year earlier, industrial output is up 3·5 per cent. on the year earlier, total fixed investment has grown by 10 per cent. and we have had the lowest annual average figure for inflation for 15 years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.820.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-24", "file": "debates1984-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ccf8140b074e9b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.823.14", "colnum": "823", "heading": "Mr. Robin Walsh", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I cannot hear the hon. Gentleman any further. I have given him three opportunities to put a question to me. It is not a point of order —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.823.14"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-24", "file": "debates1984-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ccf8140b074e9b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.831.2", "colnum": "831", "heading": "Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "bove their GREs faced a 2·5 per cent. uplift of target only, against a 5 per cent. inflation. This year it is a 3·75 per cent. uplift against a 4·25 per cent. estimate of inflation. The hon. Gentleman seems to have forgotten that the Government of whom he was a member reduced the proportion of the aggregate Exchequer grant from 1976 to 1979, whereas we are merely maintaining —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.831.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-24", "file": "debates1984-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ccf8140b074e9b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.837.0", "colnum": "837", "heading": "Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "We are enhancing the accountability of local authorities —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.837.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-24", "file": "debates1984-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ccf8140b074e9b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.838.2", "colnum": "838", "heading": "Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to my hon. Friend. On the question of the proposed defiance of the Rates Act, it comes ill from the Opposition to say that they will not heed legislation passed by the House. However, councils are not led by one man —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.838.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-24", "file": "debates1984-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ccf8140b074e9b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.848.7", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Rate Support Grant", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that virtually no hon. Member on either side of the House has categorised his announcement as good news for ratepayers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.848.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-24", "file": "debates1984-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ccf8140b074e9b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.857.2", "colnum": "857", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ian Mikardo", "preceding_text": "sneered at. Presumably one gets applauded for being a do-badder. In exactly the same way, someone who joins an organisation but makes no contribution to the work and welfare of that organisation, apart from his subscription, and who leaves it to others to do the work, is somehow considered to be a desirable person, whereas a chap who does the work is dismissed sneeringly with the term \"militant\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.857.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-24", "file": "debates1984-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ccf8140b074e9b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.860.1", "colnum": "860", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mikardo", "preceding_text": "n a lot of my time to doing that. If the hon. Gentleman has not done that, he should not be complaining about the low level of ballots. That is to be regretted and we should all aim to make democracy more participatory. Too many people in all walks of life are prepared to let others do the chores and even make the decisions. A trade union is no different from this honourable House in one respect —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.860.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-24", "file": "debates1984-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ccf8140b074e9b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.878.1", "colnum": "878", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "ly. It is disgraceful that a major Bill that will affect millions of men and women in all walks of life, which has been extensively debated in the Commons, with more than 100 hours spent on it in Committee and two days on Report, and altered substantially, should be given only one day for consideration of Lords amendments. We are entitled to far more time to consider the major changes in the Bill—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.878.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-24", "file": "debates1984-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ccf8140b074e9b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.882.0", "colnum": "882", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Viscount Cranborne", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Viscount Cranborne", "preceding_text": "nd in the office of the Patronage Secretary. He said with the wry and tolerant smile that I have come to expect from those in that office, \"I see you have become an instant expert on trade union law.\" I was flattered by his animadversions on the subject. I should like to reply to him in public. Many hon. Members are called upon to make judgments on matters of which they may have little experience.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.882.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-24", "file": "debates1984-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ccf8140b074e9b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.887.7", "colnum": "887", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leighton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leighton", "preceding_text": "ioned as a union which has workplace voting. It was said that initially such workplace ballots achieved a 40 per cent. turnout. I am glad that the hon. Member for Stockton, South (Mr. Wrigglesworth) has returned, because he is an expert on the CPSA. He will confirm that initially there was a 40 per cent. vote. The hon. Member for Gainsborough and Horncastle said that afterwards that vote dropped —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.887.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-24", "file": "debates1984-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ccf8140b074e9b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.919.3", "colnum": "919", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowe", "preceding_text": "Members of the Standing Committee will have heard that question asked and answered before. Again, two things have to be said. First, the chairmanship of the Conservative party is the chairmanship of the office which is the leader's office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.919.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-24", "file": "debates1984-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ccf8140b074e9b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.923.5", "colnum": "923", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "t it is contrary to the principles of natural justice. The hon. Gentleman asked what has changed since we had these debates in Committee. What we have had since then is a series of examples where trade unions have taken action without asking their members whether they wanted to do so. Let us take one example about votes, which we shall discuss in greater detail later — the dockers in Felixstowe. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.923.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-24", "file": "debates1984-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ccf8140b074e9b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.924.2", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "It is only because Opposition Members claim that unions do not have names and addresses that the register becomes necessary. I was especially pleased to hear the hon. Member for Caerphilly refer to international obligations. If he accepts our international obligation, no doubt the Opposition will accept the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the case of the British Rail closed shop.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.924.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-24", "file": "debates1984-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ccf8140b074e9b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.925.2", "colnum": "925", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gummer", "preceding_text": "When it comes to trade unions, Labour Members want to deny the vote to their members, but when it comes to talking about the Labour party they are desperate to extend the vote to the members —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.925.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-24", "file": "debates1984-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ccf8140b074e9b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.933.1", "colnum": "933", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is not listening.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fatchett", "preceding_text": " was of little use in industrial relations except to poison and sour the atmosphere in workplaces throughout the country. Conservative Members know that. They want a Scargill clause so that they can go back to their Conservative associations and say, \"We have put into this Bill an amendment that will stop what is happening in the coal dispute.\" I put it to the Minister, what will these amendments—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.933.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-24", "file": "debates1984-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ccf8140b074e9b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.941.0", "colnum": "941", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Blair", "preceding_text": "se embarrassment over this part of the Bill rightly and properly caused his absence from any consideration on it. That embarrassment has been caused because this part of the Bill represents the first attempt since 1927 — apart from that the first attempt ever—by one political party to pass legislation whose purpose is directly to limit and staunch the funds to a political party of opposite views —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.941.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-24", "file": "debates1984-07-24a.xml", "sha256": "ccf8140b074e9b31", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.954.1", "colnum": "954", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Trade Union Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Evans", "preceding_text": "on by firms in the building industry. All of that money was legitimate and could not even be charged to the Tory party, yet the campaign was aimed directly at the Labour party. Such campaigns will not be affected. The Government have not taken any steps towards introducing some equity into the situation. It is the naked class politics that have been referred to so often during the Bill's passage —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-24a.954.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-25", "file": "debates1984-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "2fd4df01bd506822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.976.4", "colnum": "976", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "Should we not be deeply concerned about the authoritative reports coming out of Washington, from Dr. Robert Scheinn and others, that a formidable rearmament programme is going in Argentina? What are we to make of the battalion amphibious exercises at night? What we are to make of the Syhawks that are being armed with more Exocets?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.976.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-25", "file": "debates1984-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "2fd4df01bd506822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.979.6", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "Notwithstanding the sudden absence of the shadow Foreign Secretary from the Opposition Front Bench—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.979.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-25", "file": "debates1984-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "2fd4df01bd506822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.979.6", "colnum": "979", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "Notwithstanding the sudden absence of the shadow Foreign Secretary from the Opposition Front Bench—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"]—does my hon. Friend agree that, at least on the Conservative Benches, there is now a strong spirit of European co-operation?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.979.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-25", "file": "debates1984-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "2fd4df01bd506822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.981.6", "colnum": "981", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EUROPEAN COMMUNITY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Moate", "preceding_text": "Has something gone seriously wrong with the Foreign Office?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.981.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-25", "file": "debates1984-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "2fd4df01bd506822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.986.18", "colnum": "986", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "In column 981 in questions to the Foreign Secretary on 27 June—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.986.18"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-25", "file": "debates1984-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "2fd4df01bd506822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.999.1", "colnum": "999", "heading": "British Shipbuilders", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yorick.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "I am sorry that the right hon. Gentleman has had to go through the old gravedigger routine. I must say, he seems to be doing another performance of Jorrocks to my gravedigger—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.999.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-07-25", "file": "debates1984-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "2fd4df01bd506822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.1000.5", "colnum": "1000", "heading": "British Shipbuilders", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Two Tories.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Peter Mills", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend confirm that this will not include——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.1000.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-25", "file": "debates1984-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "2fd4df01bd506822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.1002.6", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "British Shipbuilders", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tebbit", "preceding_text": "ramme is that the Secretary of State for Defence and I are both of the opinion that privatisation will help rather than hinder the taxpayer getting proper value for money. It will, at the same time, get rid of the peculiar system under which, as the right hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Stepney (Mr. Shore) would have it, the defence budget is called upon to subsidise merchant shipbuilding yards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.1002.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-25", "file": "debates1984-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "2fd4df01bd506822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.1025.0", "colnum": "1025", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Heddle (Mid-Staffordshire)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Heddle (Mid-Staffordshire)", "preceding_text": "ary post-war expedient. They were perhaps exacerbated by the fact that between the wars it did not pay reputable builders, and landlords such as Costain and the Wimpey group to build homes to rent. It might have been exacerbated when the Government, in their wisdom, introduced the Parker Morris standards and caused houses to be built of far higher standards and at far greater costs than necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.1025.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-25", "file": "debates1984-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "2fd4df01bd506822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.1029.1", "colnum": "1029", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Housing", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heddle", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heddle", "preceding_text": "rience of these matters, perhaps did not understand my answer to the hon. Member for Burnley (Mr. Pike). We can compare a subsidy in the public sector with mortgage tax relief in the private sector only if the conditions relating to both are equal. They are not. Tax relief to the home owner in the private sector through mortgage relief is not a subsidy in the same sense that a rent is subsidised —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.1029.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-25", "file": "debates1984-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "2fd4df01bd506822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.1081.3", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Schedule 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "nancial Times, we may be sure that the hon. Member for Norwood is. In Monday's Financial Times we discovered a further interesting conversion, recently confirmed by the Labour party, towards the concept of home ownership. I thought that I would have the rapt attention of the Labour party, because this is a country which has sometimes served as a model and guide for Socialists throughout the world—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.1081.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-25", "file": "debates1984-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "2fd4df01bd506822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.1081.3", "colnum": "1081", "heading": "Schedule 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": " home ownership. I thought that I would have the rapt attention of the Labour party, because this is a country which has sometimes served as a model and guide for Socialists throughout the world— [Interruption.] Hon. Gentlemen must not divert me. Mr. Mark Baker, writing from Peking, said: A home of your own is now the great Chinese dream. For the first time since the early 1950s, the Government\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.1081.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-25", "file": "debates1984-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "2fd4df01bd506822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.1082.1", "colnum": "1082", "heading": "Schedule 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "Mr. Deng Xiaoping, a leader greatly revered by the Labour party. I wish to move from Peking to London. I want to examine the level of public expenditure in housing and what it is achieving. The figures for local authority capital expenditure on housing for 1983–84 were published last week. Gross capital expenditure on housing was over £3 billion. That is a considerable sum by any standards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.1082.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-25", "file": "debates1984-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "2fd4df01bd506822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.1092.0", "colnum": "1092", "heading": "Schedule 6", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Edwina Currie", "preceding_text": " place in the name of the miners and of the NUM and is happening right now in our constituencies. If, right from the start, the Labour party had taken a stand against violence and intimidation, I do not believe that it would have happened in the way that it has. But —right from the beginning—no attempt whatever was made by those Labour Members whose voices are listened to in mining constituencies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.1092.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-25", "file": "debates1984-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "2fd4df01bd506822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.1095.0", "colnum": "1095", "heading": "Schedule 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Address the Chair.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allan Rogers", "preceding_text": "adult unemployment is about 27 per cent. We should get the record straight on the chronology of the dispute. The strike was not sought by Arthur Scargill or the National Union of Mineworkers. When the miners of south Yorkshire spontaneously came out as a sign of solidarity with their colleagues at Cortonwood, who were to be thrown on to the dole, the NUM told them to take decisions in local areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.1095.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-25", "file": "debates1984-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "2fd4df01bd506822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.1130.0", "colnum": "1130", "heading": "Schedule 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lewis Carter-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lewis Carter-Jones", "preceding_text": "omises. We believed that Lord King had a mandate. We believed that the Government were prepared to be honourable about this matter.\" That is precisely the point made by the right hon. Member for Pavilion. I want British Airways to remain public, but, if it is to be privatised, let that be done at the best going rate. How can Lord King present a prospectus for sale with this report hovering around?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.1130.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-25", "file": "debates1984-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "2fd4df01bd506822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.1138.3", "colnum": "1138", "heading": "Schedule 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Leadbitter", "preceding_text": "ll not be afraid openly to compete in accordance with market forces provided that the CAA keeps its nose out of it. We shall then see who will get the market on the criterion of efficiency. We have a common cause. If I am not afraid of private enterprise operations and private enterprise theologians are not afraid of privatisation, what are we arguing about? The nigger in the wood-pile is the CAA—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.1138.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-25", "file": "debates1984-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "2fd4df01bd506822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.1148.2", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Schedule 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter-Jones", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Some of us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter-Jones", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend agree that the hon. Member for Birmingham, Hall Green (Sir R. Eyre) has done the House a favour by setting the pattern for the debate, in that this is not a substitute for a statement by the Secretary of State? The hon. Gentleman made his speech, we have all spoken, and the Minister will reply.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.1148.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-25", "file": "debates1984-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "2fd4df01bd506822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.1195.0", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Schedule 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Golding", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Golding", "preceding_text": "I welcome the opportunity to speak in the debate, because it is about one of Labour's themes during the election campaign. We said that the Government had failed because they were more willing to fund unemployment than to finance investment. I congratulate the Leader of the Liberal party on raising this important subject. I do not see the alliance working this morning. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.1195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-25", "file": "debates1984-07-25a.xml", "sha256": "2fd4df01bd506822", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.1195.0", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Schedule 6", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Golding", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"And the railways.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Golding", "preceding_text": " be in long queues to use one lane of a motorway for literally hours on end. It does not make sense that our distrubution system is so poor on the roads. The Government should improve the road system so that industrial efficiency can improve. If the Government doubt that the roads need improvement, Ministers with London constituencies should take to the motorways more often on Mondays and Fridays.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-25a.1195.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-26", "file": "debates1984-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "313fc4e25cb91902", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1222.9", "colnum": "1222", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Is it not a fact that we know what the outcome of any referendum would be? Let us be quite clear —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1222.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-26", "file": "debates1984-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "313fc4e25cb91902", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1230.10", "colnum": "1230", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NORTHERN IRELAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "tary of State tell us exactly what, during his tenure of office—taking into account the initiative in connection with the New Ireland Forum — he has managed to achieve? Many superstructures have been set up while I have been in the House in the past 14 years, but they do not seem to be getting anywhere. As reference has been made to his being on his way out, will he take a piece of advice from me?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1230.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-26", "file": "debates1984-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "313fc4e25cb91902", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1233.4", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thurnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurnham", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree with Mrs. Parry, the South Wales miner's wife —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1233.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-26", "file": "debates1984-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "313fc4e25cb91902", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1233.6", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thurnham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thurnham", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree with Mrs. Parry, the South Wales miner's wife —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1233.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-26", "file": "debates1984-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "313fc4e25cb91902", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1233.10", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I got the drift of my hon. Friend's question. He wants a ballot for the coal workers, and he believes that there should be a ballot while they are on strike. I know that in April the Leader of the Opposition also thought that there should be a ballot —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1233.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-26", "file": "debates1984-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "313fc4e25cb91902", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1233.12", "colnum": "1233", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Steel", "preceding_text": "After the biggest rise in mortgage rates for five years, does the Prime Minister still agree with this sentence in the 1979 Conservative party manifesto—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1233.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-26", "file": "debates1984-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "313fc4e25cb91902", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1261.2", "colnum": "1261", "heading": "Adjournment (Summer)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Ballsover —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1261.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-26", "file": "debates1984-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "313fc4e25cb91902", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1264.2", "colnum": "1264", "heading": "Adjournment (Summer)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "ep quiet. The third question which I put to the Leader of the House is what action will be taken about those who have had a charge made against them but have not come before the courts? That causes deep concern with regard to the wider issue of law and order. It is high time that matters were brought out into the open. Labour Members have made it absolutely clear that they back the NUM completely.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1264.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-26", "file": "debates1984-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "313fc4e25cb91902", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1273.0", "colnum": "1273", "heading": "Adjournment (Summer)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "lymouth, Devonport (Dr. Owen) was speaking. The rules of the House should be observed whether or not the debate is emotional. If we allow that tradition to go, we allow the procedures of the House to degenerate into what goes on behind the Iron Curtain. I would defend the right of the right hon. Gentleman to make his speeches, and he should be heard in the same silence as anyone else in the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1273.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-26", "file": "debates1984-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "313fc4e25cb91902", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1286.2", "colnum": "1286", "heading": "Adjournment (Summer)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greg Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greg Knight", "preceding_text": "I shall introduce a new matter into the debate. It is a subject of national importance that must be aired before the summer recess —the scandal of at least sharp practice and, some would say, fraud carried out by some motor vehicle garages and quick-fit centres. There is a dual problem: the first part concerns Ministry of Transport testing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1286.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-26", "file": "debates1984-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "313fc4e25cb91902", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1288.4", "colnum": "1288", "heading": "Adjournment (Summer)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Orme", "preceding_text": "es which otherwise would not be retrievable. The gross national product, now and in the future, will therefore certainly be higher if they are kept working than if they are closed down. That is the answer to the uneconomic pit argument. Some Conservative Members have criticised my role. It has been said that I have achieved nothing in 20 weeks. My achievement has been to bring both sides together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1288.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-26", "file": "debates1984-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "313fc4e25cb91902", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1290.0", "colnum": "1290", "heading": "Adjournment (Summer)", "cue_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Commons (Mr. John Biffen)", "preceding_text": "perfectly happy with the procedure that has been adopted today, I suggest that every Front Bencher should have a Back-Bench instinct within him and should wish this debate to remain in its normal form. Reasoned objection to the motion was argued by the right hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dr. Owen). I confess to a growing affection for the right hon. Gentleman and the arguments that he puts.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1290.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-26", "file": "debates1984-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "313fc4e25cb91902", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1349.10", "colnum": "1349", "heading": "Housing Defects Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "I think that this is an occasion —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1349.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-26", "file": "debates1984-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "313fc4e25cb91902", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1353.9", "colnum": "1353", "heading": "Housing Defects Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Beith (seated and covered)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Beith (seated and covered)", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I know that your task —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1353.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-26", "file": "debates1984-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "313fc4e25cb91902", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1354.2", "colnum": "1354", "heading": "Housing Defects Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "preceding_text": "In relation to amendment No. 47, some serious and substantive points require the consideration of the House. I and my right hon. and hon. Friends, who are here in far greater proportion than any other party in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1354.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-26", "file": "debates1984-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "313fc4e25cb91902", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1361.2", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Housing Defects Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Deputy Speaker", "preceding_text": "That is not a matter for me.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1361.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-26", "file": "debates1984-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "313fc4e25cb91902", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1361.3", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Housing Defects Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "Secondly —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1361.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-26", "file": "debates1984-07-26a.xml", "sha256": "313fc4e25cb91902", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1361.3", "colnum": "1361", "heading": "Housing Defects Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "Secondly — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"] I have nothing to withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-26a.1361.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-27", "file": "debates1984-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "4841472900b4fc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-27a.1376.3", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "preceding_text": "ast night. If that is the consequence of their annual dinner, I recommend that they have one every week. First, I pay tribute to my predecessor, my hon. Friend the Member for Gedling (Sir P. Holland), who for nine years in opposition and in government carried out the task that I now perform. He did the House a great service and I am sure that all hon. Members would like to show their appreciation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-27a.1376.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-27", "file": "debates1984-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "4841472900b4fc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-27a.1376.5", "colnum": "1376", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fox", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman talks about 25 per cent., but I am talking about 44 hon. Members who are involved in six or seven minor Opposition parties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-27a.1376.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-27", "file": "debates1984-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "4841472900b4fc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-27a.1378.2", "colnum": "1378", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "preceding_text": " the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs — and said, \"We will go on that Committee and no other.\" It simply wished to continue to be represented on the Select Committee on Defence. The Select Committee believed that to be reasonable, but the Government got their way by this squalid manoeuvre. Nothing has been done to put it right. On the same evening, we sought to do what we shall try to do again—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-27a.1378.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-27", "file": "debates1984-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "4841472900b4fc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-27a.1392.3", "colnum": "1392", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "represents are for ever to fight as an alliance, presumably they will continue to put to the electorate in each constituency a joint policy covering the various matters in their joint manifesto. Or, after the election, will each party go its own way in this House? If so, that would not be fair to the electorate. The major parties put a clearly defined policy to the electorate in each constituency.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-27a.1392.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-27", "file": "debates1984-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "4841472900b4fc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-27a.1393.1", "colnum": "1393", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bermingham", "preceding_text": "If the right hon. Gentleman had listened to the speech, especially the closing remarks, of the hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed, he would have heard him say, as Hansard will show, that it was all a question of percentages, and he spoke of —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-27a.1393.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-27", "file": "debates1984-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "4841472900b4fc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-27a.1400.2", "colnum": "1400", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "stment and Government cuts in the water authority's capital programmes meant that they were unable to supply consumers. The government have been too busy attacking councils and their capital expenditure programmes to devote sufficient attention to the critical water shortage. Before he made his statement, did the Minister seek advice from the Meteorogical Office? If so, what advice did he receive—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-27a.1400.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-27", "file": "debates1984-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "4841472900b4fc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-27a.1433.1", "colnum": "1433", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Corbyn", "preceding_text": "penditure significantly. But with what effect on the people of Grenada? Since the invasion last October and since the Government of the NJM was thrown out of office and its leader assassinated, there has been an increase in unemployment, and, due to the public spending cuts, a cutting and a destruction of many of the social programmes instituted by the NJM Government during their period of office.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-27a.1433.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-27", "file": "debates1984-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "4841472900b4fc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-27a.1438.8", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "I do not want to abuse the House. I do not think that I have ever abused it in that sense. I shall leave the matter at this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-27a.1438.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-27", "file": "debates1984-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "4841472900b4fc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-27a.1438.10", "colnum": "1438", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": " country can spend on overseas aid. There is a direct correlation between the two. I am trying to warn colleagues about formidable and unpleasant weapons, bought from our European partners and which the Foreign Office says it is monitoring. Shakespeare had a phrase for what is happening—\"Now thrive the armourers.\" That is exactly what is happening. The Italians are busily selling Ofamelara mines —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-27a.1438.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-27", "file": "debates1984-07-27a.xml", "sha256": "4841472900b4fc88", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-27a.1439.1", "colnum": "1439", "heading": "PETITION", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dalyell", "preceding_text": "itain has to react. It has to concentrate more forces on the Falklands and has to obtain more sophisticated weapons. If that happens, where will the money come from for the Caribbean Development bank, or any other aid project? The forces in the south Atlantic are in ever greater danger. That danger may come not from President Alfonsin himself but from an Argentine military that has not gone away —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-27a.1439.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.6.11", "colnum": "6", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ownership.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mitchell", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State will be able, through the golden share, to ensure that ships are kept available and subject to the Government's requisitioning powers. In relation to foreign flag, it would require the consent of the Secretary of State to put a sizeable part of the Sealink—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.6.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.21.7", "colnum": "21", "heading": "British Rail (Electrification)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A leak.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "It is typical of the hon. Gentleman that when he is confronted with good news he can do nothing but cavil at the way in which it is announced. No discourtesy was intended. I planned to announce the decision in answer to his question today, as I have done. However, somehow journalists got hold of the story on Friday.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.21.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.22.6", "colnum": "22", "heading": "British Rail (Electrification)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Or Doncaster.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "I assure the right hon. Gentleman that there was no intention of demeaning the importance of Leeds —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.22.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.22.9", "colnum": "22", "heading": "British Rail (Electrification)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State accept that it is sadly typical of him that even when he is announcing good news he makes a cock-up of the procedure?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.22.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.34.0", "colnum": "34", "heading": "Local Government (Interim Provisions) Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Patrick Jenkin)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Patrick Jenkin)", "preceding_text": "asures—I shall be perfectly prepared to defend and to describe, the proposal that I put to the House on 24 July. Technically and strictly speaking it does not arise on this Bill, but I accept the point made by the hon. Gentleman that it is part of the general measures which we are having to take following the wildly irresponsible behaviour of the GLC and some of the other metropolitan authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.34.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.44.1", "colnum": "44", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "y. At other times it suits them to present any action by the upper house which impedes their own plans as the work of a chamber of crusty backwoodsmen. It went on to say: Worse, it is simply and solely the Labour Party's hostility to a bicameral parliament (such as virtually every democracy has) which has kept the upper house unreformed in face of Conservative attempts to reform it by agreement.\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.44.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.50.6", "colnum": "50", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " we introduced such proposals to the House. The changes that were made to the Bill in another place offer much greater scope to outgoing councils to salt away assets to the detriment of ratepayers in the area; and that, too, justifies the legislation that we have introduced. In past reorganisations Governments have not had to deal with local authorities that are dominated by Left-wing extremists —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.50.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.50.6", "colnum": "50", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "tion Front-Bench spokesmen have already been frightened by such councils. My hon. Friend the Member for Leeds, North-West (Dr. Hampson) mentioned what has happened. Some councillors on the GLC have made it clear, not least to the leaders of borough councils, that if possible they will pursue a scorched-earth policy. Some of their proposals have stuck in the throats of even some Labour councillors—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.50.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.55.2", "colnum": "55", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heddle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heddle", "preceding_text": "The Hon. Gentleman will recall that that matter was put to the electorate at the last general election —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.55.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.56.4", "colnum": "56", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": " will announce until tomorrow, says more about the right hon. Gentleman and the way in which he is approaching these matters, with an undemocratic flouting of parliamentary procedures, than anything that he might say about councillors in the metropolitan counties and the GLC. The right hon. Gentleman said that the powers in the Bill were necessary because he had read an article in the Daily Mail —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.56.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.62.0", "colnum": "62", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "le to tell those councils and the House are the ratepayers involved. In the 1979 and 1983 general elections the Government talked about rolling back the power of the state. It is quite wrong for such a Government to attempt to put forward this measure prior to the abolition Bill itself going through Parliament. It is totally wrong and it flies in the face of any semblance of democratic procedures.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.62.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.73.0", "colnum": "73", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "here would be a major public debate going on after the House of Commons had voted for a second reading of the abolition Bill.'\". Apparently the Cabinet was divided. One view was that those on the county councils should be substituted by other nominees. That was the proposal that the Government first put to the House. The second view was that the lives of the present authorities should be extended.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.73.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.76.6", "colnum": "76", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Bring back Bob Mellish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "usness. The debate is about a matter of which Labour Members often complain—the granting of too much power to Ministers, extending the terms of office of people who are elected for only limited terms of office, and not allowing next year's elections to go ahead because the Government do not wish them to go ahead. If they are to be believed, Labour Members wish the elections to take place next May.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.76.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.79.1", "colnum": "79", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "preceding_text": "ting the ballot box. The Government's economic strategy is to leave matters to the market place. Surely there is a relationship between that philosophy and the question of people voting in local elections. Surely, under the Government's philosophy, if the rates are too high the electors would not vote for the councillors who set the high rates. That is the exact parallel with what you believe in —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.79.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.83.4", "colnum": "83", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Franks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Franks", "preceding_text": "I say that there should be a vote for everyone who pays rates. When I was in Manchester I resented the fact bitterly that I paid rates but had no vote. I provided jobs, but I had no vote. I provided employment, but I had no vote. Those who were the dross of society —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.83.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.121.4", "colnum": "121", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "By Tory councils.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "did not allow their officers to talk to my Department. However, I assure the hon. Gentleman that representations have been made on behalf of some councillors in those authorities in precisely the terms that I described. I concede the hon. Gentleman's point to this extent: the overwhelming majority of the representations made to us were, of course, about the threat posed by the GLC and the misuse——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.121.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.123.0", "colnum": "123", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "the power may give rise to the salting away of property that should be devolved to them. The Government would be failing in their duty to the successor councils and their ratepayers if they did not take steps in the new circumstances provided by the amendment, to protect ratepayers against such abuse. That is the purpose of the amendment. We do not intend this as an attack on the voluntary sector.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.123.0", "colnum": "123", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "amendment, to protect ratepayers against such abuse. That is the purpose of the amendment. We do not intend this as an attack on the voluntary sector. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"] The suggestion that we have such an intention is one more example of the scaremongering that we have experienced throughout the debates on the Bill. The Government are powerfully committed to support the voluntary sector —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.123.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.125.0", "colnum": "125", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alex Carlile", "preceding_text": "d have asked him whether anyone among the 10,000 had had the benefit of the advice which he should have given, which is that, if an individual feels that there has been an abuse of section 137, he should take action in the courts against it. Section 137 is as well drawn and as tightly drawn as is necessary and as was intended by Redcliffe-Maud. When the section refers to the interests of the area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.129.1", "colnum": "129", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "prise board so that the Government, the Secretary of State, and his Ministers cannot get at it. We have been entirely successful, because it is very easy staying two steps ahead of a clown advised by a bunch of grinning monkeys from the Department of the Environment. Let me just tell the Secretary of State what the Greater London Enterprise Board has done. It has saved 2,000 jobs in the past year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.129.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.131.0", "colnum": "131", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Hogg", "preceding_text": "What relevance has the city of Aberdeen common good fund to the Bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.131.2", "colnum": "131", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "iscretion to raise a 2p rate is something that local authorities, in one form or another, have had for many years, and have used responsibly for the good of the community. That is basically the reason why what the Secretary of State proposes to do is against the interests of local authorities. I am amazed that the Deputy Chief Whip of the Labour party seeks to silence me in my argument to support—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.131.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.131.6", "colnum": "131", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "point, and I believe that it is important, valid and relevant. The measures should be opposed for the very reason that they set a precedent that is contrary to the interests not only of the ratepayers of the GLC and the metropolitan counties and the consumers, but of those who live in all other local authorities and who view the measures with concern. I would also say that it is my understanding —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.131.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.132.3", "colnum": "132", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "Of course I have said it four times—I keep being interrupted. I shall clearly have to go on longer until I have made the point clear.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.132.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "uld know why recurrent contracts which it has been the practice of Secretaries of State to keep out of, while the GLC and its predecessor the London county council has got on with them — routine and necessary matters to do with drainage and housing that arise every year — are suddenly required to be dealt with by the Secretary of State. Some of the subjects that we are dealing with are unexciting.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.152.1", "colnum": "152", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "to me to move that the House do now adjourn. As I understand the procedures of what \"Erskine May\" calls dilatory motions, where a new matter comes before the House that was not contemplated in the Bill as originally proposed, nor in the long title of the Bill, and clearly—as was admitted by Lord Bellwin in another place—was a last-minute reaction and simply something thought up by the Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.152.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.163.6", "colnum": "163", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "or refusal to be given, is the same as amendment (k) to Lords amendment No. 11. The grounds for a decision will, as a matter of course, be given with that decision. That is normal practice, and I assure the House that that will be the case for disposals and contracts. To put that provision in the Bill is an invitation to make a challenge in the courts. It is easy to imagine an abolition authority—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.163.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.186.5", "colnum": "186", "heading": "New Clause", "cue_speaker": "Sir George Young", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir George Young", "preceding_text": "No, it would not —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.186.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-30", "file": "debates1984-07-30a.xml", "sha256": "dd9b9b635cf7c4f4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.192.0", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Clause 9", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "There are two sorts of amendment before us. The first relates, as the Under-Secretary told the House, to the definition of \"constituent council\", and the second relates to the long title.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-30a.192.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.217.0", "colnum": "217", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister realise that for millions of householders, especially in London and the south-east, the rise in the cost of mortgage repayments will be greater than the total cost of their yearly rates?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.217.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.218.3", "colnum": "218", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Withdraw.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Flannery", "preceding_text": "Has the Prime Minister realised that, having failed to starve the miners back to work, having taken from them £15 which the Government had no right to take, having starved their children and wives, one of her tame Tory judges—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.218.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.223.6", "colnum": "223", "heading": "Train Accident (Polmont)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Mr. David Mitchell)", "preceding_text": "ich they coped with the situation. I have ordered a formal inquiry by an inspecting officer of railways. It will open as soon as possible—within two to three weeks. Evidence will be heard in public and there will be a published Report. I am sure that the whole House will wish to join in sending deep sympathy to the families of all those who lost their lives or were injured in this tragic accident.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.223.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.227.4", "colnum": "227", "heading": "Civil Aviation (Route Transfers)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "'clock last night differed materially from that made earlier in this Chamber. The point is whether elected Members of this House were misinformed about the Government's intention, considering the statement made in another place on the same subject. I quoted the Secretary of State when he said that it was possible that a statement might be made. I should like to quote the Minister in another place.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.227.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.233.4", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "intain sound money and promote growth in output. For the people of Britain at large, the Government have failed in every one of those objectives. In failing, they have further eroded our productive economy, they have depressed standards of living and liberty for millions of our fellow citizens and they have caused divisions that are deeper and more bitter than any in our society in modern history.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.233.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.233.4", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "e policies of Her Majesty's Government. We want recovery, production, investment and jobs, for it is the people whom we—and, I hope, right hon. Gentlemen and Ladies opposite —are in politics to represent who bear the effects of the Prime Minister's scorched-earth economics. We are not looking for miracles. We are prepared to work to secure the country's recovery and to make the country productive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.233.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.234.3", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ther advocate policies of joint expansion with the Third world—we know that Third world debtors will not become Third world consumers — and with the industrial countries, because we know that if they were to use the policies of cuts and contractions that this Government operate those policies would do them no more good than they have done the people of this country. When we spell out our policies—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.234.3", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "verything they are doing, everything they have done, and everything they stand for. After five years of this Government, employment is 7 per cent. lower than it was in 1979. That is a loss of 2 million jobs, of which 1·6 million have been lost from manufacturing. In our country now, 1·2 million people have been unemployed for a year, 600,000 for two years and 350,000 for three years.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.234.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.236.3", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "He has moved from excuses to fantasy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.236.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.236.5", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": " that has preoccupied the Chancellor is turning out to be a disastrous folly. But of course he is not impressed by the evidence from the United States; he does not respond to the demands for expansion. He is happy to preside over an increase in interest rates, to push up income taxes, and to insist upon further cuts. He is happy to do all those things. Three weeks ago, when lending rates went up —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.236.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.236.5", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "in interest rates, to push up income taxes, and to insist upon further cuts. He is happy to do all those things. Three weeks ago, when lending rates went up — [Interruption.] Let me put it like this. I am glad that the Chancellor is aroused. As the Chancellor's predecessor, the present Foreign Secretary, said in his first Budget speech, what people are concerned about are the stoppages from their—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.236.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "hnological revolution, at a time when the whole world economy is shifting on its axis, to run down our economy in this way, to run down its productive output, its manufacturing output, its manufacturing investment, and all the jobs, the training, the techniques and the skills that go with that, is nothing but a betrayal of the basic interests of this country. But that is only part of the shambles.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": " can scare some of the people all of the time and they can scare all of the people some of the time, but they cannot scare all of the people all of the time. Eventually the policies that secure obedience provoke resistance, and that is exactly what is happening now. I can say without sentimentality and even without passion—it is a simple matter of fact—that it is the feeling that enough is enough—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.237.1", "colnum": "237", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "n without passion—it is a simple matter of fact—that it is the feeling that enough is enough— [Interruption] —that has made 130,000 miners and their wives and families endure terrible hardship for the 21 weeks of the strike. It is the feeling among the people of the mining communities—and of the wider community — that they have taken enough from this Government which makes them stand up and fight.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.237.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.240.2", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "It is the Government's policies that have given people the feeling of hopelessness out of which their desire to resist has been forged. They refuse to see their communities eradicated.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.240.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.240.6", "colnum": "240", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "The Prime Minister has done all she can to make the strike political.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.240.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": " are all conviction and no consensus are dangerous. Prime Ministers who think that their convictions, and only their convictions, are the consensus are absolutely lethal to their countries. Such is the Prime Minister. Two weeks ago The Economist wrote: Wise Prime Ministers are careful not to flaunt the dictatorial powers granted to them by the British constitution. This Prime Minister is not wise.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.241.1", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "rime Minister. Two weeks ago The Economist wrote: Wise Prime Ministers are careful not to flaunt the dictatorial powers granted to them by the British constitution. This Prime Minister is not wise. [Interruption.] If this Prime Minister permitted equals, they would tell her that she is not wise. But she does not have that good fortune. She has surrounded herself with fellow zealots and sycophants.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.241.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.241.4", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "im, therefore, has been to defend our nation by defending the worth of its currency and to break for good the dangerous trend towards higher inflation. Thanks to the prudent financial policies pursued by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer and his predecessor, the prize of lower inflation has been won and we shall not put it in jeopardy now. Stable prices remain our eventual goal.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.241.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.241.4", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": " strikes have temporarily robbed us of this advantage. We shall seek to regain it, but if we followed the right hon. Gentleman's prescription for more public spending, not only would interest rates rise sharply, but we would also lose the prospect of reducing direct taxation and leaving people more of their own earnings to spend and save as they choose. Our task in reducing income tax is not easy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.241.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.241.4", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "n. Gentleman's prescription for more public spending, not only would interest rates rise sharply, but we would also lose the prospect of reducing direct taxation and leaving people more of their own earnings to spend and save as they choose. Our task in reducing income tax is not easy. [Interruption.] Wait for it a little longer, as my right hon. Friend the Chancellor said in his Budget statement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.241.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.241.4", "colnum": "241", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister (Mrs. Margaret Thatcher)", "preceding_text": "rly 24 million people pay income tax, starting at less than half average wages, and if we followed the right hon. Gentleman's prescription, many more people would be paying much higher income tax. We have made a start in reducing personal tax. Since 1979, the income tax threshold has risen by 16 per cent. in real terms, after falling under Labour. A modern market economy is just a matter of taxes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.241.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.244.3", "colnum": "244", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ave a shared interest and class divisions are a thing of the past. The right hon. Gentleman spewed out statistics. I will give a few of our very tangible achievements. We have sound money, lower income tax, competition and ownership. Those are long-term policies, but they have already brought real advances. Inflation this year and last is the lowest for 16 years. Output is higher than ever before.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.244.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Unemployment has fluctuated. I accept the hon. Gentleman's —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.246.1", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "d good news but they seem singularly reluctant to cheer this. That increase in the number of jobs is welcome to Conservative Members at any rate, but it comes at a time when the numbers in the working population are rising still faster. During the past six years those leaving school have outnumbered those retiring from work by over a million and that trend will continue for the rest of the decade.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.246.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.247.1", "colnum": "247", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "allot until the NUM changed its rules to reduce the required majority. Then he told the House that a national ballot of the NUM was a clearer and closer prospect. That was on 12 April—the last time that we heard from him on the subject of a ballot. But on 14 July, he appeared at a NUM rally and said, \"There is no alternative but to fight: all other roads are shut off.\" What happened to the ballot?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.247.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.248.1", "colnum": "248", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "There are good jobs for those striking miners, and they know it. If anyone is stabbing them in the back it is not this Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.248.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.250.0", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "So the right hon. Gentleman absolutely agrees with the closure of uneconomic pits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.250.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.250.2", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"'", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has not argued that he is against the closure of uneconomic pits. He put it in legislation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.250.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.250.2", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has not argued that he is against the closure of uneconomic pits. He put it in legislation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"'] I will, if right hon. and hon. Members will be quiet for a moment. The right hon. Gentleman has argued that it is all right to close uneconomic pits, provided the correct procedure is followed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.250.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.250.2", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman has not argued that he is against the closure of uneconomic pits. He put it in legislation. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer.\"'] I will, if right hon. and hon. Members will be quiet for a moment. The right hon. Gentleman has argued that it is all right to close uneconomic pits, provided the correct procedure is followed. [Interruption.] Of course he has.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.250.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.250.2", "colnum": "250", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " of uneconomic pits, and he is trying to use Cortonwood as a way of saying that the procedure is not being followed. The National Coal Board has made it clear that the procedure will be followed at Cortonwood. If right hon. and hon. Members agree that they enshrined the policy of the closure of uneconomic pits in legislation and that all that is between us is procedure, the strike should soon end.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.250.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.251.2", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ay to the right hon. Gentleman and have answered him. I assume that he will have a chance to catch your eye again, Mr. Speaker. Indeed, as I have still more to say about the right hon. Gentleman, no doubt he will have another chance to intervene. Now, in its anxiety to follow the leadership of the NUM, the Labour party seems to have repudiated the policy of the right hon. Member for Chesterfield —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.251.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.251.2", "colnum": "251", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "ion a year on the coal industry. That is more than the total of the salaries of doctors and dentists in NHS hospitals; it is the equivalent of 28p on petrol; it is equivalent to an increase of more than £2 a week in the retirement pension; and it is double the total amount spent on all four scientific research councils. Labour's new policy would mean that the subsidy would increase without limit —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.251.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.261.2", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foot", "preceding_text": "after letter to the Home Secretary complaining about the operation of the police. He did not get any answers. No attempt was made to deal with the situation. That is the case that he put to the House a few days ago — an overwhelming case, not only against the Government who had caused the Cortonwood catastrophe, but against the Government who did not know how to use the police in such a situation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.261.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.270.0", "colnum": "270", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Lilley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"What about your side?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Lilley", "preceding_text": "Today was billed as the Opposition's big day. In view of the sparse attendance on the Opposition Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.270.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.272.0", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "hatever the merits or demerits of the speeches of individual hon. Members, the House is going away for a three-month recess after a three-month overtime ban and five-month strike in the certain knowledge that even if there were a settlement about the time that we returned—and I remind the House that between now and then the Trades Union Congress will have thrown its full weight behind the miners —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.272.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.272.2", "colnum": "272", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "of State, and she produced them as her final trump cards in the debate. As I tried to point out in my exchange with the right hon. Lady, the reality is that the difference between our policy and this Government's policy related not to the amount of redundancy pay or to the amount of investment in industry or even to whether there were closures but to the fact that under us it was all done jointly.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.272.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.276.1", "colnum": "276", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Who pays?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": ". Somebody from Derbyshire rang me up today and said, \"Did you notice, Tony, that the Sun journalists who have gone back to work have demanded £750 from Rupert Murdoch to pay them for what they lost when they were on strike?\" If that is good enough for Fleet street, it is good enough for the miners. There will be a demand for earlier retirement. There will be a demand for the shorter working week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.276.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.298.6", "colnum": "298", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "the light of the damage that the dispute is causing, not only to the economy but to the national fabric and cohesion of our society, which the Opposition want to preserve. That price, which is approaching £1·2 billion, is the price that we are paying for the Prime Minister's vanity. It is the price that we are paying for her obsessive need to posture as the Boadicea of the southern suburbs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.298.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Ah\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I blame myself, Mr. Speaker. I should have known, from the hon. Gentleman's record, that giving way to him is a waste of the time of this House. Nobody has ever suggested that a proper concern for the monetary aggregates is not an essential part of economic policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.301.1", "colnum": "301", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "were engaged elsewhere, was concerned with our saying that when we were in power we did pay attention to the monetary aggregates. Our complaint is that this Government believe that that and that alone is what matters. The hon. Member for Aberdeen South (Mr. Malone) asks what we would do. I understand very well the Government's obsessive determination to talk about anything except their own record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.301.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Nigel Lawson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Nigel Lawson)", "preceding_text": "ch of the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Sparkbrook (Mr. Hattersley). Not only was he unable to say anything whatsoever about his party's policy; he even seemed uncertain about whether public expenditure under this Government had been cut or increased. The right hon. Gentleman was asked a simple question by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister, and he has failed in half an hour to answer it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Nigel Lawson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Nigel Lawson)", "preceding_text": " those who are working in Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, south Derbyshire, Staffordshire and Lancashire. The right hon. Member for South Down, says that the miners are intelligent people, and, indeed, they are, but he is very wrong if he ascribes that intelligence uniquely to those miners who are on strike and not to those who are at work. Although the miners' strike has dominated this dispute —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.302.0", "colnum": "302", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Nigel Lawson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Nigel Lawson)", "preceding_text": "ign of any resurgence. Output is the highest ever and is still rising. Growth last year, at over 3 per cent., according to the latest revised figures, was greater than in any year under the previous Labour Government, and inflation was lower than in any year under the previous Labour Government. The right hon. Gentleman showed a particular interest in manufacturing. Productivity in manufacturing —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.302.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.304.3", "colnum": "304", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "They are worse than for Germany, Japan and the United States because wages have been going up too high.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.304.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.306.3", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "ike most items of public expenditure, it is of a strictly temporary nature. Moreover, it has to be seen against subsidies from the taxpayer to the National Coal Board of well over £1 billion last year before the strike, as a result of losses incurred by uneconomic pits. And so, even in narrow financial terms, it represents a worthwhile investment for the nation. That is before taking into account—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.306.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.307.1", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"At a price.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I said that securing the closure of uneconomic pits was for the good of the nation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.307.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.307.3", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "Uncertainty towards—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.307.9", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He did\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I certainly did not say that the strike was a good investment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.307.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.307.9", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I certainly did not say that the strike was a good investment—[HON. MEMBERS: \"He did\".] What I did—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.307.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.308.3", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "he fact that it is monetary conditions, and not the exchange rate, that are of central relevance to interest rates. That has always been our policy, and it remains so. This is of particular importance at a time when the exchange markets are dominated by the aberrant behaviour of the dollar. In the five years or so since we first took office, the pound has depreciated against the dollar by some 36—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.308.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-07-31", "file": "debates1984-07-31a.xml", "sha256": "9440658c8ae03e6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.308.4", "colnum": "308", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. We must allow the Chancellor to pursue his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-07-31a.308.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-08-01", "file": "debates1984-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "4f27bb34da263849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.327.8", "colnum": "327", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Golding", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister take steps to ensure that IBM does not become an influential shareholder in BT? Will the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.327.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-08-01", "file": "debates1984-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "4f27bb34da263849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.334.8", "colnum": "334", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "Is the Secretary of State aware that those hon. Members who are following him closely have noticed that he is extraordinarily nervous this afternoon and is even having difficulty in controlling a nervous shake of his hands as he comes to the Dispatch Box?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.334.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-08-01", "file": "debates1984-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "4f27bb34da263849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.337.8", "colnum": "337", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shore", "preceding_text": "We all welcome the improvement in the prospects of Jaguar, but does the Minister not understand that the terms —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.337.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-08-01", "file": "debates1984-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "4f27bb34da263849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.341.3", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute (Cost)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Appeasement.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "d fears that the Government are less interested in ending the dispute than in scoring a political victory? The right hon. Gentleman can end his embarrassment and put those fears to rest by a single simple assurance. Will he say categorically that the Government's primary aim is a negotiated settlement of the dispute based on compromise and conciliation and that the Government are at last willing —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.341.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-08-01", "file": "debates1984-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "4f27bb34da263849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.341.4", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute (Cost)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "he time the August bank holiday comes, we shall have spent five years' savings simply financing the dispute. That cannot be right\".—[ Official Report , 31 July 1984; Vol. 65, c. 299.] The right hon. Gentleman was explicitly comparing the savings from closing uneconomic pits with the cost of the strike. I, in replying to the debate, told him the correct figures, and that was all there was about it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.341.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-08-01", "file": "debates1984-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "4f27bb34da263849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.341.4", "colnum": "341", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute (Cost)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Column 306.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "rom closing uneconomic pits with the cost of the strike. I, in replying to the debate, told him the correct figures, and that was all there was about it. [Interruption.] Yes, precisely. Then subsequently, in a specific interruption from the right hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Opposition, seeking clarification of where I stood on the strike, I said, and I quote again from column 309 of Hansard —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.341.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-08-01", "file": "debates1984-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "4f27bb34da263849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.343.5", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute (Cost)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn), as is well known, lives in a world of his own, a world of paranoia and conspiracy theory. Like him, I was Secretary of State for Energy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.343.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-08-01", "file": "debates1984-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "4f27bb34da263849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.343.5", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute (Cost)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn), as is well known, lives in a world of his own, a world of paranoia and conspiracy theory. Like him, I was Secretary of State for Energy— [Interruption.] I was Secretary of State for Energy for two years, and if I had wanted a coal strike then, no doubt there would have been one.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.343.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-08-01", "file": "debates1984-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "4f27bb34da263849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.343.7", "colnum": "343", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute (Cost)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "In fact—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.343.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-08-01", "file": "debates1984-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "4f27bb34da263849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.344.0", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute (Cost)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Aitken (Thant, South)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Aitken (Thant, South)", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that all this synthetic indignation from the Labour Benches is quite simply an example of how to be a bad loser the morning after a big defeat?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-08-01", "file": "debates1984-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "4f27bb34da263849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.344.0", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute (Cost)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Aitken (Thant, South)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Aitken (Thant, South)", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that all this synthetic indignation from the Labour Benches is quite simply an example of how to be a bad loser the morning after a big defeat? [Interruption.] Is my right hon. Friend further aware that he has nothing with which to reproach himself? It is quite clear from the banana skin laid down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-08-01", "file": "debates1984-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "4f27bb34da263849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.344.0", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute (Cost)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Aitken (Thant, South)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Aitken (Thant, South)", "preceding_text": "ig defeat? [Interruption.] Is my right hon. Friend further aware that he has nothing with which to reproach himself? It is quite clear from the banana skin laid down— [Interruption.] It is quite clear from the banana skin laid down by the deputy Leader of the Opposition in column 299, when he referred to the fact that closing the 10 per cent. least economic pits would save, at most, £300 million\"—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-08-01", "file": "debates1984-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "4f27bb34da263849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.344.2", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute (Cost)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Allen McKay (Barnsley, West and Penistorle)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Allen McKay (Barnsley, West and Penistorle)", "preceding_text": "a tried and tested procedure over many years, they failed to use that procedure? Would the right hon. Gentleman accept that what he said yesterday has hardened the attitude in the coalfield, and will only have ensured that the strike will continue further into this year and possibly into next? Will the right hon. Gentleman turn his mind away from ballots, because there is not going to be a ballot?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.344.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-08-01", "file": "debates1984-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "4f27bb34da263849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.346.1", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute (Cost)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "On a point of order.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Ten-minute Bill, Mr. Derek Conway.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.346.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-08-01", "file": "debates1984-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "4f27bb34da263849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.346.5", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute (Cost)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. It is in order, but I know that the House understands that, every time a Front-Bench Member rises, a Back Bencher does not get called. However, I must say that I think that we did extremely well today in getting to the end of Question Time and having one extra question. I hope that the House agrees.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.346.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-08-01", "file": "debates1984-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "4f27bb34da263849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.346.10", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute (Cost)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "I am coming to it. You will remember that they spent £700 million having decided to keep open uneconomic pits.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.346.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-08-01", "file": "debates1984-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "4f27bb34da263849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.346.12", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute (Cost)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Point of order.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "At that time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.346.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-08-01", "file": "debates1984-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "4f27bb34da263849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.346.12", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute (Cost)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "At that time—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Point of order.\"] The point of order is that at that time you, Mr. Speaker, were a Minister. You would have been privy to knowledge as to why the Government caved in to the miners.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.346.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-08-01", "file": "debates1984-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "4f27bb34da263849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.347.6", "colnum": "347", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute (Cost)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. There is an important constitutional aspect in relation to what the Chancellor said. Would you not agree that the whole aura and constitutional position of this House is to examine public expenditure and to resist monarchs and the Executive who use public expenditure for narrow political purposes and to divide the nation? We are about to go into recess—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.347.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-08-01", "file": "debates1984-08-01a.xml", "sha256": "4f27bb34da263849", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.376.3", "colnum": "376", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Boyson", "preceding_text": "I shall come to that specific point in a moment. The adjudication system in the Department is separate from the Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-08-01a.376.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-22", "file": "debates1984-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "f82b1549e8fb9791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-22a.438.0", "colnum": "438", "heading": "Ethiopia (Emergency Relief)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will not expect me to reply to that particular point at the moment because it does not deal with the provision of emergency help to Ethiopia. The question of ships that are still to be built clearly could not be a matter of immediate significance to the situation in Ethiopia. The United Kingdom —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-22a.438.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-22", "file": "debates1984-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "f82b1549e8fb9791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-22a.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "I am very surprised that the right hon. Member for Salford, East (Mr. Orme) has repeated the statement, continuously made by Mr. Scargill, that there were three ACAS papers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-22a.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-22", "file": "debates1984-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "f82b1549e8fb9791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-22a.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "rprised that the right hon. Member for Salford, East (Mr. Orme) has repeated the statement, continuously made by Mr. Scargill, that there were three ACAS papers. [Interruption.] I cannot do better than to use the words of the chairman of ACAS, Mr. Lowry, on the \"World at One\" programme on 17 October. I hope the House will listen so that we may put to an end Mr. Scargill's totally false allegation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-22a.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-22", "file": "debates1984-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "f82b1549e8fb9791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-22a.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "n is repeating Mr. Scargill's statement that he agrees with the two papers that he drafted, but that he disagrees with what Mr. Lowry described as the only paper that ACAS put forward as its own paper. If the right hon. Gentleman wishes to check that quotation personally with Mr. Lowry he will find confirmation of it. Therefore, I hope that we shall cease to have this totally monstrous deception —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-22a.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-22", "file": "debates1984-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "f82b1549e8fb9791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-22a.448.0", "colnum": "448", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Walker", "preceding_text": "roposals concerning the 4 million tonnes would be reviewed in the light of what had happened, and that the proposals concerning the five pits would be based upon a future review under the normal procedures that had been agreed. With regard to the appointment of Mr. Eaton, that was a decision made by the NCB, a decision by Mr. MacGregor, to appoint somebody to assist communications in the industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-22a.448.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-22", "file": "debates1984-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "f82b1549e8fb9791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-22a.449.0", "colnum": "449", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": "Will the Secretary of State agree that helping to create new jobs in mining areas must be the highest priority?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-22a.449.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-22", "file": "debates1984-10-22a.xml", "sha256": "f82b1549e8fb9791", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-22a.472.1", "colnum": "472", "heading": "The Army", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "r, first I remind hon. Members that the Minister gave us a long list of weapons, and used acronyms and long words. I should like to present my own acronym— MLRS. I read about it in The Economist on Friday, and apparently other newspapers are beginning to take an interest as well. I believe that the letters stand for \"Multiple Launch Rocket System\" and that it is supposed to replace the 175 mm gun—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-22a.472.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-23", "file": "debates1984-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c28f27b9319d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.548.4", "colnum": "548", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "preceding_text": "When will the Prime Minister stop sacrificing the poor and the aged on the altar of her Government's dinosaurian economic policies?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.548.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-23", "file": "debates1984-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c28f27b9319d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " am sure that they will be very pleased with what the right hon. Gentleman said. The right hon. Gentleman wrote a letter to me on the two specific points. I tried to answer them in full. He will recall that, in the debate that we had just before the House adjourned, the question of colliery procedures arose. It was agreed between both sides of the House that uneconomic pits had always been closed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-23", "file": "debates1984-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c28f27b9319d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.549.1", "colnum": "549", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " uneconomic pits had always been closed. [Interruption.] The debate then resolved itself into an issue of colliery closure procedures. On 1 August the National Coal Board issued a statement pointing out that the colliery review procedures were as they had always been, and gave the results of those review procedures. Those review procedures are the same as they have always been since the beginning.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.549.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-23", "file": "debates1984-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c28f27b9319d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.550.0", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "leman has been through the National Coal Board proposals of 6 March. They were proposals to bring the capacity of the whole industry into line with the continuing demand for coal in the most cost-effective way possible. Because of the length of time that the strike had taken, in July the National Coal Board made the undertaking that I have mentioned. There was no hit-list in the 6 March proposals.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.550.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-23", "file": "debates1984-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c28f27b9319d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.550.0", "colnum": "550", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "he whole industry into line with the continuing demand for coal in the most cost-effective way possible. Because of the length of time that the strike had taken, in July the National Coal Board made the undertaking that I have mentioned. There was no hit-list in the 6 March proposals. [Interruption.] Will the right hon. Gentleman tell me in what paragraph of those proposals that hit-list appeared?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.550.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-23", "file": "debates1984-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c28f27b9319d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.552.4", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Unemployment is both an economic and social problem, of course. One cannot possibly argue against that. If the hon. Gentleman were fully familiar with the 1944 White Paper on employment I am sure he would agree that it has a great deal in common with the policies that the Government are pursuing —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.552.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-23", "file": "debates1984-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c28f27b9319d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.552.4", "colnum": "552", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Unemployment is both an economic and social problem, of course. One cannot possibly argue against that. If the hon. Gentleman were fully familiar with the 1944 White Paper on employment I am sure he would agree that it has a great deal in common with the policies that the Government are pursuing — [Interruption.] I have a copy in my handbag. He must know the White Paper. It is indeed very old. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.552.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-23", "file": "debates1984-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c28f27b9319d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.555.6", "colnum": "555", "heading": "Inner London Education Authority (Elections)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Dubs", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alfred Dubs", "preceding_text": "Does the Secretary of State agree that the present policies of the Labour inner London education authority are overwhelmingly popular?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.555.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-23", "file": "debates1984-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c28f27b9319d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.579.3", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "As I have said, I will get the fullest details and make them available to hon. Members. We have made substantial efforts in central Government to reduce expenditure and to eliminate the inefficiencies which are here and there to be found. I hope that the whole House will accept it as a genuine effort to try to help. The work begun by Lord Rayner —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.579.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-23", "file": "debates1984-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c28f27b9319d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.580.1", "colnum": "580", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": " remaining 50 authorities. The formula takes account of both the amount in cash by which the budget of each authority exceeds its guideline and the percentage represented by that excess. The allocation of the abatement is shown in column (7) of annex 2, while schedule 2 to the order sets out the amounts of needs grant in payment to each authority where appropriate taking account of the abatement —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.580.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-23", "file": "debates1984-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c28f27b9319d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.586.1", "colnum": "586", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the Secretary of State?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dewar", "preceding_text": "lasgow has a standstill budget and merely allows for inflation but no increase of any kind, it will probably be 7 per cent. over its new guidelines. Is that unreasonable? Will that attract a penalty? Can we have a guarantee that only when there is a growth in real services will there be a danger, and that if there is no growth or a standstill or less, there will be safety for that local authority?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.586.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-23", "file": "debates1984-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c28f27b9319d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.589.0", "colnum": "589", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Stewart", "preceding_text": "my whittled away by successive Labour and Tory Governments. In the longer term the solution is more fundamentally political. It is for Scotland to sever links with Whitehall and Westminster. With Scottish independence there would be no need for the kind of treatment that a bankrupt British Government are inflicting on our local authorities. With Scottish oil there would be no need for that at all.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.589.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-23", "file": "debates1984-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c28f27b9319d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.591.2", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "n my constituency and other constituencies with similar problems. Would it not be better to give local authorities the money that they need to carry out their plans for improving the environment than to hand out money to people on the dole queue, especially when those people do not want to be on the dole queue? The Minister gave us a charming reception, and no one could complain about his manner —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.591.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-23", "file": "debates1984-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c28f27b9319d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.599.0", "colnum": "599", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Forsyth", "preceding_text": "local government being a promising youth, because in some areas it has certainly turned delinquent. The issue in the debate is of fundamental importance. The notion of some Labour Members is that local government is a series of local fiefdoms which can ignore the fact that the bulk of their money comes from central Government and most of the remainder from the business community which has no vote.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.599.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-23", "file": "debates1984-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c28f27b9319d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.602.3", "colnum": "602", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forsyth", "preceding_text": "t the position during the Labour Government. He should have said that the labour Government were not anti-democratic because they asked the local authorities to cut manpower by 9,000 and to reduce expenditure by far more than this Government have asked. The tragedy is that the only Government who have managed to make real cuts on any scale in local authority expenditure were the Labour Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.602.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-23", "file": "debates1984-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c28f27b9319d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.616.3", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman will not get me to digress ——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.616.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-23", "file": "debates1984-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c28f27b9319d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.616.7", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should be a little calmer in his reflections on such matters. I was talking about aspects of education that fall within the responsibilities of regional councils. I am not including some aspects of tertiary education —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.616.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-23", "file": "debates1984-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c28f27b9319d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.616.7", "colnum": "616", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Henderson", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman should be a little calmer in his reflections on such matters. I was talking about aspects of education that fall within the responsibilities of regional councils. I am not including some aspects of tertiary education — [Interruption.] Some aspects of tertiary education fall within the region, but others do not—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.616.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-23", "file": "debates1984-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c28f27b9319d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.620.2", "colnum": "620", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foulkes", "preceding_text": " him how that authority could meet the guidelines. I now ask the Under-Secretary to tell us how it can come down to the arbitrary guidelines if it is forced to do so. It does not intend to or want to come down to that arbitrary figure. The authority is roughly on guidelines for refuse collection, libraries and other services. The one service on which it is allegedly overspending is burial grounds—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.620.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-23", "file": "debates1984-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c28f27b9319d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.623.0", "colnum": "623", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fourteen stone.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Canavan", "preceding_text": "Will the hon. Gentleman comment on the mathematical formula used by the Secretary of State whereby the weight factor is A multiplied by B to the power of O.1? What are A and B in the case of his authority and what is his own weight factor?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.623.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-23", "file": "debates1984-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c28f27b9319d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.629.0", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "ure in Strathclyde, which covers many of the conurbations in Scotland, we must remember that we are dealing with Victorian sewers as well as Victorian highways and planning. The next theory that is put forward by Conservative Members is that those who try to defend their communities and who recognise the truth of what I am saying are lawbreakers. I ask Ministers again: which law are they breaking?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.629.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-23", "file": "debates1984-10-23a.xml", "sha256": "77c28f27b9319d50", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.647.0", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Fire Services (Northern Ireland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clive Soley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clive Soley", "preceding_text": "cept that nothing more can be done about that at this stage, but the Assembly also drew attention to pensions for part-timers. We would welcome a ministerial response to that. The Assembly also wanted to include places of worship as places needing fire certificates. The Minister might be tempted down that road after the experiences at York Minster, and at some stage that might be worth looking at.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-23a.647.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-24", "file": "debates1984-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "7136a645eea11490", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-24a.680.0", "colnum": "680", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "Could not the Secretary of State save some of his Department's costs by scrapping the advertising campaign—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-24a.680.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-24", "file": "debates1984-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "7136a645eea11490", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-24a.681.3", "colnum": "681", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "My officials do not have the details on the use of funds and balances and other accounting devices that are used by local authorities to arrive at this year's budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-24a.681.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-24", "file": "debates1984-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "7136a645eea11490", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-24a.684.7", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Greenway", "preceding_text": "Bearing in mind that thousands of my constituents have attended public meetings on this matter, may I ask for my hon. Friend's assistance in resisting GLC and Labour party pressure to redesignate Kensington road and Ruislip road in my consitituency as gipsy sites? The people of the area suffered vandalism, theft and other troubles from these tinkers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-24a.684.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-24", "file": "debates1984-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "7136a645eea11490", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-24a.696.0", "colnum": "696", "heading": "Foreign Affairs Council", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Jenkins", "preceding_text": "Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman recognise fully the great importance of ensuring that there is no further slippage beyond 1 January 1986 on the date for the admission of Spain and Portugal? We are already four years behind the date that was being discussed. Were there to be a further slippage it would be extremely damaging —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-24a.696.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-24", "file": "debates1984-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "7136a645eea11490", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-24a.698.2", "colnum": "698", "heading": "Foreign Affairs Council", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The House.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "an consultant. A strong view has been expressed in the opposite sense by many of the Caribbean countries and that is something that we are not overlooking. I cannot announce a conclusion on this matter now. I fully understand the desperate anxiety of Labour Members and my right hon. and hon. Friends and my right hon. Friend the Minister for Overseas Development will ensure that the hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-24a.698.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-10-24", "file": "debates1984-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "7136a645eea11490", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-24a.763.1", "colnum": "763", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Ordnance Factories and Military Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-24a.763.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-24", "file": "debates1984-10-24a.xml", "sha256": "7136a645eea11490", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-24a.773.1", "colnum": "773", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Ordnance Factories and Military Services Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr Lee", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr Lee", "preceding_text": " us about guarantees for the proposed pension scheme, and we will be responding to them shortly. The position is still open. As hon. Members well know, the employees of the ROFs will continue to be able to represent their interests as regards pensions on the board of trustees of the separate company which is being set up to administer the pension fund. I wish to deal at some length with TUPE '81 —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-24a.773.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-25", "file": "debates1984-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "511d24747c89962e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-25a.804.1", "colnum": "804", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I thank the right hon. Gentleman. British food aid shipments are already arriving regularly. The main problem is the internal distribution. We cannot choke existing port facilities that are under heavy strain. The additional 6,000 tonnes of food aid allocated yesterday will arrive in Ethiopia before the end of the year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-25a.804.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-25", "file": "debates1984-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "511d24747c89962e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-25a.806.6", "colnum": "806", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Davies", "preceding_text": "Does the Prime Minister not understand that there will be no return to work in the coal mining industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-25a.806.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-25", "file": "debates1984-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "511d24747c89962e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-25a.814.5", "colnum": "814", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "Will the Leader of the House explain why there cannot now be a debate on the dispute in the mining industry for nearly three weeks, until the Queen's Speech and the Humble Address are disposed of, particularly as the courts have today decided to sequestrate the entire assets of the National Union of Mineworkers?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-25a.814.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-25", "file": "debates1984-10-25a.xml", "sha256": "511d24747c89962e", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-25a.836.1", "colnum": "836", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eldon Griffiths", "preceding_text": "d firm on their principles and on their policy and, on a whipped vote, carry what they believe to be right for the police service. I make that point at the outset because I think it right that a Government should stand by their policy and principles. I shall ask the Government to do so on all the amendments before the House. I am entitled to do that because I have not stood on my head at any time—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-25a.836.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-26", "file": "debates1984-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "4335f4d5207f99b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-26a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "pending upon it. That is one reason why an increase in the private funding arrangements throughout would, I believe, desirably and healthily detach the higher education system a little more from dependence upon Government decisions and finance. Our future industrial and commercial development—and thus our prosperity as a country—depend above all on entrepreneurial drive and competitive innovation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-26a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-26", "file": "debates1984-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "4335f4d5207f99b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-26a.917.1", "colnum": "917", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "titutions and courses should motivate students appropriately, but higher education is not the only route for those wishing to contribute to economic and social development. I am concerned about any impression of a conveyor belt by which talented and able young people move, as it were, automatically, from school into higher education, as being either healthy for them or for society and the economy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-26a.917.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-26", "file": "debates1984-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "4335f4d5207f99b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-26a.968.0", "colnum": "968", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "xiety that they face. The Government must look into this problem. I warn the Government not to go into private funding with great enthusiasm. Private funding rarely comes without strings. Many people in the academic world are already worried that if they take money from a particular source their academic freedom or the academic freedom of their colleagues who may want to criticise will be reduced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-26a.968.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-26", "file": "debates1984-10-26a.xml", "sha256": "4335f4d5207f99b1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-26a.973.0", "colnum": "973", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Peter Brooke)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Science (Mr. Peter Brooke)", "preceding_text": "s and the Robbins principle. He issued a challenge at the end of his speech, asking whether everyone who was qualified found a place. During the past year, I have consistently challenged student and academic audiences that I visited to produce people who have been seking a place and have not been able to find one. I am reasonably confident that if such people existed they would have been produced.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-26a.973.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-29", "file": "debates1984-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "e178d05aa37f5075", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-29a.1001.5", "colnum": "1001", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Clwyd", "preceding_text": "Is not the reform of the House of Commons in its entirety long overdue? At present, does it not fully deserve the title of the most ineffective legislature in Western Europe?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-29a.1001.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-29", "file": "debates1984-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "e178d05aa37f5075", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-29a.1020.0", "colnum": "1020", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Maclennan", "preceding_text": " of the fact that it was improperly obtained, the Home Secretary might think that the court would move to exclude it. But unlike Lord Scarman's amendment, the Government new clause does not make clear precisely what sort of argumentation might be acceptable before the court about whether the evidence had been properly obtained. The Home Secretary was, I think, frightened of a trial within a trial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-29a.1020.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-29", "file": "debates1984-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "e178d05aa37f5075", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-29a.1070.5", "colnum": "1070", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"At last.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": " Policemen made remarks about how difficult it was to deal with the Asian community and how much trouble they had taking evidence from that community. There is another example of a Nigerian family who had bottles thrown through their window on several occasions. The researchers thought that the policing was not adequate because of the attitude of the policemen who dealt with the incident. Finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-29a.1070.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-29", "file": "debates1984-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "e178d05aa37f5075", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-29a.1071.6", "colnum": "1071", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "pful interventions ceased. It is the serious view of the researchers that the police were defensive on all public occasions and never gave credence to the serious possibility to which I referred. Therefore, they antagonised the black community in London more and enlarged their fears that a racist attack was the cause of the fire and their belief that the police did not take that problem seriously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-29a.1071.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-29", "file": "debates1984-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "e178d05aa37f5075", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-29a.1072.1", "colnum": "1072", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Short", "preceding_text": "nd to ensure that a rule is not just implemented but taken seriously and every possible effort is made to eradicate the problem. I put it very seriously to the House and especially to those hon. Members who may not previously have been aware of the seriousness of the problem that not to support the amendment is to say in code to the police that we are not bothered that the situation is so serious.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-29a.1072.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-29", "file": "debates1984-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "e178d05aa37f5075", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-29a.1103.4", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "oundingly said today that we should do nothing about it—some because they do not care and some because they do not want to know. The hon. Member for Bury St. Edmunds said that to include the amendment in the Bill would be to treat ethnic minorities differently from the rest of the population, and he is quite right. Of course that would be so—because only ethnic minorities are subject to racialism,", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-29a.1103.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-29", "file": "debates1984-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "e178d05aa37f5075", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-29a.1103.4", "colnum": "1103", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "re, to take measures against racialism is to ensure that no one in this country is treated differently and that all are treated the same, regardless of colour. Regardless of our decision today, although I am confident that we shall make the right decision, this issue will not go away. Millions of black British citizens, a large majority of them born in this country, are watching to see what we do.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-29a.1103.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-29", "file": "debates1984-10-29a.xml", "sha256": "e178d05aa37f5075", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-29a.1117.5", "colnum": "1117", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Police and Criminal Evidence Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "The way in which we imagine that this will operate in the future is that plain clothes operations on male importuning within the Metropolitan police area should be authorised at area district assistant commissioner level and no lower. Only experienced officers should be involved, and they should be instructed upon the need for circumspection in the manner in which the investigation is carried out.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-29a.1117.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-30", "file": "debates1984-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3fa0930d22c3b612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1144.4", "colnum": "1144", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"More.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Boyes", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware that many local authorities, including Conservative-controlled ones are concerned that they cannot provide adequate levels of education services because of the Government's disastrous, disgraceful and diabolical squeeze on education finances?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1144.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-30", "file": "debates1984-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3fa0930d22c3b612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1178.5", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": " is not lack of demand. Allowing for the coal strike, money demand is rising by about 8 per cent. per year. The object of economic policy is to achieve the most favourable division of that money demand between rising real output on the one hand and rising prices on the other. That is the whole purpose of the strategy that we have been following. But look what happened under the Labour Government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1178.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-30", "file": "debates1984-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3fa0930d22c3b612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1178.5", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "expressed the concern of the House about unemployment. Large-scale unemployment is indeed one of the curses of our time. The Government would like nothing better than to see it come down and stay down, and the sooner the better. Each of us, in every part of the House, is aware from constituency experience of frustration felt by those unable to find work and the despair of the long-term unemployed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1178.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-30", "file": "debates1984-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3fa0930d22c3b612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1179.1", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "ve encouraged the growth of new jobs by deregulation and by stimulating competition. We have reformed trade union law and removed the legal protection for the closed shop unless it is approved by a work force ballot. That comes into force this week. We have embarked on a massive and unprecedented programme of privatisation, the biggest of which, British Telecom, will be implemented in a few weeks.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1179.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-30", "file": "debates1984-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3fa0930d22c3b612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1181.1", "colnum": "1181", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "The general level of pay is too high for employers to wish to employ people in anything like the numbers needed to reduce unemployment as we would all wish. That is why I said in my International Monetary Fund speech in Washington last month that the heart of the problem was the level of real wages. Other things being equal, the more that people are paid, the lower the number who will be employed.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1181.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-30", "file": "debates1984-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3fa0930d22c3b612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1182.10", "colnum": "1182", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I am always happy to give way, and I have already done so more times than the Leader of the Opposition did, so I should continue my remarks. The lesson from America is the lesson for us in Britain. The figures speak for themselves. The evidence suggests that in Britain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1182.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-30", "file": "debates1984-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3fa0930d22c3b612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1198.3", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "t positive Government policy is needed to deal with the problem, and that money must be put into the construction industry so that we can begin to rebuild it. The Labour party has put forward a pamphlet entitled \"A Future That Works\". I hope that Conservative Members will not just dismiss it as another example of the Labour party putting forward plans that have no reality. These have real reality—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-30", "file": "debates1984-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3fa0930d22c3b612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1198.3", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": " the world. Before we rush in to condemn Arthur Scargill, we should bear in mind that some Conservative Members are doing their best to put the trade union movement back into the position in which it was before the beginning of the century. They will not get away with it. Trade unionists may be pushed back from time to time, but in the end we shall have a free and independent trade union movement.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-30", "file": "debates1984-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3fa0930d22c3b612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1198.3", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "hey will not get away with it. Trade unionists may be pushed back from time to time, but in the end we shall have a free and independent trade union movement. [Interruption.] There is no need to mention Libya. What about Poland? Every hon. Member in this House knows that I have consistently argued for Solidarity. I have consistently argued for a free and independent trade union movement in Poland—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-30", "file": "debates1984-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3fa0930d22c3b612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1198.3", "colnum": "1198", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "k from time to time, but in the end we shall have a free and independent trade union movement. [Interruption.] There is no need to mention Libya. What about Poland? Every hon. Member in this House knows that I have consistently argued for Solidarity. I have consistently argued for a free and independent trade union movement in Poland— [Interruption.] —and in Russia and every east European country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1198.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-30", "file": "debates1984-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3fa0930d22c3b612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1215.1", "colnum": "1215", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Merchant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No, high wages.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Merchant", "preceding_text": "I take it that the hon. Gentleman intends me to give examples of loss of jobs through high rates—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1215.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-30", "file": "debates1984-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3fa0930d22c3b612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1234.0", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Parry", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Parry", "preceding_text": " Whitelaw, agreed that rising crime was linked with high unemployment. I recently met the Merseyside chief constable and discussed heroin addiction on Merseyside, and he agreed that it was caused partly by the massive unemployment. In Liverpool and Merseyside during the past few weeks 37 working-class men went to gaol for fighting for their jobs. They wanted to protect them for future generations—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1234.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-30", "file": "debates1984-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3fa0930d22c3b612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "I suppose that a man of more compassion would not mention the Chancellor of the Exchequer's speech at all, but since the Prime Minister lacks sufficient courage to defend her record or policies it is his response to the unemployment crisis that I must examine. Let me make this clear to the Chancellor, even in his absence.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-30", "file": "debates1984-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3fa0930d22c3b612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"There he is.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "ome honest and honourable souls managed to mention it during the Tory conference and the right hon. Member for Guildford (Mr. Howell), having spoken for half an hour, concluded with one or two looping runs which enabled him to utter the magic but terrible words that there needed to be a measure of reflation in the economy. The Prime Minister chooses not to speak on this subject and the Chancellor—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-30", "file": "debates1984-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3fa0930d22c3b612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1234.1", "colnum": "1234", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "tion of diversions and the construction of lame excuses. That is not a wholly honourable role for a peer to undertake. I understand that even now he is negotiating a new and spurious scheme with the Manpower Services Commission, under which men and women will be given bogus jobs and paid subsistence or lower than subsistence wages simply to remove them numerically from the unemployment statistics.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1234.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-30", "file": "debates1984-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3fa0930d22c3b612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1238.1", "colnum": "1238", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "When the previous Labour Government were defeated, there were just more than 200,000 such families—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1238.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-30", "file": "debates1984-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3fa0930d22c3b612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1242.8", "colnum": "1242", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "problems of demography meant that we had to accommodate an extra 400,000 people in the four years after 1979. In. addition to the creation of new jobs, the House will have noticed that we now have the highest level of vacancies for the past four and a half years. That shows that matters are improving. We can take some encouragement from that. Britain's economy is now stronger and more competitive.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1242.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-30", "file": "debates1984-10-30a.xml", "sha256": "3fa0930d22c3b612", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1246.2", "colnum": "1246", "heading": "Unemployment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "the right hon. Gentleman had risen earlier, I should have given way to him. My right hon. Friend the Member for Guildford rightly said that we must see how we can combat this situation with measures that do not lead to an acceleration of inflation or to a further rise in interest rates, otherwise every step that we take will be self-defeating. I stand here as the Secretary of State for Employment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-30a.1246.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-31", "file": "debates1984-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7a8deda7aff5f338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-31a.1291.1", "colnum": "1291", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "I have already said that I cannot comment on matters that are the responsibility of the NCB management in Scotland. The hon. Gentleman should be asking for a ballot from the Opposition Dispatch Box.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-31a.1291.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-31", "file": "debates1984-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7a8deda7aff5f338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-31a.1356.0", "colnum": "1356", "heading": "Procedure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Filibuster\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "I want to put it on the record—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-31a.1356.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-10-31", "file": "debates1984-10-31a.xml", "sha256": "7a8deda7aff5f338", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-31a.1357.0", "colnum": "1357", "heading": "Procedure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Home Robertson", "preceding_text": "I fear that my hon. Friend may be misunderstanding the proposal that is before the House. Like my hon. Friend, I would hate to give up any opportunity that already exists to obstruct the business of the Government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-10-31a.1357.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-11-06", "file": "debates1984-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "4b7a1978e17f27d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-06a.3.0", "colnum": "3", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Ah.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Beith", "preceding_text": "or debate, instead of the Votes and Proceedings baldly stating who moved the motion and the votes cast, it might be made a little clearer that this was one of 19 days, sixteen and a half of which were taken by the Leader of the Labour party, and only one of which went to the parties which got almost as much support at the general election as did the Labour party. But the story does not end there——", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-06a.2.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-06", "file": "debates1984-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "4b7a1978e17f27d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-06a.12.0", "colnum": "12", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Richard Needham", "cue_text": "Hon Members: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Richard Needham", "preceding_text": "day. I, as much as anyone, welcome their recovery. I look forward, as does the whole House, to seeing the Patronage Secretary back in his place in the not too distant future, with that deceptive smile, which we rebellious Back Benchers know means \"Watch it\". I am also sure that none of us can even contemplate what they have been through. We know only that we want them back here where they belong.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-06a.12.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-06", "file": "debates1984-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "4b7a1978e17f27d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-06a.12.2", "colnum": "12", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Needham", "preceding_text": "st every Department, so I can at least put a face to the people who sign the letters to my constituents. My constituency was happily called Chippenham until the Boundary Commission romantically renamed it Wiltshire, North. Many Opposition Members, who I am glad to say are hon. Friends outside this Chamber, tell me how lucky I must be to have such an Arcadia full of grazing heifers and Tory voters—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-06a.12.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-06", "file": "debates1984-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "4b7a1978e17f27d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-06a.14.0", "colnum": "14", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Look where it got you.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "I warmly compliment both the hon. Member for Boothferry (Sir P. Bryan) and the hon. Member for Wiltshire, North (Mr. Needham) on their speeches. I sympathise with them in what they described as a challenging event because 10 years ago I had to do exactly the same. On that occasion—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-06a.14.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-06", "file": "debates1984-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "4b7a1978e17f27d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-06a.14.0", "colnum": "14", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It will not happen again\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "ese days, is well known in the House. I have a warm spot for the hon. Member for Boothferry. It was he who initiated me into one of the great mysteries of the House early in 1971 when he was Minister of State, Department of Employment, and I was merely a fierce fledgling. He approached me and complimented me on a speech. I was entirely bewildered—a Tory coming up and complimenting me on my speech!", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-06a.14.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-06", "file": "debates1984-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "4b7a1978e17f27d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-06a.14.0", "colnum": "14", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Smile.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "spects of the Address…is the time when a Member who has got no friends and has got no group can get up and speak about anything in the world\".—[ Official Report , 29 November 1944; Vol. 406, c. 25 .] It was true in 1944; it is true now. The next days of debate provide an opportunity for a Member who has got no friends and no group, so we will be hearing from the Chancellor of the Exchequer.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-06a.14.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-06", "file": "debates1984-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "4b7a1978e17f27d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-06a.14.0", "colnum": "14", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Neil Kinnock", "preceding_text": "t is true now. The next days of debate provide an opportunity for a Member who has got no friends and no group, so we will be hearing from the Chancellor of the Exchequer. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Smile.\"] The Chancellor of the Exchequer is not smiling—no wonder he is called \"Melancholy Blaby\". I am sure that during the next few days we shall be hearing from the right hon. Gentleman and the Prime Minister.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-06a.14.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-06", "file": "debates1984-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "4b7a1978e17f27d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-06a.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "the Chancellor's assertion that there must be a cut in real wages. It always ends up there. They cannot kick the habit of for ever recommending courses of action to everyone else that they would refuse to accept for themselves. The Government always abuse \"Get on your bike\", \"Work part time\", \"Obey the rules\", \"Wait in line\", \" Take a cut in wages\". The immortal words of Woodie Guthrie come back —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-06a.18.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-06", "file": "debates1984-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "4b7a1978e17f27d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-06a.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "gramme\". The people of this country who are giving so open-heartedly should be told that they are governed by a Government who claim to be maintaining a substantial aid programme but who have cut aid by 14 per cent. in real terms since 1979, which means that in real terms they are giving £160 million less to the starving than in 1979. That is a huge loss in money, but an even greater loss in jobs.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-06a.18.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-06", "file": "debates1984-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "4b7a1978e17f27d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-06a.18.1", "colnum": "18", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about your confidence in Scargill?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "d her about this last Tuesday, her silence was deafening. We need a clearer, more precise statement. She has the opportunity to make that statement today. Is the Prime Minister's appointee as chairman of the National Coal Board still in favour? Is her confidence in him now exhausted or merely uneconomic? We need to know the Prime Minister's attitude to matters of such great concern to the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-06a.18.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-06", "file": "debates1984-11-06a.xml", "sha256": "4b7a1978e17f27d1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-06a.26.2", "colnum": "26", "heading": "SESSIONAL ORDERS", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " sales are up by 8 per cent. in value on this time last year, and total spending in the economy is also up by 8 per cent. in money terms. There is no shortage of demand. The trouble is that the supply is being met not from this country but by more competitive industries overseas in some spheres. Labour's formula offers no solution. I suspect that the right hon. Gentleman knows this, for he tried —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-06a.26.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-07", "file": "debates1984-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "19992dfeb5890e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.106.4", "colnum": "106", "heading": "HMS Conqueror (Log Book)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "n. Member will realise that, once an inquiry is set up within the Ministry of Defence, it is incumbent on us to find out what the inquiry reveals before reaching judgments about it in advance. The right hon. Member makes a more serious allegation in which he invites me to come clean about the sinking of the Belgrano. Unhesitatingly I do it. The decision was taken in order to protect British lives.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.106.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-07", "file": "debates1984-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "19992dfeb5890e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.106.4", "colnum": "106", "heading": "HMS Conqueror (Log Book)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "y of Defence, it is incumbent on us to find out what the inquiry reveals before reaching judgments about it in advance. The right hon. Member makes a more serious allegation in which he invites me to come clean about the sinking of the Belgrano. Unhesitatingly I do it. The decision was taken in order to protect British lives. [Interruption.] The House and the country are sick and tired of the way—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.106.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-07", "file": "debates1984-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "19992dfeb5890e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.108.2", "colnum": "108", "heading": "HMS Conqueror (Log Book)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "I should like to return to the log, which I understand is the subject of this private notice question —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.108.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-07", "file": "debates1984-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "19992dfeb5890e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.108.5", "colnum": "108", "heading": "HMS Conqueror (Log Book)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "I would have to inquire into that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.108.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-07", "file": "debates1984-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "19992dfeb5890e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.111.0", "colnum": "111", "heading": "HMS Conqueror (Log Book)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Is it important?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heseltine", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is correct. I tried to make that distinction in the reply that I first gave to the House. I have already seen a pro forma copy of one of these documents. Indeed, I have one in front of me. It is a technical record kept by the ship's navigator and duty officers. It gives technical information and it is not a record from the captain or commanding officer dealing with the wider issues.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.111.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-07", "file": "debates1984-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "19992dfeb5890e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.113.9", "colnum": "113", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "The leader of the Liberal party made a wholly untrue statement about the Select Committee on Procedure. It arranged its day of sitting to suit the convenience of the leader of the Liberal party who scarcely ever bothered to turn up, and it never said that the matter was not for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.113.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-07", "file": "debates1984-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "19992dfeb5890e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.113.9", "colnum": "113", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robin Maxwell-Hyslop", "preceding_text": "wholly untrue statement about the Select Committee, doubtless in the good faith of ignorance, and should withdraw it. Too often the Liberal party has abused the House in that it wishes all other hon. Members to organise their affairs to suit it. Despite that, all hon. Members know that the Liberal Benches are empty during debates. Generally, one Liberal Member comes in, speaks and then disappears.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.113.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-07", "file": "debates1984-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "19992dfeb5890e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.114.3", "colnum": "114", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "It is a fact that Liberals do not often make trouble in the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.114.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-07", "file": "debates1984-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "19992dfeb5890e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.115.5", "colnum": "115", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. David Owen", "preceding_text": "allocated to the Liberal party, the SDP and the Scottish National party by the Labour party. The allocation lies completely within the gift of the Labour party. The House should know how the allocation is sometimes exercised. At the time of the Crosby by-election, when it was obvious that all members of the alliance would be fighting during that campaign, half a day was allocated to the alliance —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.115.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-07", "file": "debates1984-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "19992dfeb5890e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.116.2", "colnum": "116", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "The Leader of the House has moved that Standing Order No. 6 (Arrangement of public business) shall have effect for this Session with the following modifications\". Surely we have not reached the stage where we cannot argue that there should be further modifications of Standing Order No. 6. While welcoming the modifications which the Leader of the House has proposed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.116.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-07", "file": "debates1984-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "19992dfeb5890e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.116.2", "colnum": "116", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "t for this Session with the following modifications\". Surely we have not reached the stage where we cannot argue that there should be further modifications of Standing Order No. 6. While welcoming the modifications which the Leader of the House has proposed — [Interruption.] I know that it is inconvenient, but this situation will recur. We shall not be silenced because we feel strongly about this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.116.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-07", "file": "debates1984-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "19992dfeb5890e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.116.2", "colnum": "116", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "He must square his loyalty to the Government and the Conservative party with his wider loyalty to this House. I believe that he thinks that the Labour party can create more trouble for him than we can, and therefore believes that it is not worth the aggro further to change this Standing Order because the Labour party has more disruptive power. I am afraid that that may have to be put to the test —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.116.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-07", "file": "debates1984-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "19992dfeb5890e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.116.2", "colnum": "116", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "oyalty to this House. I believe that he thinks that the Labour party can create more trouble for him than we can, and therefore believes that it is not worth the aggro further to change this Standing Order because the Labour party has more disruptive power. I am afraid that that may have to be put to the test — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] We do not particularly wish to do so, but we are not prepared to—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.116.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-07", "file": "debates1984-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "19992dfeb5890e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.117.8", "colnum": "117", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "mber for Rochdale (Mr. Smith) brought in to back up his demand. Equally, I deplore the playboy attitude of the Liberal and Social Democrat alliance, which seeks to bypass the normal procedures of the House. The right hon. Member for Devonport has been in the House longer than I have and he knows full well that a proposal such as his is a matter for the Select Committee on Procedure to investigate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.117.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-07", "file": "debates1984-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "19992dfeb5890e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.120.4", "colnum": "120", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": "I should like to make a simple but telling point —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.120.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-07", "file": "debates1984-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "19992dfeb5890e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.120.4", "colnum": "120", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carlile", "preceding_text": " Conservative Members should be unwilling to take Standing Order No. 6 seriously since it decides the way in which debates should be distributed. Their levity is a disgrace to the House. The simple point at issue is that this House is part of the High Court of Parliament. Surely Conservative Members will agree that this High Court of Parliament should act according to the rules of natural justice—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.120.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-07", "file": "debates1984-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "19992dfeb5890e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.142.0", "colnum": "142", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Transport", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "hout a public inquiry with the Government decision to abolish the GLC. Doubtless the hon. Gentleman chooses to forget that to abolish the GLC was a general election commitment; that was the public inquiry endorsed by the British electorate. It is significant that this afternoon, on a matter that is of major importance to the Labour party, there are fewer than 20 Labour Members on the Back Benches.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.142.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-07", "file": "debates1984-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "19992dfeb5890e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.159.0", "colnum": "159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Transport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Name dropping.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "nd rather smooth. I am sure that he would make the same assessment of himself. In 1977, before doing a swift bunk out of London to represent Mole Valley, he edited an interesting pamphlet. Its title, \"Maybe it's because we are Londoners\", was scarcely original but the pamphlet contained views which make very interesting reading today. Indeed, when I discussed it with Ken Livingstone the other day—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-07", "file": "debates1984-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "19992dfeb5890e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.178.1", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Transport", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert N. Wareing", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert N. Wareing", "preceding_text": " for which they need Government assistance. There is nothing in the Queen's Speech to help those in my constituency and other parts of the city of Liverpool who, every morning, have to clear up the open areas outside their flats because drug addicts have been there the night before. Drug addicts did not exist in large numbers in the city until it was ravaged by the Government's economic policies —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.178.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-07", "file": "debates1984-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "19992dfeb5890e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.183.3", "colnum": "183", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Transport", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Twinn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Twinn", "preceding_text": "s platitudes from county hall about saving jobs, although there are proposals for weekend and night lorry bans which will destroy jobs in our areas. The GLC has done more than that. It has held up useful lorry bans which could have been implemented—for example, the Barnet-Enfield lorry ban. It is a small area lorry ban. We could have had many more lorry bans in London to protect residential areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.183.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-07", "file": "debates1984-11-07a.xml", "sha256": "19992dfeb5890e6c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.184.3", "colnum": "184", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government and Transport", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Twinn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Twinn", "preceding_text": "ocal democracy. To institute discussions in the House would be contrary to that. I certainly do not believe that I have a mandate from June 1983 to talk about local government issues here in terms of day-to-day organisation. Grand principles such as those proposed in legislation to outlaw the GLC and the metropolitan counties are, of course, quite right for this place. The detail, however, is not.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-07a.184.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-08", "file": "debates1984-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "cceb1e84bf211b93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-08a.221.1", "colnum": "221", "heading": "Hon. Member for Tiverton (Comments)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "preceding_text": "were drawn to my attention, I notified him that I would raise the matter today. I do not know whether he received my message. On the hon. Gentleman's tortuous route, he claimed that the Select Committee on Procedure had arranged its day of sitting to suit the convenience of the leader of the Liberal party who scarcely ever bothered to turn up\"—[ Official Report , 7 November 1984; Vol. 67, c. 113.]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-08a.221.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-08", "file": "debates1984-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "cceb1e84bf211b93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-08a.233.1", "colnum": "233", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health, Social Security and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State should look at his own documents. On page 1 of the Health Service in England report, he will see that, on all the criteria that he has mentioned, the record of outpatient and inpatient attendances in the five years previous to the last five years is almost identical to that in the last five years. But my point is that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-08a.233.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-08", "file": "debates1984-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "cceb1e84bf211b93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-08a.234.5", "colnum": "234", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health, Social Security and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Lady persists in interrupting, I shall not give way. We are seeing a decline in expenditure on hospital and community services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-08a.234.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-08", "file": "debates1984-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "cceb1e84bf211b93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-08a.236.3", "colnum": "236", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health, Social Security and Education", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": " soiled linen. Yet that is rather important for hospitals. Trent pointed out that private contractors could not always provide complex and special requirements as cheaply as the public sector. Rather notorious is Crothalls at Barking in the Redbridge area. I quote a report by an independent health inspector commissioned by Redbridge community health council, which made some alarming observations —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-08a.236.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-08", "file": "debates1984-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "cceb1e84bf211b93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-08a.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health, Social Security and Education", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "Alas, a very large proportion does not take exams in other parts of the country, too.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-08a.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-08", "file": "debates1984-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "cceb1e84bf211b93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-08a.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health, Social Security and Education", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "y, including even that of teachers, must be settled principally by reference to what can be afforded for the service in question, informed by considerations—in relation to the necessary qualities—of recruitment, retention and motivation. That is not to say that I regard the present teachers' pay arrangements as satisfactory. I hanker after a more relevant relationship between pay and performance —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-08a.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-08", "file": "debates1984-11-08a.xml", "sha256": "cceb1e84bf211b93", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-08a.313.1", "colnum": "313", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Health, Social Security and Education", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "arce public resources. Again, I have no ready answers to that. The next meeting of the relevant working party of the Burnham committee is on 15 November. I shall not try to anticipate the outcome. Equally, I recognise that the employer and teacher associations may well require more time to consider whether they can agree on a package for consideration by the Government in due course. Mr. Teacher —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-08a.313.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-09", "file": "debates1984-11-09a.xml", "sha256": "e6941e67dd93c9e4", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-09a.358.1", "colnum": "358", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Foreign Affairs and Overseas Development", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Clarke", "preceding_text": "e question. I do not intend to answer questions that the hon. Gentleman himself can pursue, if he catches your eye, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am making a serious point about an apparent change of policy by the Home Office at a very significant time in terms of events in South Africa and I shall not be put off by the trivia paraded before the House by the hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire (Mr. Forth).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-09a.358.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-12", "file": "debates1984-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8d330d107e9097da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-12a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Nigel Lawson)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Now.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Nigel Lawson)", "preceding_text": "and other employment and training measures, including the enterprise allowance scheme, within a reduced overall total. My right hon. Friend will be announcing his new proposals to the House later this afternoon. Other programmes to have reduced provision include domestic assistance to agriculture and housing. Fuller details of these and other changes are contained in the autumn statement itself. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-12a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-12", "file": "debates1984-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8d330d107e9097da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-12a.415.1", "colnum": "415", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Nigel Lawson)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Mr. Nigel Lawson)", "preceding_text": "s than twice as much to produce. Accordingly, I have instructed the Bank of England to cease issuing £1 notes after the end of this year, although the note will continue to be legal tender for at least a year. This will save £3 million of public expenditure in the first year alone. It may be for the convenience of the House if I take this opportunity to announce two other changes in the currency —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-12a.415.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-12", "file": "debates1984-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8d330d107e9097da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-12a.416.1", "colnum": "416", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "First, and subject to approval by the Privy Council, the ½p, which has not been issued since 29 March this year, will cease to be legal tender after 31 December. Secondly, on Thursday of this week the Bank of England will be issuing a new version of the £20 note which should be more difficult to forge—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-12a.416.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-12", "file": "debates1984-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8d330d107e9097da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-12a.416.2", "colnum": "416", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The Chancellor has several more pages of his statement to get through—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-12a.416.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-12", "file": "debates1984-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8d330d107e9097da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-12a.430.4", "colnum": "430", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Withdraw.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "It is not that word but the other one that I want the hon. Member to withdraw.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-12a.430.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-12", "file": "debates1984-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8d330d107e9097da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-12a.436.1", "colnum": "436", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "recovery? It is utterly irrelevant to our economic circumstances and it will be used more and more as an exercise in selling off the furniture to make the books balance. There are platitudes about competition and about freeing the labour market. That has little to do with the lack of demand in the economy. To free the labour market probably means to abolish wages councils and to remove protection.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-12a.436.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-12", "file": "debates1984-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8d330d107e9097da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-12a.439.0", "colnum": "439", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Employment", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Tom King)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about Lord Young?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Employment (Mr. Tom King)", "preceding_text": " desire to launch a modest equivalent of the successful youth training scheme that we have set in motion. His criticism in that respect is ill-received. Developments in the training programmes represent a considerable achievement. The Manpower Services Commission has achieved much. It is appropriate for me to welcome, I hope on behalf of the whole House, the MSC's new chairman—Mr. Bryan Nicholson.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-12a.439.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-12", "file": "debates1984-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8d330d107e9097da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-12a.443.1", "colnum": "443", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "ing boards. What we have to get is a voluntary commitment to the cause of training. It is in the long-term interests of the companies involved. German, American and Japanese companies do not do it for charitable purposes. They realise the benefits that flow from improving the skills of their work force. I have already appealed to right hon. and hon. Members to make their contribution in this area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-12a.443.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-12", "file": "debates1984-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8d330d107e9097da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-12a.491.1", "colnum": "491", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "olicy, and it is intended to be so. Since May 1979 an average of 7,700 people have been thrown on to the dole every week. The official unemployment figure of 3·2 million is 2 million greater than when the Tories took office in 1979. Despite attacks on the Labour Government about the doubling of unemployment in their period of office, which was certainly not a satisfactory state of affairs —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-12a.491.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-12", "file": "debates1984-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8d330d107e9097da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-12a.492.1", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "nd Local Authorities are measures of far-reaching importance…to promote efficiency and economy in local government.\"—[ Official Report , 6 November 1928; Vol. 222, c. 8–9.] What has changed? In the debate on the Loyal Address in 1928 I am proud to note that it was the Labour party spokesman who offered an alternative based on a public expenditure programme to get people back to work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-12a.492.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-12", "file": "debates1984-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8d330d107e9097da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-12a.495.3", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "I am happy to repudiate completely the charge that it is this Government's policy to maintain a high level of unemployment. If by some strange transformation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-12a.495.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-12", "file": "debates1984-11-12a.xml", "sha256": "8d330d107e9097da", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-12a.496.5", "colnum": "496", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Industry and Employment", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Prescott", "preceding_text": "Yes. It is fair to say that a Labour Government found themselves with the collapse of the banking system—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-12a.496.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-13", "file": "debates1984-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b13a0bc69eed517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-13a.534.5", "colnum": "534", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butterfill", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butterfill", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend comment on reports in The Standard tonight about the GLC granting employment contracts to temporary and part-time employees knowing that the posts will disappear, resulting in the payment of £90,000 in compensation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-13a.534.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-13", "file": "debates1984-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b13a0bc69eed517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-13a.541.3", "colnum": "541", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "atement, his assumption for 1985–86. The Government Actuary assumes that unemployment will remain just as high in 1985–86 as this year. There is to be no fall, reduction or improvement, just a steady grind on of unemployment at—even on the Government's phoney figures—3 million or more. It is no good the Chancellor saying that the Government Actuary does no more than make assumptions.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-13a.541.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-13", "file": "debates1984-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b13a0bc69eed517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-13a.548.1", "colnum": "548", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "to the demands of Mr. Arthur Scargill. The right hon. Gentleman knows that the strike has wrought untold damage on the industry, riven communities asunder, destroyed jobs in the industry's suppliers and, through its effects on interest rates, damaged employment prospects throughout the economy. Yet throughout, the dispute has been backed and, therefore, unnecessarily prolonged by the Labour party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-13a.548.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-13", "file": "debates1984-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b13a0bc69eed517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-13a.620.4", "colnum": "620", "heading": "The Economy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "nge remains daunting. However, the problem is trivialised by the rhetoric so freely used from Opposition Benches. I invite the House to share with me both an analysis and a prescription for the present employment situation. First I refer to the analysis—of how the unemployment toll has climbed upwards of 3 million. Some have suggested that unemployment has been the instrument of Government policy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-13a.620.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-13", "file": "debates1984-11-13a.xml", "sha256": "5b13a0bc69eed517", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-13a.652.5", "colnum": "652", "heading": "Transport (Supplementary Grants)", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Chalker", "preceding_text": "y have a separate GRE indicator for revenue subsidies for local rail services in the passenger transport executive areas. Councils will be able to decide whether to maintain that support for local services within the resources available to them. It is up to them to decide their priorities in the provision of local services. The TSG will not be paid for them, but they will be receiving block grant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-13a.652.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-14", "file": "debates1984-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a268fdb82138828b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.667.0", "colnum": "667", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Renton", "preceding_text": "We believed that the European Parliament's invitation to President Alfonsin was inappropriate —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.667.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-14", "file": "debates1984-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a268fdb82138828b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.671.5", "colnum": "671", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "We shall be considering the matter yet again in the European Community in the light of the re-election of President Reagan, but I do not wish to encourage the belief that we shall be launching a new initiative —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.671.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-14", "file": "debates1984-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a268fdb82138828b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.684.3", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Faulds", "preceding_text": "At last Sir, thank you. As to supplementaries, what should some of us do —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.684.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-14", "file": "debates1984-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a268fdb82138828b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.684.4", "colnum": "684", "heading": "Points of Order", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. I am very sorry that I was unable to get the hon. Gentleman in today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.684.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-14", "file": "debates1984-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a268fdb82138828b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.685.4", "colnum": "685", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Giles Radice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Giles Radice", "preceding_text": "m up, the truth is that the right hon. Gentleman's performance in carrying out his plans has not lived up to his initial promise at Sheffield. I know that the Secretary of State does not like hearing about cash. To make him feel good for a moment, I can assure him that the Labour party understands as well as he does that raising the level of educational achievement is not just a question of money.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.685.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-14", "file": "debates1984-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a268fdb82138828b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.692.5", "colnum": "692", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Worse off.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "Comparing 1985–86 with 1984–85, most of them will be—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.692.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-14", "file": "debates1984-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a268fdb82138828b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.713.1", "colnum": "713", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Foster", "preceding_text": "ent, boards of governors, perhaps academic boards and teachers, that what we have decided is best. Many people in the education service long to impose change. We are impatient for it, as it never goes as fast as we should like. Politicians might have only a short run. The Secretary of State has been with us for a long time —some might say too long—and he might continue in office for some time yet.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.713.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-14", "file": "debates1984-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a268fdb82138828b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.729.1", "colnum": "729", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh, no.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Marek", "preceding_text": "I agree with the hon. Gentleman. However, there should be a balance of all types of history. I shall give a few more examples—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.729.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-14", "file": "debates1984-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a268fdb82138828b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.739.1", "colnum": "739", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Nonsense.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Buchan", "preceding_text": "easury on that, I have been told that the Government's policy is to cut back on personal taxation, that is the tax on income, and to place tax on spending, in other words VAT. I challenge any Conservative Member flatly to deny that the Government will not tax books. I pause, as Shakespeare said, for a reply, but none dare reply, as they know that their Front Bench is capable of such a monstrosity.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.739.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-14", "file": "debates1984-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a268fdb82138828b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.741.4", "colnum": "741", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It did.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "ike references to Black Papers, they should remember that the right hon. Member for Cardiff, South and Penarth (Mr. Callaghan) initiated the great debate on education and educational standards in 1976. That debate was an attempt to draw attention to what was properly seen as a decline in standards. But if money were the answer, why did education not greatly improve between the years 1960 and 1980?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.741.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-14", "file": "debates1984-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a268fdb82138828b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.743.2", "colnum": "743", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "rs. Clearly, he believes that there is a positive relationship between well-trained teachers and higher standards. He is right to draw that conclusion, because education depends above all on the interaction of minds. The teacher holds the key. There is a fairly simple equation in education: if there is good head teacher, he will attract good staff; if there is good staff, it will be a good school.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.743.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-14", "file": "debates1984-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a268fdb82138828b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.745.1", "colnum": "745", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Pawsey", "preceding_text": "I shall give way to the hon. Gentleman in a moment—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.745.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-14", "file": "debates1984-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a268fdb82138828b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.757.1", "colnum": "757", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Many more years\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Andrew F. Bennett", "preceding_text": "use of the decimation of industry and the even greater destruction of apprenticeship courses, the approach through further education into higher education has disappeared. Much more time should be given to debating that aspect. The complacency of the Secretary of State as shown in the amendment sums up his position. It seems that, at the end of his political career, he is losing his opportunities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.757.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-14", "file": "debates1984-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a268fdb82138828b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.760.0", "colnum": "760", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"A whimper.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": " Gentleman did what he did. He started the great debate, and there were headlines in the papers for about half a day. Then nothing happened. If one looks back at the course of education history and attempts to establish the high points of Socialist education policy as well as those of the Conservative party, one finds that at the time of that great debate there was not even a bang, but a whisper —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.760.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-14", "file": "debates1984-11-14a.xml", "sha256": "a268fdb82138828b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.762.1", "colnum": "762", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dunn", "preceding_text": "s not here, because it is always nice to be complimented. He also referred to the decision of the Labour-controlled Derbyshire county council to call in its writing paper and envelopes so that they could be overprinted with the slogan \"nuclear-free zone\". I understand from a report in the Daily Star of 12 November that such an action would involve the authority in the expenditure of about £50,000.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-14a.762.1"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-15", "file": "debates1984-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "f4d7d380e18b770c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-15a.782.4", "colnum": "782", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lloyd", "preceding_text": "I am grateful to the Minister for not answering my question. Perhaps I can try to help him. Does he agree, not with me, but with the present Foreign Secretary, who said in 1979 that the basic rate of tax plus of course national insurance contributions had the deterrent effect of a tax on earnings? —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-15a.782.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-15", "file": "debates1984-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "f4d7d380e18b770c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-15a.784.1", "colnum": "784", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "Britain does not have 4 million unemployed, I am glad to say. The recovery that we are now seeing—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-15a.784.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-15", "file": "debates1984-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "f4d7d380e18b770c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-15a.789.8", "colnum": "789", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Fall.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "ware of the concern in the construction industry. I am also aware that what the construction industry wants to see above all is lower interest rates because, of all industries, it is perhaps the most interest-rate sensitive. That is why the Government's policy of creating the conditions in which interest rates can come down still further is of such importance. The recent rise in the mortgage rate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-15a.789.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-15", "file": "debates1984-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "f4d7d380e18b770c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-15a.793.1", "colnum": "793", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"The right hon. Gentleman will not.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kinnock", "preceding_text": "Once again in this dispute the right hon. Lady is dodging into incidentals. On the question of meetings, will she meet the leadership of the NUM to explain—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-15a.793.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-15", "file": "debates1984-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "f4d7d380e18b770c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-15a.794.0", "colnum": "794", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "Are not the squeaks of the Leader of the Labour party and other Labour leaders in recent days, as they seek to distance themselves from Arthur Scargill, reminiscent of the squeaks of rats leaving the sinking ship?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-15a.794.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-15", "file": "debates1984-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "f4d7d380e18b770c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-15a.813.1", "colnum": "813", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Elections (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "I said: we intend to announce, before this Bill completes its parliamentary passage— obviously, that can include the passage through another place— the list of documents that will be included in the draft Order in Council for Parliament's consideration early in the new year. The drawing up of a satisfactory list is not easy.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-15a.813.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-15", "file": "debates1984-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "f4d7d380e18b770c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-15a.842.1", "colnum": "842", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Elections (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Taylor", "preceding_text": "Presumably, a common law wife has a name by which she is usually known, which would be the name that would appear on the electoral register. She would have fewer problems than the woman who had recently married —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-15a.842.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-15", "file": "debates1984-11-15a.xml", "sha256": "f4d7d380e18b770c", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-15a.871.1", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Elections (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stuart Bell", "preceding_text": "nderstand their desire to get it on the statute book earlier rather than later. The hon. Member for Epping Forest sought to assimilate, as he often rightly does, as it is a view that he strongly holds, the fact that elections in Northern Ireland should be the same as those on the mainland, but there will always be particularities in Northern Ireland elections which are different from our country —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-15a.871.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-16", "file": "debates1984-11-16a.xml", "sha256": "c5c1ff64ffd21963", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-16a.915.2", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Orders of the Day — WAYS AND MEANS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Alan Williams", "preceding_text": "n the very industry that will be at the centre of the information technology revolution. It is a day when the Government are taking a public monopoly, which is answerable to Parliament, this House, the Minister and the Select Committees, and are creating a private monopoly that will control 95 per cent. of the telecommunications network and will be answerable to no one other than its shareholders.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-16a.915.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-19", "file": "debates1984-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "a49e465f2a8a8489", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.2.1", "colnum": "2", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Douglas Hogg", "preceding_text": "Does my hon. Friend appreciate that the special problems—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.2.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-19", "file": "debates1984-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "a49e465f2a8a8489", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.9.4", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stradling Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stradling Thomas", "preceding_text": "I should like to reinforce the point that the number of pupils—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.9.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-19", "file": "debates1984-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "a49e465f2a8a8489", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.11.9", "colnum": "11", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — WALES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stradling Thomas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stradling Thomas", "preceding_text": "I see. I note what the hon. Gentleman says, but there are two separate papers for Wales and there is obvious confusion about them. The Green Paper issued by the Welsh Office is a Green Paper—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.11.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-19", "file": "debates1984-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "a49e465f2a8a8489", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.25.4", "colnum": "25", "heading": "Confectionery (Poisoning)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. D. N. Campbell-Savours", "preceding_text": "The Minister says that he wishes to stamp out this irresponsibility. Perhaps one way of doing so would be for the Minister to show a little more flexibility. He has developed over these last years a reputation among those people who take an interest in these matters as not being flexible.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.25.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-19", "file": "debates1984-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "a49e465f2a8a8489", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.29.2", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Films Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Trade and Industry (Mr. Norman Lamont)", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"Have you seen them?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Trade and Industry (Mr. Norman Lamont)", "preceding_text": "rtise in certain technical areas and that has led to highly successful major international productions such as the \"Star Wars\" films and, more recently, \"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom\". More technicians are in work now than for many years and last year 34 full-length British feature films were made here, and there were some notable successes—\"Local Hero\", \"Educating Rita\" and \"The Dresser\".", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.29.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-19", "file": "debates1984-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "a49e465f2a8a8489", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.68.0", "colnum": "68", "heading": "Films Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gerald Bermingham", "preceding_text": "ght. I hope that in Committee on this Bill the same intelligent approach will adopted by Back Benchers, that Ministers will remain silent on occasion, listen to those who know about the industry and ignore their civil servants—that is essential if we are to achieve sensible legislation from this Bill—and that eventually we shall get it right. No hon. Member wants to harm the British film industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.68.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-11-19", "file": "debates1984-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "a49e465f2a8a8489", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.82.0", "colnum": "82", "heading": "Films Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "preceding_text": " to £1·3 million paid hitherto. That is an improvement in the financial provision for the cinema. It does not go as far as we might like it to go, but we cannot pretend that it is not there, or that it is nothing. It is churlish of the Opposition to disparage it and try to stir up resentment in the film industry. The House should give short shrift to that disparagement and support the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.80.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-19", "file": "debates1984-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "a49e465f2a8a8489", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.86.0", "colnum": "86", "heading": "Films Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mark Fisher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mark Fisher", "preceding_text": " screens, we could still provide a national means of expression and communication and a basis for an international approach by the industry. The Government lack vision and any form of coherent belief in what they are seeking, so it is hardly surprising that the Bill has neither character nor personality. Members on both sides of the House will agree that Eady should go. No one regrets its passing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.86.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-19", "file": "debates1984-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "a49e465f2a8a8489", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.96.1", "colnum": "96", "heading": "Films Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Whose fault was that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Norman Buchan", "preceding_text": "dustry. My hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould) and I remember hearing the same argument about the Common Market. We were told, \"Here is a consumer market of 200 million people into which we can flood our goods.\" But the opposite happened, and their goods flooded into the United Kingdom with the result that we now have the largest deficit in trade in manufacturing goods in our history.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.96.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-19", "file": "debates1984-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "a49e465f2a8a8489", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.101.0", "colnum": "101", "heading": "Films Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Trade and Industry (Mr. David Trippier)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Trade and Industry (Mr. David Trippier)", "preceding_text": "e the Minister with special responsibilities for small firms, I have been saying that small is beautiful, but tonight that phrase has taken on a whole new meaning in the form, I understand, of a boy weighing 6 lb 11 oz who is to be called Edward David. I know that it is your privilege, Mr. Speaker, to name people, but I hope that you will be kind enough to allow me to get away with having done so.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.101.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-11-19", "file": "debates1984-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "a49e465f2a8a8489", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.112.4", "colnum": "112", "heading": "Legal Aid and Advice", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "If there is disagreement, the motions should be taken separately. However, would it be the wish of the House to take the two motions relating to England and Wales together and then the two motions relating to Scotland?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.112.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-19", "file": "debates1984-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "a49e465f2a8a8489", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.119.1", "colnum": "119", "heading": "Legal Aid and Advice (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John MacKay)", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. John MacKay)", "preceding_text": "lution this evening, the Legal Aid (Scotland) (Financial Conditions) Regulations 1984 and the Legal Advice and Assistance (Scotland) (Financial Conditions) Regulations 1984, make the same increases in the financial limits for Scotland. I shall remind the House of what they are. The advice and assistance regulations raise the upper disposable income limit for the green form scheme from £103 a week—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.119.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-19", "file": "debates1984-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "a49e465f2a8a8489", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.123.2", "colnum": "123", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "preceding_text": " picket organisers from the picket lines. In addition, during those nine months of attacks, the miners have had set against them daily, every evening on the television screens, a biased media and, often, the twisted propaganda of the National Coal Board. The finger of the Government hovers behind that campaign of misinformation. That is what we have come to expect from a Tory media and Tory press.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.123.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-19", "file": "debates1984-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "a49e465f2a8a8489", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.125.1", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "rs are on strike. When do we hear Government spokesmen, the press or other parts of the media use figures of 90, 97 or 99·6 per cent. of miners on strike as a demonstration of the strength of the dispute? It is an illustration of the misinformation that pours out of the \"tube\" daily. Those figures do not give confidence to the Tory Government. It is a sign that time is running out for them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-19", "file": "debates1984-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "a49e465f2a8a8489", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.125.1", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "g hauliers to recruit non-union drivers. It also referred to establishing dual oil and coal-fired power stations the oil for which, despite the Government's refusal to answer questions, is widely rumoured to be costing £25 million to £30 million per week. The Ridley report also spoke of cutting off the money supply to strikers and establishing a large mobile squad of police to deal with picketing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-19", "file": "debates1984-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "a49e465f2a8a8489", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.125.1", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": " answer questions, is widely rumoured to be costing £25 million to £30 million per week. The Ridley report also spoke of cutting off the money supply to strikers and establishing a large mobile squad of police to deal with picketing. [Interruption.] That, together with the appointment of MacGregor, after he had butchered the steel industry, a subject on which my family has a personal axe to grind—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.125.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-19", "file": "debates1984-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "a49e465f2a8a8489", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.126.3", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": " about 1,000 policemen on horseback, with dogs, truncheons and riot shields, escorting one man—Brian Green— into the Gascoine Wood area of the Selby coalfield. That shows eloquently that, when it comes to the real issue of law and order, the Tory Government think it a bigger crime to stand on a picket line and defend jobs than to use sawn-off shotguns, attack post offices and kill police officers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.126.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-19", "file": "debates1984-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "a49e465f2a8a8489", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.126.3", "colnum": "126", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "at will take generations to heal. This morning on Radio 4 was one of the few occasions on which the voice of a miner's wife has been heard. She was a woman from Yorkshire. She said that before the strike, if someone was attacked in the street, he would telephone the police. \"If the police are attacking you, who do you phone?\", she asked. That is the price that the Tory Government will have to pay—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.126.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-19", "file": "debates1984-11-19a.xml", "sha256": "a49e465f2a8a8489", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.127.1", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Coal Industry Dispute", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "e. That would be the net economic cost of the sacrifice of the communities that the Tories are attacking. So far, the Government have been prepared to spend £4,000 million attacking the miners and their families. They say that there is not enough money for houses or for education. That £4,000 million would be enough to provide an increase of £25 a week for everyone registered as being on the dole.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-19a.127.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-20", "file": "debates1984-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "a09f8ff90c0f2720", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-20a.137.0", "colnum": "137", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EMPLOYMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "I very much agree with the hon. Gentleman. I am struck by the fact that some of those most closely involved on the union side of the industry do not seem to believe in its future. A friend of mine in the American coal industry—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-20a.137.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-20", "file": "debates1984-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "a09f8ff90c0f2720", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-20a.164.3", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Towns and Urban Development Corporations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Gow", "preceding_text": "I hope so. Since 1946, new towns have been financed —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-20a.164.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-20", "file": "debates1984-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "a09f8ff90c0f2720", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-20a.168.4", "colnum": "168", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Towns and Urban Development Corporations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rooker", "preceding_text": "have a population of over 2 million. By any standards that is a monument to the best traditions of central economic and environmental planning and the massive contribution that the public sector in Britain has to make to our infrastructure. That cannot be denied. The private sector could never have tackled such a programme, guided as it is by the profit motive. Nobody ever said it could tackle it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-20a.168.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-20", "file": "debates1984-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "a09f8ff90c0f2720", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-20a.199.0", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Towns and Urban Development Corporations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "n parts of the country and deters employers. The development of employment must be seen to take place in an overall economic environment that is favourable to it. In the past five years the Government have striven again and again to create that environment. That is why the EEC is the correct context for economic growth, and that is how we can attract companies such as Nissan to the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-20a.199.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-20", "file": "debates1984-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "a09f8ff90c0f2720", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-20a.199.0", "colnum": "199", "heading": "Orders of the Day — New Towns and Urban Development Corporations Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric Forth", "preceding_text": "ployers. The development of employment must be seen to take place in an overall economic environment that is favourable to it. In the past five years the Government have striven again and again to create that environment. That is why the EEC is the correct context for economic growth, and that is how we can attract companies such as Nissan to the United Kingdom— [Interruption.] If it were outside—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-20a.199.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-20", "file": "debates1984-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "a09f8ff90c0f2720", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-20a.246.0", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Elections (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold McCusker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold McCusker", "preceding_text": "e to bear in mind what I asked the House to consider last Thursday. Despite what we heard last Thursday and what we shall hear this evening, personation is not as widespread in Northern Ireland as some believe. Presiding officers are not required to exercise their minds every time someone comes in to vote at a polling station in Northern Ireland. At best, we are dealing with 10 per cent. and less—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-20a.246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-20", "file": "debates1984-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "a09f8ff90c0f2720", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-20a.246.0", "colnum": "246", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Elections (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Harold McCusker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Harold McCusker", "preceding_text": "ocratic process. There is plenty of evidence that people are not voting in the numbers hon. Members generally think. In the 1982 Assembly election, which, we were told, was an election during which personation had occurred, for every person who voted in county Antrim, one did not. There was a 52 per cent. poll. That is hardly evidence of massive personation or a high motivation to go to the polls.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-20a.246.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-20", "file": "debates1984-11-20a.xml", "sha256": "a09f8ff90c0f2720", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-20a.249.3", "colnum": "249", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Elections (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCusker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is not a prescribed document.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCusker", "preceding_text": "e a medical card the address on which does not coincide with the address on the register. That is highly likely. Is the presiding officer to say, \"I am sorry. I know that I could accept that gentleman's document because I know him, but I am not prepared to accept yours.\"? I could help him by producing my House of Commons pass and could say, \"If there is any doubt, here is my pass. Will that help?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-20a.249.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-21", "file": "debates1984-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "85da9b2c15c47c04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-21a.280.5", "colnum": "280", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend has written to me on several occasions about the parts of British Leyland where some changes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-21a.280.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-21", "file": "debates1984-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "85da9b2c15c47c04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-21a.286.8", "colnum": "286", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bowen Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bowen Wells", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that the multi-fibre arrangement was intended as a transitional measure to enable Britain's textile industry to adjust to new trading conditions? In pursuit of our free trade principles, will he ensure that the arrangement ends when it was expected to end, in 1986?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-21a.286.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-21", "file": "debates1984-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "85da9b2c15c47c04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-21a.287.4", "colnum": "287", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "Before we decide the exact terms of a new MFA, if that is what it is to be, we should study the evidence—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-21a.287.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-21", "file": "debates1984-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "85da9b2c15c47c04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-21a.312.0", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Aviation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Humphrey Atkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Humphrey Atkins", "preceding_text": " forward. We hoped that he would bring it forward sooner, but he has done so now. There is no question of panic. I should like to explain why I and several other Conservative Members have been pressing my right hon. Friend. The House probably knows that I represent the constituency of Spelthorne, but perhaps, because the name Spelthorne appears on no map, some hon. Members do not know where it is.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-21a.312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-21", "file": "debates1984-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "85da9b2c15c47c04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-21a.312.0", "colnum": "312", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Aviation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Humphrey Atkins", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Humphrey Atkins", "preceding_text": " to explain why I and several other Conservative Members have been pressing my right hon. Friend. The House probably knows that I represent the constituency of Spelthorne, but perhaps, because the name Spelthorne appears on no map, some hon. Members do not know where it is. [HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is it?\"] The northern boundary of my constituency runs straight through the middle of Heathrow airport.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-21a.312.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-21", "file": "debates1984-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "85da9b2c15c47c04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-21a.316.5", "colnum": "316", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Aviation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Carter-Jones", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Carter-Jones", "preceding_text": "e Welsh for their rugby facilities, and the north-west for its aircraft handling facilities at Manchester. We need more traffic in the north, for this reason. This country has produced three new aircraft which are very important in connection with regional airports. There is the HS146 and the Super 748, and we are about to produce the ATP. Those are the ideal aircraft for hub and spoke activities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-21a.316.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-21", "file": "debates1984-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "85da9b2c15c47c04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-21a.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Aviation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Disgraceful.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I wish to support strongly the request by my hon. Friend the Member for Rother Valley (Mr. Barron).", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-21a.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-21", "file": "debates1984-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "85da9b2c15c47c04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-21a.342.1", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Aviation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meacher", "preceding_text": "e press release was made at about 5.30 pm. The first that we knew about it was on the radio. Neither the press release nor the written answer is yet in the House of Commons Library. It is perfectly clear that the information has been given in that way to ensure that the matter is not debated. I understand that the measure is to be implemented under the very unusual device of a Privy Council order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-21a.342.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-21", "file": "debates1984-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "85da9b2c15c47c04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-21a.344.0", "colnum": "344", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Aviation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert McCrindle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert McCrindle", "preceding_text": "on and we want it to be in a position to maximise its opportunities. The corporation's own opposition to limiting air traffic movements at Heathrow must make it clear to the Government that the limit cannot be in the interests of British Airways. To that extent, one aspect of the Government's aviation policy flies in the face of another. I declare an interest as a consultant to British Caledonian—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-21a.344.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-21", "file": "debates1984-11-21a.xml", "sha256": "85da9b2c15c47c04", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-21a.370.0", "colnum": "370", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Civil Aviation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is he?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Snape", "preceding_text": "will say that the Bill is deliberately designed to pre-empt the Stansted inquiry. If the Secretary of State knew that that conclusion would be drawn when he brought forward the Bill, he is guilty of doing the House and his party a great disservice. If he did not know that, he is guilty of enormous naivety, not normally a vice—if that is the right term—which I attribute to the right hon. Gentleman.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-21a.370.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-22", "file": "debates1984-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "7083a242e78e553b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-22a.396.6", "colnum": "396", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Wells", "preceding_text": "Is my hon. Friend aware that the present position of local government advice on civil defence is absurd? If there were a holocaust, it would be ridiculous for the nation to be led by faceless, unknown local bureaucrats. We want people such as Glenn Hoddle in London or Bryan Robson in Manchester, or Mr. Botham —people whose faces are well known—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-22a.396.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-22", "file": "debates1984-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "7083a242e78e553b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-22a.400.4", "colnum": "400", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "formula, it was £13; in 1982, by formula, £14·50; in 1983, by formula, £15 and in 1984, by automatic formula, £16. The right hon. Gentleman could have calculated that. As for explaining it, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State tried to, but was prevented from doing so by the rowdiest scenes that this House has ever seen, perpetrated by members of the right hon. Gentleman's own party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-22a.400.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-22", "file": "debates1984-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "7083a242e78e553b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-22a.401.3", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "Would it not have been wiser if the Prime Minister, instead of rounding up the reduction from 75p to £1, had used section 6(3) of the Act to introduce regulations that would have meant an increase of £15·50? That would also have been in line with the increase introduced for supplementary benefit.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-22a.401.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-22", "file": "debates1984-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "7083a242e78e553b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-22a.401.7", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "I have every right, just as the House has rights which were flouted last night, thus damaging reasoned debate. There is a real question here.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-22a.401.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-22", "file": "debates1984-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "7083a242e78e553b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-22a.401.7", "colnum": "401", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Owen", "preceding_text": "I have every right, just as the House has rights which were flouted last night, thus damaging reasoned debate. There is a real question here. [Interruption.] The Government could have been fairer to miners' families and miners themselves and shown greater sensitivity over this very delicate issue if they had increased—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-22a.401.7"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-22", "file": "debates1984-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "7083a242e78e553b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-22a.403.3", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Lady has been hard put today to defend the indefensible—[HON. MEMBERS: \"No\".]—in relation to starving women and children as a consequence of her action. Since the right hon. Lady is trying to get some mileage out of the matter of conduct in the House, I ask her to read the Adjournment debate that took place on Monday night.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-22a.403.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-22", "file": "debates1984-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "7083a242e78e553b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-22a.403.3", "colnum": "403", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": " the right hon. Lady is trying to get some mileage out of the matter of conduct in the House, I ask her to read the Adjournment debate that took place on Monday night. [Interruption.] Thirty Conservative Members came into the House, after a very good dinner, and during the whole of that debate tried to prevent my hon. Friend the Member for Coventry, South-East (Mr. Nellist) from making his speech.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-22a.403.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-22", "file": "debates1984-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "7083a242e78e553b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-22a.425.3", "colnum": "425", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Howe", "preceding_text": "s in relation to commercial work. The diplomatic service has been able to respond to the rising demand with substantially reduced manpower. It is worth reminding the House that that process has taken place under successive Governments. It is a measure of the improvements in efficiency that have been achieved. Diplomatic service manpower is now less than half that of the London borough of Haringey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-22a.425.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-22", "file": "debates1984-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "7083a242e78e553b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-22a.495.9", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Raison", "preceding_text": "another place on 25 January this year. Many arguments have been put for and against particular courses of action. Our judgment is that the way we have chosen represents the best way of keeping up the pressure, while establishing the ability to make a clean break in a year's time if that finally seems right. It is our own decision, and certainly not one taken on the coat-tails of the United States.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-22a.495.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-22", "file": "debates1984-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "7083a242e78e553b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-22a.503.5", "colnum": "503", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Friendly Societies Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Oonagh McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Oonagh McDonald", "preceding_text": "policies which have already been issued are legal. The Bill arose from the changes that were made during the Finance Bill to friendly societies' limits, when the Government saw fit to make life less comfortable for the 4,000 pre-1966 friendly societies by lowering the limits of their tax-exempt business on the grounds that there was abuse or fiddling—a claim which was later withdrawn in Committee—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-22a.503.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-22", "file": "debates1984-11-22a.xml", "sha256": "7083a242e78e553b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-22a.508.0", "colnum": "508", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security (Contributions)", "cue_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Health and Social Security (Mr. Tony Newton)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister of State, Department of Health and Social Security (Mr. Tony Newton)", "preceding_text": "Gentleman's speech conspicuously failed to reflect—a determination to keep the tax contributions burden as low as possible. I also hoped that the hon. Gentleman would mention that the year under discussion will be the first in which employers will receive full benefit from our abolition of the huge burden placed on them by the last Labour Government in the form of the national insurance surcharge.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-22a.508.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-23", "file": "debates1984-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d9f94d7ea1059a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-23a.538.1", "colnum": "538", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Meacher", "preceding_text": "I fully recognise the strength of feeling behind my hon. Friend's view. As my hon. Friend will know, a decision on that has not yet been taken—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-23a.538.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-23", "file": "debates1984-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d9f94d7ea1059a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-23a.552.2", "colnum": "552", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meadowcroft", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Meadowcroft", "preceding_text": "ilable? Who is to decide who should benefit from it? Is it to be available from the National Health Service, or will there be some form of medical choice so that people may avail themselves of these new techniques? I suspect that the National Health Service will have to provide some of these services freely and that it cannot be left to the private sector. I accept the report's conclusions on AID—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-23a.552.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-23", "file": "debates1984-11-23a.xml", "sha256": "d9f94d7ea1059a5b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-23a.556.1", "colnum": "556", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Short", "preceding_text": "mmittee rejected that view. It went on to consider several ways in which the distress caused by infertility could be relieved. Some of the matters discussed in the report are controversial, and we have heard expressions of that during this debate. Surrogacy and embryo freezing are controversial. I do not think that the House really comprehends that fact, even though it is almost an all-male House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-23a.556.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-26", "file": "debates1984-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "52ad34e12eb35d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.604.6", "colnum": "604", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Redmond", "preceding_text": "Will the Minister set the record straight? Is he aware that I am fed up with hearing about ballots? The strike started—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.604.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-26", "file": "debates1984-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "52ad34e12eb35d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.608.10", "colnum": "608", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rowlands", "preceding_text": "Do the Minister's figures include the Merthyr Vale pit at Aberfan, where two miners went to work last week and this morning?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.608.10"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-26", "file": "debates1984-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "52ad34e12eb35d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.609.0", "colnum": "609", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENERGY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hunt", "preceding_text": "The House must understand that to be among the first to return to work at a pit demands great courage.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.609.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-26", "file": "debates1984-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "52ad34e12eb35d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.611.12", "colnum": "611", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOUSE OF COMMONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Wait and see.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "complained about that. Being aware of the important role played by spouses, the Accommodation and Administration Sub-Committee undertook an investigation of what facilities could reasonably he provided, and those facilities are detailed in \"Facilities for Members' Spouses\", which was printed as recently as 1982. The authorities have received no complaints about problems of access to the Galleries.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.611.12"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-26", "file": "debates1984-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "52ad34e12eb35d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.629.0", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "preceding_text": "There is an air of unreality and faked outrage about the debate. Listeners with no knowledge of the background —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.629.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-26", "file": "debates1984-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "52ad34e12eb35d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.629.0", "colnum": "629", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Jill Knight", "preceding_text": " go away believing that the Government had introduced a completely new and unexpected measure and one which would universally cut the amounts of money payable to striking miners for their children. All that is utter poppycock. There is nothing new about what has happened. Every year since 1980, as regular as clockwork, the \"specified sum\" —to use the jargon of the Social Security (No. 2) Act 1980—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.629.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-26", "file": "debates1984-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "52ad34e12eb35d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.630.0", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "ir facts before coming to the House. As for being a completely unexpected move, I suggest that Opposition Members study what has happened each year since 1980. In 1980 the disregard was £12; in 1981 it was £13; and in 1982 it was £14·50. It is funny, but we do not remember any violent demonstrations, tearing up of statements or seizing of the Mace when the disregard went up by £1·50.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.630.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-26", "file": "debates1984-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "52ad34e12eb35d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.630.6", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": " Government's action. For almost all the rest of the miners there is no change. Only a tiny minority—between 100 and 200—are getting less. If the Opposition's rage is well founded, why do hon. Members not divert to that tiny minority some of the money that is being collected in tin boxes for the NUM? Those collections are being made, much to the rage of many decent citizens throughout the country.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.630.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-26", "file": "debates1984-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "52ad34e12eb35d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.634.1", "colnum": "634", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "I do not want to go into the detail of that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.634.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-26", "file": "debates1984-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "52ad34e12eb35d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.636.2", "colnum": "636", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Benn", "preceding_text": "The people to whom the order applies know what is going on. The Government may try to mislead the House or themselves, but everyone who is on strike in the coalfields knows what the Government are doing. They are taking money from the families of striking miners to force them back to work. People in the coalfields also know that the Government tried to do it without telling the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.636.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-26", "file": "debates1984-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "52ad34e12eb35d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "o trouble with NACODS all over again; there have been fraudulent bribes to go back when the money with which the Government are bribing miners to return to work before Christmas belongs to the striking miners—it is holiday pay which was earned last year and which has been witheld by the NCB. There has also been intimidation of the miners by the police, under the instructions of the Home Secretary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-26", "file": "debates1984-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "52ad34e12eb35d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.637.1", "colnum": "637", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "very week see hundreds of police who are snatching people without any grounds for doing so. They are arresting women. I know of one woman who was arrested because she was alleged to have shouted something. She was released the next day, but when she was arrested the police left her three-month-old baby in a pram in a park. They did not notice that the baby had been left, despite her protestations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.637.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-26", "file": "debates1984-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "52ad34e12eb35d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.638.5", "colnum": "638", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Starving?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "known as Charles I who believes that there is some divine right in what he then did and she now does. I tell the House, to which I was elected 34 years ago on Friday, that unless Parliament gives justice to the British people there will be no peace in Britain. Even if the Prime Minister is right and with troops, the help of the BBC and fraudulent figures she can drive starving miners back to work—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.638.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-26", "file": "debates1984-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "52ad34e12eb35d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.644.2", "colnum": "644", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "First, the hon. Gentlman must know that Ministers are not in a position to issue instructions to the adjudication officers. Secondly, before he and his hon. Friend the Member for Rother Valley (Mr. Barron) get carried away too much further, I point out that the position on disqualification from unemployment benefit arises from the Labour Government's Social Security Act 1975.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.644.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-26", "file": "debates1984-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "52ad34e12eb35d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.647.1", "colnum": "647", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Which two?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kevin Barron", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Mid-Worcestershire (Mr. Forth) talked about positive suggestions to resolve the current dispute in the coal mining industry. I am tempted to remind him that it is about jobs. To my certain knowledge the hon. Gentleman holds at least two jobs. Perhaps he should consider releasing one of them to someone who is without a job—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.647.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-26", "file": "debates1984-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "52ad34e12eb35d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.651.1", "colnum": "651", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Sims", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Sims", "preceding_text": " which did not merely interrupt Parliament, but brought our proceedings to a halt. The pickets have been paid, but the union has not been paying its members who are on strike. References have been made to starving the miners back to work and to the wives and children of miners being deprived. Who is doing the starving? Who is doing the depriving? Is it the Department of Health and Social Security?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.651.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-26", "file": "debates1984-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "52ad34e12eb35d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.659.1", "colnum": "659", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"The hon. Gentleman has not dropped his loose change in.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "gill say to those who are suffering genuine hardship? We have heard of a few of those. Nothing. He blames everything on the NCB and the Government. Where has the money gone that has been collected in the streets? Who has audited it? Who has been accountable for it? We can hardly travel down a street without someone offering a bucket for us to drop our loose change into. What happens to that money?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.659.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-26", "file": "debates1984-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "52ad34e12eb35d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.661.3", "colnum": "661", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Nellist", "preceding_text": "Perhaps the Minister can tell the House the last occasion when he and his wife managed on £6·45 for a week. When was the last time that he went without a meal? Will he tell the House how he expects families to survive for nine months on the pittance that the Government give them? Now another pound has been taken from them.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.661.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-26", "file": "debates1984-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "52ad34e12eb35d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.662.0", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": " been some serious and reasonable contributions to the debate. I pay tribute to the hon. Members for Roxburgh and Berwickshire (Mr. Kirkwood), and for Bassetlaw (Mr. Ashton), and to a number of others. I want it to be clear that there has been no attempt whatever—nor will there be—by Ministers to lean on individual adjudicating officers to bend their decisions either way within the existing rules.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.662.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-26", "file": "debates1984-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "52ad34e12eb35d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.662.2", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "re is no clear view with regard to FIS. I hope that the position will be resolved shortly by a tribunal of commissioners. I cannot, in the time available to me, cover all the detailed points which have been made in the debate. For once I found myself having some sympathy with the right hon. Member for Chesterfield (Mr. Benn)—and not just because of the slight sense that he had left the real world.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.662.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-26", "file": "debates1984-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "52ad34e12eb35d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.662.2", "colnum": "662", "heading": "Opposition Day", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "ion.] It was primarily because I think he may be right to complain that the House has not debated the miners' dispute sufficiently, but he would not be right if he tried to blame the Government for that. The reason why the miners' dispute as such has not been debated often is the same reason as that behind today's debate. The Opposition Front Bench do not want to debate the real issues of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.662.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-26", "file": "debates1984-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "52ad34e12eb35d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.676.2", "colnum": "676", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fowler", "preceding_text": "The information collected by the Department shows that the staff whom we have been able to survey believe that the statutory sick pay scheme is an improvement upon the other scheme. I shall ask my hon. Friend the Minister of State to provide the exact data on that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.676.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-26", "file": "debates1984-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "52ad34e12eb35d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.686.1", "colnum": "686", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McCrindle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McCrindle", "preceding_text": "That is a considerable defect. If my hon. Friend suggests that he will join me in pressing for a change in that proposal before a scheme is introduced, he will find a ready listener.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.686.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-26", "file": "debates1984-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "52ad34e12eb35d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "t, I shall not attempt to rehearse the grounds of the 5 per cent. abatement, except to make it clear to the House that the question of taxation remains for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but neither I nor my right hon. Friend have said that the question of taxation will be abandoned. On the contrary, it remains the view of the Government in principle that taxation of invalidity benefit is right.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-26", "file": "debates1984-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "52ad34e12eb35d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.710.1", "colnum": "710", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Social Security Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "ancellor of the Exchequer, but neither I nor my right hon. Friend have said that the question of taxation will be abandoned. On the contrary, it remains the view of the Government in principle that taxation of invalidity benefit is right. [Interruption.] It has been common ground that benefits of this kind should be taxable. That has been common ground between both Front Benches for a long period.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.710.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-26", "file": "debates1984-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "52ad34e12eb35d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": "on. Friend speaks about the coal industry, Conservative Members should not giggle, because he knows what he is talking about. That is why he understood the point that I was making. If there is less investment in Nottinghamshire, or elsewhere, the coal industry will inevitably contract. That is why my right hon. Friend got to his feet. He more or less underlined the point that I was trying to make.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-26", "file": "debates1984-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "52ad34e12eb35d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eadie", "preceding_text": " had limited reserves and it was expedient to close it, if it could be done by means of transfer to an adjacent pit, that would be done. How can anyone talk about the mining of mud when already in the negotiations three reasons for pit closures have been agreed? To say that the NUM has not moved in the negotiations is a travesty of the facts. The NUM has moved, and it is a matter of public record.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-26", "file": "debates1984-11-26a.xml", "sha256": "52ad34e12eb35d6f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.749.0", "colnum": "749", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Coal Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dick Douglas", "preceding_text": "ave not been able to get to the root of the problem and its issues. I have been on the picket lines and have told the men from my constituency and those of other hon. Members that the people going through the picket lines are not worth getting arrested for. I realise that the only secure weapon that my folk have is their unity. The NCB has sacked men because of their behaviour on the picket lines.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-26a.749.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-27", "file": "debates1984-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "15dfe916ded85db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-27a.766.7", "colnum": "766", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SOCIAL SERVICES", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Newton", "preceding_text": "The most effective action that the Government can take to help the long-term unemployed is to improve the prospects for employment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-27a.766.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-27", "file": "debates1984-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "15dfe916ded85db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-27a.778.6", "colnum": "778", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. McQuarrie", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my right hon. Friend will join the rest of the House in agreeing that the communiqu? issued this morning in Brussels with regard to the lifting of restrictions against the people of Gibraltar—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-27a.778.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-11-27", "file": "debates1984-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "15dfe916ded85db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-27a.791.3", "colnum": "791", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Disgraceful.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "You have had your speech, Jack.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-27a.791.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-27", "file": "debates1984-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "15dfe916ded85db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-27a.802.1", "colnum": "802", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "cue_text": "Hots. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wallace", "preceding_text": "viding urgent need to take social and environmental factors into account when deciding on an energy strategy. At the end of the debate I hope that the Minister will let us know what the Government's intentions are with regard to the commission on energy and the environment. If he cannot do so, then perhaps he will write to me and let me know the situation. I now wish to draw my remarks to a close—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-27a.802.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-27", "file": "debates1984-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "15dfe916ded85db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-27a.825.2", "colnum": "825", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Ian Gow)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Ian Gow)", "preceding_text": " which we believe the Government have an outstanding record and on which the Labour Government's record was not one of which they could be proud. My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State reminded the House of the keen interest which he and I take in motions for the Labour party conference. I studied the motions which were before the comrades when they were in Blackpool last month.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-27a.825.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-27", "file": "debates1984-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "15dfe916ded85db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-27a.841.6", "colnum": "841", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "I give way even to Tories on the other side.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-27a.841.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-27", "file": "debates1984-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "15dfe916ded85db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-27a.848.0", "colnum": "848", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Piers Merchant", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Rubbish.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Piers Merchant", "preceding_text": "h might have breathed life into the industry at the most critical moment. However, finally and never to be underestimated was the effect of industrial unrest that racked the Tyne yards. The irresponsibility and short-sightedness of union leaders are widely recognised on Tyneside as constituting one of the worst records that the region can summon up anywhere. Time and again delayed orders, strikes—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-27a.848.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-27", "file": "debates1984-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "15dfe916ded85db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-27a.869.4", "colnum": "869", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butcher", "preceding_text": "May I say to the hon. Gentleman that I have worked—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-27a.869.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-27", "file": "debates1984-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "15dfe916ded85db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-27a.887.0", "colnum": "887", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Litherland", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Litherland", "preceding_text": "es? Where is their consideration for council tenants who have to endure the misery of poorly-constructed, condensation-ridden properties which are expensive and difficult to heat? A lady came to see me because her husband was coming out of Christie hospital dying of cancer into a fungus-ridden flat in one of these system built properties. We had to bring in direct labour to modernise the property.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-27a.887.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-27", "file": "debates1984-11-27a.xml", "sha256": "15dfe916ded85db5", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-27a.901.2", "colnum": "901", "heading": "SUPPLY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "on of a specific saving has been £8 million on capital costs. Compared with the defence budget, that is peanuts. Even compared with the training budget of £340 million, it is not a large sum. The Ministry has failed to make the case that that money will be saved. The barracks are good barracks and have been invested in continually. Indeed, about £500,000 has been invested in them in the past year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-27a.901.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-28", "file": "debates1984-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "677e1c180949d421", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-28a.910.1", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "The advertising campaign in London on behalf of the GLC and ILEA is at the ratepayers' expense and is a scandalous waste of ratepayers' money. The GLC will be spending about £7 million this year, which Mr. Livingstone thinks is peanuts. We do not have that sort of money to spend and we would not be allowed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-28a.910.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-28", "file": "debates1984-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "677e1c180949d421", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-28a.910.5", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman brings considerable experience to the debate on this issue —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-28a.910.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-28", "file": "debates1984-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "677e1c180949d421", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-28a.910.8", "colnum": "910", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Simon Hughes", "preceding_text": "Does the Minister accept that the management consultants' report on the metropolitan counties says that the result of the Government's proposals will be to provide institutionalised conflict and a failure to co-ordinate—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-28a.910.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-28", "file": "debates1984-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "677e1c180949d421", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-28a.924.2", "colnum": "924", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — ENVIRONMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "preceding_text": "Why have not the capital receipts from the sale of over 600,000 council homes been recycled into rebuilding? Is not the truth that the Treasury has virtually stolen £3 billion to £4 billion of capital receipts —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-28a.924.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-28", "file": "debates1984-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "677e1c180949d421", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-28a.942.5", "colnum": "942", "heading": "Regional Industrial Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has an 18th-century attitude to these things. He thinks that money should be doled out on the basis of political pork barrelling and nothing else.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-28a.942.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-28", "file": "debates1984-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "677e1c180949d421", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-28a.944.3", "colnum": "944", "heading": "Regional Industrial Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is true.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "That is very dramatic language —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-28a.944.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-28", "file": "debates1984-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "677e1c180949d421", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-28a.948.1", "colnum": "948", "heading": "Regional Industrial Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stephen Ross", "preceding_text": "Did the Minister even consider the case of the Isle of Wight? Does he appreciate the problems of an offshore island? Does he know that in some parts of the constituency male unemployment is over 30 per cent.?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-28a.948.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-28", "file": "debates1984-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "677e1c180949d421", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-28a.949.2", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Regional Industrial Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is being somewhat unfair. Merseyside emerges relatively well from the changes that have been announced. Liverpool retains its SDA status and the partnership—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-28a.949.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-28", "file": "debates1984-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "677e1c180949d421", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-28a.949.4", "colnum": "949", "heading": "Regional Industrial Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lamont", "preceding_text": "ake any sense to raise that percentage to 40 or 45 per cent. It would be nonsense to have almost half the country covered by assisted area status. Even taking account of its location and of peripherality, it is difficult to make out a case for the travel-to-work area which covers my hon. Friend's constituency. I appreciate my hon. Friend's feelings about the composition of the travel-to-work area.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-28a.949.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-28", "file": "debates1984-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "677e1c180949d421", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-28a.952.13", "colnum": "952", "heading": "Regional Industrial Policy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "the House will be occupied by 20 Members at the most and that for the votes there will be about 120 against 14, and that the Bill itself is nothing more than a dog's dinner, would it not make sense—just a little sense — to give another half an hour to allow hon. Members to make their points? I have not been rising in my place because I have been to another meeting, exercising some influence there—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-28a.952.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-28", "file": "debates1984-11-28a.xml", "sha256": "677e1c180949d421", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-28a.971.3", "colnum": "971", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Elections (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Rev. Ian Paisley", "preceding_text": "st, West, the Foyle, Mid-Ulster and perhaps Fermanagh and South Tyrone, It could not possibly be done. I have had some experience both as an election agent for the Official Unionist party and as a candidate for my own party. The idea that it is possible to turn out in the morning, run thousands of people through the polls and personate them is ridiculous. It cannot be done. There are limits to it—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-28a.971.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-29", "file": "debates1984-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "33aa3ee90d512444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1086.4", "colnum": "1086", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lofthouse", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lofthouse", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that yesterday's statement on regional policy will have a devastating effect on many communities? Is she further aware that it is another kick in the teeth for the mining communities, especially in west Yorkshire and the Castleford travel-to-work area—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1086.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-29", "file": "debates1984-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "33aa3ee90d512444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1086.7", "colnum": "1086", "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 it was a disgraceful demonstration, which stopped traffic, ambulances and fire engines, and undermined any sympathy that some people may have for the students.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1086.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-29", "file": "debates1984-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "33aa3ee90d512444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1087.0", "colnum": "1087", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "As the right hon. Gentleman knows, the total available for regional aid covers a larger area than it did previously—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1087.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-29", "file": "debates1984-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "33aa3ee90d512444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1088.2", "colnum": "1088", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "Unlike pre-war Germany, this country has a totally independent system of the rule of law.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1088.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-29", "file": "debates1984-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "33aa3ee90d512444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1096.2", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Lybrand.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "As the inquiry by the five accountants headed by Cooper and others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1096.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-29", "file": "debates1984-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "33aa3ee90d512444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1106.8", "colnum": "1106", "heading": "Supplementary Benefit (Board and Lodging)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Aitken", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jonathan Aitken", "preceding_text": "Will my right hon. Friend accept congratulations on taking such swift steps to end a racket—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1106.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-29", "file": "debates1984-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "33aa3ee90d512444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1109.6", "colnum": "1109", "heading": "Skillcentres", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "The proposals of the Skillcentre Training Agency include a massive provision for mobile instructors.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1109.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-29", "file": "debates1984-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "33aa3ee90d512444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1110.5", "colnum": "1110", "heading": "Skillcentres", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman knows perfectly well that if funds are used, perhaps to fund a deficit which is likely to be caused by the cost of maintaining buildings that are under-utilised and providing new buildings, that money will be denied to people for training in more appropriate tasks. That is the reality.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1110.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-29", "file": "debates1984-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "33aa3ee90d512444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1112.2", "colnum": "1112", "heading": "Skillcentres", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman has even begun to look at the proposals, or whether he knows, for example, that a substantial increase is proposed in the training for people in his area, as in others—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1112.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-29", "file": "debates1984-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "33aa3ee90d512444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1113.5", "colnum": "1113", "heading": "Skillcentres", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Forth", "preceding_text": "Although I understand, and indeed support, the thrust of this policy in seeking increased effectiveness and value for money in the training effort, I regret that the skillcentre in Redditch in my constituency is one of those to be closed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1113.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-29", "file": "debates1984-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "33aa3ee90d512444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1115.3", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Skillcentres", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Barry Sheerman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Barry Sheerman", "preceding_text": "uth, that is the truth. The statement means the end of skill training. Will the Secretary of State promise us that we shall have a full debate on the matter in the near future? The Opposition will not take this lying down, but will fight it every inch of the way. This presents a real cut and genuine deprivation of opportunities for our people. It means no skills, no tech and no jobs in the future.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1115.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-29", "file": "debates1984-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "33aa3ee90d512444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1116.0", "colnum": "1116", "heading": "Skillcentres", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friends took the words out of my mouth when they said that that was a little over the top. It was well over the top.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1116.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-29", "file": "debates1984-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "33aa3ee90d512444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1136.0", "colnum": "1136", "heading": "The Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edward du Cann", "preceding_text": "my living in industry, and always have done during the years that I have been in the House. I do so partly because I value my independence and partly because I believe that, if it is possible for an hon. Member to be active in business, he may prove to be a better judge of many practical matters which are discussed in the House, such as taxes, trade and many aspects of commerce and administration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1136.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-29", "file": "debates1984-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "33aa3ee90d512444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1179.3", "colnum": "1179", "heading": "The Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is the right hon. Gentleman?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "ery firm view is that an independent nuclear deterrent must form part of our defence strategy. If we are to have a nuclear deterrent, it must be at the front of the state of the art—in other words, as up to date as it can be. In that respect, the views of the right hon. Member for Plymouth, Devonport (Dr. Owen) are futile. As my hon. Friend the Member for Plymouth, Drake (Miss Fookes) pointed out—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1179.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-29", "file": "debates1984-11-29a.xml", "sha256": "33aa3ee90d512444", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1180.1", "colnum": "1180", "heading": "The Royal Navy", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Butler", "preceding_text": "ompetitive tender than other forms of equipment, but we need to have arrangements whereby subcontract work is done as competitively as possible. About 76 per cent. of the subcontracts and supplies for the type 23 will be subject to competitive tender. That is why I am able to say in confidence that, compared with previous experience, I would expect the costs of the type 23 to be better maintained.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-29a.1180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-30", "file": "debates1984-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "971e0e83c2ad785a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-30a.1225.1", "colnum": "1225", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "The lady who is drinking secretly in that fashion is perhaps doing so because she cannot, for one reason or another, accompany her husband to the public house or club. Indeed, that is an illustration of the strain under which many people are living. But my hon. Friend has put his finger on an extremely important point that I shall develop later.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-30a.1225.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-30", "file": "debates1984-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "971e0e83c2ad785a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-30a.1226.2", "colnum": "1226", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Bernard Braine", "preceding_text": "o devastating reports on the subject were published: one by the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and the other by the Government's Think Tank, which set out the facts but was supressed. The first report was ignored and the second was suppressed. I know about the second report because it was leaked and published in Sweden. My hon. Friend the Member for Watford (Mr. Garel-Jones) will testify to that—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-30a.1226.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-11-30", "file": "debates1984-11-30a.xml", "sha256": "971e0e83c2ad785a", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-30a.1256.1", "colnum": "1256", "heading": "PRAYERS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mellor", "preceding_text": "lingham is involved my hope may become an expectation — that at the end of their deliberations they will reach a unanimous view which they can demonstrate has widespread support. As so often in the past on other issues, the trade has weakened the impact of its proposals because it appears to be hopelessly divided on key issues. To coin a phrase, a public house divided against itself cannot stand —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-11-30a.1256.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-03", "file": "debates1984-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "afa2fed413132e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.9.7", "colnum": "9", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRANSPORT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"What about ordinary people?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bidwell", "preceding_text": "s reduced in periods of fuel shortage and subsequently raised again there is a substantial effect on the accident rate? Although the percentage of accidents on motorways is smaller, due to the absence of traffic lights and other hazards, does the hon. Lady agree that when accidents occur they are severe and that important people are killed who are often not responsible for the dangers which exist?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.9.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-03", "file": "debates1984-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "afa2fed413132e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.29.5", "colnum": "29", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "overnment have unhesitatingly chosen. We believe that local government should be local. We see no place for a two-tier structure in London, or in the metropolitan counties. That was why, in our 1983 manifesto, we committed ourselves to abolishing those councils. As I said a moment ago, we have yet to hear which of those options the Opposition would choose. Why have they been so shifty and evasive?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.29.5"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-12-03", "file": "debates1984-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "afa2fed413132e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.33.3", "colnum": "33", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way. He is a former Home Secretary.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.33.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-03", "file": "debates1984-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "afa2fed413132e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.35.6", "colnum": "35", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "Indeed, there will be an upper limit on the total amount of the precept.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.35.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-03", "file": "debates1984-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "afa2fed413132e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.36.1", "colnum": "36", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, in opposing the Bill, the Opposition owe it to the House to come clean on what their policy is. If they have no policy, let them at least base their opposition on what is in the Bill and not on the myths that have been plastered over all the hoardings in London and the metropolitan counties. The Opposition say that abolition is pure party spite —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.36.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-03", "file": "debates1984-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "afa2fed413132e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Let me say absolutely unequivocally, as was made clear at the Labour party conference a few weeks ago, that the Labour party is committed to preserving under democratic control the achievements and strategic functions in the management of local government services. That is quite specific—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-03", "file": "debates1984-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "afa2fed413132e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.40.1", "colnum": "40", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "ment of local government services. That is quite specific— [Interruption.] Lest the Conservative Government be in any doubt, let me add that there is no chance that the Labour party will cobble together some last-minute attack on local government, even Tory local government, and include that in its manifesto without a proper review and study of the functions and contributions of local government —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.40.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-03", "file": "debates1984-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "afa2fed413132e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.55.0", "colnum": "55", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Heddle", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Heddle", "preceding_text": "ds. I venture to suggest that if more hon. Members had his courage, the hon. Member for Denton and Reddish (Mr. Bennett) would not have needed to remind the House that many city councils since the war have gone far to the Left and have come into the clutches of the Marxist-led Labour party and my right hon. Friend would not have found it necessary to introduce the Bill today to protect ratepayers.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.55.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-03", "file": "debates1984-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "afa2fed413132e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.57.5", "colnum": "57", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heddle", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heddle", "preceding_text": "I beg the hon. Gentleman's pardon. I am sure that it is only a matter of time one way or the other. He gazed into his party's crystal ball and gave a firm commitment about the way in which his party would decide at the next election to restore some form of strategic and accountable tier to local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.57.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-03", "file": "debates1984-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "afa2fed413132e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.71.4", "colnum": "71", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Fred Silvester", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Fred Silvester", "preceding_text": "It is important to recognise that the change in the funding of these bodies is of great value. Unfortunately, much of this debate has been conducted to stimulate fear about what will happen. Some of the comments have been disreputable, just like the leaflet which asks, \"Do you want a state-controlled police force?\" That was put out by the GMC'. No one could justify the statements in that document—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.71.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-03", "file": "debates1984-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "afa2fed413132e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.80.2", "colnum": "80", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Thornton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Thornton", "preceding_text": " the services being operated. It is also important to recognise, as my hon. Friend the Member for Bury St. Edmunds (Mr. Griffiths) said, that we have not got it right in the past because we have limited the scope of the reviews that we have undertaken. I make no apology for saying that the time has come —I hope that this review will do it—to look at the structures, the finances and the functions —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.80.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-03", "file": "debates1984-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "afa2fed413132e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.89.0", "colnum": "89", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Page", "preceding_text": "orough councils. I am sorry that the hon. Member for Copeland (Dr. Cunningham) is not in the Chamber, because I thought that he made the wittiest and most well-turned speech from the Opposition Front Bench that I have heard in many a long year. But it was full of hatred of the boroughs. He had no trust whatever in them. He said that the only safeguard lay in the GLC and the metropolitan counties —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.89.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-03", "file": "debates1984-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "afa2fed413132e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.90.3", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Page", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Normanton (Mr. O'Brien) is the next door neighbour of the hon. Member for Pontefract and Castleford (Mr. Lofthouse), and I shall refer to the speech of the hon. Member for Normanton first.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.90.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-03", "file": "debates1984-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "afa2fed413132e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.90.5", "colnum": "90", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Page", "preceding_text": "omfortable to me—this is the sort of Oxford group stuff—than the attitudes of my old Conservative friends who have served on the GLC for many years. They are sad about the demise of an organisatiion that they have served well, and for which they have great respect and affection. Hardly any of them want the GLC to continue as it is. They would be happy to have a much smaller residual GLC mark two —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.90.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-03", "file": "debates1984-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "afa2fed413132e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.91.1", "colnum": "91", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Page", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Page", "preceding_text": "I entirely agree, Mr. Deputy Speaker, but the applause of Opposition Members has lengthened my speech rather unnecessarily. London does not need a great central figure, because it already has one —the Lord Mayor of London —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.91.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-03", "file": "debates1984-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "afa2fed413132e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.122.1", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "ation service in the country and makes generous provision for pupils with special education needs. The examination results—I take the Secretary of State's test—in 1983 were the best since 1978. The DES statistical officer has confirmed that if proper account is taken of background factors, ILEA's school leavers performed significantly better on almost every account than might have been predicted —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.122.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-03", "file": "debates1984-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "afa2fed413132e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.124.1", "colnum": "124", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Radice", "preceding_text": "I do not know whether the hon. Gentleman was here earlier today —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.124.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-03", "file": "debates1984-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "afa2fed413132e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.125.0", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Science (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Science (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "I had expected a longer peroration than that from the hon. Member for Durham, North (Mr. Radice). I was in at the birth of the GLC. I inherited a Bill drafted by my predecessor and steered it through the House. Now I am assisting at the obsequies of ILEA.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-03", "file": "debates1984-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "afa2fed413132e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.125.0", "colnum": "125", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Science (Sir Keith Joseph)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Education and Science (Sir Keith Joseph)", "preceding_text": "birth have, by decision of this House, been removed from it. The GLC that was brought into existence 21 years ago was a very different animal, with far wider powers, from the GLC that the Government are now seeking to terminate. The support from the Conservative Benches for the Bill in its entirety — the abolition of the GLC and the metropolitan county councils—has been very robust and articulate.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.125.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-03", "file": "debates1984-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "afa2fed413132e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.127.3", "colnum": "127", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "With respect, that question has no connection with the Bill whatsoever. If the expenditure of the GLC on education and transport is omitted, 95 per cent. of its current spending on service delivery goes to the boroughs. This is a decentralising and democratic Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.127.3"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-03", "file": "debates1984-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "afa2fed413132e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.128.5", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "I shall answer all the questions, if I can.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.128.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-03", "file": "debates1984-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "afa2fed413132e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.128.5", "colnum": "128", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Clause 63.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "f I am given time. The hon. Member for Durham, North went so far, with no justification whatsoever, as to say that although the Government had declared their intention to maintain ILEA, though in a directly elected form, we are muzzling it as a decision-making authority. He quoted three clauses, of which one was the clause to which the hon. Gentleman refers. The first was clause 64, which follows—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.128.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-03", "file": "debates1984-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "afa2fed413132e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.130.1", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hooray.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "arable problems. ILEA spends per pupil 29 per cent. more than Manchester, 30 per cent. more than Newcastle, 31 per cent. more than Sheffield, 54 per cent. more than Bradford and 59 per cent. more than Birmingham. All of them have much the same problems as ILEA, but ILEA's expenditure is extravagant. I shall give the House some examples. It has not increased the charges for school meals since 1981.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.130.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-03", "file": "debates1984-12-03a.xml", "sha256": "afa2fed413132e4b", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.130.7", "colnum": "130", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Keith Joseph", "preceding_text": "ar. With a little effort, such as increases in school meal charges and adult education charges in suitable cases, a little more control of energy, and the £8 million, which the hon. Member for Durham, North rightly says that the director of education says could be saved without any damage to education, ILEA could, without difficulty, save the £55 million that is needed with no damage to education.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-03a.130.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-04", "file": "debates1984-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "676e705a8ebe2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.158.6", "colnum": "158", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — EDUCATION AND SCIENCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Mackay", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Mackay", "preceding_text": "As my right hon. Friend must be aware from that massive number of representations, in many cases there will be real and sudden hardship. Would it not be prudent now to withdraw these ill-conceived proposals —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.158.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-04", "file": "debates1984-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "676e705a8ebe2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.169.5", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman raises a fair and highly topical point. I believe that our record of assistance to Ethiopia in the emergent circumstances of the past few months is wholly admirable.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.169.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-04", "file": "debates1984-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "676e705a8ebe2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.178.3", "colnum": "178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": " Houghton and Washington (Mr. Boyes) expressed concern yesterday about its future when the county council is abolished. He need have no fears. The PTE will continue to run the metro; it will be responsible to a joint board of districts, as it was under the 1968 Act. Of course, the metro will have to face open competition from bus operators, but that will give it a real opportunity to prove itself.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.178.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-04", "file": "debates1984-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "676e705a8ebe2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.181.0", "colnum": "181", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "ward is that such and such will encourage efficiency. Thirdly, and much more importantly, the Bill is a sign of the concern—or rather the lack of it—that the Government feel for those who voted them into power. On all the three tests, the Bill is a clear sign that the Government have failed. One could almost feel a certain amount of sympathy for the Secretary of State for the Environment because —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.181.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-04", "file": "debates1984-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "676e705a8ebe2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.182.0", "colnum": "182", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Patrick Jenkin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Patrick Jenkin)", "preceding_text": "I may have news for the hon. Lady, because I took part in the year-long discussions before the election which led to this commitment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.182.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-04", "file": "debates1984-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "676e705a8ebe2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.187.1", "colnum": "187", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Dunwoody", "preceding_text": "Many old people will find themselves trapped in their homes if they are deprived of their concessionary fares.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.187.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-04", "file": "debates1984-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "676e705a8ebe2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.212.4", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Shame\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "Members who smarted under him in regard to the EEC, for example. So I do not want to hear him dissociate himself in that way. It is interesting to see my right hon. Friend's new-found interest in London and London's local government. I found his personal attack upon my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport one of the lowest points that I have encountered in 14 years in this House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.212.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-04", "file": "debates1984-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "676e705a8ebe2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.212.4", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": " courts to get some sort of justice if they object to what is being proposed by a loony council such as Lambeth. Hampstead heath is an issue on which I feel deeply. As my hon. Friend knows, I have made representations to him and his right hon. Friend since \"Streamlining the Cities\" was produced. I do not believe that Hampstead heath can be taken over by the boroughs of Camden, Barnet and Haringey.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.212.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-04", "file": "debates1984-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "676e705a8ebe2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.212.4", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "our Members, I have always said that a variety of options are possible. I think that the best option is the one that I put to my right hon. Friend—that Lord Montagu's Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission ought to have the rest of Hampstead heath, along with Kenwood. I remind the House that those responsible for Kenwood, not those in the present GLC who try to flog off some of its treasures—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.212.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-04", "file": "debates1984-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "676e705a8ebe2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.212.4", "colnum": "212", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": ", it is very necessary for the Secretary of State to have control over the budgets of the new authorities for the first three years in order to stop the nonsense that, for example, took place in Camden under the reorganisation of London local government, when we ended up with three town clerks, three borough treasurers and a couple of engineers. That is the sort of nonsense that has to be stopped.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.212.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-04", "file": "debates1984-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "676e705a8ebe2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.214.1", "colnum": "214", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way\".", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "Then there is the issue of the Londonwide bodies.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.214.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-04", "file": "debates1984-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "676e705a8ebe2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.216.3", "colnum": "216", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Smith", "preceding_text": "I do not view them with the same apprehension as some of my colleagues. I am, however, apprehensive about the representation of minorities on those joint boards, especially police committees. I hope that the Minister will take on board this extremely important point. I believe that there should be some mechanism within the Bill to enable representation on police committees of certain minorities. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.216.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-04", "file": "debates1984-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "676e705a8ebe2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.258.1", "colnum": "258", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "new structure. I shall give another riveting example of the powers which were used by Socialist Ministers, as they laid certain orders under these powers. One provided that for: The Rural District Council of Chipping Sodbury and the Parish Meetings of Chipping Sodbury, Old Sodbury and Little Sodbury\", there shall he substituted The District Council of Northavon and the Parish Meetings of Sodbury —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.258.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-04", "file": "debates1984-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "676e705a8ebe2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.261.2", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "I turn now to the metropolitan counties. In doing so, may I ask the hon. Member for Copeland to clarify now the Labour party policy on the metropolitan county councils?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.261.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-04", "file": "debates1984-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "676e705a8ebe2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.261.3", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Why should the right hon. Gentleman think that we are defensive about our commitment to return services to democratic control?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.261.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-04", "file": "debates1984-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "676e705a8ebe2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.261.3", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Why should the right hon. Gentleman think that we are defensive about our commitment to return services to democratic control? [HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"] Why should the right hon. Gentleman think that we are defensive in not rushing into a commitment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.261.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-04", "file": "debates1984-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "676e705a8ebe2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.261.3", "colnum": "261", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "uld the right hon. Gentleman think that we are defensive in not rushing into a commitment — [Interruption.] — to re-establish the status quo? I am not at all defensive about that. Why does the right hon. Gentleman think that, after six, seven or eight years of this Government undermining local democracy and local democratic control, we shall act in the way that they have acted and cobble together—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.261.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-04", "file": "debates1984-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "676e705a8ebe2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.262.0", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "All Opposition Members from the metropolitan counties who have spoken in the past two days—not the hon. Member for Rochdale (Mr. Smith), who is in favour of the abolition of the Greater Manchester council—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.262.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-04", "file": "debates1984-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "676e705a8ebe2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.262.1", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear\".", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Cunningham", "preceding_text": "Not only will I not rat on party policy, as the right hon. Gentleman has done, but I will not rat on former leaders of my party either.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.262.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-04", "file": "debates1984-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "676e705a8ebe2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.262.2", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has not answered the question—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.262.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-04", "file": "debates1984-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "676e705a8ebe2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.262.6", "colnum": "262", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"You have taken it away\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "be on the basis of one-man, one-vote. He will, in fact, be selected by a caucus of a minority. Where is the democracy in that? Hon. Members have asked me during the debate: what is the role for the GLC? Is there a strategic role for the GLC? I say only this to them. Over the years in the debates on the GLC everyone has been searching for a role. In fact, from 1964 the GLC lost power after power. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.262.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-04", "file": "debates1984-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "676e705a8ebe2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.283.0", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "preceding_text": " examples of shoddy toys. In the past year alone, that department has caused 22,000 visits to be made to trade establishments, resulting in the finding of 6,500 infringements of safety and other legislation. Such things as kids' toys are affected. If the Bill is enacted and the consumer services are split up between the seven district councils in the west midlands, that same level of penetration —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-04", "file": "debates1984-12-04a.xml", "sha256": "676e705a8ebe2bf7", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.283.0", "colnum": "283", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill [Money]", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dave Nellist", "preceding_text": " will not be able to continue. The results will be simple. There will either be a rise in fares or a cut in services, with a consequent loss of jobs. The existence of special services for the hospitals and the disabled will be under threat. But at the top of the list will be the most loss-making route in the whole of the west midlands. It is in Coventry and is called the Coventry Easyrider route.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-04a.283.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-05", "file": "debates1984-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c85f6f6a2b75c19d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-05a.342.3", "colnum": "342", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — SCOTLAND", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maxton", "preceding_text": "true facts about the viability of pits instead of the nonsense that it has talked so far? Is he aware of the report that I have in my hand, and which is marked \"Confidential\"? In it, five leading accountants, including two professors of accountancy, show quite clearly that the facts and figures that the NCB has used so far are utter nonsense? Will he go back to the negotiating table on that basis?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-05a.342.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-05", "file": "debates1984-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c85f6f6a2b75c19d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-05a.353.1", "colnum": "353", "heading": "European Council (Dublin)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "here. It is a combined effort between the Community and its member states. The right hon. Member will be aware that member states have been very active on their own behalf in helping Ethiopia, as well as within the Community. The text on financial budgetary discipline is binding on the Council itself, but it is not being embodied into a treaty or technically — legally — into the budgetary process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-05a.353.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-05", "file": "debates1984-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c85f6f6a2b75c19d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-05a.357.3", "colnum": "357", "heading": "European Council (Dublin)", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "I recognise no similarity. The right hon. Gentleman has reason to know that the United Kingdom is still a substantial net contributor to the Community —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-05a.357.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-05", "file": "debates1984-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c85f6f6a2b75c19d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-05a.365.13", "colnum": "365", "heading": "Student Awards", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No—ask him.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Eric S. Heffer", "preceding_text": "As someone who is not renowned for causing any trouble in the House, may I tell the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-05a.365.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-05", "file": "debates1984-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c85f6f6a2b75c19d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-05a.376.4", "colnum": "376", "heading": "Student Awards", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "s on any parts of the expenditure within the Scottish block have yet been finalised. Therefore, this is merely one other part of the series of decisions that are being taken by my hon. Friends and myself within the Scottish block. May I confirm what my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House said? I shall be making a statement to the House when the full implications of the whole Scottish block —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-05a.376.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-05", "file": "debates1984-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c85f6f6a2b75c19d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-05a.377.1", "colnum": "377", "heading": "Student Awards", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Younger", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Of course I am sorry if any misleading impression was given by me or anyone else. I did not imagine that the right hon. Member for Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale (Mr. Steel) would be expecting anything in detail until the Scottish public expenditure was settled.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-05a.377.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-05", "file": "debates1984-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c85f6f6a2b75c19d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-05a.408.0", "colnum": "408", "heading": "Hong Kong", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Temple-Morris", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Temple-Morris", "preceding_text": " or the reason for its success. There are great dangers in undue speed. Those who advocate speed, such as the radicals, pressure groups and Hong Kong observers, perhaps strike some of us as being rather too western-oriented for comfort, and perhaps not the ideal people to advocate a lasting system beyond 1997. I am not deriding democracy. I am merely observing that it is necessary to be practical.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-05a.408.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-05", "file": "debates1984-12-05a.xml", "sha256": "c85f6f6a2b75c19d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-05a.453.0", "colnum": "453", "heading": "Hong Kong", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Paddy Ashdown", "preceding_text": "t issue in the Queen's Speech. I suggest that it may well be the greatest issue that this House has dealt with in the past 20 or 30 years. We are handing over the future and the rights of 5 million people to a Government from whom many of them have fled. They all remain deeply concerned about the future. We have never done such a thing before. We have never been faced with such a sense of concern.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-05a.453.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.485.7", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister not ashamed of the United Kingdom's conspicuous placing in the world's coronary league? The separate countries of the United Kingdom—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.485.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.485.7", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister not ashamed of the United Kingdom's conspicuous placing in the world's coronary league? The separate countries of the United Kingdom—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"]—are in three of the top five places for males —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.485.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.485.7", "colnum": "485", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister not ashamed of the United Kingdom's conspicuous placing in the world's coronary league? The separate countries of the United Kingdom—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"]—are in three of the top five places for males — [HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"]—I am going to say it anyway. And in two —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.485.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.486.2", "colnum": "486", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Reading.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cohen", "preceding_text": "I am going to have my say, because this is an important matter. Does, the Minister share the concern of the medical profession for Government action to improve food quality?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.486.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.492.11", "colnum": "492", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Duffy", "preceding_text": "As the Prime Minister ponders the implications of yesterday's shabby U-turn in favour of the better-off, has it not occurred to her that any future indication by her of the Tory spirit of one nation must serve only to highlight her own entrenched position on unemployment? \"There is no alternative\", as she puts it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.492.11"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.493.0", "colnum": "493", "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 clearly worked very hard at that question, although I think he lost his way a good deal long before he came to a conclusion. I thought that yesterday's statement was received rather well.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.493.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.493.1", "colnum": "493", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Lewis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Kenneth Lewis", "preceding_text": "Does my right hon. Friend agree that, contrary to what has just been said, and contrary to what was said in the press this morning, the decision yesterday on student grants enhanced the reputation of her right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Education and Science?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.493.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.495.3", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman regards the matter of coal merely as one of accounting—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.495.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.495.3", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman regards the matter of coal merely as one of accounting—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—and thinks that it can all be done with mirrors, he will be happy if we eliminate the £1·3 billion a year subsidy to the National Coal Board. That is not a matter of accounting, but a matter of fact —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.495.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.495.3", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "If the hon. Gentleman regards the matter of coal merely as one of accounting—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—and thinks that it can all be done with mirrors, he will be happy if we eliminate the £1·3 billion a year subsidy to the National Coal Board. That is not a matter of accounting, but a matter of fact — [Interruption.] It is plain that that is a matter of fact.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.495.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.495.3", "colnum": "495", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": " MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"]—and thinks that it can all be done with mirrors, he will be happy if we eliminate the £1·3 billion a year subsidy to the National Coal Board. That is not a matter of accounting, but a matter of fact — [Interruption.] It is plain that that is a matter of fact. [Interruption.] I am talking about the £1·3 billion of taxpayers' money. Regarding the accounts at Cortonwood", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.495.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.505.7", "colnum": "505", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON MEMBERS: \"Why not\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I think that the five academic accountants are to be elevated to the status of the Tolpuddle martyrs in the mythology of some Opposition Members. I can say only that no provision has been made for a parliamentary debate on the matter next week.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.505.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.507.6", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "I shall draw the attention of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the hon. Gentleman's point. It is just conceivable that this document, which is about to become part of the New Testament, is not as compelling in its reasoning as has been suggested. Those who are concerned to bring about an early termination of the coal dispute—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.507.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.507.6", "colnum": "507", "heading": "Business of the House", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "tention of my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the hon. Gentleman's point. It is just conceivable that this document, which is about to become part of the New Testament, is not as compelling in its reasoning as has been suggested. Those who are concerned to bring about an early termination of the coal dispute— [Interruption.] When hon. Members have stopped trying to shout down—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.507.6"}
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{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.512.6", "colnum": "512", "heading": "Student Awards (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Another PhD?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. George Foulkes", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.512.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.514.1", "colnum": "514", "heading": "Student Awards (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where is Steel?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Malcolm Bruce", "preceding_text": "First, I welcome the statement on behalf of my colleagues. I remind the Secretary of State that it should have come yesterday. It is being made today only because of protests from the Opposition Benches—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.514.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.518.3", "colnum": "518", "heading": "Student Awards (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Maxton", "preceding_text": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I apologise for delaying the House again, but in answer to the question by the hon. Member for Gordon (Mr. Bruce), the Secretary of State said that statements in the House were a matter for yourself and the House.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.518.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.521.3", "colnum": "521", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "edial action. President Reagan made it clear only yesterday that he intends to take further action to cut the deficit. Labour Members, wo seem to persist in the delusion that the American budget deficit is a blessing that we in Britain should seek to emulate, might listen to the views of the man who has to grapple with it—the American Treasury Secretary, Mr. Don Regan. Speaking only last weekend —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.521.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.523.3", "colnum": "523", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "ver the group of Ministers or Departments involved and whatever the forum or setting, there can be no magic mechanism for setting priorities within and between programmes. However detailed the factual basis provided by the officials and however sophisticated the analysis of output and performance for the programme concerned, in the end there has to be a political judgment and a political decision.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.523.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.525.2", "colnum": "525", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is your right hon. Friend.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "iate size of the public sector borrowing requirement. The real and important question to which all Governments must address themselves, however, is whether on the basis of existing definitions the PSBR is too high or too low or, perhaps, at the right level. I note that the Select Committee is silent on that, although no doubt we shall be hearing the views of its Chairman, the right hon. Gentleman—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.525.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.530.0", "colnum": "530", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Roy Hattersley", "preceding_text": "£430 million, thus holding the cut in council house building to the figure that the Chancellor pretends it will be. According to a parliamentary answer from the Department of the Environment, quite the opposite is possible. The answer given on 9 November states that receipts from the sale of council houses have begun to decline. That is not surprising. The first flush of enthusiasm to buy is over.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.530.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.533.1", "colnum": "533", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "ties which are more important to him than, for instance, a building programme which would sustain a higher level of employment. His hon. Friend the Member for Macclesfield (Mr. Winterton) urged upon him a spending programme for capital projects. The Chancellor blandly — indeed, fatuously—replied that capital spending programmes are to be commended only if what the money is spent on is worth while.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.533.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.536.3", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "es not understand that, no wonder the country is in the mess that it is. The second solution to unemployment, to which I hope the Chief Secretary will pay particular attention, was offered by the noble Lord Young on Tuesday. The solution that he offered to the National Federation of Building Trades Employers was the abolition of supplementary benefit for young people between the ages of 16 and 18.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.536.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.538.0", "colnum": "538", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "s speech was described extensively in the Financial Times . It was dealt with in that paper's first leader. Lord Young asked the question: Is it right that we should pay young people for doing nothing? The only possible conclusion one could draw from that question was his intention to remove supplementary benefit. That is what the Financial Times says he meant, and that is what I believe he meant.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.538.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.579.2", "colnum": "579", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "ht hon. Member for Hertsmere, who I thought used to be an accountant, does not understand the autumn statement. Clearly, the right hon. Member for Hertsmere and the hon. Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Wainwright) have not read the autumn statement as carefully as they should have done. They thought that the £1·5 billion would be used to raise the tax threshold under the Rooker-Wise amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.579.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.583.1", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "ttend a debate if he wishes to intervene in the windup speeches. I shall not give way to anyone else who was not present during the debate. The Labour party advocated the abolition of its national insurance surcharge. It is true that it was introduced by a Labour Government at a time of crisis. The Labour party gave a higher priority to its abolition than was given to it by the Conservative party.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.583.1", "colnum": "583", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davis", "preceding_text": "bour Government at a time of crisis. The Labour party gave a higher priority to its abolition than was given to it by the Conservative party. [Interruption.] I will not be pushed from the point. We advocated its abolition, and if we had done it, we would have made sure that local authorities had the benefit as well as privately owned industry, in order to avoid low-paid people paying higher rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.583.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.587.4", "colnum": "587", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "pe that I may come to it in due course. She fails to observe that over the past four years the country has managed to increase its gross domestic product by 2·5 per cent. on average. I am aware that the hon. Lady and the right hon. Member for Birmingham, Sparkbrook (Mr. Hattersley) find it hard to accept those facts, but I hope that we can at least debate those issues on some common ground.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.587.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.591.1", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman must contain himself with patience. Let me remind him—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.591.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.591.5", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I have never made the assertions that the right hon. Gentleman has. I know my limitations.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.591.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.591.5", "colnum": "591", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Stand up.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "e told that he would turn in due course to the policies that he would propose to the country if he were Chancellor of the Exchequer. It may be that I dozed off, but none of my hon. Friends can tell me what exactly those policies were. I will very readily give way to the right hon. Gentleman if he will tell me just one thing. By how much, if he were Chancellor, would he increase the planning total?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.591.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.592.1", "colnum": "592", "heading": "Autumn Statement", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Next year?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "I have said that in due course we hope to move to zero inflation.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.592.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Elections (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": "As before, Mr. Deputy Speaker, I have to point out that the Bill will be extended by order to be applied to proportional representation elections at two levels in Northern Ireland — at local level and at Assembly level. Therefore, what we say about proportional representation —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-06", "file": "debates1984-12-06a.xml", "sha256": "87706aa369c22cc2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.630.1", "colnum": "630", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Elections (Northern Ireland) Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ross", "preceding_text": " out that the Bill will be extended by order to be applied to proportional representation elections at two levels in Northern Ireland — at local level and at Assembly level. Therefore, what we say about proportional representation — [Interruption.] And, of course, to the European election. I was forgetting about that. I dislike the European election so much that I rarely give it any consideration.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-06a.630.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-07", "file": "debates1984-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "659d07838f9abdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-07a.658.4", "colnum": "658", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bevan", "preceding_text": "nternal air fares that must come about. We must also be aware of the vast advantages of conference tourism. Birmingham demonstrates the great role that the cities will play in providing for conference and business tourism. The number of international meetings held in Britain has increased by nearly 80 per cent. in 10 years. Birmingham was able to host the international Rotary convention this year—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-07a.658.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-07", "file": "debates1984-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "659d07838f9abdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-07a.663.0", "colnum": "663", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Sir John Wells", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir John Wells", "preceding_text": "e that those parts of the home counties with interests and features to offer visitors and tourists should put their best foot forward. London hotels are, lamentably, far too expensive. Just a few miles out of London there are hotels in my constituency and elsewhere which are nearly as good and a great deal cheaper. I urge overseas visitors to sleep out of London and see some of our local beauties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-07a.663.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-07", "file": "debates1984-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "659d07838f9abdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-07a.696.0", "colnum": "696", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"He is the only Labour Member here.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "My first point—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-07a.696.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-07", "file": "debates1984-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "659d07838f9abdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-07a.704.0", "colnum": "704", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. John Butcher)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Mr. John Butcher)", "preceding_text": "ain better statistics on tourism and observed that theme parks and the approach adopted at Alton towers offers prospects for the future. I congratulate him on being able to witness the open golf championship in his constituency. I shall combine my response to the observations of the hon. Member for Dagenham (Mr. Gould) with my response to the remarks of the hon. Member for Bolsover (Mr. Skinner) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-07a.704.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-12-07", "file": "debates1984-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "659d07838f9abdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-07a.708.4", "colnum": "708", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question proposed, That Mr. George Walden be discharged from the Education, Science, and Arts Committee and Mr. Malcolm Thornton be added.—[ Mr. Fox, on behalf of the Committee of Selection. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-07a.708.3"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-12-07", "file": "debates1984-12-07a.xml", "sha256": "659d07838f9abdbc", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-07a.708.7", "colnum": "708", "heading": "PETITIONS", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Object.", "preceding_speaker": "", "preceding_text": "Motion made, and Question proposed, That Mr. James Couchman be discharged from the Social Services Committee and Mr. Tony Favell be added.—[ Mr. Fox, on behalf of the Committee of Selection. ]", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-07a.708.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-10", "file": "debates1984-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "190467c56925ef09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.726.1", "colnum": "726", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions —", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend's part of Wales remains an area with the highest level of assistance and —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.726.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-10", "file": "debates1984-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "190467c56925ef09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.744.0", "colnum": "744", "heading": "Council of Environment Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "cue_text": "An hon. Member: \"What about Flixborough?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Waldegrave", "preceding_text": "As the hon. Gentleman knows, that legislation is primarily the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. The terrible disaster in Bhopal has reminded us of the good safety record of our chemical industry.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.744.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-10", "file": "debates1984-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "190467c56925ef09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.770.3", "colnum": "770", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "ifting freight from road to rail. Is that a frivolous point of view? Another candidate is campaigning for the withdrawal of Turkish troops from Cyprus. Is that a frivolous point of view? It may be that neither of these candidates will poll many votes. Indeed, I hope they do not poll many votes and that every sensible person in Southgate will vote for the excellent Labour candidate, Peter Hemming —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.770.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-10", "file": "debates1984-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "190467c56925ef09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.771.1", "colnum": "771", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kaufman", "preceding_text": "No, I said not now. I did not say that I would not give way later—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.771.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-10", "file": "debates1984-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "190467c56925ef09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.783.0", "colnum": "783", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. J. Enoch Powell", "preceding_text": "at that place on that day. We have already had the example of a business man who was unable to return to his home before the poll closed at 10 pm. Does a business man say to the registration officer 10 or 20 days, or even more than that, before the date of the poll, \"Look, I'm a business man and I occasionally make trips to London. For all I know, I might have to make a business trip on the day\" —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.783.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-10", "file": "debates1984-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "190467c56925ef09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.820.0", "colnum": "820", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Representation of the People Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Robert Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Robert Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": "n local democracy by imposing rate capping on elected local authorities. We must insist that this is the same Government who are attempting to eliminate democratically elected Labour-controlled councils and, in London, to substitute an elected Labour council with Tory placemen. We must set this trivial gain against the Government's attack on an individual's right to belong to trade unions at GCHQ.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.820.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-10", "file": "debates1984-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "190467c56925ef09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.848.1", "colnum": "848", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Benn", "preceding_text": "The right hon. Gentleman only confirms my long suspicion that he does not understand the impact of his own Bill, because he is taking executive power from elected people and using the prerogative —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.848.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-10", "file": "debates1984-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "190467c56925ef09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.851.2", "colnum": "851", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Shelton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Shelton", "preceding_text": "a vote for ILEA. That is not, in any normal sense, a restriction of the franchise. The right hon. Gentleman was also deeply confused when he spoke about a centralisation of powers. I am sure that he has read the Bill, so I shall remind him that on abolition of the GLC —if that is what the House decides—all the services provided by it alone, or together with the boroughs, will pass to the boroughs—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.851.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-10", "file": "debates1984-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "190467c56925ef09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.859.0", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": " Benn) has had a provincial reincarnation and that his speech was not relevant to the debate. It was much more a repetition of the farrago of words that we have had during the past few months, based on the unreal world in which he dwells. His speech had little or nothing to do with local government or the order. I am a realist and I know that the Bill will pass through this House and another place", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.859.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-12-10", "file": "debates1984-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "190467c56925ef09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.859.4", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No, it does not.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "I have done so, but it was difficult with the noise of Opposition Members, for you to hear that the order arises out of the Bill.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.859.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-10", "file": "debates1984-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "190467c56925ef09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.859.6", "colnum": "859", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"When did he do that?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Geoffrey Finsberg", "preceding_text": "f office of members of the GLC—we shall have more time to see Mr. Livingstone in action. We shall have more time to hear him join his allies, the Palestine Liberation Organisation and Sinn Fein, and give him more time perhaps to apoligise for having called Jews Fascists. His calling the Board of Deputies of British Jewry Fascist is the biggest racial insult that I have heard during my public life.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.859.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-10", "file": "debates1984-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "190467c56925ef09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.866.8", "colnum": "866", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "cue_text": "interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Wareing", "preceding_text": "Yes, a sufficient number of Conservative Members smell—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.866.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-10", "file": "debates1984-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "190467c56925ef09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.867.0", "colnum": "867", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": " the debate that he was concerned that a future Labour Administration might be tempted to use these measures as precedents for further abolition Bills or as reasons for denying elections in other spheres. I have no fears about that. Conservative Members should understand that Opposition Members are members of a democratic party. We are born of democracy, because the Labour party has fought for it.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.867.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-10", "file": "debates1984-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "190467c56925ef09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.871.2", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Jo Richardson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Jo Richardson", "preceding_text": " in 1984 Parliament would be called upon to destroy a vote. In all those battles no group has been so disadvantaged, obliged to fight so hard and held back from voting for so long as women. The women of London are very angry at the taking away of their vote, the cancellation of the elections and the prospect of the Greater London council ceasing to exist. The GLC has given women a voice in London—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.871.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-10", "file": "debates1984-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "190467c56925ef09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.871.2", "colnum": "871", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Ms. Jo Richardson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Ms. Jo Richardson", "preceding_text": "voting for so long as women. The women of London are very angry at the taking away of their vote, the cancellation of the elections and the prospect of the Greater London council ceasing to exist. The GLC has given women a voice in London—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Come off it!\"] It is no use Conservative Members shaking their heads. They should listen. They do not listen to anyone. The GLC listens to women.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.871.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-10", "file": "debates1984-12-10a.xml", "sha256": "190467c56925ef09", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.873.4", "colnum": "873", "heading": "Local Government", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Yes.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "I am not sure that he has got a Parliamentary Private Secretary's job. Has he?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-10a.873.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.905.3", "colnum": "905", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Prime Minister", "preceding_text": "No. I think that it is more important to get the maximum number of young people on the youth training scheme—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.905.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.905.7", "colnum": "905", "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's last question was inconsistent with his previous question. In his previous question he said that an increase was justified because of an anticipated underspend. In his last question he said that we had spent the anticipated underspend that he proposed to spend on increasing the payment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.905.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.906.2", "colnum": "906", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mrs. Knight", "preceding_text": "Is the Prime Minister aware that claims made last week by an Opposition Member based on an article published in Accountancy that NCB accounts were a flawed instrument have been totally invalidated by the article being withdrawn—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.906.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.908.9", "colnum": "908", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ewing", "preceding_text": ", Mr. Speaker, but I noticed that during defence questions when my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Leicester, West (Mr. Janner) raised a question you called the hon. Member for Leicester, East (Mr. Bruinvels) to give, quite rightly, a contrary point of view. I do not complain about that, but the hon. Member for Stirling (Mr. Forsyth) has just made a scurrilous and untrue allegation against—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.908.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.914.0", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "es will be fined treble the amount taken away from them in the current year? That is, for every £1 in excess, they will have to pay £10 to the Treasury. Paradoxically, the Treasury has gained from authorities spending above target in the current financial year to the tune of over £500 million. That is how perverse the Government's financial arrangements are. May I also ask the Secretary of State —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.914.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.914.0", "colnum": "914", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"One.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "seeks? It is idle to claim, as the Secretary of State does, that the derogation process somehow offers a way out. Is the Secretary of State aware that on derogation the Conservative leader of Portsmouth city council said: The thing about the redetermination is that it could come with strings attached that my council could not possibly accept\". That is the view of Conservatives in local government.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.914.0"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.915.0", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "No.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. John Cunningham", "preceding_text": "reases at the expense of the shire counties through lower grants being made available to them and at the expense of the Exchequer he has at last admitted what many Members and people outside have put to him—that because of the increase of more than £800 million in public expenditure that he has just announced under the rates Act he is spending £800 million to save £100 million? May I say, finally—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.914.0"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.915.3", "colnum": "915", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman spoke a great deal of nonsense, but I will try to answer his specific questions. Of course there is a reduction in the percentage of expenditure met by the aggregate Exchequer grant —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.915.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.920.0", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Guy Barnett", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Guy Barnett", "preceding_text": "The Secretary of State referred several times in his statement to low-spending authorities. Is he aware that the average rate level in the London borough of Greenwich is the fourth lowest in inner London—way below that for Chelsea and Kensington and for Westminster? Is he aware that that is the case in spite of the fact that Greenwich has lost or had stolen by by the Government a larger—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.920.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.920.7", "colnum": "920", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah—less.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "ught to be thoroughly ashamed of itself. Warwickshire gets the full 4·5 per cent. increase in target this year. It budgeted marginally above target for the current year and therefore qualifies for a 4·5 per cent. increase of next year's target over this year's budget. With regard to grant entitlement, Warwicksire loses probably less grant in percentage terms than many other counties.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.920.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.927.7", "colnum": "927", "heading": "National Union of Mineworkers (Sequestrators)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "It cannot be sub judice —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.927.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.928.4", "colnum": "928", "heading": "National Union of Mineworkers (Sequestrators)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "the countries in question to obtain possession of the funds that had been spirited away, and in particular instituted proceedings in the High Court in Dublin where they had traced a substantial deposit of funds. For the purposes of these proceedings, it seemed likely that the sequestrators might be required to incur considerable financial liability themselves, including having to give a financial—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.928.4"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.928.5", "colnum": "928", "heading": "National Union of Mineworkers (Sequestrators)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Order!", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ain possession of the funds that had been spirited away, and in particular instituted proceedings in the High Court in Dublin where they had traced a substantial deposit of funds. For the purposes of these proceedings, it seemed likely that the sequestrators might be required to incur considerable financial liability themselves, including having to give a financial— [Interruption.] Oh, do shut up.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.928.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.928.8", "colnum": "928", "heading": "National Union of Mineworkers (Sequestrators)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "You are quite right, Mr. Speaker. I was not intending to refer to you, and I regret what I said. Sometimes, the temptation is difficult to resist. In those circumstances, I understand that the sequestrators inquired —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.928.8"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.930.2", "colnum": "930", "heading": "National Union of Mineworkers (Sequestrators)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "This is the first time that it has been done. My researches show that this is the first time that when an order for sequestration has been made—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.930.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.930.6", "colnum": "930", "heading": "National Union of Mineworkers (Sequestrators)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I am speaking of how the indemnity came about. After that, there was a real risk that the sequestrators, Price Waterhouse, might withdraw—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.930.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.931.2", "colnum": "931", "heading": "National Union of Mineworkers (Sequestrators)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "Everything that has happened, from the first action—brought by two working miners, not by the Government—to the injunction to the union and the executive that they should not call the strike official, to the imposing of the fine of £200,000 and to the entry of the sequestrators, has nothing to do with the Government. They have been carried out by an independent High Court judge. —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.931.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.931.2", "colnum": "931", "heading": "National Union of Mineworkers (Sequestrators)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"It is simple all right.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "ion—brought by two working miners, not by the Government—to the injunction to the union and the executive that they should not call the strike official, to the imposing of the fine of £200,000 and to the entry of the sequestrators, has nothing to do with the Government. They have been carried out by an independent High Court judge. — [Interruption]. The only thing that I have done—it is so simple—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.931.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.931.6", "colnum": "931", "heading": "National Union of Mineworkers (Sequestrators)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I consulted relevant Ministers. That is all that I shall say about that. It is important to remember—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.931.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.931.6", "colnum": "931", "heading": "National Union of Mineworkers (Sequestrators)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I consulted relevant Ministers. That is all that I shall say about that. It is important to remember— [Interruption] —that there are two alternatives. One was that the sequestrators did not manage to obtain any money and had to give a financial undertaking to the court in Dublin—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.931.6"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.932.10", "colnum": "932", "heading": "National Union of Mineworkers (Sequestrators)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "You have done it.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "I can just envisage the hon. Gentleman, who is a solicitor, seriously advising his clients in that way.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.932.9"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.935.2", "colnum": "935", "heading": "National Union of Mineworkers (Sequestrators)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "Nothing came from No. 10.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.935.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.938.4", "colnum": "938", "heading": "National Union of Mineworkers (Sequestrators)", "cue_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Attorney-General", "preceding_text": "The right hon. and learned Gentleman asks why I say that the court is powerless. The judge made it clear that there was no way in which he could assist when Price Waterhouse sought assistance for its case in Dublin. I should have thought that a fine of £200,000 for a deliberate contempt of court was in anybody's eyes a serious offence. Nothing more needs to be said about that.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.938.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.940.3", "colnum": "940", "heading": "Statements by Ministers", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "AN HON. MEMBER: \"What is the point of order?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": " different point of order, Mr. Speaker. It has been drawn to my attention that there is more than a little controversy over Stansted airport. I am not involved in any way, but I listen to what is going on and I know that representations have been made for statements to be made by the Government and for leave to table private notice questions, for example. However we shall not go into that because—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.940.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.949.1", "colnum": "949", "heading": "European Community Budgets", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "s. Secondly, we have been the initiators, as it were, of most of the concern about this in the Community and I freely accept that the position that we have reached is not perfect in every respect. If it had been left entirely to us, further improvements could have been made, and still could be made, to certain proposals to make budgetary discipline more effective. We see this as a dynamic process.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.949.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.952.3", "colnum": "952", "heading": "European Community Budgets", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "What about Mr. Rocard?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rifkind", "preceding_text": "ing about a sensible control of expenditure\". The French Permanent Association of Chambers of Agriculture — a body with a great interest in these matters—said: Heads of State and Government have just decided a real financial straitjacket for the CAP\". The president of the Italian farmers association said that the proposals that had been agreed represented a complete change in direction of the CAP.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.952.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.958.3", "colnum": "958", "heading": "European Community Budgets", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cook", "preceding_text": "t has been cut to make room for the additional agricultural expenditure. The 1985 aid budget has been cut, and the proportion for aid has been reduced from 3·5 per cent. to 3·2 per cent. For the first time, the EEC will be spending less on aid to the Third world than it will spend on the salaries of the bureaucrats in Brussels, who will now swallow 3·4 per cent. of the budget—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.958.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.969.4", "colnum": "969", "heading": "European Community Budgets", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "the Council of Ministers, and that therefore one has a route to the fabulous veto which everybody goes on and on about? When a Parliament is elected on a Community-wide basis, it develops Community-wide attitudes. The Budget Committee met on 3 and 4 December and was unanimous in rejecting the budget. There was not a single voice, not even an abstention, against its rejection. That means something.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.969.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "European Community Budgets", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "small countries? In a sense, it was to protect the realistic political weight of the large country. If one then proceeds to the argument that Britain should have one commissioner and that Luxembourg should have one commissioner, I suspect that at the back of her mind the Prime Minister is also saying, \"We want a weak Commission, anyway, do we not, so it will not make any real difference, will it?\"", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.971.1", "colnum": "971", "heading": "European Community Budgets", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Johnston", "preceding_text": "ic initiative and economic convergence. This point has been touched on in previous exchanges. I had an exchange with the Prime Minister on 5 December, when the right hon. Lady said: The hon. Gentleman mentioned convergent economic policies, but the Community is not meant to be a mechanical redistributive mechanism.\" — [ Official Report, 5 December 1984; Vol. 69, c. 359.] What is it supposed to be?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.971.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.989.0", "colnum": "989", "heading": "European Community Budgets", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bill Walker", "preceding_text": "as being as difficult for farming as the Inverness area. There is something wrong with this, and something should be done about it. Areas such as Glen Lyon, Rannoch, Drumochter, which is next to Inverness, Glen Shee, Strathadle, Glen Prosen and Glen Clova are without doubt some of the most difficult farming areas in Scotland. Therefore, they should be treated as are the rest of the highland areas.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.989.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.990.0", "colnum": "990", "heading": "European Community Budgets", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ron Leighton", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Why not?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ron Leighton", "preceding_text": "as given by the Prime Minister on 5 December. I do not know why the hon. Member for Fife, North-East (Mr. Henderson) is making funny faces. I hope he understands that the debate can continue until 11.30 pm. The Prime Minister said: The text on financial budgetary discipline is binding on the Council itself, but is not being embodied into a treaty or technically—legally—into the budgetary process.—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.990.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.992.0", "colnum": "992", "heading": "European Community Budgets", "cue_speaker": "Dr. Oonagh McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. Oonagh McDonald", "preceding_text": "The Minister made an heroic effort at the beginning of the debate to prove to the House—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.992.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.995.7", "colnum": "995", "heading": "European Community Budgets", "cue_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Dr. McDonald", "preceding_text": "I shall educate the hon. Gentleman with a little history. One of the things that Conservative Members must understand—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.995.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.1002.4", "colnum": "1002", "heading": "Overseas Aid", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Yes.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. Does the Minister have the leave of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.1002.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-11", "file": "debates1984-12-11a.xml", "sha256": "87945e824544d3a1", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.1033.5", "colnum": "1033", "heading": "Teachers (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Stewart", "preceding_text": "No, I have given way to the hon. Member for Cathcart, who initiated the debate. I am not giving way to the hon. Member for Falkirk, West. The local authority sector must be a part—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-11a.1033.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-12", "file": "debates1984-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "9cd513a8f5a12fe2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1040.1", "colnum": "1040", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayes", "preceding_text": "bian ferry disaster. Will he assure the House that he will do his best to give information to those families, who at present do not know what is happening? One of my constituents does not know whether his brother is alive or dead. Will my right hon. and learned Friend go so far as to say that he will assist with the funeral arrangements at the earliest possible opportunity so that my constituents—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1040.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-12-12", "file": "debates1984-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "9cd513a8f5a12fe2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1066.2", "colnum": "1066", "heading": "Rate Support Grant (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Watson", "preceding_text": "Is my right hon. Friend aware that I do not represent a Welsh constituency, but that I represent the rest of Britain, which must foot the bill?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1066.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-12", "file": "debates1984-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "9cd513a8f5a12fe2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1085.3", "colnum": "1085", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cartwright", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Give way.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cartwright", "preceding_text": "I should be interested to see what evidence the right hon. Gentleman has that there were any detailed—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1085.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-12", "file": "debates1984-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "9cd513a8f5a12fe2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1091.1", "colnum": "1091", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Porter", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"This is the Committee stage\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Porter", "preceding_text": "I have no doubt that during the Committee stage, in which I intend to take little part after today and tomorrow, such matters will be dealt with, but I should not have thought that they constituted fundamental objections to the measure. I hope that those who take part in the Committee stage —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1091.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-12-12", "file": "debates1984-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "9cd513a8f5a12fe2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1096.1", "colnum": "1096", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Give way.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "rose—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1096.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-12", "file": "debates1984-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "9cd513a8f5a12fe2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1099.3", "colnum": "1099", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dykes", "preceding_text": "y because I referred to my hon. Friend's remarks. I am not sad that I did, because it gives me the opportunity to repeat that I was a co-author of the 1976 pamphlet, which the Minister also wrote. Pamphlets carry collective responsibility, especially when the chapters do not have attributional names attached to them. We all enthusiastically said that London needed a strategic Londonwide authority.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1099.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-12", "file": "debates1984-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "9cd513a8f5a12fe2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1115.2", "colnum": "1115", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I am not expressing a view on whether I agree with what the right hon. Member for Gorton said. I am saying that it is sheer hypocrisy for Labour Members to chide us for proceeding with this reform without having an inquiry, when it is clear and on the record that their own Front Bench had committed their party to do precisely the same thing.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1115.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-12-12", "file": "debates1984-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "9cd513a8f5a12fe2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1147.2", "colnum": "1147", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "An Hon. Member", "cue_text": "How many Cabinet Committees are there?", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "irst, I find it hard to believe—and I am sure that other hon. Members share my view — that the elimination of a whole tier of government will not bring savings. The hon. Member for Walthamstow (Mr. Deakins) said that there would be more committees. At present, the GLC has 60 committees, sub-committees and panels to administer its affairs. When the Tories were in command, they needed only about 30.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1147.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-12", "file": "debates1984-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "9cd513a8f5a12fe2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1148.5", "colnum": "1148", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Baker", "preceding_text": "Perhaps I might be allowed to conclude as I think that the Committee wants to move on to the next group of amendments.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1148.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-12", "file": "debates1984-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "9cd513a8f5a12fe2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1159.0", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": " cities all, the greatest city in the world, should be without a directly elected council\". It is a sad coincidence that this week we should be commemorating the 200th anniversary of the death of Dr. Johnson, who said of London: when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford\"— in 1984, all that life affords apart from a directly elected council.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1159.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-12", "file": "debates1984-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "9cd513a8f5a12fe2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1159.2", "colnum": "1159", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Who was it?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Cormack", "preceding_text": "s written by an eminent elder statesman of the Tory party. He said: No one person or a collective is entitled to take the Conservative party along a course fraught with difficulties during the necessarily long gestation period without keeping an ear to the ground to see that the earth is not shifting. They are wise words, uttered by a very eminent Conservative local statesman, as I shall call him.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1159.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-12", "file": "debates1984-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "9cd513a8f5a12fe2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1169.0", "colnum": "1169", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "preceding_text": "tually non-existent, and what parks there are could easily be devolved to the boroughs. What importance is there in the parks? The GLC makes no impact on the environment. Road repairs are nearly all done locally, and the major thoroughfares are looked after by the Ministry of Transport. The only major road being built is the Rochester way, which will soon be finished. The fire brigade runs itself—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1169.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-12", "file": "debates1984-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "9cd513a8f5a12fe2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1171.2", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "preceding_text": "I would rather enjoy that role, and am grateful to my hon. Friend for that remark. But there is a case for having someone who is truly representational with a budget of several million pounds who is able to give great dinners—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-12", "file": "debates1984-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "9cd513a8f5a12fe2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1171.2", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "preceding_text": " case for having someone who is truly representational with a budget of several million pounds who is able to give great dinners— [Laughter.] — and to go to the great cities abroad representing London. But the very laughter that I hear illustrates the absurdity of the only representational role that one can think of for the GLC. It would be frivolous, and it would not be acceptable or understood —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1171.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-12", "file": "debates1984-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "9cd513a8f5a12fe2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1171.6", "colnum": "1171", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "preceding_text": "Lord Marshall really stressed the representational role of the GLC. Anyone who has seen the recent agendas of the GLC will realise that it is an expensive debating shop on every subject except London —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1171.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-12", "file": "debates1984-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "9cd513a8f5a12fe2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1173.1", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "the public health legislation of Disraeli was, of course the foundation of much of our public health today. Today our main sewerage system is the responsibility of the Thames water authority. There followed the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1855. It was a compromise between those who wanted local government for the vestries and those who wanted some form of metropolitan authority. But by the end—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-12", "file": "debates1984-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "9cd513a8f5a12fe2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1173.1", "colnum": "1173", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Patrick Jenkin", "preceding_text": "followed the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1855. It was a compromise between those who wanted local government for the vestries and those who wanted some form of metropolitan authority. But by the end— [Interruption.] If I may say so, the Committee has asked me to take the debate seriously, and I hope I am doing so. The argument is a very real and genuine one and it has lasted for over a century.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1173.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-12", "file": "debates1984-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "9cd513a8f5a12fe2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1178.4", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "We have always recognised that the London boroughs will need to reach agreement on certain issues — waste disposal is clearly one — and the Bill contains a reserve power if that is necessary. There is also the power relating to charities—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1178.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-12", "file": "debates1984-12-12a.xml", "sha256": "9cd513a8f5a12fe2", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1178.4", "colnum": "1178", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "We have always recognised that the London boroughs will need to reach agreement on certain issues — waste disposal is clearly one — and the Bill contains a reserve power if that is necessary. There is also the power relating to charities—[HON. MEMBERS: \"Get on with it.\"] I sense that the Committee is anxious to reach a conclusion on this amendment.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-12a.1178.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-13", "file": "debates1984-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "43a68987fab5a2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-13a.1194.0", "colnum": "1194", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "cue_text": "Interruption", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Rees", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman has entirely misquoted my right hon. Friend the Chancellor. My right hon. Friend never said that the miners' strike was a good investment —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-13a.1194.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-13", "file": "debates1984-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "43a68987fab5a2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-13a.1195.5", "colnum": "1195", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "cue_text": "Hon. Members: \"Yesterday.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hayhoe", "preceding_text": "The comments by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister were made in June and July, and they have been reiterated many times—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-13a.1195.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-13", "file": "debates1984-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "43a68987fab5a2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-13a.1200.4", "colnum": "1200", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Oh!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Lawson", "preceding_text": "I am not quite sure of the precise point that my right hon. Friend is making—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-13a.1200.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-13", "file": "debates1984-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "43a68987fab5a2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-13a.1202.6", "colnum": "1202", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — NATIONAL FINANCE", "cue_speaker": "Mr. King", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. King", "preceding_text": "I thank my hon. Friend for that reply. I appreciate that no commitment can be made one way or the other, but will he note that for many families, especially those on low incomes, the imposition of VAT on children's shoes would represent a real cost to their living standards?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-13a.1202.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-13", "file": "debates1984-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "43a68987fab5a2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-13a.1204.1", "colnum": "1204", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hattersley", "preceding_text": "First, may I welcome the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury back to his place on the Treasury Bench? The right hon. Gentleman represents — indeed, personifies — the triumph of democracy over terrorism.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-13a.1204.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-13", "file": "debates1984-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "43a68987fab5a2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-13a.1206.2", "colnum": "1206", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Davies", "preceding_text": "Is the right hon. Lady aware that her Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department of Transport has written a letter to all Conservative Members of Parliament promising them preferential treatment from himself, his Department and his civil servants in dealing with parliamentary inquiries —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-13a.1206.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-13", "file": "debates1984-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "43a68987fab5a2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-13a.1207.5", "colnum": "1207", "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 an expert on accountancy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-13a.1207.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-13", "file": "debates1984-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "43a68987fab5a2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-13a.1223.2", "colnum": "1223", "heading": "Public Expenditure and Rate Support Grant (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Donald Dewar", "preceding_text": "es, because they are already at those guidelines. The local authorities will be able to mitigate the impact only by spending well below the guidelines set by the Secretary of State. Will the right hon. Gentleman confirm that that is a fair analysis? If so, is that the reward for the loyalty that he has demanded from those local authorities? Is it not typical of the whole fraudulent approach that —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-13a.1223.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-13", "file": "debates1984-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "43a68987fab5a2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-13a.1243.4", "colnum": "1243", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill (Clause 1)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "I shall reaffirm that point and then proceed because I am sure, Mr. Walker, that you would wish me to conclude—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-13a.1243.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-13", "file": "debates1984-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "43a68987fab5a2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-13a.1244.1", "colnum": "1244", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill (Clause 1)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": "ows that the same arguments may not apply to the Wirral, which is a district council in Merseyside, as to Sefton, which is the authority in the hon. Gentleman's constituency, because it is on the edge of Merseyside. Some authorities have expressed a wish to run their own police, fire, and transport services, as many of them did previously. Many of them ran their own police forces and bus services—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-13a.1244.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-13", "file": "debates1984-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "43a68987fab5a2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-13a.1253.2", "colnum": "1253", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill (Clause 1)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. John Fraser", "preceding_text": "le tier of functions, performed by one authority. The effect of abolishing the metropolitan counties will be to have one set of functions carried out by a directly elected district authority and another set of functions that runs across the areas of the metropolitan counties. There will be two-tier government, but it will not be two-tier democratic government as between the two sets of functions —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-13a.1253.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-13", "file": "debates1984-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "43a68987fab5a2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-13a.1263.1", "colnum": "1263", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill (Clause 1)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "r authorities. I have news for the Committee. The Bill does not set up one authority that bears any resemblance to a water authority. There are only two new permanent boards. One is the London Planning Commission which is purely advisory and has no executive function. The other board that the Bill envisages is the trustee of the Merseyside museums. There is no other quango such as the water board.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-13a.1263.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-13", "file": "debates1984-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "43a68987fab5a2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-13a.1279.2", "colnum": "1279", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill (Clause 1)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Banks", "preceding_text": "ey say that £396 million—or 74 per cent. — will go to the boroughs. The Under-Secretary of State said that in reply to a written question from my hon. Friend the Member for Islington, North (Mr. Corbyn) on 3 December 1984. The Government's first error is to underestimate the GLC's net current expenditure, which is $950 million. Ministers have no doubt excluded debt charges of £153 million —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-13a.1279.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-13", "file": "debates1984-12-13a.xml", "sha256": "43a68987fab5a2e8", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-13a.1295.6", "colnum": "1295", "heading": "Orders of the Day — Local Government Bill (Clause 1)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Straw", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend says that it Was due to welfare milk. There was milk for the Conservative Tellers even before welfare milk was available to Labour Tellers, because they could afford it. That sociological fact—the linking of social class to height—was confirmed by a recent report from the Department of Health and Social Security.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-13a.1295.6"}
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{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-17", "file": "debates1984-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "f373b06758eb770f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-17a.30.1", "colnum": "30", "heading": "British Shipping Industry", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Michael Colvin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Michael Colvin", "preceding_text": "India and Sri Lanka; and, thirdly, reserved cabotage exercised in various forms by France, West Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, all the Comecon countries, the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, Finland, India — at least we can beat the Indians at cricket, even if we cannot beat them at shipping —Panama and most countries in south America and southeast Asia. The list is a very impressive one —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-17a.30.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-17", "file": "debates1984-12-17a.xml", "sha256": "f373b06758eb770f", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-17a.122.2", "colnum": "122", "heading": "Northern Ireland (Appropriation)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Maginnis", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Maginnis", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister not undermining the democratic process by encouraging voluntary groups of this sort and giving them almost statutory recognition? Can he assure us that a group such as this will be monitored in a way that will ensure that it is not exploited by organisations such as Sinn Fein—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-17a.122.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-18", "file": "debates1984-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "1b3fa118df45ba05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-18a.161.5", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Ethiopia Refugees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware—[Horn. MEMBERS: \"Boo.\"]—that this year the Government are likely to spend some £30 million on storing grain for no good purpose whatsoever —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-18a.161.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-18", "file": "debates1984-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "1b3fa118df45ba05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-18a.161.5", "colnum": "161", "heading": "Ethiopia Refugees", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"The hon. Gentleman is an insult\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jeremy Corbyn", "preceding_text": "Is the Minister aware—[Horn. MEMBERS: \"Boo.\"]—that this year the Government are likely to spend some £30 million on storing grain for no good purpose whatsoever — [Interruption.] Will he tell the House exactly how much money is being spent on food aid this year to the African countries that are suffering drought? Is not the continual production of grain for stockpiling in Europe an insult—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-18a.161.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-18", "file": "debates1984-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "1b3fa118df45ba05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-18a.164.1", "colnum": "164", "heading": "Local Authority Capital Expenditure (England)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Patrick Jenkin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Patrick Jenkin)", "preceding_text": " total for next year. Any excess would be a potential charge on the contingency reserve. Unless corrective action is taken, local authorities could well breach the cash limit next year as happened in 1983–84 and is happening this year. The problem arises because the accumulated reserves of capital receipts are now estimated at some £5 billion. Those reserves belong to the local authorities.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-18a.164.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-12-18", "file": "debates1984-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "1b3fa118df45ba05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-18a.165.0", "colnum": "165", "heading": "Local Authority Capital Expenditure (England)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign!", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Patrick Jenkin)", "preceding_text": "ons for 1986–87 will be at least 70 per cent. of those for the current year. For 1987–88, authorities can count on receiving at least 80 per cent. of 1985–86 allocations. Apart from those assurances, the decisions that I have announced today relate only to 1985–86. I am consulting the local authority associations about possible changes to the system for the longer term.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-18a.164.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-18", "file": "debates1984-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "1b3fa118df45ba05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-18a.166.2", "colnum": "166", "heading": "Local Authority Capital Expenditure (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"They need repairs.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "and the latest forecast, which has taken account of the autumn statement, says that that output is likely to be maintained or even increased slightly next year. The forecast was produced by the Building Materials Producers Association. The hon. Gentleman referred to homelessness. He might note that there are today more than 25,000 local authority homes which have been empty for more than one year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-18a.166.2"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-12-18", "file": "debates1984-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "1b3fa118df45ba05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-18a.167.0", "colnum": "167", "heading": "Local Authority Capital Expenditure (England)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Resign.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "grants to the private sector and that the number increased tenfold over what had been done by the Labour Government. However, we did not see that as a permanent feature of housing policy—it was a two-year boost. The hon. Gentleman asked whether there would be a debate. That is a matter to be fixed through the usual channels, but the change in the prescribed proportion requires to be made by order.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-18a.166.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-18", "file": "debates1984-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "1b3fa118df45ba05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-18a.169.4", "colnum": "169", "heading": "Local Authority Capital Expenditure (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I am sure that my hon. Friend recognises that, overwhelmingly, people want to buy and live in the homes they own. It is right, therefore, that the private sector of the building industry should be given every encouragement to provide those homes for potential home owners. There is, of course, a need for housing for special groups — the disabled, elderly, and so on —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-18a.169.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-18", "file": "debates1984-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "1b3fa118df45ba05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-18a.170.4", "colnum": "170", "heading": "Local Authority Capital Expenditure (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "—but most local authorities have always recognised that for revenue and capital spending they live within the broad limits which the Government propose and the House approves. All I am asking this year is that, after two years—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-18a.170.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-18", "file": "debates1984-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "1b3fa118df45ba05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-18a.175.7", "colnum": "175", "heading": "Local Authority Capital Expenditure (England)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "o determine its priorities within the overall spending limits that have been laid down. The hon. Gentleman should be able to explain to his constituents that there cannot be unlimited spending either on capital or revenue accounts, and that inevitably, if the figures are to add up at the end of the day, the Government are responsible for laying down the rate at which capital receipts can be spent—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-18a.175.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-18", "file": "debates1984-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "1b3fa118df45ba05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-18a.180.1", "colnum": "180", "heading": "Local Authority Capital Expenditure (Wales)", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Nicholas Edwards)", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Nicholas Edwards)", "preceding_text": "Mr. Speaker, with permission I wish to make a statement about the future arrangements for controlling local authority capital spending in Wales and the level and distribution of capital resources in 1985–86. The decisions that I am announcing this afternoon—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-18a.180.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-18", "file": "debates1984-12-18a.xml", "sha256": "1b3fa118df45ba05", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-18a.192.4", "colnum": "192", "heading": "Civil Aviation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Toby Jessel", "preceding_text": "Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker. Is not what occurred a failure on the part of the Committee of Selection to reflect the will of the House?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-18a.192.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.282.7", "colnum": "282", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"We are already in it\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Skinner", "preceding_text": "The hon. Gentleman is only a whippersnapper. When the Minister goes to the Common Market to try to dismantle these barriers to trade—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.282.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.290.5", "colnum": "290", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Trippier", "preceding_text": "It seems that the right hon. Gentleman did not hear my reply to an earlier supplementary question. I said that we were taking the initiative of asking —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.290.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.292.1", "colnum": "292", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Channon", "preceding_text": "My hon. Friend is absolutely right about the voodoo economics practised by Opposition Members, but what we should like to see, of course, is a good performance —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.292.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.294.7", "colnum": "294", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — TRADE AND INDUSTRY", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Heffer", "preceding_text": "rose —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.294.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.298.1", "colnum": "298", "heading": "RAF Basic Trainer", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ashby", "preceding_text": "This is of course an urgent matter because of the answer that has been given and because of the decisions that must be taken. In terms of cost, the Hunting Firecracker —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.298.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Teachers (Independent Pay Review) (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "eview body with powers to fix the annual rates of pay for teachers, their conditions of service and related matters in Scotland. The Houghton committee of inquiry reported its findings on the pay of non-university teachers to the Secretary of State for Scotland in December 1974. The committee recommended salary increases of 30.5 per cent. for Scottish day school teachers with effect from May 1974.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.299.1", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Teachers (Independent Pay Review) (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Archy Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "s in Scotland. The Houghton committee of inquiry reported its findings on the pay of non-university teachers to the Secretary of State for Scotland in December 1974. The committee recommended salary increases of 30.5 per cent. for Scottish day school teachers with effect from May 1974. [Interruption.] The committee concluded that further independent examination of teachers' pay would be necessary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.299.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.299.4", "colnum": "299", "heading": "Teachers (Independent Pay Review) (Scotland)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kirkwood", "preceding_text": "eased their earnings by about 39 per cent. between August 1980 and August 1984, teachers' pay rose by 23·2 per cent. — a differential of 16·2 per cent., which is the equivalent of £1,584 in average teachers' salaries. Obviously, a teacher has no more right than anyone else to an immutable salary relativity, but movement up or down must be related to changes in the nature of the job —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.299.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.305.0", "colnum": "305", "heading": "Local Authority Capital Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Patrick Jenkin)", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Hear, hear.\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Secretary of State for the Environment (Mr. Patrick Jenkin)", "preceding_text": ". For the hon. Gentleman to chide the Government on the subject of home improvement grants is beyond belief. As he will know, in the peak year— it was a short-term major boost to home improvements—the Government spent no less than £900 million. That is 10 times the amount spent by the Labour Government when they left office. The debate today goes to the heart of the Government's economic strategy—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.305.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.306.3", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Local Authority Capital Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I make no complaint about the fact that the House was extremely rough with me yesterday, but I hope that hon. Members will listen to my argument today.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.306.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.306.5", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Local Authority Capital Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "doubted success of the right-to-buy policy, the total amount of unspent capital receipts has now grown so large—it is £5 billion or more—that if councils were to spend as much of that as they are allowed to spend under the present rules, there would be another large national overspend in 1985–86. It could amount to £1 billion or more. That would be a direct claim on the contingency reserve.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.306.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.306.5", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Local Authority Capital Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": " is £5 billion or more—that if councils were to spend as much of that as they are allowed to spend under the present rules, there would be another large national overspend in 1985–86. It could amount to £1 billion or more. That would be a direct claim on the contingency reserve. [Laughter.] It would add to the public sector borrowing requirement and obviously it would affect interest rates.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.306.5"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.306.7", "colnum": "306", "heading": "Local Authority Capital Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "I shall finish my point before I give way. If, in a later year, the council decides to spend that £10,000, it will have to borrow back the money to finance the expenditure.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.306.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.307.3", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Local Authority Capital Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "Yes, it was. Of course it was. The hon. Gentleman has made exactly my point. When the receipts were taken in and not spent, they went to reduce the claim on the PSBR.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.307.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.307.7", "colnum": "307", "heading": "Local Authority Capital Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "cue_text": "Laughter.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Jenkin", "preceding_text": "The writer of that leading article, which I have read, is not responsible for making the figures add up at the end of the day.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.307.7"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.309.13", "colnum": "309", "heading": "Local Authority Capital Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "HoN. MEMBERS: \"No.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "Order. The House knows the conventions. I thought that the Secretary of State was referring to another right hon. Member —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.309.13"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.319.0", "colnum": "319", "heading": "Local Authority Capital Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hughes", "preceding_text": " public housing investment since the Government came to office? I accept that my borough is unusual because it has the largest public housing sector stock in London. In 1979–80, it received £54,068 million in Government support, which was reduced last year to £31 million, and will be reduced again. How is that justifiable when there is such a substantial need and all the figures prove that?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.319.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.321.1", "colnum": "321", "heading": "Local Authority Capital Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Howard", "preceding_text": "I shall tell my hon. Friend why. The matter is dealt with in paragraph 2.29 of the autumn statement. If local authorities spend an unlimited amount of money, less money will be available for the private sector—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.321.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.339.15", "colnum": "339", "heading": "Local Authority Capital Expenditure", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Edwards", "preceding_text": "The Labour Government spent £90 million a year. We spent —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.339.15"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.346.2", "colnum": "346", "heading": "Adjournment (Christmas)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Dudley Smith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Dudley Smith", "preceding_text": "is a highly competitive area, and time and again one learns that BBC local radio is well eclipsed by the commercial opposition. I believe —this might not go down well with the Opposition — that the BBC might have more friends among Conservative Members and Conservatives outside the House if it were a little less biased. In many instances, it is fairly easy to detect that the BBC is left of centre.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.346.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.367.0", "colnum": "367", "heading": "Adjournment (Christmas)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Where are they?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Dennis Skinner", "preceding_text": "he hon. Member for Norfolk, South-West (Sir P. Hawkins) are starving in Ethiopia, the rest of Africa, central and south America, and elsewhere. About a week later every man and his dog were on the radio. Every time I switched on the radio or television there was Dr. Death claiming that he wanted the VAT back. He was going to knock hell out of the Chancellor. Then there was the Liberal Chief Whip —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.367.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.382.1", "colnum": "382", "heading": "Adjournment (Christmas)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Right hon. Friend?\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "ill learn to address itself increasingly to this issue over the coming years. My hon. Friend the Member for Basildon (Mr. Amess) made a powerful speech on abortion. While I can offer no promises of Government legislation, the Warnock proposals will come before the House in the new year, in the form of a private Member's Bill prepared by my right hon. Friend the Member for South Down (Mr. Powell) —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.382.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.399.1", "colnum": "399", "heading": "Regional Development", "cue_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. A. J. Beith", "preceding_text": "average in that area. This year, 163 pupils left Coquet high school in Amble. Of those, 143 are still looking for jobs, including 80 on Government programmes. I do not think that it was ever envisaged that the Government programmes would have to take well over half the number of school leavers, or that so huge a proportion of them—nearly all of them—would be out of a job by this stage in the year.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.399.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.444.0", "colnum": "444", "heading": "National Union of Mineworkers (Sequestration)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "preceding_text": "However, in a spirit of realism, I did not find that suggestion any less fantastic or unrealistic than many others which graced the hon. Gentleman's speech. I shall begin with a few comments about the writ and procedure of sequestration in the context of contempt of court—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.444.0", "colnum": "444", "heading": "National Union of Mineworkers (Sequestration)", "cue_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Sir Patrick Mayhew", "preceding_text": "However, in a spirit of realism, I did not find that suggestion any less fantastic or unrealistic than many others which graced the hon. Gentleman's speech. I shall begin with a few comments about the writ and procedure of sequestration in the context of contempt of court— [Interruption.] I shall then describe briefly the special status—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.444.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.446.4", "colnum": "446", "heading": "National Union of Mineworkers (Sequestration)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "ntitled to take that action. Before any money can be paid under the indemnity, the Crown must get statutory authority, which is why a Consolidation Fund Act would be required if the money had to be paid. On behalf of the Attorney-General, I want to make it clear what the argument is. My right hon. and learned Friend has been subjected tonight, in his absence, to attacks that reflect on his honour.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.446.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.446.4", "colnum": "446", "heading": "National Union of Mineworkers (Sequestration)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "indemnity, the Crown must get statutory authority, which is why a Consolidation Fund Act would be required if the money had to be paid. On behalf of the Attorney-General, I want to make it clear what the argument is. My right hon. and learned Friend has been subjected tonight, in his absence, to attacks that reflect on his honour. [Interruption.] I wish to to have an opportunity to reply to them —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.446.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.447.0", "colnum": "447", "heading": "National Union of Mineworkers (Sequestration)", "cue_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah!\"", "preceding_speaker": "The Solicitor-General", "preceding_text": "The hon. Member for Hackney, South and Shoreditch knows that he should have given notice, even if the Attorney-General was here. I say only that his allegations against my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General inspire in me a contempt very different in character from that with which we have been dealing. Never before, to my knowledge, has there been a precedent for this—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.447.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-19", "file": "debates1984-12-19a.xml", "sha256": "89cb2c9b66526369", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.500.1", "colnum": "500", "heading": "BBC (Financing)", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Kilroy-Silk", "preceding_text": "I do not quarrel with the hon. Gentleman. All that I am saying is that the introduction of advertising on the BBC would damage it. I also believe that it would damage the ITV companies. My belief—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-19a.500.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-20", "file": "debates1984-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf5576a7292cce1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-20a.536.1", "colnum": "536", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — HOME DEPARTMENT", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Bruce", "preceding_text": "lance that is frozen within this House, or do they have a responsibility to accept the dynamic changes that are taking place? Does he further recognise that a growing body of public opinion believes that the broadcasting authorities' presentation of political news is unfair and that the majority feel that it is particularly biased in favour of the Government and unfair to the Liberal/SDP alliance?", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-20a.536.1"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-12-20", "file": "debates1984-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf5576a7292cce1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-20a.545.8", "colnum": "545", "heading": "Oral Answers to Questions — PRIME MINISTER", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "Oh!", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Biffen", "preceding_text": "The judgment of Mr. Levene's ability was made by my right hon. Friend. A man who successfully executes a job at £95,000 a year is a damn sight cheaper than a failure at half that salary.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-20a.545.7"}
{"kind": "attributed_speech", "date": "1984-12-20", "file": "debates1984-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf5576a7292cce1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-20a.551.2", "colnum": "551", "heading": "Animal Experiments (Petition)", "cue_speaker": "Hon. Members", "cue_text": "\"Inside.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Tony Banks", "preceding_text": "May I ask for your advice, Mr. Speaker? This morning at noon, three hon. Members of this House presented a petition signed by 300,000 members of the public against animal experiments outside the Home Office—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-20a.551.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-20", "file": "debates1984-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf5576a7292cce1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-20a.564.4", "colnum": "564", "heading": "Civil Aviation Bill", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"All of us.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ridley", "preceding_text": "d inspectors reach entirely opposite views on the matter, but the Government have tried to secure the legislation that is necessary to impose such a limit and, as my hon. Friend knows only too well, we could not have tried harder. If we do not succeed, he will know precisely who is to blame. May I make it clear that it was not only three of my hon. Friends but a large number of Opposition Members—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-20a.564.4"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-20", "file": "debates1984-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf5576a7292cce1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-20a.572.6", "colnum": "572", "heading": "Sub Judice Rule", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Speaker", "preceding_text": "I thought that I heard the hon. Member for Knowsley, North (Mr. Kilroy-Silk) say —", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-20a.572.6"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-20", "file": "debates1984-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf5576a7292cce1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-20a.578.1", "colnum": "578", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Ah\".", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Hurd", "preceding_text": "As I said, the policy is not shoot to kill. The existence or non-existence of a warrant is, of course, only part of the story.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-20a.578.1"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-20", "file": "debates1984-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf5576a7292cce1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-20a.626.0", "colnum": "626", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Peter Robinson", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Peter Robinson", "preceding_text": "nt position. In fact, the Unionist leaders, even though they do not believe that a political solution will ultimately solve the overall problem, are still trying to achieve such a solution. It is the nationalist leaders who are refusing to talk. It is the stubbornness not of Unionist leaders, but of those whom the hon. Gentleman supports that is causing difficulty in reaching a political solution—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-20a.626.0"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-20", "file": "debates1984-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf5576a7292cce1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-20a.645.3", "colnum": "645", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Scott", "preceding_text": "iety and, I hope, playing a constructive part. There has, in a sense, been a ghost at the debate in the shape of the hon. Member for Islington, North (Mr. Corbyn). I defend his right to bring into the House anyone he wishes, but we also have the right to condemn him for exercising his judgment in that manner. By his action he has shown himself totally unfit to be a Member of this place or to have—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-20a.645.3"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-20", "file": "debates1984-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf5576a7292cce1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-20a.656.2", "colnum": "656", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "cue_text": "HON. MEMBERS: \"Answer the question.\"", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Martin Flannery", "preceding_text": "Frankly, the man's colour does not bother me, although it sounds as if the hon. Gentleman is bothered about his colour—", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-20a.656.2"}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue", "date": "1984-12-20", "file": "debates1984-12-20a.xml", "sha256": "bf5576a7292cce1d", "speech_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-20a.660.0", "colnum": "660", "heading": "BILLS PRESENTED", "cue_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "cue_text": "Interruption.", "preceding_speaker": "Mr. Ivor Stanbrook", "preceding_text": "ictions as soon as it is possible for people to move without fear? Of course, they do not, because they are playing the party game. I know the hon. Member for Middlesbrough to be decent and honest. He and many of his hon. Friends apply their minds to the problems honestly and in the interests of the House, but there is a distinct hint of hyprocrisy about the Labour party's approach to the problem.", "preceding_id": "uk.org.publicwhip/debate/1984-12-20a.660.0"}